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PROSPEROUS TIMES—FOR WHOM? KNOX AND THE TRUSTS I UNCLE MAHCUS IN TROUBLE lie Has a Hurd Time Htimilns Awny Eczema, Psoriasis, Salt Rheum, Tetter and Acne 1- rom <• rcutvr Honors. --------- I has beeu a long, loug time since The Attorney General Must Act the It American people have gazed upon a more pathetic uational figure than Belong to that cl.o- ■ of inflammatory and disfiguring skin eruptions that or Get Out of the Office. Uncle Marcus Aurelius Hanna of Ohio, cause nn i ■ genuine lx»dily discomfort and worry than all other known WILL FORCE THE ISSUE Democracy Will Make Repub licans Face the Music. ATTEMPT TO DIVERT THE PUBLIO The G. O. I*. In n M om , Wants to Make It Appear That Honest Criti- ci Mill of Its Course I m nn Attack tpon the Army—Next House Mast i Be Deniocrutic. The Republicans are in a mess. They are unable to agree among themselves on the most important legislation. The »exposure of the looting of the Cuban I treasury to aid the sugar trust, the bribing of Gomez and tlie cruelties in the Philippines have put them ou the defensive. With admirable audaciousness they attempt to divert public opinion from their own sins of omission and corn- mission by charging the Democrats ■with attacking the army. The presi dent sets the pace by making a stump speech at Arlington, and the great trust controlled daily newspapers take up the refrain. The little organs edited by the postmasters give tongue in uni son. This effort to put the Democrats in the attitude of assailing tlie army will prove abortive. The common soldier is all right and most of the officers from General Miles down. They obey orders; that is the duty of the soldier. The Democrats do protest and will forever protest against the issuing and carrying out of orders to make “a howling wilderness” of any territory under the American flag. They protest that to “kill all over ten,” to kill prisoners, to torture by water cure or other Spanish method, is not war. It is vandalism. It is not American; it is barbafous. If not or dered by the highest authority, it would never have been perpetrated by Ameri can soldiers except perhaps in isolated cases. The Democrats believe In keeping the military authority sutwirdinate to the civil power. No republic can exist that does not do so. The Democrats Intend to Investigate these cruelties when they have tlie power and punish the guilty, however high in command. They will investigate the expense ac counts both at home, in the Philippines and in Cuba. The transport service and the purchase of supplies will be investigated. They will find out who received the large sums that have been raised by extreme taxation and if the money was squandered on high living in Cuba and elsewhere; who was “fixed” to stay out of politics and who was aided to stay in; what s«*et Intrigue set free the Hanna ¡^ts, Rathbone and Neely; why Buen Cami no was ordered by the administration to come to this country to testify when the request of the Democrats for other witnesses was refused. A page might •tie filled with other details that will be ’investigated, and from the amount of evidence that has been forced to the surface there is a vast amount behind. To do tills the Democrats must elect a majority of the next house of repre sentatives, and this they will do if the people agree with them that the cur tain should be raised and the truth Jcnown. No wonder the Republicans are on the defensive and are endeavoring to «witch the thoughts of the people from their misdoings by claiming that the army is being attacked. They know, ■however, that the orders issued to the army are the main point, and the officers of the army for their owu honor and reputation and the honor of the United States will welcome the change. Small, bnt Strvwwoaa. President Roosevelt has certified in bis late speech to the Harvard grad uates that Senator Lodge is his highest ideal of what a Republican should be. There is no doubt that the president is right from his own standpoint, for Lodge is known in Massachusetts as the machine politician, the boss of the Republican party of that conuuon- wealth, as Quay is in Pennsylvania «nd Hanna is of the Republican party «t large. His personal friendship for Lodge -has warped the judgment of the presl dent. The Massachusetts senator is ■quite an ordinary individual, with the assurance and egotism that often go with it. Ixxige,. If sold at bls own price, would be expensive, but If .. got TELLTALE FIGURES. j They Show How the Kepablicnn Par- H um Broken Its Pledtfe«. While the expert mechanical trades and other bodies of workers closely united in unions have advanced their wage scales materially above the panic level of 1893, a compilation of the cen sus figures reveals an extraordinary fact in regard to the manufacturing In dustries of the country, taken as a whole. It was brought to light in a speech in the house of representatives by Mr. Miers of Indiana. The census figures for manufactur ing have been completed for thirty- three states and territories. They show that the average wages for all labor ers in the manufacturing industries were 8 per cent lower in 1900 than in 1890. In those thirty-three states and territories 1.00-4,590 wage earners re ceived an average of $118.48 each a year, or $1.39 a day, in 1890. In the same states and territories in 1900 1.463,365 wage earners received an av erage of $387.53 each a year, or $1.29 a day. In some of the greatest manu facturing states where the trusts are most powerful the decline in wages has been greater. New Jersey's indus tries paid an average wage of $2.24 a day in 1890 and only $1.52 a day in 1900, the decline being 32 per cent. On the other hand, the compilation of prices in Dun’s review for last Jan uary showed that the cost of living now is nearly 7 per cent higher than in 1900 and more than 11 per cent high er than in 1890. The compilation in cludes food of all kinds, clothing, met als, etc. Tlie average factory worker, there fore, is receiving 8 per cent less wages than in 1890 and is spending from 4 to 11 per cent more for cost of living. The figures are a practical test of the operation of the trusts. In the last two presidential campaigns the apolo gists for the trusts claimed that they would increase wages and lower the price of their products. The census figures show that they have lowered wages and have increased the price of their products. In the next presidential campaign the complete census figures for all the states and territories will provide ar guments which the party responsible for the trusts will have difficulty In an swering to the satisfaction of the fac tory workers.—Rocky Mountain News. And That la Statesmanship. Secretary of the Navy Moody and Congressman Boutell, speaking at the banquet given by the Republican club at Detroit, glorified the deeds of their party, especially the large surplus In the treasury and that the public debt was less now than in 1898. One would think, to h<*ar these ardent Republic ans talk, that they alone paid all the taxes. It is well to remember that ev ery dollar that goes into the United States treasury Is wrung from the pen pie through the tariff or internal rev enue taxes. If the collection of the most taxes is the great credit mark of statesmanship, then the Republicans have achieve*! it. The good old Demo cratic plan of the least taxes possible with due regard to the efficient ad ministration of the government I his been superseded by the collection of vast sums not required by the govern merit, which can be stored up in the treasury vaults or loaned to favored banks, for which not a cent of interest has been or is being paid unless it be the donation by the bankers to the Hanna campaign fund of 1896. 1898, 1900 and probably another liberal ad vance to the same corruption fund this year. Taxpayer« Foot the Bill«. The fondness for military display of our strenuous administration will cost the taxpayers of the nation a pretty penny. Not only are great military maneuvers to be inaugurated which will cost a large sum for transporta tion and thus l>e a bonanza for the favored railroads, but a barrel of mon ey is to be spent fitting out all the available shii»e, which, the navy de partment says, “will participate In the most extensive fleet maneuvers ever attempted by the nary In the West Indies.” His Sight Threatened. “While picnicking last month my 11-year-old boy was poisoned by some weed or plant.’’ says W. H. Dibble, of Sioux City, la. “He rubbed the poison off his hands into his eyes and fora while we were afraid he would lose bis sight. Finally a neighbor recom mended DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. The first application helped him and In a few days he was as well as ever." rid of nt his actual value It would not] For skin diseases, cuts, burns, scalds, ruin a poor man to buy him. There wounds, insect bites DeWittWitch *>re lots of small hut strenuous states 1 Hazel Salve is a sure cure. Relieves inen at the helm these days. P||es al 0Dce- Beware of counterfeits. says the Atlanta Constitution, lie is diseases. T’:c impurities or sediments which collect in the system because SO SAYS THE ANTITRUST LEAGUE being forced by a concatenation of clr- of poor di,.', tion, inactive Kidneys and other organs of elimination are , cuuistances that he vainly struggles to taken up by the blood, saturating the system with acid ]M»isotis and fluids | control into a position that ¡mlns him, that ooze out through tlie glands and pores of tlie skin, producing an inde* Au Open Leiter to l*re.l(lent Roose I evidently, from the back of his neck “ I oan cheerfully «ndor«« your B. B. B. velt That 1« Couelied In the 1'lalu- I to tbo horny place on his heel. Accord scribable itching mid Miming, and the yellow, water} discharge forms •• a our« for Kuaema. I was troubled e«t o< Anvlo-Mnxou IVurde-A l)v- ing to his despairing testimony, he is with It for ‘JS years and tried many into crusts and sores or little brown retuodiee witli no good effects, but after fender of Trust« lustend of Cham having all sorts of trouble in fighting and white scabs tli.’l dropoff, leaving using a few bottles of 8. 8. S. was entire dowu the popular notion that he is or pion of the Law, Wm. Campbell, the skin tender ami raw. The effect ly relieved. ought to be a candidate for the presl- ata W. Central Bt., Wlohlta, Kan. of the poison may cause the skin to Au open letter was mailed on July I deney of these United States. crack and bleed, or give it a scaly, fishy appearance; again the eruptions may 16 to President Roosevelt by the ex We think it is one of tho saddest ecutive committee of the Antitrust things ou record that the ¡»eople will consist of innunivi .ible blackheads and pimples or hard, red bumps upon League of America. The letter is not believe that Undo Marcus is in the lace Purification of the blood is the only remedy for these vicious skin diseases Washes amt powders can only hide for a time the glaring couched iu the pluinest of Anglo-Saxon , politics from the subllmest of uuself- blemishes. S. S. S. eradicates all poisonous accumu Itsb motives. They do not seem to catch words. lations, antidotes the Uric and other acids, and The committee relate in detail the otf completely to the fact that he left restores the blood to its wonted purity, and stimulates treatment they received from the at I the delights of private citizenship only and revitalizes the sluggish organs, and the impuri because lie saw tho country drifting ties pass off through the natural channels and torney geueral when they visited him, to the demnition bowwows. It was a by instruction of the president, to lay pure piece of ¡latrlotlsm on Ills ¡»art relieve the skin. S. S. S. is the only guaranteed purely vegetable blood before him their case agaiust the East when he caught it by the tail and purifier. 4t contains no Arsenic, Potash or other harmful mineral. • •Write us about your case and our physicians will advise without charge. ern Railroad association. The officials yanked it back from perdition and of the league assume that the president planted it safely ou tlie rock of pros We have a handsomely illustrated book on skin diseases, which will be sent free to all who wish it. THK SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. Atlanta, Ge, is uot Informed of the summary man perity. Incidentally It was necessary for ner in which they assert the matter laid before tlie attorney general was him to have a president to do the offi cial chores of the salvation sc lie me, dismissed. and yet more incidentally it became a Referring to the president's speech matter of precaution to get John Sher at Pittsburg and his discussion of the man out of the United States senate subject of trusts, the committee say: and get himself in, just to see that “We presented to you, Mr. President, none of tlie Democratic scabs in that in person u cord of incriminating evi power house monkeyed with the dyna (Founded IHOB.) dence agaiust the Eastern Railroad as mo or crossed tlie feed wires. And all sociation at the White House, in Wash went well until anarchy stepped in ington, Dec. 21, 1901, which you per and changed the whole face of affairs. Since the Roosevelt accession tho sonally assured us would be by you called to."the attention of the attorney position of Uncle Murcus has been one MUSIC, ART AND ELOCUTION. of uncertainty. It is true that be has general. Ou your recommendation This Frhool offer« to girl« a broad «rd thorough education, comblntd with the «dvantasn« professed the largest loyalty to the communicated to us April 5, 1902, of a healthful anil refined borne. It occiiplr« a l»rgo ai d attractive building In the Immedlit« through your secretary we, on May 21, president, but somehow the presiden vicinity of the City Park Tbe sanitary condition of the premise, has been made a mtlter of special attention. The bed chambers, class and recitation rooms are largo and tnorouchlv tial coterie lias not accepted the ten calk'd at the office of the attorney gen ventilated; aud the construction of the building Is such that etory room 1« open to tbe sunlight ders at par. There la n large, rank The greatest care ba. bean taken to provide all the necessary appointments of a well eral and found him absent At the suspicion in administration circles that equipped school, and to furnish every fnclllty for training pupils In the most approved method. White House au hour later we were The alm of the school Is to give thorough uud well-otuered Instruction to girls and young women, fitting them for oollege when that Is desired, end to aid In the development of true Informed by the secretary of Mr. Knox "the old man” Is playing Foxy Grand and womanly character. pa iu the political game, and the way that the attorney general had Btated Fall term opens September 1«, 1801. A faculty of twenty competent teachers Ins urea in which he holds on to the loyal re tor The children and young women that Individual care and Instruction necessary to the beat that be ‘would not take up the case,' gard of the moueyed magnates of the even though we had informed him There are four skilled teachers In the Music Department alone, specialists In Art and party and keeps In touch with the Oartory. and native teachers In French and Herman, that we presented the matter to him southern delegate makers and takes Provision Is made for all athletic games suitable to women, as tennis, croquet, basket bell by your direction. bloyellng horseback riding A gymnasium, hOxlUU feet, Is In process of construction to himself the indorsement of tho Ohio which will and offer still more opport unit I a for healthful exercise “This was an open defiance of your For illustrated catalogue apply to Republican machine that he might orders by a subordinate official, the \_ MISS ELEANOR TEBHFTT8. Principal; toleration of which by you we do not have turned to Roosevelt if lie had chosen to do so ace symptoms that understand, for on May 27 we bad written you fully as to the facts In the the White House party views with case, and when unable to see you de alarm! Still Uncle Marcus protests that he livered the letter with our own bands to your messenger at the White Is not an aspirant for the presidential nomination of his party. And why House. “Such action on your part forces us should he not be believed? The ad to the conclusion that some of your ministration ought to help him estab subordinates and advisers are keeping lish the fact, especially If it wants a back from you full knowledge of the chance to get the nomination again Buy a Buttle of most reprehensible action and inac and try for a re-election, because if Uncle Mark Is forced to be the candi tion of Attorney General Knox, which has become so culpable and notorious date In 1904 the licking the Republican that an eminent jurist and member of party will get from the people will be congress (Mr. Wooten of Texas) delib a-plenty for a loug period In the fu erately and after full investigation of ture. Rub In well and all the facts in the case openly in the The Coal Trait and the Pwhllc. house of representatives charged the The coal trust oi»erators are ¡»erslst- attorney general with ‘corrupt com ent in their position that they own the plaisance toward the known violators coal mines and can do as they ¡»lease of the law.’ ” IT HAS CURED OTHERS, IT WILL CURE YOU. with their own—work them or remain The text of Mr. Wooten‘s speech is idle. This argument fits closely that of quoted. Attention is called to the ab the railroad magnate who said, “The Sutton's Snap Sb »t, the wonderful destroyer of all form, of Inflimmsttonln manor beast sence of all denial of bis statements public be d---- d.” But the coal oper SOcauljil per bottle. R K. SUTTON, sole proprietor and manufacturenAshland, Oregon by any official until the Fourth of July ators must remeint»er that while us For ala at Olty Drug Store. Jaossoovllle. and by Or J Hinkle.CentraPolnt. speech of the president. Of this the corporations they have no soul they letter says: also have no endless life, but are sub "We have a right to insist that a ject to the law of forfeiture of their bare denial, even by the president of the United States, of these well proved franchisee, which would at ouce end their existence. charges is no sufficient defense for Mr. This position is well maintained by Knox.” the New York World when it says; It is alleged that the evidence in the “The coal mines of this country are Who contemplate buying anything in the Harness or case submitted to the attorney general Saddlery Line will get better prices and lietter work, bv was filed with the president. The not the coal operators' ‘own property’ in an unqualified sense. They only statement is made that if the president hold and work them under public fran examining Our Stock and getting our figures. has knowledge of the facts and evi Hand-made Harness our specialty. Machine-made chises, charters and other grants of dence and still continues to uphold the Harness carried in stock. We can furnish you with either. attorney general, then, referring to the public privilege, all of them condi president, “your conduct Is equally rep tioned and all of them revocable. The rehensible with his and will be even first condition is that they work the mines and supply the public with coal. more severely condemned by the peo They are not doing it. They say they ple of the United States.” cannot because the men on strike will Continuing, this open letter says: not let them, and they cannot or are “An honest enforcement of the law is not prepared to put other men at work now prevented by the collusion exist ing between the attorney general and In their places. If that is all true, then the criminal trusts. If Mr. Knox is there is something to arbitrate. If it permitted longer to prostitute the de Is not true, then they should mine coal tnd are violating their franchises every partment of justice to such base uses, day they keep their plants idle.” the people will bold you responsible, for it is within your power, Mr. Presi Dl«cû*vraglng Te«tlmo>r. dent, to retire him to merited disgrace and fill his place with au attorney gen eral who will enforce the laws equally against the rich and the poor with out fear, favor or hope of reward." PRACTICAL OPTICIAN. The letter states that the suit against the beef trust was a vote getting affair, AT MEDFORD. and that the “brazen assurance” of the anthracite coal trust only “deei»ens Will be I d Jacksonville on the Fourth of July at the U. S. Hotel the feeling of the people that the trusts Satisfaction Is Guaranted to all patrons or money have a friend at court in the person refunded. Examination Free. of the attorney general” The open letter concludes: "Your assumption, Mr. President, that the cure for the oppressions and robberies of the trusts is to come from some future congress enacting a new antitrust law does not come with good grace from the chief executive officer of the government, whose main . ...OfTer«» You.... duty Is to execute the laws now on the statute books. Through trains dally from Chicago 1 FTA 0171717 * I O "But three courses are open to you Through trains dally from St. Louie 1 V DU I" * ALU —either you must compel your attor Through train dally from Kansas City ) Aad rotate a«y«ad. ney general to act, you must remove him from office and appoint one who will, or you must stand convicted as Indorsing his corrupt complaisance toward known violations of the law. Reclining chair cars (free), Pullman Palace Slee|)cra, Din "The menace to the people’s rights and to the safety of the republic from ing and Cafe Cars on all trains, Polite trainmen. Perfect the gigantic and lawless power of the roadbed. Shortest line and quickest time. Tourist cars trusts fully warrants us in using plain Mondays and Thursdays, 29>/3 hours Chicago to Boston. Give 1« a Show at Home. language In this letter, and we feel A report from London says Whitelaw that we are entitled to plain and field, our special emlmssador, Is bit C. S. CRANE, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis, Mo. prompt action on your part.” terly disappointed at the ¡»ostponemeut ROSS C. CLINE, P. C. P. A., Los Angeles. of the coronation If Held will come Aaother Bnomersx. home and appear on Broadway or The attempt of the junior senator from Indiana to besmirch the charac Fifth avenue in the regalia he hart pre ter of General Mlles has, like most of pared for the London ceremonies, ba the ¡»olltlcal moves of this exuberant will attract all the attention he desires young man, proved a boomerang to and will discount Barnum's circus aa a crowd drawer. his own party. . . Saint Helen’s Hall.... 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