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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
The Presidents Antitrust Policy.

The New York Times thus sums up
President Roosevelt's indefinite, inco-
herent program for the remedy of the
trust evil:
"The president talks with great zeal
and earnestness about remedying evils
which he does not define, by an amend
ment, which he does not clearly eX-
press, to the constitution, which can
beamended only with the greatest diff
fculty at any time, and not all at a
time when, as now, the people have
no notion even of what amendment is
feasible, or what it could do If
adopted"
1t will be recalled that in the last
Congress half dozen bills were pre-
scented by Democratic members of the
House and Senate, and an important
bill by Republican member-the
Babcock biil-to meet the trust evil.
Even the presidents appeal for pub
licity bill was taken account of by
these bills. But what came of this
rush of legislation, by the Republican
majority in Congress, or through Pres
ident Rbosevelt's intervention. Every
scrap OF it was sidetracked; it was
not even allowed consideration; all
test votes were deXterously avoided.
The Babcock bill, breaking up the
partnership between the trusts and
the Dingley tariff, was suppressed.
President Roosevelt was unquestion-
ably a party to this policy of avoid
ance and evasion. He uttered no word
advising faction on, or even the con-
sideration Of these antitrust bills.
They were. suppressed. with his APP
prevail
Abandoning all attempts at legisla-
ton, Memonstratively in the power of
Congress, the president has started
out on ,his stumping tour with great,
hullabaloo for constitutional amend
ment.,
The presidents policy, to which he
IS devdtfng his stumping swing around
he political circle, is clearly one of
evasion and delay. He lacks the cour-
,ge to- face the issue, He lodges all
expression on the antitrust bills be-
,ore Congress, and then declares moth
ag Gamble done but by the impossible
remedy Of a constitutional amend
nent. This will throw the question
over until after the next presidential
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Wanted-A Working President.

The Southwestern soft coal combine
is putting on the screw to the people
of st. Louis. There being no anthra.
cite coal for sale, soft coal is being
used in it's place, and this extra de-
mand has been taken advantage OF by
the coal combine and it's co-partner,
the railroad combine. Between them
they have increased the price of coal
from Sc a ton to $775. The railroad
freight charges on Arkansas coal have
been $1.75 ton, but notice has been
issued by the railroads that this rate
will be increased to $3.50, SO that the
price of coal will be further advanced
rs cents ton.
1t is hardly probable that publicity
will have the effect of stopping this
extortion, though the President seems
to think it will. 1t is, however, quite
likely that if the antitrust law was
enforced, which provides for the fine
and Imprisonment of any person or
persons "who combine with any other
person or persons to monopolize any
part of the trade or commerce among
the several states" the maSnates Of
the coal combine and the railroad cor
porations would be satisfied with a
moderate profit rather than spend one
year in the penitentiary. That is the
law, but it requires a working Presi-
dent rather than talking one to eX.
ecute it. .t.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
The Trusts Desire publicity"

Inc ruStS OeSire FupuCity'
The New York Commercial, which
Is a stanch Republican and protec'
ZIONIST journal, assures us, In Its issue
of Sept. 9, 1902, that:
Notwithstanding reports to the
contrary. corporation lawyers and rep
resentatives of the big combines are
not all offended by the attitude OF
President Roosevelt toward the In
dustrial combinations. They claim
that so far as they know no steps
have been taken nor will be taken In
the matter of influencing the presi'
dent to desist from forcing the issue
to the front. They argue that the
president is advocating publicity In
its connection with combinations Is
voicing the sentiments of organizers
as we'll as owners of combinations
that have been created on legitimate
lines. Said corporation attorney:
Publicity Is what we desire"
Certainly the trusts desire anything
that will throw dust in the eyes OF
the people, so that they cannot clearly
see the tariff and other special privil'
eyes that foster and protect the
trusts and enable them to fleece the
public. The assurance of the Com
mercial that the trusts are not offend
ed by the attitude of the president
was not necessary. He never. by
any chance, mentions the tariff In
connection with trusts, and is very
particular in many other respects not
to offend them. If he can, by refus'
ing to discuss the tariff, postpone the
evil days for trusts he will be their
best friend. He is doing his part
nobly. Will they show their apprecia'
lion in 1904? OF course!
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Especial Correspondence.)


@7HE habit which prevails In
Florence Of marking by a me-
mortal slab bearing q fitting
inscription the place rendered
notable by the dwelling Of q
great man has also spread to Rome.
In that city, however, the records are
fewer by far than in Florence, though
1t Is evident this cannot arise from q
dearth Of notable personages, for the
gates of Rome have ever been opened
wide to men of mark.
The memorials that are affixed to
the walls bear the names Of men from
many lands-here a Polish poet, there
a Neapolitan sculptor; in the Via dele
Mercede a marble slab affixed to the
wall of large house marks 1t as the
dwelling place of Sir Walter Scott;
on the Palace Verospi (now TheodolD e.,
a slaD records that there Shelley wrote
1.-THE Cenci;" the house in which Keats
died in the Piazza di Spagna Is de-
noted by marble slab; and so Leo
pardi, the Rect natl poet, who's. muse
affected all italy, is remembered by a
slab at his residence in the Via Con
dotti.
There is but one American. so far
as | know, thus remembered in Rome
by an honorary inscription on the
walls of the. house in which he lived.
This is Samuel Finley Breese Morse,
the artist and inventor whose name
is indissolubly associated with the
earlier stages of development OF the
electric telegraph.
The slab was placed on this house in
1883. 1t is worthy of note that the
great reputation of Morse was &C
kncwledged in Rome wellnigh TWEEN
ty years before the propriety of raising
a statue to him was discussed at
Washington.
There are. however, many other
memories of Americans in Rome, asso-
ciated with different places, although
not recorded in sempiternal bronze or
inscribed marbles. 1t is impossible to
say who were the first visitors from
the newly discovered continent of the
west to the Eternal City; but it is a
notorious fact that the deliberately
carved wooden ceiling of the great
church of Santa Maria Maggiore was
gilded with the first gold brought to
Spain from South America. which was
presented to Pope Alexander W., him
self a Spaniard, by King Ferdinand
and Queen Isabella. From this there
is a long gap before the American trav-
eller makes his appearance in Rome,
il ordinary records are to be trusted.
Among the earliest visitors from the
United States to Rome in the last GEN.
fury was William Hickling Prescott,
the historian of Mexico and Peru,
whose delightful account of Ferdinand
and Isabella is a classic. In 1916 he
made a visit to Rome, coming from
Paris, after leaving which he and his
companion, John Pickman Gray,
stopped a day at La Grange to pay
their respects to Gen. Lafayette" as
his biographer, George Ticknor, re-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

Tom johnson in Politics and Business
Very few men in public office can
separate business from politics, sell
fshness from patriotism, as can Tom
l.. johnson, who just. now, as the
democratic leader in Ohio. is con-
Quoting such a spectacular cam.
paign.
When in congress, johnson, who
was known as the big manufacturer
of steel rails, was asked how he could
reconcile his free trade policy with
his duty to his steel rail company. He
replied, substantially, as follows:
81 will reply to the distinguished
gentlemen by saying first that l was
not sent here to represent any cor
poratibn or manufacturing concern;
am here to represent the people.
Also that we, in this country, can
manufacture steel rails more cheaply
than in any other country in the
world and there should be no duty
upon them. | know what am talking
about, as l have been long in the bust.
ness, and am also familiar with the
foreign modes of the same"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

A thin man and a fat man started
out on the east side the other day
to sell lemons, says the New York
Times.
The thin man was energetic and
impressed one as being a hustler;
the fat man was indolent, as fat men
are apt to be. Gathering himself to-
gether, the thin man would yell.
Lemons, nice lemons, two
for five five for ten, twenty dozen,
sixteen for quarter"
After he was through the fat man
said:
Here, too" -
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
The Lungs Of Farm Animals.

The Lungs Of Farm Animals.
Stockmen and others seldom stop to
ponder the relation of the lungs OF
farm animals to the services they
render. Yet 1t is believed that size
of the lungs has much to do with the
laying on of fat, as we'll as Of the
consuming of fat In the exercise OF
the animal. The greatest conserver OF
fat is the hog, and he has the small
est lungs. We find 1t cheaper to turn
food into fat by way of the hog than
by the use Of any other farm animal.
The smaller the lungs the less car
bonic acid gas they throw OF, and the
less carbonic acid gas they throw on
the less fat do they consume In the
creation of that gas. The hog Is
fat producer, because he has no need
of exercising much and therefore no
need of using up much energy. 1t
would perhaps be better to say that
he has no need Of creating that en-
ergy, which would simply go to waste.
We could not, If we would. produce
fat cheaply by using the racehorse
as an instrument. He has very large
lungs, and those lungs change fat into
carbonic acid gas very rapidly. Inc
racer, of all animals, requires we'll
balanced ration, and his allowance OF
carbohydrates must not be reduced
below certain amount, for out OF
this part of the ration he must create
energy. The proteins are indeed neces'
sary to repair the wasted muscles, but
the carbohydrates are the coal from
which is created the heat to drive the
machine. Oats are, therefore, most
excellent ration for horses, as they
supply protein and carbohydrate ma
terial in about the right proportion.
The dairy COW and the beef steer
differ in their lung capacity or should
differ. The beef does not need lungs
correspondingly large with the dairy
COW. She must transform her car
bonaceous foods into milk and butter
fat, while the steer has only to store
up the surplus fat he can get out OF
his food. He does not therefore
change fat into carbonic acid gas as
rapidly as does the COW. Some COWS
with very large lung capacity remain
poor all the days of their lives, but
are most excellent machines for turn
ing food into valuable dairy products
Farmers Review.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Americans in Rome
Historians Sculptors and Authors That Have Lived
In the Eternal City.

A contemporary OF Story's In
Rome a generation ago was the poet
and painter, Thomas Buchanan Read,
a man of most winning personality
and remarkable ability. He then
lived in the Via Babuino, having the
windows of his apartment on the
fourth floor. looking into the Piazza
di Spagna. that beloved resort Of the
English-speaking foreigner In Rome
This house was afterward inhabited
for several years by the distin-
guished archaeologist, Commentators
Rodolfo Lanciani.
Early in Story's days in Rome, the
ablest among American artists Of his
time. William Henry Rheinhart of
Baltimore died. He also was a
sculptor. and all his fellow-artists OF
America and all the Italian artists
who were capable of judging good
work were unanimous in placing him
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Keeping a Record;

At "a Wisconsin farmers institute D.
B. Foster said: In the most con-
venient place on each. side by my
stable I hang a spring, scale and very
conveniently is placeda lead pencil
and a card (about ,51exf5 Inches for
ten COWS, small as possible. 30 as to be
handy, ruled and crossrpled: to make
one square for each cow for each day
of the month. The weight Of the
morning milking for eache .oow is put
in the top of her particular square
and the night weight underneath. The
scale, pencil and record must, be con-
venient, and the work Of recording
will soon become fixed habit just as
much as the brushing off Of the cows
udder, or any one Of the thousand
things we do without ever thinking Oh
the work it is nor the,rtiuke it takes.
At the end of each month 9 new caro-
replaces the old one, which goes to the
house to be figured up and entered IN
the yearly record book, SO as to show
lust how many pounds of milk each
cow has given each month since she
came to my dairy. -...,, ..SES
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
THE VARIOUS TRUSTS
A REPUBLICAN ESTIMATE OF
THEIR QUALITIES.
Admitted That Five Per Cent Of the
Combines Are In Need Of Purifica-
tion-Now the Job Is to Pick Them
Out.


from what should be an authoritative
source, that IS per cent of the trusts
are real good and useful members Of
the body polite, and should be en-
couraged. The remaining per cent
may be bad trusts, and IL they are,
the Republicans will purify them
with publicity, but it will take time
to do that. Senator Lodge has ana
lyzed the trusts and has arrived at
the above conclusion, and condescend'
ingly offers the result Of his inves'
legations in a speech at Portland.
Being in close and confidential rela'
lions with the president and having
just had a conference with him, the
information must be considered as
the Republican ultimatum on the
trust question.
Now the big job on hand is to pick
out the five per cent OF bad trusts,
for Senator Lodge does not give list
of them. We know from the list In
the Democratic campaign book pre-
pared by the greatest authority In
this country that there are 2S7 cor
porate trusts, and vast number OF
minor corporations that might be
classified as such. Five per cent OF
the corporate trust would give about
thirteen that Senator Lodge considers
as bad ones, but his analysis would
seem to be faulty for nearly the
whole list have increased the price
of their products away beyond what
the people would have to pay If open
competition was allowed to regulate
their charges. Then, over one hun
bred trusts are selling their products
at a much lower price to foreigners
and that would hardly seem to be a
fair deal to the American people,
although Senator Lodge believes the
trusts that do so are good ones and
should not be meddled with.
Another fact that Senator Lodge
has evidently overlooked, for he says
nothing about it, is that 16S of the
great corporate trusts enjoy direct
protection from the tariff, ranging
r from 20 to 100 per cent. Then there
are thirty-eight others that receive
some benefit from similar protection
but Senator Lodge, nor, for that mat
ter, the president, does not say any
thing about this. 1t is difficult to be.
lieve that this is an oversight of these
leaders of Republican thought, if II
was they are very much out of touch
with the voters of the United States
and are blind leading the blind" II
they know all about these extortons
that the trusts are perpetrating on
the people, and have ignored them
because the protected corporations
are masters of them and the Republic
can party, and dare not tell the truth
about the tariff, then the voters can
hardly be expected to stand for. their
namby-pamby fight against the trusts
they look for something more vigor
GUS.
Nearly every trust is protected
and is, or aims to be, a monopoly, and
yet the announcement is made by
these Republican leaders that but a
few of tnem are hurtful and should
be controlled. Senator Hanna says
there are no monopolies except pat
ents
Have all the Republican leaders
Joined together to continue to protect
the trusts? 1t looks that way.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
THE WEALTH OF WASHINGTON
His Fortune Would Not Be Considered
Large To-day.

Whether Washington can be put into
the envied category of millionaires no
one can assert positively. According
to the late Paul Leicester Ford, whose
work, 1.-THE True George Washington. "
has received wide recognition, "the
Father of His Country" when he died.
was worth $530000. This fortune did
not include his wife's property. but
nevertheless it made him one of the
wealthiest Americans of his time.
Ford adds: And it is to be questioned
if fortune was ever more honestly
acquired or more thoroughly de-
served"
John Adams, however, probably
would have differed with Ford on this
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Suggestions on Dipping Sheep.

Frank e. Emery, vice director OF
the Wyoming station, in recent bul'
letin, gives the following advice: An
infected flock should be quarantined
SO that it shall not transmit the dis
ease to other fiocks, and should be
kept from public highways where
other focks may pass, until 1t can be
thoroughly cleansed and cured. we
suggest that the dipping tank should
be SO set that the sheep come to 1t
down a slight incline. That the dip
be kept deep enough in the tank so
each sheep is immersed and is obliged
to swim few feet to get out on the
rising incline, which is quite long
compared with the approach and fit
ted with water tight floor SO the fluid
draining from the sheep will flow back
to the tank.
AS a means of heating the tank a
small furnace to use wood, or coal,
or an oil stove could be used. 1t
should be feasible plan to SEQ the
tank in a brick wall so small hre
or The OIL SIOVS COulu pC uoSu eAA~S-
it and the dip heated as desired with
the least possible handling. Two or
three float thermometers should be
purchased with the tank. Cost Is
about 35 cents each for good ones.
At Fort Steele, Wyo., Messrs. Cosgriff
Bros. have turntable approach to
the dipping tanks. The central part
on this turn-table bears several gates
which assist in dividing the sheep
into squads and fastening or retard-
ing their movement from the yards
as may be needed. Men stationed
along the line Of movement bring up
the sheep or squeeze the dip out of
the wool as those dipped climb the
incline leading out of the, tank. Ev-
cry user of tank should carefully
select a dip free from anything which
can hurt the fibers of the fleece or be
poisonous to the sheep.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

far above any of his contemporaries
from the United States, and equal to
the best of others.
In the Piazza Barberini, a short
distance from the palace in which
Story resided, Louisa Alcott took up
her residence. Here in this house,
that stands between the Was S.
Basilio and S. Nicolo di Tolentino,
she had an apartment, and here she
began her book Little Men,"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
Mnttnn is this wear lac POOR MANS

Mutton is this year the poor mans
meat. The high prices of other kinds
of meat are driving consumers to the
use of mutton to much larger extent
than ever before. The result must be
either a decided increase in the price
Of sheep or very great Increase in
the number of sheep in the country.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

election. leaving the President his op'
portunities to humbug both the trust
and antitrust people. His party wants
the votes of one section and the
money and power of the other.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
BIanketina Cowsa ~ ~


From time to time blanketiAg OF
COWS is advocated. This 20 hass been
tried in various parts of the World
in the United States, 'Edropesaft Aus
tralia. 1t has several times beens re-
ported on quite favorably.. Yet. IT al
ways drops out of sight again in this
country. Some of the Dutch farmers
have the habit we'll fixed.f- ope 9f'ahe'
leading butter makers in WISCONSIN
has in past years followed the Esac'
tice of covering his cows. GensEf9ly
the covering is done to keeb on, sthe
cold, but sometimes to keep on ines.
Covers for the latter purpose are OF
course too light to be OF use In colo
weather, and if covering were extern
sively practiced summer and winter
it would require two sets of covers.
For the present there is little. hReA'
hood that American dairymen. WV
take kindly to the blanketing ideay
certainly not so with those that bes
lieve a wire fence is all the prpteeNsn
a dairy cow needs in winter. ..tj,s ~
A Queer Ration for calves.N'Ss !,
No less a paper than the, New sNealS
and Dairyman is advocating the use.
of cod liver oil in the raising! tof:
calves. 1t claims to have discoveed
its efficacy as a partial ration. This
oil is fed with separator skim milk.
and is supposed to take the place OF
the cream that has been removed from
the milk in separating The: amount
to be fed each day is twoaAautH
ounces. The oil costs about $125 pep;
gallon, which means that the cost per
calf is about cents per day. This is'
not an excessive cost If 1t does the
work proposed In the United States
we have many cheaper things, SUCH
as flax seed. In this country to put
calves on partial ration of cod liver
oil would be to call into alliance the
corner drug store. We will wait to
see bow the New Zealanders succeed
before we take up with the novelty.
Possibly in year the method will
have dropped out of sight.
The fool who rocks the boat general.
ly lives to regret it .s:ss4 SIS
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03
shorthorn Association Prosperous.

Probably the American Shorthorn
Association is more prosperous than
any other live stock association in the
United States. There are few asso-
Citations of this character that have
a surplus big enough to put at inter
est. The association mentioned has
large sum of money invested, as Is
shown by the following financial
statement taken from pamphlet just
issued:
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-10-03

The fool who rocks the boat general.
ly lives to regret IL .s:Sss sss.is
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-13

The Milwaukee road has equipped
the road between Davis junction and
Savannah, H., with long distance
telephones and is testing them for
train service.
"A piano should not stand near an
open window, neither should it be
close against the wall. Should the
Keys need cleaning rub them with a
clean soft muslin cloth slightly cover
ed with alcohol. The best buster for
a piano is soft silk. An old silk hand
kerchief is good for this purpose.
A tramp who had been employed
as laborer on the dairy farm of Theo-
dore Hoffman near Linden, ran
sacked the house last night during his
employees absence, taking several
suits of clothes, some silverware and
a purse containing $15. He was
caught on a freight train and SEN
fenced to three months in the county
jail
They tell a good one on a doctor
visiting in a neighboring city. The
doctor is very fond of a game of cards.
A few days ago he vas called to the
bedside of a patient. He pulled out
his watch, felt the sick mans pulse
and began to count ~'sseven, eight,
nine, ten, Jack, King, Queen, Ace"
The patient Immediately burst out
laughing and soon got well.
You can tell a successful farmer
by looking at his wife's fruit in the
closet, you al tell a SLOUGH by her
hair, you a tell a poisonous serpent
by the bluntness of his tail. But the
easiest thing of all you can tell an en-
terprising merchant Of a town by a
glance at a local paper. This is not a
divine revelation but business and
gospel truth.
Upon coming into this Office the
other day we asked the Devil his
rule for punctuation. Said he, 81
set up as long as / can hold my breath
then put in a comma; when | cape |
insert a semicolon; when | sneeze, a
and when / want to take anoth-
er chew of tobacco | insert a period
cannot withhold these rules, so
in their simplicity, from
the public New Lisbon Times.