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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. 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