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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17
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Carnegie in the.Role Of plate.

Mr.. Carnegie may be disappointed
in his hope as to how public regard
may finally settle: the question of his
responsibility. As, to the virtues IT
Henry Clay Frick and his value to
Pittsburg, Homestead, Pennsylvania
and the United States, that, too, may
be left to time and the people to de-
termine, and again, if Mr.. Carnegie
lives long enough amid the ICON
genial pursuits" he has chosen, a
verdict may be brought in that will
surprise him.
The present Importance of Mr..
Carnegie's position as announced by
himself is that, it is now known the
entire management Of the steel COM
pany is in sympathy with Mr.. Frick
and supports his methods of dealing
with the workmen through whose toll
the fortunes of the company have
.>een builded. This is not unexpected.
but it is very sOrrowful. Sorrowful
TO know that from the victors in the
Homestead struggle will come no re-
lief to the starving men, women and
CAAAAA1 OA WIN QUILL SllNtT Guu
suffer in their bare homes,
looking out upon the works
(which once furnished them bread,
fuel and clothing Sorrowful to
know that the mistakes of the Home
stead men, and they have made
many, will now be cruelty and re-
lentlessly used to their further UNI
doing in covering up the equity and
justice that was in their cause as the
conditions stood when this great
struggle began. Sorrowful to know
that great employer of to-day can
boast of his cruelty, of his indiffer-
ence, of his remorseless intention
to. exact his rights to the last pound
of flesh, and can still expect a public
to take him at his own rating, to ac-
cept his justification of his own
deeds, or those of his approved
agent, and to exOnerate him
from all blame. Said good Peter
Cooper once:
Every manufacturer ought to re-
',.~~lber that his fortune was not
we'd by himself alone. but by the
operation of his workmen. He
should acknowledge their right to
share the benefits of that which could
not exist without their faithful per-
Torrance of duty. Not until the cap
italist is just enough to recognize
this truth can he ever join group Of
workmen and feel himself among his
friends.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17

With an annual expenditure Of over
1920, 600, 900 due to the war (for pen
sions and interest on the national
debt) choice in war taxes would fall
on a graded income tax upon every
principle of economy and Justice. 1t
is surely Democratic to tax Injuries
rather than essentials, A graded in
come tax is the coming tax if the ex-
penditures of the government are to
continue anything near the present
mark. New York World.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17
Get in . Few Licks for Refor.a.

The nationalist and Peoples party
men in New York state ought to
make their influence felt as much as
possible in the electing OF delegates
to the Forthcoming state constitutional
convention, which meets May next at
Albany. OF course the reformers
can not control the convention, but
they can do something. One thing
we predict: The new constitution
will be Of brief duration. Within ten
years another constitutional c0nyen-
ton, controlled by the spirit Of ma
tionalism, will meet Tor it's revision in
the interest Of . radically new order
Of things New York. New Nation.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17
journal Of the Knights of Labor

journal of the Knights of Labor:
One class produces everything, an
other class produces nothing, but,
through the operations Of the com
mercial system, the first class is in
debt to the second. This is curious
fact, but not SO curious as the other
fact that this commercial system
rests upon laws which the first class
could repeal if they had the neces-
sary Intelligence and manhood.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17

AS an American business man; as a
banker who has studied the financial
problem for twenty years from q
broader standpoint than personal
greed | think that the present law
hould stand until a return to the
coinage Of the constitution takes it's
place. / do not see that the constitu-
tion gives gold mine owners monop-
oily of furnishing and holding the
only thing that will pay a debt. The
county in which / live has large
debt. When it was made all the gold
and all the silver in the world could
have been coined into American
money at the desire of the owners.
We pay that debt with wheat, corn,
hogs, cattle and other products Of
the farm. Because gold and silver
were thus monetizable money was
plenty,.a large quantity Of them could
be had for a given quantity of farm pro-
duce. We paid tor per cent on our
county debt an annual interest.
Wheat was about $3.50 per bushel
Now we have reduced the interest
to six per cent and wheat is so cents
2 bushel and under. The real rate OF
interest paid is higher now than then,
though the nominal interest is
lower. This is becouse money is
scarce by the raid on the constit,l-
tiOn. Geo. Wilson.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17
TIE DEVIL I 3 u.


49, AAS12s0 w tm0 E0OPA0 S8y0 I'm IL
tlae Omaha PIntfdrna.
In the black record Of She ia past
we scarcely find any deeper dyed vii
lainy than is brought to light ia !
conspiracy suit recently brought Nv
the independent oil companies Of san
Francisco, Gail Complaint is lodged
against the Standard oil monopoly
and conspirang railroads The COM
plant clearly sets forth and furnishes
kilograms and letters between the;
conspiraAors showing that the Stand
ard oil company has been permitted
to dictaSe the rate OF eightyatwo and
half 30 ninety ceuts per hundred on
its oil shipments, Nnd when stocked
up the rabe to be ad-
vanced to 81. 70 iper hundred
to the public generally. This game
Of public swindGng to be carried on
as the pious desires of the philan-
thropic disciples of Rockefeller might
dictate. This shows how oblivions to
all the rights of the people are the
great railway companies Of our. coun-
try, says the Peoples Advocate. The
determinations in favor of the STAN
dard company were very great no
matter whether they shipped oil in
tank cars Or'fn barrels; the same in
visible tyra1ft- doomed the independ-
ent oil dealers to loss, the people to
poor Oil and higher prices. Many
an independent dealer and refiner has
been secretly destroyed by this I'M
lawful discrimination and denounced
as fool and failure lin business
when his assassins have donated the
dimes and dollars wrung from their
victims to public libraries, theolog-
ical seminaries; etc. Now that the
old congressional fraud known as the
Interstate commerce law has been de-
molished by Judge Gresham, we may
as we'll open OUR eyes to real facts
and conditions as they are. Why
should we expect to control the high
ways of the country by an honest and
philosophical management when
one-tifth of the, total railroad mileage
of the country belongs to Standard
trust interests? The $4,000 miles
they now own is being rapidly in
creased, and what folly to talk of con-
trolling by law such interests as can
blow up a rival refinery in Buffalo,
oil derricks in Pennsylvania and whis-
ky distilleries in the West, and so
mcllify courts of easy virtue as to es-
cape punishment. There is and there
can be but one remedy for this cha
otto and brutal transportation sys-
tenn, and that is stand square on the
Omaha platform, which says:
Transportation being a means of
exchange and public necessity. the
government should own and operate
the railroads in the interests of the
people.
The telegraph and telephone, like
the postoffice system, being ne
cessity for. the transmission of news,
should be owned and operated by the
government in the interests of the
DeODlen
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17

Australia's compass plant is double
larkspur, on which two colors Of
flowers grow-red on the north and
blue On the south. AS . compass it IS
perfectly reliable.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17
Tne NicaraxuN Can1l Fraud.

DO the people Of the United States
propose TO tamely submit to this in
famous plundering scheme now being
pushed BY that cold blooded conspir-
ator and traitor, John Sherman It
might be well to remind these rob
bers of the old-time fable of the goose
that laid the golden eggs, and that
they may carry their schemes Of ras-
cality and plumber too far. There is
not the least warrant in the consti-
tuition Of the United States for any
such guarantee as is proposed to be
given by these conspirators. Besides,
our flag floats over twelve per cent OF
our ocean commerce thanks to the
craftsmanship (p) OF our Republican
party $50 that it would be- gift OF
500, ooO, 900 to foreign ship owners
without any benefit to those out of
whose pockets the 500, 600, 600
would eventually have to come.
And, besides. if the investment
is e paying one, monied
men would not be slow in seeing it
and invest their own dollars in it.
But the plan is to rob the taxpayer
as was done in the Pacific railroad
swindle and I'LL the pockets of some
of the worst traitors and villains that
ever went nnhung. And, by the way,
don't it lookas if little old-fashioned
hanging of some of the advocates Of
these Internal bond steals would be a
good thing? Who knows but we may
yet be compelled to administer good
dose Of hemp to some in high places?
| am not sure but If our new party
should declare that in case this fraud
is forced upon the toiling taxpayers.
we should utterly repudiate the whole
thing as being a fraud unconstitu-
tional and therefore not binding upon
the people; that it would receive the
support of great majority of the
voters of the country. For
bearance in this thieving bond
business has about ceased
to be a virtue, and the Juggling
tricksters who have been robbing the
toilers through legalized stealing had
as we'll realize the fact before it be
too late. True, they have the courts
to interpret laws to suit their pur-
poses, but have they forgotten that
the slave power had even the United
States supreme court as their plant
tool; yet when their fancied security
was greatest, the whole fabric top
pied to ruin by the arms Of those
they spurned and despised.
The bill is a pure-faced swindie on
it's face, for the highest reliable esti-
mate of the cost of the canaliis $685.
100000, whereas the bill proposes to
endorse $1OO,000,000. What COM
Portable margin for division among
the thieves and knaves who get the
bill through! But what of those
whose toll must foot the bill?-J. A.
NJ. in the Advocate.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-03-17
Progress.

AIOShCSSs
1T would be impossible to find a
parallel to the progress of the United
States in the last ten years. Every
day that the sun rises on the Ameri-
can people it sees an addition of
~. 500, 900 the daily accumulation of
all mankind public which is equal to
one-third of the daily accumulation
Of all mankind outside of the United
States -
'1t would be impossible to find a
parallel to the progress of the United
States in the last ten years''-in the
increase Of pauperism on the one
hand and millionairism on the other.
Thirty thousand of our citizens
Gown" as much wealth as the re-
naming 64,970, 900 Of our IS, 900. OOo
population.
Thirty thousand of our citizens
Gown" one-half of the wealth OF the
country while there are three hundred
times that many people, hunting,
tramping, searching and begging for
work, and are unable to enjoy one
square meal from one years end to
another.
The trouble is, that. through unjust
laws, the producers of the wealth do
not accumulate it. And it is not
strange that the producers are not
the accumulators-con the
persistency with which they elect
tools OF the afcumulators to Office NAV
Chicago Sentinel.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-26
HOW FRAUDULENT PENSIONS ARE
GOTTEN.

A gentleman of this city has forwarded
TO us a series of questions prepared for
those who seek either original pensions,
Increase in pensions already granted or
restoration to the pension lists after
having been thereon and been cut off.
Accompanying these questions is little
pamphlet giving information how to pro-
coed to get a pension, and stating the
classes of those who are eligible for
place on the rolls. These documents are
issued by a pension lawyer who rejoices
in the fine Hibernian name Of Patrick
O'Farrell. Esquire. and they afford some
very interesting reading.
The pamphlet starts out by saying that
every soldier or sailor who feels the
least disability from the hardships and
exposures of the late war should file
his application, even If he does nothing
more at present" and as each applicant
has to enclose a retaining fee of 81 to
the lawyer" 1t is plain that that gentle
man is liable to line his pockets pretty
well, even If his victims should be re-
jected by wholesale. Then. to induce ap-
plications TO come in freely, the author
goes on to tell how fraud can be easily
practiced so that every camp follower,
bounty jumper and deserter can get up
a plausible case.
For instance. the pamphlet says that.
under the new pension law, soldiers and
sailors are entitled to from Sc to sl2 per
month, according to their disability.
which must be of a permanent nature
and not the result of vicious habits. The
disability need not have originated in the
service" This means of course. that II
any survivor of the war suffering from
any disabling disease contracted long
after the war. can, by any piece OF in
genuity or chicanery make 1t appear
that the disease originated during the
war; he will be entitled to pension.
And lest the applicant might not under
stand exactly how TO work up his pro-
posed swindle against the Government.
hint as to how he may proceed is given
as follows:
Says Mr., Patrick O'Tarrell: "a pension
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-26
THE 1906" STILL KICKING-IF NOT
ALIVE.


The Washington Post contains an ac-
count Of meeting just held In Washing
ton of a committee of the "306'' who. UNI
der Roscoe Conkling's lead. voted for Gen
eral Grant for third term all through
the Republican convention at Chicago in
1880, to make arrangements for reunion
Of them TO be held in Philadelphia on
April 9th.
1t is a worthy and admirable custom
for the survivors of those who have been
engaged in a noble undertaking to per-
petuate the memory of their deeds by So
cietes of the survivors who meet peri
odicaly to keep the cause they struggled
for fresh and green in the minds of men.
But all memorial societies are not neces-
sariIy praiseworthy because memorial.
The memorial associations which perpet-
uate the memory of the incredible wick
edness and beastly cruelties of the French
Commune have little in them that COM
mend them TO the sympathy or even
tolerance of good men; and there is little
more in the memorial association of the
'SO6'' to attract patriots than in the Com
munal associations of the French.
1t is prescrptive law in the United
States that one man shall be President
only two terms. The principle was fixed
in our institutions by General Washing
ton with his customary good sense and
abnegation of self, and the American
people have chung TO 1t from his time as
the surest fertilization for their liberties
against the lust of ambitious and danger
Gus men.
The $685. proposed to dragon the Ameri-
lean people into an abandonment OF this
time honored and conservative principle,
and If they had succeeded, they would pro-
badly have driven into our governmental
fabric a wedge that would have riven
il totally asunder before 1t could ever
have been expelled. The American peo-
pie have less. therefore, to be grateful
for to this $685. than to any other BOG
Americans who have ever lived. They
have little more to thank them for than
the French have to thank their Commune
for. and they were more dangerous TO
America and her institutions than
Frances Commune was to her.
What was perhaps the most fitting In
cident Of the meeting was the fact that
Green 3. Raum was the busiest actor
there. The head of the swindling pension
bureau, the man whose name is in the
mouth of every lobbyist Washington has
had in ten years, was pre-eminently the
man 20 be high priest in memorial ser
vices intended to perpetuate the tradi-
tions OF a deliberate and well-planned
effort to accomplish his country's ruin.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-26
JOHN +. SLAUGHTER DEAD.
One of Lynchburg's Most Prominent Ciu-
zens-Pretty Wedding.

LYNCHBURG, VA. Jan. 25.-Special.-
Mr.. John F. Slaughter one of the best
known citizens Of Lynchburg, died this
afternoon of softening CT the brain.
brought on by long and exh6 Ustiye ILL
ness. Mr.. Slaughter WIS a Eatiye Of
Pit-sylyania county, and was about sixty
eight years of age. Most OF his life has
been PASSED in Lynchburg. and for thirty
years he has been prominently Identified
with the business interests OF the city.
In 1870 he was elected president of the
First National Bank, in which he was n
large stockholder. and held bis position
uninterruptedly until August, 1891, when
he resigned and retired from business.
Ia 1861 he was a member of the commit
tee of nine from Virginia, headed by
Hon. II. NJ. 7. Hunter which waited on
President Grant and through him secured
to the people of the State the privilege Of
voting down certain obnoxious clauses Of
the Underwood constitution. which was
adopted in that year During General
Mahone's control of the Atlantic, Mis-
sissippi and Ohio railroad, now the Nor
folk and Western, he was a director of the
road and welded much Influence in its
maCae ement. He was a nan of bust
ness enterprise and sagacity, and pre-
vious TO his retirement had accumulated
a considerable fortune.
He was a nephew OF the late Samuel
Garland, ST., and a cousin of General
Samuel Garland, the Lynchburg hero in
the civil war. His wife, five sons and
two daughters survive him. His sons are
Drs. Charles and Sam. Slaughter, OF Du-
luth, Mimi; Mr.. j. +. S. Slaughter. Jr.,
of Durham, n. c., and Messrs. Robert
and William Slaughter, of this city. His
daughters are Mrs. X. r. W. Duke, Jr.,
of Charlottesville, and Miss Rosa Slaugh-
ter of this city.
The store of Mr.. c. T. Adams, in
Brookneal. Campbell county. was entered
last night by some unknown party and
the office safe robbed of $ll I'm money.
The Home Guard have elected Mr..
Frank Scruggs as captain TO succeed
Captain Frank Camm. whose resignation
was recently accepted. Captain Camm
was then elected surgeon and an honorary
member OF the company.
Mr.. William c. Silverthorn and Mrs.
Clara ID. Mclaughlin were married at
o'clock this afternoon at the residence
of the bride on Monroe street. The we'd
ding was quietly celebrated, the ceremony
being performed by Rev DR.. T.. NJ. Peter
son. Mr. Harold Il. Jeffrey was best man,
and Mrs. Willie Bowman was maid OF
honor. The bridal presents were many,
and some of them very beautiful. Mr..
and Mrs. Silverthorn left this afternoon
for Northern trip.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-26
Roanoke News Notes.

ROANOKE, VA. Jan. 25.-Special.-
Joseph r. HAWTHORN, who recently re-
signed the position of general loren IN of
the Roanoke Machine Works TO accept
the place of master mechanic in the Grant
Locomotive Works in Chicago, was BAN
quoted at II o'clock last night by Lake.
land and Peasants Lodges of Mas1ns
and presented with a past masters jewel
by Grand Master Peasants.
Charles Estep alias Easter. the boy ar
rested here a few days ago with two re-
volvers and s25 In his pocket and locked up
as suspicious character. was released
to-day.
j. +. Marshall. the well-known proprie-
tor Of Marshalls Hotel, is critically Ill
and not expected to live.
]. Goldstein's clothing and dry goods
store was damaged 5000 by fire OF an
unknown origin this morning.
The Roanoke Street Railway Company
are preparing to convert the Roanoke
Salem dummy line. seven miles long, into
an electric line.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-26
What Distinguished Capitalist of n. c
Says of the Northwestern.

JULIAN S. CARR,
President Durham Smoking Tobacco
Company.
Durham, NJ c., October q, 1892.
Messrs. John b. Cary & Son, Richmond,
Va.
Gentlemen,-I am pleased to say to you
that | have been insured in the North
western Life Insurance Company since
1SG, ard | am greatly pleased with my
investment, so much so in fact, that
have since taken out three additional
policies, making altogether the gum of
$4,000 the full limit Of the Northwestern
on single life.
/ regard the Northwestern as among the
very best insurance companies. IL is
safe, wisely and ably managed, pays very
satisfa Glory dividends, and is I'm every
way. in my Judgment all that the most
exacting could require. | do not hesitate
to commend the Northwestern to my
friends. Very respectfully yours.
J. ). CARR.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-01-26
THURSDAY. JANUARY &c. 1898.
SIX PAGES.

The Philadelphia Telegraph pays high
and beautiful tribute to the late Bishop
Brooks. when it says:
The last words of Phillips Brooks, Il
am going home" were peculiarly apt, and
as the echo crosses the land and the sea
Il will strike anew the deep chord OF
public feeling. One who had lived IN
such a manner deserved eternal rest; and
he died with the harness on, just as he
would have wished TO die. Current eX-
preston on this sad event OF the hour is
all the same. UNCONVENTIONAL lines are
wholly obliterated. Two different bodies,
representing the Methodist and Presby-
terrain Churches in this city, yesterday
took immediate and touching note of
the frreparable loss the Christian world
has sustained. Throughout the CONNER
cial and professional arenas, wherein
Bishop Brooks was so widely known and
cordially esteemed. the sincerest tributes
of respect are heard. and when he is
borne 10 the tomb the sad procession Will
be Joined, IN spirit. by multitude no
man can number. His joyous song OF
Little Town of Bethlehem" Will be his
sweetest requiem, as he enters into the
Everlasting Light"