Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1900-06-29

There is now strong combination, of
; which Rockefeller is at the head, which,
while there was show Of competition,
! forced the rates down so that, the small
craft couldn't live. Having practically
! frozen them out, the rates are now so
exorbitant that vessels ha3e lain
idle, for the reason that yhipperz
couldn't use them and keep from loss.
The little ones are now practically out
of the carrying business. This will
also affect the independent mine own.
ers and lumbermen, who will find that
they cannot ship without prohibitive
rates, while the firm at the head of the
! steamship combine practically controls
the mining and lumber business, and SO
can afford to pay heavily out of one
hand into the other. The combine now
demands a freight rate that is larger
than has been known before, and the
days for cheap carrying rates on the
! lakes are over. This state of affairs is
vitality interesting and dangerous to
shippers tributary to Duluth
Particulars concerning this situation
will be awaited with deep interest, for
it may reasonably be expected that this
murder will out And yet it will
be a question, as Hanna would say, of
"What are you going to do about it,
For those fellows who are Selling on
the great waterway that God has pro-
vided and Uncle Sam improved for use
of all the people will say, like Hanna,
eve know our business
Speaking of other transportation in
terests, decreased railway earnings over
last year, marked decreases, as well as
in bank clearings, are further gold.
standard, Mark Hanna prosperity signs
for June to this date
1t actually worried the goppite Fair.
mont News that Adjutant General
Lam bert turned out in military uni
form to welcome the Beers. Why,
bless you, nothing more proper, con-
sidering the fight the Beers put up
against powerful England-a fight, by
the way, they would never have had to
make had the Mckinley administration
been truly American.
The American Federation of Labor
raises its banner of unionism and will
make the test fight under the leader.
ship Of President Gompers, taking the
St. Louis cases as the foundation. IF
need be every city in the country will
be involved. Since the St. Louis corpo-
rations made that distinct issue, by its
refusal to arbitrate the question of
union rights, no other course is left
labor than to make the fight to the Bit
ter end. Already orders against going
to cities affected by strikes are out for
dozen or more large places, President
Gompers has an army of 100000 in
the unions to follow him, and he has
the moral support of a large majority of
the people Of the land.
The New York World gives the list
of trusts organized in the last two years
Of the Mckinley administration. 1t
fills two columns of small type, footing
hundreds of millions of dollars. They
are more in number and amounts than
were organized before in all the history
of the county. Four more years of it
under Mckinley promotion, and where
would the country be.
The Republican national COMMITTEES
would skin the Southern off ceholders
alive, they would, for interference with
politics, and passed resolution calling
on Mckinley to attend to it. Then
Hanna quietly asked Payne to put the
paper in his pocket, and he did. That s
the way they will do with trusts.
The state railroad commission while
investigating rate charges in the south
west, have found reason to investigate
rates in general in the state, and such a
hearing will be commenced June rs, o:
which all the roads have been given due
notice.
Bad omens from the rep Hanna con-
vention are too numerous to mention.
But the most distressing, after the
ominous thirteen" of the minute when
Foraker spoke Little Mack's name!
was Hanna's management with a fu-
neral proccssioA on the way to the con-
vention on the fatal morning.
And they do ss,v that the nanufac-
tured cheering Of Mckinley lasted
thirteen minutes Blaine's in 1884 lasted
three times thirteen, and all know
what happened to Blaine.
The deaths head and cro:sbones,
also, Of Kentucky Taylor were conspicu-
Gus, not to mention Quay and other
dead things. Altogether the goppite
outlook is full of forebodings.
And by way of correction Of the state.
ment elsewhere of no enthusiastic rat.
iticat ion in tho T1vi;, (.iri,,S Niuno9nO-