Newspaper Page Text
that th* quality of the stamped envel
opes and newspaper wrappers fur
nished by the Hartford Manufactur
ing Company is far below the speci
fications. The Government loss on
this is $125,000, and the Postmaster-
General has held up payments pend
ing investigation by Ibe Department
of Justice.
Cotton Men in Convention.
The International Conference of
Cotton Growers and Manufacturers
was opened at Atlanta with 500 del
egates present, including cotton men
from Great Britain, Germany, Bel
gium. France and Spain.
C. W. Macara, President of the
English Master Cotton Spinners*
Federation, said that if American
cotton planters attempt to hold for
extreme prices the efforts made to
develop cotton gorwing in the colo
nies and dependencies of European
nations will be greatly stimulated.
Government crop reports will be
debated.
Full Dinner Pail is Up $1 a Week.
Twenty West Springfield, Mass.,
boarding-house mistresses met at
the home of Mrs. Charles Clark, Jr.,
and voted to form a Boarding-house
Union. A score of boarding-house
proprietors who were unable to be
present sent word that they would
stand by any action taken by the
meeting.
The union decided to raise the
price of board from $5 to $6 a week
and to put the new rate into effect
at once.
One of the chief causes of dissatis
faction was the full dinner pail. It
was asserted that railroad men who
carried their dinners provided them
selves with with pails as large as
wash-boilers and expect the boarding
house mistresses to fill them with
‘ 1 lunch.’’ It was explained that the
medium sized pails held two quarts
of coffee, eight or nine sandwiches,
half a pound of cheese and six dough
nuts, and that failure to include two
pieces of pie was considered justifi
cation for prolonged grumbling. One
of the women declared that the late
Mark Hanna was to blame for prom
ising the men “a full dinner pail.”
A long-faced landlady of Republi
can tendencies, said Senator Hanna
merely meant enough to eat and not
a wheelbarrow load.
One* boarding-house mistress sug
gested' that a special rate should be
made for school teachers.
“ k school teacher’s appetie is as
good as anyone’s else and they are
more bother than two men,” was the
prompt reply of a maiden woman.
It was voted unanimously not to
make an exception in favor of school
teachers.
As practically all the boarding
housees in West Springfield are in
cluded in the movement, the boarders
have the alternative of paying $1 a
week more or of moving our of town.
Dr. Rowland and Wife Acquitted. •
In the case of Dr. and Mrs. Row
land, who were charged with poison
ing Charles R. Strange, Mrs. Row
land ’s first husband, the jurors re
turned a verdict of acquittal.
When the verdict was announced
Dr. Rowland’s friends begun a dem
onstration. Mrs. Rowland and her
sister embraced each other and wept,
as did also Dr. Rowland and two of
his lawyers.
WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN.
Jiidge Long indignantly arose and
quelled the cheering, saying a court
room was no theatre and said that if
he knew the offenders every due
should pay SIOO.
Dr. and Mrs. Rowland took a car
riage and drove Sb a boarding buose,
where Dr. Rowland used to live. A
little party of their friends hurried
to a florist and got a great quantity
of flowers, which they carried to Dr.
Rowland’s office. He and his wife
soon went to the latter place. They
there held a sort of reception and
were loaded with flowers. They left
two hours later with their relatives
for Henderson, where they will spend
a day or so and then go North.
John Mitchell Improved.
John Mitchell, President of the
United Mine Workers of America,
was so much improved in health that
he was able to’ go to his office at
National headquarters in Indianapo
lis for a short time. Friends of Mr.
Mitchell believe he is on the road to
complete recovery.
Tobacco Trust Says It’s a Good,
Kind Concern.
“What!” exclaims the American
Tobacco Company, in effect, replying
to Attorney-General Bonaparte’s
Anti-Trust Law suit; “do you call
us a trust, a conspiracy in restraint
of trade? Mr. Bonaparte, you’re
misguided.”
The Attorney-General, last July,
had a bill filed in the United States
Court in New York, alleging that
the American Tobacco Company and
its allied and subsidiary corporations
and firms were in fact an octopus
and asking for a receivership for the
Trust and of its co-defendants, in
cluding Thomas F. Ryan, James B.
Duke, Oliver H. Payne, Anthony N.
Brady, directors, is a curiosity of
the literature of the law.
The keynote of the defense is that
while the Trust has combined
many companies and interests into
one, it has no power to control the
industry in which it is engaged, nor
would it if it could. The author of
this unusual document is said to be
Junius Parker, solicitor for the com
pany. Attorneys who examined nis
plea hastily last night said that Mr.
Parker seemed to have blazed a new
way in practice before the Federal
Courts in Sherman law cases, and tnat
his method was worthy of the most
caretui study.
It is understood that James B.
Duke, the controlling genius in the
Trust, instructed his counsel that he
desired no mere technicalities to be
interposed to delay a speedy trial of
the issue, whether or not the Ameri
can Tobacco Company is an unlawful
monopoly. It is not hard to imagine
Mr. Duke himself inspiring the
phrases in which the central ideas of
the defense are set out, so different
are they from the lawyer’s profes
sional manner.
The answer, in a dozen places, de
clares that so long as brands re
main in existence, competition can
not be destroyed, because competi
tion in every branch of the tobacco
trade is a struggle between brands,
and not between factories and the ri
val concerns owning them.
“Brands,” says the answer, “have
their strength in the fact that tobac
co is a luxury. The consumer de
sires only that his taste shall be sat
isfied. The creation of a profitable
tobacco business depends in the first
place on hitting, by luck or skill, up
on a process of manufacture, packing
and labeling that will please a great
number of consumers; in the second
place bringing this product favora
bly to the attention of a great many
consumers, and in the third place,
maintaining the quality and charac
teristics of the product.
“The American Tobacco Company
has achieved the degree of success
alleged in the petition, because it
has met these requirements.”
A larg part of the brief is devoted
to an expansion of this idea. Some
brands are good sellers, it is profit
able to buy them, in most cases the
sales if the brands so bought have
largely increased. These brands are
always in competition with other
brands that may bid in open market
for the tastes of consumers.
Clubbing Offer
DIXIELAND,
The Illustrated Home Magazine of the South, and
WATSON’S JEFFERSONIAN MAGAZINE
Both at $1.75. No commissions to agents on this offer.
DIXIELAND MAGAZINE and WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSO
NIAN. Both at $1.25. No Commissions.
DIXIELAND MAGAZINE, WATSON’S Monthly, and WATSON’S
Weekly, all three for $2.15. No Commissions.
Farmers’ Catechism
I
Millions of farmers need a mental treat—an eye-opener—an intel
lectual cocktail. That’s what the Farmers’ Catechism is. It’g~ a Gat
ling gun cut loose on gamblers in farm products and other pirates
It’s Farmers’ Union thunder—a mail course of instructions to farmers
—worth S2O, but U can get it for a dime. Gamblers in life’s necessities
exposed. How farmers have been deceived, plundered & robbed. How
the Union will prevent the robbery. It will fire the brain and stir
the heart of every Intelligent farmer. Great help to organizers &
workers. Hundreds of knotty questions made plain. Besides three of
the grandest speeches ever made to American farmers, viz., National
Lecturer, Judge Fisk, to farmers of Kansas, July 4th. Hon.’ Thos. E.
Watson, to Georgia farmers, and the eloquent Mr. Windle of
Editor of Brann’s Iconoclast, to farmers State Union. Every farmer
should have these three great speeches.
Some farmers are dead —intellectually. Some too mean to die. But
the majority are not. The majority are in for a square deal. They
ask no favors—only fairness. To them the CATECHISM will be
hailed as a great brain preparation. Send for it. This is not a stand
ing ad. Ads cost money. Every reader of WATSON, sending a sil
ver dime, £ address, plainly written, of 20 intelligent farmers not
readers of the JEFFERSONIAN, win get the CATECHISM, postpaid.
Are U willing to help spread the light?
A MIGHTY CONFLICT IS NOW RAGING. Don’t be asleep or in
different. Send now, but not names of lunk-heads.
Wouldn’t you Hie to see WATSON’S publications have ten times
the circulation they now have? Then, lift a hand.
FARMERS’ CATECHISM
Wichita, Kans.
w
The $2.00 Offer
was never Intended as an agent proposition on which commissions could
be charged. The purpose of the offer was to encourage the voluntary
subscriber to subscribe to both Jeffersonians at the same time.
♦ From this date the $2.00 price for both Jeffersonians will be for
the voluntary subscriber. In other words it is a net price. No com
missions at all can be paid on that price for both Jeffersonians.
October 9,1907.
Declare President Would Be Beata.
Among Milwaukeeans it is general
ly believed that if President Roose
velt makes another run for the Pres
idency it will be next year.
William George Bruce, secretary
of the Merchants and Manufacturers’
Association, said: 1 ‘Roosevelt can
not run again. It would really be a
third term for him to try again for
election. You cannot consider it anv
other way. In case Roosevelt should
attempt to be a candidate again, I be
lieve that he would be rejected in
the Convention, and he certainly
would be rejected at the polls. There
is, in my mind, no danger of his
trying to be p candidate again in
1912, after one full term has been
served by some one else, whether it
be Secretary Taft er another man.
By that time his etar will have
waned.”
PAGE FIVE