Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 50, Jasper, Dubois County, 22 August 1902 — Page 3
Weeklu Courier. 0. UUiNtC, Pabllihri. JASPEU. l 1 I I INDIANA.
THE HAPPY LONG AGO. They t.-U u of th good old times I'Ik' tin V Iuiir HO Alan' Um will! to-day la filled Willi nothing much but wo! Back In th blissful, lovely days, Whi'ti all thine were a atOO, Is',, if.-mt-n' waKmiii run. bid, und Th'' people hail no loo. Back In the linppy, happy days When people were a blest. When life waa worth the living, and The world wart at Its beat Men didn't turn the faucet on Wh.n they wont home at niRht And idiiiiK'' a i we piuiiK' Into tuba All smooth and clean and white. The Rood old days, the fair old days. Kre awnliiK had been inule. How sweet U must havo Ih'ph, when It Waa ninety In th shade. To alt beside a window where The tun wan shmlriK through While from un s irhikled streets the dust In choking volumes Mew!
flow Kind they must have Ixen who lived Ir thoSM old, happy days. Whole everything was done by hand !n good oid-fashloncd wuya, Wlvn smoky canities pl reel the gloom And boBtM yUad at sight Because there were no safety pin To give their souls delight. Ah! happy, happy teXC long past. When all tho worM was gay, Kre window BOMMni had been .h'Vlsnd To keep the tlhs away. When people sleet on oorded bed And had ihelr visions rare While glad Bioequltoe took their fill What happiness wan tier." -s. E. Kiser, In Chicago Record-HerekL
ll said aliud In the queer, jerky drawl of the piny woods. It luil a comical sound an I some one tittered In spite of tho solemnity of t he casi n. "Did you ever nc a convicted man wil l thought lie had had tell If a 17" UM lawyer usk.-d ano'licr Hut Alplioi. had had no thought of a fair trial when he spoke, he would not have known a fuir trial from an unfair one Hil mind had gone far, fur bach to the days of his childhood, to t he little mod-chinked log cabin in Um eleariag where be had lived with hii father und mother. Ho reinem red hia thin, sickly mother, who worked SO hard ami hud so many a. ho. ami prins, yet was nevertheless alwayi kind spoken " There were many litt!, mounds in a mde inelosure which. In a more cbilied region would havo boon considered none too good to serve us a pip; pen, for f all the children sho had home, Alpheus alone survived. His father, too, was kind to him, anl when he took his cotton into town, in the autumn.
would bring Alpha ua stick of "striped candy." But tho mother died, and after
trying to "do for himself, ipheu
and all seemed to point towards as everyday ending to this humble lovestory. When Jim Jordan hennl the news,
he "mos 'split hii bides a-laufhia US he expressed it.
"Tho ide ' that old snenk. Mddle-
nock, tl a pal!" he cno.l, hlapptii Li leg. "Darned if 1 don't anil in an' cut him out "
Jim was prompt to act. He began
to luv siege to mm pin Linda, and soon lulei her with hia dashing wtiys. He ridiculed Alpheus Inces
santly, never inssjlring of him to
Linda, except us Flddleueck. ami mak
ing hör ashamed, finally, of having
received Alpheus attentions. Helpless um ever under Jim's persecutions.
Alpheus could only worry and puzzle
oer tho situation.
Hut the climax came when Alpheus
was passing one ilay In front, of the
eld cabin, and Jim, hailing him.
coarsely taunted hun with baviBg
got "hia pal" away from him.
Not that I v ally her this much."
and he mapped his lingers, "but jos I
to leurn JTOU a lesson."
Suddenly thfl world swam rod be
fore Alpheus eyes. It scented to lnm that this crowned all the aaklndwese, insults anil i ndiguit ies that had been
A Fair Chance.
0
v
IT WAS drowsily wann that day, tad though a murder cae wee to eourse f trial l the county scat, it had aroused no part icuhir excitement in the minds of the inhabitants of Willsborough. The it room bed hardly mere than Its aeon contiagent of iiiiirs and lounge re. Tor one thing the cess had no coine a
icafions or sensational ieaiores.
end there was nothing sent uncut a lly interesting in Lbs character of Hie parties eoncerned. It was just a eovn tri fellow, a piny-wood-man. who had killed his step-brother, nud then seemed able to give bo explanation for his deed but, "He deviled DM till 1 done it" 'nr tw"- !t appealed, hail bed ' words." and suddenly Alpheus White picked up an ad, und struck Jim Jordan a terrible blow
on the load that killed him instant
ly. The stop mother and step-si
tor-; nf the accused and several of
their "kin." witnes-ed against AI
pheus, and bore voluble testimony
to tho fact that he had elwSTi been
"full of prove nsennneei , " where
'.tin. lind been bolikod by all that
) sewed him." According to them Al
pheus had "a gredgo1 egelnet Jim lor veers, had alwaya been jeeloua ol ion, finii "antted" him whenever he
could.
Alpheus hnd preionsly borne the Mtuitnilun nf a harmless, peaceable
man. not "OTerly bright," but .steady
timl sober; v t the fact remained that
he had killed a man. seemingly U
on slight provocation, lie did n t
..o.,.,.t to ib nv his crime, or even
i " to excuse it; appearing daed int
submission to his fate there wee
BOtking in bis appearance to excite ii, o tvniT.athv ot those aentlmeBtal
mils "who tili the cells of murden
with boeqnete. He was just a tall thin countryman. BWhwardly put to
ether, with a freckled face, hair u
most Colorless, and a km;, sunburnt
neck amply displayed by the turndown collar of his checked COttOB fchirt. Only in his pale, blue eyes there was' a sad. puzzled, rebuffed look one seen in the eyes of sonic poor home less dog that tecrybody Idcke rnil abuses and drives away. The esse had been one ea-ily disposed of. Tic brwyer -ippointed by the court bal pleaded somewhat lekewarmty, the cause of murder. Then followed the district attorney. Who referred to the prisoner M a fratricide, likened hitn to tain, and became tloqoeetly itnpa-sioned ii'Ui the djertf f eeevict ion. The jury retired to deliberate.
Alpheus sat with his Cnil sun!
lipon bJa breast, n wm iw mwJ nhvstasJ torpor. Tin
brought warm puffs of perl m ' through the window from the bloomlag ChiM trees in the courtyard; a slow ozwoftroa crawled wenklly elong Main street, and some pigl grunted und souftli d in the nit. "It's astonishing how near being animals those piny w .o.!. people are."
whispered the district attorney
father brought home the widow Jor- heaped upon blm la hi childhood and
dan with her BoIhV, i ua ire Iconic i , N hood . H
bl ood ..I" children. She took adi-like to Alpheus at first sight. It was not Alpheus at first sight. It was not jealousy with her coerse, buxom good l .oks, ahe would have UtOUghl
she had no occasion to be jealous
of her sickly, faded predecessor, or
any of her belongings but she declared that the "young 'ea wee Jes too pien uplv to live; a - ugly as i
yallor Bigger dog." As she and all her orogen wore black-haired ami
l.h.. V-. cd. Alnheus tow tr-.ni was
naturally not admired by her. li
hink out of her light us mach a
possible, out sne qoicaiy avenue aim 'he drudge of the family.
M.i rv Helle" tdie would say, "don t
.. ii. .,
von sixio your sum oo-i umi io-
Itloheus has pot to stir that pot.
1 -. . , . .i l. : 1.
Or Here. V"U Alpneijs. no von iiijo-v
I'm g 'in' to let my Jim break bit
, w V tot In' t hem buckets o Water
from the springs'.'
Alpheus' father had at tirst tri
feebly to protect him; but be wa
. i uiJn I i .
we.iK-mlluicu man. e.isn, i..., -
submission by his lond-toagued wife.
and though he might pltj !;i- OB "
ocrct, be dared ubt r;;i-c his vm
to di read rum.
The Jordans were all bettor looking ,,! n.n.Uerwittod than Alpheus. Mid.
I T . . . v . , .i
!.. n. TO not OW to make lei-i
i.,rn.ciitiii!' him in various
o,, - ------o
wa S.
Ii. bIm! none o' oi:r Kin, they
li . ' ' a i
would ep::nr. im isu-,..
.1 mi. who was the nearest hi - Ig
..v: i' v mail oi I'm iu
rices for the discomfiting ol Aipneo-
. . . a a 1
The only tune Alpheus nan resnurvu
to resent Jim's aggressions. . is step
mother's heay list had hatnmered
into him the wisdom Ol SttBeftng m
ilicir mother made a
(iliriu ' . drudge of him. so the youtnr Jordan
lo hilll the Idltt CM men ciom.-v
eule. It was Jim who gare him
bv which
struck at his step
brother sS an animal attacked by , , i i i...
another WOUIO strike, uispiieu o the instinct of retaliation, and without thought of ecneeoneaee.
Yet who Know all this but hin-
self? and he hud BOt words in wiiicu tu tell it.
The Methodist minister Usit.il Al
pheus in his cell. He was a gooo,
earnest soul, and was touched con
to tears by the thought of this p or, lanornnt creature standing BBfrleBd-
on the brink f death, in responne to his pious words,
Alpheus still mumbled his one plaint,
I nuver bed fair cnanst. "Hut put all that behind you. poor
-lllticr. erieu liu- inno-oi.
behind you like the ret of life. Hepent, and look forward to the. life
eternal.
Yes. I'm sorry I killed Jim. but
somehow I dunno" Vlphous thought
and words trailed off confusedly In
to silence.
The miBister wai with Alphena to
the last, exhorting, consoimg anu - . ,,i . l H.. ...1 Im
cournglng; ami Aipneus icaru o-
ling to him M B child in passing
throttirh a dark plaee would cling lo
a friendly hand. Bometblng of
insolation the minister tried
STORY FROM GEORGIA. 4s OrlelMMl i'air Which lllaatrste ihr AeaessMtee t ivriasbwra Ul. rvuurst, Viii N. II. oh en, th author of Ab oei Daah I, just published by fearnei A Ürothers, tells an amHstng iturj about the origiaal ol one of th.- char actors in th t aovel of Ueorgie Ufa, The man lived ulone n a cable, the four comers ol whe h i . -ted on rather slender pots. A neighbor paused elong by bis house one da and aw the gauat mouatalaeei making ye iu S erode ash hopper, "tioiu' t make oap?" asked tte neighbor, ourioualy. "So," was the slow reply, "i'ur the lust two areeJu them dnra hogs j' ror'n has been sleepln' under my
bona un' keepin' ue awake with ihe'r gruntin'. I'e iai-od a plank in my floor right over the'r bod, an" tonight I'm goia' to heat tili lye b'il.n' hot an' etnptj It on "cm. I'll show "em a thing or t M "" "Well." laughed the neighbor, "I reekoe it won't kill 'em," und be walked on. That night about 1-' o'clock the neighbor was awakened by i Ni.-e calling faintly at his gate. Ilising Slid going t" the door, he saw the plotter S gains! the hogs loaning on th rail fence la front of his house. "Hello:' he called out; 'anUhiiig wanted'.'" For a moment there was silence.
then the man at the fence seid: "Kf it's je t the same to you, I'd like to sleep bete the re-t ' the Ilight." ' "Oh. I see," said the man in the doorway. "Yore lye didn't work." "Y. v. ii worked," gros I Ik man as he . limbed OYCf tkfl fence and limned forward, showing a fa. o badly bruised and a Shirt torn into shreds. "1 got the stun" n 'em. durn the'r hides, but they wer la seek hurry to git out that they knocked one o' the props from under my cabin, en me n the hopee started n roil down the hill. Kf them hoirs hail 't got no more skin on 'ein 'au I hae the 're in a bad tix."
THE TRUSTS' SHARE.
rssli ( rrrulaa the Csetlatlalle ( utliiuea.
Lndn this title the republican mansjera in their r.'O-' ainpuigu hook attempt t biiiktle Uie trnat question. They say: "The trusts have not eecupied a great s place in the manufui t uring Ualnetfiea aa they have in public dik-
euaeioa. According t the returns r the ceiisii, for 1'JOO, the value of trustmade articles was only l'J.8 per cent of the total output ol th manufacturing establishment, in that year The ralaal of the total output of all inanii fii. turing establishments in the census year was $13, Out. 400,14:1. while the alue of the output of the trusts was tl,Oti7,350,f4t, r 12. per cent, of the whole. . . . "The list contains 183 corporations. . . . "The largest of these wes the I'nited ."tates Steel corporation, with $1,000,Ul.TeO capital stock and bonds." None of these statements are true. Some are ebeolatelj fa!e others are hell or ijuarter 1 rntbs. As usual, the latter are the meaner lies to deal with. The campaign bookmaker is mis
taken when he teyi the I'nited States St eel eorporatioB la included in the list Census bulletin No. 122 distinctly Till". I, S'V STH .
THE POWER OF INJUNCTION
fosalbls
SS1SS NepsblleSlSl
aress HfUnd to Psss s Im last wssi nereH it.
Cmmm
- a säsewss k i
Hi- niiii.it rr Ihf Trul.
the to
. . ill
bring homo to him penewaieo nw dull mind, and his formlos ideas slowly shaped themaelvei Into the worda: "Beckon if fd elway kaowad bout gittln' a fair ehanat Over Sinndcr. I wonldn't 'a minded s nook missin' i'. bore." In which, without knowing it. Alpheus ecanleeoed n th worda of the philosopher lliat "in order to eniinrp this Ufa it Is neceeeerj to
imagine another." New Times-Democrat ,
t Irl .ana
it
en
mi mal wind
to
mother lawyer. J hat iciiow is uc tually too dull and del rfl when his life hangs in the balance. " Hot Alpheus was not quite so dull and l.nse. He did not know what fiatri. ide meant, however, he understood dimly thai the district attorney had been ' "talkin' agin him." A A vogue thought came to his mind hut if be had Money -r taflnencei thinr-s might go easier with him. Tbc deliberation .if the jury ilil not hist long. At the T-er.lict. "fiuilty." a ort of marmer revn around the room; fo there must always he n moniant of emotion in hearing entence of death pronouneecl evea ujion the most in.irrti i lien nt of human belngR.
l senteo.
BUM ridi
the name of "Flddleneck
he became known throughout that
piny woods .settlement. The rural ,,f the annronriate was tickl d
asm. w - I I S by the title. "Don't it jes' hit off th lomr. red ne.-k ' his'n'" r, Uim
iWmm n libv. "Jim shore i tb
I I ,1111 M J fellow to giy names that Sticks
Yet Alpheus wii- a good, harmlos
creature, who would hue asked liotb
ins hotter than to live on kindly
terms with his Mep-relations. As lie grew older the settlement had no dclinite grievance against him; but when one is shy and awkward it ieasy to get th reputation of being "Hullen-like" and the .second Mr-. White epered no words tO make it believed hat bCt stepson was " hurd to get along with." II. . ...... ,.... . .It.wl in:, '1
S'liort iy .ii i 1 r ftipi.cui i ' in hood his father died, and the larger part of the little farm fell to bis share. Mrs. White wus Indignant that the law crave her only a third, and.
In fact, went into hysterics wncn sue learned that the whole farm was not to bo hers. "Oh. my DO paltry thirds:"sbe ejaculated, with tears of wrath. "If this ain't ettjeet, ther never was onjosti.e in th world. Here's me that's worked like Bigger on this piece,
done for thai man year in un is a a . ; . .
ut. an wrc aayaeu ous im
his brat lit tin an" bore l m
put off with thirds:" Bat the law in law. I tr:ve i.n the cabin
mother, and built himself another as far removed as possible from the hl one Re began to plant on bis
own account, and i erne moaeeitj successful. OWlng to his industry. All of wln.h did not endear him to thJordans. Jim had elCO reached man's estate, and in ala uttire. profusely scented with "cinnam n drap." with his black, curly hair well oiled, he ,vas a typical puis woods lady-killer. In addition, he was a hard drinker, a poker player, und au Idler hi short, thoroughly worthless; but his mother
ad sisters admired htm greatly ua u deahing blade. Alpheua' nearest neighbor ww th Millers ivw people who bad letery move,! in from en edjointng countv. Mos.-s Miller, who was as qaiet and herd-worklB as Alpbeoe, had made the yottttg BMtn'l CqUOiBlane in the course of their plowing
II..
QUEEN VICTORIA'S TACT.
S.- II III X' I I eil
Hie
l'rloee I
au
i I r
to raise
renaert tt. Kasel efoee the Tseab of moleon. A biography of Marshal Cnnrob. rt has boon published recently in Paris. Not the least interesting pari "f the work is that which refers to the extraordinary popular doinon-trations that marked the state i-it of the late Queen Victoria to the French capital, says a London paper. When the English sovereign, with her consort and heir, went to the Invalides to look upon the tomb "f Nap-deon the scene was one which seem to have greatly impressed the marshal. who the describee' it: "Bearybody "':,s profoundly moved. Not a word spoken. Each person toou faring at the cofRa and was h.st in thought Prince Albert was in front of nie in the red uniform of a held marahati at bla side stood the on and standing beside her eraa tke print f Wales, dressed in his hichhiml costume,
with his relvet coet, ins puree m mr
1 the kilt: at the righl wan i m
Mathilde whose feat ores, so
pure, standing out la the ugai on torches, recalled too tiridlj the fca-
of lier uncle. Alter a mo- . pause of rellection. of abeO" llcBce, the " ' with aa
ii nee . o.d meditation, tuined lo
NEW CYCLONE STORIES. iiiulirl.il TBI a SM I bill HSIVC llren
Accsaapltshe . the ii in HlekteTaa, A Wheatland lurmer eaya that upon . nterfng Iiis pig pen. Immediately efter the paeeege of the eyeloae the ether day, he was surprised to tun! what be at tirst supocd wa. a new species f swine. His porhera hud been driven so full of splinters us to be scarcely recognisable), relates the Hud son (Mick.) Poet. A man sitting in a back window of his residence, jusi out of the path of the twister, saw bit cow-, which were gracing la a neighboring held, go selling skyward. They landed on an adjoining (arm and begBB glaring again. He baa aoi yet recovered from hi astonishment. "Do you know the reason they couldn't find that piano'.'" asked a
man n the barber shop. "1 was standing in front ot the hotel at Mai. il . u Beech, when 1 hoard something that sounded like music direct ly overhead. 1 looked up and saw a piano goim; northward over the lake at an elevation Of about L'oii feet. The wind was agitating the key, and 1 could distinguish the strains of 'Ain't It a Shame.'' 1 have i old u lot of people about this, hut they don't seem to believe it." The foregoing stories were gathered (rem reliable sources. SOME COOL COMFORTS.
At the last session of congress e hill wus introduced under the tale "to de fine conspiracies." It wa dravin by an attorney for the American Federa tion of Lahor, and wus intended to prevent government by injunction. The democratic members of the judiciary committee were unsuinious for the bill, but Mr. Uttktgekt, a republican, w ho i s suid to be selected by President K.M.sevclt to lead the light against the trusts, was opposed to the bill, and made a long report apainst it. Thie indirectly shows that the president is not heartily in sympathy with the striking coe.1 miners, er he would not select a lieutenant who opposed remedial legislation that was fraus;h with so preat cons, iiiences to laboring men, anil especially the atriking miners In spite of the opposition of Mr LlttUlalu and others, the bill aeeai the house, but corporation influence was too powerful in the senate, and it was laid aside. The democrats of both houses were anxious to pas this hill, and it was a sorry day for the strtkiag coel miners when
tkeir Sorte were d feated by the republicans. In telling of the in ju net ion campaign now going on in We.-t Virginia against the strikers' right, the New York Journal says: "One more crime has been added to the catalogue. ".Itn'.jTe .Tncks-'ti. bj hi in junctions, made it a punishable offense to nk a coal miner to join a labor union, und n "w Judge Keller, another West Virginia jurist, has i- -ued in junct ioBl forbidding the establishment ol strike camp, which are established in connection with the purchase and distribution of fond for the striking miners. "The law-breaking railroads, which mine coal illegally and in defiance of their charters, are to be congress lated on the preoeBOC on the bench it' two such convenient justices ua these. if they do not win the strike it will not be the fault of .lodge .lack-
states that the steel corporation was
forme.! alter tue eosus ye . siM K,.K.r
muco in ine us us
not im
This writer niu-t have had t hfl census bulletin before him when he was copying figures and statement- from it. The most eoBspkueos matter on page '' relates to the great steel corporation and the reasons why there-turn-from it were not included in the trust tables The writer oii!er.t!y wanted to make as good a ca-o pos
sible, and decided todeliberat. lv
Hef re I. i . - II I '.i ii e .1
e. Til lie" I'll Hi Will Cratefal le Hot en I Iter.
Be
and
CI"
Alphene to his
gladSi ep-
turei mend lute
pr.ssion caltnneai
t ie nrince of
nii shoulders, sain. "
the tomb
rite nrisoner still renin ilie
c. u ...... him bv the arm and
V ' - ' ' i.. i i stan mi nml as he stumbled pent-it
II, lF, .IUI ,,
!, sLtvnWe lor ilie Hint, o.i, i
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I'll
B
mm a- f ua - chaast.
ts bis
time that day. "I nuvci lad
and planting, and they soon became friends. Mos"- bad im only a igh ter, Linda. BOt pn-tty. but with a pleasant comeliness, and gentle, kindlyway thai suggested goodness, of heart." The probable thing Imp-
Mphetts f-ll in ioc wiin swr
l'i nn.l bririin to court her in a bast,-
E . , 1....1 ,,. "Iiitrli
wav. UinOS, woo ii. oi -.
Botiyu.." looked tavurat'iy
nies, and. placing le-r
hands on
down on vour knees before
Of the groat Napoleon." It Wae a tine exhibition of th keen polltlcel
tact, as well as of fine human tool
ing on the part of the queen. APulel Itlld. "It Is a great mistake to supp. that nuns have BO sense of humor." remarked a girl who bad jst returned from a month in a Koman Catholic hospital. " I hey arc just as bright and clever as other women. lb., sisters told me u great many amusing stories while I was sick. One of them Sister Angelica- bin two brothers who nr.- priests end two sisters who an- nuns. The only later who is outside of tke official church le married and baa on- dear little girl. fiv teat oH-Hllda. of . v. knnws oil about hfir
0OTOVW7, i ne . mwm " trro uncles who er priest .. ami her
three aunts who belonged
ai.nr.-i, sisterhood . I he
in at breakfast, little Hilda looked very serious; tBSteed ol eating with her nsttal hearty RppeUt k -ecmed to be HtediteUagi ami her mother became alarmed. 'Arc you sick, HUda? ahe asked. '.No. mamma, Mud the little trt, slowly. 'I'm JaaJ thinking ahoBl whM HI do when I grow up; i cant make "i aty lad whethM I aranl " a l,ri,?st r nun." " IkrtroM i I
tine of the most cooling comforta hi a trappe, which is neither a bevcraj;c BOT a food, and yet it is both. An j mixture which is frceeo too hard to drink end Bot hard) eeoogh to eat iu celled treppe. I'rappe- of cofice or ehoeolate, OT . von lea, are especially acceptable, aaya Woman's Home Companion. Etrery good eook luav ItnOW boa to andU ices ui:d ereoms, bat few ttaderetaad how much their quality depends upon the roper maniptiletiou of Ice end .-alt; the ICC must be shaved, ai d for this purp... there is a little shaver with which it can be e.i-ilv and ipiickly cut small enough. l-'or . reams and i.e. three parts of lee o .me of aalt rock-salt should be lined, and fol freppee half of anoh, la order to eaake it coarae and maehy. if it aecms too much trouble o liudd cream-, but few u lido r t a ml how Bkaped SCOOpe they use at the sodawater fountains is indi-pensuble Thev c"rt btt1 a trine, Bad each eeoopfttl i- easily tunic. I ont onto a dish iv meaaa of the thumb-screw,
to the
other morn-
peel, Resh, Hilt a
PtneaptvVe Pettteea. I hoose a ret) ripe pineapph reniovo ihe eyes and urate th. taking care t save the juice.
pint of Hour, add eBOOgfa COW vutor to the pineapple juice t make a pint in 111! and with tin- iinv the tlmit gradually to a SaBOOth bat ter, add hull a teaspoonfnl of aalt and th. weih I,,-.. t.-u yolk of one eggj when the deeB fat for fixing has been tested with u bit f bread and foead jaat right, stir into the better th wellStiffeBOd white. .Vow. alter mixing ut em h spoonful, drop enough of the butter into the fat to niiike th fjM fritter desired, and when brown remove with a skimmer amh allots t; stand for a neuii. nt on brown paper uei in the colander In the mouth of the urea. Pile en a ht disk, dust with soft sugar. nn! serve. The pineepphl flavor will be broughi ont bj i moi jui. e and ugai a parlnfi -LeuiavlUi Coui-ifi-.b iiiuui.
fal
sify statements to make it easv for republican speakers and writers to deceive the people. Hem e he itetcd that the steel trust, whose capital n as onethird of all. was included in the list. Of course h expected republican speaker- le tell the people that outside of this steel trust, the total output in trust combinations was only $2.000.ooa.0i0, and that the trust question was being greatly exaggerated by the vike.! democrats Hundreds of spellbinders will undoubtedly use his figures. Th' campaign book trent- this list of s3 trusts as if it were I complete li-t and embraced all the trust- in the country It kf far from complete. It does, not, for example, include any of the -cores of iras and electric light combination-, although the value of their product- foMM a large part of the 1B.000,000,OM f total manufactures, the value of g- alone being $7.V 714.61.
How very incomplete this trust list Is. is evident from the fact thai as far back as IBM the .lonrnnl of Cm- , i ,'..i i . -
merip anu lommercii i duiiwvjb iri Booh of New Vork contained a li-t of US tru.t s (Including ell-known prioeRxrog areemeata and a few projected and chartered trusl). with a total eapitaliat ion. issued and estlneted, j of 7.418,33S,S4t. Surely the writer I had heard of theso year book lists. Why did he ignore them, utile. s with i Intent to deceive-.' The list print- j
...1 in the am mlix of this years
( noerat le i book eoeteln
ineornorated tru-t- with an i-uei!
capital of $f..?t:;.-tv'.1. It i- pre pared by Mr. tfoka Moody, tbe preat-o-t experi n badastrtal securities, etc.. in thi- country. Again, the census list contains none of the hundreds of unincorporated trust. price-fixing agreements, sssooi.ntion. pools, etc.. which ceti-u-bulletin No, 12:.' tell- ns "are often more effective in regulating prices . . . than actual consolidations under n charter " One ol these is the beef tru-t which has n product vol tied st ,nn 000. OoO or MOO.OOO.OOO out of the
0TM 000.000 which form- part of the $13.000.000.000; another is the Tlessetner Ore seoetattoa, with a product of n.-arly fioo ooo.ono; another Is the steel rnil pool, with a product of W, 000,000; others of importance are the anthracite coal combine, the structural terl pool, the Steel Hnr association, the Steel Plate BeeoekftlOB. nn'l score f other association and BOOll in steel, hardware, chemicals, npri. ultnral Implement. rt . Beyond a doubt, the prlee on two-thir.l-of our manufactured products
are fixed by tru-t- of some kind The public i not mlstakea when thev sVe heed to this subject an1' insist upon discussing ll seriously nd often. M RON W HOLT,
"The splendid response of the union confer. nee in the matter of
strike benefits uiide it impossible
for theoretical operators to carry mit their beneficent scheme of starving the miners into abandoning their union, so this injunction, directed at the loaders of the national execution committee and efcera charged with the duty of providing supplies for the men who are ..ut on strike, comes along in the very nick of time. The encroachment on the liberty of the miner- i greater with every example of this misu-e of the power of the federal injunction." And then after deocribtttg the old penal law- of England that punished a man who refii-cl to work nt the prevailing rate, the Journal goes on to sny: "It waa from this condition of eieren that labor unions reecned the men who de he world' wrh. " The injunction principle would egata btad the bands of labor and maje it absolutely dependent on the generosity of employe re. "It is not for the law to say that men shall not join unions for their mutual benefit, or that they shall Bot form camp- Of Ao anything else that Is not in itself unlawful, rind srbea the law i- turned and 1;. nt to make these thing- criminal, to the end that some man or set of men may hire workers cheaply, there is engendered a contempt for In WS that may not always be confined tO the judge-made rulings. The progre-s of labor ha been over the wrecks of just such obstacles a- these, and it i- absurd to suppose that this pj'Ogreee can be halted now. The injunctions of
Judge Jaekaoa and Judge Keller will never become precedents. Whether .i,... um sustained for the tiro-, nt r
ijgalnot, they will soon 1 vermied by
the court m puime oiuioii. " the decisions of wkJen n injustice I can stand in a free country." . .
It
TARIFF MUST COME DOWN.
IBs
la the Mother of Trilla and lesssrteae IHentta ni taneatt
nv time is suitable to in-crea-e t h tariff. There is BOB eniteble to red oca it .r correct in absurdities and nronge. Condition may change. Resources may be de eeloped. New market- mny offer them . Ives. Overproduction may demand outlet. ref ii iritis I chance tboy that we may ett. Hut the tnnff must remain scored, hnmntahfe, or to be changed In the direction of Increeae oalr N. Y. Times.
"The tariff will not down. 'No matter how hard the republican leaders try to keep it down, the tarhf continues to force its way to the top 'The oftlcial republican campaign text book, by ignoring the tariff in effect, issues orders to the party's orators and editors to keep silent on the subject. Nevertheless there is ea uamletakable doannd among the republicans of the middle w-t for t.lritT legislation The Iowa platformdeoleretloB la favor of santi remodeling of the schedalee as shall depi le monopoly of protective heiter i- a significant rOBpOnB to this demead. i he eonvi. f loa spreading that tho tariff 1 the mother of tru-t - It i- the tariff that enables the industrial monopolies perpetrate the swindle of selling goods cheaper to foreigners than to Americans. "It is the tariff which shields the food traai ff"" competition, and thttS enables It to ! ,,- what It pica -es for inent. "It is the tariff which enables the kedktf 1 1 nst to m il e counterfeit cloth, and so defraud the poor whenever thev luv a ".heap" garment, enrpet or blanket. TarifT r- vi i.n must BOM The imericna p 'b''' ndH not aabmlt to betag permaaeBtly g cue 1 led robbed by the frusU-