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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
Works GroaI Work.

The movement in G. A. Il. circles to
erect a monument over the grave OF
Henry Clay Work, at Hartford. Conn.,,
revives the fact that his father was
once confined In the Missouri penlten-
tiary on the charge of aiding slaves to
escape from the State of Missouri to
Illinois. When the elder Work was re-
leased, one of the conditions of his par
don being that he should return to the
State of Connecticut, whence he came
originally, and remain there for the
rest of his natural life. This obliga-
ton he faithfully kept. The sou, Hen
ry g. Work, was born at Middletown,
Conn, and saw the end of American
slavery while thousands of soldiers and
citizens sang "Nicodemus," Ring the
Bell, Watchman," and Marching
Through Georgia."
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28

present day unparalleled prosperity, in
which every citizen has a right to share.
II any citizen is prevented from sharing
IN that prosperity, he is the victim of
conditions which cannot be righted by
the election of Bryan, strongly as he may
be tempted to trust in that remedy. I'M
der the gold standard we have become
the leading creditor nation. and we are
financing the world. We have produced
three great crops in succession, and we
are feeding Europe. We have had three
years of uuexcelled manufacturing in
dustry, and we are finding prompt and
generous market all over the world The
American farmer. the American laborer
and the American business man We're
never as prosperous as they are to-day.
1t is by their suffrages that this prcsden
tlal election must be decided. In what
direction do their interests lie?
The American farmer is selliEg for
37h cents bushel corn which it costs
him 10 cents to produce. His wheat and
cotton, his beef and pork are selling at
profitable prices. He is spending his
money in luxuries and enjoying himself.
He is riding in railroad trains, and. as he
looks from the car windows over the
bountiful harvests. he is taking a new
view not only Of his native land, which
was never fairer or happier, but is also
thinking Of his new markets and new
possessions" across the seas.
The laborer is to-day receiving more
wages than he ever received before, and
he is receiving them in a currency that is
good all over the world. In many in
stances, undoubtedly, there must he
readJustment of wages, and the sporadic
strikes now reported in various manufac-
turing centers point probably to the be-
ginning of this readjustment. In my opin-
ion, these and kindred difficulties will be
safely and speedily settled. .
Now, can any sane man tel me how
the laborer will help his condition, or the
solution of the problems so vital to him,
by voting to debaSe our standard OF value
and thereby reducing his own wages?
What has labor to hope from Bryan
ostensibly the friend Of the dissatisfied,
the champion OF the aggrieved, ana the
chosen candidate of all the long-hairod
reformers in the United States? Does
not the supreme salvation of labor de-
pend. after all, upon preserving our
standard OF value, upon the non-partisan
regulation of trusts, and upon the appli-
cation to those great commercial aggre-
cations, which are so peculiarly pro-
duct of this age, of system of license
and taxation? Is it not idle to denounce
the trust as an evil menace to the ma
tiOnal welfare? is not the trust nat
ural and essential development of our
time? A quarter of a century ago the
word corporation" implied an inherent
reprOach in the minds of exactly those
citizens who to-day regard the trust,
which is the incorporation of corpora
tions, with the same disfavor. Yet it is
TO the solution of the trust problem that
the American business man, as we'll as
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
ARTIFICIAL TREE INDUSTRY

Factory Made Palms of Life-Like For
nation Are Now Numerous.
This is the age of things artificial. A
palm manufactory has recently opened
salesro0m on Upper Broadway, and
huge sign lower down on the same
thoroughfare notifies the mob that an
other store of the same sort will soon
be ready for business. The artificial
tree industry is comparatively new and
1t must be profitable. All over town
one sees cCunterfeits. Many of the
large stores, and most of the more
prominent hotels of this city, includ
ing some of those that are most taste
ful in their decorations, now have huge
palms In their halls or entrances. and
even in private houses 1t Is not uncom-
mon to lind plants with removable
leaves.
The prepared palms, such as are used
today, are infinitely more real In ap-
pearance than the old artificial plants
of few years ago. Many are so close
In their resemblance to the live plant
that 1t Is hard to detect them as imita-
tiorss without close scrutiny. The leaves
are real leaves, and not constructed out
OF enameled tin, like the old kind, and
the fiber on the trunk Is real fiber. 1t
Is only on approaching them and ex-
amining them that the leaves are seen
to be painted and the stalks inserted
into. but not growing out of. the stem.
The price of the manufactured article
varies from 80 cents to $25 for the Or
binary specimens, but some OF the
larger and finer ones amount to $50,
or even 500. A small fern palm sprig
of some fifteen inches high Is sold at
half dollar; tree. such as those that
ore seen In the halls of hotels, measur-
ing, say, nine feet high, and with about
eighteen removable leaves. will cost
$17. The sago palm is more expen-
sive variety. a tree of i've feet selling
for as much as $50. We may rail
against humbug to our hearts content.
but, somehow or other, the laugh Is sell
dom on the fellow who fools us.--Pitts-
| burg Dispatch.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
THE PATENT LAWS
, BREED MONOpOLIES.
A Drummer Continues His Chats
on Trade Changes.
Reorganization Of Employing Companies
Affords Larger Opportunities to the
Men - Expansion Gives Drammers
New Fields.

Monopolies in this country are due
more to the patent system than any 9th
or cause; the average trust could not mo-
nopolize its product and it will not try.
If It does, there is the same old remedy
which we free American citizens, who
are supposed to have something to say
IN the election of our State legislatures,
can apply. We can pass State laws for
$he regulation of those monopolies. And,
by the way, speaking of politics, the Re-
publican national platform declares
against monopolies and would propose
national legislation against them.
Gov. Roosevelt, singularly clear
headed public man on civic questions, let
me tell you, sees the point. he would
legislate against monopolies. firmly
believe that this legislation will come,
and with it other laws intended to regu-
late industrial corporations, good deal
as railroads and banks are regulated now
Why not? When the trusts really get to
going SO that they themselves know what
they can do, and so that they won't be
ashamed to show in what cheap, prim-
tive, experimental stage most of their
methods now are, then, like the banks
and the railroads, they ought to be made
20 "show down." and they will be.
Then the Wall street investor-for
whom we don't care anything in particu-
iar-will be protected from making bad
Investments, and the unwary investors,
the widows and the orphans, whom GER
tain sandbagging plutocrats like to tell
us about with so many tears, will be
doubly protected. Moreover, the en-
ployes of the trusts, the clerks in the
offices and the hands in the mills, can buy
trust stocks, and they will want to.
Ispoke about the Wall street investor.
He hasn't been making so very much
money in industrial stocks Of late. He
got caught lots Of times. Perhaps you
recall the case of the bicycle trust. The
promoters of that scheme went to GER
tain bankers in New York on an eighty
million dollar basis. 1t wouldn't go. 1t
wasn't worth the money. There wasn't
the property in plants, good will, etc.
About a year later the promoters, the
same promoters, no doubt, who had learn
ed a good deal in the meantime, came
back with the bicycle trust proposition on
a forty million dollar basis, and 1t went
at that; could earn dividends on the forty
millions 1t is probably true that the
American Bicycle Company Is not fully
satisfied with every single one Of the mill
ION details Of its business, but doubtless
Il will get there. Other manufacturers
and big manufacturers, in the bicycle
business will also get there; and other
big trusts In the bicycle business are
bound to get there, too. You can't keeI
good man down-or a good proposition
You can't corner all the capital and
brains In the country. Remember that
But was speaking about the investor
the wary one, not the widow or the or
phan. He has suffered on account Of thu
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28

go forward, under Bryan we turn back.
The coming test of silver question
at the polls must, in all human proba-
bility, be the final one. The will of the
voters twice registered will not be the
third time disputed. Each year that we
preserve our present money standard
gives it additional security. The Amer.
ican people do not like experiments with
their currency, their school houses, their
churches or their savings banks. A re-
verSal of the popular verdict of 1896
would mean reversal of all the achieve
ments that make up our national pros
perity. Bryan's election would mean that
the sovereign people had decreed that our
laborers shall be paid in silver, while
our foreign debts must still be paid in
gold.
Convinced as I am that the financial
question is the paramount issue in No
vember, 1900, as it was in November,
1896, it is worth while for Democrats
who supported Mckinley, as l did, four
years ago, to ask what are the issues
upon which our party could have appeal
cd to the American people with fair pros.
poets of success, and what we can con-
tend for in future contests, after this
economic and financial question is finally
settled. To my mind these define them
selves as reform in governmental admin
istration, economy in governmental ex-
penditure, the taxation and regulation Of
oppressive trusts and combinations, and
the immediate enactment of just and
honest scheme OF colonial government.
These would have been issues upon which
every patriot could have been honestly
asked to vote. Why should we not set
fairly about a reform in our old system
Of taxation, and, at the same time, initi-
ate departure which might well result
in throwing the cost of government upon
those who can best afford it?
The silver problem solved once for all, as
it will be in November, the colonial prob
lem at once becomes paramount. We
must either give up Hawaii, Porto Rico
and the Philippines, haul down our flag
and shamefully abandon the righteous,
fruits of our prowess hv land and SEQ
or we must prepare to govern these dis.
tant additions to our country fairly and
honestly and capably. A per-
petual, constitutional barrier must be
erected against the statehood of all our
non-contiguous possessions. That SUI
premely important problem is to be. med
and overcome, not by cowardly evasion
or disgraceful retreat, for the American,
people will tolerate no such course. We
must institute honestly and wisely and
administer economically an American co;
lonial system, worthy alike of our new
possessions and of their mother country.
We are not incapable of governing them.
We are, as nation, incapable of nothing
| fully believe in the future of the
American republic, and that we are wise
and brave enough to bear the burdens
and fulfill the task Providence has allot-
ted us. Let us not falter at the thresh-
old. NJ. E. INGALLS,.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28

the American farmer and laborer, must
addres .mself And in the solution of
that i..oolem he will find the present goal
of patriotism.
The business man who does not inquire
into the politics of his bookkeeper is
asked by the supporters of Mr.. Bryan to
allow partisan politics to be injected into
the circulating medium through which he
carries on his business. He refused in
1876, as he will refuse, l believe, in 1900,
to impute either Democracy or Republi-
canism to the dollar. He will say that
1t is not political question, and that it
should not be made such. Asking him
self where he shall seek guidance in the
casting of his ballot, he, like the laborer
and the farmer, looks out upon prosper
ity unprecedented. He sees trade follow
ing the flag all around the world, and
new markets opening to him under new
national responsibilities. He realizes, as
business man. that these responsible
ties must be grappled with and adjusted
on business basis. No policy of evasion
or retreat can commend itself to him.
Yet, into the field of partisan discussion
he finds these responsibilities dragged,
like the dollars from his counting room,
by the politicians who seek his vote. And,
like the farmer and the laborer, he finds
his next national ballot invested with
unique Importance.
What will be the reply Of the American
patriot, who Is now asked to believe that
his home and his pocketbook are staked
on the next turn of the ballot, that a
wrong decision spells ruin, and that he
must decide issues of such moment as
were never before submitted to the Amer
lean electorate?
Bryan's election appears to
me impossible. Good citizens,
irrespective of party, should vote for Nc
kinley in November. That it is the duty
of patriots to do so have no doubt
The safety Of the American republic Is
not menaced by bogey, crowned with an
imperial diadem of straw. The cry of
imperialism is simply pretext of the
Democratic leaders to save themselves
from the fatal blundcr they made in
ioJ,', the Dlunder OF dragging the dollar
to the polls and cndcavoring to degrade
it. Imperialism is not the paramount
issue, despite all efforts to make it so,
Now, as in 1896, the real issue is the
Silver Danger. That is the peri! threat
ening this country, not the imaginary
evils attendant on the acquisition of new
territory, which was the inevitable re.
suit of a war for which the shriekers
against Imperialism were largely respon-
sible. The only peril now threatening
the United States is ruin and retrogres-
sion under silver, the turning back of
the wheels of progress and prosperity
to the standards of China and Mexico,
and the abandonment of our position as
the greatest country in the civilized
world.
snail we go forward or shall we turn
back! That is the question for the vot.
! ers in November. Under Mckinley we
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
no FALTERING UNDER
THE NATIONS DUTY.
Silver and Expansion Are the
Paramount Issues.
N. E. ingalls,, a Lifelong Sound Money
Democrat, Writes of the NeCes.
sity for Assuming a Larger
National Life.

One Of the most successful, distin-
suished and popular railway presidents
In the United States is the Hon. Mel
vile e. ingalls, Of Cincinnati. From the
very ground of railroad construction he
has worked his way up to the presidency
Of the Chesapeake and Ohio and Big
-Four railway systems, among the most
prosperous of our great trunk lines. Mr..
ingalls, is one of the people, and is prac-
ticai In every idea. He is lifelong Dem
ocrat, and from the September issue of
the North American Review the follow
ing extracts are made from Mr.. Ingalls,
Advice to Gold Democrats:
What has happened since November,
1896, to warrant a reversal of the judg-
ment which the American people then
pronounced at the polls2 Under what
conditions have we entered on the pres
ent presidential campaign, and what, in
this regard, is the duty of patriotic citi-
Gems, independent of partisan afliliation
To the Democrat who voted for Palmer
and Buckner, as well as to the Democrat
who voted for Mckinley four years ago,
the situation to-day presents peculiar
embarrassments. Preferring to act with
his party, when possible, the patriotic
Democrat must, nevertheless, answer the
call Of duty, no matter in what direction
it leads him.
The second and supreme trial OF the
great financial issue, which never should
have been dragged into partisan politics
will be made at the polls in November
1000. This test will, believe, be con-
elusive. What are the conditions under
which it Is to be made?
There Is in the United States at the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
THE COMING MAN.

A pair of very chubby legs
lncased in scarlet hose;
A pair of little stubby boots
With rather doubtful toes;
A little kilt, little coat,
Cut rs a mother can
And 10! before us strides in state
The futures coming man."
His eyes. perchance, will read the stars,
And search their unknown ways;
Perchance the human heart and soul
VIII open to their gaze;
Perchance their keen and flashing glance
VIII be a nations light
Those eyes that now are wistful bent
On some big fellows" kite.
That brow where mighty thought will
dwell
In solemn, secret state;
Where fierce ambitions restless strength
Shall war with future fate:
Where science from now hidden caves
New treasures shall outpour-
lis Knit now with troubled doubt,
Are two, or three cents, more?
Those lips that in the coming years
Will plead or pray, or teach;
Where whispered worlds on lightning
flash
From world to world may reach:
lhat' sternly grave, may speak command,
Or, smiling win control
Are coaxing now for gingerbread
With all baby's soul!
Those hands-those little busy hands
SO sticky, small and brown;
Those hands whose only mission seems
To pull all order down
Who knows what hidden strength NAV lie
Within their future grasp,
Though now It's but taffy stick
In sturdy hold they clasp2
An, blessings on those little hands
Whose work is yet undone!
And blessings on those little feet
Whose race is yet unrun!
And blessings on the little brain
That has not learned to plan!
Whateer the future holds in store,
God bless the coming man."
-Elmira Telegram.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1900-09-28
The Cznr,a acenter.

The Russian scepter Is of solid gold.
three feet long, and contains among its
ornaments 26S diamonds, 800 rubiea
and hfteen emeralds.
Telegraf. (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-19??, 1900-01-24
Czytaicie sfOWa Wdy

od Wiel. ks. Tomasza a. Billy 4
Tyndall, s.. Dakota, polecajace Tri-
nera Gorzkie Vino.
J6zef Triner,
437 w. Is St., Chicago, III.
Szanowny Panic! Ola wiadomosci
tych, ktorzy jeszcze ME znaja sku-
tecznosci Trinera Gorzkiego Wilma
i CO takowe zdziaiafo dla os6b, cier-
piacych ma choroby zo}adka, pisze
tych pare show.
Uzyva}em togo lekarstwa W.
trzech wypadkach chordb zosqdka
skutki zawsze byfy swietne. Jestto
lekarstwo wiele lepsze, nlz wszel-
kie inne przezemnie uzywane. Ola
tego spiesze sic wystawieniem po-
lecenia Szan. Panu "a tax dobry
Srodek. Skoro, tylko spostrzege
czlowieka W mojej parafii, cierpia-
cego ma chorobe zolqdka, polece mn
panskie vino. Zaiqczam prz"kaz
bankowy ma $500, "a kt6ra prose-
mi >przyslat drug2 skrzynke teg"
lekarstwa.
Z szacunkiem
IFiel. Ks. Tomas. 4. Billy.
Trinera Gorzkie Vino Jest pre-
parowane z czystego wilma zi5f
leczniczych. Leczy wszystkie et,''
roby zo}adka, watroby j merck. Na
sprzedaz we wszystkich h aptekacfh
lub u fabrykanta. =: s 8
q J6zEFA IRlNEKsA, -, y:
".:~4s7 W. 18th st. Chicago, HI.
Telegraf. (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-19??, 1900-01-24

Atlas Clothing Co., poiud. zach.
naroznik Blue ! sland Ave lSej
ulicy, jest najtah seem miejseem "
Chicago do zaoPatrywapia Sic W
.mezkie, .chlopied de i d7iecsce u bra
mia, kapelusze bi eliany wieraohniej
i spodniej. ,.. !: *. , =:.s ..Ez y b
Telegraf. (Chicago, Ill.) 1892-19??, 1900-01-24
CENA: 3 Gently
POI0Cy " hTn6ryC6.

Buffalo, n. y. 49, J. Jadolski, Il
pm. 47s Michigan ul., pragnac poz-
bye sic szczur6w, ktdre grasowa}y
" jego mieszkaniu, nadziaf dwie
kic}basy cyankiem potazu i po}ozy}
W kacic pokqju: Tymczasem mafy
syn jego }az2c ma czworakach po.
pokoju, znalazI kielbaske i poczat
ja jest. Juz zjadf hy} prawie Gala,
gdy spostrzcg}a to matka j. T. krzy-
klein odebra}a dziccku trucizpe,
ktora wkrGtce poczela dzia}at. -
, Dziecko odwieziono do szpitala
Fitch, gdzie "a romoca silnych
emetryk6w zdolano je uratowat.
East Saginaw, Mich. ~- Antoni
IIaremski, 50 lat starry, zosta} zabi-.
ty przy piracy W kopalni wegla dnia
1890 stycznia. Nieszcze<liwy ro2o
stawil zone czworo dzicci.
East Saginaw, Mich. - W $rode
pomiedzy godzina sta Gta wiecz6r,
spalil sic dwupietrowy dom Toma-
sza Glinicckicgo, W ktdry m miesci}
sic salon i grosernis, przy narozni-
ku 26 Michigan Ave. Pozar po-
wsta} przez eksplozye beczkiz alko-
bolcm. Wlasciciel 2aledwic zd2ayi
zamknac "safe" uj$c zyciem.
Pittsburg, Pa. w zeszIy VITO
rex gsdzinic 10 minut II, zawisf
ma szubienicy tutejszem wiezic-
niu s}owak Wincenty Wasko, ktd-
ry przcd kilku miesiacami zastrzcli}
rcwolweru kochsnke sw2 Anne
Seslak. Ostatniemi jake wym6wi}
by}y sfowa: "Zostahcic Bogiem!
Jestem rad, ze daje zycie "a ma ko-
cbanke..,. Jq dis jeszcze kocham"'
Milwaukee, Wis. - Maryanna :.
Kmacik, dziecko .liczace lat, ktf-.
rego dom jest y La Sale, ILL.,, IL:
maria wczoraj wicezorem W szpit*-
lu przypadkowym wskutek uchodzq-
cego gazu. Maryanna Dankowska, :
kt6ra by}a MIA W podrdzy, najefa -
pok6j W hotelu Everett, pm. 16l
Michigan nlicy. Wieczorcm gdy
Dankowska zabrala sic M spoczv
nek,. zdmuthue'a gaz.
Polak r. Nozik zostai arcsztowa-
ny "a kradziez poi mill drutu elek-
trycznej kolei. Kradziezy wyno-
szacej kilka set dolar6w dckonal rm
Grudniu zesziego roku, a drut skra-
dziony pociaF na szeSciccaloNe ka-
walk.
Grand Rapids, Mich. - Ciszko
los doswiadcza Marcina Banaszak,
zamieszka}ego pod nrem. 2ll przy
9tej ulicy. zona jrgo znajduje sic
W domu obIqkanych W Kalamazoo;
przed dwoma laty przedslebiorca
pogrzebowy przcjccha} na Smierc
mu dziecko, zesz|a sobote sro-
tkalo 60 trzecic nieszcze$cie-9 le-
tni syn jego Stanis}aw przechodzqc
przez szyny koleiowe podczas ram
zowania rociqgu, dosta} sic pod
kola, kt6rc zgruchotaly mu prawa
noge.
Odwieziono 60 Ito s7pitala, g'lzie
doktorzy chca mu noge amputowac
lecz nieszczesliwy ojcicc przyru'z-
cza, re chEopiec operacyi by ME
przezyfi ME chcia} by go mice ka-
leka, i przypuszcza, ze noga da sic
wyleczyt bez amputowania.