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ISLANDS TO GERMANY
Spain Disposes of Three To
Emperor William.
INCLUDE CAROLINE GROUP
News of the Cession Created Surprise
In Washington Queen Regent
Makes Announcement.
A special from Madrid says: The
queen regent opened Uio cortes Friday
with tho usual ceremonial and in the
speech from the throno announced
that Marianne, Caroline Palos islands
were ceded to Germany hy the late
Spanish ministry. During Ihe course
of her speech her majesty said:
At the opening of the cortes all
the sorrows which have wrenched our
hearts through the disasters which
have visited our country are re-awak
ened.
We must preserve sadness in order
to derive experience thereform, hut the
w oes of our country are of such a na
ture that reticence and silence avail
better than complaints.
When peace with the United States
was concluded, parliamentary troubles
caused a changed of cabfnet and tho
present cabinet wan formed. Under
the constitution, it belonged to ino,
to ratify tho treaty hy laying it before
the chamber. There remained under
our control the Carolines, Palos and
most of the Marianne islands. But
the former cabinet believed it useless
for Spain to retain snob minor ap
pendage of our ancient empire and
signed with German emperor a conven
tion offering to cedo these territories
under the law which would he sub
mitted immediately to tho chamber.
Our foreign relations are cordial and
friendly. We especially owe to the
pope recognition of tho many times he
has given us his moral support.
The most important, most urgent
and most difficult task before yon is to
balance the budget and liquidate the
debts resulting from the war through
ordinary and permanent sources of in
come. Thanks to tho severely econo
mic policy projected, the government
will not ask fresh sacrifices of the
country, except such us can he equit
ably divided among all classes.
With the ordinary budget will also
be presented schemes to liquidate the
charges created by the loss of posses
sions and colonial campaigns.
The queen regent then referred to
the financial measures, and expressed
confidence that tho nation would show
the same resignation during peace as
it showed during the war, adding:
“For the times aro oritical, and it is
impossible during tho present session
to do"all that is necessary. But, dur
ing the next session there will be pro
jects for the reorganization of tho army
and navy, based on obligatory service;
for improving the public service, do
centralizing the provincial and munic
ipal administrations and reforming the
penal code and electoral laws,” etc.
Tho strategic value of this cession
to the German interests in the Pacific
is evident from the fact that the Lad
rones and Palos and even the Caro
lines are in practically a direct line
between Hawaii and the Philippines,
aud will form excellent points of sup
ply for Germany. The American
peace commissioners at Paris last De
cember vainly sought one of tho Caro
line islands on account of its being in
a line with Hawaii and the Philippines
and its adaptability as a station for
the proposed Pacific cable to connect
the Philippines with Hawaii and the
United States. Failing in that, how
ever, tho American flag was hoisted
over Wake island, 1,700 miles east of
Guam.
Of No Concern To IU.
The announcement at Madrid that
Spain Ims coded the Caroline islands
and Palos and the Maviaunes to Ger
many, was received with surprise at
Washington. The cession marks the
relinquishment of Spanish possession
in the far east save the island of Fer
nando Po and dependences on the
African coast
nALE POPULATION ARRESTED.
Citizens of Princetown, Ky., Fined
One Cent Each For Contempt.
The town of Princetown, Ky., has
had the unusual experience of the ar
raignment of every man in it for con
tempt of court. It happened that a
petition had been signed by all the
men in town asking the grand jury not
to indict the insurance companies aud
no indictments were found. The com
monwealth’s attorney moved to pro
ceed against the signers for contempt
of court.
After considerable argument the
judge fined each man ouo cent aud the
decision was applauded by the defend
ants.
QUICK TRIAL FOR BELL.
Alleged Assailant of An Old Lady
Saved From Mob.
One of the most fiendish assaults in
the history of the state was committed
near Cedartown, Ga., one night the
past week. Mrs. Anna Lumpkin,
widow of the late Charles Lumpkin,
is the victim.
A Cedartown negro named Grant
Bell was identified hy Mrs. Lumpkin
us her assailant. Bell was quickly ar
rested and jailed. It seemed certain
at one time that a lynching would he
the outcome, as the jail was surround
ed by an excited mob. Cool heads and
conservative counsel, however, pre
vailed.
Judge Janes promised a speedy trial
of the negro, and on last Monday
morning at 10 o’clock he opened court
in special session for the purpose of
trying the case. This course of Judge
Janes was warmly commended by all
law-abidng citizens.
The special chargo of Judge Janes
to the grand jury was strong and clenr.
He expressed his appreciation of the
cool-headed manner in which the peo
ple had passed through the crisis.
He thanked the jury for their full
and prompt response to the summons
of the court, stating that he felt re
enforced by their presence in his up
holding of the majesty of the law. It
took the grand jury less than an hour
to examine witnesses and find a true
bill against Grant Bell for the rape of
Mrs. Lumpkin.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
Various New Industries Established
During the Past Week.
Among tho most important of the
new industries reported for the past
week are brick works in north Ala
bama; coal mines in Virginia and
West Virginia; large cotton mills in
Georgia and North Carolina; two cot
tonseed oil mills in Georgia, two in
Mississippi, one each in North aud
South Carolina, and two in Texas; an
electric light plant in Alabama: flour
ing mills in the Caroliuas and Tennes
see; a hay press factory in Arkansas;
an ice factory in Alabama; knitting mills
in Kentucky and South Carolina; lum
ber mills in Florida, Mississippi and
West Virginia; a 850,000 paper mill
in Georgia; stove works in West Vir
ginia; a 8100,000 sugar mill and re
finery in Louisiana; local telephone
lines in Kentucky, Texas and Virginia,
and n tobacco stemmery in Kentucky.
—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
ANTI-TRUST MEETING
Called By Governor Sayers To Take
Place In St. Louis.
Governor Sayers, of Texas, lias tel
egraphed all the governors and attor
neys general of the southern states a
call for an anti-trust convention, to
meet in St. Louis September 20th, for
the purpose of securing concerted
action against trusts. The governor’s
letter sent out reads in part:
Dear Sir: After much reflecting I
have concluded that it would not be
improper for me to suggest that a con
ference of the governors aud attorneys
general of the several states and terri
tories be hold to consider the effect
which the formation of trusts is hav
ing upon the country and, if possible,
to agree upon a character of legisla
tion that will not only force those now
in existence into dissolution, but will
also prevent their further creation.”
REED’S SUCCESSOR TALKS.
General Henderson Answers Charge of
His Being Anti-Imperialist.
The Milwaukee Journal prints an
interview with General D. H. Hender
son, of lowa, in which he expresses
gratitude for the effective efforts of
Wisconsin congressmen iu his behalf
ns candidate for the speakership to
succeed Speaker Reed. In regard to
the report that ho is an anti-imperialist
General Henderson said that now is
not the time for individuals to fix pol
icies.
“See where we are,” said General
Henderson, “aud then see whether
it -is reasonable for us to attempt to
anticipate the condition which time
will bring. What we all should do at
this time is to steadfastly support
President McKinley.”
Grasshoppers Destroy Crops.
The grasshopper plague has struck
some of the farms of the country sur
rounding Logansville, Ga., in full
force and is playing havoc with the
crops. They strike in big droves of
thousands upon thousands, eating the
corn aud cotton in a most ravishing
manner aud leave nothing except the
bare stalks.
REWARD OFFERED FOR RAPIST.
State Will Pay S3OO For Arrest of
Negro Harve Mlnlfee.
Governor Caudler, of Georgia, was
formally notified by Sheriff Wheeler,
of Paulding county, of the reward of
S2OO offered by the citizens of Dallas,
Ga., for the arrest of Harve Miuifoe,
who assaulted aud so brutally out
raged thp little 12-year-old girl, Leo
mio Smith.
The malignity of the assault has
hardly been surpassed in the record of
crime iu the aud Governor Can
dler decided at joe that ho would
offer a reward of S3OO, making a total
reward for the negro SSOO.
A TIMELY QUESTION.
IS THIS RUSSIA OR IS THIS
AMERICA?
X California Citizen Is Much Mixed on
tlie Point —Trust Methods of To-lay
and Those of the Near Future A
Timel/ Hint.
It has often been explained how the
Wall street financial policy of squeez
ing our monetary system down to a
single gold standard basis made the
trusts of today a business necessity.
Constantly falling prices made the
continuance and new enterprises and
the financially weak enterprises im
possible, and combination to check the
gold standard downward tendency of
prices imperative. And one of the
first trusts, the secret railroad trust,
has given its powerful aid in estab
lishing all other trusts.
In considering whither we have al
ready drifted, Howard H. Hogan, o.
wholesale grocer of San Francisco, in
a letter to the Examiner of that city,
rises to what the San Francisco Star
calls a social point of order.
Mr. Hogan wants to know —will
some of our economists or statesmen
please enlighten him, for he is but one
of many—whether this is America or
Russia. Mr. Hogan has troubles
which are not peculiarly his own. He
has built up a business in the sale of
sugar to retail dealers, which sugar—
and here his troubles begin—he im
ports from Hong Kong, paying freight
and duty, and even then impudently
underselling the Pacific coast branch
of the Sugar trust at the very doors of
its refinery. The trust has tried, and
is still trying, the plan of undersell
ing Mr. Hogan, but that is costly. To
make the grocer lose SIOO, it must sac
rifice at least $5,000 of the profits it
would otherwise make. Sovereignty
over the sugar market comes high at
that price. So now the trust is play
ing its card of coercion, which is more
effective and far less expensive than
old-fashioned competition by under
selling. The trust has notified the
wholesale grocers, and they have noti
fied the retailers, that those who buy
any sugar at all from Mr. Hogan will
not be allowed to buy any of the trust
made sugar from anybody. Hogan has
not enough tef supply the market, and
grocers have reason to fear further re
taliation if they persist in patronizing
him. The part of prudence for them
is to make no such powerful enemy,
at the risk of being cut off altogether
from the wholesale market. Asa con
sequence Mr. Hogan’s trade wanes, anil
he wants to know “where we are at.”
Mr. Hogan’s suggestion that this is
Russia, not America, is not well made.
Such usurpations of imperial authority
are not allowed in the land of the
czar. Nicholas alone, and no mere
self-appointed combination of robber
barons, is empowered to lay waste
men’s businesses and render worthless
their property. It Is certainly not Rus
sia, Mr. Hogan. Perhaps it is Eng
land—or, say, three centuries ago. In
the Long Parliament, which broke the
power of Charles 1., a member com
plained of the monopolies instituted
by the king and his favorites, In utter
defiance of law, that “they dip in our
dish, they sit by our fires; we find them
in the dye-vat, the wash-bowls, and
the powdering tub. They share with
the cutler in his box. They have
marked and sealed us from head to
foot.”
If that Is not a good description of
the operations of the Sugar trust, the
coal trust, and the balance of our new
predatory nobility, it would be difficult
to frame one In words. The Sugar
trust has its whole fist In every sugar
bowl, and it is teaching Mr. Hogan
that Its prerogatives are not to be in
terfered with.
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Not Russia, hut the England of Char
les 1., before the activity of Pym, and
Hampden, and Milton, and Cromwell,
had broken the power of these monop
olies and the king's meek into the bar
gain—that seems to be “where we are
at,” Mr. Hogan.
While considering this matter, Mr.
Hogan, and all others interested, would
do well to remember that the situation
is constantly growing worse, not bet
ter. Advance sheets of the Commer
cial Year Book, issued by the Journal
of Commerce, of New York, and quoted
by the Evening Advertiser, of that
city, show that the increase in the
number and capitalization of industrial
combinations during the past year is
unprecedented in the history of the
world. Says the Commercial Adver
tiser, “they are now the dominating
factor in the industrial and commer
cial business of the country.” Nearly
twice as many exist today as a year
ago. Following are the statistics
showing the situation March 1, 1898,
and March 1, 1899:
1839. isos.
Org-anlzatlons 353 201
Common stock . ...$4,247,915,951 $2,889,757,419
Preferred stock ... 570.5i5.200 393,764.033
Total stock $5,118,494,181 $3,203,521,452
Bonds 714,388,661 378,770.091
Stocks and b0nd555,532,552,842 $3,062,241.54:1
These figures show an increase of 76
per cent in the number of organiza
tions and of 60 per cent in amount of
bonds and stock. The census of 1890
valued the entire mechanical and man
ufacturing industries of the country at
$6,525,000,000, so that the capitalization
of these 353 industrial combinations is
90 per cent of the census estimate for
the whole country.
Continue Wall street in control at
Washington a few more years, and ul
timate trustism will be reached. All
industries will be controlled by trusts,
and a central committee of aU the
trusts will be charged with the duty of
seeing that no merchant who handles
any non-trust article shall be allowed
to buy any trust-made goods of any
class. When such an edict can con
trol the market, where will, we be?
And what good will our right to vote
do' us then?
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
A New York Newspaper’s Flea for
Popular Government.
On Manhattan island there is a voice
crying in the political wilderness for
direct legislation, and it proceeds from
the Verdict, Oliver Belmont’s illustrat
ed weekly. The Verdict says:
“Monopoly, fecund of trust, spawns
like a pike; while principle, unmated of
popular effort, lies in a barren bed. The
enemy strengthens himself while we
idle. The growth of the trusts marks
the growth of ignorance; the sun of
American progress borders narrowly
on an eclipse of money and another
dark age may yet descend. Someone
once said that: ‘Law is the safest hel
met.’ The value of the apothegm de
pends upon who wears this steel cap.
If it be honesty, good! But if some
trust robber go to Albany or Washing
ton and forge himself some head piece
of a statue, the story runs blackly dif
ferent. It is net always true that a
state has added to its safety because it
has added to its laws. .As things are,
the Verdict is free to say it despairs of
fair and virtuous legislation. In those
lists of house and senate, right seems
ever to go down before the spear of
riches. There must be change—change
unusual and change that reaches far.
In this storm of money that beats for
evil upon our capltols, the Verdict,
steering for safety, finds the public’s
best harbor in the initiative and refer
endum. Is it radical and what then?
Lincoln and Washington and Christ
and all they strove for were radical.
Novelty is not, per se, a defect, and
justice has its skirmish line, improve
ment its pioneer. The Initiative and
referendum would but put in the
hands of the people the power to di
rectly propose a law, or pass a law, or
repeal a law. Is that a suggestion of
topsy-turvy revolution? If a people
may be trusted to select their lawmak
ers, may they not be trusted to select
their laws? The trusts might corrupt
a congress or buy a legislature, but
they could not bribe a whole people.
Give us the initiative and referendum,
and give us the income tax. The first
would be a lattice to let in the day; the
second a broom to bring down those
law cobwebs, spun of money, and in
which the rights of the public are
caught like files. ‘lt is better to be a
poor fisherman than to meddle with
the government of men,’ said Danton.
But the Frenchman was a tumbrel at
the time and suffered no doubt some
coming confusion of the guillotine. Had
he been given freedom and a sober
seepnd thought, he would have seen
that one is driven to meddle with gov
ernment, to keep it from meddling vil
lainously with him. Therefore, let us,
the public, become promptly, popularly
meddlesome, a.fd let it be by that sys
tem of initiative and referendum above
rehearsed. Democracy could do this,
and democracy should. The party
should not hesitate nor go half way.
Its cry should be: ‘All or nothing!’
Its war should be to the death. There
should be no blackmail of partial peace
paid to monopoly; no traffic with the
enemy whereby he gained the least. It
is the worst of oppression that makes
coward terms with tyranny, or which
would—to use a colloquialism—‘divide
the pot’ with the trusts. This is an
era of potato bug politics, and the
trusts devour what the people grow.
Some stand must be made; some near
and stubborn stand, or two decades will
witness us overrun and swamped of
money. He will be wise in that day
who, living without flag as without cit
itzeuship, carries his country on the
sole of his shoe.”
A Mortgage on Heaven.
Over the door of a church in Arizona
are these words: “This is the gate of
heaven,” and on the panel of the door
is a notice which says, “Closed by or
der of the American Loan company."
The corporation foreclosed the mort
gage which it holds on the church, and
thus actually closed the “gate of heav
en” to increase its profits.—Sierra Gaz
ette.
A book agent recently tried to sell us
a copy of Swedenborg’s “Heaven and
Hell.” We would like to know more
about heaven, but, running a reform
paper in Chicago, wo get quite enough
cf the other place.—People’3 Press.
Concerning Ihe Shape of an Anae^T
It is a Bath physician who teliJ
following: ‘ s tlj i
“Some time ago I happened to „
the night in a country town „ot ir
from Bath, and it happened that tl
was stopping at the same hotel
itinerant eye specialist. aa
“We drifted into a conversation and
during the course of the evenin'* i
told me of some of the marvelled
operations he had performed on rh*
eye. One case In particular he gpo k
of that caused me considerable asto *
isliment, for I didn’t know, I eonf.!?
that the operation had been success’
fully performed. He said he had re
cently taken out a patient’s eye, scraped
the back of it and returned it to it
proper place. The patient, he said, w a !
never troubled by bad eyesight after
ward.
“ ‘That was a difficult operation don.
tor,’ said I. ’
“ ‘Yes,’ said he, ‘it was.’
“ ‘I suppose you found it necessary
to employ an anaesthetic?’
Victoria Getting Young.
In view of the fact of the Quoen's apnroart,
liig visit to the confluent. Englishmen nr
especially Interested In her nmjestv's health
It Is announced that her hearing hns gr own
acute and her eyesight keener. Youthful
faculties in old age depend merely upon the
health. The hlood should bo kept pure and
the stomach sweet with Hosfetter's Stomach
Hitters. It cures Indigestion, constipation
biliousness, nervousness, liver ami kidney
troubles, as well as malaria aud fever ami
ague. It keeps people young.
The Lieut. Governor of South Carolina when
presiding wears a purple robe of office.
No-To-Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak
men strong, blood pure. 50c, sl. Ali druggist.
An electric fire engino is one of the new
attractions of Parts. It runs 15 miles an hour.
“Pride Goeth
‘Before a Fall."
Some proud people think they are strong,
ridicule ihe idea of disease, neglect health,
let the blood run denvn, and stomach, kid
neys and liner become deranged. Take
Hood's Sarsaparilla and you will prevent
the fall and save your pride.
“ For six years I was a victim ©1 dys
pepsia in its worst form. I could eat nothing
but milk toast, and at times my stomach would
not retain and digest even that. Last March 1
began taking CASCAKETS and since then l
have steadily improved, until I am as well as I
ever was in my life.”
David H. Murphy, Newark, 0.
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