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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27

The barn and workshop OF Charles
Meyers at LeAlars was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $500; insurance, $500.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
Chicago Rutter and EGG market.

Chicago, March 26.-Butter, steady;
creameries, 19@231a; diaries, 1922.
Eggs, steady; $4,000.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
Peoria Markets.

Peoria, March 26.-Corn, higher; No
2, 3714.
Oats, firm; No. white, 251s@se.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
Receipts for BICYCLES.

Treasury department, Office of Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, Wash
ington, ID. c., March s, 19D0.-Gentle-
men: This office is in receipt of your
letter of February %, in which you
state that you have been informed
that the attorney general has issued
a ruling to the effect that bicycles
transported by railroad companies up
on passenger trains, along with the
owner of the bicycle, can be treated
as excess baggage, and therefore, no
revenue stamp need be attached to the
check or receipt issued for the bicycle,
and you ask whether such a ruling has
been made, and, if so, that copy of
same be sent you.
You are advised that the honorable
attorney general has not made any
ruling on this subject of which this Of
fee is aware. However, this Office has
ruled that the check or receipt given
for bicycle which is transported on a
passenger train along with the owner
of the bicycle is not taxable as ain ex-
press or freight receipt or as bill of
lading. This check Or receipt is given
to passenger on railroad train and
is a privilege connected with his trans,
portation for which he purchased the
ticket, and comes within the spirit, if
non the letter, of the honorable. attor-,
pey generals opinion in reference to,
excess baggage as contained in treas
ury decision 20,169. Respectfully, A.
Robt. Williams, Jr.,
va: - ~
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
New York Market.

New York, March ae.-Wheat, July
72ss.
Corn, July 1875. ~
y Oats, May 28ls.
Butter, steady; 21@25.
Eggs, steady; 12A@12h.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
NO FRARs OF DRATH AND HgLL

if conscience cast no shadow on the brain
nor indigestion mars our joys. indigestion
Dyspepsia, Constipation, Nervousness, Head
ache, III eartburn,n Distressing Bloat or Gas ID
r Seyberts DIGRSTiNR. A 81 bottle good
for 30 to days. treatment. Sold by Your dealer
Testimon iais furnished at Laboratory, s. w.
corner Court and Second Sts.. ottumwa. Ia.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-27
Receipts for Bicycles on Passenger
Trains Not Taxable.
RULING As TO MAIL CARRIERS
Department. Says That Mail Carriers
Who Make Practice of Carrying
Packages From Town to Town
Must Issue Stamped Receipts.
[From Saturdays Daily.1

The internal revenue department has
made two new rulings relative to
check receipts given for Il bicycle
transported on a railway train and to
mail carriers who make regular
practice of carrying packages from
town to town. The ruling in the first
case holds that check receipts given
for bicycle transported on rail-
way train along with the owner, is
not subject to taxation while the Sec
ond decision says that mail carriers
who make it a practice of carrying
packages from one point to another
must issue stamped receipts.
The rulings in each case follow:
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
MINNEAPOLIS NlNN THURSDAY FEBRUARY l. "a
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roads and elevator operators has prac-
tically killed competition in the grain
market in the West and has left its pro-
motors with monopoly of the grain
market. BY boarding immense guam
titles of grain at the market center it
has given rise to the professional bear
speculator, whose business it is to ham
mer down the market, and has brought
into existence and made safe the bucket
shop gambler. Thus do railroads, who
own many of the elevators, indirectly
get in league with a class of operators
who ought to be in the penitentiary
think that government ownership of
these properties is the only solution of
the problem, for hold that there is not
now law and there cannot be a law
that will control them. / also think
that the government should own the
warehouses. No purchaser of grain
should be at disadvantage compared
with a competitor because the latter has
an elevator into which the formers
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higher than the cost of the same to the
owner, and where it may be mixed with
inferior grades and made of less value
than it was when it went into the ele-
vator. . Railroads should be
strictly excluded from the grain trade
for many reasons. Among other things
they can notify their buyers to buy
large quantities of grain on the basis
rates to be published later, the general
public having no knowledge that such
rates are in force" In answer
to questions, Mr.. Greeley said: "Gov-
ownership would be successful
only under system of civil service,
and that it would reduce freight rates
and passenger fares probably onehalf."
Voice, Norman, Okla.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01

A PROPOSAL
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ton, Without Being Sold Out or Be-
coming Compelled to Bolt.

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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
DAVID AND GOLIATH.

to build another bsidse across the Poto-
mac, to be absolutely controlled by it.
The new structure is, to replace the Long
Bridge, which it is proposed to remove,
so that the Pennsylvania monopoly of
the Potomac river may continue in the
years to come as absolute and complete
as is its present monopoly of terminal
facilities in the heart of the city.
All the schemes for mulcting the
government are embodied in the bill
presented by Senator Mcmillan. This
is its specious heading: "To provide for
eliminating certain grade crossings on
the line of the Baltimore & Potomac
Railroad company, in the City of Wash
ington, District Of Columbia, and re-
quiring said company to depress and
elevate it's tracks, and to enable it to re-
locate parts of it's railroad therein, and
for other purposes. And the "other
purposes" so incidentally mentioned,
line of which is herewith given. The
value of what the railroad demands of
the government in this cool fashion GER
tainly aggregates $2O,0O0,OO0! Another
decade and it will be swelled to $5O, ,O0O,-
900. Yet, it is very likely to go through.
Both houses and the president are con-
trolled by the interests back of this
measure. Big men will aid its passage
through congress. There will be local
clamor for it's enactment. The nation
will pay the freight.-W. e.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
A Swipe at Rocky Fellow.

He sat in the library of his palatial
New York home busily engaged with
; his secretary looking over the morn
| ing mail. AS he had reputation
throughout the land of being a philan-
thropist, most of the letters contained
begging requests for money. He order
ed his secretary to send favorable re-
plies to many of them.
To the Society for the PRONUNCIATION of
Christianity in the Philippines he sent
100000; to the Society for the Distribu-
tion of Tracts to the Starving Hotten-
tots he sent $4,000; to the Chicago Uni
versity he gave 10000 on condition that
certain American professor should be.
discharged and his place given to a
foreigner; and to various other persons
and institutions he gave total of $3O,-
900.
When all the answers had been sent
GUS satisfaction at his charitable deeds.
He was known all over the United
States as man who, having accumulat-
ed an immense fortune in the oil refin-
ing business, had retired, and was now
devoting his time and money to the ad-
vancement of Christianity and educa-
tion.
He had just commenced to read the
morning paper when there was timid
rap at tie door, and when it was OPEN
eG by tile secretary, the millionaire saw
4 poorly dressed woman. who in a
trembling and hesitating voice said:
please sir, I have come to ask you for
something with which to buy food for
my starving children"
'N7here is your husband, madam"
he asked in cold, formal voice.
FEES dead, sid"
"And how did he come to die?"
'"The poisonous fumes of your fur
naccs killed him.
He worked for me, did he? Couldn't
he save up anything?"
"No, sir; when he was able to work
he only got dollar and half a day;
ard he had six children to support"
what was his name?"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
AN APPEAL
To the POpulists Of the Nation to
Stand by Their Principles and
Save the Reform Movement
From Destruction.
And Avert a Revolution the Like of
Which Has Never Been Known.

We think if the reformers Of the
West had suffered from the frauds and
corruption of the Democratic leaders as
we of the South have, there would not
be man left who would be foolish
enough to ask anyone to vote a fusion
ticket.
Let me give you little Of our ex-
perience with them in Georgia.
First, the tax on real and personal
property was $750,0O0 in 1888, and in
1898 it was $2,535, 800, and $4,000 more
rent from the w. &. A. railroad than
in 1888, and thousands of dollars of
taxes were collected from the railroads
of Georgia in 1898 that were not COL
lected in 1883, and in addition to this,
there are thousands more collected from
special taxes. And these corrupt and
dishonest leaders claim to be opposed
to bonds, but in addition to these enor-
nous and unjust taxes these leaders
have sold bonds every year for a num-
ber of years, and believe there is not a
town or city in the state that is not
loaded down with bonds. These cor
rupt leaders have kept themselves in
power in Georgia by the use of money,
whisky, intimidation, stufing of ballot
boxes, fraudulent counts, etc.
The corrupt leaders claim to oppose
trusts and corporation rule. But there
Is not in Georgia a corporation, trust
or whisky man or barroom that does
not support these leaders with all the
power and influence they can command
Instead of allowing the state to furnish
the school books at cost to the public
schools they stand by and see the school
trust rob the state of about s., ,OOO, 900 a
year. And in national politics these
leaders are equally corrupt and dis
honest. If plundering scheme is to be
put through congress and it lacks votes,
all that is necessary is to promise q
few Democratic politicians Offices and
forthwith the necessary votes will be
on hand.
No promises are too sacred or no
rights of the people too dear to be
trampled under foot and disregarded by
these dishonest leaders If they should
stand in the way of Office.
Examples: Promises to the Green
back and Alliance people and to free
silver under Cleveland, and the prom
ises made to the Populists at st. Louis
in 1896. Any set of leaders as corrupt
and as dishonest as these are, and who
have committed as many crimes as they
have. are not worthy of the support of
anyone. There is no crime that these
leaders will not commit for Office, mur-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
A COLOSSAL STEAL
HOW THE CORPORATION IS TO BE
REWARDED FOR ITS AID IN
ELECTING M'KINLEY.
There Are Some Men Who Will Still
Vote the Republican Ticket.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. Avery
recently The Verdict made public expose
of the Pennsylvania railroads unlawful
occupancy of four acres of valuable gov
ernment property in The MALL It told
how cringing congresses and trucking
chief executives-past and present
gave willing assent to the steal. Also
it told in some detail of the methods
employed by the great corporation to
keep congress in subsection. But startl-
ing as were the facts there revealed,
they are not comparable to the Pennsyl-
vania's latest proposition In a bill
submitted to the senate just before the
holiday recess, the company gives faint
outlines of a scheme so big-a steal so
monstrous-that it's magnitude fairly
appalls. Senator Mcmillan, of Michi-
gan, man accustomed to big deals and
projects of magnitude beyond the grasp
of the ordinary honest, toiling taxpayer,
stands sponsor for the measure. Much
honest indignation has been vented
against the corporations grab Of four
acres of The Mall. What will happen
when the scheme in this latest measure
is laid bare to the astonished gaze of
those who toll that they may cause the
national tax-eaters no annoyance?
Since the White House syndicate as
sumed the handling of government af-
fairs, the Pennsylvania railroad-great-
est railway system entering the national
capital-has been quietly waiting for it's
reward. Special trains without num-
ber have been furnished the Canton
member of the syndicate The road has
been at the beck and call of administra-
tion harpies. Now that both house and
senate have been organized by the Re-
publicans; now that Senator Hanna and
his lieutenants are in undisputed pos
session of the White House, the law
making branch of the treasury, the rail-
road demands it's reward. It asks for
no halfway concession. It pleads for
no slight return for it's campaign con-
tributions, it's special presidential trains
Through Senator Mcmillan it demands
from congress the title in fee simple to
tract of land whose value must even
now be estimated in millions-whose
value twenty years from now must be
fabulous!
So sweeping is this latest demand of
the Pennsylvania for it's proper recogni-
ton in the distribution of administra-
tion "swag" that only few of its, many
features may be covered in one screed.
Stripped Of the platitudinous verbiage
employed to cloak steal, this is what
the Mcmillan bill does: Under the guise
of system of elevated and depressed
tracks conforming to the topography of
the government land the company
wants to get it's grasp upon, it gives to
the Pennsylvania railway: First, the
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
Important Information,


Mr.. N. J.. Pritzker, of Chicago, writes
for information, as follows:
The writer, as we'll as number Of
others, is unable to find out what the
present legal monetary standard of the
United States is. And are referred to
you for the answer to the following
questions:
1. What is the legal standard today.
gold or silver?.
2. Are non-specified obligations pay
able in gold or silver at the option OF
the payer?
3. Would obligations be payable In
gold or it's equivalent in value only un-
der simple gold standard?
Under the law the legal money of
the United States is made of gold, silver.
nickel, copper and paper, but under the
Infamous act of February, 1873, the gold
dollar is the unit of value" though
gold, gold certificates and silver dol
lars are an unlimited legal tender, while
money of other material is only linn
tied tender, and silver coins smaller
than dollar for S. and less
2. All obligations of the United
States of every kind are payable lin
coin of the United States that was legal
tender in July, 1870" and as silver doll
lars were then a full legal tender, all
bonds and other obligations of the
United States are payable in silver dol
lars according to law. The main object
of the infamous currency bill passed by
the house, and now before the senate.
is to make them payable specifically In
gold coin.
3. If money made of gold were the
only legal money, all other kinds Of
money would not be legal money, but
only promise to pay legal money that
is gold.
Mr.. Pritzker, like many others, falls
into the error of confounding price and
value. Gold has very little value" as
we have often demonstrated, but it's
price is very high because of it's scarcity
but mainly because of the demand
created for it by artificial means, that
is by giving it a monopoly as money
material.
1t is a comparatively useless metal
many other metals being far more use
full to man. If all the gold in the world
were dumped in the bottom of the sea
it would be hardly missed, but if all the
iron were to disappear the world wonid
l.,epse into barbarism-we should haze
no machinery, no telegraph, railrond
or printing press.
So you see iron is far more valuahGo
than gold. But the price" of gold, aor
the reasons stated, is much higher than
Advance.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01

der not excepted. Look at the murders
that were committed in North Carolina
in 1898 in the interest of the Democratic
party by the red shirt outlaws of that
state. We might as well expect happi-
ness and pleasure in hell as to expect
relief at the hands of such men.
The history Of the race has never pro-
duced an example in which an old or
ganization, either religious or political,
ever reformed itself or anything else.
This being the case, why should we ex-
pect this corrupt age to produce an ex-
ception, and that in set of men as
corrupt as these leaders are? There is
no relief in the Chicago platform. It
is sham and a fraud and was made
only to deceive and mislead and to
break up the reform movement.
There cannot be any relief to the peo-
pie in any financial measure that carries
in it redemption principle And it
is always put in platforms for the use
and benefit of the money power. And
there cannot be given the money power
any privilege more injurious to the
people than this, and the corrupt leaders
of both old parties know this, and there
has never been one who advocated this
redemption measure but who has
known this. And such are enemies to
reform as we'll as the worst enemies to
the people.
We, the Populists of Georgia appeal
to you to stand by reform principles
and support only true reformers for Of
flee.
We appeal to you, as reformers, not to
give aid or comfort to our bitterest, our
worst enemies, the Democratic leaders.
There are no worse enemies of reform
in the nation than these. We cannot
support them for anything and we can
not but think that no friend of reform
or friend to Southern Populists will ask
us to do SO, or repeat the mistake of
1896.
OF one thing am sure, the Populists
or Georgia will not do it. We will not
entertain such a measure for a moment.
No power on earth can induce us to
affiliate politically with these men who
are our worst enemies.
We appeal to you for your sympathy
and aid. We believe you are our friends
and will assist us.
s. ]. M'KNIGHT,
Chairman State Ex. Com. P. P.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01

right to use The Mall for tracks and
station buildings; vests title in the COM
pany to government property it has IL
legally used rent free for 80 years;
makes over to the railway without a
dollar in return a title in fee simple to
property bought and paid for by the
people of the United States. Second,
the title to 80 acres of government prop
erty along the Potomac river front
This reservation has been set apart by
in the Pennsylvania plans. The land
is worth $1,000 an acre. 1t needs it in
it's business! Third, the right to use all,
or nearly all, of the government reserv-
alton named in honor of the martyr
president, Garfield Park. Congress is
called upon to grant away the nations
title to this park SO that the great rail-
road system may have land enough for
it's yards and stations! There's land to
sell, acres of it, on all four sides of
Garfield Park. But the Pennsylvania
is not buying real estate. It don't have
to if this great scheme goes through.
Fourth, the United States fish commits
sion, which occupies a beautiful site
upon The Mall. is to be removed. The
expense of tearing away the permanent
government buildings In which the COM
mission is housed, issto be borne entire
ly by the government Then the site is
to be given to the railroad. This would
entrench it forever upon both sides of
The Mall. Only a short strip of terri
tory would then be lacking to enable the
Pennsylvania to cut The Mall in two
near the center. Fifth, the United
States and the city of Washington are
to abandon to the railroad company in
perpetuity all their right, title and oc-
cupancy of not less than dozen streets
and avenues leading to The Mall, or
connecting Southwest Washington-the
river front-with the city proper. All
these things the Mcmillan bill proposes.
But this enumeration of the things it
does fails to include the half.
This story of the biggest proposed
steal of government property ever con-
ceived by railroad at the national
capital would not be complete If the
scheme for controlling the Potomac
river failed Of honorable mention"
Those who know Washington are aware
that the only inlet or outlet for rail-
roads to the South Is VIA the Long
Bridge over the Potomac. It's the only
railway bridge across. the river. Con-
gress has time and &gain refused re-
quested charters to- the Baltimore &
Ohio, the Southern ana the Chesapeake
& Ohio: They can't bridge the Potomac.
The Long Bridge as, and has been since
it's erection, contr6lled by the Pennsyl-
vania To secure this control it built
a "jug-handle" spur 80 miles long, ex-
tending from the; Virginia end of the
Long Bridge to Q1antico-a spot where
Grover Cleveland used to go for duck
and liquor imbibing purposes
Then it complacently held up all South.
ern roads desiring to enter Washington.
It compelled them to pay the tribute
demanded before it would let them cross
the Long Bridge. They are paying It |
Today. Now the Pennsylvania proposes
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01

Five Men Fix the Price Of Wheat.
The subcommittee Of the national in
dustrial commission has been recently
in session in Chicago, and on Nov. 18
testimony of members of the Chicago
Board of Trade before the committee
showed:
1. That the interstate commerce law
is dead.
2. That railroads give rebates to
heavy shippers.
3. That grain warehousemen have
gone out of the storage business and
absolutely control the (grain) product
by purchase and combination.
4. That five men in Chicago: P. D.
Armour, Charles Counselman, P. D.
Weare and two others, meet every
morning and fix the price paid to farm
ers for grain.
s. That the price is fixed by COM
bination with the railroads, which dis
criminate against outsiders.
All of the testimony before the COM
mittee was most interesting, but we
only have room for little of it.
s. H. Greeley, prominent Board Of
Trade man, testified:
"The railroads are the foundation
stones of the trade combinations which
are rising in this country today. Spec
ial rates on freight are the fruit on
which these combinations live. :.
believe that every public warehouse
man is receiving from railroads advance
information of changes in tariffs. When
these railroad systems become the mer-
chandisers of the country nothing short
of government ownership can correct
matters, for don't believe any law can
be drafted which will govern a railroad.
This combination between rail-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
The Foundation Is the RefercnduHs

The Founda ton Is the Referenduns
Glencoe, Jan. q
Editor Representative: I agree with
Foster that the masses think govern
ment ownership means either cOnfisc2-
ton or BANKRUPTCY, and I fear the time
is too short to convince them otherwise
word to make fusion easy. l hope F0s-
ter has no such intent. l, too, consider
the referendum vote the granite found
alton upon which to keep on building
for wears to come. NJ. r. PARKS
Free Reclining chair cars Cincinnati
to Chattanooga, Queen & Crescent Routo
night trains.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-01
Jim C'DonOlly."

Jim ODonolly."
Il remember him, he was faithful
workman; and If it hadn't been for em-
ployes like him l wouldn't have made
anything. Well, here's half a dollar" l
When the poor woman had left he
said to his secretary: "By the way,I
wish you would add another $4,000 to
the Society for the PRONUNCIATION Of
Christianity in the Philippines
Georges Weekly.