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wmmmmmsmmmmmm r THEY DID HIM They played him for a, chump. They legally hornswaggled him. They pulled the wool over his eyes and tweaked his nose. They bought the ground from under his feet. They gave him the tarred end of the stick. They made a monkey of him. That's what 'those steel trust, tariff fostered infants did to Uncle Sam, quietly and a plenty, as ip now shpwn In the government's suit against the ' "United States Steel Corporation. And they've got high-class evidence to prove that they did it perfectly le gitimately. When, in the early nineties, those steel sharps wanted to form a pool to fix prices, regulate output and di vide profits that is, to commit rob "bery in a gentlemanly fashion they consulted an eminent lawyer as to how far they could go and avoid jail. They were afraid of the Sherman anti-trust legislation, particularly. So they consulted United States Sen ator Geo. F, Hoar of Massachusetts. In the Senate Hoar had helped John Sherman frame and pass that anti trust law and he was attorney for one of the steel concerns over at Worcester, Mass. They took their thieves' plans to the right man. Hoar gave them a written opinion to the effect that they could not be convicted under that law. Thereupon, with their le gal and moral bill of health, from nice old Mr. Hoar, from whose un timely passing to a fairer and better world Massachusetts has hardly yet fully recovered, they formed their pool under .which they haye "been skinning the' people for nearly 20 years. The frankness and complais ance pf Messrs, Gary, Corey and oth ers upon the witness stand are ex- plained. They had in their posses sion the indorsement of their purity by the man who largely ma,de the law. Uncle Sam had just what w started out by saying they gate hint John Sherman died 7ttU paTesiai and other ailments not very long after that anti-trust law was en-i acted. His fellow creator of thatl law, Hoar, lived long enough to in spire the schemers whom it was in tended to reach, with confidence that it was worthless. There was a love ly pair of patriotic twins for us com mon, plucked folks to honor, revere and lament, wasn't there? 0 0 A STORY 'BOUT TEA. "Ah me!" once cried an old Nor man peasant, "my coffee after the sweet Jesus is my salvation!" Tea plays the same part in England. I believe it was Max O'ReU who wrote 'It is when John Bull drinks his tea very hot in tiny pips, nibbling a bit of bread and butter that he is really beautiful and edifying." Tea was drunk In China away back in 61, but it was not until 1600 that -the English first began to use it and then the price ranged from thirty to fifty dollars a pound. That old humbug Pepys was one of th,e first to sample the new drink and frequently quotes in his diary that "on the 25th September 1660 I did sqnd for a cup of tee, a China drink, of which I never had drunk before." As the 18th century progressed, the use of tea in England rapidly increased and in 1836 the first British grown tea was raised in Assam, and forty years later the disastrous ef fects of the. coffee-leaf disease forced planters lo give serious attention to tea in Ceylon, with the result that tea now takes first rank in the com merce of the island. Tea drinking seems to be becoming more popular in America every year, and the U, S. is now the third largest consumer of this product, the United Kingdom be ing first and Russia second. 0 0 And every once in o often, just when we are at psace, with the wprld, an alleged clue to the, Iiogue, murder breezes in and makes trouble.1 " frA.-,.,