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12 ('Continued from Page 9,) So far as I am individually concerned, the Trust can shut down, and go to . But still, I am willing to hear Hobson. * 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. * Birmingham, Ala., is experiencing an epidemic of crimes. A statue of General P. G. T. Beau regard is to be erected in New Orleans. It The railroad question was discussed at conferences held at the white house. It The president will insist on federal franchises for interstate railway corpo rations. It 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. It Charges of lobbying by corporations are being investigated by the New Hampshire legislature. It Hon. Luther Manship, the lecturer, is proposed for the lieutenant-govern orship of Mississippi. , CHARTIER SHORTHAND ) / S' 77? makes HIGH CLASS stenographer in < to 11 WEEKS. Why spend • / ( J/J 7 V'S'C/J • z to mo *^ u OM out-of-date systems? O,ir pupUi le<rn to KJCKP BOOKS exactly as they are kept In - ' . - FOUR MONTHS, |IOO saved on a combined course. *•, DORMITORIES furnish wholesome discipline and BOARD at 198 Peachtree Street. - ATLANTA, GEORGIA ACTUAL COST. * , A POSITION Is secured for every graduate. - '- ■- * . WRITE TODAY for new and attractive catalog. 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. •t 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. It Fritzi Scheff, the comic opera sing er, recently heard in the south, is critically ill in New York. •t Hon. Charles Scott addressed the Farmers’ Co-operative Union at Ox ford, Miss., on Friday, the 15th. It John Noble Stearns, aged 77, pion eer silk manufacturer of America, died on Thursday last in New York city. It Tuesday to Thursday of last week were wild days on Wall street and mil lions were lost in the stock panic. It 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. It 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. I? 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. ‘Then LET "THE FORFEIT THE CHARTERS. - ; > z JR The power is ample, the necessity urgent, .die„4MS,tificsiUQn ;; coipplete. > •>' $ ' It 4 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! hmm HARRI&xAN. (Continued from Page 1.) 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,