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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19

ment which will permit the enactment
of mild legislation regulating the
trusts, and that If assurances can be
given that the perfected bill will be
Of a character so conservative as to
merely satisfy the presidents demand
for some kind of action no obstacles
will be placed in the way of the bill in
the senate"
These are extraordinary admissions
for the Star to make: First, that the
trusts will permit mild legislation;
second, that President Roosevelt will
be satisfied with some kind of action.
What do you think of that? The
trusts will kindly permit congress to
pass u law nominally against them
selves. So here we have the fat-foot-
ed assertion by the newspaper organ
of the republican administration that
the trusts own congress and dictate
any and all laws they think desirable
or expedient. Democratic newspapers
and orators have claimed this for some
years, but it has always been indig-
nantly denied until at last the dis
graceful truth is admitted.
But what is the matter with Presi-
dent Roosevelt that he should also
come to be satisfied with any legisla-
ton the trusts may dictate? Is the
trust-buster so anxious to be again
nominated for president that "some
kind of action" against the trusts will
now satisfy him? Democratic news
papers and speakers have always given
the president credit for honesty of
purpose, whatever his shortcomings;
but here we have his personal organ,
which is inspired from the white house,
acknowledging that the president has
Joined the other leaders of his party
in trying to fool the people with fake
legislation against the trusts.
Another eminent republican, at a
crisis in the history of the country,
said: "You can fool all the people
some of the time and some of the
people all the time, but you cannot
fool all of the people all of the time"
1t is to be hoped that the people will
not be fooled more easily to-day than
they were in Lincoln's time.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
AN ODD OBJ
He Paid to Learn the Secret Signs,
But They Didn't Take Him
Through.

"Of all the mean swindles ! ever OBJ.
served" said an odd fellow, according
to the Chicago Inter Ocean, ''the mean
est was one down in Texas a couple of
years ago. | was living there at that
time. and one of my neighbors was a
little German saloonkeeper. H ewanted
to join our order the worst way but
he didn't like putting up the initiation
fee.
Zone day while the little fellow was
dealing out beer in his place, a seedy-
looking individual entered and asked
him if he was an odd fellow. The sa-
loon man said he wasn't, and then the
seedy-looking chap offered to tell him
of all the inner workings of the order
FOR five dollars.
"'You look like a pretty good fell
low said the visitor, and as long as |
don't attend lodge meetings very much
any more, I'll give you the grip and all
Of the secret passwords, so that you
can attend the next session held here.
'The saloonkeeper put up the five,
n the seedy-looklng man explained q
queer grip to him, and told him all sorts
of queer motions to make with his
hands as 500 as he entered the lodge
hall.
SWELL, on our next meeting night up
came the little German. Whenthe door
keeper stopped him he grabbed his
hand and began goingthrough all sorts
Of antics. Then he put his thumbs to
his ears and began wiggling his fingers.
"At this stage in the proceedings the
doorkeeper threw him downstairs.
When he learned how he had been
~swindled, he swore out a. John Doe'
warrant for the arrest of the man who
had taught him the signs but thatin-
dividual never appeared in town
again"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19

Brown-Hello, Jones! You dom,
mean to say this is really you?
Jones-It certainly is.
"Why, I thought you were dead"
"No; vas dead"
"Say, arc you sure of that?"
"Of course, l am"
"Well, I read something in the paper
some time ago about your funeral"
"Oh, nc. You probably read about
my marriage"
Perhaps that was it. / know it
was something sad."--Chicago Daily
News.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19

Bishop John F. Hurst and c. c. McCabe are its chancellor and vice
chancellor.
The site of the university, on a commanding height about six
miles from the city OF Washington, gives a superb view. From the
heights looking west are the Blue Ridge mountains and the winding
Potomac to the east one sees the dome of the capitol.
With the governments literary and scientific collections, such as
are massed in no other city, representing an expenditure of more than
$5ooooooo, and wide open to students, Washington is the most in
vtng situation which the country affords for a great Christian post
graduate university, as commanding as any in the world.
What is the Woman's Guild?
The Womans Guild of the American University proposes to
collate womans gifts to the institution into a fund for the building of
a college to be called the Womans Guild College of Comparative Re-
Ggon. Its task is to form womans guilds in every state and sec
ton of the country and enlist the influence and efforts of American
women in one of the nobest enterprises for a higher Christian cuI-
ture that has ever presented itself to their zeal.
The gift of a college endowed exclusively for the study OF compar.
alive religion, with a staff of representative professors and assistants,
is without precedent. 1t is pregnant with great possibilities.
H. III @ M N
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19

Senator Hanna's ex-slave bounty
bill is a very simple little affair whose
first years requirements would be
1915, 900, 900. 1t would make the ex-
slave population the recipients of as
heavy a bonus a the United States
government now gets from tariff Gus
toms. 1t certainly should capture the
colored vote for the senator for the
1904 convention.--St. Paul Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
would Need 1t.

olden-You're cultivating rather ex
travagant tates.
Youngman-Oh, well, when / get a
start in the world ] expect to have
all the money ! want.
well, at that rate, you'll want al,
the money you expect to have."-a
Philadelphia Press.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19

The haste and ease with which
those trust bills--not antitrust bills
are sliding through congress is moth
ing remarkable. 1t is never difficult to
pass bills which mean nothing, which
are meant to do nothing, and which win
accomplish nothing. Albany Argus.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
The Woman's Guild Of the American University


The American university, a Protestant, POSTCARD
uate university, at Washington, has % acres of land,
purchased and paid for, one beautiful marble build
ing, the College of History, completed and paid for
at a cost OF $4,000, and the foundation of another
building, the Ohio College of Government-McKin-
ley Memorial hall, whose corner stone was laid by
President Roosevelt-completed and paid for.
Twenty-three buildings are contemplated, ten million
dollars to be used for their erection and endowment
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
house ala \ GOOD tbino ube,

The house did a good thing when
II rejected the bill for a separate Phil
ippine coinage, and adopted a substi-
tute making United States money a
legal tender in the islands. What is
good enough for us at home is good
enough for the Filipinos.--Toledo
Blade (Rep.).
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
Onion Cruel.

Put some onions to cook in cold
water; let them boil for five minutes,
then throw away the liquor and boil
them again in fresh water. When
quite tender, drain thoroughly and
squeeze the onions in q, cloth to express
the juice. Press all through a hair
sieve, warn up the pulp in a sauce pan
with butter, pepper and salt; add a lit
tie milk and let it reduce over the fire
till it is the thickness you like.-Boston
Globe.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
y ~SINVtTVIN,
NTnDEAN
ROCKEFELLER.

"P. S.: Should kilograms to senators
or congressman be made public, during
the next few days, in which we are
represented as being opposed to any
antitrust legislation you will under
stand the situation. 1t would be a great
mistake TO let the public believe that
Wall street favors these bills. We
hope it will not observe the fact that
stocks have been on the rise since dis
cussion of these bills began"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
How the Keep
Twins Celebrated
A Suggestion from Washington.
BY ANNIE HAMILTON DoNNELL.

Hannibal said, slowly,
that's old. We've done
that every year. It's got
to be something new"
"Huh, easy 'nough to say
sol" shifted Luther Ben.
Just say that, will you?"
"Yes, / will, Luther Ben
Keep, if you'll give me
time to!"
The Keep twins were
out in the woodshed fill
inu the chin basket for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
After the, Auto Accident.

Cholly-Was poor Gussie pweparei
10 die?
Algy-a-oh, not at all. His valet was
away on his vacation, ye know.-Judge-
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-02-19
TEDDY AND THE OCTOPUS ELEPHANT.

happen to us should some future adj
m~inistration enforce it.
THE more You can pass o. such anti
trust bills as these the better will it
be for us and for our party.
Very sincerely,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
so1rE rAnrTr pEAurrxs.

The New York Herald has discovered. or rediseovered. ''that shoes. -four and ether Ameficau manufactures are being sold abroad at figures very much below the price charged for the same at home and this leads The Hartford courant to remark:
 This is the sort of thing to make a pubiic-spirited citizen mad clear through. It ts all rikht for the manufacturer to threw duet In your eyes and say 1t is necessary to get rid of the surplus, but you cannot make an intelligent American that pss sscrles X ss is made made at any 'ii time % t is right te make t in favor of for eIgners and against ones own country. Goods sold at q loss abroad require that goods be sold at home at profit suf- netently excessive to make ur out of us for what was given away there. There are some things that man of ordinary sense. especially if he is Demo erst. cannot be persuaded to believe. and one of these things Is that American manufacturers will send their goods to Europs or to other foreign countries and sell them at . loss. This Is directly con- trary to the spirit and genius ef Ameri- cans,. and especially the New England variety. They are not built that way. and thsir training and hshits gre not of . kind to allow them to engage voluntarily la . losing business.
 when an American manufacturer sends . cargo of goods to foreign market. he sets proft cut of the transaction. The argument used by some of them to the sffsct that they must sell in foreign mar ksts at prics below cost of manufacture in order to compete successfully with the foreign manufacturer Is absurd. Why do they wish to compete with the foreign CT, if they lose by the operation? What sense is there in trying to obtain or retain foreign trade. if there is a continual loss? That is not an American way of doing business
 But if ws admit this reasoning, it only makes the case stronger against the manufactures. M he sells the foreign markets at<a . less. t is plain that he must recqnp in some way or 70 out of business.s Consequently 1t must be plain that if our manufaetursrs lose money in shsir foreign trade. they must make 1t up on the home trade. In other words. home consumers must not only pay . fair prodt to manufacturers. but must also make up for the losses on foreign sales. And that Is exactly what Is dons. Our tariff rates virtually shut out foreign goods and thus enable our manufacturers to charge Us a price which not only pays large profits on sales at home, but covers the losses, or the small pronts on foreign sales. We agree. with The Courant that this is the kind of thing "to make public spirited citizen mad clear through" but it is one of the beauties of a Republican tariff system.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
HOW TO STOP LyNcHINo. A Far Northwest Republican Paper
 Suggests Remedy.
Portland OFegonian.

RoSLIand OT9SoNlAn. over M the " iyncSins question. keSross aRrs R burned at the stake, and then we have convsntions and petitions: warm words in lecture platform remedies without num-
 Der, Some say the remedy for iynchins is te punish the sheriff; some would rnulct would indict the mob and others rely on the main strength and awkwardness cf Is fittie discussed, but whici, would prove effective and h,s that Is for thsss S IsEro ray viii bs permltted 'ta,' to take Sis it's measured way with their other offenses,. This 1t ia which sets every woman in the country tlesn the % Sympathy S ana pis forbesra%ee sHs of of erstwhile denunciatofs of the lynching- bee. The negro can stop lynching to-
 The beauty of this remedy is that the sufferer will be his own emancipator. It will take the. press and the pulpit, the any headway against the people who rise up in an hour of righteous wrath and in- Aict a punishment that approximately Its ing Ing 50 @ as as al, n enlightened age permits. But fss Hffs sfR isRR 1nts s'asSs ss sa a1s ssae aps'ls of fss ess st ST lst W rsts
 And 1t ts the only way. We have heard at the staiSe.. Let us hear something now for these helpless children, in virgin in: nocence and the beautiful fresnness .of Anltely worse than death by one whom they have never wvcnged. and in whose that God would bless Hail the world" Lynch law is irregular and burning Is unnatural, but neither is more irregular and unnatural than the crime avenged
 It is the only way. So long as white girls are outraged by black hFutes. so .Thsy say that the spectacle does not de ter. Maybe not; SO much the worse for them who refuse to take warning. for such penalty. Lynching must be stopped but first this unspeakable crime must be stopped. Until the negro stops lynching by his own abstinence from rape. burn ing will go on so long as there Is q black ruflan left to feed the flames His rem. edy ts In his own hands Let him let white girls alone. ..-. L.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
THE AssouAN DAM.
May Have a Big Effect on Cotton
 Production.


 1, Thers is a dam on the river Nile tha, may have an Important effect on the fu- ture of one of Americas greatest indus tries. It Is located at .Assouan, and was completed year ago, in time to store ur enormous quantities of water last winter Because of 1t the acreage devoted tc cotton raising in large trihutary coup- try has been greatly increased. The store of water has now been released, and ar official report says that the success of all the summer crops Is assured.
 How far this dam and others that have been built or are projected will increase Egypt's cotton output remains for the fu- ture to show. The crop for 1901 was about i:aoc, ,oOc SsleS, gr2w9 on iSccoO0 acres Si 2. the same year was about 1O.5O0ooo bales pounds of cotton, as against 200 pounds per acre in the United States.
 The Assouan dam Is an enormous struc. ture. Together with a smaller dam at Asslout the cost has been $24,000.00Q and the money has probably been exceedingly we'll spent. The Assouan dam towers 7t feet above the river bed and is about 600O feet long. It will stove 1000 million tons of water, more than the equivalent, 1t Is estimated, for full years domestice sup ply for the United Kingdom.
 Last year England made q treaty with King Menelik of Abyssinta by which she secured the right to use Lake Tasna as a reservoir, and engineers are now making voir system from which Upper Egypt and the Sudan can be irrigated. Lake Albert Nyansa ls proposed as one reservoir In the system.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
ROOSEVELT SURE
 GEAR WILL YIELD.
His Snub to Russia Will Procure
 Trade Concessions in China.

His Snub to Russia Will Procure Trade Concessions in China.
 Washington Special to New York World Secretary Hay returned this afternoon from Oyster Bay. where he spent yester- day afternoon and last night as the guest of the President
 It Is known that the President is con- ndent that his snub to Russia will bring the Czar to terms without much delay. and that the United States will procure all of the trade concessions in Manchuria which have been asked for. and possibly more. A close friend of MT. Roosevelt expressed the conviction today that the United States will obtain at least two open ports in ManchuFia, and perhaps three or four. He believes the Presi- dents statement on the Kishineff peti- ton. and incidentally Manchuria. will be accepted as a warning that Russia will be quick to heed.
 Mir. Hays friends ridicule the Idea that he will resign from the Cabinet as a re- suit of the statement concerning the Kishineff petition dictated and given out by the President without any consuita- ton with the Secretary of State. Friends of MT. Hay admit that he doubtless was piqued by the summary action of the President. but they give several reasons in support of their conviction that he will
 
 Cabinet Tn the first place, they say, Mir. Hay will win. whatever may be the result on the Manchurian situation of the Pres ident's undiplomatic statement
 If Russian influence shuts the United States out of Manchuria Mir. Hay can shrug his shoulders and nod his head to- ward the White House while if Russia knuckles down and allows China to grant the open ports which this country has demanded, to MT, Hay will be given the credit for successfully carrying out the negotiations. Another reason is the gen. eral belief that Mir. Hay will not leave the Cabinet so long as he Is next in line for the Presidency and Mir. Roosevelt continues to take nve-rail fences at a mad gallop, go rowing on the Sound and pur- sue other dangerous sports that might make John Hay President almost any day
 A more than ordinary amount of eau- ton Is going to be used by the State De- partment in sending the Kishineff peti- ton to the American Embassy at St. Pe- tersburg. Russian oficialdom knows that fact.
 The State Department has a dispatch bag on all steamers that carry mail for Russia, but this means of sending im- portant communications, 1t has been found, Is not always an assurance of the delivery of the matters contained therein inviolate. It is not probable the instruc- tions to MT. Riddle will be intrusted to 1t. It Is more probable there will toe a special messenger to carry them and place them in the hands of the Charge.
 Third Assistant Secretary of State Her bert H. D. Pierce is going to Russia on July 20 for the purpose of a vacation trip and to inspect several European consul ates. If the petition be ready by the time he Is ready to sail. 1t Is almost certain he will be designated to convey the doc ument intended for the eyes of the cSsF and the instructions intended only for
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
TWO GOOD ARTICLES.

The Advertiser copies In this issue two editorials from The Portland oregoniap, . Republican paper. to which special attention is called. both because ot the truths conveyed and. for. the manner ef treating a suDjeet tkhioh has become both vital and grave. and particularly tn the south. .,...,
 1t is useless to shut our eyes to facts. Just as long As negroes continue to out rage white women and glrlS, just that long will negroes be put to death. If the manner or their taktpS off ts come. times brutal and horrible. the. crime ls lnfinitely more 50. and the result IS certain. The ministers of God may de- nounce lynching from their pulpits; the courts of justice may thunder against it from the bench; the newspapers of the country may illuminate against 1t. and law-abiding citizens may denounce and condemn it. but all these influences will not put stop to iyJ Jehins while the cause exists. ~
 This is one case ~Rirsx xup~ily and in svitasly. ..ths wassl knGls death" It Is useless to try to disguise from our selves the afct that the white people of this country. North or South. wili not suffer to live the black ravisber of white women. It may be true that the doom meted out to these brutes will not stop the crime. So much the more forcible, then. is the remedy proposed by The oregonian. The negroes themselves can put a stop to lynchine. They can stop the crime if they will. and then lynching will end. Theories. arguments and ae- nafIeiations have never changed facts and never will. To preach patience to white men whose loved ones have bean worse than murdered has no more effect than whistling against a prairie fire. White men will speedily, terribly and invariably avenge a crime committed against white women. and no earthly power can prevent 1t.
 It is right that the press of the country should plead for the majesty of the law but that pleading will be powerlsss until the negroes array themselves on the side of humanity and right living, It is with them to abolish lynching by refraIning from the crime for which lynehing fol. lows as certainly as the thunder follows the lightning's flash. We plead for the supremacy of the law. We plead that the legal forms of justice may be supreme in the land, but we recognize as an exist. ing fact that no human law can control white men under certain conditions. Let
 
 that in them lies the sole remedy for lynchins and it will cease. It will not cease otherwise. 70
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-11
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW
SUMMER TRADE CONTINUES TO
 BE BRISK.
Confidence in Large Fall Business is showu--Priees Display Except ional Steadiness For xais
 Sea9on of Year.

New York. July 1o--Bradstreet's tomor- row will say:
 Weather conditions continue almost per- feet, the winter wheat crop harvest has about been completed with a considerably larger yield than last year. Retail trade in summer goods has improved and re- orders from jobbers are large in volume. Confidence in . large fall trade grows as corn and cotton make up for their early backward start, clearings are in excess of a year ago at. most centers, railroad earnings continue to show gains over all preceding years-the increase for June is fully 12 per cent-and prices dis play exceptional steadiness for a mid- summer period. The prospect grows that whatever deficiencies from last year occur in crop yields will be made up for by increased quotations or better quality of products. Wool has been again advance ed and while manufacturers afe not in- clined to stock up, the higher price for the raw material practically insures higher prices for spring woolens.
 Retail trade has been stimulated by real summer weather and 5obbers East and West note much improved recorder business in seasonabie goods. Eastern shoe shipments are N per cent lower than last week, but IS per cent larger than last year.
 The iron and steel market Is dull and unsettled as to prices. Runors of cuts in prices of iron are not numerous. hes- semer pig Is nominally easier at Pittsburg and steel billets are depressed and easier. Inquiries are numerous. but new business in iron is scant. A good volume of orders for rails has been booked. Many mills will shut down for repairs or because of hot weather. Pig iron production is large and Southern producers are expected to cut prices. Tin and copper are rather weak.
 Wheat including -four exports for the week ending July 9th aggregate 2,l3 .000i bushels against 2,966, ,6S2 last week. Corn exports for the week aggregate, 625,0S4 against ,42o,17z last week.
 Business failures for the week ending July 9, number 14 against 162 last week.
 In Canada failures for the week num- Der 20 as against 70 last week.