The Advocate and news., 1898-03-02

$12 900 900 in profits over and above
regular annual dividends of per cent.
upon capitalization of $4,000, 900, and
in spite of royal salaries paid to its Of
fcials.
IA Cottonwood Falls Lead
ormEn., er: OF all kinds Of trait
uENEhAG' ors the man who sells his
government worthless war ammunition
Is the worst.
Wichita Beacon (Pop.): The govern
ment didn't lose all that 1t had invested
in the Kansas Pacific. This is a mag
nifcent victory for the people.
Clay Center Dispatch; THE sacred
ness Of contract" seems to be one thing
in q settlement with the Pacific roads
crowd and something entirely different
in bond deal.
Medicine Lodge Index (Pop.): De
LONE insulted the President, and De
LONE goes home. De LONE may have
spoken the truth about some things, but
the right to give the President particu-
lar hades belongs only to Americans.
Eugene v. Debs: Labor never called
out the soldiers but once, and that was at
Cripple Creek, when Governor Waite
summoned the militia, and then labor in
turn assassinated Governor Waite at the
polls. Altgeld, another friend Of labor,
was murdered by those whom he had be-
friended. 1t looks as though 1t were in
deed true that labor has more respect
for It's enemies who WELD the lash than
for the friends who would aid. This
country is full of brain, but 1t is lacking
in heart and sympathy.
st. Louis Republic: Before the proper
committee Of the Ohio Legislature John
Teagle, a member Of a firm of oil REIN
ers which the Standard is trying to crush,
swore that the trust was constantly and
systematically trying to break up his
concern. 1t employs agents to discover
where his house has obtained orders.
Then these purchasers are visited by the
trust agents, who offered lower rates IL
the original sale is countermanded and is
treatened that II this is not done the
Standard company will supply every
other dealer in the town so cheaply that
the dealer who buys elsewhere will be
ruined. Mr.. Teagle has also proved that
the railroads discriminate persistently
against his firm at the trusts behest.
This discrimination Is also forbidden by
law, but the Interstate Commerce Com
mission seems powerless to make case
against the Standard company, so thor
oughly fortified is that concern.
Trackmen's Advance Advocate (La-
bor): IL Ould be a difficult task to hood
wink a majority Of the voters In this
country and cause them to vote for men
who would enact laws which would trans
fer the ownership of all houses to one
man, or to one company of men, because
they know that under such a state of
affairs competition between landlords
would be abolished and that all persons
desiring to rent houses would be at the
mercy of one landlord or one company.
Under our present commercial system the
exchange medium, called money, is al
most as necessary for people to have to
carry on business as il is to have houses
to live in. Yet many of our citizens, who
are compelled to rent money with which
to carry on their business aid those who
are in the money lending business by
voting for law makers who favor the
creation OF laws that will transfer the
power to make money from the govern
ment (the people, to a company Of men
who are seeking special privileges at the
hands Of the government, that will place
the commercial interests at their mercy
and enable them to rent money at their
own price.
-