Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-08-06

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IN VOuched for by the Daily Mail, and
,-9 EfA st. Louis Republic that the three
EySyfSJl monster oil interests Of ROckelel-
(9iS44J ler, ROthsehild and Nobel have
SASA& - entered into a working agreement,
3lIl 49, thus organizing the greatest trust
-sEG6ss the world has ever known.
lSS4oa4s1S On the same day the story is tel
h>Eft&H egraphed from Chicago that the
great American meat packers arranging for
world wide combination to gain control Of the
packing business and that the plans shortly to
be perfected at a secret meeting which will preba-
bly, be held in some European city.
Both reports are denied by the trust magnates,
but the denials seem to be the usual protesting
which proceeds a merger.
This movement in the direction of international
monopoly is a logical movement. 1t is consistent
development from the situation that has prevailed
in this country during the past few years.
The American combines will find it easy to
draw the more important European houses into
working partnership with them. Such cOnsOlida-
tiOns representing billions of dollars, will exercise
gigantic power in antagOnsm to the general good.
The combines viii work together in federation, or
combine of combines, against the public.
Thoughtful students of the times cannot but see
in this mOnopostic trend what is perhaps the most
serious menace which the worlds trade has ever
confronted. II these international combines are
perfected, the healtbful principle OF competition
win be utterly destroyed The worlds producers,
who must sell their products to the trusts will be
absolutely at the mercy OF the latter The worlds
consumers, who must buy the trusts products, will
be equally helpless and subject to trust dictatiOB
No tale of feudalism or of serfdOm ever Tecited In
history reveals the worlds peoples most hOpelessy
subjected to a malign mastery in destruction Of
their rights than is now threatened by the cOntem
plated system Of worlds trusts. The situation nov
assuming omnous shape demands the attention Of
the friends Of the people.
The story that the Countess Castellane will pay
trifing little debt OF 100000 for her husband,
who Notwithstanding his title is not much account
will recall renewed attention to this couple who
have been cOnspicuously in the public eye siuce
their marriage Certainly the countess is not to be
condemned for settling her husbands debts, large
small II she loves him it was pleasure to her to
relieve him of embarrassment and annoyance. If
she does not love him pride and vanity would also
suggest the payment.
There are many grounds upon which to base the
Inference that the marital life Of the countess has
not been all It is unfair, however, to declare
that her fate serves her right she sold herself for
title. No one can read her heart. She may have
married him for love and might have married him
had he been a French peasant in wooden shoes.
But whatever the motives pronounced her one can
not but contrast her lot with that OF her sister
Helen. The title of countess, an empty honor at
best, is a tawdry thing compared to that won by
Miss Helen Gould, WOmanly woman. One sister
striving after social recognition linked to an erratc
and spendthrift husband, if no worse might be said
about him, her pretensiOns scorned by those upon
whom she lawns, her private life unmasked to the
pitless Tdcue of the public is in striking contrast
to the life Of the sister whose days record in
gentle service whose wealth is spent in charitable
deeds, and OF whom it may be said that her life and
example typiy all that highest nOblest and best In
American womanhood. One sister the dis
puted title Of countess, the other is secure in the
undisputed title OF queen among women.
It is reported that AguinaldO contempates a trip
to the United States, says the Mail and Breeze.
Now Aguinaldo is not person that in our iudg-
ment is worth while to make any fuss over, but we
would be rather glad to see him come. We want
the little yellow rooster to have chance to see inst
what kind Of country this is that has gathered him
in. We would like to have him travel from New
/ York to San Francisco and then take annt from
sense he win see that he and every other Filipino
ought to get down on his knees and express their
thanks that they have been hiched up with this big
and bully country. But IL Ag should experience
no sentiment Of gratitude, which we think be viii
not he would at least get idea Of how little use
it is for him and the balance Of his Filipino nsur-
gents to bnek this government He win likewise
find another thing and that is that the antics who
ere meeting and passing resolutions cOndemning the
government and the army more represent the
sentiment Of this country than 8 hea-bitten Texas
brOncho represents the bOoded horses Of the United
, States. Everybody who knows Aguinaldo comedies
that he is pretty smart; If that is he viii learp
lot Of things that viii be to bis advantage and to he
advantage Of his followers IN the Philippine islands.
Let him come.
! It must be heartbreaking to J. PierpOnt MoFgan
q IN h0 deal ike fha Ronx Taand nnarrar anr4