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PLAYING AT WAR.
Political Trust iluntlnu Huh Hud So
Effect on Prices.
The injunction that I’resident Roose
velt and Ids attorney general obtained
About two years ago against the beef
trust seems to have had Just the op
posite effect intended. It was suppos
ed at the time that President Roose
velt was hunting with inte&i to kill
the most conspicuous “bad trust'’ be
had discovered. It is Impossible to
fathom upon what theory I’resident
llooseveit selected the beef trust as the
Bole bad industrial trust he could fuul
to prosecute, for the coal trust, the
Standard Oil trust, the steel trust ami
dozens of others were culpable in the
same degree. The profits of the Stand
ard Oil trust were larger and the divi
dends paid much greater and the mo
nopoly even more grinding than the
beef trust, for it had advanced its
prices 100 per cent in a year. The
coal trust was equally guilty and quite
as oppressive. The steel trust was
more gigantic and as a monopoly spar
ed neither high nor low. Why were
none of these selected as tiie “horrible
example?”
The reason was plain. They were
all too strong politically and had been
in the past and were expected to he in
the near future large contributors to
the Republican campaign fund. It
would never do to “run amuck” against
such good friends, with their Wall
street connections that controlled
Lajiks, trust companies, railroads and
Other industrial combines, with half
the capital of the country at their
back. The beef combine men were
small potatoes compared to the other
trust magnates, and as public opinion
was centered on beef in consequence of
the extraordinary Increase in price the
packers’ combination was selected for
Knox to slaughter.
But the packers' combine people
were no novices in the legal game of
bluff and being advised by their at
torneys that nn injunction restraining
them from combining in restraint of
trade did not hinder them from a “gen
tlemen’s agreement” to all sell at the
same price and not bid against each
Other for cattle and hogs left the in
junction obtained by the administra
tion "up in the air,” in tln* language of
tho “street.”
So I‘resident Roosevelt got nil the
credit for his war on the trust, but the
l»eof consumers have profited nothing,
for tho jujoe of beef is still high.
But even the Republican congress
could not justify a state of affairs that
kept up the price o t beef and reduced
the price of emtio, so last winter Sec
retary ( ortelyou of tin 1 department of
commerce and labor was ordered to in
vestigate the packers’ combine. It is
presumed that for months this investi
gation has boon going on, but it does
not seem to worry the packers and cer
tainly has had no restraining effect on
the oilier trusts, for they are all still
charging “all the truffle will bear.” If
the voters of the country are'satisfied
with this playing at war against the
trusts and vote to indorse such nnmby
pnmhy operations they deserve to pay
trust prices for the balance of their
lives and will probably do so.
FAVORING THE FEW.
RriMiliUcnn I’otlcj That la Sure to
Rim! In Diniinter.
Giving an advantage by law to a
special class of people at the expense
of tlie great majority is bound to be
disastrous in the end, even to the
pampered tariff beneficiaries, for when
the consumers are reduced to the
necessity of curtailing their purchases
by lack of means trust sales are re
duced and (rust profits are decreased
accordingly. That is the present con
dition of affairs. Ami yet tlie sacred
schedules of the Ilingley bill, which
were purposely Increased to allow the
reciprocity clause to be put in force
by treaties and still have ample pro
tection to foster the trusts, must not
by touched.
Every one remembers that the Ding
ley bill gave President McKinley au
thority to make reciprocity treaties
with France and other countries, but
the power of the trusts with the Re
publican senators was too great to al
low the treaties to be ratified. So
many of the rates of duty collected
under the Dlngicy law are still 20 per
cent higher than Dingley and McKin
ley intended them to be when the first
named reported the bill to congress
and the president signed it.
That 20 per cent increase of rates
has allowed the trusts to extort higher
prices from the people, and many of
them are suffering from inability to
pay such a great increase. If the voters
are satisfied with such high prices
they should continue the Republicans
iu power, but they must remember
that the trusts are selling to foreigners
at lower prices than they are charg
ing here, and those who are suffering
from high trust prices will hardly In
dorse the monstrous legislation that
penults our own people to be plunder
ed for the benefit of foreign nations.
l ittle For the Farmer.
The beef trust has raised prices
again, and the marvel of It this time
tlmt the men who grow beef are
getting a little more for the raw ma
terial.—-Atlanta Constitution.
General Uinlruwt of Republican
I’roKjM'rlty.
“A Lull In Traiiie” is the. way the
New York Journal of Commerce beads
the news from Chicago about the rail
road situations. Western railway men
have been somewhat disappointed at
traffic developments in their territory.
They find that business is not picking
up as rapidly as they had anticipated,
and they arc now inclined to take a
rather gloomy view of the outlook, says
the same newspaper, and tjie further
information is given that “farmers are
resting on their oars, so to speak, as
fur as money matters are concerned,
while merchants and manufacturers
are extremely cautious.” The largest
Jobbing Interests report a very small
volume of seasonable business. Col
lections are reported easy, and money
is plentiful, but railway traffic seems
to grow no better. An officer of the
Chicago and Northwestern railway ex
plains the situation that “farmers have
spent money freely for three or four
years and are able to get along with
the improvements they have made for
some time forward. Sentiment for the
last six months lias been that hard
times are coming, and retrenchment is
u universal watchword.” Officers of
the other western railroads are quoted
in the same vein.
Now, with money plentiful and crop
prospects good and improving, why
are the farmers, merchants and manu
facturers all “resting on their oars?”
Can it be that high trust prices have
impoverished them and low trust prices
for cattle and hogs are reducing their
income, and, although there Is plenty
of money in the banks, if the farmer
wants any of it he will have to bor
row it?
The Democrats cannot be blamed for
tills decline of the boom times, for the
Republicans have full control of ail
departments of the government. Their
prosperity brooding protective tariff
lias been and is in full blast, making
the trusts richer and the poor poorer
and keeping tlie balance of us on the
ragged edge to know liow we are to
meet our bills. Secretary Shaw, the
financial expert of this strenuous ad
ministration, declares that we were
never so prosperous, and that if we are
paying litgli prices for nearly every
thing we buy we pay it to ourselves
and that ought to make us rich. Is
Providence deserting the Republican
party and causing people to believe
they are poor when we know they are
prosperous, for Secretary Sliaw says
so? But that cannot be, for tlie Repub
lican leaders have about all assured us,
many times and often, that Providence
is on their side, is President Roose
velt to blame? A good many Repub
licans seem to think so.
POLICY AND PERSONALITY.
Voters Must Decide Which Party-
Will llcst Serve Them.
All voters should remember that
they do not vote for any candidate for
president directly they vote for a par
ty with policies. The Republican pol
icy, if approved by a majority of 1 lie
voters, is to drift along and trust that
good crops and high prices will con
tinue and claim that any measure of
prosperity is of Republican manufac
ture. These voters who are enamored
of rough riding and strenuosity should
understand that Mr. Roosevelt is but
a small spoke In the wheel of the par
ty that lias nominated him and that ho
must carry out Republican policies
such as the leaders dictate and the
platform calls for.
When Mr. Roosevelt accepts the nom
ination his letter of acceptance will
show that he thoroughly indorses all
that tlie Republican party stands for.
He cannot object; lie must approve.
The rule of tlie party is stronger than
personality, and to object, even not ap
prove, all that the Republican plat
form declares to be the policy of that
party would be disastrous to any can
didate. To vote understandlngiy and
conserve their own interests the voters
must investigate and decide between
the policies of the two great parties.
CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.
How It Works In tier n Republioan
Ad ministration.
Local civil service boards are often
the most ultra partisan, and instead of
the road to an office under the govern
ment being opened to all, if they can
pass the necessary examination, only
friends of the party In power have
any such opportunity. For instance,
the civil service commission has dis
covered in a New England town a sec
retary. the chief executive officer of
the local board, who frankly declared
that he had been in office five years
and that no Democrats would have
any share in the administration of this
government as long as he could keep
them out.
All of which goes to show that al
though civil service reform may the
oretically have strong points In its fa
vor it can be and often is but an aid to
the Republican machine. Under our
form of government every citizen has
the right to aspire to any office he is
competent to fill, and unless we want
to establish an offieeholding class,
who must bo pensioned when age dis
qualifies them, appointments for four
years would seem to be the best solu
tion of the problem.
Bankrupt Notices.
Notice of tlie First Meeting of Creditors,
in the District Court of the United States
for the Southwestern Division of the
the Southern District of Georgia, in
Bankruptcy.
Ix the M.vitkh or ( In Bankruptcy.
I). W. Lott, Bankrupt.)
To the creditors of D. W. T ott, of Brox
ton, in the county of Coffee and district
aforesaid a bankrupt: Notice is hereby
given that on the •/sillday of July, A. I).',
11*04, the said 1). W. Lott was duly adjudi
cated bankrupt, and that the first meeting
of his creditors will be field at Brunswick,
in Glynn county, on the Othday of August,
A. D.. 1 hOt, at ten o’clock in tiie forenoon,
at which time the said creditors may at
tend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee,
examine the bankrupt, and transact -aeh
other business as may properly come be
fore said meeting.
MAX ISAAC, I'. S. Referee.
Dated at Brunswick, Ga., this the 28th
day of July, 1904.
Notice of the hirst Meeting of Creditors,
in the District Court of tiie United States,
for tlie Southwestern Division of tiie
Southern District of Georgia, in Bank
ruptcy.
In the M.vttf.r ok ( In Bankruptcy.
Daniel W. Johnson, /
To tlie creditors of Daniel W. John
son, bankrupt, of Nichols, in tlie county
of Coffee and district aforesaid, a bankrupt.
Notice is hereby given that on tiie 28th
day of July, A. D. 1904, tlie said Daniel W.
Johnson was duly adjudicated bankrupt,
and that tlie first meeting of his creditors
will be held at Brunswick, in Glynn coun
ty on the 9th day of August A. 1)., 1004, at
10 o’clock in the forenoon, at which time
the said creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint a trustee examine the
bankrupt, and transact such other busi
ness as may properly come before said
meeting.
MAX ISAAC, U. S. Referee.
Dated at Brunswick, Ga., this the 28tb day
of July, 1904.
Notice of the First Meeting of in
of the District Court of tlie United
States, tor the Southwestern Division
of the Southern District of Georgia, in
Bankruptcy.
In tub Matter of ) In Bankruptcy.
M. E. Vickers '(
To tlie creditors oi M. E. Vickers, of
Broxton in county of Coffee and district
aforesaid, a bankrupt: Notice is hereby
given that on tlie 28th day of July, A. D.
1904 tlie said M. E. Vickeis, bankrupt, and
that first meeting ot his creditors will be
held at Brunswick, in Glynn county, on
the 9th day of August A. D., 1904, at ten
o’clock in the forenoon, at which time the
said creditors may attend, prove their
claims, appoint a trustee, examine the
bankrupt, and transact such other busi
iness examine the bankrupt and transact
such other business as may property come
before said meeting.
MAX ISAAC, F. S. Referee.
Dated at Brunswick, Ga., this the 28th day
jf ,1 uly., 1904.
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