Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1903 — Page 6

POLITICS OF THE DAY

Republican it tip Against Trust Facts. The Republicans have never ceased to worry about tjhe facts In regard to prices, wages and the cost of living tinder Dlngley bill trust rule, as presented in the last Democratic campaign book. Notwithstanding that with each Attempt to get away from or disprove these facts they work themselves deeper Into the trust mire, yet they are foolish enough to continue their spasmodic struggle. Mr. Hill, of Connecticut. made a desperate effort Inst Saturday to prove, by the table of prices in tho Democratic campaign book, that tlie prices of the articles on tho free list had advanced more from IS!to to 1902 than did the prices of the articles on the dutiable list. lie took all of the eleven articles on the free list and showed that tho prices Of these had advanced 26 per cent. Then lie selected twenty one nrtleles from the 174 on the dutiable list, and, amid Republican applause, showed that the prices of these rose only 15*4 P°r sent from 1896 to 1902. , Judge Griggs, of Georgia, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Committee, got. after Mr. Hill on Wednesday and simply pulverized him. Not only did he select another list of twenty one important articles from the cam palgn book list, the prices of each and all of which are controlled by tariffprotected trusts and which advanced an average of 71 per cent from 1896 to 1002, but he showed that all but 4 of

THE OCTOPUS ELEPHANT.

the 2d per cent advance in price «howed by the eleven free list articles was due to the enormous advance In the prices of sisal and binder twine, •ad that the very high prices of these two articles was due t 6 the cruel war in the Philippines. Again, In the list of 174 articles on the dutiable list Mr. Hill found one the price of which was higher, at one time In 1896, than It was la 1902. This one was wire nails. Judge Griggs showed that the high price of wire nails In 1890 was due to a temporary pool of the wire nail makers, which collapsed before the cud of the year, and that the average price during the four years of the Wilson bill law was oaljr $1.70 per keg, while the average price during the last four years of Dlugloy bill, billion dollar trust domination was $2.93 per keg. The Republicans are more at home tu suppressing discussion of these trust facts than when attempting to disprove them by butting their heads up against them. “Addition, division and silence" should be their motto, as "Let well enough alone” Is their slogan. Raising a Campaign Fund. The only anti-trust legislation that (he present Congress will pass, If the statehood fight continues, Is an amend meat to the bill creating the Department of Commerce and Labor, which amendment authorizes the investigation of trust transactions as the bureau may be Able to gather them and those are only to be mude public at the discretion of the President. The trusts evidently do not object to this law, ter those Republican Senators, who are known to be friends of the trusts, fa- . vor the amendment. The only danger to tb# trusts Is that in the event of the election of a Democratic President be ■tight order all trust transactions to tie made public and the people would know the enormous profits the trusts are making on what they sell In this country, and the fact that many of the trusts are selling cheaper to the 'foreigner than they are here. There te no likelihood of a Republican President exposing such transactions of the trusts because It would prove the contention of the Democrats that the tariff fosters the trusts. The fact Is that this so-called anti-trust amendment la no actual service to the people as ffr as results are concerned; It Is mere lt)r enacted so point to as some effort to e«rt> the trusts. Again the people ihave been fooled. It Is evident that jpecdi a measure will make it more lnenmbent than ever upon the trusts to ••t up boodle to elect a President who

will serve them faithfully and who will not expose their secrets to their Injury. Thus tills measure guarantees an ample Republican campaign fund. Secretary Shaw and the Snrplua. Mr. Shaw, as Secretary of the Treasury, knows what an abnormal national surplus means. He knows that It Is dangerous. Although it may represent a high state of prosperity it involves possibilities that cannot be contemplated without an effort to avert them. Ts a great surplus in the national treasury, which is capable of administrative nianiiAilatiou, creates a dangerous condition is It not even more dangerous t.o fostgr a system that accelerates the accumulation of the nation’s wealth in a comparatively few private hands, where It cannot be manipulated by governmental agencies? Yet the system that Mr. Shaw upholds, and which lie would not modify “merely because it is imperfect," is constantly and rapidly centering a vast portion of the money of the country in the hands of tlie great trusts. Kansas City Star. Mormons' and Republicans. The whole Mormon question was injected into tlie debate in the Senate on the statehood bill last week, when it was developed that there is a large Mormon constituency In Arizona and I New Mexico, and the startling statement was made that “no Mormon could

run for a high political ofHce without the consent of the first presidency of the Mormon Church.” This debate was significant In view of the advent of the Mormon issue when Apostle Smoot shall present himself for admission to the Senate. The Republican leaders In the last presidential campaign made a political bargain with some of the Mormon apostles that if the Mormon vote was east In Utah and other States for tho Republican candidates, there should be no further legislation against polygamy. Senator McC'omas characterized the prohibition of polygamy as contained in the Utah enabling act as an Impotent pretense of restriction without Hny legal efficiency. The partnership with the Mormons entered Into by the Republican national committee Is about to lead them into an endless sea of trouble. It Is n great satisfaction to Democrats that they are not entangled with It in any way. True Jeffersonian Doctrine. Jefferson's whole theory of government was based upon the Impropriety of the government doing anything for the citizen that the jltlzen could do for himself, or to Its assuming any duties which could he performed by Individuals, either alone or in association. It was a root-hog or die republic that Jefferson believed In, founded upou the everlasting equality of opportunity. It is uot equality of opportunity that the Populists believe In so much fts In the equality of achievement, which Is at variance with everything that Jefferson conceived as freedom and liberty and life.—Detroit Free Press. X Disgraceful Exhibition. The great Htate of Illinois Is apparently In the hands of petty political tricksters utterly without regard for the dignity and fair repute of the American commonwealth whose Interests they are supposed to serve. The factional fights of the Republican organization present the State In a most unfavorable light to the country at large. Leas “gavel rule," less selfish striving for fuctlonnl advantage, a more effective performance of sworn duty are In order If Illinois Republicans hope to Justify tltalr dominance In State affairs.—St. Louis Republic. The Onljr Cure for the Kvll. If Congress would wisely regulate the combinations let Cougross repeal the law’s of Its own creation out of which the evils have grown. That is not a difficult thing to do If the party In power Is really eager to rid the country of the evils that have come of these law-made monopolies.—Dallas New*.

FINDS A COMBINE.

Coart Decides that Reef Packers Are in Unlawful Combine. Judge Grosseup nt Chicago Wednesday overruled the demurrer of the defendant packers to the allegations made against them by the federal government In the famous “beef trust” cases. l*y this decision the injunction against further operation of the combination is made permanent. Judge Grosscup’s decision establishes that the operations of the packers in the buying of live stock and the reselling ns fresh meat constitutes interstate commerce. It sustains the government's position in every detail, and if it is finally approved by the Supreme Court it means not only the dissolution of the alleged t rust, but of all of the other large combinations acting along similar lines. The court briefly summarized the allegations in the government's bill in the following: That the defendants combined and conspired to refrain from bidding for live stock in order to hammer down prices to the producer. That they bid up prices for n few days to influence large shipments to the stockyards and then refrained from bidding, thereby again depressing prices. That they arbitrarily raised and lowered prices and maintained uniform prices by secret agreement, curtailed shipments. Imposed penalties for price deviations and kept “blacklists-'' of dcllimoeitt dealers. That they Imposed Illegal and expensive cartage charges on dealers and consumers. That they received and divided among themselves illegal rebates from railroads carrying their goods. That they attempted to obtain a monopoly of I lie supply and distribution of dressed meats. The government's definition is coincided with by the court in these pivotal points: Commerce is not restricted to specific acts of sale or exchange. It includes the intercourse—all the initiatory and Intervening nets. Instrumentalities and dealings—that directly bring about the Sale or exchange. The underlying test (of interstate commerce) is that ttie transaction ns an entirety, Including each part calculated to bring about the result, reaches into two or more States, and Hint the parties dealing with reference thereto deal from different States. What may be called the body of these transactions (Interstate commerce In meats) Is twofold. It reaches back to the purchase of cattle that come to defendants from States other than those In which defendants manufacture, and It reaches forward to the sale of the meats after conversion to parties dealing with respect thereto from other States, followed by shipments into tlie other States. It may be true that the way of enforcing any decree under this petition is beset with difficulties ami that a literal enforcement may result in vexatious interference with defendants' affairs, bur In the inquiry before me I am not at liberty to stop before such considerations. Ttie Sherman act, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, Is the law of the land, and to the law ns it stands both court and people must yield obedience.

TRUST LAW UPHELD.

Illinois Supreme Court Declares Statute of 18i> 1 to Be Valid. The Illinois anti-trust law of 1801 and its amendment of 1803 were declared valid by the Illinois Supreme Court Wednesday. Under tlie decision corporations will be compelled to lile yearly affidavits with the Secretary of State as to whether or not they are members of a trust. The decision was rendered in the ease of the people vs. the Butler Street Foundry and Iron Company, which was made a test case by the Illinois Manufacturers’ Association. The Supreme Court decided that the act of 1803 and the amendment of 1897 were unconstitutional, but do not repeal by implication or otherwise the act of 1801 or any part of it, ns amended in 1803. The result of tlie decision will be that members of tlie Illinois Manufacturers’ Association will become liable to a fine of SSO a day for failure to file affidavits, the total amount of the fine lying in the discretion of the judge who shall hear the eases against them. The decision bears directly on the eases pending in the lower courts against the soft coal operators of northern Illinois, who were indicted for conspiracy under the anti-trust act. The operators have based their defense chiefly on the allegation that the act was repealed by the amendment of 1807. which exempts corporations, the combination of whieh results in an increase of wages of workingmen. The cases against the retail coal dealers and the Indiuna operators will not bo affected by the decision, as they were indicted for conspiracy under common and statute law.

MILLION FRAUD LOSS.

Gigantic Swindle Charged by Life Insurance C< in >anicH. By an astounding series of frauds carried on for years a band of Italians in New York has swindled a dozen life insurance companies out of more than sl,000,000. One of the conspirators Is said to have received at least $250,000 as his share of the booty. Scores of men nnd women were involved in the plot, which was carried on for ten years under the noses of the insurance officials and was discovered only by accident. Perjury, forgery and perhaps murder were committed in this gigantic swindle. As many as twenty-three substitute bodies were passed off on a single insurance company, and it is possible 100 substitute bodies were used during the long series of frauds. It will lie necessary to open scores of graves in the process of unearthing the extent of the incredible swindles. Among the insurance companies said to have beett victimized by the swindlers are the John Hancock, the Union Central, the Washington Life, the Prudential, the Equitable, the Provident Life, the Tradesmen’s of Newark, the Mutual Life nnd the Metropolitan of Cincinnati.

Thaw Frozen Dynamite.

At the Buckeye mine, nine miles south of Bowie, Ariz., two men were killed, two seriously injured and n number of others hurt ns the result of an explosion of dynamite. Steel and O'Donnell had been left to thaw out two boxes of frozen dynamite. Steel gathered tip all tho dynamite he could hold in two hands and dropped It into a bucket of hot water. Immediately there was a deafening explosion, heard for miles.

Short News Notes.

There is talk in Paris of a revival rtf the Dreyfus affair, new evidence that the captain is Innocent having been discovered. Cincinnati Savings Society and the Union Savings Bank nnd Trust Company will consolidate. The combined deposits amount to about SIS,tXK),OOO. London Daily Chronicle says J. P. Morgan's name was forged to two checks for more than $55,000 in payment for bric-a-brac. The author haa not been apprehended.

JURY FAILS TO AGREE

FIASCO IN INDIANAPOLIS GRAVE ROBBERY CASE. Juror* Become Involved in Altercacation and Kail to Reach VerdictEvidence Bliowed that Organized Bands Despoiled Cemeteries. At Indianapolis tlie jury in the trial of Dr. J. C. Alexander, indicted on a charge of complicity in grave robbing, was discharged at 10 o'clock Sunday morning after being out forty-eight hours and failing to agree. On the final ballot the vote stood eight for acquittal and four for conviction. There were several serious altercations during the consideration of the evidence in the jury room which came very nearly resulting In blows. The cause of the personal feelings in the matter, it is said, was a result of the wives of the jurors being permitted to visit them. Attorneys declare that tlie imputation that any outside influences were brought to bear on the jury or any member of it cannot affect the result of the case as it now Btands. If, however, a conviction had beeh" returned the “altercation and the causes leading up to it would havo been grounds for the granting of a new trial. Public opinion is divided. Somo are in favor of letting the negroes go now as the alleged head was not convicted, but generally tlie disagreement seems to be acquiesced in. The trial of Dr. Alexander is the outgrowth of disclosures made recently before tlie grand jury. They showed that a form of traffic such as lias never before disgraced an American city has boen carried on in Indianapolis, with the cemeteries there and in the vicinity as the basis of operation. Indianapolis lias been the center of a grave-robbing industry and human bodies have lieeii shipped to all parts of the country. According to one confession over 1,000 graves have been despoiled and the bodies taken from the coffins and shipped to the dissecting rooms iu colleges in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Cleveland, Chicago, Louisville and other large cities. Through the medium of a person whose identity

BODY SNATCHERS AT WORK.

wai veiled in mystery the lenders of one organization of grave despoilcrs betrayed themselves to detectives who were sent out to gather evidence in the matter, j With the clew furnished the detectives worked persistently on the case until the members of the ghoulish band were placed behind the bars of the Indianapolis jail. The men were negroes. When these arrests were made it was supposed that the nefarious traffic had been effectually destroyed. Twenty-four hours had not passed after the gang mentioned had been placed tL Ail, however, before further evidence was collected pointing toward the startling fact that three other organizations were still operating among the graves of the cemeteries in the central portion of Indiana. The fact was also brought to light that several prominent physicians and surgeons and medical instructors and demonstrators in the middlo West were accused of complicity hKthg nefarious wprk. Among these were Dr. Joseph C. Alexander, demonstrator at the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis, who was arrested and charged with disturbing graves, aiding in concealment of bodies and failing to keep a record of bodies used for dissecting purposes. Rufus Cantrell, who is known as the 'King of the Ghouls,” made a confession of the manner in which the griteaome business has been carried on. In describing the way in which a grave is robbed, ho showed that ghouls have secret! * n their business ns well as those engaged in respectable callings. The entire coffin Is not laid bare. A hole aa square as the grave Is wide Is dug at the head of a mound. When the coffin haa been reached a man is sent Into the excavation and while he is at work drilling through the casket the light he requires and the noise he makes are both prevented from arousing suspicion by a heavy robe that is thrown across the top of the grave, while he labor* beneath its covering. When the coffin has been opened and an aperture has been made largo enough to permit of the corpee being drawn through, a second ghoul takes the first man's place and drags the body from the coffin to the surface. Cantrell wna formerly n soldier, lie enlieted In Indianapolis in 1807 and was discharged the following year from the Twenty-fourth infantry at Fort Douglas, Utah, for epilepsy, with suicidal and homicidal tendencies.

The Montezuma group of gold mines, Chihuahua, Mexico, have become the property of the United Mining and Kxpjoration Company of Los Angeles, Cal. The purchase price is $5,000,000. Cleveland, Ohio, policeman have been Ordered to close wlnerooma and curtained stalls. Mrs. S. A. B. Deselms and two amalL. children burned to death In their home, Orlando, 0. T. Heavy wind* did considerable damage to «U derxioks In the West Virginia field.

MANY TURF CONCERNS RAIDED.

Millions of Dollars Are Lost in Gigantic "Get- Rich-Quick’* Swindle. Further search in Chicago for “get-rich-quick” concerns developed the fact that E. J. Arnold & Co., the SL Louis firm that collapsed recently causing patrons to lose many millions of dollars, had a branch office in Chicago. The place was raided and the local manager, H. B. Blackstone, was taken into custody. From letters and books gathered in at the Arnold, Benedict & Co., Midcontinent Company, and Brolaskl & Co. raids It has been found that the turf scheme has found victims iu fifty-one cities and towns in tlie West. It is said by those who should know that Chicagoans have lost more than $1,000,000 and the loss to residents in other sections of the State will be quite as much more. It has been learned that per cent of the racegoers and race lovers of the country have been victimized by these turf swindlers. From every town and hamlet in Illinois and from all the large cities and towns throughout the country come reports from losses through the operations of these concerns and it is safe to say that more than 500.000 persons have contributed vast sums to the pockets of these speculators. Report after report shows that tho dupes are countless and that the sums lost are of gigantic proportions and may reach nearly $40,000,000. From Omaha comes a report showing that the losses there will run away up into the thousands of dollars. Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Louisville, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Atlanta and the summer resorts of California and Florida all contribute their tale of losses. And when this is all summed up it will be found that this gigantic swindle exceeds in extent even the great fraud of the South Seas known as the “south sea bubble.” Five hundred and twenty per cent Miller of New York was a mere tyro as compared with these get-rich-quick swindlers. > Miller's dupes lost millions. The customers of the get-rich-quick tipsters will lose tens of millions. A young woman employe in the St. Louis office of E. J. Arnold & Co. declares that no attempt at bookkeeping was made beyond recording tlie amounts received and the addresses of the victims. Money poured in at the rate of $50,d00

a day, and it lay around the office like so much merchandise, being so abundant that little care was taken to prevent thefts by employes. One girl employed In the office, it is said, stole $9,000 and not only escaped prosecution, but kept the money, because her employers knew she could tell their secrets and close their swindling concern. It is stated by men conversant with the business of the E. J. Arnold Company that Arnold has $5,000,000 In his possession when he fled to escape arrest This money came to him In a golden river from all over the country, and when he ran off to escape arrest and imprisonment It is believed he took the $5,000,000 with him.

The Comic Side of The News

If grave robbers are abroad the safest way is to drink boiled water and thus avoid them. Why should President Roosevelt act ns arbitrator when The Hague tribunal is suffering for exercise? Sultan Abdul Tnmid may be mobilizing a great army and again he may be mobilizing a giant bluff. If John D. Rockefeller, Jr., sent thoes telegrams they give further evidence that he is not as wise as bis pa. With a world’s job on its hands St. Louis cannot ba expected to pay much attention to a mere earthquake. The powers that are talking of putting the Turk out of Europe the Sultan sends a polite invitation to come outside and put him out. Tests made by the international doctors indicate that Europe's sick man’s temperature is again showing several degrees of fever. It will be remembered that a few years ago Greece was going to lick the Turk with dream weapons; but the dope failed to work. In Salt Lake City an ex Senator has been sent to Jail and yet some people doubt the wisdom o t having admitted Utah as a State. "Jim” Hill Is determined not to let any fancied enjoyment of present prosperity deprive him of the luxury of saying “I told you so” when that wave of adversity sets In. Let them revise the football game until It will not he necessary to begin the reports with a list of the killed nnd wounded and they will see what happens to the gate receipts. ' Montana has defeated a woman suffrage bill. Women are getting so plentiful in the West that they don’t have just to ask for a thing In order to have It jest to then on a silver tray.

Opportunities in the South. No portion of the United States has made greater progress the past year or two than the South, Northern and foreign capital is rapidly invading that section, finding profitable investment in the various industries and factories that are being rapidly developed and built. The great influx of settlers is creating an increased demand for lands of all kinds, and prices are gradually advancing, as they will for years to come. Work is plentiful and poverty practically unknown. Alabama is supplying coal and iron to all the world. More money can be made and with less labor in the raisingof'small fruits and berries and in truck patching along the Gulf Coast than in any other state in the Union. Strawberries from Alabama reach Northern markets before those from the states in the southeast. Cattle can be raised with great profit, there being millions of acres of cheap range lands. If you are interested in the south and its resources and desire information on any subject, address O. A. PARK, Qencral Industrial and Immigration Agent, LOUISVILLE S NASHVILLE RAILROAD, LOUISVILLE. KY.

el N K WKiICQ vnu Rahway {(^ • 1 »' 1 Chicago to the Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville, and French Lick Springs. Rensselaer Time-Table, In Effect June 29, 1902. South Bound. No. s—Louisville Mail, (daily) 10:55 a. ra No. 33 Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 2:01 p. mNo. 39 Milk nrcomm., (daily) 6:15 p. mNo. 3—Louisville Express, (daily) . 11:25 p. m •No. 45—Locul freight 2:40p. mNo. 31 —Fast Mai 1....... ~. 4:49 a. m North Bound. No. 4—Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk uoeoinm.. (duily) 7:31a.m. No.32—Fust Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (duily)... 3:30 p.ra. •No. 30—Cin. to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. {N0.38 Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. ra. •No. 46 Local freight.........' 9:55 a. m. •Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. No. 32 and 33 now stop at Cedar Lake. Fkank J. Reed, G. P. A., W. H. McDoel, President aud Gen. M'g'r, Ciias. H. Rockwell, Traffic M'g’r, CHICAGO. W. H. Beam, Agent, Rensselaer.

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