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IS NOW KING
OF TRACT
nenry Huntlngton's Work in
Developing Electric Roads.
CONTROLS IN CALIFORNIA
Beginning With Ihe Los Angeles Stre e
Railway, He Has Acquired Other
Large Properties and Made
buccesses of Them.
Few men leave a lastlns Impression
on Wall Street. It Is a place o? tleet
ing memorie*!. It cherishes no senti?
ments. Thoughts are wholly engrossed
by the oxig?nelos of the present und tho
possibilities of tho futuro. Among the
few Titans of finance, tho Immensity of
vrhme nets In tho past construed by these
result?, has mnde a visible Impression on
the present, and will bo Ineffaceable In
the future, is tho Into Collis P. Hunting?
ton. Bis knitting of a continent together
with rails of steel was a Performance
that will live In the chronicles of, a na?
tion's progress side by side with the Join-.
Ing of continents by moans of the At?
lantic cable, and In financial history In
the records of those great railroad corpo?
rations which sprang Into being at bis
Instigation. Stopping ln his footsteps,
continuing the Ufo work of h'ls distin?
guished uncle, attracting attention by
the brilliancy of his own work, comes
Henry E. Huntington. Although Mr.
Huntington has long been a well-known
figure In rallrond circles, a financial
power with the Huntington millions be?
hind him, It ls ln me field of electric
railways that ho stands as a commanding
figure ln the f'.Tst rnnk.
MADE SUCCESS OF IT.
While ho has beon for many years
building up In his quiet way a name and
reputation, tho events which hnve estab?
lished blm In a very few years ns one
of tho strongest financial mon, and one
of tho most successful railway build?
ers and operators In the country, have
been happening on tho Pnclllc side of tbo
continent. Less than half a dozen years
ago he saw a groat opportunity In tho
purchase of the controlling power In the
Los Angeles (Cal.) Street Railway lino,
which was then trying hard but unavall
Ingly to be a success. He promptly cor
raled the stuck and becamo tho president
of the company. From tiiat moment tho
change occurred. His vigorous and pow?
erful personality was Immediately felt
In the commencement of now construc?
tion and extensions, and in the revivifi?
cation of tbe old spirit which had been
satisf.ed to take care of what there was.
The Huntington trait, manifested In bruii
uncle and nephew, has always been a de?
sire to create tilings, to make a better
market, to Increase the growth of In?
dustries. This means generally the sac?
rifice of present dividends In the interest
of vaster ones later on and enormously
Increased value's of property, but It takes
money and patience and faith to do this,
and all three H. E. Huntington hus In a
large measure. With a chosen few among
his strong financial friends?the banker.
I. W. Hollinan, of San Francisco; Anton
Bore, and Ch. de Giilgen of the same
city?he established tlio Pacific Electric
Railway Company, with a cnpltal of ten
million-;, which began "building new lines
with a rapidity unparalleled. From
towns near by to towns far a wny from
Los Angeles, as ? center, railroad con?
nections were made, cables were torn out
and trolley wires substituted, now cars
and equipment of the highest class Were
purchased. No expense was spared, fur
Mr. Huntington Is a believer ln the econ?
omics of wealth and never temporizes.
To-day the great system of electric
railways under the control of Mr. Hunt?
ington and his a?30clates, which serve
Los ?Yiigeles and the country tributary
thereto, comprises 326 miles of track. The
Pacific Light and Po\v??r Company, of
Los Angeles; the Los ?\ngeles Land Com?
pany, the Pacific Electric Land Company
and the Huntington Land and Improve?
ment Company, are outgrowths of this
railway combination, and are Institutions
brought Into being to co-operate In ad
vantnseous ways with the railways.
A .-NEW ?ORGANIZATION.
Within a-few 'weeks still another new
oryanlr.atlon?the Los Angeles Inter-Ur
ban Railway Company?lias come Into ex?
istence to supply still further the grow?
ing traffic requirements of Southern Cal?
ifornia. Tl_?s Ih another outcome of Mr.
Huntlngton's energy. Under his policy
of va_t and rapid construction of rail?
way facilities. Los Angeles ls leaping for?
ward, commercially speaking, and In?
creasing ln?r population and prestige great?
ly. Still more marked Is the Increase of
her property values. It is sufficiently tu- .
dlcative of this to note that the city In
the last six months has placed on "her
records building plans for 2.7?O hulldings,
Involving a gross expenditure of ?u.llO.O.O,
H record probably unt-qualed for cities of
her size.
AVilhin the past few months thc news?
papers of Southern California have kept
the Bast Informed of labor ag.tallons
there, which at first sight seemed to
promise a groat deal of trouble for the
Huntington lines. Huntington happened
to be right on the spot, ami ho uleposedof
the strike at one blow. Tho fight was a
{significant one. I-'or a long tune ng ta
tors from San Frnnclfjco had been try ng
to steal a march on him. Ho has long
been familiarly known to the walking,
delegates as nn uncompromising enemy
to union dictation In his own affairs and
as a tough proposition to run up against.
As pros.dent of the Market?Street Rail?
way In San Francisco, the labor leader?
let him severely alone, for thoy knew
his metal, and that pon Ible lo.-s uf p ve?
nue did not count with l.lm &? against
principle. At last lhe San Francisco dele?
gates thought things wero ripe for a
sulko on the Hunt nglon line,-, ?n Lo?
Angeles ami vicinity, it was ordered, und
it tasted less than an hour, at th? end
of which 'ime- everything was running
smoothly, unii Just as before, with one
Impili tant difference?the union men were
out of Mr, Huntington'?? serv ce, and tlv v
will ? emu n nui. While th..? "strike'
lasted the office telephone was kept lui-y
answering the call? ol many "i the day
men off duty who offered their services
In the emergency.
KIND TO HIS EMPLOYES.
Mr. Huntington a long time before
this voluntarily raised thu wages 01 his
employe? because ho said thoy deserved
It, and established a civil service sys?
tem of increased pay per hour, according
to length of service. This voluntary fair?
ness wa? bo much appreciated by do
men themselves ti.it | ..?;. made it lhe
subject of a testimoni I to Mr. Hunt?
tngton, in which they expressed their
appreciation. Since the abortive st.nke
he has received a Blmllai letter from his
tiainmon, nearly, the whole number of
whom remained lit their posts and trim to
him. Upon these -men Mr Huntington
relies with tlie greotest coi fldence and
(my? liiere Is i:o1 a i i ? : ?- r body of em?
ployes In the whole pountr]
Mr. Huntington'? arasti. ,??
certain labor agitatore call It, with the
demands of unionism have leen fvor
ftbly com meni ed upon by I-;!-"
of his own forces of employes! I II "pin
Ions of ?his kind do L'in -.. grail In?
justice. On the nueition ?.e-earm
Jiit'. Mr Huntington ? ?? .v "' and
uncomnromlidne views ?? I ?? ? ? dd
himself, he wnnM he ?rl?d "> beli ?rodea
unionism, if tr?de? unioni??* would help
Itself, but It does not. In fact, he says
_i.??ee unionism, as popularly interpreted,
..-. a uisuii.i _uise lo tlie mali who nas
? ??nor to soil uuu u laiiiuy to support mi
. La piO-eeus, since Ils wnoie lenueney la
.?? ie\el nil men ft no woik to tue piane of
?m. most iiieiiiouie ?ind uiitiKiiifeu, ueuce, it
. :,.Hni uniuiimii, unit Il?ones lo ease and
-?.?jnpaiaiive luii-ness; it lases away mo
,i aepen?ence ?? the individual and makes
nun the sime o? an Impersonal central
authority wnlch tolla hot, neunei does it
spin. Finally? its direct result, as con?
ducted to-day, ls to antagonize tho wage
earner und the wage-puyer. So lar as
ilio employer ls concerned, the trado
union seeks with open Insolence to dic?
lino whom he shall employ -and whom
he shall discharge, and would take away
trom him, ns It does from Its own mem?
bers, nil Individuality of enterprise and
ihe emoluments which his Intelligence,
?t.-lining and energy clearly entitle him to
receive. It is, In a word, to tlio un?
wise conduct of unionism that Mr. Hunt?
ington objects, mid ngalnst tho unjust de?
mands of which ho proposes to stand
will all tbo Indomitable will and force
fulness that It blft Inheritance.
SOCIAL AT CHATHAM
A Brilliant Occasion There?Some Per?
sonal Items.
(Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.)
CHATHAM, VA., August 1.?Rose Cot?
tage, the hospitable home of Mrs. Walter
Pnyno, was a Rcone of brilliancy Frldny
evening. The occasion was given by
Miss Mary Clark Pny ne ln honor of
Misses Mmma ?Vlrd, of Jacksonville, Fin.;
Lula While, of New Orleans; Dr. H. P.
Carter, of Baltimore, nnd Mr. B.? T.
Dabney, of Lynchburg.
The cottane bad been elaborately deco?
rated for tbe occasion, pink nnd green
predominating, nnd very soon after the
doors were swung open the residence was
alive with tho beauty and society of
Chatham.
Dancing wns tbo pleastire feature, nnd
tbe wearied dnncers wore ?Hen refreshed
with delicious orange punch. Indolcii from
the bowl presided over by Mesdames Wal?
ter Payne and Alrd. Delicious refresh?
ments were served.
A special term of Plttsylvanla County
Circuit Court will convene Tuesday, Au?
gust 4th, to disposo of Important business.
Registration books opene- previous to
the Democratic primary were closed In
Chatham District Friday, July 31st, with
101 additional white voters.
Mrs. James T. Carter nnd family re?
turned this week to Lynchburg.
SET CELL AFIRE
Negro Criminal Attempted to Burn
Himself to Liberty.
(Special to The Tlmes-Dlspatch.)
LAWRENCEVILLE, VA., August L?
George Ward, alias William Watson and
several other aliases, colored, confined ln
the county Jail, awaiting trial, charged
with stealing a valuable steer, the prop?
erty of Mr. John Sndler. made an Inef?
fectual attempt to gain his liberty last
night by burning off tho door to his cell,
hut tho light of his lire betrayed him,
and was extinguished before much dam?
age was done. Ho was afterwards se?
curely chained In his cell. Ills trial Is
set for next Thursday, the Cth Instant.
It Is said be halla from the State of
North Carolina.
This section was visited yesterday after?
noon by one of tho heaviest rains we
have had for a long time, doing some
damage to growing crops.
MANN BILL IS A
GENERAL ISSUE
The Mann liquor bill ls cutting a big
flgxire In tho contests for tho Legislature
al! over the State and tho fights over It
are growing exceptionally hot In some
sections.
A gentleman from Plttsylvanla county,
who was in tho city lost night, said It
was the Issue there and might reeult In
leaving some of the present members at
home.
In Isle of Wight the liquor people are
waging a hot fight on Hon. J. O. Branch
and similar reports are coming ln from
elsewhere ln the State.
The members of the Anti-Saloon League
here are being kept In cloje touch with
the situation and are informed as to all
the counties, cities and towns In tho State
where the Mann bill Is an Issue.
His Partner Was Gone. f
(By A. C. Gordon.)
Mv boy Kree?
He played wld you when you was a chile?
You an' he
Growed up together? Walt! Lemme seol
Closer! so I kin look In yer face;
? Mas' Goorgo's smllo!
Lord love you, marster!
Dar 'nenth dat cypress Is whar Kree lays.
Sunburnt nn' grown!
Mas' George, 1 shudden ha' knowed you,
son,
Count o' de beard dat yer face has on,
But for dat ole-tlmc smile o' yourn.
An' Kree, you say?
Hadn't you heord, marster,
He 'ceased do year you went away?
Kree an' you?
How de ole times comes back onst mo'i
Moonlight llshln' hyars an' in de snow,
Squirrels an' Jaybirds up overhead
In do oak-trees dat do sun shlnod through.
Look at me, marster*.
Here's mo llvln', an' Kree, he's deadl
'Pears to me Btrange,
Now when I thinks on em', dose ole
years.
?Mils' George, sometimes de b'llln' tears
Fills up my eyes
Count o' do misery now, an' de change.
De sun dims, marster,
To an ole man when his one boy dies.
Did you say "How?"
Out in de dug-out one moonshine night,
Klsbln' wld your baby brother?he
Wld do curie o' yallcr-UHo streaks o'
light
An' de dancln' big blue eyes. Dead now.
Kree died for him,
An' yearnln' for Kree,
De Lord tuk him, marster;
Do croon gross kivers 'em both from
sight.
Hoord o' do talo?
?Didn't kii iw Kree was do one dat drowned I
H .vin' Mas' Charley?.' Well, 'twere ho.
He chile waxed weaker, his face mo pale,
Alter the corpse o poor Kree wore found;
Two months later he went, you
see.
Cod bless you, marster,
Nine yours bus rolled over both under?
ground.
Worn out an' gray,
lic-re 1 sits waltln' Mas' George, alone.
All on em's gono?
Marst.r an' miglia, an' Charley an' he;
? . an' me only In le''. Suine day,
'?'. !.. . you've gone back to yur ship on de
Vn heat him say.
??s as he us?,) ??-, u-tlsliln'. ter mo,
Paddy, come over!" An' passin' away
Dal el*3e <in river again, I'll be
Wld my buy Kree.
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I Woodward & Son,
r'.ARBVi'CCDS, iVAHOGANY,
V.Klit PIKE, YELLOW PIHE,
Hough and Drosstwl
| Ya/ris Covering Soven Acros. \
Main Ullici?Ninth & Arch riu.
Revolutions and
The Evils of Trusts.
-BV_
WILLIAM L. ROYALL?
Quebec, Canada, July 2.th, 1003.
editor of Tho Times-Dispatch:
Sii,?A yenr uno 1 wrote The Times a
letter from Halli?-*., Nova Scotia, and
l'i It I threatened Its readers with nn
other nt the first suitable opportunity.
That opportunity having now offered
Itself, I proceed to execute the threat
it the expense of tho readers of Tho
Tlrt?-S-Dlspatch.
There Is something singularly attrac?
tive to the thoughtful man In tills quaint
old rl!y nnd tho heights nf Abraham,
whero Wolfe n*ul Monlcftltti hnd It out
ono hundred and forty-odd years ago?
? pence to tho ashes of both these bravo
? men.
Genernl Wolfe performed the part of a
Ballatit and berloc soldier In the battle
of Quebec, but It may be doubted whether
he realized thnt he was nn Important
fnctor ln a world-wide drama then being
enacted that became one of the turning
points In tne history of man nnil bis civil?
ization. Frederick the Second, called
"the Great," came to. tho throne of
Prussia In 17?0. This title of honor hns
never been bestowed, upon nny man more
I Justly thnn upon Frederick. Ills work
In the world, ns related to Napoleon's.
1 .ivy be likened Ir, Ihe s? ??:?' of -,p?*?*- mtl.;
conservatism In Its lnst ditch, compnred
? with the blare and fury, thn lightning
nnd thunder of revolution nnd chaos.
Just about the time Frederick became
King of Prussia, Maria Theresa became
Empress of Austria. Frederick had no
more right to tho Province of Slier? a
than he hnd to tho city of Vienna, but
bo had nn army of 00,000 of the best
drilled troops tho world ever saw, nnd so
he beenmo "land-grabber" and seized
tho province. It was the beginning of all
his troubles, but without It the world
would probably hnve never known the
giant that bo proved himself to he.
It should bo snld that Frederick rcnlly
believed he had a good title to Sllesln. and
oven though he did not, Silesia was Pro?
testant and therefore In sympathy with
Prussia, and totally out of sympathy
with Catholic Austria. Had Austria suc?
ceeded ln her wars ' with Frederick It
ROBESPIERRE.
would probably havo meant the extermi?
nation of Protestantism by Roman Cath?
olicism In Germany.
...COULD NOT BE RECONCILED....
Maria Theresa could never become rec?
onciled !o tho robbery. Defeated and
humbled in two wars she waged with
Frederick, nho persevered nevertheless,
and, In 175C, had succeeded in banding
together Austria, Franco, Bussla, Sax?
ony, Sweden and th" Germin Reich
ln nn alliance to conquer Prussia and
portion hor out to the conquerors. Heio
was a king ruling less than five millions
of people- being set upon by six powers,
containing more than ono hundred mil?
lions of people. No such disproportionate
contest was over waged. But Providence,
at tho pitch of his misfortunes, gave him
an ally, and that an ally that served him
j well.
Whilst North America was being settled
France nibbled at tho buslness,\ too.
Towards tho middle of tho eighteenth
century she hod 50,000 settlors here, while
England at tho aamo timo had a million.
But Franco said she occupied tho mili?
tary posts of advantage along the St.
Lawrence and west of the Alleghiinlos
to the Mississippi and the mouth of tho
Mississippi, and that that military oc?
cupation gnvo her all tho territory west
of tho Alloghanlos snd tho Mississippi,
whilst England was confined to the ter?
ritory east of the mountains and tho
river, forgetting that a country belongs
to tho settlers who can plow ns well as
shoot, -???' ?? ?? .??"? ?.??,? ,.?,?^?? only.
TUE GREATNESS OF PITT.
This claim of Franco, along with other
matters, brought England Into war with
hor?a war waged to England's groat
discredit until English public opinion
forer.,1 ICliiir neoivo ?he Soi mi i I- mi?.
William Pitt, afterwards Lord Chatham,
prune minister, when Instantly tho differ
onco between a renlly great man and
small mon was made to appear. Pitt hud
been prime minister hut a short timo when
Frederick said: "England has been a long
timo producing a grent man, but abo tins
got one now." with the true inspiration
of genius l'Ut saw that tho place to win
Canada was upon thc plains of Germany,
and BO he mudo a close alliance with
Frederick, furnishing him men, and, what
was of more Importance, an abundance of
money, and so, after seven years of such
a struggle as tho world had never seen,
Frederick triumphed over his enemies, and
tie French w"? il.riy<>n n;?t o? ?. nvi ??.,
This was truly an epoch-making period.
Had the caso been reversed. Roman Cnth
| oiicifin would probably have exterminated
Protestantism in Germany, and the whole
continent of F.urope would have been
I Roman Catholic, under Roman Catholic
I .nul ablOlute kings, to the great peril of
Protestantism, even In Knglnr.d. Thoro
would probably have boon no French Rev?
olution, and tjurope, would be dp-da}
wholly slave, Instead of being in great
pan free. Fiance would have had a firm
fool aold In North America, und thero
would probably have boon no American
Revolution' Th? whole face of the earth
would, Indeed, have been different troni
what it Is, und lhe difference would
have been between the good and the bad.
But the genius of put, combined with
the htrong arm und genius of Frederick,
turned the tide In Hie opposite direction,
ami t'-r.iiu-e, humbled and bankrupted, be
caino tbe productive soil for her bloody
bui immortal Revolution,
...CONDITION OF THE FRENCH...
Von must pardon me. Mr. Editor, for
pausine hero a moment ta ?my a'word
??bom lhe condition of the French people
when their Revolution released them from
, the awful und degrading bondage Unit t)ig
The tei?
nt ry
feudal system had l?ft them I"
rlble condition of tbo FlP"1ch/n^Fre'i?ch
that Is to say. twenty ?""""'f,. 0I1,, two ?
people out of. fefly, twenty "'''' (,t)-lng
hundred and fifty thousand. Is somctnin*. j
almost beyond belief. ,? C(.noral I
In tho first place, there was ? ? ?
IKW governing Kram-?'?? E,-e'y?, ,,,,,. ,VI1S
an authority over bis domains, wmu? ?
little less than supreme, and >e mfta?.
the laws In his domain-, w th. ?' ??
gard whatever for mo rule that migm
prevail in other domains. No "??{pJanc.
fore. knew what the lew ?ns ? G ini ice.
because there was no law. ? be IHM ">
orders, whether In church of state, paia
only such taxes as they please to pa .
while every Hollar that could be wrung
from the lower orders I?' ;>'?' iintl "? >
device was extorted from them One Of
the most distressing of these was the UR
?n all salt used, called the gab?lle, which
was ground out of tho peoWe upon ev i
Possible pretext and by eVery possible,
device. France was covered over t>>
custom houses end toll pates that fleeced
every one of .ill thnt could be got. Goods
that might hnve traveled In throe weeks
G??,? Provence to Normandy to?lt^lhfee
and a half months through tho delays
caused by tho Imposition of duties along
tho road. Some nobles had the author It?
of viceroys. They Imposed taxes foi
their own benefit on wines, llt-uora, gold
and silver, lands, pnpor, manufacture
of Iron and steel, and tho like nnd B?rne
had their private prison;, and their private
scaffolds also, nnd the property of nn.
mnn condemned to doath ? his Jurisdic?
tion was forfeited to tho lord. 1 be lord
took a sixth, a fifth and oven .a fourth on
all sales of lands, and also when land
wns rented for moro than nine years.
The drover with his boises and Itine,
his sheep and swlac. tho candor with his
merchandise, the farmer with his provi?
sions Ih his cart, had to pay stiffly for
the privilege of troadlng the lord s high
road and passing within the shadow
of the lord's chateau. In early fetida
times the vassals were required to beat
the waters ln marshy districts when the
lady of the seigneur lay in, to keep the
frogs silent, and this duty came to be
known as "Silence des grenouilles." In
more modern timos tho duty was con?
verted into a tax. which all the peasants
had to pay under the namo of "Silence
des grenouilles." Many other old feudal
duties were converted Into taxes ara
these taxes wore regularly ground out of
the poor people under tho name of the
old feudal duties. But It would bo idle
to go on enumerating the burdens under
which the people groaned. It.was a timo.
In the language of a great thinker, when
"tho prying eye of the government fol?
lowed the butcher to tho shambles and
tho bakor to tho oven. When tho peasant
could not cross a river without paying
to somo nobleman a toll, nor tako the
produce which ho raised to market until
ho had bought leave to do so. nor con?
sume what remained of his grain till ho
had sent It to tho lord's mills to be
ground, nor full his,cloths on his own
works, nor sharpen,his tools at his own?
grindstone, nor make wines, oil or cider
at his own press."
??. It to I"? wondered 'bit Franc?
had hor revolution? Should not all
men thank God that she u.id Ii even
though attended with the blood and mui
dc-r that accompanied It?
THE EVIL OF TRUSTS.
I have now laid tho foundation, Mr
Editor, for what 1 had in mind to write
when I commenced ihis long rigmarole.
I want now to sty something about our
trusts. Tho trusts. If left unrestrained,
will reduce the masses of our people to
he same stato of slavery that tho eudal
system reduced the French people to.
That was a feudal system based upon
physical force, while the trusts' ondai
system will bo based upon brains; but It
Will ho none the loss a feudal system at?
tended with just the same slavery that
the old fenda! system was attended with
as soon as it has thoroughly established
itself and had the laws framed io ?is
own liking. , .
The certain, the Inevitable, tendency of
everv trust Is to monopolize that business
With which It Is concerned, and to make
Ihr whole of that business Us own. \\o
sco the fact Illustrated all around us to?
day. Noie the Standard Oil Company tho
American TobbacCQ Company and others
that readily occur to the mind. Iho bus?
iness of tobacco we will say. being mo?
nopolized by t he'American Tobacco Com?
pany, what happens? Every operation In
the tobacco business is worked by some
employee of the trust from tho Urne the
tobacco leaves the hand of the planter
until it reaches the mouth of tho con?
sumer, and no other pen on is permitted
an opportunity to touch the business. By
COLD KILLS THE QERIM.
Lieutenant Perry Bays There Are No Bald
Heads In the Arctic Region.
_ I ...nlr r,-n.? Iflnn.
hair off ?, the roots, ancl tue im.r grows
again, p,,,,leide Is the first hah-rem?
edy bulli upon the prlnc pie of destro -
Ing lhe germ that eats tlie hall' off. Its
phenomena salo demonstrates the cor?
rect ne? of the scalp {f?? theory. Sohl
by leading dr.gglate ?"???,3?: '"?^?G
for sumid? to Th? Berplolde Co., De
trult. Mhi, owc-ns & Minor Drug Co.,
Special Agent
det-reen nil the stock of the American
Tobacco Company comes to bo bold by
some ten or a dozen Individuals, and
then all the Immense net revenues of the
tcbncco business are gathered together, for
the enjoyment of those ten or twelve Indi?
viduals. The not revenues thnt beforo the
trust were divided out nniong thousands
of employers-, will bo thus concentrated
for tbe enjoyment of ton persons only.
Not only so, but under old conditions
every person handling tobacco had the
Opportunity to become nn employer. Rut
ho can nover hope for thnt under tbo
tmsts' regime! nil employment In tho to
be ceo business Is reserved for the ten
pei sons who will own the stock of thn
American Tobacco Company, and every
person connected with tob?.con tn their
' employee.
The very highest Intelligence ? applied
' to nganlzlng the tobacco business so that
' the best poeslblo results shall be derived
. from It. and thus nil persons engaged In
? It nro paid tho very best wnges nnd ?al?
arlos that will secure all that each per
? son can do, but not one cent more Is paid
| Ihnn Is sulllclont to seenro tho very best
effort that tho Individual can mnko. Of
course, ns population Increases this sum
will go on decreasing. In tho end we
hmvo the tobacco business organized and
operated as ? piece of mechanism of the
most perfect character? Not a dollar I?
paid out In expenses that is not iiecer.snry
to the successful optratlon of the business,
while every dollar Is paid that Is neccss
sary to a perfect machine, nnd every
dollar Is returned from the business that
science enn make It yield, nnd nil of that
ls for the benefit of the ten men who own
the stock of the American Tob?ceo Com?
pany. If this Is not feudal slavery In es?
pence, then It Is hard to understand the
reason why. Tho feudnl baron made the
serf labor on the land no ns to make tho
lnnd yield till that was possible for his
benefit. Tho now feudal baron of bruins
makes the population labor In employ?
ments for the smallest possible stipend
that the businosg shall yield for his ben?
efit all that It can bo made to ylold, and
FREDERICK, THE GREAT.
when all the different branches of busi?
ness have been made the subject of trusts
a few hundreds of thousands will hold
all the streams of revenue ln their own
hands, while the groat body of tho people
labor In those linos for.? wages, which
must go on decreasing as population nnd
the supply of labor Increases. 1 foresee
clearly that If the trust'is left free to
run Its own course It will, In time, es?
tablish a condition of absoluto Industrial
slavery all over this land. Thero will be
a ropctltlon of tho feudal system, a feu?
dal system based upon brains Instead of
upon the mailed hand, but none the less
a feudal system, In which your descend?
ants and my descendants must submit to
wear collars nnd bo hewers of wood nnd
drawers of water without daring to hopo
for a separato business and employment
of their own, It Is vain to toll me that
the trust's rule will bo mild and benig?
nant. If tho history of mankind tenches
any. one thing with absoluto certainty,
it Is thnt unrostralne- power will cer?
tainly be nbuiied. Tbo trust may be be?
nignant for a time, but In time the
baron? of brains will grind out of tho
population nil that can bo extorted from
them Just as the barons of the mailed
hand did whnn they had th? "ower.
EXPERIENCES OF OTHERS.
Tho advocates of tho trust say It Is
absurd to suppose that the trust will
ever be ablo io reduco tho population to
such a stato. I do not see the absurdity.
Hov, was the population of Franco, and,
Indeed, of all tho rest of Europe, excopt
Hngland, reduced to tho state of Blavory
that ? have pictured? It enmo from tho
Kings of France and the other Euro?
pean sovorolgns having a standing armi.
Tins English people preserved their lib?
erties because their sovereign never had
? standing army. Even Henry tho
P.ighth, absoluto and despotic as ho was,
was forced to abandon an attempt to
collect taxes from the English po?pl
Uial tholr Parliament bad noi levied by
a rebellion tbat would have tumbled
? him off his throne If he had not abim
I doned tliP nttemnt. But thn poor irrrmnri
I people had nothing to oppose to the dis?
ciplined rogUnents that were 'ilwaya
ot tho call of the King, and so they were
forced to submit to all the exactions
thnt tho few thousands of feudal barons
I imposed upon them, until they camo to
be veritable slaves, nnd there had to be
an explosion.
When the trusts have monopolized all
? ho branches of business in tho country
and have completed tho organization of
a disciplined army of employes spread
out all over the country, they will have
.11 the machinery necessary for holding
the entire population bound In a gril
of iron Their employes, permeating
every pool: and corner of the social or?
ganization, are, In substance the moa
disciplined standing army that such a
bus n?s. as this could possibly desire
The trusts now have the laws so frame.
,?; io enabb* them to monopolise ?. >
business. Thoy now occupy and hold
the citadel nt: Ihe case. Tlio new nul.
tsry bill recently passed by Consresi
nut- all the military forces of the coun?
try, Including tho mllltla. oru'anized und
unorganized?, at the command >of ihe
President who 4s sworn to execute (hoar
I ws now In existence that aro so satis
fai Tory to the trusts. They need nPtWllB,
herefore to woik out their utmost will
upo,,' tbo people but a continuation of tho
parent 1;l\,H. If the people, see! g thin
?r.p spread out before them .shall mako
tho attempt to riso up und change th?s?'
laws, iho trilli-' disciplined army of
employes, .upplled with the vast ?uro?
ft money the trusts can throw into efec
tlons, will create such ? struggle is will
irequlro nn oxtraordlnnry?an impossible^?
effort to win In It. Thc trust has. there?
fore, Just the standing nrmy which tho
| feudal system of brains requires, and tho
new military law backs It with the stand?
ing army of physical forco that Is noccs
snry to hold tho people ln subjection,
while the trust works out Its will upon
them.
RECENT EXPERIENCE.
Tho contempt with which tho Attorney*
Gonoml ol tlio United ?Hates leceuuj
ndvlnod tlio Prosldont ho was authorized
to treat tbe decrees of the Chancery
Court of tho city of Richmond In the
matter of the Galveston Is a faint Indi?
cation of some of tho things that will
liinvmn when his nrilortv. the mil" ??
autocrat of these United States, shall
loiilt ?\ caso has arisen roi his exoitn,,.
some of the despotic powers thtt the
now military bill has lodged In the ???????
of a President disposed to assume the
part of a dictator.
AVo aro all being diligently fattened,
that tho trust may eat us up it Its leisure
Hid ns Its appetito calls for us.
Tho advocates of tho trust present a
numbor of specious arguments In behalf of
the trust, the principal ones of which 1
will briefly notice. But before doing no 1
want to remark that whatever advant?
ages to man tho trust may bring, If, In
point of fnnl, tho trust ? going ;o reduce
tbe masseB to a condition of Industrial
Slavery llho that 1 havo depleted, I care
not what benefits It may secure for man,
It will be his curse and not his blessing.
Wo want no slnvory, even If II he a
i-'ld'-rl Blaveryi AVe fnr prefer to live In
Comparativo discomfort, IT this comfort
bi incident to freedom, than to enjoy all
the benefits tho arts nnd ?clone?? can
confer, If to get those benefits wo must
?iccopt a condition of serfdom. "
The llrst thing we hoar all the advocates
of the trust say Is that It cheapens prod?
ucts to tho misses. That Is undoubtedly
true In a measure. The principle that
morn money Is made by s'dltnc great
quantities nt ? small profit than bv sell?
ing small quantities nt a groat profit,
emitios tho trust to reduco the price at
which It ?iella its product far below what
It may have beim when tho trust was
formed, But It Is Just as true that the
trust does not reduce the price of the
product aa low anperfectly free competi?
tors would reduce It. It reduces the price. ?
nut It does not reduce It to the lowest
point that will leave a living profit. It
is always above thnt point. We see this
illustrated by comparing those tilings
thnt ure created by trusts with Uiomj
open to free competition. 1 no prices ot
sugar and oil havo undoubtedly been de?
creased by tho trusts. But their price.
arc not reduced to noarly so low a murgin
of profit as the prices of cotton and linen
and many other goods open to fiee com- ?
petition. The public Is entitled to have It*?
goods at the lowest price that conditions
can bring them to, but the trust torbida
them to come down to that point, so thu.1
I submit that the trust's argument falls
at this point.
BRAINS AND DOLLARS.
We next hear the tnl.t advocates say
that It offers the highest rewards for
brains. But as It whittles things down
to tho most scientific basis it reduces
what It pays to the best brains to the
very lowest point that will secure thcni,
cla-slfylng all beneath the best In such
order ?is will socuro what It needs at
the lowest possible price, and bringing all,
?r_ rapidly as possible, to the lowest stage,
that will secure what It wants. A to??
, with the bost brains got vnluubli em?
ployments, but multitudes With ?brains
just as good can got no employments,
and other multitudes with brains lilt lo
Inferior must nccopt tbe position of low
salaried slaves. 1 look on ibis argument
as nn Insult to human IntelTgeiici).
The trust next tells us that It makes
our country ablo to go out Into the m??
, Icet- of the world and dom'nate th ?/.
But I had far rather see every American
I citizen free and contented In his own
homo, with America practically unknown
In foreign ports, than to see the United
States feared by all tho earth while the
great milans of her citizens woro l.vlng
from hand lo mouth under tho d.'etat on
of commercial lordllngs tolling In we lth,
lh Wllshlre's Magazine foi May, 1903,
there Is the report of an Interview 'be?
tween tho editor and Mr. John D. Rock??
foller, In which Mr. Rockefeller gives hie
Jitstlllc.it on of tho trust. Being nt the
bead of the Standard Oil Company, tho
greatest of all the trusts, ono na'urnlly
looks with ? ront Interest to whatever h?
enti say upon this lino. Mr. Rockefeller
says thai before tho formation of tie oil
trust, the production of oil had become
so groat that producers wero simply de?
stroying ondi other and tho promotion ol
the trust wns necessary to save the pro?
ducers from ruin. But how Is mankind
Interested, except In tho most gennral
way. In tho prosperity of those who pro?
duco oil? Phon mankind s't supine and
hoc Itself enslaved because John D. Rock?
efeller nnd a thousand other producere of
! o'l will oat each other Up if mankind ro?
, mains fro?? Ih that nn adequate reason
I why w? should nil submit to conditions
? thnt must deprivo us nf our l'bertles?
. So fnr ns the world Is concerned, It want?
' oil produced In any quantities whnt-vef
I thnt oro necessnrv to brln? the price down
1 tn the lowest por.slblo point, Mr. Rocke?
feller's argument lr? the weiltest of nil,
nnd nothing but tho refinement of sol
fl-bne???-.
Flnnllv, I do not conceal from myself
the difficulty and the dnngcr of dealing
v* th the -??-*?. But It can be denlt with,
nnd. If It Is tnken In hand by patriot'.
Intrllgrnce. (lrmlv resolved that ve?t?-_
rights shall not be Interfcr-d with, and
careful to reo that due pro.resa Is not
nbrldged. we enn preserve our llbert'es
nnd Still get all the advantages thnt rea?
sonable Industrial comb'natlone can se?
cure for us.
p. S.?1 Intend, before I die. to do nil
In my power to undo tbe mischief that
I Innocently mny have done In hereto?
fore writing upon tbe side of tho trusts.
I did not then understand the case.
W. L. R.
WM. L. ROYAl_I_.
Mo? nlight Excurs'on.
Much Interest Is manifested ln the moon?
LORD CHATHAM.
light excursion to Dutch Gap Thursday
night, August 13th. to be given by the
popular clerks of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railway.
An evening of pleasure Is promised to
those who attend, as there will bo muslg
nud dancing, and refreshments will be
served nt city prices.
They intended going down on Tuesday
night, July ?lst. but, owing to the strikt
condition, it was postponed to the above
date.
Tickets purchased for July 21st will be
good for August 13th.
Y. M. C. A. Notes.
This afternoon at 8:30 o'clock the regular
young men's meeting will be held for
forty-five minutes, led by Charles Enderg.
Character to be considered, "Solomon;"
subject, "Choice." Young men are In?
vited to give the subject a little thought,
then come and express It.
Mr. T. C. Dlggs will have charge of
Hit conversational Bible class, which meets
for half an hour directly after tho young
men's meeting. This class is taking up
in a very thorough manner tho "Life of
Christ," by Sharman.
Mr. C. G. Taylor will conduct the AA'ork
ers' League, which meets at 6:3U o'clock
P. M.
Mr. S. K, McKeo, general secretary of
tht association, who Is taking a rest
among Hie hills of SVeut Virginia, Is ex?
pected back AYedncsday, August 6th.
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