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' FORREST CITY TIMES
UMOVOICT • MOAKIR. S»kll«k«f».
FORREST CITY. ARKANSAS.
Marie lienriette. queen of the Bel
gians. died suddenly at Spa. Belgium,
« n the 19th. She had been Ul for sev
eral months.
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An expert of the agricultural de
partment at Washington figures that
the corn crop of Missouri will be
close to 260.000.000 bushels.
Ixmis Yon Retieau, a German mining
expert, was imprisoned for i<0 hours
in a tunnel in Grose mountain. Colo
rado, but waa found uninjured by a
rescue party.
Congressman Littlefield, of Maine,
announced, on the 17th. that he would
be a candidate for the speakership of
the house, to succeed Hon. I). H. Hen
derson, of Iowa.
The transport Logan, which sailed
from Manila on the 16th. brings witji
her Brig.-Gen. Fred D. Grant, who has
been assigned to the command of the
department of Texas.
Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart, rector of
Christ Episcopal church. Georgetown,
D. C„ for more than a quarter »f a
century, died of acute nephritis, on
the 21st, nged 56 years.
The residence of John D. Rockefel
ler. at Pocantico Hills, Westchester
county, N\ Y., was destroyed by tire,
on the night of the 17th, the loss be
ing estimated at $-10,000.
Ex-City Treasurer Hale, of Colorado
Springs, pleaded guilty to embezzle
ment of $10,000 of city funds. As the
amount was made good bv his broth
er, sentence was suspended. .
Thos. II. Sharkey, the private de
tective. was held to $10,000 bail, on
the 22d, to answer for the death of
Nicholas Fish, the New York banker
who was killed in a saloon brawl.
President Roosevelt s|>ent Sunday,
the 21st, in Detroit, and during the
day paid a visit to a hospital to speak
to a dying Spanish war veteran who
had expressed a desire to see him.
President Roosevelt was tendered a
banquet nt Detroit, on the 22d, by the
Spanish War veterar ; n session at
thnt city. It was u brilliant affair,
nearly eight hundred people sitting at
the tables.
A report from United States Consul
Heeinan, at Odessa, says the Russian
wheat harvest is exceptionally large,
and that all crops, with the exception
of flaxseed, are the greatest in the
last ten years.
The body of Christian Elilen, a
resident of St. Louis, who died of ap
oplexy on board a steamer while on
the passage from Alexandria, Egypt,
to Trieste, Austria, arrived at New
York on the 21st.
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The Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O.
F., in session nt Des Moines, la., on
the 18th, repealed the amendment to
the constitution adopted, at Indian
apolis in 1901 admitting members of
mixed Indian and white blood.
A regiment of Canadian soldiers,
by special permission of the United
States government and of the Cana
dian militia department, took part in
the parade at Detroit, on the 22<1, in
honor of President Roosevelt.
While returning from school, on the
18th. at Williams’ station, Mich., three
little boys stopped to play in an ex
cavation on the roadside. The earth
became loosened and several tons of
it came down on them, crushing them
to death.
At the meeting of Spanish-.\meri
can Mar Veterans, at Indianapolis,
on the 22d, the adjutant general of
the association, W. C. Liller, was re
moved from office for alleged incom
petency. He will take the eu.se into
the courts.
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When King Leopold of Relgium ar
rived at Spa, after the death of his
wife, he refused to speak to hi*
daughter, the Princess Stephanie, who
had married two years ago without
his consent, and compelled her to
leave the palace.
.Tudge Gaunt, of the Missouri su
preme court, on the 22d, rendered a
decision in the bribery habeas corpus
cuses refusing to release the former
members of the St. Louis house < '
delegates who are in jail on charges
of bribery ami perjury.
The rescue steamer Windward, hav
ing on board Lieut. I’eary, the Arctic
explorer, reached Sydney, ( ape Bre
ton, on the ISth. I’eary says that
while he did not gain the object of
his quest he made valuable discov
eries and he feels certain that the
north pole can he reached.
William Hooper Young, accused of
the murder of Mrs. l’ulitzer, whose
body was found in a .New Jersey ca
nal, was arrested at Derby, Conn., on
the 21st, disguised as a tramp. Next
day he was fully identified by parties
from New York, admitted his iden
tity, and is said to have made a con
fession of the crime.
At Birmingham. Ala., on the 10th,
7S persons were killed and as many
more injured by u panic in a church
in which a negro convention was be
ing held. A fight, mistaken for a fire,
started a stampede, which could not
be checked until police and firemen
succeeded in releasing the negroes
from their pinioned positions in the
entrances. All the deaths were either
irom crushing or suffocation.
CURRENT TOPICS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
personal and general.
At Kansas City. Mo., on the 19th,
Howard Page, a real estate broker,
pleaded guilty to a tlarge <>f embez
zlement. and was sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
A colored tnan named Eugene Mil
ler died at Springfield. 111., on the
21st, from the effects of a gunshot
wound inflicted by an unknown |**r
son. he refusing to make any state
ment in regard to the shooting.
Peter Olsen, who shot and killed
' his sweetheart. Mary Peterson, at
Omaha, on September 8, was killed by
a posse near llaneroft. Neb., on the
21st, after refusing to surrender.
Thirty-eight victims of the panic in
the negro church were buried at llir
i minphnm, Ala., on the 21st. The death
list is known to number 105. but it is
thought there may be five more.
Speaker I). It. Henderson passed
through Chicago, on the 21st, on his
way east. He denied having any in
tention of retiring from congress be
fore the end of his term.
At San Antonio, Tex., on the 21st,
Adolph Toepperwein made a new
world's record at wing shooting by
breaking 986 of 1.000 clay targets
thrown from traps.
While protecting his mother frVui
ill treatment by her husband. Win. C.
Bonin, aged 20 years, shot and killed
his father at Slatersville, K. I., on the
21st.
Gus Hale, a night watchman, was
shot and killed by burglars at Gold
field, Col., early on the morning of
the 21st.
.T. Charles Collins, at one time a
noted artist, was found dead in his
room, in New York, on the 21st, hav
ing been suffocated by escaping gas.
Forty delegates, representing as
many cities, met at Chicago, on the
21st, and organized the International
Union of Commercial Telegraphers.
David Gouehner shot and seriously
wounded a young woman at Cone
maugh. Pa., on the 21st, and then
shot himself through the heart.
Heavy rains extinguished the forest
fires in southern Wyoming and north
ern Colorado.
The expected production of rice this
year in Louisiana and Texas is 3,100,
019 bags.
In n drive about Detroit, Mich., on
the 21st, two little girls had a narrow
escape from being trampled upon by
the horses attached to the president's
carriage. They had darted out sud
dnelv from the curb, almost under
the horses' feet.
Rev. ,1. E. Jenkins, pioneer minister
of the Cumberland Presbyterian
church, at Princeton. Ind., is dead,
aged 77 years. He was pastor lit
year, but resigned a few years ago.
Judge II. Horner, the oldest and
one of the most prominent citizens of
Lebanon, 111., died suddenly at his
home, on the 21st. He was SI years
old, being born where that city stands
in 1821.
As expected, the trunk shipped by
William Hooper Young, from New
York to Chicago, was found to con
tain evidence that connected him in
contcstibly with the murder of Mrs.
Anna Pulitzer. Young has not yet
been arrested.
The bank deposits of the people of
the I'nited States aggregate $8,500,
000.000, an average of $lus per capita.
Ten years ago they aggregated $4,
232.000. 000, or just half the amount
of to-day, and twenty years ago they
were $2,600,000,000, or a little more
than one-quarter of those of to-day.
Militiamen on guard at Eldorado,
111., were attacked and tired on, on
the night of the 20th, by unknown
parties, who escaped in the darkness.
Mnm shots were exchanged, and sev
eral of the guards had narrow es
capes.
It has transpired that the unknown
donor of $300, three years ago, to lift
the debt on the Advent Christian,
church at Jeffersonville. hid., was a
Winfield S. Stratton. The minings
magnate's mother was a devoted
member of the church, and Stratton
attended its Sunday-school when a
-oy.
Capt. Frank S. Clark has been ap
pointed acting adjutant general of
the Spanish-American War Veterans’
association, vice Ueu. J. W. C. biller
removed under charges of insubordi
nation. The annual encampment
convened sit Indianapolis, 1ml., on the
23d.
The London Daily Mail says the
government has decided that the new
South African colonies are to be re
quired to pay $500,000,000 toward the
cost of the South African wur. The
colonies .ire, however, to be allowed
ample time.
Att'y.-tien. Knox returned to Wash
ington, on the 21st after his trip to
Paris, where he conferred with offi
cials regarding the sale of the Pana
ma canal property to the I'nited
States. The attorney general declines
to discuss the matter.
While walking with his wife on the
sea front at Etretat. France, on the
22d, M. David, a well-known Paris
stockbroker, was shot and instantly
killed by an artist named Syndou. No
motive for the murder is known.
Many acts of 1 wlessness on the
part of the striking miners in Penn
sylvania, on the 22d, caused the sher
iff of Lackawanna countv to call on
(iov. Stone to send troops to aid in
preserving the ; cave.
John J. Hanna'.an was elected
grand master of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, at Chattanoo
ga, on the 22d, to succeed F. M. Sar
gent, recently appointed commission
er of emigration.
Secretary of the Navy Moody will
deliver an address on “The Navy” be
fore the Marquette club, of Chicago,
on October 9. 1
Lesson in American History in Puzzle.
1
“I POSSESS THIS SEA A\l) ITS ISLANDS Foil THE SOVEREIGN OF SPAIN.*'
KIM) IIAVILA, BALBOA'S RIVAL.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the discoverer of the Pacific ocean, was one
of the early Spanish revolutionists on the American continent. He reached
America as a stow-n-wny, having escaped from his creditors in Spain by hid
ing in a cask that was carried aboard the ship of Kncisoo whom Ferdinand
hud appointed as lieutenant governor of one of the provinces of Central
America. Once on this continent he headed a revolt against the governor
of Central America, and overthrew the government. At that time the
Spaniards had never penetrated the mountain ranges that separated their
little colonies on the eastern coast of the Darien isthmus, but Balboa hear
ing from the natives of a great ocean that lay beyond the mountains, and of
the wealth of the native tribes, pushed westward, and on November 26, 1.113,
first beheld the Pacific ocean. As a punishment for his revolutionary crimes
Balboa was beheaded at Acla, near Darien, in 1317.
KNOCKED HIMSELF OUT.
Kfgro Price Fighter lln«l Hi* Oppon
ent \\ hipped. Hut tint to Keel
lug Too Hood.
“It is often the unexpected hap
pens in a prize light," saitl it veteran
sporting man the other day, relates
the New Orleans Times-Demoerat.
“The chance blow and tlie 'hit me
now’ proposition are of frequent oc
currence, but tlie most ridiculous
termination of a prize light 1 ever
saw, or even heard of, was right here
in New Orleans. It was a light be
tween a pair of light weight negroes,
and each had a considerable follow
ing. Brown, a city lighter, was al
ways ) favorite over Jenkins, with
whom he. was matched. I will never
forget the meeting. It was in a
weird, tumbledown old place with
rough wooden benches, built in shaky
tiers about a 20-foot ring. The posts
of the ring were heavy cedar affairs,
not even stripped of their bark, and
with several ugly-looking, stubby
knots adorning every surface. The
place was lighted up with smoky
kerosene lamps, and was reeking
with tobacco smoke and perspiring
admirers of the ‘pugs.’ From the
first round it was all Brown. He
fairly smothered Jenkins in every
clash, and at the end of the first
round his backers were shrieking
four to one on his chances, with few
takers. Jenkins, however, managed
to stay on his feet for three rounds.
In the third he was on the ground
when the gong announced the end of
the round. He was carried to his
corner by his dusky seconds and
propped up in his chair. His eyes
were closed and both arms and legs
were limn and useless.
“By dint of heroic treatment and
copious doses of whisky that would
eat paint off an iron fence, he was
restored to shape that permitted his
.standing tip when the gong sounded
^'resumption of hostilities. In the
meantime Brown had disdained any
of the attentions of his seconds, and
had wen lighted a cigar during the
two-minute rest. As the gong sound
ed lie sauntered to the middle of the
ring and gave a very praiseworthy
exhibition of buck and wing dancing.
Poor Jenkins was swaying about
with bis arms to his sides and his
eyes closed. He was ‘out’ except for
the fact th.it he was still upright.
Brown wound up his introduced !
vaudeville specialty with a cake walk,
and then settled down to the serious
business of the evening. Winking :
wickedly to his shouting followers,
he took a position about three paces
from .!( nkins. He bounded into the j
air like a wild beast and with a ter
rific rush he swung his right for Ms :
helpless victim’s jaw. I'nfortunate- j
l.v for Brown lie also ducked his head
ns he delivered what was to be tire
last blow in the fight. The fates
were kind to Jenkins. Just as Brown
hurled himself through the air the
groggy, beaten fighter unconsciously
staggered out of harm’s way. Brown
plunged across the ring, past .Jen
kins and his woolly pate hit full on
one of the cedar posts with a force
that well-nigh wrecked the ring. He
rolled <\er on his back and long aft
er the count of ten he was still
stretched out unconscious. He had
knocked himself out, but Jenkins was
the last one in the building to learn
that lie had won. Jenkins has never
since, as far as I know, had any
pugilistic aspiration*, although in
this, nis only fight, he was the victor.
I he story of the trouble of stake
holders in this battle is another
chapter, and 1 have no doubt the po
lice could tell an interesting sequel
of how the place was raided and
Brown’s head was not th* only one
broken.”
RURAL INGENUITY.
A VlrBinia Mon n t ni uee r*a Odd Solu
tion of ■ Srriiia. I><> m e »t ic
Difficult)'.
“Every time 1 tell this story.’’ a
bright society matron remarked,
according to the Detroit Free I’ress,
"some i< dy accuses me of making it
up—but it is a true story, neverthe
less.
"I'p in the Virginia mountains this
summer David and 1 took a lung
walk to explore the wild country
road near our hotel. Way up on the
rough mountain side was a little
cabin; and, as 1 have a most fervent
human interest in the home life of
all peoples remote from cities, 1 pro
posed that we visit the cabin, w.th
the wayfarers’ usual pretext—to ask
for a drink of water. In the one room
of the small house were the usual
furnishings, a few chairs, many dogs
lying about, guns on the wall, a high
bed in each corner, and a homely
table spread with homely crockery in
the center of the household picture.
A plain little woman, worn and aged,
hut very neat in calico frock and
gingham apron, met us at the door
and asked us in, while one of the
rough boys lounging on the porch
was dispatched to the spring for
fresh water.
“Instead of the usual mountain
eer’s open fireplace, with iron crane
and ke’tles, was a surprising arrange
ment of a cooking stove mounted on a
kitchen table. Mv glance reverted t -
this curious sight so often that our
mountain hostess seemed constrained
to explain.
“ ‘You-uns ain’t used ter seein' cook
stoves fixed tip that-a-way, I reek
on,’ sh“ said, apologetically. ‘I’ap, lie
got there cook stove down in town
way las' May, and he didn’ think
’bout the stove pipe, an’ he didn' git
'nuff to reach up to that there hole
in th’ chimbly, so we-uns jcs' histed
the eook stove up on that there table
till he gits time t’ go t’ town an' git
some more stove pipe. T’ain’t handy
t’ eliini) up on a cheer t’ cook, an’ 1
wish t’ th’ land I’ap'd hurry his-self
an’ git t’ town arter that tliere stove
pipe. It’d he a heap handier t’ hev
that there cook stove down on th*
groun’.
“Of course, ‘we-uns’ agreed with
the good woman, that her complaint
was will based; but we praised her
cleverness and originality in utilizing
the kitchen table. Probably not one
woman in 10,000,000 would have ever
suggested that way out of the domes
tic difficulty.”
Triui’lln* In Writ Africa.
The absence of horses and of other
beasts of burden, combined with the
density of the tropical jungles and
forests, renders locomotion, at all
events for Europeans, especially diffi
cult on the west coast of Africa,
writes n correspondent. No roads
from the coast exist through the for
est and swamps; only narrow paths,
like sheepvvalks, which the natives
traverse in single file. “We mount.”
adds the correspondent, “on a very
light trap, drawn by six negroes, and
accompanied by others, in this wav
we traverse all the open country;
when this terminates we leave the
trap, and are carried in hammocks,
four men carrying each hammock,
and when the bush becomes too thick
for this method of transit we get out
and walk.”—Golden Penny.
KnliiliUtr for Copper.
An aluminum alloy is now used as
a substitute for copper in tue manu
facture of nails and tacks. The white
metal is much cheaper and in every
way as durable and desirable as cor
ner.—Science and Industry.
HUNTING THE TRUSTS. |
Tile rreuldent and M«ff Have K.sclt
ing Time. Hwl the »i«n»e Hoo»ti
High gad Safe.
Since the advent of our accidental
administration, what are know n as the
“high officials” of the government at
Washington arc having a strenuous
time. It has somehow been found
necessary for them to be absent most
of the time during the summer season
taking extended trips, on public busi
ness of course.
The fir-t fo abandon fits post or min
was t lie president, by retiring to Oys
ter Hay and removing the executive
branch of the government with him.
Not that he is idling away his time
by any means, but seeing that the larg
est game in sight was a drove of trusts,
he has put in the summer hunting
them. The newspaper account of the
expedition into New England, where
it is to he presumed the principal
trusts were ensconced or the president
would not be there hunting them, have
so far not disclosed that the unerring
fi re of our chief mn gist rate ha - ba gge
any of the game he is after. I he < .«
trust and the beef trii't t'
browsing on the granite hi^ <>f New
Hampshire and large herds are r*
ported in Vermont. .Massaclmsett».
Rhode Island and Connecticut, an
even up in Maine, < -p< C i«» 11 y around ,
Bar Harbor and the coast resorts they
are reported to be plentiful.
Let us hope that the president will
have better luck when he strikes the
western and southern states and that
1 tie hide of at least one trust may be
nailed on the door of the white house
barn before congress assembles, just
to show that he is really in earnest
and as an example to our law givers
of what he expects of them in their
hunt for the same game.
The premier of the cabinet is. like
his chief, absent from Washington, but
he had become so tired in his hunt
with the English ambassador after
Boers that lie is doubtless recuperat
ing for the reciprocity treaties hunt
that are expected to be bagged after a
grand round up this winter.
Secretary Shaw was unfortunate in
the game that he had evidently been
instructed to hunt for, although he
has faithfully tramped, sailed on gov
ernment boat- or on express trains
with free passes to find his quarry,
he lias so far not brought down a
bird or rumpled the feathers of a
trust-protected magnate. The United
States treasury hns had to run itself,
as far as he is concerned, for he has
been intent in hunting out the con
nection between the tariff and the beef
trust, but the result of Ills three
month-* work is so g ns a t is factory that
he has returned from the field in a
dazed condition.
The secretary of war has become
so exhausted in hunting Filipinos that
he is enjoying a well earned holiday,
by express orders from his chief, so
that he can he thoroughly recuperated
for tiie Moro hunt in the fall. His trip
to Europe is expected to give him
fresh ideas how to govern colonies on
the European plan.
The secretary of the navv, after
months of hard work preparing for
the preat war panic, has now returned
to Haverhill, beinp unable, from dan
ger of seasickness, to command tbe
United States ship Pinafore. Hut Ad
miral Hi'jpinson and the duchess of
Marlborouph had possession of the
quarter-deck at the last accounts and
the preat war panic was prnoeedinp.
The booming of champagne corks was
distinctly heard in that direction and
it is hoped that the gallant admiral has
captured a prize. In the meantime
the captains and the fleet are anxious
ly awaiting the signal fi r close ac
tion. The latest orders from the
president, by wireless telegraph, were,
it is reported, to smash the enemy and
take no prisoners.
The balance of the cabinet and other
“high officials” have not been heard
from for over two months. X<> one
believes they are idling away their
time, but not being experienced trust
hunters, like their chief, the hope of
their bagging any game is a forlorn
one.
\ report has r,,T some time been in
circulation at Washington that Post
master (ienera! Payne has been treed
by a trust in the wilds of Wisconsin,
hut even if true, which is doubtful,
it is expected Senator Spooner, who
is influential with trusts, will release
him from his predicament.
tn Iona Tnrlfl Chirp.
The much abused editor of the re
publican campaign book evidently had
a straight tip when he threw cold wa
ter on tariff revision, for the leaders
of that party, from president down to
pothouse politicians, are ignoring tin
question. Occasionally a chirp is
heard from western states that indi
cates they believe the trusts can best
lie downed in that way. For instance,
here is the I)es Moines Register declar
ing:
"There Is not so very much difference
between republicans on tariff legislation
About all It amounts to Is that some want
the tariff revised, hut In such a way as n .t
to disturb our Industrial prosperity, others
ar. willing to have It revised, providing it
will rot disturb our industrial prosperity.
There is no occasion to magnify differences
It Is much more important to magnify the
common purpose and. to go about accom
plishing It In a harmonious and effective
manner."
-The charge 5s freely made that
his speeches about restraining trusts
are only declamation; that lit* knows
nothing can be done; that his consti
tutional amendment will take years to
get. if it is ever secured at all. But in
cutting away the tariff protection of
trusts there is something definite that
can be done immediately. The repub
licans of the west are demanding that
it be done. I'nless the president is
willing to rest under the suspicion that
he is talking dap-trap for political
purposes he will soon take occasion to
say that he agrees with those ardent
supporters of his in the west.—X. Y.
Post.
FREEDOM FROM TRUSTS.
"° lirp«il»llf*An Prrtldrni „r c,BK
Hn« I p to I hr l‘rr«rnt Brought
It About.
For six long ,farr the republican,
bate had control of all branches of
the government, executive, legislative
and judicial. During this period the
organization and growth of the trust
has been most prolific and their extor.
tions from the public have been fn
i.-rrged and extended to most of the
necessities of life. The coal combine
and the beef trust are examples of
the growth of combinations dwrin.
this period of republican adminU<ra.
tion. J
The opening of this era of republican
rule "as emphasized by the enactment
of the Dingier law. many schedules of
which wen not only intended to pro.
teet the combines, but were artnall?
prepared by attorneys of ihe trust',
and therefore were entirely i„ their
intere -, - The t rust magnates, finding
.1 eni-eli. - securely intrenched and
then began a series of great
" th"t staggered theeom
11 ",,rW fl,"l have gradually
' • price' of most necessities to the
1 g» ■ st notch ever before known.
N a i ura 1I v the voter- begin to kick
.t these . Mictions and attempts were
mao. by the democrats in congress^ I
r’ . 11 ' The present executive
in bn hot message to the < ongrees
recommended publicity as an antidote,
hut no notice was taken of this recom
mendation by the republicans in con
gress. It remained for a democratic
senator to propose an amendment to
the census bill on the lines ,,f pre-i- \
dent Roosevelt’s recommendation. \
vote "as taken and all the republicans
present voted against it and all the
democrats for it. but it was defeated,
for the republicans were in command*
of the 'it iisi t ion.
The political situation became
more acute and upon the close of the
first session of the Fifty-seventh
congress the president determined
to take th« stump and try and stay
the tide that was flowing in favor
of controlling these vast corpora
tions. It appears from his speeches
that he has no remedy to offer other
than publicity of trusts' transactions,
unless an amendment to the consti
tution can be had, but this would
only be available to a future gen
eration and the voters are clamoring
for iminediate relief. I o change the
constitution requires two-thirds of
congress to vote to propose it. and
three-fourths of all the states to
ratify such change. Clearly this is
an impossible achievement if the
present temper of congress is con
tinued. besides the further obstacle
of ail but one-fourtli of the states
agreeing to the same. The corpor
ations control over one-third of the
senate was stated by Senator Mor
gan. and it. is doubtful if they do
not control a greater percenyge of
the present house of representatives,
i nder these eircumstanees can the
republican party be relied on to con
trol the trusts? It won 14 seem to
be unlikely and improbable, (.rant
ing that President Roosevelt is sin
cere in his trust baiting, will be be
able to bring bis party to the same
'nrm of mind? Put unf. rtunately,
there are strong indications that the
president himself is but lukewarm
in tiis anti-trust fight. If he were
sincere, would he be silent on the
principal remedy for stopping the
extortions of the principal combines,
by saying not n word about revising
the tariff and thus cut off the pro
tection that these combines now en
joy, and which allows them to fleece
the people to the tune of from 30 to
ion per cent.?
Nor does he sav a word about the
coal strike or lift a finger to stop
it. yet there would seem to be a way
open. The law of Pennsylvania for
bids railroads to operate mines or
\ manufactories of any kind, and the
federal anti-trust law provides that
combines can be punished by fine
and imprisonment and the judicial
arm of the government could enforce
it.
Tlie miners of Pennsylvania have
behaved with wonderful moderation,
but no word of praise or encourage
ment has been vouchsafed them by
the president, though he enlightens
the public on much less important
matters at great length and minute
ness.
It is, therefore, useless to husk
for relief from trust exactions
from a republican president or a re
publican congress; they are bound to
their idols.
OPINIONS AND POINTERS.
Ilefore Tom Johnson is through
with him Mark Hanna will probably he
calling for an arbitration board.—Chi
cago Dally News find.).
If the president continues to
brace up the Monroe doctrine some
of our foreign friends may think it
really needs doctoring.—Chicago Post
(Hep.).
Mr. Hanna professes sublime confi
dence in republican victory in Ohio,
hut there is some reason to believe
that he is just ns well satisfied that
his term does not expire this year.—
Chicago Chronicle.
— When giga ntie corporat ions have
acquired control of everything, and
the entire community is at their mer
cy, what will follow? Will it be na
tional control of the trusts, or na
tional ownership of their property?—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Congressman Cousins, of Iowa,
republican, says of the Iowa repub
lican platform: “This platform is a
dirty, lousy lie. fabricated by a lot of
truckling, temporizing hypocrites and
I’ll be preaching the doctrines of true
republicanism when the pansy is grow
ing over t heir graves. I’ll support the
ticket and make some speeches, hut I
want everyone to know where I stand.'
1 —Albany Argus.