Pike County Democrat, Volume 31, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 October 1900 — Page 7

DOWN ON TEUSTS. Frank S. Monnett, of Ohio, Speak* for Bryan. Bepikllen Aitoraey Gea cral Charge* Capitalists with Controlling the Nattaa’a Chief EaeeatlTt. Frank S. Monnett. for four years republican attorney general of Ohio and who has achieved a national reputation on account of his vigorous warfare on trusts, made a ringing speech at a nonpartisan meeting of laboring men at Columbus on the night of Friday, October 12, concluding with a public announcement that he would vote for Bryan this fall and advising all of his republican friends to do the same. Mr. Monnett confined his address wholly to trusts. He reviewed the prosecutions against various trusts, combinations a^l monopolies which he had undertaken while attorney general of the state. In this connection he said: "It. became my privilege and duty to Institute upward of 24 suits against these combinations, monopolies and trusts as .your sworn officer of the law, calling upon the highest courts of the state to electrocute these law violators that pillage your sugar bowl, your oil can, your tobacco pouch, exact excessive freight and telephone charges and to protect you In youi rights of private property under the constitution and laws of the state. We labored to accomplish this, as it was our duty to do. \

Obstructed by Republicans, **We were badgered and obstructed by ^republican leaders. United States Senators, t political bosses and a subsidised press. The ' monopolies sent the briber with bis seductions of gold and with his promises of positions and salaries and procured the leading governmental officials to defend them, and last, but not least, driven from pillar to post, they came into court and with uplifted hands sworethat they did not and could not answer the interrogatories or produce their books, for if they did it would subject their corporations to civil death for violating the law of their creation; and lastly, that it would criminate the col-lege-fostering, church-erecting, campaigncontributing monopolists. “A like experience was encountered •gainst the salt trust at Pomeroy, O. The same dodge and skulking from the avenging law was adopted there." Points to McKinley's Record. Mr. Monnett then went into the subject of federal legislation against trusts and discussed the Sherman anti-trust law. He dwelt especially on the “evils of combinations in restraint of trade.” Continuing, ke said: “We nominated a president from Ohio, who promised the people in fair phrases that he would enforce the anti-trust laws of the United States, including the Sherman anti-trust act. How has he enforced it? He went to New Jersey, the state of the trust-breeding grounds, the cesspool and the spawn of all these Illegal combinations, and placed at the head of the attorney general’s department John W. Griggs, who has under him 78 district attorneys scattered throughout the various states of the union, the duty of each and every one of which is to enforce this antitrust act, and according to his official report May 29, 1900, to congress out of 13 suits instituted under this law three have been begun under his administration, and one of these is not yet decided. Declares Law Is Nullified. “This is the magnificent record of the present national administration and the complete nullification of the most important law upon the statute books upon this subject since the beginning of our govern

“The trusts utterly failed in defeating the Sherman anti-trust act; they were completely routed by the judiciary in the final test in the supreme court, and they have now begun the dangerous policy of paralysing the executive arm by means that are so palpable that he who r^ns may read, and none but the most skeptical can fail to be convinced. “I believe that William McKinley and John W. Griggs, his attorney general, and his executive officers have willfully, purposely and knowingly paralysed the executive arm of this government for the last four years and prevented the enforcement of the common law and the statute law, both criminally and civilly, against these law violators. And the hour has now come and the only time we will have for the next four years as voters to legally and constitutionally smite them for this hypocrisy, to resent this violation of official duty, and we should vote against every elector that is pledged on the republican ticket to perpetuate this great wrong in our republic. ®rgei Support of Bryan. “William J. Bryan may not accomplish all that we expect or all that we hope for in this behalf, but I believe him to be thoroughly honest, sincere and a determined man, and while I do not agree with him in all that he advocates, yet I am forced to take one side or the other on this great question which for the masses is the paramount issue. “In the name of patriotism and for the sake of our republic and to prevent the threatened danger that Senator John Sherman and the other Nestors in the councils of our government have so graphically prophesied, and which I firmly believe will come to pass if not checked, I propose to cast my vote for that fearless, upright champion of the people, William J. Bryan." The Shadow of Imperialism. Every official indication from the War department casts before it the shadow of impending imperialism. The signs cannot be ignored, for they are black and somber end forbidding in their proportions. The indorsement of imperialism, of foreign conquest, is the indorsement of militarism. It is but a short step from present conditions to the assumption of military burdens like those which are oppressing the poor of Europe. If we conquer for the trusts the trusts will not pay the bills. It is the common people who support standing armies, not the millionaires. —Boston Traveler. -Once when his keeper was temporarily absent, hit. McKinley wrote h message to congress in which he embodied the famous truism about “our plain duty to Porto Rico.” It is also history that when the full and fell meaning of this innocent outpouring of conscience dawned upon the fatty degenerated mental processes of Hanna that person w^ent to the white house and called his delegate and protege to account. Since the time to which we allude it is of record that the present republican candidate has been compelled to submit all of his written words to the party boss before uttering them.— Washington Times

THE USE OF GRAVEL. ImI BbIMIks iMtraetUai ProaiaU gated by the WiieoaiU State Bigerlaaeat Statlaa. As gravel is the material chiefly used for the improvement 01 country roads, the following instructions t-'ken from a bulletin issued by the Wisconsin experiment station will be of interest to many of our readers: It occasionally happens that natural gravel beds art found which pos? sess the right characteristics for making roads, and when the gravel is just right excellent roads may be made from it. There are several important features which a good road gravel must possess: ' 1. There must be one prevailing size of pebble in sufficient quantity so that when thoroughly rolled they press against one another. 2. There must be enough of the Lner sizes <t coarse sand and fine gravel^ to fill the voids between the coarser gravel. 3. There must be enough of fine loam to fill the voids between the coarse sand and fine gravel and retain a sufficient amount of water to bind the sand grains together and prevent their rolling. f 4. The coarse and fine gravel and the Sand must be made up of more or less angular fragments in order that flat faces of rock may set together and thus lessen the danger of rolling and of crushing under the weight of the load. , It is not possible to give specific, concise directions for identifying. a good road gravel, but a man who has seen and worked with it readily reo

ogmzes it. It will be apparent at once that the several characteristics which have been pointed out are not likely often to occur together in just the right ratios; and so there will be all possible gradations from the ideal gravels to those which will not answer at all. Indeed it must be said that most gravel beds have had the finer materials so completely washed out that only clean sand and gravel remain; and when this is true it is useless to try to make a road with it. Such materials can only be used to temper a road which is too clayey in its texture . by reducing its water capacity. * . It happens in the majority of cases that much of the gravel is too large and too rounded to permit close packing and fast binding. When this is true much better qualities may be secured by using either the crusher or the screen, or both together. It will be at once apparent that where much of the gravel is too cparse, to run it through the crusher so as to reduce the material to a more uniform size and at the same time to increase the angularity of the fragments will make a much better road material to use either by itself, to build a road of or as a tempering material. .There are many deposits of gravity clay which it might appear would make a good road material, but the principle must be kept always in mind that too much of a too fine material will take in and retain so much water that the binding quality of the writer is lost. ~nese gravelly clays occur in many of the hills of the glaciated portions of the United states and through which roads are often cut. In the construction of a gravel road, as in that of a stone road, it is of prime importance; to secure first of all a properly shaped and thoroughly rolled and firmed roadbed before any gravel is laid on. When this has been done, and a suitable gravel has been found, the next step is to spread evenly over the surface and thoroughly roll a layer which, when finished, will measure three inches thick. In the rolling it will be important to firm the oujer edges of the gravel first in order that the rolling may not force it outward rind destroy the slope. Should the gravel be too dry to pack it must be moistened or the work be suspended to take advantage of the rains. To make a good road there should be not less than three three-inch layers, and usually four will be better. Of course a road six inches thick will be a great improvement, and often where me travel is light and the roadbed thoroughly made three inches of good gravel, well placed, will make a great improvement in the road, serving as a wearing surface. CHEAP PLANT BOXES. To Moke Them Re««lrei Rotktag Bat a Few Cheap Boards and Some Thla Natls. Gardening operations require a great number of boxes. These may be without top or bottom, to be used with mosquito netting as protectors for squash, melon and cucumber

VERY EASILY MADE. plants, or with bottoms for use in starting plants early in the season. To make such boxes or protectors, by wholesale, follow the plan shown in the cut. Take four wide boards and nail them firmly together as shown. Then saw off the boxes as is also suggested. They are now in shape for protectors. If boxes are needed, nail on bottom boards.—Orange Judd Farmer. Exports Shelled Ben. Vast quantities of shelled eggs are exported from Russia in hermetically J sealed tins and are drawn off through a tap. One tin holds from 1,000 to j 1,500 eggs. The eggs must be care- j fully selected, or a bad one would spoil all the others in the can. j

GrewMae Rellfiau Ctramy. In one of the Alaskan religious ceremonies a big wooden wedge is driven, apparently, through a woman’s head, from one temple to the other. The effect is exceedingly realistic, the woman’s eyes seeming to start out of the sockets and hang down on her cheeks, while blood flows in streams. As a matter of fact, the wedge shown to the audience is secretly exchanged for one which consists of two parts attached to a wooden band, covered with hair, that is slipped over the head. Thus it seems as if the butt end stuck out on one side, the point having passed through the skull. At the same time I bladders containing blood, attached to the band, are punctured, and the blood flows down the woman’s face. The wedge being removed, she is all right again, and the phenomenon passes for a quasi-religious miracle. The outst&rting eyes are. the eyes of a seal, lowered over the forehead.—N. Y. Journal. KeBsrkaUc Dtrd Story. A sparrow flew into one of the large rooms at the Burlington shops at Burlington, la., the other day, and, getting too near one of the wheels, was aucked in. *tThe workmen saw it and supposed that it was instantly killed, as the wheel was revolving at the rate of 130 revolutions a minute. When the machinery was shut down at noon a gentle chirp was heard from the wheel, and when one of the workmen looked the sparrow was there, still alive. It had clung to the strengthening rod inside the wheel, and was so dazed itcould not fly. It was picked up and placed on a table, where it recovered in a short time and flew away. The wheel made 31.000 revolutions while the bird was clinging to it, and the sparrow had traveled more than 73 miles iq that manner.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Klondike UoatewlTei. There are a few housewives in the Klondike region, and when they go marketing they cheerfully pay such prices as given below, pinching the gold d-ust from out a box or can. Bank notes and minted coin seldom pass over the counter of an Alaskan storekeeper. Virgin gold is the general tender, weighed often in scales as crude as ’’ those which measure out the commodity for which it is to be the equivalent. Butter, a rare delicacy, is $1.50 a pound; beef, 50cents; bacon,75 cents; rice, 25 cents; tea $1; coffee, $1; ham, $1; lemons, 26 cents each; oranges, 50 cents; eggs, $1.50 a dozen; a better quality is quoted at $2 per dozen.—N. Y. Tribune. A Five Horsed Sheep. In Maricopa county, Ariz^ there is a zoological freak. It is a five-horned sheep. While he waa in Phoenix he created somewhat of a sensation, and was the pet if not the lion of the hour. Then he went down to Gila Bend and covered himself with glory and blood by whipping the biggest bulldog in Maricopa county. Be is the property Of Jose Morilet, who told the people o'i Phoenix his freak pet cost him $200 in Mexican coin, and that he brought him from a hidden mountain fastness down near the Chihuahua.—Chicago Tribune. Pneumatic Tube* for Meiugei. It is strange that while this country is so far advanced in electric railways it should be behind Europe in the pneumatic tube system of transmitting messages and small packages. Some of the large cities of Europe, such as London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Paris and Berlin, have been provided with pneumatic tubes for messages for 40 years, and they carry on an immense business. —St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Husband’s Narrow Escape. “It was very plucky of you, ma’am, to have set upon the burglar and so ably captured him,” said the police inspector, “but need you have injured him so badly?” “How did I know it was a burglar?" asked the woman. “I’d been up three hours waiting for my husband. 1 thought it was him.”—-Philadelphia Press

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