The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-06-30

up, whereas the existing peace seems
to be that the lion has the lamb inside,
Flnstead of running by its side. The flo
lowing summary is made by gentle
man in position to know, almost Off
cially, what is the real situation:
The present trouble" say this gen.
tleman, SIS the elimination of an old
scheme. In the shipping season of 1903
it was commonly talked that the small
craft was being forced off the lake
There is now strong combination, Of
which Rockefeller is at the head, which,
while there was shower OF competition,
forced the rates down so that the small
craft couldn't live. Having practically
frozen them out, the rates are now SO
exorbltant that vessels have lain idle,
Tor the reason that shippers couldn't
use them and keep from loss The little
ones are now practically out of the car
rying business This will also affect the
independent mine owners and lumber
men, who will find that they cannot ship
without prohibtive rates, while the firm
at the head OF the steamship combine
practically controls the mining and lum-
Der business, and so can afford to pay
heavily out OF one hand into the other.
The combine now demands 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 dan
gerous to shippers tributary to Duluth"
Particulars concerning this situation
will be awaited with deep interest, for it
may reasonably be expected that this
murder vii. out And yet it will be a
question, as Hanna would say, of what
are you going 10 do about it?" For
those fellows who are Selling on the
great waterway that God has provided
and Uncle Sam improved for use of all
the people. will say. like Hanna, I'VE
know our business"
Speaking OF other transportation in
terests, decreased railway earnings over
last year, marked decreases, as we'll as
i'll bank clearings, are further gold.
standard Mark llama prosperity signs
for June to this date.
1t actually worried the goppite Fair
mont News that Adjutant- General Lam
bert turned out in military uniform to
welcome the Beers. Why, bless you,
nothing more proper, considering 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 leadership
OF President Gompers, taking the ST.
Louis cases as the foundation. Ii need
be every city in the country will be in
VOWED. Since the St. Louis corpora
tons made that distinct issue, by its re-
fusal to arbitrate the question OF union
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to make the fight to the bitter end. AL
ready orders against going to cities at
fected by strikes are out for a dozen or
more large places. President Gompers
has an army of 1000, 900 in the unions to
follow him, and he has the moral Sup
port OF large majority OF the people OF
the land
Tie 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 hun
dreds OF millions of dollars. They are
more in number and amounts than were
organized before in all the history OF
the country Four more years of it I'M
der Mckinley promotion, and where
would the country be!
The Republican national committee
would skin the Southern oificeholders
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
hearing will be commenced June 26, of
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
fominous thirteen" when Foraker spoke
Little Mack's name was Hanna's en-
tanglement with funeral procession
on the way to the convention on the fatal
morning. G. S. C.
DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED
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