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So far as I am individually concerned, the
Trust can shut down, and go to .
But still, I am willing to hear Hobson.
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The Steel Trust, with a queer lack of hu
mor, tells Uncle Sam, truculently, “If we
shut down, there will be but one armor-plate
mill—The Midvale Company—and you will
’therefore fall into the hands of a monopoly.”
How difficult it is for the pot to be fair to
the kettle! This Midvale Company is the
concern that underbid the Steel Trust, last
year, and thereby got some of the contract
work.
Entitled to all, Bonaparte gave it some.
The balance was given to the Steel Trust
—although its bid was highest and it was not
entitled to any.
Now, the Steel Trust says to the Govern
ment, “Give me more, or I will leave you to
the mercy of the Midvale Company.”
Inasmuch as the Steel Trust has always
succeeded in getting what it wanted from the
Government, it will probably be placated this
time, as upon other occasions. But think of
it, Hobson—think of it!
ONE Infant Industry reaps, from Special
Privilege, a yearly net profit of $156,000,000,
and yet has the gall to threaten to cut up
ugly, unless it is given MORE!
The first steel mail car went into service
last week on the Pennsylvania Railroad, be
tween Jersey City and Washington.
Within a few years, we may reasonably ex
pect to see these metallic cars take the place of
Summary of the Nelvs.
Mark Twain has bought a 200 acre
farm in West Redding, Conn.
Grover Cleveland celebrated his
70th birthday on Monday, the 18th.
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Birmingham, Ala., is experiencing an
epidemic of crimes.
A statue of General P. G. T. Beau
regard is to be erected in New Orleans.
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The railroad question was discussed
at conferences held at the white house.
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The president will insist on federal
franchises for interstate railway corpo
rations.
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Pittsburg is flooded and the Ohio riv
er is having the greatest freshet known
for ten years past.
It
Maine legislators have increased
their salaries as a preliminary to abol
ishing free passes.
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Charges of lobbying by corporations
are being investigated by the New
Hampshire legislature.
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Hon. Luther Manship, the lecturer,
is proposed for the lieutenant-govern
orship of Mississippi.
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the flimsy wooden death traps now in use.
Really, Congress should take action requir
ing the railroads to adopt steel cars within
a certain limit of time.
Things of that kind should not be. left tp
the pleasure of the millionaires who have gob
bled up our public highways. ' <
More and more, we should enforce the pub
lic will upon these public utilities.
Is there a single Southern or Western rail
road owned in the South or the West?
Not one.
Who built these roads?
Southern and Western men.
As a rule, the roads were paid for by the
South and the West in land grants, in state
bounties, in donations by towns, cities and in
dividuals .
In law and equity, these vast properties be
long to the South and the West.
At present, the Capitalists of the East are
using the railroads to plunder the South and
the West.
By means of our own property, we are be
ing systematically robbed.
WE MUST GET OUR PROPERTY
BACK.
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The States are not helpless. State Rights
are far from dead. Uncle Sam did not grant
those charters.
The States granted them. Those public
franchises were granted for specific purpose's.
Franchises MISUSED are FORFEITED.
Where is the railroad that has not misused
its franchises?
Gen. John T. McGrath, of Baton
Rouge, has been made a member of the
Louisiana pension board.
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Fritzi Scheff, the comic opera sing
er, recently heard in the south, is
critically ill in New York.
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Hon. Charles Scott addressed the
Farmers’ Co-operative Union at Ox
ford, Miss., on Friday, the 15th.
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John Noble Stearns, aged 77, pion
eer silk manufacturer of America, died
on Thursday last in New York city.
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Tuesday to Thursday of last week
were wild days on Wall street and mil
lions were lost in the stock panic.
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A railroad wreck in South Africa
was up to the American standard.
Thirteen killed and eleven injured.
It
The Thaw trial is still dragging out
its disgusting length in New York,
with the odds that Thaw will go free.
It
President Roosevelt has made an ap
pointment to receive President Mellen,
of the New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad.
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The mayor of Richmond has signed
the ordinance appropriating $5,000 and
granting a site for the proposed mon
ument in that city to Edgar Allan Poe.
THE WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Ex-Senator Burton, of Kansas, will
be released from the Ironton, Mo., jail
on the 22d and will tell his tale of
woe in the Topeko Opera House on
the evening of the 23rd.
Judge Trieber, of the district court
of the United States in the Eastern
District of Arkansas, has sustained
the constitutionality of the Employers’
Liability law.
It is reported that John D. Rockefel
ler's will is to contain a bequest of
$250,000,000 to American charities. The
report has not been confirmed by
Mr. Rockefeller himself.
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It is reported in Berlin that the con
dition of Chancellor von Buelow, who
is at Rapallo, an Italian resort near
Genoa, is serious, and it is feared the
chancellor may not recover.
Mail carrying railroads have decided
to make an appeal to the new post
master general against the rule which
Mr. Cortelyou promulgated requiring
a change in the methods of weigh
ing the mails.
Count Lamsdorff, formerly Russian
minister to foreign affairs, who has
for a long time been a sufferer from
heart disease and other maladies, is
said to be in a sinking condition at
San Remo, Italy.
There is nope.
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How much longer shall we submit to this
spoliation of the South and West by the mil
lionaires of Wall Street?
Are we such cowards that we are afraid to
assert ourselves?
Shall we be content, always, to have our
ears padded with lies by lobbyists, corpora
tion lawyers, and subsidized editors?
Wall Street owns our railroads and uses
them to rob us—LET. US TAKE OUR
ROADS BACK!
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HARRI&xAN.
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breaches of the moral code, can not be ques
tioned .
What then is his position ? A Is he peni
tent?
Is there hint of RESTITUTION? Shall
he be punished, just as any other law-breaker
should be punished?
Oh, dear, no!
HARRIMAN IS ENTHRONED—secure
ly enthroned—BOSS in California, BOSS in
New York, BOSS in Washington.
His latest announcement is virtually to this
effect:
“I’ve about got all I want and if the law
will let me alone, I will promise to remain
friendly with the Government.”
Germany and Austria are concentrate
ing their efforts against Great Brit
ain’s proposal for including in the pro
gram of the approaching peace con
ference at The Hague a discussion of
the limitation of armaments.
The city council of Vienna, with
the view of municipalization of the
undertaking business, has purchased
for $500,000 the rights and privileges
of two big undertaking companies
which practically control the burial
business there.
The lynching of two negroes early
Friday morning at Monroe, La., caus
ed Governor Blanchard to call upon
District Judge Madison, of Monroe, to
make a Special investigation and, if
possible, indict the leaders of the par
ty which did the hanging.
With only eighteen days of the
Rhode Island legislative session re
maining there is no chance whatever
in the senatorial deadlock. Predic
tions that the assembly will be oblig
ed to adjourn without electing a suc
cessor to Wetmore are being made by
members of both factions.
Helicon Hall, at Englewood, N. J.,
the beautiful home of Upton Sinclair’s
co-operative colony, was destroyed by
fire Saturday morning. Three explo
sions that tore out the front part of,