march si; im.
per. cent of the profits '"of their labor
goes into the! pockets 01 tne iiuie
7
it was naru vjixiea iui uiwv
eight years ago, and it is difficult' 10
see how-it Is better times now, for
: 41 hana Vioon rrmf irtlinilslV
employed, than during the . acknowl
edged hard times of a few years ago.
As a matter of fact, it is not. The
only benefit labor has realized from
the adoption by the republicans of the
"calamity howler's" theory, that a3
the hard times were produced by con
traction, prosperity would inevitably
be a result of expansion, is in a re
duction in the number of those living
on charity.
Had some other reform measures
been assimilated by the party in pow
er, in connection with the inflation
measure, the prosperity-, which that
has; brought would have been realized
and enjoyed by labor a3 well as capi
tal, but under the guidance of a plu
tocratic steering committee, the only
prosperity their lop-sided measures
have brought to the country is" the
prosperity of the oligarchy.
And the dominant party, through
whose alliance with these piratical 1
combinations this condition tas been j
reached, points with pride to what it. j
has done!
Against the mob the monopolists
believe they have the means to defend
themselves, but not against progres
sive taxation.
They stand aghast at a suggestion
tnat laoor snoum resort 10 mis poieuvj
this omnipotent weapon of defense
against their lawless . practices.
They have the wealth of the coun
try; they have billions of aggregated
loot; they have vaults bursting with
concentrated plunder, to hire Pinker
ton detectives, to pay iron, police and
to buy court-decrees. But the puny
and ponderous ballot and the read
justing processes it can enact and en
force are beyond the reach of their
billies and bullets. , ' ;
Ah! but touch that magic button
in behalf of progressive taxation and
we will help them to shudder at the
peaceable and speedy restoration of
Justice to our vast army of industrial
ists. We will aid them to stand
aghast at the approach of readjusting
measures, that will gradually replevin
their stores of plunder, for relieving
the oppressed and? lifting the fallen.
" Two bills of this nature have been
introduced in congress in the past f-n
'years and one or the other has been
on the house calendar of every con
gress since 1891, until the present con
gress. The graduated' property tax
bill was. first introduced at the first
session of the Fiftyrsecon&f congress
and reintroduced in every succeeding
one till thA Fiftv-sixth: That was a
complex measure and could not be en
acted and enforced Without a 'consti
tutional nmTtrimpnt !
On this account, as well as. on ac
count of the increasing encroachment
of corporations on , individual rights,
the growing lawlessness and piracies
of monopolies, and a general demand
for an eradication of the truit evil, I
dre"w the graduated corporation license
bill ' in 1899 as a substitute' for the
earlier bill.
This bill, with a petition signed by
L. D. Llewelling( (ex-gov.), John P.
St John (ex-gov.)', Edwin Taylor (ex
senator from Wyandotte county), ani
myself (ex-lieut-gov.), was sent tJ
Congressman Ridgely oi this district,
introduced by him on the 10th day cf
January, 1900,, and mummified in tue
catacombs of the finance committee
with due and modern celerity
Taxation is the only peaceable meth
od by which the trusts and corpora
tions will be called down and the
concentrated loot of the multi-millionaires
replcvined; and it would
furnish the money at once to buy pub
lic utilities. It is the only thing plu
tocracy fears but the mob. Way back
in the early days of corporate vicious
ness when the people were confiding
and simple, some milder aud better
DEAFNESS CANNOT HE CUBED
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease, and in order to cure it you
roust take Internal remedies. HaU'i
Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, and
acts directly on the Mood and muc
ous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Cure It
net a quack medicine. It was pre.
rcrtbed by one of the bct phylcln
iu thl country for years, and U a
rriruUr prescription. It is rompom!
of the beat tonic known, combined
with the best blood purifier, actlnjr
directly on tho mucous turf.trra. The
pcrfe-1 combination of tt two Injured
lent li what produces such wonderful
results In curing Catarrh, Send for
testimonials free.
1'. J, CHENEY k CO.. Propt,.
Toledo, 0.
Sold by druRiiitu, price 73c.
lUII'f Katr.ll Piili uro the test.
Book I on Dyspepsia .
Book 2 on the Heart
Book 3 on the Kidneys
-Book 4 for Women
Book 5 for Men (sealed)
' r Book 6 on Rheumatism
Send me the book checked abavt.
Sign hett '
To Dr. Sboop, Box 1M0, Eaclne, Wit.
That is all. Send
you need. I will
Dp. Shoop's Restorative
Take it a month
fails the druggist
Don't Wait Unta You Are Woree '
Taken la time, the suffering or this UtUe one would
have been prevented. Her mother writes me:
"Two yean ago m'j little girl was tick con.
tlnuouxlv for six months. We tried many
- doctors and thej fatttrt, yt it took only two
bottles of your remedy to euro her, and she
bisis remained cured. Yon can tell others of '
this cure if you so desire. Mrs. C. H. Avery,
Jtockdale, N. V." ,
lis a pity she did not first write me, before the case
was dangerous.
'i be wife of Omer Andrus of Bayou ( hlcot, La., had
been sick for 20 years. or 8 years could do prac
tically no work. He writes;
When she first started taking the restora
tive she barely weighed V) pounds; now she
weighs 135, and is able easily to do all her
housework." .
Twenty "dark" years might have been "bright" ones.
J. G. Bllllngsley of '1 bouusvUle, Ua.; for three years
has been crippled with disease. Now he Is well. He
writes:
"I spent (250.00 for other medicines, and the
S3. 00 I bave spent with you have done me more
good than aU the rest"
Both money and suffering might have been saved.
And these are only three from- over 65,100 similar
cases. These letters dozens of them come every
day tome. " 1
How much serious illness the Restorative has pre
vented, l have no means of knowing, for the sllgbUy
all and the Indisposed simply get a bottle or two of
their druggist, are oared, and I never hear from them,
Hut of 600,000 sick ones seriously sick, mind you--who
asked for my guarantee, 39 out of each 40 have
paid. Paid because they got well.- -
U I can succeed In cases like these fall but one
time ln"40, In diseases deep-seated and chronic Isn't
It certain I can always cure the slightly 1117 r ; i
process might .Have been possible, but
even if so, none, other is now within
their reach. . Let us cut the gordian
knot of .capital and restore to labor
some of its ldst earnings, by the' en
gine of taxation and not bequeath to
the next generation the shackles , that
are cursing this. ' V ,
The methods by which, the industrial
classes can protect themsSlves from
the plunderers have been reduced to
two taxation and physical force, or
revolution. Revolution is the most
suddenly effective and simple. Tax
ation is the most economic. Which is
the best? .
The paramount question before the
American people now, and until a re
adjustment of our economic system is
accomplished, is the destruction of the
trusts and the scattering of their
plunder among the laboring masses.
This should bo accomplished by the
only peaceable process within our
reach: the engine of taxation.
"Concentrated capital" Is the tyrant
that holds the reins of a usurper in
America. It is the great source of in
justice, of corruption, of degraded
lives and debauched ideals; of frenzied
struggles for place and frantic con
tests for power; of idleness and crime
and poverty. Diffusion of the plunder
Is the only remedy for the evila it has
brought; tho only prevention of gicat
er evils in the near future. The ques
tion of diffusion is the one our bailola
must say "yes" or "no" on to settle
tho fate of the republic. Statesmen
who talk otherwise, and partita that
resolve to the contrary or that fall to
tlazo a way to this result, are heipiiiK
to lead tho mascea farther and farther
under a tyrant's yoke. WUh one claM
it la criminal deception: with tiie
other criminal tupldlty.
In the nt few yearn th great for
tunes of the multl -millionaires. If the
mniwca uho'tld continue, to Hand tht
drain that Ion??, will f?row faster than
ever forp. Th inrtvhtner of the
trust wast trudf hften year aso. It
hit now been pirfe ted. It is proter
rd by various "theme f legislation
most of w hi eh r.n piett ruledly box tile,
111 e th Sherman atttt-trtst law. There
ate at least M c.f tin-se toriH-oie
plunderer at work, "pljlug their o
ratlou." Twentv-ou jrari ago, nhn
th Standard Oil eompany wm th
only trust, the reofh Yim.hHJcd that
0 v
1 F w -y
s?5P -V II
Cut This Out and
Know How to
Get Well
no money. Simply sign above.
arrange with a druggist near you
at my risk. If it succeeds the cost to
will bill the cost to me. And I leave
Why the Restorative Succeeds.
You may oil and rub, adjustand repair a weak
en cine. It wilt never be stroncer nor do Its
work " better, without steam. More power
more steam is necessary.
And so with the vital organ. Doctor thm
as you will. That's mere repairing:. Perma
nent cures never come save through treating
the nerves that operate those organs.
And that my Restorative does.
After almost lifetime of labor of study at
bedsides and research In hospitals I made this
discovery. I found a way to treat, not the or
gans themsevles, but the nerves the inside
nerves that operate these organs and give them
Eower and strength and health. That discovery
as shown me the way to cure.
It makes my offer possible.
I know the remedy. I never can forget the
study, all the research, the trials and tests that
perfected it, . I have watched its action year
after year in cases difficult, discouraging. Time
after time I bave seen it bring back health to
those poor ones whom hope had almost deserted.
I know what it will do.
My only problem is to convince you.
And so I make my offer. And the bare fact
that I make such an offer onght of itself to con
vince you that 1 know how to cure. Please read
it again. It means exactly what I say. No catch
no misleading phrases-in it. Simply this
you take the medicine and i wm take tne risk.
And you not I decide if you are to pay.
its purpose was fraudulent and its
methods infamous." Now a majority
of the United States senate are be
lieved to be allied 'with the criminals
through stock ownership.
The laboring masses are in the
clutches of the slickest and greediest
band of corsairs the sun ever shone
on. As a result, wbile the band plays
a prosperity march and a full dinner
pail jingle for the glory of the revel
ing bandits, there are a larger per cent
of the American people living from
hand to mouth now than ever before.
But a change will ccme ere long,
one way or another. W3 are in a John
Law period the John Law period ol a
republic. It may be. well to pass
through it to see what there is on the
other side. Bent. Murdock well says:
"When the cold wave comes and it
will come; when financial distress
hits every business man in the land
and it will hit; when the seven lean
kine are turned loose and they will
be turned, all tho blooming idiots who
have blown their millions and bil
lions into these balloon trusts, will be
annihilated as quick as a doll paper
house in a Texas tornado, while the
distress to be brought upon the coun
try will cause If not a revolution
something very nearlr approaching
one."
While Murdock in that article is
keen and forcible he does not touch
on the worst phase of the situation
he, in common with all thoughtrul pa
triots and some reflective. politicians,
deplores. His sympathy is waiting lo
l extended to tlo guilty one and the
partlcepg crlmlnls, the "business men
and the blooming Idiots In the gieat
combine. Instead of the Innocent vic
tims of their nvarlee, tho plundered
toller, who Hvp years ago were being
robbed of fl.ouoooo day.
But a change) Is coming, and It re
main for u to My whether it wll
he directed and controlled In th In
terest Hn, for the welfare of l ho toil
ing myriad, or whether we will con
tinue, to sit by In apathy white the
plutocratic usurper continue their
work of plunder until patriot jy,
V hav reahed the !t where rin.y
compel lid to abandon the tuethM
and path way of moral ,ianlon for the
armament and banner of physUat
forte.
I'nder MlMIn evnno'nlc eondltlor
.WHW5(!'.',
'
Tell me the book
for sir bottles of
you is $5.50. If it
the decision to you.
All You Need To Do
Simply sign the above that' is all. Ask for
the book you need, f be offer I make is broad
is liberal. The way Is easy Is simple. The
Restorative Is certain. i ' ,
But do not misunderstand me. "
This is not free treatment with nothing to pay.
Such an offer would be misleading would be
little the physician who who makes it But
believe In a sick onete honesty his gratitude.
That when he is cured, he will pay the cost of
the treatment and gladly. ,
' I make this offer so that those who might
doubt, may learn at my risk.
Tell ofit please, to a friend who Is sick. Or send
me his name. That's but a trifle to ask a minute's
time a postal. He is your friend. You .can
help him. My way may be his only way to get
well.
I, a stranger, offer to do all this. Won't you,
his friend, his neighbor, simply write? . .
He will learn from my book a way to get well.
Perhaps, as I say. the only way to get well for
blm. Ills case may be set ious hopeless almost.
Other physicians other specialists may hav
failed. The matter is urgent, then. : . "
Write me ft postal or sign above today.- . ;
Address Dr. Sboop Box ldio Raclrie, WlsV
the arrogant purpose . and - despotic
measures of monopoly the . present
political situation the absolute : fail
ure of parties to antagonize the trusts,
the cringing servitude of congress
and the leglslaf ures to these, as yet
omnipotent and piratical forces and
the cowering vassalage of the couris
that cheerfully reverse themselves to.
wipe out the historic -decisions of a
hundred years at the call of a ramp
ant oligarchy there is no tenable po
sition for any one who has made anti
monopoly a paramount principle fcr
the past ten or fifteen years but that
of independence.
A few try to bring such a project
into disrepute by charging that it is
"confiscation." -
They are right if the acquisition by
the sovereign people of their ou
through a peaceable and gradual pro
cess of taxation Is confiscation, as all
processes of taxation are really con
fiscation. In this case it is a confiscation at the
demand of justice and not a measure
of oppression. But the enormous
sums paid In dividends by the monop
olies and watered stock syndicates,
aro robbery pure and simple, without
excuse, reason or Justice.
Let us meet the illegal and discrim
inating taxes of the trust cormorants
and watered stock vampires by tho
legal and discriminating taxes of gov
ernment. The latter are excusable on account
of being designed for a j.ublic benefit.
But the extortionate ievies of (he
trusts are purely for a private benefit.
Let us meet the lawless confisca
tion of the trust leevhe that aro
bloated with ricking in the prohta
and possesions of tho Industrial,
with the peaceful and lawfjl confuta
tion of government levies.
Beformer are In favor of .1 rM,l.
Jtutiueiii of voforolc eondltp.n. They
win to iho prppiletors .f the
trio.t, and the court that uphold
them; the owner of the corporation,
an I the legislature that serve thi:i,
take me of their own f..ti. in
"Urformera who object to muh a pro
test are a sham."
rrocresIve t-uatlon and the expen
diture of Ua proceed In at public
improvement, In the pun n. of puU
Hc'utlMIe, u wlplns out monopolies