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TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1ZC7.
THE TTVTCE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH
LIE CONSUMER STILL PAYING THE FREIGHT
SOME STARTLING FIGURES, BY JOSEPH M. BROWN
pie. I know that ft -will be asserted
' by these manufacturers and their
apologists that the prices of pig Iron
an 1 otfcer materials have enormously
increased. that the wages paid to the
laborers are higher than they have
1 been for years, or ever, and that hence
Joseph
siorer. In
i docurru
Br<
Railrdad thirty sh wed no chance la average
ate and r - 1 -.rice for the year and fifty showed a
.’ted along ■ decre-s'- In price as compared with
the reduced 1303, while ITS showed an Increase in
; Interesting price.”
<i to freijr.it, a table Is then given, under the fol-
greatly in- j lowing heading:
Hon
Ctot
bausti
■with I
passenger rates, gave
and star ling facts In :
rate reductions, which
t> rest the people • • : ••• g i. and which i "Per cent of increase or decrease in
have been carefully excluded from average prices f:r l9f$ as compared
th<> columns of the Atlanta newspapers, with those for 1905. and number of ar-
' -people will want to know the ! tides that increased or decreased in
facts and figures. a:.-1 Mr. Brown gives price by groups of commodities.
lines had have hauled them absolutely
free from the Eastern city to Atlanta
there would .'till have been an increase
| of {435 in the price.
And yet. the railroad companies are
MINNESOTA'S LAUNCH RAN
INTO A STEEL HAWSER
they have had no recourse save fo rais
the prices of their products or go out
of
rea
but
and
mis
mercilessly denounced for oppressing charges which I have proved are un- of the Minnesota's launch just as the
the people with "excessive freight true, "Why has not this reason been ; shattered craft was 'being raised from
rates.” ad the Railroad Commission given till I have made this expose? • its resting place at the bottom cl
of Georgia as mercilessly denounced "Why has the privileged class, it? nra- j Hampton Roads, by the huge naval
NORFOLK. Va., June 16.—CoL John I tug and car float. The supervising In-
GOSS'P USD MOTS OF
WEEK III MNIO!
manner, |
paper:
No Part
. Group.
No.
com.
Farm products 16
J Food, etc 53
In 1905 Cloths and cloth'g. ..75
the I ' uel and J-ghtlng.. .13
Metals end imp. ....33
tliem in a clear and cone 1
The mowing Is n r-nrt of h
Many Artic’es of Freight G
of the Reduction.
Let us note some examples:
a I have shown, there were,
aggravate. enormous reductions* in in
terstate and Intrastate rates to and
from Atlanta and other Georgia cities.
The amount of reduction from New
Tork and Boston to Atltnta, for in
stance. was 9 cents per 100 pounds, or
{27 per carload of 30,000 pounds, oa
hats, men’s clothing. blankets, dry
good* and the like. Yst. not one of the
Georgia farmers who have filed the
petition now under consideration for
the reduction of passenger rates has
been able to buy a hat. or a suit of i native sheep and wheat,
clothes for himself or his sons: or a 1 “There was "
Lum. & bjd’g mat..,
. .27
9.
.6
Drugs and chem...
.. 9
House fur. giods .
.14
i!
,7
. Miscellaneous
,.13
7.
’4
P.C. of P.C. of
Inc. dec.
0.2
3.6
7.1
1.5
10.4
for '‘permitting them to do
Let us 'take another example, also
drawn from the Bureau of Labor's
, bulletins 63 and 69. Bulletin 69 savs
J that among “the most striking in-
j creases in Slices” in 1906 over 1903
that of bcots and shoes. Bo-its
tors and editors given enrirelv a differ- i derrick, brought from Norfolk for the
ent reason, v.z-, that the burden unon
the people was ’the excessive freight
rates which the Railroad Commission
has permitted the railroads to
charge?’"
And let me here anticipate another
j and shoes are certainly necessary arti- assertion which I know will he made
ides. We will eingle out men’s bregans, t by the advocates and editors of the fa-
[ the grade generally used by the farm- vored classes. They will undoubtedly
j ers. In January. 1903. the wholesale ' sav that “the Railroad Cortfmisslon of
! price was 921£ cents per pair. In Feb- i Georgia had nothing to do with secur-
jrucrv and in Mar. 1905, the rates tn Imr the reductions in interstate rates,
A reierence lo rame iv asn traffic coming into Georgia and on tnut , effective February 1. 1905. that-those
"hots r ^ re . n „ C c e re l a°,eT„ ,C ,^-^ wholly within Georgia were re- rates were reduced by the railroad
1906 of bar’ev ca-tL cott m «»«•*«*• Tct. in May. 1905, the price was companies as the result of the fight
-r,W. «.«. advanced to 95 cents per pair which | made by the Atlanta Freight Bureau."
1 be eleur in the statement that
great personal regard for a vast
y of the members cf the Atlanta
tion which will be held by the steam- : a winner were he named by tho Dem-
boat inspectors in this city at a date ! ocratic convention in 190S? In any
to be fixed in the near future. I event the belief is growing that "Mars*
It was learned that the inspectors Henry" has the Governor of the great
believe that it was probably the Cris- ' wheat State in mind. This belief Is no!
field’s hawser that the launch collided finding foothold alone here, but ac-
ed the derrick ajid with the members , with, and to settle this point, the evl- j cording to Judge Humphrey, of I/m-
of the naval board of Inquiry, which i dence of the two crews will be taken. ' tsville, who Is here on business with
was already on the scene, made an in- I A heavy squal was in progress about . the departments, it is generally consid.
spection of the launch. After a careful ! the time the launch was lost. It Is the ; ered in the Kentucky metropolis that
purpose.. Col. Oast immediately board-
»sed th^ price to the retail dialer
{3.2SS besides! And when the retail
i dealer sells the shoe? to the farmer he
I mils', add his own profit to the •tuiti-
| pll«d profit above shown.
The freight rate, as now reduced. «n
„ , j pounds hence, when shipped in ca:load
greater Increase in the lncrfa ® e ln TCas s , 375
the shoes, while
freight rate was
seen that the jcl>-
the freight rates on these items. Nay', J" the group there was an Increase In reduction^n* the and!
even worse although the freight rates the price* of 29 articles. Including tools. ! b as“d doubtless on the price the man-
were reduced almost 8 per cent on >' 3rtpd wire, copper, lead, pig iron. ' u7 a ct U rerhw charged him ha® to
clothing, the price of clothing as I nails, silver, tin plates, etc. Seven ar- > UIaC - r - a * t,lm ’ has ,n -
ahalt show la'rr. Is actually 7 per cent t*® 5 * 8 - Including steel rails, did not
higher now than In 1905. And. amnz- change in price, and In only two arti-
ing to relate, although the freight rate c ^ e? - bar iron at Pittsburg and files,
on bools and shoes was reduced 29 was there a decrease,
cents pe- ion pounds, or. In other " A study of the table shows that the
words. {87 per carload of 30.000 group of metals and Implements IshAA" in earloads *i« *$*65 * for~ *n AMI
»«* ,h f e <" Vi'-1 it farmer who Io *' eS 1 t ,n 1898 and ; pounds from New York'or Boston to
c.m buy a pa!r of hoots or shoes pn bipnest in 1906. -Vtlants If tho 'Railrnart com.
cheaply now as In January. 1905. In And Just here let me Interrupt tho mission’could force the rail ard water
feet, t e price of shoes is 40 n» r cent quotation of impartial and highest finis to haul th-se shws .bsol^Vv
higher now than in January. 1905. Proof a *ate that from no business i r<K! there would «tt'n remain'an 5n-
And not a farmer can buy a plow, *“•*» ha * ‘hove come such caustic crlt- ^reose of S3 033 in the twice of 30 000
or on ax or a set of harness cheaper:’ »d«*n of the Railroad Commission as pounds “f shoes which ’he *ann~s
or brooms or bedsteads or chairs. Tn f ro ™ tne representatives of stove fac- nay. .And vet the Railroad c*m-
fact run the whole gamut of articles to J e ? f pd hardware houses, each of mission i® denounced for ’’permCtlng
of necessity or articles of ornament to tie group of “metals and th „ raiIrnad to cha rge Lorbftant
Jtnd luxury’ one buys at th* stores. or ‘^P^nients. • frefeht rates”
at the factory door, and tell me how te a further fact worthy of note j Tako anat ber srrade of shoes men-®;
many of them a farmer can huv for as tbat - although the Standard Oil Com- ! - L " ^ aae or snoes ' lpen £
low c price new as he could before the P an y kas been he'd up to public con-
freight rates on practically all of thorn demnation for advancing the price of
were r*-dime-i two veare ago. Two mil- petroleum, the , advance It made on
llo~- of dollars wos the amount of the this pr:duct in 1906 over 1905 was less
reduction and tho farmers were not al- than 5 P er cent . whereas the Increase
lowed to share one cent of It! l n the prices of metals, stoves and im
Bureau. ..They are gentlemen
of high social standing, of commercial
integrity, of unblemished honor. Thev
are patriotic Georgians.' and many tf
not a majority of them are c'lurch
members who worship God in spirit and
in truth. Hence they will almost with
unanimity, concede the propriety of
the remarks X will now make.
I cannot admit that the court records
which I have quoted and the sube-
quent oaths of railroad officials who
swore that the rates in question were
reduced “to meet the views of this
commission” are false. I scoff at the
suvestlon that Hon. J. Pope Brown,
whose statement on the same subject
I have quoted, -has written aught save
the truth.
But suppose I were to follow some of
the newspaper writers and orators who
■have gone far away from the facts in
their assertion that the Atlanta Freight
Bureau and not the Railroad Commis-
examlnation. it was found that the j opinion of the authorities here that the
launch, while hound from the exposi- J occupants of the launch may have seen
tion grounds to toe battleship Conecti- I the tug's lights and not paid any at-
cut, at anchor off Old Point, had run I tcntlon to the towing lights which she
into a steel hawser, such as are used In ! carried, and had not looked for the tow.
towing the gigantic car floats used by ; To prove this theory, it is shown that
the railroads. It was found that brass tho launch attempted to cross directly
prow of the launch showed signs of i astern of the tow boat. "Whether or
having struck the hawser which then j not the victims of the disaster ex-
passed under the keel of tiny craft. I changed signals with the tug will not
When the cable struck that part of the $ be known until the evidence of the
keel near the propeller, it came in con- j Crlsfleld’s crew is heard. Whether or
tact with the condenser • pipes which | not the launch carried the necessary
were torn away and the shock threw : lights as prescribed by the navigation
the launch over on its starboard side j laws, is also a question that must be
which crushed in. and the tiny craft j answered by those who saw the tiny
was hurled to the bottom of Hamp- j vessel sail away on Its last voyage
ton Roads and ibecame the tomb of its from the exposition pier on the event-
11 occupants. Part of the hull of the ’ ful night.
launch was crushed ln by the impact t The naval board of inspectors, after
with the cable, but the steamboat in» J the investigation yesterday morning,
spectors and the members of the naval • agreed that the launch was lost by
board of Inquiry expressed the unan!- i colliding with a steel cable ns 'stated
mous opinion that the ill-fated vessel j above and all of the facts In the case
was not struck by a barge or tug. hut were wired to Washington by Super-
had collided with the cable between tho vising Inspector Oast this afternoon.
BY STROKE OF PEN CZAR
ABOLISHES RUSSIA'S DOUMA
Governor Johnson Is the than on whose
behalf the mysterious appeal to Mr.
Bryan was made. Judge Humphrej
says:
“Governor Johnson, it Is believed,
comes up to t.'e specifications laid
down by Col. Watterson. He has a
moustache and his geography accords.
The Minnesota man i« also on record
as opposing Government ownership of
railroads. But he. Is also said to be the
possessor of a large and varied assort
ment of views on all the que.'tions of
the day. Perhaps If he could get as
many votes as he has views he might
bo able to prove Col. Watterson a true
prophet."
There is no doubt that Governor
Johnson's activity la causing the Dem
ocratic leaders considerable anxiety.
His coming raid into tho South, when
he is to deliver an address at the un
veiling of a monument on a historic
battlefield. Is looked upon as being a
clever way of introducing himself to
Southern Democrats. As a politician
Governor Johnson measures large, and
it may bo predicted with all safety
that he will say nothing on his South
ern tour that will give offense.
August Franke, who I« said to lire
at 1070 Jackson street, Dubuque, Towa,
caused considerable excitement In the
executive office .at tho White House
one morning this week. Frank, who is
tall, brawny, board-shouldered man.
ei kid. rene-raliy worn in the cities.
The wholesale price in January. 1905,
was ??.05 per pair: The freight rates
were reduced In February, but in
March the price was advanced to {2.10
v-er pair. There, were oth'-r advances
In price till In December. .1905. it stood
ST. PETERSBURG. June T7.—Em- . The dissolution of the Russia Douma. t _ ...
peror Nichols affixed his signature I arriving directly out of the refusal of stalked into the waiting room and an-
si-an of Georgia secured the reductions J this (Sunday) morning to an imperial that body to consent to the demand J ~—’ ’ * - ’
And vet the votes of the farmers Plements was more than 10 per cent. „ V?,, na<- wh'cb was Advanced
were the main votes appealed to to Inna no apologist for the Standard Oil lr 1995 Hoslrgth^vearat X’45ofr
atamn the seal of condemnation unon Company; but the foregoing figures are pair As these shoes wMgh two n winds
the Railroad Commission of Georgia c ^;ainly an object lesson. iW palr the flgures furnlsi-d bv ”bl
which hPd forced this enormous reduc- > An<J in the meantime the farmer i3 United State' ‘.Bureau T
lion of rates in its attempt to lighten sotting smaller prices on his corn, his Washltiirtotl D C p-o-e thiVt^’ad-
their burdens. wheat, his rye. etc.. .than he got before vsnee in nr-lce of 3ft non1 ..Vls /A ,™
And. coming Into tho city, I will add the frelg.it rates were reduced, and is was six thousand dollars *8 fion '
that, although the rafe on flour was J ayin 8 hteher prices for his clothing. ; there' was a reduction in the freight
•reduced at lea*t {6 per carload of 30.- kats and shoes, his building material’ !rate on them f£m New York fr R,s- ,n
000 pounds, not a carpenter or other and hous ® furnishings, besides his j IO Atlanta of S77 on 30 000 pounds This
consumer in Atlanta 1ms been able to stoves and hardware. ! shipment of shoes Is nrVrd m
buy a loaf cf h*-end cne cent cheaper But for the. organiatizon of the farm- j the advance in the -'el'ing price* is
because of. or since the reduction in w i th incr ® aEed markets, en- ! sc.ooo. the total freight rafe ?s now
the fre'eht rate. And as it has been f^led them to get better prices for S! . ss the . redui ? tion in th« freight f-te
In Atlanta so. no doubt. It is in the their cotton, their condition, under this , s sg?^»nd v“t th" Rallmad Commls!
other renters general advance by the jobbers and VwA j A
• Reductions For Stove Makers. manufacturers in the prices of nearly mttMr-* C- f'Proeds "o efimei exirlU
Afroin *•-- .. - .. ’ fill flrMclPC SAM In flask otnene t- tA.'I * I-
in Interstate rates to Rome. Athens,
Augusta. Macon. Columbus, Albany,
etc., with all of which cities Atlanta is
in vigorous competition for the trade
of Georgians, bow would that admis
sion on my part prove that the present
burden upon the farmers and other
laboring people in Georgia is the
freight rates nr.d not the increase in
the prices of goods which the manu
facturers have made
This question is. already so com
pletely answered that It is’needless for
me to wa 'te words or space upon it.
The official figures whfch I have
quoted tell their own story. It is cer
tainly a startling one. I could quote
ten times as many such figures but
these are surely enough to prove that
the privileged few whose oratobs and
ukase, abolishing the present Douma ! made upon it by Premier Stolypin, that
and ordering that tho elections of i it permit the arrest of a number of its
members to its successor, which is to members on the charge of conspiring
meet November 14 be held under the I against the State, does not come as a
new election 1 aw. which provides j surprise. In fact it had been freely
against tbe "submergence of the edu- j predicted ever since the lower house
cated classes by the uneducated ‘ first met on March 5 of this year, that
masses.” its dissolution was only a question of
This act constitutes a virtual coup time and the many official denials to
d’etat and overrides the specific pro- 1 the effect that the Douma would not
visions of the fundamental laws of the be dissolved never carried conviction,
realm, solemnly proclaimed by his The history of this Douma. like its
majesty on the eve of the convocation predecessor, has been one of almost
of the first Douma, which declare that constant clashes with the Government,
the electoral law could never be This, in spite of the fact that a con-
changed without the consent of Par- j slstent effort was made ln some quar-
liament itself. j ters to make the Douma an effective
The Law of Necessity. ! legislative body, and that the Govern-
This breach of the constitution is ‘ ment’s program for legislation con-
justified by the great law of necessity, i tained a number of real reforms,
the advisers of the Emperor holding it The cabinet declared it would give
editors have temporarily- deceived the __
people are responsible for the present j impossible under present conditions to Parliament every chance to justify” its
auctions For Stove Makers. 1 ,n .i . - ^prices or nearly r ,)i ro „ do . .
n. at tbe same time, a reduction * r, l c J? s s0,d in th f ? tor ' >s ' wo “! d fant freight rates!”
ado ir, the rates on pig ’ron and ka\e been serious. And even this • Another exampl 0 ' *
****"«_» f ?r the benefit of the In*s, *11 wool. Flinch.
was m
rand to
stove fro*r>rle*. stove factor!
also got the benefit of the reduced rates
on stoves effective May 20. 1905 be
tween Atlanta and nil Georvin cities
and other having points. The following
nra some samples of the reductions,
per carload of 20 000 pounds. In t.he
freight rates on stores: :
Frrm Atlanta to Columbus, {18: to.'
Athens S10: to Angus’s Macon Al-
b.anv. Hawktn*'-'!le. A-"rrirns Dublin.
Dawson and Vlfiedecville. 54 eaoh
And the following are some ?amr 1ft s !
of C'n reductions per 100 pnurds in f-o j
freight rates on stoves In less than 1
carload quantities:
From Atlanta to ThomisviBe Ouit- j
man. Valdosta’. Fit'-c» ra | d and TIfton.
P cents eneh: to Athens. 5 cents: to
Aumcta. Albany. Macon, Hawkinsvllle.
Americas. Milled geville. Dublin and
Dawson. 4 cents each, and to Colum
bus 14 een*s. Tn other w-rds, on a
vhlpmoot of 10.000 pounds of stoves
from Atl»nta to Thorrsavllle there was
a reduction in the fre'erht r?*« of S9.
of the following quotation from Bulle- i V ard •
tin 69 of the .Bureau of Labor:
"Cotton receded from the
Indigo blue suit-
14 ounces to the
Reduction in freight rate S27
per car load of 30.000 pounds: advance
XcepT^rifiings |
showed a slight tendency to decline. * X D^bVr? 1* ',$£
cen*s ner pound. Reduction in freight
rate $12: advance in iprice $1,800 per
car lend of 20.000 pounds.
Again, tickings for matrr»s*es and
feather beds are Indispensable in every
farmer’s house. Let us see how the
freight rates affect the prices on this
item. In January. 1905. "Tickings.
Amoskeasf. A. C. A..” were sold at 10U
cent* per yard. In July. 1905. they ad-
“In the group of wool and woolen
goods, wool declined slightly during the
summer and early fall, but the greater
portion of woolen goods remained sta
tionary or advatieed slightly.”
Atlanta Gets the Velvet.
The above are additional instances
where the farmers were the losers and
the manufacturers and jobbers were
getting richer.
__A? otb ®r illustration showing how ■ v ?need to 11 tA cents per yard, in Oc-
ea.il> the privileged class makes j tober l9 n 5. to- 12 cents per vard. and
Lc the farmer is shown by 1 i n December 1925. stood at 12% cents
the following clipping from an Atlanta • ner yard. The freight rates from New
P a ,rrri d f t '“ Q Aprl li 8 o : n „ . Tcrk to. Boston to Atla nta wer<»* re-
Atlantans get {40.000 profit by tie { dured $27 pei; carload of 32.000 pounds
ral.-e. Handsome \elvet for Atlanta ; Fehruarv 1. 1925: but the wholesale
. in S°i C' cu ’ d h’t he Dodged. J price in .Tulv. 1905. was $600 per ear-
nnd on n live shipment f-’m Atlanta to I Over 400.000 bales turned out last year. | 7o-d of .30 o«0 pounds greater than It
•Columbus ’here was a re-'imtion of $14. 1 Increase In the price of ties of 10 cents j was In January. 1905. and in Decembjr
It should b« held in mind that when bundle made by the Steel Trust | 1906 it had advanced $600 per carload
these redue*lops in the rates or, stoves ! wl11 ° e observed by all competitors. * f of 30 000 more- ip other words al-
wore made th<>y carried with them the 1 “ As the result of the increase of 10 ; though the Railroad Commission forced
reAurtler, t' ova-,. slM , 0! , 1 cen.s per hundle In the price of cotton ; the railroad; to reduce the r a te $27 per
whose rates ha-ed on tho cIMes near- I *'f® a unounced by the United States - car t'e manufacturers and jobbers ad-
ost to them. Hence nearly everv 1 Gbtnoration. a few dav« ago, the ; v’nced the wholesale pr'ee {j ?oo per
farmer in Georgia who bought a stove ! Atlanta Hoop Company will get a clear 1 car! The amount of this advance
should have received the benefit of j pro “* of $40,000 ® v f r a "d above the * alone in the price Is almost four times
these reduced rates. j profits on which it had figured before j rs great as is the amount of the enti-p
The particular r*nson whv the Rail- j th f announcement of the raise in the j freight rate from Boston to Atlanta'
road Commission fook the above men- j ties - „ The foregoing figures, showing an
timed. :>rd subsequent siens for j T al s extra profit would be known in j enn-mous ire-ease in the carltad prices 1
l”'" —» ’’••’’’Ction In the : J^® POP p lar yernacuLar of the day as ! of shoes, clothing etc- must come as a |
freight rates In Georgia on *toves was . a very swell piece of velvet” and an ! shock *0 rhe public, especially when in
’ i: t'■ ra ap.-thinc which i Interest.ng feature., so far as the prublic connection with the. fact that the in
ha « become an object 0/ everv dev—I ls concerned, is tiat the local steel ! terstate rates ere lower than they have
three times s day—necessity ln nrae- c°inpany cannot help taking this extra ! ever been and the rates within the
tlcallv everv hevsehold in G»"rr!n. It pr ,^S: ,, 1 State nra lower than thev have been
is t'e s'ovc H-oeo. mn-e than any I " hl s po announcement has been ! since 1S93. But tbe carload prices are
s'lon the ! mad ® f; , reluctance on this | not the only ones which have been
■ commit- It is -well known, that the steel : ra’sed.
h]em wi‘h U’iPj of the country, which are Inde- i 'Turning row to the stove, another
1 !ts will Pendent o. the - teel Trust, are obliged ; article which oi'err farmer must have.
< on stove l? observe its scale of prices or get | w« find that the stoi a which the man-
jna.-.ioio 'ac*o-.cs and themselves tn bad order with the giant ’. ufacturer priced to t ie retail dealer at
on th -* when completed nnd put i Jon. Of course t 'Is would not 1 S31.70 In .Tanuf*rv. 1°05. h? in Mav. 1907
upon t'-e market. I prove profitable to any company and desrite the reductions in the freight.
I wi’l "how. a '•‘tic ’iter ♦ lat ihe naturally there Is little disposition on ; rates on stove matrials end on stoves,
s*a.-c trust, hr rs's'-g the u-icos. rn-’- j ta e part o. anybody to buck the scale, j priced at $12. And the Stove Trust!
dcra.i of no nvai' to *he fa-mer. tho T.s^. \en- he .\tlanta Steel Hoop ■ about the midd'e of May Ju c t past, sent
carpenter the —--'--nt- these reduc- Company turned out something over • out notice tto the retail dea’ers that ‘he
‘400 000 bundles of —" —
extortion in a time of high prosperity.
The figures show that it is not the
“excessive freight -rates which the
Railroad Commission permi's the rail
roads to charge.” b"t It is the exorbi
tant increases in tho prices fixed by
the manufacturers and some of the
middle men. It is clearly proven that
the reduction in freight rates, although
the unjust discrimination caused by
them required that they be made, sig
nally failed to reach the masses of the
people. And. let me add; their increase
in prices has ofteen been made at the
expense of even the retail dealers.
And another test I make before leav
ing I his subject. Take the circulars of
tbe Railroad Commission issued since
the genera] rates were reduced in Feb
ruary and May. 1905. These circulars
ordered reductions on scores of special
article®. I ask on how many of'them
are prices as low now as they were in
January. 1905?
It Is therefore certainly pertinent to
ask. “Fhall the transportation facilities
necessary for the commerce and inter
course of the people of Georgia be
made subservient to the demands for
other and greater dividends for the
manufacturers of Georgia and of other
States from whom Georgia jobbers
buy? Ought not the railroads to be
protected in the power to furnish the
people prompt and safe service for per
son and property and should not future
reductions in their revenues be made
on such items as will reach the masses
of the people?
In the meantime it ls certainly perti
nent to ask directly the question which
is clearlv inferred from the facts I
have adduced, viz.. "Wherein has it
benefited the peopla to reduce the
freight rates?”
And now. turning from further con
sideration of fhe fact that the masse®
of the people were not allowed to share j
secure a Parliament capable of co- . existence. The deputies, however,
operating harmoniously with the i were insistent on radical changes, and
crown to rescue Russia from anarchy j their persistence in this course result-
and revolution. j ed In what amounts to a charge by
The session of the council of minis- the Government that the Douma was a
tres at which the decision to dissolve shelter for conspiracy and treason
Parliament was reached, was a long against the State.
one. It lasted from 9 o’clock last night ! The situation entered upon its final
until nearly 4 o’clock this morning. 1 phase when the revolutionary members
The ministers had agreed upon the of tael ower house .went to London
terms of the ukase before midnight, and took part ln a congress, which
however, and a draft of the ukase had .’or its avowed purpose, the upset-
was taken immediately to Peterhof, ting of the throne of the empire. From
where the Emperor affixed his signa- . the very beginning the sessions of the
ture. i second Douma have been characterized
The news of the dissolution was re- ; by bitterness, recrimination, and de
nounced that tho President had prom
ised him one million dollars and that
ho wanted to collect It at once. He
was Immediately surrounded l}.v
guards, who engaged him in conversa
tion and finally persuaded him to take
a walk. When the police sergeants got
through with their examination Frank
was committed temporarily to the
Government Hospital for the Insane.
ceived shortly after 2 o'clock this
morning but the cabinet was contin
ued until.the arrival of the signed
document. This document was deliv
ered by Premier Stolypin into the
i hands of the official printers for pub-
i lication in the official messenger and were of comparatively minor
in the Rossft’ this morning. tance.
content and there has been countless
evidences of hostility between the
house and the administration. While
this Douma passed more legislation
than did its predecessor the measures
that became laws under its hands
lmpor-
PROSECUTION WILL CLOSE
IN CASE NEXT WEEK
BOTSE. Idaho. June 16.—Tn sup
port of its case against Wm. D. Hay
wood. charged with the murder of
former Gov. Frank Steunenberg, the
S’ate Saturday submitted to jury the
testimony of a dozen witnesses, tend
ing to confirm several details oi the
story of Harry Orchard, and at ad
journment announced that it would
close its case next week. The an
nouncement as to the conclusion of tho
prosecution’s case was a surprise to
t the defense and was clearly as pleas-
5n the enormous reduction of freight i ' n F to the prisoner and his counsel.
ra+e S which the Railroad Commission ! 1° response to a request from the
secured for their benefit, let me ad- 1 defense for notice from the State as to
cifbep article
Riilrea.i m--
tee who hnrdl
tbe rallr'nd r
that there mu
the time it should assemble its wit
nesses. Senator Borah gave next
Wednesday as the time. He later ex
plained, however, that he had given
an early day in order to avoid delay.
As the’trial now stands adjourned
dress these words to the people of
Georgia:
”Mv countrymen, as my mental eyes
behold it, we are approac-hing the
gravest crisis which has threatened
you in many years, a crisis made pos
sible. nav, probable, by the avowed : until Tuesday morning the prosecu-
deelaration in high circles that the ! tion would not be able to conclude be-
owners of railroad property shall not ! fore the end of next week,
have the same protection of the laws ! Among today’s witnesses were
that is guaranteed to the owner® of i former Gov. Peabody, of Colorado, and
cotton factories and stove factories, j his daughter. Miss Cora Peabody, but
to the jobbers of hardware, drj- goods neither was on the stand long. It wa®
and shoes, fo the owners of warehouses i anticipated that the defense would
band’s and farms. ! cross-examine Peabody to extent and
"The issue cannot be disguised: It is open the entire contention involved in
not an assault uron ‘the railroads.’ it j the Colorado labor law. but a noon
- - ..._ ........ ( is an assault upon the owners of rail- recess conference of the united counsel
tlons in f'Mght rates. j 4 -e pop nurmtes ot cotton ties. The ■ price would go up 5 ner cent the first , road prorertv. Will the State authori- for the defense decided that it would
Whv Stoves Are High. ’ ® xpec ^ *° provide a® many for • of June. In oth®r word®, the $13 stove tips ‘umnire it’ fairly, or will they take be better to refrain from such ques-
The above are in a double sense ' v/ e f ,9 2 ceT, t- a ! will then bo sold at $13 63. : sides wi*h the former who are making | tioning.
homelv illustrations: but is it not time " undl ® ^add.tional profit it does not UKte : It is a significant fact that the notice net profit® of from forty to one hun- .Damaging Circumstances.
” rer ! to Ogare whore , of this advance of o per cent in the dred per cent, and against the latter j Against a sustained fire of objec-
f.* n ^ , tion and motions to strike out, the
prosecution got the admission of much
have
that
I . .. . __J^_ intan-
Cold Steel For the Farmer. i stoves. Thus the stove manufacturers. | gible monster: it is a property owned
■While this may appropriately be ! at the very flmn when the freight rates ; bv citizens, by widows and orphans by
styled “velvet” for the Atlanta raanu- I on stoves are lower than they have educational and herevolent institu
casing in court by the plumber who
made It. Former Governor Peabody
and his family watched the bomb cov
er every moment that it was displayed
on tlje witness stand.
Then the state once more took up
the general thread of Orchard's story,
and suceessKveli- offered tHe testi
mony of Miss Peabody to the incident
related by Orchard where he and
Steve Adams followed the Peabody
carriage home: the evidence of Gov
ernor Peabody that he had seen Orch
ard in Canyon City, and that he had
repaired his house as Orchard had
testified: testimony showing that at
various times in 1905, Haywood, Pet-
tibone and Orchard were seen togeth
er. and confirmation by William
Vaughan, of the trip that Orchard and
Vaughan made to Canyon City. Last
ly came proof that Steve Adams was
at Pocatello in September, presumably
to meet and throw "Pettibone dope”
at a carload of non-union miners as
related by Orchard.
Judge Wood is to go to Caldwell
an Monday, to continue the case of
Harry Orchard,
murder of Frank Steunenberg. and
here will be no session of court here
on that day. Orchard will be taken to
Caldwell to make formal appearance
when the case is called.
Little Mary Wagner, of Michigan,
has touched the heart of the President
and her plantivo appeal may result ln
her s‘ep--father being pardoned from
• the Michigan State prison. The De
partment of Justice has the matter in
charge and is investigating it. While
it is probable that the question of a
pardon is one that lies entirely with
Michigan's Governor, it is likely that
any recommendations mnde by Atttor-
ney-General Bonaparte will carry great
weight. The case ls that of John- Alli
son. a bank robber, who escaped from
the Michigan penitentiary after having
served six years of a seventeen-year
sontence. He made his way to Wi
nona and married a widow with ona
child. He did not tell her of his past
until after their baby was botn and
shortly thereafter lie was recognized
and reimprisoned. The letteer which
the little sten-daughter wrote to Presl-
d.-nt Roosevelt retie-ts her -belief in her
step-father whom, she says. "Is not a
bad man and has been good to mama
and me.”
Ohio rectifiers and Vender® are in
undating Secretary Taft with appeals
to use his .best efforts to secure the
modification of the recently delivered
ooinlon of Attorney-General .Bonaparte
denying them the right to use the term
“whysky” for their product. Mr. Taft,
before he left on his Western trip, de
clared he had no personal Interest in
the matter, but regarded it aa one sole
ly within the authority of the Depart
ment of Justice. As a result his pri
vate secretary Is sending all such pe
titions to Mr. Bonaparte. Ohio stands
near the head of the ll®t of States that
produce and rectify whiskies and there
seems to be a well-organized movement
under way to force Mr. Taft to inter
vene in behalf of these Interests.
It is regarded now as probable tha\
the Government will begin proceedings
under the anti-trust act against E. n.
Harriman and his associates for vio
lation.® of law. Tho whole matter de
pends on the report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission with reference
to the so-called Chicago and Alton
deal, fhe Union and Southern Faclflo
transactions and the Southern Pacific
and San Pedro traffic agreement. This
report has not yet been made and con
sequently the action of the Department
of Justice in filing its bill or bills will
be somewhat delayed. It i® .almost cer
tain. however, tbat an action will be
taken in the court® within the imme
diate future to compel Mr. Harriman to
answer certain questions which he de
clined to answer at tho hearings of the
commission some months ago and
which, are deemed important in the
drawing up of the commission's report.
President Roosevelt left this -week
for his summer home in Oyster Bay,
charged with the | an<J Vice-President Faip'-anks and his
j family will flit away shortly for
! three month® 1 vacation In Danvers,
i Mass. Mr®. Fairbanks. It is said, ha*
I been advised by her physician to seek
ja complete change of air somewhere
on the Atlantic coast. It is probable,.,
however, that the Vice-President will
not spfend a summer of inactivity, with,
the Knox. Cannon and Tnft boom*
looming aa large as they do.
questions of weighty import. And that
thev are in the miod to ask these ques
tions even now wr.« proven by the
fact that at the hearing of this case
April 23. ult . a committee of the labor
union stated that, even with the higher
wns-e® now rereived, le.®
saved than under lower
facturers It is literally cold, hard steel ( ever been, are forcing the people to pay
far the Georgia farmer who will have ; the highest prices which have for many
J p ay the extra 10 cents per bundle, j years been charged for stoves.
money can be wi*h no chance to get it back. So. too, we find that while the freight
rare®, because : 1 cannot doubt that when to the up- [rates on barbed wire and nails re-
jrlces of almost al’ thing® they • ' tv nrds of $!.0M,OM taken from the rail- I mained the same the prices upon t^iem
it tbe stores are higher than ever rr,at ^ we .idd the amount® received , were advanced to the farmer who must
j : from the increase above V r price.® u®e them: and. while the freight rates
The” proof of the truth of the above . * or goods t>efora tho. ,-al'read on axes, which no family living in the
statement ls found In Bulletin *
the Bure-u of Labor, printed
United States Government p
office. Washington March. 1907. From .
It I make the following ex"-acts
In the present report prices
ffivep for 29® ret-raser: ltive a®
huv
bef-i
,f . rates were reduced ln 19 f, 5 iv- win find j country can do without, were reduced
'hat the great mercantile hcoes and i through the efforts qf the Railroad
_ propT'.etor.® of stove factories and like j Commission of Georgia, the prices on
i establishments in Georg:®, a-- now col- j them ware advanced more than {600
leet'ng out of the peon’? more than j per carjoad by the hardware dealers.
{■t.ono.0'90 a year above the!® profi-s ;n A Vow me to add that if the railroad.®
1904. T:at this estimate :® p-ohab'y j were hauling .absolutely free of freight
The pres-’Ht !'
tbnt wholesale prlc
?“® commodities a®
higher level In 1906
Fsati
the yea
seven*
high.
1905
under the mark, let mi Illustrate by ! charges more than half the items I
some examples: j have ranted. t v e prices to the con-
a February 1. 3S‘ 1 j. the rate on i sumer would nevertheless be higher
blanket.® from New York to vl mta ; than they bare :-een at any time for
was reduced 9 veols per 100 *.edj years. And the freight rates on the
Twenty pair® c 4 blanket
pounds. Bu!ie**n 63. nub
Bureau cf L«bor Washington, D. C..
of shows that in 1905. "blanket-. 11-1. i i
i pounds to the pair, cotton warp, a'.l-
' wool filling ” were priced ■: {3.87*1
per pair. Bulletin 69. published by the 1
V- 1 s.n-e bureau, shows that the®'- same :
tions: a property which gives to each
other kind of property- from one-half
to five-sixths of its present value; a
property without the existence of
which a vast proportion of the other
propertv in Georgia would not, could
not “xist.
evidence bearing on points of Orch
ard's tale. First there was a showing
that Steve Adams, stranded at Ogden
in 1903, on the way home from Califor
nia, where, it Is alleged, he went to
kill Bradley, sent a telegram to Hay
wood at Denver for money. It showed
by the originals of six drafts on New
York banks, five of which were pur
chased at the First National Bank of
Denver by Haywood himself, that
during 1904. 1905 and 1906 money was
frequently remitted by Haywood to L.
“Will vou allow that property of J ' Simpkin®. formerly a member of hte
those who have bought It in the faith executive board of the W estern Fed-
that Georgia would protect them equal- I ^°? 0 ^ a ?” we U 'with Harrv Orchard
•'.® gs-Kti 1O0 others are the minor part of the total j
Vislm bv the i cost.
ly with the holders of all other prop
erty in her borders, and who through
it pay one-eighth of the taxes of Geor
gia. to be destroyed, and with that de
struction of the power of its owners
to buy their daily bread bring a panic
which will cut probably in two the
prices of every bale of cotton, bushel
of grain or ton of hay the Georgia
farmers produce: that will not only
di=a®treu®!y reduce the public school
fund, and with it tbe wages of every
laboring man. but will throw tens of
And now, lest I he misunderstood. ! thousands out of emn’oyrnent. bringing
me say clearly and with emohasis ; famine to th^'r families.?
: T have n-> words of criticism for : "Shall prejudice supplant wisdom,
great mas? of the jobbers, since I ! shall greed expel ju®t’ce. shall reck
on: doubt that 'heir advance in 'less vSndictivene®? thrust from the
lolessle price® i? only the reflex of I helm the ha^d A f moderation? Will
thf
all
blankets were priced during iPcs at $4 ; the advance charged against them by ! you allow this blot, this blight, this
Per pair. Hero®, on twenty pair® of } the manufaetturers. 'But I do criti- j ruin?”
b'enkets ‘"e “'re'.g'it Tate from N"w: ; ®e and hold up to public endemna- j —
York to Atlanta, was 9 cents le--® and 'tion those individuals, whether job- Chancellor VacCra.cken. of the New
t'-e selling pr'ee was $250 greater, cr» ! hers, manufacturers, politicians or ed- I York University, on commencement
if we figure ft on the ’ a®'® if $30,000 1 itor®. who, knowing the truth, have j day insisted on the rule tha* nobody
prurds. th- rht rsi® was $27 'ess j pre'erred to di®s®m.innte error, who. should be admitted to the auditorium |
nrd the .®-"<qg price 1730 greater. | pretending to advocate the cause of the ! while anv one was sneaking. He be
lt will be c 'e t th>-1 the nr»®®nt ! peon!®, have astutely protected the • gao the exercises on time with room [
thronch re’e '.Vfs >t® from • privileged cl.a®® (whether it be com- : half fMled and spoke for an hour, while ,
N- w York to *’a r .i i® ®t 05 r«r ion p- f Nor'hern ma-uriacturers and • nee ly a
$31: rep 30 060 pound®, jobber® r those in Georgia) which has
and assisted in the first attempt to
kill Steunenberg. The last draft sent
in January. 1906, after the murder of
Steunenberg. was cashed by Mrs.
Simpkins, presumably after Simpkins
had fled. Then came the shattered
and twisted fragments of the device
bv which the Vindicator mine bomb
was set off and this led to an extended
inquire by the defense into conditions
and events centering about Cripple
Creek during strike.® and martial law
days. The defense tried to show that
; there had been unwarranted deporta-
: tion of union miners: that the calling
of the militia was unwarranted: that
union store.® had been looted: that
; agents of the mine owner.® had com
mitted accts of violence and incited
1 other.® to violence; that union miners
; had been flogged and driven from
: their homes, and that peace offerings
controlled by the mine owners had
• employed deputies who were fighters,
I thugs and criminals.
Next the state completed the legal
history of the Peabody bomb, by
showit\; that it was dug out of the
w.:ich wholesale prices were
late comers stood ! ice in tbe Cour d’Alene river, that It
iul .... t ... IT _ ,,, L , j ,..jp and the rain. j was brought to Boise and taken oh to
obtained Hence, if the railroad and steamship increased the cost of living to the peo- ; the laws of Georgia, he was not aware • Denver, and lastly by identifying its
FAIRBANKS SAYS HIS
STATEMENT GAMED
'BIRMINGHAM. Ala., June 16.—Before
leaving here today for Selma to attend
the funeral of the late Senator Morgan,
Vice-President Fairbanks denied a story
which recently caused wide comment in
the Southern press.
The story was to the effect that Mr.
Fairbanks recently said ln a speech at
Chattanooga, that the late Gen. Joseph
Wheeler told President McKinley in Mr.
Fairbanks’ presence, when applying for
service in the Spanish war. that the ap
plicant had “followed the Confederate
flag under a mistake.”
"What Gen. Wheeler said.” declared
the Vice-President, “was that under the
dictates of his conscience, he had fought
once against the United States flag, but
now desired to fight under it before he
died."
The Vice-President said he regretted
what he said at Chattanooga bad been
garbled.
MOTHER GAVE CHILDREN
DOSE WHICH PROVED FATAL
NEW YORK. June 15.—Brandy given
them by the mother to alleviate, their
sufferings from sea sickness, caused the
death of three children on the steamer
Cretlc during the voyage which ended
here today. The ship's physicians as
cribed death to alcoholic poisoning. The
bodies were buried at sea. The children
and their mother embarked at St. Mich
aels, Azores.
SAVANNAH DOES NOT
WANT “SALVATION BAND"
SAVANNAH. Ga.. June 15.—Three
women, two men and two boys, compris
ing the “Salvation Band,” appeared be
fore the recorder this morning for ope
rating on the streets last night without
license. They were ordered to take
their music elsewhere. Other eitte s have
Inclined to have It. The organization
said to operate in competition with the
Salvation Army.
With the passing away thi® week
of Senator Morgan, of Alabama,
there is removed from public life a
unique and gracious figure. Th*
aged statesman was nearly eighty-
three years old and had been in th* .
United States senate continuously for
thirty yedirs. He was a brilliant opt-
tor and a debater of acknowledged
skill. About two years ago he mad*
the "long distance" speaking record,
forcing an extraordinary session of
the senate and finally succeeding in
killing the asset currency bill, which
was fathered by Senator Aldrich.
Senator Morgan previously had been
sneaking for about two weeks on th*
Panama canal question and ln this
debate he spoke about 200.000 words.
Before going to the senate he hal
made a brilliant record as a Confed
erate soldier. He was a colonel 1n th*
Confederate army in 1862 and within
a year by valorous and distinguished
service rose to brigadier general.
The last few dava in Washington :
really should go down in history as
Confederate week. The men in gray
and the Daughters of the Confederacy |
pruitically took (ossesslon of the Na
tional capital, and for the first tim*
in history a column in gray marched
down Pennsylvania avenue from th* \
capitol to the White House. It waa
a pathetic handful of the former war- '1
rlors under "Jeb” Stewart and Stone
wall Jackson. Each of the marcher*
carried hi® old arms, whether It wa* J
the cavalry sabre or the heavy mus
ket affected by the infantry of thos*
stirring times. Headed by a band, the
warriors of a passing day marched
down the avenue with the stars and
bars fluttering beside the flag of the
united country. A large number of
the veterans who attended the reun
ion at Richmond came here to call at
the White House, where they offered
their services to the President as
rough riders, should he ever b* lo
«eed of such men.
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