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Washington Letter.
Special Correspondence of the
Enterprise.
Washington, P. C. Feb' 0, ’04.
The principle subject of po¬
litical discussion,in the national
capital at the present time is
so-called Foraker bill, which
aims to relieve the trusts and the
mergers of any control or limi¬
tation by the government and
everywhere regarded as the
ministration’s bid for the sup¬
port of the great corporations in
the coming presidential election.
This bill shows the lack of sin¬
cerity on the part of the Repub¬
lican party in their alleged
against the trusts as does noth¬
ing else that has come to the sur¬
face lately. The administration
has been active in getting before
the people of the country and
touting itself as an anti- trust ad
ministration, telling in flaring
headlines in the gcod Republican
papers how the Attorney-Gen¬
eral was going to smash the
trusts to smithereens- It would
like to get the people to believe
that it intended to do some¬
thing for them in the way
of trust busting, but so far it has
only worked with its mouth and
has done nothing in the courts of
the country, notwithstanding the
fact that an appropriation of a
half million dollars has been
made for the special purpose of
prosecuting the trusts. The
fund has not been used and will
not be for that purpose. More
similies, drawn from che nation*
al game of poker, that fit the po¬
litical situation, have lately been
coined, most of them by the re¬
doubtable Mark Hanna, than at
any period in the political histo¬
ry of the country. The one that
fits the present situation in the
politics of the nation is that the
present play of the republican
party is a huge “bluff” so far as
it intends to wipe out the crimi
ha! trusts of the country.
(Senator Foraker, besides be¬
ing the Ohio manager of the
President’s campaign for elec¬
tion to succeed himself, is, with
the Hon. Henry Cabot Lodge his
spokesman in the Senate of the
United States and no man who
knows how things are done in
Washington considers that there
would be the remotest possibili¬
ty ol Senator Foraker offering
such a bill without the Presi¬
dent’s direction.
Following, as it did, the visit
to Washington of the trust mag -
nates, whose mergers and Com¬
bines are menaced under the
Shemau law, the Northern Se¬
curities merger, now fighting for
life in the Supreme Court, and
the coal trust, brought to bay by
the suit started by William Ran¬
dolph Hearst before the Inter¬
state Commerce Commission—
the significance of Senator Fora
ker’s effort becomes manifest.
Not in years has anything hap¬
pened to bring, ,T. Pierpont Mor¬
gan, H. C. Frick, J. W. Gates,
President Cassatt of the Penn¬
sylvania Railroad, and President
Stillman, of the National City
Bank, all to Washington togeth¬
er. The presence of Cassatt and
Stillman at the W bite House din¬
ner emphasized the view of the
situation that the Foraker Bill
was the administration’s tender
in exchange for the help of the
trusts in the next election. Not
in a generation has a bill intro¬
duced in Congress .provoked
such a feeling of alarm and in¬
dignation us this has done- Com¬
ing at a time when the people
are marshaling all that is left to
them of power to check the pow¬
er of the rapacious combinations
ar d when the worst of these are
under fire, the proposition to un¬
do all that has been done for the
protection of the country against
these preoatory organizations,
the Foraker Bill is doubly alarm¬
ing, and the fact that it is pre¬
sented by the spokesman of the
President intensifies the feeling
of dismay.
The comments of the Demo¬
crats in the senate and House of
Representatives indicate how
clearly the danger is realized and
jbow unanimous is the condem¬
nation of the measure among
those on whom will fall the bur¬
den of the fight to prevent the
enactment of this measure into
a law. The Foraker proposition
is regarded as a throwing aside
on the part of the Republicans,
any pretense of opposing the
trusts and the notification that
p r os iiective contributions of
Wall Street to the Republican
campaign fund are deemed of
more importance than the sym¬
pathy of the people who are
fighting for de’iverance from the
mergers and illegal combinations
of railroads with the aggrega¬
tions that control production,
such as the coal trust aud the
beef trust.—C. A. E,
A cure for Eczema,
My baby had eczema so bad that
its head was a solid mass of
scabs, and its hair all came out.
I tried many remedies but none
seemed to do any permanent
good until I used DeWitt’a Witch
Hazel Salve The eczema is
cured, the scabs are gone and the
little one’s scalp is perfectly
clean and healthy and its hair is
growing beautifully again. I can¬
not give too much praise to De
Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Frank Farmer, Bluff Citj , Ky. In
buying Witch Hazel Salve look
outfor counterfeits. DeWitt’s is
the original and the only one con¬
taining pure witch hazel. The
name E. C. DeWitt & Co., is on
every box. Sold by Lewis Drug
Co.
HAD GOLD TOSELL
T can give chapter and verse iot
dozens of atrocities which prove
conclusively that Colombia has no
title to be dealt with by the United
States or any other power as a civ¬
ilized nation. Here is one typical
story: A named Theophile
dentist Bor
faro came to me one day and asked
if I wanted to buy some' gold. I
said yes, and be unwrapped a bundle
and showed me about a pound of
gold tooth fillings, some of which
had fragments of teeth still stick¬
ing in them.
“Where did you get them?” I ask¬
ed in horrified amazement.
“I got some of them in the fight
at San Jose,” he replied, “and the
rest were got by a government colo¬
nel in the last engagement at Buena¬
ventura.”
“But how did you got them out?”
“We just knocked them out with
bayonets and the butt ends of ri¬
fles. The soldiers-did that to all
the bodies, and I bought the gold
for a mere trifle.”-—World’s Work.
A Pig Sticking Incident.
Captain James D. Fourth Graham, In¬
dian medical service, Bengal
lancers, quartered at Allahabad, has
sent to the Indian Medic.al # Gazette
an account of a pig sticking acci¬
dent which is probably unique. A
lieutenant who was out pig sticking
came up with the beast, which was
on his off side, and stuck it. It
swerved across to thp near side, and
the spear, striking the pony’s oil
shoulder, was wrenched out of the
rider’s hand and also shaken clear
of the pig. It was flung butt to the
ground, and the point, rising in the
air, shoulder, penetrated the ..pony’s near
passed through its chest
and ribs and out at the flap of the
saddle. Thence it entered the fleshy
muscles 'at the back of the rider’s
left thigh, passing out about six
and a half inches higher up. The
pony stopped still, and the lance
Was extracted after the shaft had
beer, cut The lieutenant recover¬
ed, but the pony died of pneumonia
a week later. _
.. LEARNE D SOM ETHING.
"Have you any—aw—idea,” in¬
quired the tourist with the steamer
•cap, side whiskers, cheek suit and
guttural voioe, “what the circula¬
tion of the Daily Bread is ?”
“No,” said the native, “but it’s
way up in the tens of thousands and
probably more.”
“Thanks. Will you—aw—please
toll me what a ‘cheap skate’ is ? The
torn is new to me, don’t you know.”
“A cheap skate may be a tight
wad or a geezer that’s merely on his
uppers, but in either case he’s a—
well, he’s a cheap skate.”
“I am not sure I quite compre¬
hend you, but he is an objectionable
pea-son, is he not?”
"Sure.”
"That was my inference. A lad
accosted me on the street a few min¬
utes ago and awsked me to buy a
copy of the Daily Bread. ‘No, my
hoy* I said, ‘I don’t wish it.’ ‘Aw,’
he said, ‘you're a cheap skate.’ So
contemptuous felt' compelled was his tone that I
though had to buy his paper,
I no use for it.”—Chica¬
go Tribune.
The scratch of a pin may cause
the loss of a limb or even death
when blood poisoning results
from the injury. All danger of
this may be avoided, however, by
promptly applyingChamberlain’s
Lain Balm. It is an antiseptic
and quick healing liniment for
cute, bruises and burns. For
sale by Lewis Drug Co.
Leo’s Satire.
The bishop of Gibraltar, whose
death is just announced, was once
the victim of the late pope’s gentle
but peculiarly penetrating gift of
sarcasm. He was admitted to an
audience at the Vatican and, accord¬
ing to those present, seemed rather
disposed to stand on his dignity.
But Leo XIII. effectively nonplused
him with the subtle opening, “I be¬
lieve, my lord, that I have the honor
to live in your lordship’s diocese.”
—London Chronicle.
Pictorial Footwear.
Hand painted stockings are the
latest fashionable craze. No other
stockings dress, are possible for evening
and half the best dressed wo¬
men in London have already laid in
a stock of both hand painted stock¬
ings and shoes.—London Onlooker.
Citation.
Georgia— Mitchell County.
Margaret Harrell having made
application for twelve months
support out of tne estate of W.
A. Harrell and appraisers duly
appointed to set apart the same
having.filed their return. All
persons concerned are hereby
inquired to show cause before
tne court of Ordinary of said
county on the first Monday in
March 1904, why said application
should not be granted.
This Feb. 6th, 1904,
J. 3. Wood, Ord.
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PETITION.
A petition for an election to bo
held in Mitehell county, (Ja., for
the sale.of Alcoholic, Spirituous,
Malt, or intoxicating liquors, un¬
der Section 1541, of the Code of
Ga., having been, filed in my of¬
fice in accordance with law to be
determined by the voters of said
county as to whether or not said
liquors shall be sold.
It is therefore ordered that an
election for said purpose, to be
held on the 27th day of February
1904, at all of the election pre¬
cincts of said county under the
same regulations as are prescrib¬
ed by law for holding elections
for members of che General As¬
sembly. All persons qualified to
vote for the General Assembly
are qualified to vote in this elec¬
tion. All persons who ar©
against the sale of intoxicating
liquors as are mentioned in Sec¬
tion 1548 ef the Code, shall have
written or printed on their tickets
Against the Sale; and those who
favor the sale of the articles men¬
tioned in said Section 1548, shall
have written or printed on their
ballots, For the Sale.
Given under my hand officially
this the 25th day of January, 1904.
J. G. Wood, Ordinary.