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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
HOAR ON THE TRUSTS
THE SENATOR FROM MAssAcHU.
SETS READY WITH ADVICE.
Ne Recognizes the Evils Wrought BY
the Great MonopoIies, But Is Too
Sanguine Of Good Results From
tbs Sherman Antitrust Law.

Senator Hoar agrees with Attorney
General Knox in the opinion that
congress has ample power to deal
with trusts and that no enlargement
OF its power by amendment to the
national constitution is required.
Mr.. Hoar is more positive than Mr..
Knox in his recognition of the evils OF
the trusts, eight of which he enumer-
ates. He expresses the opinion that
II three of these can be cured the
cure of the others will follow. These
three are destruction of competition,
fraudulent capitalization and secrecy.
Secrecy is not necessarily an evil
IN itself, but it may be and often Is
conducive to evil With this modifi-
cation Mr.. Hoar's opinion may be &C.
copied as correct. The two first
named are the greatest evils. Public
ity would expose them and tend to
cure them. From their cure the cure
OF the others would follow almost OF
necessity.
While Mr.. Hoar is undoubtedly
right as to the power Of Congress, his
statements as to the actual efficiency
OF the Sherman law are not to be
accepted without qualification. His
assertion that great trusts have
already been broken up and the effect
of the example has undoubtedly pre-
vented the formation of other great
trusts" is decidedly too broad.
AS Mr.. Hoar says. the Addystone
pipe combination was broken UP. He
might have added with truth that
two great railroad combinations have
been broken up, but this is about all
that can be said with truth about the
execution of the Sherman law.
Most of the trusts, now existing
have originated since the passage Of
that law and the greateot OF them
since it's enforcement IN the ir-
stances mentioned. The organization
of great combines does not seem to
have been checked at all by such
enforcement of the law as we have
had.
The fault is not so much in the
law as in the enforcement. Only half
of 1t has been enforced at all its
criminal provisions, which would nat
urally be the most effective, have re-
NAMED in allegiance.
The law is defective, however, in
Its application to strictly industrial
combines. Mr.. Knox has pointed out
how the defect can be cured. 1t
row remains to be seen whether Con-
gress will apply the cure.
Meantime neither party can justly
claim that it has seriously attempted
to suppress noxious trusts either by
framing adequate laws or by enforc'
ing the one that has been framed.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

erly. Mrs. Ferris, the married sis
ter Of Miss Clara Morton said:
are located in the same pawnshop. The
police are using every effort to locate
the negroes who have suddenly been
brought into the case, and sensational
developments are expected at any mo-
ment.
Identification of Miss Morton's
watch was possible from the fact that
it was purchased from the factory at
the same time that chum of the MUIR
dered girl bought its duplicate. Miss
McPhee's watch is not yet in the
hands of the police, but they know it
was bought by Mr.. Nemser, because its
description is registered among the
list of watches handled by pawnbrok-
ers which is daily returned to the po-
lice, and the number and details are
vouched for by Somerville jeweler
who repaired it.
That Mason was a woman hater Is
declared by many attendants at Wav-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

rounding towns for some trace OF the
negroes connected with the case
through this new turn of the affair.
The state police have had under
surveillance a young negro, whom
they expect to arrest, and they still
think they have a strong case against
Mr.. Mason, about whom they claim
to have woven a strong web Of circum-
s!antial evidence. They claim they
can connect the movements Of Mason
with those of the negro and that there
is a business connection between
them.
Tho locating of the watch Of Miss
Agnes McPhee is added evidence to
the identical origin of the two crimes,
and the fact that the two watches
were found in the same pawnshop still
further points to one man, whoever
he may be, as the author Of the out
RACES.
AS in the case of Miss Morton, the
man who took possession of the watch
which Miss McPhee carried at the
time she was struck down seems to
have lost little time in placing his
booty in the hands of second hand
dealer. Miss McPhee was attacked on
the night of Oct. 8. Her watch was
,awned the next day. Mr.. Nemser
says he procured it from dark man,
with a Roman nose, and small black
r1o no nd
striped coat and vest.
Alan Mason's friends are confident
they can prove an alibi for him. The
state police believe they have evil
dence enough to make it almost GER
tain he was in Waverly the night Miss
Norton was killed. The watches Of
both of the victims of the "slugger"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Work Is Proce edinq Well.

The process of educating the ma
jority of the people in the principles
Of fair trade tariff is a long and
difficult one. But the work is on and
it will proceed faster by not appoint
ing buffer commissions to patch and
tinker the tariff. The longer the Ding
ley tariff operates and the more the
trusts increase in power and plumber
the more the people will become wise
to the cause of their burdens AMI the
sooner will come the full and effective
revolution of sentiment before which
Dingleyism will go down to deserved
oblivion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
THE TEST OF TIME.

Mrs. Clara J. Sherbourne, profess
sional nurse, Of 257 Cumberland
street, Portland, Maine, says:
II heartily wish those who suffer
from some disturbed action Of the kid
neys would try Doan's Kidney Pills.
They would, like me. be more than
surprised. My back annoyed me for
years. Physicians who diagnosed my,
case said 1t arose from my kidneys,
When the grip was epidemic was
worn out with constant nursing, and,
when contracted 1t myself 1t left me
in a very serious condition. l could,
not straighten nor do the most trivial
act without being in torture. The kid,
neys were too active or the secretionsi
were too copious, and l knew what
was wrong, but how to right it was q
mystery 1t seems odd for profess
sional nurse, who has had great deal
of experience with medicines, to read
advertisements about Doan's Kidney
Pills in the newspapers, and 1t may
appear more singular for me to go to
H. H. Hay & Sons drug store for a
box. But l did, however; and had
anybody told me before that it was
possible to get relief as quickly as /
cd l would have been 10th to believe
It,. You can send anyone who wishes
more minute particulars about my
case to me, and will be only too glad
to tell them personally. AS long as
live | will be a firm advocate Of
Doan's Kidney Pills."
Cure Confirmed-5 Years Later.
Lapse of time has strengthened my
good opinion of Doan's Kidney Pills,
first expressed in the spring Of 1896.
said then that had anybody told me
that 1t was possible to get relief as
quickly as | did would have been 10th
to believe it. Years have passed and
my continued freedom from kidney
complaint has strengthened my opin-
ion of Doans Kidney Pills and given
me much higher appreciation of
their merits"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kid
ney medicine which cured Mrs. Sher.
bourne will be mailed on application
to any part of the United States. Adj
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

StdTd MOTtOUs
off and the bottom gone over very
carefully. No other victim was
found, but Superintendent Elder of the
Beaver Brook reservation, raking in
the west part of Handyside Lake,
brought to light rusty iron file
weighing about eight pounds with the
handle gone. A rusty garden spade
was also found.
Herbert Higgins, teamster and driv-
er Of the Convalescent House ambu.
lance wagon, said:
About Z last Saturday night
PASSED the spot where Miss Morton
was afterward discovered. Partly con-
cealed in the shadow l saw man
standing. When he saw l had OBJ
served him he stepped from the bank
to the road, stumbling slightly in the
culvert, and ran for short distance
up the road, in the direction of the
Administration building.
Half an hour later this man was
seen by Hugh Fisher, fireman in one
of the hospital buildings, lettering
near some shrubbery."
Superintendent Elder saw man he
has since identified as Mason coming
from the vicinity of Handyside Lake
and it is on the strength Of this most
positive evidence that the lake was
drained.
The state police laugh at the idea Of
a weakening of the case against Alan
Gregory Mason, the wealthy manu-
facturer accused of the murder Of
Clara Morton and suspected of many
other crimes. This, despite the state
ment of Pawnbroker Nemser, who
says a negro tried on the night of the
murder to pawn the watch stolen from
Miss Morton's body.
AS a matter of fact this attempt Of
Chief Watts of the Boston detec-
tive force to prove Mason innocent
has rebounded. Indisputable evidence
has been found to show that the watch
was not offered for pawn Saturday, but
was offered on Sunday, and the theory
of Watts that negro committed the
murders is derided. The state police
pertinently ask: What murderer
would try three times to pawn q
watch, knowing the police were on his
trail?"
George L. o. Perry, the negro boy,
accused of being an accessory to the
murder of Miss Clara A. Morton, iden-
titled Alan G. Mason as the man who
gave him Miss Morton's watch to
pawn. Mason's friends insist that Per-
RVS story is manufactured out Of
whole cloth, that the onus of posses
sion of the watches Is unloaded upon
Mason to let some one else out, and
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Makers of the Tariff,

On the subject of tariff revision
by it's friends" the Terre Haute, Ind,
Gazette (Dem.) has this catechism:
Who made the sugar tariff? Oxnard
and Havemeyer. Who made the steel
tariff? The ironmongers. Who
made the tariff on hides? The pack
ers. Who made the tariff on cotton
goods? The New England mills. Who
made the tariff on shoes? The New
England and Philadelphia factories.
Who made the tariff on locomotives?
The Baldwin Locomotive works. Who
made the tariff on salt? The salt
trust. Who made the tariff on paper?
The paper trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
The Issue for 1904.

The handwriting is on the wall The
trust-breeding tariff has been weighed
in the balances, tested by bitter ex.
Ierience and found wanting. A tariff
bill that knocked the props from
under the trusts that corner the PEG.
pies food and fuel, passed by a ma.
jority in the house made up of Demo.
Gratis and Republicans elected for
that purpose, would have claims on
the respectful attention of the senate
loo weighty to be ignored. And even
If it was rejected, still that would be
progress. The issue for 1904 would
then be at least drawn with extreme
clearness. And before any issue can
be decisively settled it must b. dis
tinctly drawn.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
The Barbarous Wool Tax.

Rocky mountain ranch-owning cor
porations that pasture sheep on gov
eminent lands at next to nothing an
acre and make two clips year are
very hostile to any revision of the bar
barous duties on wool. They say that
a reduction of wool duties would ruin
their infant industries. and protec-
Zionist organs in the East do not scru.
pie to re-echo their cries of greed, not
withstanding the fact that the domes'
tic and foreign supplies of wool are
wholly inadequate to afford American
wooden mills enough raw materials for
the production of wholesome and com
Portable clothing fabrics.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Makes the People Paw,

How Rockefeller makes the people
pay for the support of the institutions
of learning in the country is explain
ed by the Rochester, N. Y. Herald
(Dem.) as follows: "The one-half
cent advance in the price of coal oil
was at once followed by gift OF
100000 by John d. Rockefeller to
en- eastern college. The AIDED hall
cent a gallon on oil netted Rookie.
Teller about 100000 The other
s2,5OO,OOO after the college donation
was the oil trusts rake off," or, as
the Herald says, John put it down in
his old SOCK"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
GETTING Too Much Consideration.

There has always been in this coun.
try a widespread sentiment that prop
erty is entitled to special considera.
ton, but there Is lately a growing
opinion that this sentiment can be
carried too far and that 1t is in danger
of going so far that property and cap
ital may come to consider themselves
the only real basis of society and the
supreme interest to be protected. 1t
has already been carried SO far that
a handful of managers of lawless cor
porations insulted the president Of the
United States because he refused to
listen to impudent demands made by
them for the use of United States
troops.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Hicher Cost of Living.

1t was stated in Chicago the other
day by committee appointed for the
purpose of making an investigation
that in five years the cost of living
had advanced between rs and SO per
cent. with no appreciable advance in
wages. In almost every instance the
increased cost of the necessaries Of
life can be traced to the influence of
the trusts. And these trusts are the
creatures of the tariff policy. "The
tariff is the mother of trusts" said
Mr.. Havemeyer of the sugar trust.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

managing force OF the trust is to be so
reduced and reorganized that not less
than 100000 year will be saved by
this process alone. BY such simple
devices this new industrial combina
ton expects to obtain huge dividends
on its 100000 Of literally watered
capital stock. No doubt 1t will do so
for a season, but its peculiar field Is
wide open and large profits must In
the end breed fierce competition.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Waste in Public Printing.

The example of reckless waste set
by the general government in print
ing thousands Of tons of useless or
superfluous books and expanding to
extravagant proportions many other
publications has been followed by
state governments to the enrichment
of jobbers, but to no good end. 1t is
not improbable that millions OF
money are annually wasted in this
way by states and municipalities, and
if the amount thus thrown away here
IN Washington could be ascertained
and published great many easy
going statesmen would be astonished.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
CaIcareous Woman.

A woman has just died in a Phil
adelphia hospital who has been for
some time an object Of interest to
medical men. The disease of which
she finally died changed her bones
to chalky substance, and several
times she fractured her arms and legs
by slight movements of her body. So
brittle did her frame become that the
doctors feared her neck might be dis
located, and she was placed In her
bed in such position that she could
pnly move her head q few inches.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
d Agnes McPhee.

pounds, and wearing checked cap.
The mulatto asked no fixed price for
the watch, but Nemser gave him 81.
Then a negro, much older and larger
than the other, came in from in front
of the shop and took the proceeds Of
the sale. Nemser is unable to say
whether he has seen the men before,
but says he can identify them.
Acting on the strength of the infor-
nation regarding Miss Morton's watch,
the state police and the city police
have been securing the city and sur
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
The Danger of Scent.

A medical practitioner calls atten-
ton to the danger of scent-drinking.
He says he has known a number Of
cases, chiefly among ladies', where the
eau-de- Cologne habit has produced
shattered health and mental disor-
dcrs. 1t is curious that the most ar
dent abstainers from ordinary alco-
holic drink have been known to fall
victims to this unnatutel craze. In
one case of delirium tr9 cos a ward
robe was found stocked0u1 ~ empty
eau-de Cologne bottle. pve likS
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
ALTON RESUMES FAST ST. LOUIS
TRAIN SERVICE.

Passengers destined to st. Louis
and points east should go via the Kan
sas City gateway, thereby securing
the advantage Of the Chicago & Atoms
fast night train, leaving Kansas City
at 9 p. M, arriving in st. Louis at 7:OS
a. m. Chair cars free Of extra charge.
Compartment sleeping cars. The AL
ton keeps their light a'shining just
ahead oi the rest. Write to l.. ID.
Cooper, Travelling Passenger Agent,
Chicago & Alton Railway, Kansas City,
Mo-. for lowest rates.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
BOSTON CITIZEN
SUSPECTED OF MANY MURDERS

:. Mason had been lurking about the
grounds Of the hospital and was a
protested woman hater. He Is known
to have avowed his hatred while at
Mclean"
HE never met your sister while at
the hospital, did he?" was asked.
mo; she was not nurse. And
lie had male attendants"
The pond at Waverly was drained
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

first offered to him shortly after
II Saturday night, and Conductor
Brown claims Mason left his car
mile and half away about 1855.
He declares it was offered to him
by a young man who was dark
enough of complexion to be an Italian.
He is positive it was not a negro or
mulatto, but knows that he was small,
thin faced, and swarthy. The strang-
er, he says, wanted Sc for the watch
and he refused to make deal.
Monday afternoon the watch was
again brought to him and offered for
sale. This time it was offered " a
young negro or mulatto, about ,21
years of age, weighing about 1875
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Noisy Fish.

Many fish can produce musical
sounds. The red gurnard has earned
the name of sea-cock from the crow
ing noise which it makes, while an
other species is called the piper.
Others, notably two species of ophi-
dunn, have sound-producing apparatus,
consisting of small, movable bones,
which can Se made to produce sharp
rattle. The curious drumming"
made by the Mediterranean fish
known as the maigre can be heard
from q depth Of thirty fathoms.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
The Senator Sees Clearly.

Senator Hoar sees in trusts the
obstruction of competition, the man.
agement of industries by absentee
capital, fraudulent capitalization,
secrecy, management for the private
benefit of the officers, the power to
corrupt elections and the courts and
Indifference to public sentiment. Ger
tainly, there is nothing the matter
with the venerable Massachusetts
statesman's eyesight.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Hope to Become National.

The Jane Jefferson (women'sJ
Democratic club Of Denver has taken
out thirty years charter. 1t is hoped
by the originators that the club, which
was named in honor Of the mother OF
Thomas Jefferson, will ultimately be-
come a national organization Of Demo-
cratic women
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

Accused of murder In Boston. From q
photograph when student at Har-
vard.1
of Boston, is a waiting preliminary
trial in East Cambridge Jail.
The first sensation was caused by
the recovery Of the murdered girls
watch in the pawnshop of Joseph
Nemser in the west end of Boston, a
section tenanted by negroes and given
over largely to the lower element.
The second sensation came when 1t
was found that the silver watch car
ried by Agnes McPhee, who was killed
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
No Cheap Coal for the West.

Now, suppose that the tariff on an
thracite coal should be removed? It
is apparent that the coast cities could
secure foreign coal, and so far there
would be relief, but the railroads, op
Grating in sympathy with the mine
owners, and part of the same social
ism, would advance the rates from
the seaboard, and there we would be
again,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
SIugger's Victims.

This is a complete list of the
victims of the mysterious Boston
"Slugger":
June 17-kate O'Connell,
wounded on the scalp.
July 17-seigvried Gustafson,
received severe scalp wound.
July 27-EIla Murphy, head bad
Iy cut.
August 3-Jeanette Marshall,
skull fractured.
October 3-Agnes E. McPhee,
fractured skull; died
October 10-Susan O'NeilI,
knocked down and strangIed.
October 16-Mrs. Byron Eldred,
threatened with a revolver.
October 19-Jane LadeII,
knocked down.
October 22-Bertha Smith,
struck on the head.
October 24-LuIu Mixer, seized
by the neck and choked.
October 28-Mrs. F. H. Stenti.
ford, struck on the head.
October 30-Mrs. w. n. Whit
ney, struck on the head.
November 1-Clara Morton,
skull fractured; died.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Ocean Record Lowered,

Steaming the 5000 miles between
Cherbourg and New York in 8 days IL
hours 81 minutes the North German
Lloyd liner Kronprinz Wilhelm has
beaten by eight minutes the record for
the same passage made last year by
the Hamburg-American liner Deutsch.
land.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
coachman Not Trusted.

King Edwards coachman never
knows where he is to drive until his
majesty is actually seated In the car.
rage. This is a continuance of the
rule which came into force when
Queen Victoria assembled the throne.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21
Pinch of the Harvester Trust.

Notice has been given on behalf of
the recently organized harvester trust
that prices are to be advanced rs per
cent, so that farmers who have hither-
to paid 500 for machine must here
after pay $125. At the same time the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

Large Snake Killed In England.
Forty-three inches was the length
and 6 pounds s ounces the weight Of
a grass snake which has been killed
at Wisbech, England.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

Surprising events have succeeded
each other with Kaleidoscope rapidly
in Boston in the investigation Of the
murder of Miss Clara A. Morton, who
was fatally assaulted at Waverly and
for whose murder Alan G. Mason. a
member of one of the oldest families
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-11-21

Somerville, near
the G a m b r | d 6 @
boundary on the
evening of Oct. 3
was located in the
same pawnshop.
The description
given by the pawn
broker in connec-
ton with the pawn
ing of the watches
is regarded by the
police as the best
basis of evidence
they have to work
from. The friends
of Alan G. Mason
hold that the new
ly discovered evil
dence will Offset
the testimony of
the street car con-
ductor who claims
to have carried
Mason from Wav-
erly the evening
when Miss Morton
was attacked on
the grounds of the
Mclean hospital.
Pawnbroker Mem
ser says Miss Nor
toms watch WAS
Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1902-07-02
V Ten Million Dollar Factory.

Kansas City, June 29.-The
Stars says: The largest cotton
mill In the world is to be bull
within 20 miles of Kansas City
Ten million dollars is to be in
vested, $780, 90 of which has
already been subscribed by east
ern and western men. w. B.
Smith WhaIey, president Of the
Richland, Olympia and CRANKY
cotton mills of Columbia, S. O., Is
to be president and general man
ager of tho enterprise. The mill
will have 100000 spindles and
$4,000 looms. 1t will employ
1000 operatives and have a paw
roll of $2,45O,O0O a year. The
capacity of the mill will be 17O,-
600 bales of cotton a year, with
an output of 75,000,OOO pounds of
finished cloth. The value of the
annual output will,it is estimated ,
amount to twelve and three
quarter million dollars. The
mill will be revolutionary in it's
construction. Electricity will be
used as the motixe power and
several new devices will be in
stalled. There will be four mill
buildings, covering an aggregate
of 1000 acres of ground.