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Ti-rm ADVOCATE.
THE MAN Oy DESTINY.
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Meantime the senate haa done its beet
to kill time while waiting for the bill to
be reported from the committee. Senator
Peffer got in a bill to do away with the
secret session fraud. Will it pass? Well,
hardly.
Brother Bland got furiously in earnest
pending the filibuster; no wonder,
either. There sat democrats smoking
and smiling in serene indifference to the
calling of their names, and no quorum
could be had, though the saucy mem
bers were in full sight. Their indiffer
ence vanished like lightning when Mr.
Bland scorched them by calling them
anarchists and revolutionists. And when
irate Mr. Bland repudiated his plaoid
came and said: "If we resolve ourselves
into a body of anarchists, and if some
one in that gallery should pour down a
dynamite bomb and explode it among ua
ne would be no less and no more of an
anarchist than members of this house,"
then you should have heard the hisses
and the cries of shame." Wasn't it
awful for Mr. Bland to startle his fellow
members in that rude wa ? After that
the house had, as Smantha Allen would
say, a gloomy and "depreasted" air, aa if
the threatened bombs might burst from
the galleries at any moment. Continu
ing, Mr. Bland said: "We are here and
we are supposed to be doing our duty,
when large masses of people are begging
for bread. The people of this country
do not go to their beds in comfort, in
peace or in eafety, and we are teaching
to the anarchist mobs that mobism is
the prevailing rule in this house." Oh,
what a satisfaction it must have been to
talk to that filibustering democratic
house just aa it deserved to be talked to.
Bravo, Mr. Bland. Who says there's no
good democrat but a dead democrat?
And bravo, Messrs. Br oderiok, Curtis and
Funston, for voting with the solid Popu
lists and the unaolid democrats because
it was right. Who says there are no
good republicans bat dead republicans?
Not I.
WALL STREET AND CONGRESS.
Whoever has doubted that Senator
Plumb's assertion that Wall street and
the United States treasury were in part
nership, would doubtless have been con
vinced that Wall street and congresa
were also in close business connection
could he have been at Washington the
past three weeks and noticed how the
ops and downs of the senate com
mittee work tallied with the fluctuations
of sugar and other stocks at our great
national gambling headquarters in New
York. Wall street speculators get ad
vices by wire from senate committees,
and stocks affected by the bills under
consideration go up or down according
to the prospects of the bills. Thus if the
committee is to report the Wilson bill
with "free sugar," sugar stock goes down
and the speculator who gets his pointer
from the committee unloads; if, on the
other hand, the tip goes from Washing
ton that a duty will be put on sugar, the
speculator buys heavily. Stocks move
np or down simultaneously with con
gieseional action. Wall street is the
barometer which registers national legis
lation. It is openly stated that Cal
B rices, the ooal millionaire from New
York, who bought bis way into the
United States senate through the Ohio
legislature, made $1,000,000, by using
his knowledge of the senate committee's
attitude toward sugar. He bought when
the tip" said no duty, and sold when
the "tip" said duty. It is thus that the
tariff builds up home industries and
protects the American laborer. It is
through the good old way of economy
and hard work" is given a discolored
optic. It is thus that Senator Ingalls'
sneer at the possibility of producing
prosperity by legislation is rendered in
nocuous. LEGISLATED PROSPERITY.
"Money can't be legislated into men's
pockets." Kansas : republican editors
said this and laughed long and loud in
1890 at the numbskull Populists who
wanted the prosperity which had been
legislated away from them legislated
back again. "Q ait your dry goods box
whittling, mind your deep plowing and
stay away from the Alliance, you gamps;
don't you know that hard times or good
times are the natural causes with which
legislation has nothing to do?" So said
the editors big and little. The same
editors, by the way, who always claim
that legislated "protection" produces
prosperity; who claim that prosperity is so
closely related to legislation that the sen
sitive pocket nerve shrinks and shrivels
whenever new legislation utters a threat
toward the old. Carnegie is a case in
point. More than a year ago a work
man in the Homestead Balling Mill re
vealed the fact that the company filled
their government contracts for armor
plates with quite different and less ex
pensive metal than that put in the
plates which were subjected to teats,
thua saving by fraud millions of dollars
to the company. The charge made by
this workman never saw newspaper light
except in the reform press, and was but
casually mentioned there. The work
man was among the discharged hands
and his statement was rated as a re
vengeful utterance, but recent develop
ments have substantiated the work
man's story. In the early part of the
winter the attention of the secretary
of the navy was called to the fact that
t&eCrnegie steel company were filling
their government contracts with armor
plates of inferior quality. Instead of
ordering one of those investigations of
which congress is so fond, because they
carry appropriations along with them,
Secretary Herbert quiety sent for Mr.
Carnegie and Mr. Friok, who cams and
were admitted to a strlotly private inter
view with Seoretary Herbert and Preei
dent Cleveland, on which occasion the
president and his secretary of the navy
compounded a felony by accepting a
settlement of $110,481 from Carnegie
and Frick. Recently the affair was
ferreted out by a bothersome snoop of a
newspaper fellow, and (secretary Her
bert explained that neither of the honor,
able gentlemen, Messrs. Carnegie or
Frick, was cognizant of the fraud whioh
had netted them several millions of
dollars.
Mr. Cleveland, with a fine sense of
delicacy, sought to spare these honest
gentlemen the annoyance of publicity,
and so kept the matter shut up in his
ample bosom, contenting himself with
tlimpoing a fine" of the sum above men
tioned. Mr. Herbert farther said: "the
matter was entirely a buainesa transac
tion between Mr. Carnegie and the de
partment and as such had been closed.',
I once knew a little girl whose
wrought-up feelings could not be com
posed until she had ejaculated with muoh
passionate emphasis, "Hello, telephone I"
I remembered that small girl and experi
mented on my feelings with her ejacula
tion when I learned of this shady trans
action. I would not have minded so
muoh to have the man of destiny put an
additional smirch upon himself, but I
did feel bad to have the rascality trans
acted in the dear, old White House. I
love that blessed old edifies deamta its
J?;3 Sfnator Saermaa's statement present defilement, and I hope some day
that "there is no way to get rioh except to see it occupied (alter a long and
thorough fumigation) by a man who will
not shield and whitewash thieves, who will
not conspire with gamblers to wreck the
business of the nation; a man who will
not gorge, and gormandize, and stuff
and feed, while thousands of his fellow
creatures just beyond the odors of the
White House kitchen are faint and weak
with gnawing hunger-pains and never
give one penny to the poor whose poverty
he brought on by his object "lesson."
Since this Carnegie affair leaked out
from the White House "secret session," a
sequel has been added. It is charged
by Mr. Frick that "the government econ-
spired against the company and placed
men in their employ instructed to inter
sperse defective plates among the lots
delivered to the navy yard." This is rich
enough to make a graven image smile.
What a cheerful story we shall have
when these rogues who have fallen out
tell the whole tale.
To be continued in our next.
Annie L. Diggs.
The Wheat and Corn Product.
Washington, March 10. The statisti
cal returns of the department of agri
culture for March consist principally of
estimates of the distribution of wheat
and corn.the amounts remaining in farm
ers hands, the proportion of merchant
able corn and the averageTprices of both
the merchantable and unmerchantable.
The report is baaed upon returns of a
corps of correspondence of each county
of several states and territories and also
by an independent corps of statisticians
reporting through the state department
All grain in the hands of farmers, includ
ing theurpluj of previous years, is em
braced in the estimates given.
The returns ;of correspondence of the
department throughout the great sur
plus states ; indicate a new factor in the
consumption of wheat, viz: The feeding
of the same to hogs, a fact due as de
clared to the unprecedented low prices,
the claim being made that this mode of
disposing of the cereal is profitable aa
compared with marketing it for human
food.
The returns also indicate that consid
erable portions of the wheat now in
farmers' hands comes from crops prior to
that of 1893, and especially from that of
1891-'92. Such stocks have been held
principally by larger growers. Some
damage to suoh stores is reported from
Michigan and Washington. The indi
cated etock of wheat in farmers' hands is
114,000,000 or 28.8 per cent, of the volume
of the crop of 1893. This is nearly 21,
000,000 bushels less than the estimate
for March 1 last year, and nearly 20.000,-
000 less than the average of the past
eight years.
On to Washlng'on.
Massillion, O., March 10. At last
the Coxey concert has assumed a defi
nite shape that gives notice to the local
authorities that it is something more
tangible than the theorizing of a crank.
Coxey and Carl Brdwn mustered the
advance guard of the "Commonweal"
this afternoon and the authorities were
surprised to see more than 500 men
most of them strangers arriving tinder
the banners of the "On to Washington"
crusade. A gentleman who has infor
mation as to some things Coxey and
Brown are not giving to the public aa
yet, said to-night that he had positive
knowledge that the forces now in sight
would give Coxey anywhere from 5,000
to 8,000 men with which to begin the
march. The authorities say that this
community can not and will not allow
the assembling of half that many tramps
in this vicinity. They held a meeting
and nominated a full city ticket.
BOODLXES 02 COWARDS.
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that he did not own, at this time, any
sugar stock, nor any other stock except
1,000 shares of Atchison. He confessed
that he occasionally did deal in stocks,
but only for investment purposes, and
not for speculation. He had a standing
order with his brokers in New York not
the same, by the way, mentioned in the
World article to buy certain stocks
when they should fall to or below a cer
tain figure. It happened when he was
south for (the benefit of his health that.
acting under these instructions, his
brokers bought for him 1,000 shares of
sugar stock. As soon as he returned
from the south, realizing that sugar was
one of the commodities that would, un
questionably, be under consideration in
the tariff matter, he ordered his brokers
to sell this stock at once and buy no
more for him. Since that time he has
sold all of his stock except the Atchison.
He made it a point to get rid of coal and
iron stock, and in fact, every commodity
that might possibly be brought up in a
tariff discussion.
There are longer but no better roads
in this or any other country than the
Chicago & Alton railroad. This line
makes a permanent patron of every
traveler who once gives it atrial Its
tracks are of the heaviest steel and aa
smooth as glass. Its road bed is stone
ballasted throughout. Its equipment is
superb. It was tne first line on whioh a
Pullman sleeping car was ever run, the
first line to adopt dining cars, and the
first line to run free reclining chair cars,
and to-day its solid vestibuled trains,
containing all of these modern luxuries,
are running through on fast time to and
from Union depots in Kansas City, St.
Louis and Chicago with astonishing reg
ularity and with exceeding comfort to its
ever increasing patrons. If you ever
make a trip in any direction, between
Kansas City and Chicago, or Kansas
City and St. Louis, or St. Louis and Chi
cago, and fail to patronize the Chicago
& Alton, you may be sure that you have
missed at least one opportunity for in
creasing your happiness in this life.
SPRAYING FRUIT TREES.
$200
mmm
Per Bushel;
Wheat
50 Ota.
V neu apples brio $2 00 per ; bushel and
wheat osly about 60 oents, when the
expense of taking care ef an acre of apple
orchard is no greater than that of an acre
of wheat, while an apple orchard will yield
ten bushels of apples to one bushel of
wheat, it ia about time fruit growers are
opening their eyes and taking oare of crops
whioh pay the largest profit. What is true
of apples may also be said of other varieties
of fruits. By properly spraying your fruit
trees, vines and vegetable crop, you are
sure of a crop no matter what the weather
conditions may be. Snd 6 cents to Wil
liam Stahl, Qaincy, III, and tret his cata
logue of spraying outfits and complete
treatise on spraying. It will pay you to do
o. Mr. Stahl his bea interested, himself,
in growing fruit largely for many years and
ruby understands the wants of fruit grow
ers in this direotion.
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