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Iron County register., 1899-11-09

How Republicans Propose to DeaA
with the Trust Ques-
tfOn.

Senator Hanna has discovered that
there are some trusts after all, and that
there are many more monopolistic
names that are extremely obnoxious to
even republican voters.
The Worlds correspondent at Cleve-
land has therefore been authorized to
say that
"a bill will be introduced at the next
session of congress covering the defects
of the Sherman antitrust law. 1t will be
champisned by the leaders of the republic
an party, and as that party is in the ma
jority it's passage is assured"
1t is hoped that in this way ''the wind
will be taken out of the democratic
Sails on the trust question.
What is the proposed legislation but
another promise. Haven't the people
been fed upon promises on this ques-
ton quite as long as their appetite will
stand it? What is needed is not more
law against monopolies, but an honest
and resolute purpose to enforce the
laws we have. Two or three attorneys
general have demonstrated that even
under the common law "conspiracies in
restraint of trade" can be driven out
of state.
But when a president is elected
through the aid of enormous campaign
contributions from the trusts and COM
bines, and is himself the supporter of q
tariff law that encourages and protects
them, and he appoints as attorney gem
eral corporation lawyer and trust
counsel, what can you expect?
Iftheissu can be fairly presented and
squarely voted upon next year the poll
ticians of Mr.. Hanna's school are pretty
certain to find that the people will not
elect monopoly breeder to put down
monopolies.-N. Y. World.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
WASHINGTON AND INDIANS.
How the First President Entertained
Big Chief and His Band
in New York.

More than once Washington enter
tanned Indians. The Creeks were
troublesome in the south. Experience
had taught Washington the Indians
love of the .trappings of personal honor.
a trait in which they equal Europeans
He sent Col. Marinus Willett semioffi-
cially to Alabama's famous Indian
chief, Alexander McGillivray. McGilli-
vray was part Scotch, part French, part
Indian, well educated, wiry, intriguing
"a power in relations with Spain and
with England, as well as with the Unit
ed States. Willett induced McGillivray
to go to New York with 2S of his chiefs
and warriors, to the presidents ''coun-
Gil house." to form treaty. Washing
ton instructed Willett to pet and fete
them the entire route to New York. Ii
was done. The president gave them an
elegant dinner in the mansion house.
Trumbull, artist lion of the hour, had
painted a full-length portrait of the
president. Curious to see the effect.
Washington led the full-blooded In
dians suddenly into view of it. One OF
them advanced and touched the paint
ed figure. ''Ugh!" he grunted, with
suspicion. He looked behind to see il
it were really fiat; discovered with dis
gust that it was. Not one would permit
Trumbull to sketch him. The president
took an amiable walk down Broadway
with the Indians in their savage dress,
paint and feathers; stateliness of civil
ization and savage stateliness contrast
ed. The dignity of the unregenerate
Indian was real, and yet he was tickled
like child with this opportunity for
display.-Leila Herbert, in Harper's
Magazine.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
BRYAN's POSITION.
HIS Proposition ON the Phiiipsfnu
Question Wise, Logical
and Just.

Republican newspapers are busily en-
gagged misrepresenting the position
taken by William j. Bryan on the Phil
ppine question
They assert that Bryan advocates q
,owardly course and the immediate
withdrawal of the American troops.
In order that the people may know
just what Mr.. Bryan thinks about this
matter the following extract is made
| from a speech delivered by him at Des
Moines recently. Among other things
Mr.. Bryan said:
81 do not favor the withdrawal of our
troops. What / do believe. and what
have repeatedly asserted as my belief,
is that we should at once declare our
purpose in unequivocal terms so posi-
tive that the Filipinos cannot doubt it
Ito grant them full and complete inde-
pendence the very moment they have
established a stable government. be-
ieve that If we should make such an
announcement right now the war
would cease in short time, and our
troops could withdraw without laying
lown their arms in the face of the en-
smy.''
This puts quite different phase on
The matter. The condition of affairs in
Cuba proves that Bryan is right in his
suggestion, and that instead of advocat-
ing cowardly course he makes prop
osition which appeals entirely to logic,
justice and wisdom.
Senator Hoar agrees with Mr.. Bryan
and asserts that by pursuing the same
course in the Philippines as that pur~
sued in Cuba this country would have
avoided war.
In an interview Senator Hoar says:
"By pursuing such a course, instead
IF lasting enmity we should have the
undying gratitude of that people. We
should have had everything we could
ask or wish in the way of trade advan-
tage there. They would have taken our
advice in the framing of their institu-
hons. We should have sent our schol-
ars and teachers to instruct them in
good government and the ways of civil
ization, as we did to Japan. We should
have kept other nations from interfer-
ing with them. We should have aided
them in keeping order. and there would
have been nation in the east differing
from Japan in the fact that it would
have been a republic, and we should
have had the glory forever of having
been their liberators and benefactors."
Isn't it about time for the republic
an press to show little honesty in its
treatment of Bryan? Let them quote
him fairly. His friends are quite willing
to have his statements given the widest
publicity, but they object to lies and
distortions.-Chicago Democrat.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
rne Gall of Hanna.

Mr.. Hanna thoroughly understands
what '.trust" is. They have grown
into power under republican auspices
they are greedy to the last degree.
Their appetite is never satiated. Not
withstaRding the highest wisdom dis
cussed, and the best patriotism enacted,
the Sherman antitrust bill, is it not mo-
torious that the attorney general of the
United States, member of the cabinet of
William Mckinley, has openly declared
that there is no power under existing
law to regulate or mulct the trust or
ganization? In view of that fact, does
it not appear ridiculous for Mr.. Hanna
to say: 1T is said that trusts are
against your interests2 That may be.
But if they are you may depend upon
the republican party to look after
that" Oh! the almost infinite gall OF
the Ohio junior senatori-Ci Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
OPINIONS AND POINTERS

The republican managers,are try
ing to get the federal officeholders and
employees into a campaign trust.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
Many of the phrases used by
President Mckinley on his lateststump-
ing tour through the west will be-
found neatly dovetailed into his Thanks
giving proclamation.-St. Louis. Repub-
lie.
Mr.. Hanna is sufficiently frank in
his defense of the trusts. With.the head
of the republican party approving the
great combinations, what will an anti
trust plank in the next republican ma
tional platform amounts to ?-St. Louis
Post-Dispateh.
The next step tnat'our American
manufacturers will take will.be to copy
the action of half century ago of the
English manufacturers and demand
that every barrier in the way OF trade
be thrown down, SO that the world can
have free and unirnpairedl access to its
cheapest and best markett--the United
States.-Boston Herald.
Hanna has told Teddy Roosevelt
that If he will behave himself like
good little machine man, and use his
tongue and pen. whenever called on, to
persuade the people 10. believe that Will
liam Mckinley is the chosen SON of
Destiny and the special instrument. of
he may have the presidency
in 1904. The.funny part of the hnsiness
is that Teddy appears to belieys Marly.
st. Louis Republic
Before Mckinley went ON that
stumping trip he went out ofhis way 10
say that he intended 10 leave the future
Of the Philippines to the Judgment OF
congress; now he says that he intends
to ten congress in his annual message
thai the Philippines must be ours for
keeps. As 1t in only about six weeks 10
the opening of congress he VIII prob-
ably not have time to change his opin-
ion again. although he has been known
TO do the trick in less than ak houw9s~~
Lafayette tInd.l Journal.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
B5 ELI D. AXE.
aRoNToN
PATIENCE.

1 put her letter by, because
"i.n cumming eyes. I needs must paus
To fashion somewhat of her smile
FROM memory, a little while;
To feel again the gentle touch
Ihat made me wonder overmuch
If such a soft caress of love
were not for ransomed ones above
Instead Of for my earthly bliss
rms handclasp sweeter than a kiss
1 put her letter by bit
To muse and marvel over IL
AS something rare beyond the ken
Of common thought and mortal men;
AS something that the tender years
have traced with not ungrateful tears.
A sweet good-by, it is, to say
Shell meet me later in the day"
And still waiti And still wait,
ihe years have gone-the day is late!-
A shrine of myrtle for her dust
"A letter yellowed with the rust
OF tears-a prayer to understand
Her signal from the peaceful land,
2 j put her letter byi-I know
Its promise will be kept, and, so,
Through misty eyes my soul shall smile
And wait in patience yet awhile.
Chicago Daily Record
Iron County register., 1899-11-09

$50 st. Jean and his daughter es
capped, eh?''
''They did. citizen; and to tell the
truth. I'm not sorry"
''Sorry, citizen? I am glad of it. He
is brave man."
''Good! Then if that is how you feel
about it, 1 will tell you further that his
banker privately warned him to go, and
without St. jeans knowledge turned all
his securities into cash before the edict
of confscation was pronounced. and
forwarded the money to the brave man
in England. Ledger Monthly.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09

Morning comes at last. The dark,
brownish mist that pervades the street
and envelops the house in moist en-
brace rises slowly under the influence
of the suns rays, until, cleansed and
purified by them, it hangs over the
chimney tops, white, glistening mass
of vapor. Even the dull red bricks, the
clothes yards on the roofs, are rendered
beautiful, pictured as they are by the
soft light passing through a veil of
cloud. There is a man in blue blouse
leaning against the wall of building
opposite Pierre ST. Jeans house. He is
waiting for somebody. The great bell
in a neighboring tower has solemnly
tolled six strokes, and the street begins
to hustle with the stir of life. The milk
wagons that had cast momentary va
riety on his monotonous watch three
hours before are now returning lazily
homeward. Another hour must pass
ere he can hope for relief. He yawns
and turns toward the corner, shivering
slightly, as if the mist still clung to
his clothing.
''Good morning, citizen" calls man
driving by in a provision cart; "how
fares the watch?"
Truly, citizen" is the growing re-
ply, ''it's tiresome business: / could
wish some one might try to escape to
make things interesting for me-"
The blinds are closely drawn in the
guarded house, and one would think
that all the occupants were sound
asleep. But there is tall, sturdy-look-
ing man in rough clothes standing near
the little side door through which the
grocer and the butcher and the fruit
dealers are accustomed to enter with
their baskets. At his side is huge bag
that looks as if it might have been a
mattress. 1t is partially filled with
rags. AT the top of the stairs, with her
face pressed against window pane,
anxiously peering through the blinds,
is a sweet-faced little girl, clad in
much-worn, once discarded dress. What
are these two waiting for? The hour
drags slowly by, but they remain as
fixed at their posts inside as does the
man in the blue blouse in the street op
posite.
At last the great, deep-toned bell in
the tower tolls again. The man In the
street turns once more to the corner.
In moment his face lights up with
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
Fertilization of Flowers.

Instances are known where the pollen
of one tree fertilized the flowers of an
other five miles away.
Iron County register., 1899-11-09
Mr.. Hanna is still covering him.

Mr.. Hanna is still covering him.
self with oratorical glory. His latest
utterance is one in defense of the trusts,
which he says are organizations for the
mutual benefit of their proprietors,
with which neither politics nor the pub
tic have anything to do. They are
beneficent institutions. = Washington
Times.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
The report closes thus:
ATLANTIC STEAMERS.
Big Liners Now Due Have Not Been
Sighted, but They May be
Off Sandy Hook

New York, Feb. 13.-None of the At
lantic passenger steamers from Great
Britain and the continent that regularly
arrive here at the end of the week has
yet been sighted. The passenger liners
due are the American liner Paris, nine
days out from Southampton, which was
due Oh Friday; the Cunarder Etruria,
eight days out from Queenstown; the
french liner La Bretagne, nine days out
from Havre; the Anchor liner Anchoria,
sixteen days out from Glasgow; the Hol-
land-American liner Spaarndam, eighteen
days out from Rotterdam: the Ham
burg-American liner Petoria, fifteen days
out from Hamburg; the North German
Lloyd liner Gera, thirteen days out from
Bremen; the White Star liners Nomadic
IA frelghter), thirteen days out and the
Cymrlc, ten days out from Liverpool.
Freight steamers whose voyages are
growing uncomfortable long, are the
Eastern Prince, tWenty-fOur days out
from Shields; Deike Rockmera. twenty
five days out from Hayre; Salerno, TWEEN
ty-siX days out from Newcastle. Eng
land, and the Catania, eighteen days out
from ST. Michaels. The Almida, fifty
eight days out from Shields. was about
being given up as lost with all on board
No doubt large fleet of steamers has
arrived in the vicinity Of Sandy Hook bar
and is waiting outside for the blizzard to
pass. The marine observer laconically
report: Nothing but blizzard.
London. Feb. 13.-Terrifc gales are
again prevailing on the coasts of the
British isles. Many ports have suffered
serious damage from the waves, esplana-
DIES being washed away in many cases.
Shipping has been battered severely, and
several minor wrecks with some loss of
life, are reported.
London, Feb 13.-The Hamburg
American Steamship company has issued
an assuring statement regarding the
cOmpany's steamer Bulgaria, reported in
a dispatch from Ponta Del Gada, Azores.
yesterday, as drifting helplessly 800
miles from the Azores, where twenty
five passengers, women and children,
were taken from her by the tank steamer
Weehawken, and landed at Ponta Del
Gada. The statement is to the effect
that they have been advised that the
Bulgaria's rudder was injured, but that
her commander, Capt. Schmidt, one of
the Oldest and most efficient shipmasters,
evidently considered the situation so lit
tie dangerous that he declined the Wee
hawken's offer to take the Bulgaria in
tow. The company. it is added, has
taken steps to render assistance to the
steamer
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IN THE SOUTH.
Fifteen Below at Admission.

Atlanta. Ga, Feb 13.-The South
shivered today in a temperature of I'M
precedented severity. From the Gulf of
Mexico nOrthWard and from the Atlantic
coast to the west boundaries of Texas,
the cold wave has settled heavily on the
country and produced the lowest temper
atureS ever known.
Admission, Ala, reported the lowest
temperature-15 below-at I O'clock this
morning. Atlanta comes next with S1h
below. recorded officially. This is the
lowest ever known here, the low mark
being broken by six degrees. Street Their
mOmeters recorded 10 and u below. and
this temperature, accompanied by wind
which reached 4 velocity of fifteen miles
an hour. made the cold almost unbear-
able. Great suffering was reported to
the police early in the day, and prompt
measures We're taken for relief The
Atlanta Journal and Atlanta Constitu-
ton companies co-operatcd with the pc
lice and furnished coal and provisions TO
hundreds of families. \ large number Of
persons with frOstbitten hands, faces
ears and noses were cared for early in
the morning. and ten cases were sent TO
the Grady hospital. One week ago the
temperature was II.
The street-car traffic is demoralized,
no cars having been run on some lines
since Saturday night. -Four inches of
snow covers the ground. Supt. Stephens
of the Western Union reports telegraph
facilities badly demOralized. There is
no connection with New Orleans or Jack
sonville, Fla, and many wires in every
direction have snapped as they were
frozen from the cold. The storm in the
vicinity Of Mobile has wrecked all wires
to New Orleans, and large crew of
line men left Mobile early in the day
in an effort to restore cOmmunica ton
Among the temperatures reported to
the weather bureau are the following:
all below zero: Nashville. u; Knox
vile. 10; Selma, Ala, 6; Birmingham.
); Columbus, Ga, f; Mobile, 1: Mont
gomery, 4, and many others lowering
near the zero mark.
Mail Carrier Frozen to Death.
Little Rock, Ark, Feb. 13.-An old
negro mail carrier named BroZier. who
for many years has carried the mail be-
tween Little Rock and FOurch Dam. in
Pulaski county, was frozen to death to-
day. The thermometer last night reach
ed zero and the weather today IS very
cold
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
SKATERS RESCUED.
Chicago SuburbariteS Reach Shore
in Safety After a Perilous
Experience.

Chicago, ILL.,, Feb. 13.-Fige Of the six
persons who were thought to have been
lost on the ice last night were rescued
this morning. They were:
Elmer d. Brothers, of 1851 North Ashland
avenue.
Orel Nancy. his niece, same residence.
Chauncey Nancy, Orel Manneys neph-
ew, same residence
George Malloy, Is years old, of Lake For
est.
]. W. Carons, IS years old. of Lake Forest.
Arthur Fletcher of Ravenswood Park,
who was reported missing, was found at
his home this morning. Both Of his feet
were frozen.
Fletcher says that about o'clock last
evening he and three others were skat-
ing on the lake near Calvary cemetery
when they saw Brothers and his party.
The latter were cut off from shore by
a crack in the ice that in places was 100
feet wide. He told Brothers he would
go 20 shore and get boat, which ne
did. When he returned. however,
Brothers was not in sight. and FletchC.
searched nearly all night for him and
his companions. Fletcher fell in the wa
ter twice during his wanderings in the
dark and it was with great difficulty that
he finally reached shore. with both of his
foot frozen
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15

cation wits the outside world the con
dltlOnS then were not comparable to
those Of today in this vicinity. Railroad
traffic was almost abandoned today, the
only train up to noon being a local from
Baltimore.
The Potomac is frozen over with six
inches Of ice and unless broken a food
IS quite probable that will inundate the
lower sections of the city, especially as
reports from the mountains north and
west of the city show that they are
buried deep in snow. Many cases of ex-
IRENE suffering in the country districts
are expected to be reported later.
The snowfall in this city and condi-
lions in the surrounding country have
been about the same, for the whole storm
since it began, as officially registered by
the weather bureau up to this morning at
II O'Clock, has been p ITO inches in
depth. Practically none of this has
melted away, SO that the depth that
covers the city is about p inches.
At Alexandria, Va, the snowfall is
very heavy and has resulted i'll almost
completely isOlating that place from the
outside world. River navigation is sus.
pended. The Norfolk & Western steam
er from Norfolk left Norfolk last night
for Washington but turned back. The
and many coal barges are icebound and
their crews in a helpless condition.
This forenoon the storm center was off
Cape Henry. 1t had come up the Allan
tic coast from the gulf, leaving a heavy
white trail in its wake, and was working
its way up the coast gradually, so that
its seyerest effects are likely in New
York and New England today and to-
morrow. In the South the snow was
accompanied by intense cold At many
factory towns the operatives remained
in the mills as affording better shelter
than their homes
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
AT WASHINGTON.
Business suspended at the Capital.

Washington d. c., Feb 13-The phe-
nomenal weather of the past week Gull
minated in a blizzard-like Snowstorm to-
day which broke all records and left no
room for the oldest inhabitant to say
the winters were no longer as severe as
when he was a boy.
The temperature record was smashed
last week when the thermometer went to
t[s degrees below zero and snow record
was established when to the heavy fall
of the past week thirteen inches was
added from Saturday night up to 10
O'Clock today. At the hour when the
weather bureau made this observation
the snow was falling as fast and heavily
as at any time since it began and high
wind was piling itein huge drifts At
noon there had been no let up at all in
the snowfall and the sky gave no indica-
ton of immediate relief, though the
weather bureau held out an indefinite
promise that the storm would pass over
either this afternoon or tonight. The
one favorable element in the storm situa-
ton was the comparatively moderate
temperature, the thermometer showing
40 degrees above zero. Behind the snow
storm is a cold wave. so that when the
snow abateS zero and below is likely to
add TO the suffering.
Business is practically suspended
Street cars either were running not II
all or so infreQuently as to be of little
real service. The car lines chief value
in fact, consisted in the path the car
sweepers made for pedestrians whom
duty sent forth into the storm. Business
III the departments was almost at
Standstill, less than half the force re
porting At noon the treasury depart
ment dismissed the clerks and other EN-
pioyes for the day, and other depart
ments, it was expected, would follow
suit The paralysis to all kinds of bust
cess was the worse since the fierce biz
zard of March, 1888. The telegraph
wires were in better working order thar
then, but aside from better cOmmuni
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
AROUSED GREAT FEELING.
Cubans Stirred Up Over the Incidents
at GarCia,s Funeral,

Havana. Feb. 13.-Maj. Miranda, who
was one of the members Of the staff of
the late Gen. Garcia, and is now an
employe in the postal service, was the
only officer to assist in carrying the cof-
fin of the late commander at his funeral
on Saturday. The other bearers were
chiefly obscure negroes, and this fact
has caused a feeling of Indignation
against the generals who were interested
in formulating the programme for the
obsequies.
At a well-attended secret meeting of
the members of the Cuban Assembly
and prominent Cuban generals, held yes
terday, it was decided to request Gen.
Andrade, who in November last was
chosen vice-president of the Cuban mill
tary assembly, to resign in view of the
grave error he committed on Saturday
in ordering the Cuban troops not to
march in Gen. Garcia's funeral process
sion
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-02-15
FRANCE MUST LEAVE.
England will Not Permit Coa1ina
Station at Muscat.

London, Feb. 13.-At the foreign office
it is not thought that any serious trouble
will be caused by the French deal with
the Sultan of Muscat. The exact extGlt
of the arrangement is not quite clear 1T
is not new pinprick, however, but one
decided upon long ago, when it seemed
that England rather liked these pin
pricks A French coaling station in that
particular part of the world would not
be tolerated by this country and doubt
less NJ Cambon has already been told
So The foreign Office believes that the
Sultan must have been heavily bribed,
and thinks it necessary to call him
sharply to account.