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.
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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
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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.
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