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By HALL CAINE
CHAPTER XIII Continued
Before Thurstan was awake next
morning Reykjavik was all astir It
had become known that a special sit
ting of Althing had been summoned
for that night and because nothing
was known much was said concerning
the business afoot People had gath
ered in groups where the snow of the
heavy drifts had been banked up at
the street corners and gossiped and
guessed Such little work as the great
winter left to any man was done in
haste or not at all that men might
meet in the stores the drinking shops
and on the Cheapstead and ask
Why Wherefore and What
does it mean That some event of
great moment was pending seemed to
be the common opinion everywhere
though what ground it rested onno
more general or nearer right that
the President himself was at the root
and center of whatever was coming
Only on one point was the feeling
Before nightfall this vague sent
iment which ever hovers like a dark
cloud over a nation when a storm is
near to breaking upon it had filled
every house in the capital so that
when the hour was come for the gath
ering of Althing the streets were
thronged Tow headed children in
goat skin caps ran here and there
women stood at the doors of houses
young grils leaned out of windows in
spite of the cold sailors and fisher
ment with pipes between their lips
and their hanas deep in their pockets
lounged in grave silence outside the
taverns and old men stood under the
open lamps by the street corners and
chewed and snuffed to keep themselves
warm
In the neighborhood of the wooden
senate house on the High Street the
throng was densest and such of the
members as came afoot had to crush
their ways to door All the space
within that had been alloted to the
jmblic was filled as soon as stammer
ing Jon opened the side door When
no more room was left the side door
was closed again and locked and it
wan afterwards remembered when
people had time to put their heads
together that long Jon was there and
then seen to pass the key of this side
dcor to one of the six English strang
ers who had lately come to the town
That stranger was Thurstan Fair
brcther
The time of waiting before the pro
ceedings commenced was passed by
those within the Senate House in
snuff taking and sneezing and cough
ing and a low buz of conversation
full of solemn conjecture
The members came in twos and
threes and every fresh comer was
quizzed for a hint of the secret of
the night But grave and silent when
taken together with the gravity and
solemnity of so many oxen and some
of the oxens sullen stupidity were
the faces both of members and spec
tators Yet among both were faces
that told of amused unbelief calcu
lating spirits that seemed to say that
all this excitement was a bubble and
would presently burst like one sa
pient souls who when the world is
dead will believe in no judgment un
til they hear the last trump
There were two parties in the Sen
ate the Church party that wanted
religion to be the basis of the re
formed government and the Level
lers who wished the distinction of
clergy and laity to be abolished so
far as secular power could go ihe
Church party was led by the Bishop
who was a member of the higher
clumber the Council by virtue of his
office the Levellers were led by the
little man with piercing eyes and the
square brush of iron gray hair who
had acted as spokesman to the Court
at the trial of Red Jason As each of
these arrived there was a faint com
motion through the house
Presently the Speaker came shuffling
in wiping his brow with his red
handkerchief and at the same moment
the thud of a horsess hoofs on the
hard snow outside followed by a deep
buzz of as many voices not cheering
nor yet groaning told of the coming
of the President
Then amid suppressed excitement
Michael Sunlocks entered the house
looking weary pale much older and
stooping slightly under his flaxen
hair as if conscious of the gaze of
many eyes fixed steadfastly upon him
AfeV the Speaker had taken his
chair Michael Sunlocks rose in his
place amid dead stillness
Sir and gentlemen he said in a
tense voice speaking slowly calmly
ano well you are met here at my
instance to receive a message of some
gravity It is scarcely more than half
a year sicne it was declared and en
acted by this present Council of Al
thing that the people of Iceland were
and should be constituted established
and confirmed to be a Republic or
Free State governed by the Supreme
Authority of the Nation the peoples
representatives You were then
pleased to do me the honor of electing
me to be your first President and
thcugh I will no that no man had less
cause to put himself forward in the
cause of his country than I being the
youngest among you yet I undertook
the place I am now in because I had
taken a chief hand in pulling down
the old order and ought therefore
to lend the best help I could towards
putting up the new Other reasons
influenced me such as the desire to
keep the nation from falling amid
many internal dissensions into ex
treme disorder and becoming open to
the common enemy I will not say
that I had no personal motives no
pnvate aims no selfish ambitions in
stepping in where your confidence
opened the way but you will bear me
witness that in the employment to
which the nation called me though
there may have been vassion and mis
takes I have endeavored to discharge
the duty of an honest man
There was a low murmur of assent
then a pause then a hush and then
Michael Sunlocks continued
But gentlemen I have come to see
that I am not able for such a trust
as the burden of this government and
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I now beg to be dismissed of my
charge
Then the silence waa broken by
many exclamations of surprise They
fell on the ear of Michael Sunlocks
like the ground swell of a distant sea
His white face quivered but his eye
was bright and he did not flinch
It is no doubt your concernment to
know what events and what convic
tions have so suddenly influenced me
and I can only claim your indulgence
in withholding that part of both that
touches the interests of others For
myself I can but say that I have
mistakes and lost self confidence that
being unable to manage my own af
fairs I am unwilling to undertake the
affairs of the nation that I am con
vinced I am unfit for the great place
I hold that any name was fitter than
mine for my post any person fitter
than I am for its work and I say
this from my heart God knows
He was listened to in silence but
amid a tumult of unheard emotion
and as he went on his voice though
still low was so charged with sup
pressed feeling that it seemed in that
dead stillness to rise to a cry
Gentlemen he said though this
may come on you with surprise do not
think it has been lightly resolved
upon or that it is to me a little thing
to renounce the honor with the burden
of government I will deal plainly and
faithfullly with you and say that all
my heart was in the work you gave
me and though I held my life in my
hsnd I was willing to adventure it in
that high place where the judgment of
Althing placed me So if I beg of you
to release me I sacrifice more by my
resignation than you by your dismis
sal If I had pride heaven has hum
bled it and that is righteous judgment
of God Young and once hopeful I
am withdrawing from all sight of
hope I am giving up my cherished
ambitions and the chances of success
I am to be as nothing henceforward
for the pole star of my life has gone
out So not without feeling no with
out painI ask you to dismiss me and
let me go my ways
He sat down upon these words amid
the stunned stupefaction of those who
heard him and when he had ceased
to speak it seemed as if he were still
speaking Presently the people recov
ereu their breath and there was the
harsh grating of feet and a murmur
like a low sough of wind
Then rose the little man with the
brush hair the leader of the Levellers
and the chief opponent of Michael
Sunlocks in the Presidency His name
was Grimmsson Clearing his throat
raspily he bgan to speak in short
jerky sentences This was indeed a
surprise that moved the house to great
as tonishment There was a suspicion
of mock heroics about it that he for
hia part could not shake off for they
all knew the President for a dreamer
of dreams The President had said
that it was within the concernment of
Althing to know how it stood that he
had so suddenly and surprising be
come convinced of his unfitness
Tnily he was right there Also the
President had said that he had under
taken his post not so much out of
hope of doing any good as out of a de
sire to prevent mischief and evil Yet
what was he now doing Running
tnem headlong into confusion and dis
order
The leader of the Levellers sat down
and a dark browed fellow from
among his followers rose in his place
What did this hubbub mean If the
President had been crazy in his health
they might have understtod it but
the Lord was pleased to preserve
him Perhaps they had to look deep
er Whispers were broad among some
who had been near to the Presidents
person that the time had come to set
tle the order and prosperity of Iceland
on a new basis He made no doubt
such whispers implied a Protectorate
perhaps even a Monarchy Did the
President think to hasten the crisis
that would lead to that change Did
he hope to alter the name of President
for Protector or for something yet
higher Was he throwing his sprat
to catch a mackerel Let them look
to it
The dark browed man sat down
with a grin of triumph and his place
was taken by a pert little beardless
person with a smirk on his face They
had all read the parable of how a cer
tain man made a feast and did his
friends the honor to invite them but
first one friend for one halting reason
and then another for a reason yet
more lame excused himself from sit
ting at the good mans table Well
one of these excuses was from a man
whe had married a wife and therefore
could not come Now the President
had married a wife
The little man got no further for
Michael Sunlocks whose features had
flushed up leaped to his feet again
against all order and precedent in that
rude chamber so reverent of law
I knew he said amid the silence
of the wide -eyed people when I came
to this house today that the censure
of Iceland might follow me when I
left it but its shame shall not pursue
me I also knew that there were per
sons not well content with the present
order of things who might show their
discontent as they had opportunity
but before the insinuations of base
motives that have just been made I
take you to witness that all that go
with them are malicious figments My
capacity any man can impeach but
my honest name none shall question
without challenge for the sole pride
I shall carry away with me when I
leave this place shall be the pride of
an upright life
With that he put on his hat where
he stood and the people thrilled to
their hearts by his ringing voice and
his eyesfull of splendid courage
broke into a great clamor of cheers
Peace peace cried a deep voice
over the tumult The old Bishop had
risen to speak
This is a quarrelsome age he said
an age when there seems to be a
strange itching in the spirits of men
when near every man seems to seek
his brothers disquiet all he may
when wretched jealousies and the
spirit of calumny turn everything to
gall and wormwood But can we not
take the Presidents message for what
it claims to be asking him for no rea
sons that concern us not rrhen has
ho betrayed us His life since his
coming here has been marked by strict
integrity When has pride been his
bane His humility has ever been his
praise He has been modest with the
highest power and shown how little
he valued those distances he was
bound to keep up When has mam
mon been his god If he leaves us
now he leaves us a poor man as Al
thing may well assure itself When
ho was elected to the employment he
holds being so young a man many
trembled and I among them for the
nation that has intrusted its goods
and its lives to his management but
now we know that only in his merit
pose Let me be prodigal of praise be
fore his face but honor and honesty
require this that we say that so true
a man is not to be found this day in
Iceland
To be continued
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TRICKS OUR WATCHES PJLAY
Very Small Causes May Result In In
convenience to tho Orrner
Watches often suffer from changes
of temperature After a watch has
been woru next to a warm body all
day itshould not be left over night on
cold marble or near an open window
The cold is likely to contract the metal
pivots and hot aver slightly tighten
up the works The next morning for
no apparent reason ones watch will
be found to be losing time It
quently happens that watches are
slightly magnetized by static electric
ity given off by the human body It
has been found that dark people are
more likely to exert this influence
over their watches This influenza is
besides more common among women
than with men Persons of this sort
can never hope to carry the correct
time unless they carry their watches
in rubber or steel cases Never lay
your watch down for the night in a
horizontal position It should always
be hung vertically as it is carried dur
ing the day If the pivot of the bal
ance wheel be in the least worn this
change of position tends to loosen the
cap jewel Everyone has had a
watch suddenly stop for no apparent
reason and go on again when slightly
shaken This may not- happen once
a year but all watches are liable to
such an accident This is due usually
to the catching of the delicate hair
spring It i3 caused by some sudden
movement such as jumping on or off
a car The jolt must come at the exact
fraction of a second when the spring is
in position to catch so that the
chances of such an accident are rare
A watch should be oiled every eight
een months The oil dries up in this
time as a rule and if the mechanism
be run with the oil dry it quickly
wears out In examining a watch all
jewelers follow the same plan They
first look to see if the hands are
caught If the fault lies deeper they
next take out the balance wheel and
examine the pin and pivots Next
they let down the main spring and
examine the wheels It sometimes
happens that a jeweler will not find
the cause of the trouble for days The
most difficult disorder to locate is a
slight burr on one of the wheels
Chicago Chronicle
MINERAL WEALTH IN SIBERIA
Vast Resources That Will Surprise tho
World When Developed
The world has now to deal with a
new factor Ten years ago the name
Siberia called up a picture of wastes
of snow and ice boundless tundras
steppes and coasts white with Ice
bergs Today the same Siberia is a
land filled with thriving villages of
peasant farmers producing grain and
various vegetables Tiat great com
peller of civilization the railway has
broken down the bars between the
world and Siberia Besl Jes its count
less resources of the soil besides its
rivers filled with valuable fish and its
forests inhabited by fur bearing ani
mals Siberia is now beginning to show
to the world its resources of gold iron
copper manganese quicksilver plati
num and coal the yearly output of
which is but a feeble index of what it
will be when the deposits are devel
oped writes Consul Thomas Smith
In the past three years several Ameri
can mining engineers have traversed
various parts of Siberia and central
Asia The testimony of these gentle
men is corroborated by that of other
foreign engineers who have visited the
country that the lack of exploitation
of such evident mineral wealth as is
found here is unparalleled in other
parts of the civilized world Of these
resources gold is by far the most im
portant as it is curiously enough the
least developed Taking the product of
the Russian empire approximately at
25000000 In gold per year it seems
comparatively insignificant It places
Russia fifth among the gold producers
and is but little more than the present
annual gold output of the state of Col
orado
Sunday Habits
The average man does himself so
much harm on Sunday that he does
not recover until the following Wed
nesday In the first place he loafs
around the house instead of being
active as on weekdays In the next
place he eats his breakfast later than
usual and his dinner earlier and the
result is that he is knocked out until
Wednesday The best thing to do on
Sunday is to conform to your usual
habits as much as possible Atchison
Globe
Navassa Tsand
Which lies south of Haiti in the Car
ibbean sea and can be sighted from the
decks of vessels passing from New
York to the isthmus was the only
outlying possession of the United
States until we acquired Porto Rico
and the Philippines
CAPTIVATING SHIRTWAISTS
There Are Many Charming and Accept
able Spring Styles
There is no genuine shirtwaist
weather yet but womankind is evi
dently determined to be equipped for
the pleasant season when it does come
Petticoated purchasers now stand
three deep about the counters where
the new cotton blouses are displayed
Shirt manufacturers have learned to
cater to every taste by producing no
less than a dozen varieties of this In
valuable garment ranging from the
perfectly plain percale and duck to
organdie and fancifully trimmed silk
madras garments There is no tenden
cy to reinaugurate the use of the
stiff white linen collar Contrasting
and fanciful neckties hang cheek by
jowl with the shirts and no woman
can escape the hint Sleeves as is only
natural are inclined to the bishop
shape to wrist puffs or double cuff ef
fects and bosoms still pouch a little
and hang in soft fullness Last au
tumn when the new flannel waists
were put on the counters the women
who rushed in to buy turned away in
disgust for the manufacturers had
daringly tried to force a tight fitting
shirt The sacrificial sales of tight
flannel shirtwaists now forced at the
retail shops have impressed the mer
chants with a sense of their own help
lessness in choosing the mode and
among the percale and toil du nord
and brown batiste and colored French
linen shirts not one basque like model
is seen
Pretty sailor blouses are evidently
going to play a part this spring for
dozens of charming white and colored
cotton examples are being brought up
decorated with collar cuffs a tiny
steel blue linen blouse of this variety
opening over a vest of finely tucked
white linen and decorated with big
white cut pearl buttons A rival to
this is a shirt of soft toil du nord
decorated with collar cuffs a tiny
yoke and broad front band of exceed
ingly coarse cream linen lace edged
with a narrow cream linen braid and
a third noticeably popular model is
made of gingham in blue brown red
or green embroidered In dots of a con
trasting color and made up with em
broidered bands that echo the two
colors in the material itself Boston
Globe
GUESSING AT THE ADS
Iorni of Puzzle Working Devised by a
New York Young Woman
A new game is being played on the
upper west side by young people- says
the New York Sun It is an outgrowth
of the immense amount of pictorial
advertising which is being done in all
the newspapers magazines and street
cars and elevated trains Almost all
articles which have a sale that is
more than purely local whether they
be books corsets gloves magazines
crackers pickles hair tonics stove
polishes or liniments have nowadays
some pictures which have become
identified with them in the public
mind through seeing them in all sorts
of public places This led a certain
young woman who was at a loss for
something new to do for an evenings
entertainment to work out a game
She collected a lot of magazines and
cut from the back pages all the ad
vertising pictures carefully removing
any hint of the article advertised
which was not a part of the picture
itself Then she selected thirty six of
them and pasted them on cards giv
ing to each a number These she
strung around her parlors and when
her guests arrived they were put at
work to find out what the pictures ad
vertisd Some of the pictures were so
familiar that the task was not difficult
and yet it was surprising to find how
confusing it all was to the puzzle
workers Pictures that seemed fami
liar were mighty elusive when it
came to identiffying them among
thirty six others The soap ads got
dreadfully mixed up and so did the
hair restorers If the pictures were
ever published labeled the way most
of the guests guessed there would
have followed a whole lot of trade
mark infringement suits The girls
were very much better at the work
than the young men presumably be
cause the articles advertised were
mostly household things and so of
more interest to the fair sex than to
their brothers Of the thirty six pic
tures the highest number guessed was
twenty five and this was by one of the
young women
Legal Clothes
Possibly the strike of the ladies
tailors and a consequent slackness in
ladies fashions may account for the
fact that Paris has lately been taking
a particular interest in masculine not
feminine attire After the question
of the frock coat has come that of the
top hat The headgear which remained
pre eminent throughout the nineteenth
century is said now to be doomed by
a dictate not of fashion but of the
authorities It must at once be added
that the top hat has not been pro
scribed throughout the length and
breadth of the land but only in one
commune of France The mayor of
this locality has Issued an edict threat
ening pain of fine and imprisonment
as the hat in question is undemocratic
French municipal magnates are dis
playing a great zeal for regulating cos
tume and the present is only one of a
series- of edicts on dress in various
towns in France One mayor had
vetoed the wearing of bloomers by
ladies within the limits of his juris
diction and several others had issued
in their respective communes enact
ments prohibiting priests from appear
ing in public in their clerical garb
before the latest local tyrant took
arms against the top hat
I Commoner Comment
Extracts From W J Bryans Paper
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A DISASTROUS VICTORY
In the election of Mr Wells as
mayor of St Louis the reorganlzers
have scored a triumph The democrats
of St Louis and Missouri will how
ever find It worth their while to cal
culate the cost of the victory and to
prepare for the struggle that awaits
them
In November 1900 the republican
national ticket received 60608 votes in
St Louis and the democratic national
ticket which Mr Wells refused to
support received 59941 At the re
cent city election Mr Wells received
43012 votes nearly seventeen thou
sand less than the democratic vote of
last fall while Mr Parker the repub
lican candidate for mayor received 34
840 votes about twenty six thousand
less than the republican vote of last
fall Mr Merrlwether a democrat in
national politics running upon a mu
nicipal ownership platform received
30568 votes and Mr Filley a republi
can running on an independent ticket
received 2068 votes It will be seen
that the total vote cast for mayor was
large for a local contest amounting
to about ninety per cent of the vote
cast last fall If Mr Wells and Mr
Parker had polled the same propor
tion of the total vote that the national
candidates of their parties polled in
1900 Mr Wells would have received
about 55000 votes and Mr Parker
about 55500
It is impossible to ascertain how
many democrats voted for Mr Merri
wether and how many voted for Mr
Parker just as it is Impossible to say
how many republicans voted for Mr
Wells and how many for Mr Merri
wether but it is reasonable to suppose
that the republican vote which left Mr
Parker went largely to Mr Wells
while the democratic vote which left
Mr Wells went principally to Mr
Merriwether
Mr Wells lost at least twelve thou
sand democratic votes if he gained no
republican votes and to this must be
added a sum equal to the republican
votes received If for instance he re
ceived 10000 republican votes the ac
count would stand thus For Wells
33000 democratic votes and 10000 re
publican votes total 43000 votes But
this would show a loss of 22000 demo
cratic votes can the reorganlzers af
ford to trade 22000 democratic votes
good at all elections for 10000 republi
can votes good only in local elections
and when a republican is nominated
on the democratic ticket
If Mr Wells only received 5000 re
publican votes the account would
stand Wells 38000 democratic votes
and 5000 republican votes total 43
000 This would show a loss of sev
enteen thousand democratic votes or
an exchange of three democrats for one
republican Is there anything in this
victory to boast of If the democrats
who voted for Mr Merriwether had
followed the example set by Mr Wells
and voted the republican ticket Mr
Parker would have been elected by a
consderable majority
But what of the future The Re
public with commendable frankness
recommends a national application of
the St Louis plan of harmonizing It
says
St Louis has supplied the example
of a thoroughly united democracy
With little evidence of reluctance all
elements of the party joined hands in
the recent campaign They worked to
gether harmoniously and voted with
out scatching
To obtain national ascendency this
unification must proceed heartily all
over the country
With a united democracy the party
is certain to win the next national
election The republican party has
drifted so far away from American
principles that the revolt of the people
will be overwhelming when the forces
naturally democratic are found acting
together
The St Louis democracy has set its
face to the future Give us such a union
of popular forces in all the states and
the next national election will be from
that moment won
This is exactly what might have
been expected Mr Wells was not
nominated because the reorganlzers
were especially interested in a good
municipal government he was nomi
nated because he represents a corpor
ate element which calls itself demo
cratic as a matter of habit but gives
its pecuniary and politic support to
the republican party It will never be
found supporting a democratic ticket
unless that ticket is selected and con
trolled by those who have some spe
cial privileges which they desire pro
tected by the government
If the democracy of St Louis had de
feated Mr Wells the democracy of
Missouri would have been spared the
fight which must now be made The
contest which resulted in the Pirtle
Springs convention was fought over
the silver question the fight which is
now cpened will be a broader one and
will involve the very existence of the
party
The Republic will lead the Francis
Wells element and will be supported
by tic- railroad attorneys and corpora
tion agents as well as by the gold
standard advocates Every democratic
newspaper in the state will be com
pelled to take sides and a contest
which might have been settled in a
day if confined to St Louis will keep
the state stirred up for the next four
years
What is the use it may be asked of
opposing the Republic-Francis-Wells
combination Why not allow it to con
trol the party organization The an
swer is found in the election of 1894
Such a slump in the democratic vote as
The London Daily News is authority
for the publication of the conditions to
be imposed by Denmark upon the
United States in the case of a transfer
of the Danish West Indies Its Copen
hagen correspondent says
I am enabled to state on the very
best authority that Denmark has com
municated to the United States the
following conditions for the sale of the
Danish West Indies
1 Four million dollars to be paid
to Denmark
2 The population to decide by
vote whether to remain Danish or to
be transferred to the United States
3 If the vote is favorable to the
that which occurred In that year or In
8L Louis a few days ago would give
tho state to the republicans There Is
no room in this country for two parties
representing republican principles un
less the democratic party faithfully
and courageously opposes plutocracy
all along the line It has neither chanco
nor reason for existence
If the St Louis contest had been
purely a local one The Commoner
would have taken no part in it but as
It was a lick In the chain a part of
a plan national in extent to republi
canize the democratic organization
this paper called attention to the facts
and pointed out the purpose of the re
organizers The daily papers outside
of St Louis openly discussed the
scheme and since the election the re
joicing has been general among thoso
self styled democrats who have twice
aided In electing a republican presi
dent The election of Mr Wells was a
disastrous victory for tho democracy
of St Louis Missouri and the nation
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TWO INCIDENTS
In Santiago Bay Admiral Sampson
was nominally in command but the
battle that resulted in victory for the
Americans was commanded by Ad
miral Schley Because Sampson was
nominally in command it was held by
the administration with which he is a
prime favorite that Sampson was en
titled to all the honors of the great
victory and to all the material favors
resulting therefrom
General MacArthur is in command
In the Philippines and wlien Funston
went out to capture Aguinaldo he was
under MacArthurs orders Strange to
say however Funston is actually giv
en the credit for Aguinaldos capture
and is rewarded with a position as
brigadier general in the regular army
It may be however that tne charac
ter of the reports from the command
ing officers had something to do with
the administrations attitude Al
though Sampson was at least 10 miles
away when the battle was raging te
wired to Washington The fleet un
der my command offers the nation as
a Fourth of July present the destruc
tion of the whole of Cerveras fleet
General MacArthur cabled Washing
ton in these words
Splendid co operation ravy through
Commander Barry officers men
Vicksburg Indispensable to succers
Funston loudly praxes navy Entire
army joins in thanks sea service
The transaction was brilliant in
conception and faultless in execution
All credit must go to Funston who
under supervision General Wheaton
organized and conducted expedition
from start to finish His reward
should be signal and immediate Agree
with General Wheaton who recom
mends Funstons retention volunteers
until he can be appointed brigadier
general regulars
There is a marked difference here
in the attitude assumed by the com
manding officers toward their subordi
nates The two dispatches speak for
themselves and all to the great credit
of MacArthur
THE YOUNG MANS CHANCES
The million dollar salary voted to
Mr Schwab by the steel trust caused
numerous republican editors to write
enthusiastic articles on the opportun
ities offered to young men by the great
corporations The subject has now
been taken up by debating societies
and the school boys are investigating
the matter for themselves That Mr
Schwabs rise to fame and fortune has
been rapid there is no doubt neither
is there any doubt that his present po
sition Is attractive to many but the
very fact that his case has attracted
so much attention is conclusive proof
that it is extraordinary He has won
the capital prize in the industrial lot
tery but where a system of monopoly
offers such an opportunity to one man
it closes the door of opportunity to
thousands of others equally able and
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When all the great industries are
controlled by trusts there will be a
few big salaried officials and the re
mainder of the employes will be con
demned to perpetual clerkships with
no possibility of independence in the
business world
If the Fsenl tendency toward con
solidation becomes permanent it is
only a question of time when the prin
cipal positions in the corporations will
go to relatives and favorites and de
scend from generation to generation
Competition puts a premium on
brains monopoly puts a premium on
blood
Young men and old men for that
matter will find that industrial inde
pendence will give a sufficient oppor
tunity to a large number of people
while the trusts will give an unusual
opportunity to a small number of
people
Mayor Harrison won a great victory
To be elected the third time mayor of
the second city of the United States
is a high compliment to him personally
and officially
If the trans continental railroad
lines can get hold of the canal across
the isthmus that waterway will be of
very little value to the public so far
as the lowering of freight rates is con
cerned
National lawmakers who have not
pledged themselves to vote for the
shipping subsidy bill need not remain
sway from Europe this summer on ac
count of the expense Incident to the
ocean voyage
United States then the inhabitants to
become immediately not only Ameri
can subjects but American citizens
4 Products of the island to be ad
mitted to the United States free of
duty
It is supposed here that Washing
ton will not readily accept the third
and fourth conditions
A few years ago it would not have
been considered necessary for any na
tion to insist upon such conditions for
our nation would have suggested them
but recent events have made it neces
sary for nations dealing with us to
provide for the future welfare of their
subjects
