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Attorney Burnett in New York, and
promising prompt action.
Mr. Hearst’s chief counsel spent
the next five days laying detailed
evidence before General Burnett, who
reported thereon to Attorney-General
Knox that the charges were sustained,
and recommended that prosecution be
begun. General Burnett’s report
was suppressed by the Attorney-Gen
eral, and no action was taken.
After waiting until it appeared
certain that the Attorney-General in
tended to do nothing, Mr. Hearst
transferred the campaign to the In
terstate Commerce Commission, be
fore which he filed a complaint em
bodying the same charges.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
s’cn began on April 21,1903, a hearing
on Mr. Heartst’s charges, and Baer,
Thomas, Truesdale and all other
heads of railroads involved in the
Coal Trust were put upon the stand
and examined for weeks, with the
result that the disclosures attracted
universal attention.
It was proved that the average
cost of transporting coal to tidewa
ter was eighty cenjp a ton, whereas
the freight rate charged by the rail
roads was one dollar and fifty-five
cents a ton on domestic sizes.
It was also proved that the in
creased cost of mining caused by the
strike was only fifty-three cents a
ton, whereas the increase in the sell
ing price of domestic sizes was one
dollar and nineteen cents a ton.
In other words, taking one of the
railroads as an example, it was shown
that as a result of the strike this
road was one million two hundred
thousand dollars better off in 1903
that it had been in 1900.
Discriminations against shippers
running as high as fifty cents a ton
were proved, and minutes of secret
meetings of the trust agents were put
in evidenc, whrein the agents were
known by numbers, and dealers that
cut trust prices were blacklisted.
In this investigation the trust re
fused to produce “coal purchase”
contracts and their contracts with the
“Temple Iron Company,” because
these contracts incriminated them.
The “coal purchase” contracts
proved illegal discriminations and the
“Temple Iron Company” contracts
proved criminal combination under
the Anti-Trust law.
On this Mr. Hearst’s counsel car
ried the matter to the Supreme
Court of the United States, which, on
April 4, 1904, decided in Mr. Hearst’s
favor and compelled Baer to produce
the contracts in question.
The case now went back to the In
terstate Commerce Commission,
which resumed its hearings, and the
contracts were put in evidence, sus
taining all of Mr. Hearst’s conten
tions. As a result of this hearing the
Interstate Commerce Commission
turned over all its evidence to the
Department of Justice of the Nation
al Government, which has now in con
sequence undertaken to prosecute
the trust.
While the case was being fought in
the Supreme Court the matter had at"
traded so much attention that in
March, 1904, a resolution was intro
duced in Congress calling upon Knox
to explain why he had not proceeded
against the trust. This question the
Attorney-General dodged. While the
resolution was before the Judiciary
Committee Mr. Hearst spoke for two
days, explaining in detail the case
that he had prepared against the
trust.
As a result of the facts learned in
this fight and the experience it in
volved, Mr. Hearst drafted and intro
duced his bill increasing the powers
of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion, which was later taken up by the
President and made the basis of the
national legislation of last winter
and of more stringent laws for public
service corporations that have since
been adopted in most of the States.
Notice of Advance of $lO a Share in Price of
the Empire Machine Company’s Stock.
On or before June <SO, 1907, the price of this stock will be ad
vanced to $35.00 a share. Only a limited number of shares remain
to be sold at $25.00; at the present rate of sale these may be dis
posed of at any time before June 30th, in which case, the advance
will go into effect immediately. The rapidly-growing demand for
our Machines fully warrants this increase.
Among the Machines manufactured by tins Company is the
Empire Hydijaulic Concrete Block Machine, which is undoubtedly
the fastest Concrete Machine on the market. It is made of inde
structible wrought steel, and with one man behind it has a pressure
of three tons. They are no cores, and thus any design or shape
may be made at the operator’s will; this machine turns out four
blocks at one operation, and has a capacity of 2,400 a day.
The Empire, No. 1, a machine for making two blocks at one
operation. This machine is no\v in use in the largest concrete plants
in the country.
The Empire, No. 2, a small machine for the contractor or home
builder.
The Empire, No. 3, a machine for the large contractor, or block
manufacturer, that desires a machine for rapid work.
The Empire, No. 4. This machine manufactures every size
block used in ordinary building construction; a total of about 40
different sizes. A gable wall can be built with it.
The Empire, No. 5; a face down machine, supitable for use in
small plants, and when stone are made at the site of the building.
Makes a total of 17 different size concrete blocks.
CEMENT BRICK MACHINES.
We are manufacturing several different style brick machines.
On our Hydraulic Cement Brick Machine, 24 brick can be made at
one operation. This machine has a capacity of 2,000 brick an
hour.
Cement Brick Machine, “B. ” This machine is operated by
hand, and has a capacity of 0,000 to 8,000 a day.
Do you intend to build a home? If so, stop, think, and ask
yourself this question: Shall I build myself a house of timber,
clay brick, which will be worthless in 40 or 50 years, or shall I
build it of concrete blocks or cement brick, which will be a credit
to me and a proof of my good judgment for hundreds of years
to come?
We undoubtedly have the best Concrete Machines on the market.
. They are fully protected by United States and Foreign Patents, and
we have the whole world as a territory. There is over 300 per
cent profit in their manufacture, consequently, we should be able
to pay the enormous dividends of 50 per cent or more per annum
on investment, and feel perfectly safe in saying that every $25.00
invested in this business now will be worth that many hundred
within a year or two.
LIBERAL PAYMENT PLAN.
$5.00 down and $5.00 per month for 9 months buys 2 shares.
$15.00 down and SIO.OO per month for 11 months buys 5 shares.
$25.00 down and $25.00 per month for 9 months buys 10 shares.
$50.00 down and $50.00 per month for 9 months buys 20 shares.
$150.00 down and SIOO.OO per month for 11 months buys 50
shares.
Not more than 50 shares to any one person. Cash plan, 5
per cent less for cash.
All share-holders have equal voting power, regardless of the
number of shares held.
The time is short; send in your application at once; if after a
thorough investigation you are dissatisfied we will refund your
money. . •
THE EMPIRE MACHINE CO.
Nashville, Tenn.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
In a signed editorial in the New
York American April 23, 1903, it was
declared that the purpose of the pros'
ecution was to smash the criminal
Coal Trust, and that the end of this
oppressive combination would begin
the end of other similar combina
tions.
The decision of the Government to
proceed upon the lines of this long
fight is the promise that the predic
tions made in that editorial will be
fulfilled. —Theh American, New York.
A STORY WITH A MORAL.
A man who was too economical
to subscribe for his home paper sent
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en by his neighbor. In his haste the
boy ran over a four dollar stand of
bees, and in ten minutes looked like a
warty summer squash. His cries
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assistance, and, failing to notice a
barbed wire fence, ran into it, break
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flesh from his anatomy and ruining a
pair of five dollar pants. The old cow
took advantage of the gap in the
fence and got into the corn field and
killed herself eating green corn.
Hearing the racket, the wife ran, up
set a four gallon churn of rich cream
into a basket of kittens, drowning
the whole flock. In her hurry she
dropped a twenty-five dollar set of
false teeth. The baby, left alone,
crawled through the spilled cream
and into the parlor, ruining a twenty
dollar carpet. During the excitement
the oldest daughter ran away with
the hired man, the dog broke up elev
en setting hens, and the calves got
out and chewed the tails off four
fine shirts.—Kansas City Journal.
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