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B. liAWTON, Kdllor und Proprietor.
DEVOTED TD THE ADVANCEMENT OF HOME INTERESTS.
Subscription, ¥1,5(1 per Annum.
VOLUME XV.
NEW IBERIA, LA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1900.
NUMBER I I
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£
Job Printing'
Did You SayP
Well, we should rather
think we ARE prepared
to turn it out. If you are
an 'unbeliever' one trial
order will suffice for your
conversion.
New Presses,
new Type. **
Neat Execution.
Thats Our Drawing Card.
And we never fal to 'ketch on'
to your second order.
Prices ?
Mow friend, really, that's the most
insignificant part of our business.
We don't want the earth and we
despise wrangling. You'll find
us keeping right up with the proces
sion when it comes to PRIOBS
N. B.-Look for us in the first set of
fours just behind the band wagon.
DROP IN AND SEE US.
NEW IBERIA ENTERPRISE.
lunr moi. PosTomoB büildivo.
The Enterprise.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF IBERIA PARISH
AND TOWN OF NEW IBERIA
THE ARM CHAIR WARRIOR.
Ye amateurs of England
Who keep your native sent«
A ml criticise so bravely
The fighting men's defeats ;
Ye turkey-carpet warriors
Who ventilate your view
Of what could be accomplished
If things were left to you.
My paper-map civilians !
One cannot but admire
With how sublime a courage
You I'aee the elubroolu fire ;
With what prophetic wisdom
You speak the warning word,
Choosing the happy moment
When things have just occurred !
There runs an ancient proverb,
Good for the swollen head.
How fools rush in serenely
Where angels fear to tread ;
Hut here the common mortal.
The stroller down the street.
Knows better than to follow
Your rare, intruding feet.
Is not our task enough, siis,
To Iteai the present hurt,
That you on wounded honor
Must dump your little dirt ?
You, from your padded armchair,
Safe in a sea locked land,
While those you smirch are holding
Their lives within their hand.
When we are short of critics
To sum the final blame,
We'll ask a fighter's verdict
Upon a lighter's game ;
But you who pass opinions
On work but half begun,
I'lease give us your credentials,
Show something you have done !
—London Punch.
Dr. Cadff'* Condition Powder*
an« just what a horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and ver
mifuge. They are not food, but medicine
and the best in use to put a horse in prime
condition. Price, 2, r > cents per package.
For sale by James A. Lee.
Regular Meeting of the Board of
Trustees.
New Ibf.ria, La ., Feb. . r »th, 19(10.
The Board of Trustees of the town of
New Iberia met this day in regular session
with Mayor John Broussard in the chair
and the following members present, to-wit:
Messrs. W. It. Burke, J. Lamperez, J. B.
Lawton, J. A. French and A. M. Bernard;
absent—Mr. J. A. Fagot.
The minutes of January 9th were read
and approved, 011 motion of Mr. Lawton,
seconde'd by Mr. Burke and curried.
The Mayor' s _ieport. Secretary's report.
minutes, which are as follows, to-wit :
M ayor's R kport for M onth E ndinu J an.
31«t, ISO«:
DR.
To Am't flnen inipnueil for
Jan., 1899
To Am't Imp'd »took
To (,'ity Hnll R.-nt ,
To «hop rent to HuKlie»
By Am t flnep collected for
month of January
By collection« oiitatanding
fines
To City Hall Kent
By 37't "ays work for tines
Imposed
By tines ontsandinK .Inn
$105 00
10 55
9 00
5 00
CR.
100 00
17 HO
9 00
18 75
39 00
$189 55 $189 55
S ecretary ' s R eport , M onth K nd'o J an . 31, '99.
Am't of Am't of
Vouchers Vouchers Budget am't
drawn dur'g drawn since to credit
Jan., '99. June 30,'99. of each fund.
Mayor's Salary ^
25^K?
Secretarv and Attoi
50 00 9
toAf
350 00
175 00
1101 00
343 (15
140 00
25 00
57 95
183 53
262 25
35 00
50 00
156 80
146 35
58 23
Regular Police . 175 00
Special Police 26 50
Bridge Keeper. 20 00
Official Printing 25 00
Printing and Stationery
Collector Ill 82
Electric Lights
Coroner * Jury.
Assessor
F'g Prisoners. . 35 40
Paupers 33 25
Fire Departmnt44 08
Public Schools ..
Streets and Bridges
7H5 78 2501 88
Janitor 7 50 47 60
Lot for Fire Co 5 00 35 00
B'd of Health.. 21 00 123 30
Market house note * int. 3295 50
Incidentals 19 40 272 45
Market House expenses
II 50 141 70
Part of price paid for lots
500 00
Imp'tof town lot.57 81 123 11
Notes favor of Capt. Morse
for shells 353 40
Note In favor People« Bank
for safe 162 00 162 00
Note In favor Mrs. Jubin for
dynamo
Note In favor John Gebert
for market shed.
One-fourth of outstanding
warrants
Rubber hose
Ind'l school note.
250 00
125 00
849 00
I overdrawn
I 43 65
100 00
75 00
42 05
366 47
537 75
65 00
500
93 20
53 65
241 77
2,798 SO
648 12
32 50
25 00
226 70
77 12
58 30
176 89
1084 86
813 17
324 00
1230 00
500 00
500 00
New Iberia, La., Feb. 1st, 1000.
To the Mtgor and Board of Trustees of the City
of New Iberia:
Gent lemefi—My report for month ending
Jan. 31st, '99, is as follows:
General fund $4005 45
Special R. B. Tax.. 2079 30
Central Market Revenues 37135
Fines 203 20
Impounded stock 14 00
Shop rent 6 00
Total $7278 30
Respectfully submitted,
W. L. Dupty , Collector.
treasurer's report.
(len'l Fund. Market F. R. R. Tai.
Jan. 1 balances . 77 23 $1907 60 1088 00
Dee 1-30 Fr'mW.L.
Dnpuy Collector. 4827 15 383 50 2083 62
4904 38
Jan 1—31 vouehers.lOOS 17
Balances
M. F. overd'n.
2291 10
3316 00
3171 52
3299.21 1024 90 3171 52
1024 90
Respectfully submitted,
J. P. 8r rerhieli.e, Treaa.
It was moved by Mr. Bernard, and sec
onded by Mr. French, that the two vouchers
Nos. 1153 and 204, held by Mr. Lake Train
or, and which were issued daring the Burke
administration, be paid by the Mayor from
the fines. Messrs. Bernard and Freneh
voted in favor of the motion and Messrs.
Lawton and Lamperez voted nay and the
same being a tie the Mayor voted yea, and
declared the motion carried.
Vouchers Nos. 1053 and 1101 for $14 and
$45.50 respectively, were presented by
Mr. L. Trainor with the request that they
be paid as they were issued for material
for the Market Mouse. It was moved by
Mr. Lawton, seconded by Mr. French and
carried, that the Treasurer be authorised
to pay warrants Nos. 1053 and 1101 from
the market revenues.
It was moved by Mr. Lawton, seconded
by Mr. Barke and carried, that tbe secre
tary be authorized and instructed to take
up the old warrants and issue in lieu
thereof new warrants for twenty-five per
cent payable in cash and seventy-five per
cent payable March 1st, 1901.
A petition signed by Messrs. Geo. Simon
id T. R. Morse in regard to drainage was
read and referred to the street and bridge
and
Morse in regard to drainage was
committee.
The following bills were read and ap
proved and vouchers ordeied drawn on mo
tion of Mr. Burke, seconded by Mr. Law
ton and carried :
E. A. Pharr, for lumber, $134; H. M.
Carter, for feeding prisoners, 39.70; Est.
A. Itenoudet, for hardware, etc., 40.65;
New Iberia Foundry and Machine Shop,
for 1 set circle grate bars, etc., 5.40; W.
L. Dupuy, for collections, 181.95; 105.49,
I. & V. R. R., 70.46; M. Broussard, for
feeding horse Dec, and Jan. 10; Electric
Light Plant, for Nov., Dec. and Jan. 225;
Jno. Broussard, for paupers, 12.15; J. W.
Tayloi, for cement side walk, 36. The
bill of the P. L- Renoudet Cypress Co.
Ltd. for $268.12, was approved for$253.12,
deducting $15 for 1000 feet of siding of
which $151.60 is to be paid from the
amount appropriated for town lot and
$151.52 from street and bridge fund. The
bill of Revere Rubber Co. was referred
back to Iberia Fire Co. No. 1.
It was moved by Mr. French, seconded
by Mr. Lawton and carried, that the ac
tion of the Mayor in accepting $068 from
the Insurance Company for damages on
the market house during the recent fire,
be approved.
It was moved by Mr. Bernard, seconded
by Mr. French and carried that the City
Attorney be and he is hereby authorized
and instructed to institute suit against all
parties who owe the town for building
sidewalks in front of their property.
It was moved by Mr. Lamperez seconded
by Mr. Bernard and named, that the
meeting adjourn untill the next regular
meeting. John Broussard , Mayor.
A. J. Cammack , Secretary.
For the Babie*.
There is no better medicine for the ba
bies than Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
Its pleasant taste and prompt and effectual
cures make it a favorite with mothers and
small children. It quickly cures their
coughs and colds, preventing pneumonia
or other serious consequences. It also
cures croup and has been used in tens of
thousands of cases without a single fail
ure so far as we have been able to learn.
It not only cures croup, but when given as
soon as the croupy cough appears, will
prevent the attack. In cases of whooping
cough it liquefies the tough mucus, mak
ing it easier to expectorate, and lessens
the severity and frequency of the par
oxysms of coughing, thus depriving that
disease of all dangerous consequences.
For sale by James A. Lee, Druggist.
Call Meeting of the Board of Health.
New Iberia, La., Feby. 5th, 1900.
The Board of Health of the town of New
Iberia met this day in special session pur
suant to call with Dr. Alfred Duperier in
the chair and the following members pres
ent, to-wit : Drs. Sabatier and King and
Mr. B. D. Stansbury. Absent—Mr. J. P.
Suberbielle.
The object of the call was stated to be
for the purpose of taking action to prevent
the spread of.smallpox. •
It was moved by Dr. Sabatier, seconded
by Dr. King and carried, that an appeal
be made to the physicians of the town to
vaeeinate all indigent persons requiring
vaccination gratuitously, upon the Board
of health furnishing them with the proper
vaeeine virus.
It was moved by Dr. Sabatier, seconded
by Dr. King and earned that the meeting
adjourn,
A. J. Cammack , Seety.
Alfred Duperier , Chairman.
Are you restless at night, and harassed
by » bad cough f Use Ballard's Horehound
Mr. Felix Patout appeared before the
Council 011 behalf of the Police Jury and
stated that the Parish was willing to put
chase a lot in conjunction with the town
and erect a pest house for smallpox pa
tients, each to defray one half of the expen
ses, and that a tract of land back of town
could be purchased for $050.
It was moved by Mr. - Lawton, seconded
by Mr. Bernard and carried, that the
Mayor be authorized to purchase this
twelve arpent tract for the town, jointly
with the parish and to act in conjunction
with the committed appointed by the Po
lice Jury to see about the erection of a
suitable building upon said lot for small
pox patients and that the amounts be paid
from the budgeted amount for the Indus
trial school.
It was moved by Mr. French, seconded
by Mr. Bernard and carried, that the sum
of sixty five dollais be appropiated to pur
chase Î0O0 vaccine points.
a petition was presented to the council
asking the repeal of the ordinance exclud
ing lewd women from the town and read,
when it was moved by Mr. Burke, seconded
by Mr. French and carried, that the same
be spread 011 the minutes and action
thereon deferred until the next regular
meeting. The petition reads as follows,
to-wit :
To the Honorable Mayor and Board of
the City of New Iberia :
We the undersigned residents and
citizens doing and carrying on business in
your city, respectfully petition your Hon.
body to reconsider the late ordinance
adopted by .yourselves excluding from
your corporate limits, all women of ill
fame.
We believe that the present conditions
of the city are more demoializing to our
youths and our people than if such people
were allowed in our midst and allowed to
pursue their avocalion under the proper
police restraint. By excluding of these
people from your city, you deprive us of at
least forty-five thousand dollars a year.
Respectfully submitted, Morris Scharff,
Jos. Scharff, Chas. Heynian, Jules Drey
fus, L. Bazus, Sr.. P. R. Duperier, Walter
A. Veazey, F. F. Veazey, Leon Veazey,
Geo. Henderson, L. 8. Frere, Frank J.
Mestayer, M. F. Smith, J. C. M. ltobertsoii,
J. J. Craig, Emile Deriaz, Frank Blanc, A.
J. I'hargois, ltodney Roddy, Wash. Ber
nard, G. Winter, Alex Moity, Jules Landry,
Ralph Landry, G. Duperier, T. E. Ellis,
T. D. I'ollard, A. B. Mitchel, L. Mitchel,
Ursin Bernard, John Webb, O. Domingue,
Luko Trainor, Jacob Guth, F. Stowitz,
Henry Latighlin, H. Ilankins, Wm. Can
tine, J. Immergluck, M. Immergluck, D.
Boudreaux, J. N. Lyle, 11. Domingue, F.
C. Kramer, Geo. D. Doerle, L. Delcambre,
V. Jennaro, H. H. Winters, R. T. Chias
son, F. A. Streck, E. Lassalle, J. Davis,
Mestayer & Weil, G. Pesson, Lazard Kling,
Nie Muller, A. E. Decourt, O. Blanchet,
Hol. Adler, Hayes & Freeman, DeBlanc &
Landry, Iberia Furniture Co., New Iberia
Steam Laundry, J110 T. Steffenauer, ('. D.
Carlin, Paul Domangue, Mora Domangue,
W. A. Hatch, H. A. King, approved A. G.
Ribbeck, Alcide Labauve, E. Theriot, A.
Sandoz, L. Henry, Jr., Charley I). Thiery,
Chas. Jones, E. Dionne, T. R. Morse, T. L.
Morse, II. II. Caldwell, Aug. Frenzel,
Frank Cantine, C. E. Morse, Sam Weil.
I concur in the above petition with the
suggestion that such establishments should
be licensed and placed under special police
surveilance, A. J. Maumus, E. M. Woodall,
J. G. LeBlanc, Frank Ledger, Ulger Mes
tayer, Laurent Mestayer, Victor Erath,
Breaux & Nereaux, Albert Stafford, Walter
M. Gates, A. Rosenzweig and W. II.
Berry.
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notes of $500, $510, $520, $530 and $540,
which were issued by the previous council
conditioned upon the establishing of the
School at New Iberia ; when it was moved
by Mr. Burke, seconded by Mr. Bernard
and carried, that these notes be destroyed.
THF POWER OF THF NATIONAL
BANKS.
I Extract from Speech of Sedntor Teller
in t T 8. Senate!
We have seen something of tin'
power of the national Imnks. Why,
Mr. President, within a short time
we have seen one of the great banks,
through its vice-president, appeal
ing to the Secretary of the Treasury
to deposit large sums of the Gov
ernment moneys in its coffers upon
the theory that it or its directors
had rendered valuable service din
ing the last campaign to the politi
cal party in power. You have not
forgotten,sir. I think, the letter sent
by Mr. Hepburn to the Secretary of
the Treasury. I have it here, and so
that 110 one may say I misrepresent
it, I am going to read it. It ought to
have blistered the hands of the
Secretary of the Treasury when he
received it because he retained it
without rebuke to the man who
wrote it—he a man who himself
had held a high position in this
country as a financial officer in con
nection with the Treasury. Finan
cial favors to be extended to na
tional banks because they have ex
tended favors to a political organ
ization ! I will read the letter,
which is as follows :
The National City Bank of New York,
New York, June 5, 1897.
My Dear Mr. (Jage : The National
City Hank of this city, of which I
recently became vice - president
through the consolidation of the
business of the Third National with
it is one of the banks designated as
a United States depository, and I
write to request that in any changes
which may be made under the Ad
ministration we may not be dis
turbed in this respect. We should
like to remain a United States
depository, as at present. Of
course, the bank is very strong,
and if you will take the pains to
look at our list of directors you
will see that we also have very
great political claims in view of
what was done during the canvass
last year.
Yours, very truly,
A. B. H epburn.
Hon. Lyman J. Gaoe,
U. S. Treasury, Washington, 1>.
Mr. President, I do not read that
letter with any feeling of pleasure.
1 am not one of those who would
over willingly and with satisfaction
i!t-ortho»«'in mtt+rm-itr. î
like to believe that the American
people and the American officials
are honest; I like to believe that
they pursue proper methods. But
here is a letter which ought to have
gone back to the man who wrote it
with a blistering reply from the
Secretary of the Treasury ; but it
did not. It is put upon the files of
the Department. Why? Because
subsequent events indicate very
strongly that the Secretary of the
Treasury intended to comply with
that request, and to comply with
ic as a reward for services rendered
in a political campaign.
Mr. President, I have not the
language in which to express, and
I shall not trust myself to try to
express, what I think and feel about
such a transaction as that ; but
when I see bank presidents and
Secretaries of the Treasury acting,
not in the interests of the American
people, but in the way of reward
for what some man has done politi
cally, I do not want these banks to
get any greater power in this coun
try than they have now ; I do not
want to see the time when they
shall say, as they may, "We will
make money dear iu this country,"
or "We will make it cheap." Mr.
President, we often hear of the
high sense of honor which is said
to exist among banking men, but
I have no doubt the man who wrote
that letter is as much respected and
honored as any other man in the
banking circles of New York, for
what he did the rest of them are
doing—they are getting their re
ward for their support of the poli
tical organization now in power.
No, sir, the American people do
not want their financial affairs
mixed up with »polities. They do
not want these banks to be able,
when an election is coming on, to
make money fdentiful and again
when they want to assist a party in
power, as they did in 1893, when
they wanted to make odions a
statute which has been passed,
contract the currency of the conn
try so as to make hard times and
bring about certain results. We
have not forgotten the aid they
rendered Mr. Cleveland in 1893 to
produce the memorable financial
crisis of that year to secure the
repeal of the Sherman law of 1890.
James A. Lee guarantees every bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and will re
fund the money to anyone who is not sat
isfied after using two-thirds of the contents.
This is the best remedy in the world for
la grippe, coughs, colds, croup andwhoop
• di - * *
ing cough and is pleasant and safe to take.
Id to re
n 18-4 m
It prevents any tendeney of a cold to re
mit ia pneumonia.
»ûd»»trV or «qnius or philanthro
WHAT IT WOULD ACCOMPLISH.
Another important aeeession to
the support of the single tax method
of raising publie revenues is the
Louisville Commercial, the leading
republican paper of Kentucky. The
intelligence und force which the
Commercial brings to tlv» cause of
fiscal reform in the single tax di
rection may be seen by reference
to one of its leading editorials which
we here reproduce :
Alderman Stratton. in the course
of his remarks before the Com
mercial club last evening, struck
the keynote of equitable taxation
when he declared for a single tax—
a tax on land exclusively. The
general adoption of the single tux
throughout the United States would
make the American people the en
vied nation of the world, the hap
piest people constituting a division
of society anywhere 011 earth. The
adoption of the single tax by Hit
state of Kentucky would put this
commonwealth in a most favored
position by comparison with the in
dustrial and social status of any
other state in the unioi^_ We be
lieve that the city of Louisville, de
riving all of its revenues from the
taxation of land alone within its
limits, would wit ness the easy so
lution of the difficult and complex
problems that now confront its
general Council, its organized pub
lic bodies,and its taxpaying masses.
We believe that under this ration
al and simple system of taxation,
Louisville would promptly feel the
pulsations of a more vigorous mu
nicipal existence than has ever fall
en to its lot before or that can pos
sibly come to it under any other
system of taxation whatever.
The whole question of encourage
ment of manufactures and the pro
motion of industry and t he develop
ment of commerce here would be
solved, for there would be 110 taxes
to pay on the wealth created either
by the labor of the hand or the
brain. No man who made a wag
on, or a bolt of cloth, or a barrel
of flour, or a threshing machine, or
who built a house, or painted a pic
ture, or collected a library, would
have to pay a penalty for having
py. Everybody from everywhere,
possessed of enterprise or of su
perior intelligence, or of exception
al talent, or of large purposes af
fecting the development of human
ity, would seek out, among all the
great cities of the Ignited States,
the single city where these quali
ties were assured of unlimited
scope, the municipality that shall
be wise enough to tax privilege and
let the builders and producers pile
up human comforts and satisfac
tions, triumphs of skill and genius,
monuments of industry and perse
verance, without imposing upon
the labor of a single hour a tax to
discourage and defeat it. But if
neither state nor city is ready to ac
cept the doctrine of the single tax
and to enter at once into the posses
sion of the rewards that would flow
from it, the next best thing is the
amendment to the constitution
which the Commercial club pro
poses and advocates, and under the
operation of which the various mu
nicipalities in Kentucky would have
the privilege of raising the reve
nues for their own purposes in
their own way. Clearly this is
asking no favor. It is a simple
appeal for justice now as it was in
1897, when, to the amazement of
students of taxation everywhere, a
similar proposition was rejected by
the electorate of the state. We
believe the resolution adopted last
uight will appeal powerfully to Gov.
Taylor, aud that he will indorse it
in a message to the legislature.
Prom there it ought to go to the
people and be overwhelmingly
sustained. The principle involved
is one of the essentials to Ken
tucky's satisfactory commercial
progress aud industrial wealth.
$tOO Reward IflOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleas
ed to learn that there is at least one dread
ed disease that science has been able to
cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive
cure known to the medical fraternity. Ca
tarrh being a constitutional disease, re
quires a constitutional treatment. Hail's
CaUrrh Cure is taken internally, acting
direetly upon the blood and mucous sur
face« of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have so much
faith in its curative powers, that they
offer One Hundred Dollars for any case
that it fails to cure. Send for list of tes
timonials. Address,
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
An ice cream merchant of Honolulu,
finding business dull, wandered out one
day and seized an unoccupied island in
the Pacific ocean. He claims ownership
of the same under the squatter sovereignty
aet and the government cannot dislodge
bim.
TRUST ISSUF IN THE CAMPAIGN.
The fear of the trust issue
the coming campaign is weighing
heavily upon the soul of the Admin
istration. Mere and there the party
leaders are putting their noses to
gether and «liiKissing the liest
means of IIIrowiTt$; a veil over the
slow moving glacier.
They now propose an amendment
to the Constitution giving the
United States Government control
over corporations. Without tKisible
and (laming sword, what hoj.'vw
mockery is this? Government con
trol is possible now if the la -s are
enforced.
Where is the Sherman law? Has
it become a dead letter? Where is
the Interstate Commerce law. and
all kindred statutes supposed to
control trustsT Sunken with the
weight of monçv attached to their
necks.
In what direction, then, will the
Government wield this club of com
mercial reform? Through Con
gress? Impossible, so long as
Senators and Kepresentatives stand
pledged to the trusts. Through
the courts? Again an impossi
bility, when the trusts are as firmly
intrenched in the courts as the
Boers on Spion Kop.
Through the people? Certainly,
and easily. Kvery man who lias a
vote can put a nail in the coffin of
trust oppression, and if given an
opportunity the people can be relied
upon to effect their own deliver
ance and to regulate their own
grievances.
The Standard Oil Company is
often pointed to as nn ideal tuist.
So it is. The evils which exist in
this company exist to a greater or
less degree in all trusts. This com
pany brings oil from the earth for
If» cents a barrel and sells it, to the
laboring man for $4 dollars a
barrel, a price which enables it to
pay a dividend of 33 per cent on an
enormous capital.
Thus, if a poor Standard Oil
laborer working for $40 a month
should fall heir to $1,600 and could
invest it in Standard Oil stock he
would receive in interest the amount
of his wages during his natural life.
wu- 1 a
When a t^ lends moMV ^
these figures the law deals with him
as a usurer. The law should like
wise deal with oppressive trusts as
usurers. Miller, the Brooklyn
swindler, was run otjt of town for
robbing the poor to pay the poor.
Oppressive trusts rob the poor to
bribe the powerful, as well as to
enrich their own pockets.
The best way to regulate a snako
is with a club. When it is thus
regulated it becomes harmless.
There is no ueed of killing the
trusts. It is only necessary that
their oppressive power shall be
broken and their poison fangs ex
tracted.
This can be effected without a
constitutional amendment, or a
commission that will sink itself
purposely into the mud to find what
is visible 011 the surface.
Place the campaign cry against
oppressive trusts properly before
the people aud there will be no
doubt as to the result.— N - Y. Jour
nul.
Hail iihmti—Cure Free!
FX ing Soie», Tumors, Ulcers, Cancer of
the Nose, ICye, Lip, Ear, Neck, Breast,
Stomach, Legs or Arms, are curable by
B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), which is
made especially to cure all Terrible Blood
Diseases. Persistent Sores, Biood and
Skin Blemishes, Scrofula, that resist other
treatments, are quickly cured by B. B. B.
(Botanic Blood Balm). Skin Eruptions,
Pimples, Red Itching, Eczema, Scales,
Blisters, Red or Brown Patches, Blotches,
Catarrh. Rheumatism, etc., all due to bad
blood, and hence easily cured by I). B. B.
Syphilite, Blood Poison literally driven
from the system by B. B. B. (Botanic
Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B.
B. does not contain vegetable or mineral
poison. One bottle will test it in any
case. For sale by druggists everywhere.
Large bottles $1, six for $5. Send 2 stamps
for postage on free sample bottle, which
will be sent by return mail. When you
write, describe symptons, and personal
free medical advice will be given. Ad
dress Blood Balm Co., 489 Mitchell St,.
Atlanta, Ga. may 26
If Secretary Qage was innocnt in
his dealings with the Standard Oil
Bank and if the same could be
shown the administration would aid
rather than smother investigation.
The effort to keep the search-light
out of the Treasury Department is
simply a confession of guilt. Hon
est men don't fear the light and
honest public officials have nothing
to conceal from the people.— Wheel
ing Register.
A Trade defter.
We have lost trade by being out of Ra
mon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets. We
can seldom ever induoe a customer to take
any other as a substitute for them when
they have once tried Ramon's.—Justice &
Fletcher, Crossville, Ala. For sale by
James A. Lee.
General Buller had an appointment to
be at Ladysmith Monday night. The ap
pointment was made for him by the pro
tected war correspondents who send dis
patches from Durban, and hear guns 200
miles away.— Pie
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ItACkU'"* CI' i iv t »1 Pierre's i '.ivorite
Prescription, ; 111 \ woman is enabled I"
fact' tin- world witli its duties and pleas
ures without h 11 of suffering This
medicine is not a cure ill I nit 1 specific
for the rlironv diseases peculiar to wotn
These diseases il perfectly controls
and absolutely cures. Tens of thousands
of women have testified that
" Favorite Prescrip
tion" makes Weak
Women Strong and
Sick Women Well.
The steel and wire trust has just
ledared a dividend of 7 per cent.
011 its common stock, and its direc
torate proposes the purchase and
retirement of $fi ,000,000 of the pre
ferred stock. The latter proposal
seems to be well justified. For the
balance sheet shows that after pay
ing the dividend on the common
stock and a full year's dividend on
the preferred stock, aud charging
off liberal sums for depreciation,
etc., there still remains available
iu the treasury the tidy sum of $f»,
862,529.73. This is over and
above, also, the make-believe in
crease of wages—an increase which
upon the whole has not amounted
even to a restoration. The actual
earnings of the common stock has
amounted for year 1899 to 1H.7 per
cent. Who shall have the temerity
now to say that Mr. McKinley has
mit
steel and wire trust? But whence
comes this substantial evidence of
trust prosperity? Is it not from the
arbitrary increase of prices, which
the protective tariff has enabled the
trust to impose upon American con
sumers? How can any legitimate
business earn 1H.7 per cent, on
heavily watered common stock, af
ter paying interest on preferred
stock, unless it is in someway pro
tected by laws creating privileges?
— The Public .
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tain'* 1'oiiifh itemed)!.
During the early part of October, I WO,
contracted a bad cold which settled on my
lungs and was neglected until I feared
that consumption had appeard in an in
cipient state, f was constantly coughing
trying to expel something which I cotdd
not. I became alarmed and after giving
the local doctor a trial bought a bottle of
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and the
result was immediate improvement," and
after I had used three bottles my lungs
were restored to their healthy state.
B. S. Edwards , Publisher of The Review,
Wyant, III. For sale by James A. Lee,
Druggist.
The testimony in the Clark sena
torial investigation reveals an 101
just discrimination against Mepubli
cans in Montana. According to the
testimony, Senator Clark paid $10,
000 apiece for Democratic votes
in the Legislature and only $5000
for Republican votes I This is an
outrage. Something ought to be
done about it. It looks like a
political trust in the interest of
Democrats and unjustly discrimin
ating against Republicans.— Bur
lington Ifawheye.
J. M. Courtney, of Morrillton, Ark.,
suys that Ramon's Pepsin Chill tonic gives
the best satisfaction of any Chill Tonic he
handles. Tasteless and guaranteed.
50c. For sale by James A. Lee.
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The South is building up an all
round, symmetrical cotton trade.
It will in due time make its full
share of fine goods. Its knitting
interest is very rapidly developing.
Within ten years Southern mills
will take a full half of the cotton
to be spun on this continent and it
will rival New England in all fine
goods lines by or before the middle
of the twentieth century.— Chatta
nooga Tinten.
Frequently accidents occur in the
household, which cause burns, cuts, sprains
and bruises. For use in such cases Bal
lard's Snow Linimentt has for many years
been the constant favorite family rerady.
Price, 25 els. and 50 cts. Albert Kstorge.
The New Jersey bureau of labor statis
tics has gathered some facts relative to
the existence of company stores in the
state. Fifteen such institutions were
found and the statistician estimates that
on an average the person obliged to deal
at a company store pays 13 cents on the
dollar more than if he could purchase
wbeTe he pleased.