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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
coNFEssEs TO FIVE MURDERS
Gustav Marx Has Had Long Career ot
Crime.

Chicago, March 15.-Gustav Marx,
one of the three car barn bandits now
under sentence of death. declared in a
confession just made that he was
one of the three men who held up the
Chicago and Northwestern express
train at Tower w near De Kalb, four
years ago.
The crime. which has passed into
history as one of the most desperate
ever committed in or about Chicago,
has never been fastened upon any one
of the many suspects arrested and the
identity of the bandits has remained a
mystery to the police until now.
Marx says both his confederates in
the crime are dead and refuses 10 give
their names. One of them. he de-
clared. died with his boots on"
The railway authorities admitted
loss OF Sl02 900 by the robbery. Marx
says the robbers got only $4,000, the
rest of the money having been de-
stroyed by the explosion of dynamite
used to crack the safe.
In sort of footnote to this startling
confession Marx admits the killing OF
FIVE men in his career of crime.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
the only high grsds sekins Powder
msds o. . moderate or'os.
Calumet
Baking.
Powder
USE TORCH AND BULLET.
BROOKLYN coLoRED PREACHER
ADVISES NEGROES TO CARRY
ON WAR OF REPRIsAL.
NO LIBERTY WITHOUT SACRIFICE
ASSERTS NEGROES WOULD MAKE
A GOOD SHOWING IN BAT
TIE WITH WHITES.
NO LIBERTY WITHOUT SACRIFICE

New York. March Employment
Of the torch and the bullet by the ne
gro to defend his rights and to stop
the lynching OF blacks by white men
has been openly recommended in a
sermon by Rev. f. NJ. Jacobs in an
African Methodist Episcopal church OF
Brooklyn. He said the negroes of
dragged from jail and strangled to
death by mob, should carry on war
of reprisal and burn their enemies
out of business
The sermon created a marked sensa-
tion.
You should contend unto death for
your rights" asserted the Rev. Jacobs.
mo race has ever won anything with
out the shedding of blood
IF wars are good for nations they
are good for races. Bishop Brown OF
the Methodist Episcopal church says
that a race war is inevitable in this
country and the negro will be exter.
minated. This is not true. for the ne
gro is no coward; he will fight and in
a war between the races he will give
as good an account of himself as he
did al Fort Wagner and before Peters
burg. They tell us to pray, but we
have been praying and praying and
now is the time for the negro to assert
his manhood.
The day is coming, the hour is ap-
preaching when this must be done.
for M race under the sun ever got its
liberty without fighting for 1t.
There must be some sacrifice OF life
If need be to obtain the liberties OF a
people The negro is no coward and
Germany and England know IL from
their African experiences
Many of our lives are to be sacri-
feed if we are to attain TO manhood
in this country. | love TO tell you TO
pray, but all prayers and no fighting
will do no good"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
JUSTICE HOLMES READS
DISSENTING OPINION

Justice Holmes read the dissenting
opinion He construed the antitrust
law as criminal statute and declared
| that there was nothing in 1t to indi-
cate that it had been enacted merely
| for the control of large concerns, as
| Is generally contended. Indeed, the
law had not been understood as apply
| ing to railroads until so construed by
| the supreme court. The act, he con-
,ended, applies only to contracts and
combinations in restraint Of trade ano
makes no reference to competition.
He thought this inference due to
the size of railroad corporations. He
took the position that there has been
no attempt to monopolize in this COM
bination of the railroads and said that
there could be no more objection to
the purchase of the stock of the North
ern Pacific and the Great Northern
roads by the Securities company than
If bought by Mr.. Morgan himself.
Justice White also read a dissenting
opinion, taking up especially the power
of congress to control commerce. Be
ginning with an argument in support
o. dissenting opinions he outlined the
points involved in the case. He re-
ferred to its Importance and called at
tention TO the fact that only four mem
bers of the court, one less than a
majority. had united in the opinion of
the court. He then said that such
principles as are laid down in that
opinion are destructive of govern
ment, destructive of human liberty and
destructive of every principle upon
which organized society depends"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
DECISION UPHOLDS THE
POWER OF CONGRESS

Justice Harlan said that in this day
there should be no doubt OF the COM
plete power OF congress to control in
terstate commerce. All the prior
trust cases were in support of that
contention. Whether free and unre-
strained competition was wise, he
said was an economic question with
which the court need not concern it.
self, the question was that of statu-
tory law.
lie asserted the power Of congress
over interstate commerce to be as
complete as the power Of state over
domestic commerce.
Coming to the plea of the railroads
that the antitrust law should be de-
clared unconstitutional he said that
the court could not see its way to that
end
"lf," ne went on. "the Securities
company's contentious are sound why
may not all the railroads of the Unit
ed States enter into a combination
and by the device of holding cor.
poration control rates throughout the
country In defiance of congress ?"
Justice Harlan also took occasion to
say that there had been nothing In the
Securities companys certificate OF In
corporation to indicate its purpose to
be that of destroying commerce and
he therefore absolved the state OF New
Jersey from any charge of such knowl-
edge in advance. 1t might be true
that federal court had no power to
dissolve corporation of state, but
this circumstance could not be an indi-
cation of powerlessness to enforce the
law, than which no corporation is
stronger. Nc device could suffice to
prevent this enforcement of the ma
tional statutes. The courts had in
deed, consistently held to the suprem-
acy of the national laws in cases OF
conflict between these laws and the
laws of the states. So long as con-
gress confined itself to its prescribed
functions, he said, there could be no
danger At any rate the error, If any,
was with congress and it was for con-
gress to supply the remedy and not
for the courts.
Justice Harlan also discussed the
predictions of financial disaster from
the enforcement of the antitrust law,
but discouraged them, saying they
were usual under such circumstances
and need not be realized.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
LARGE TERRITORY At
MERCY OF COMBINE

He held that il such combination
were not destroyed ''all the advantages
that would naturally come to the pub
lie under the operation of the general
laws of competition. as between the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific
Railway companies, will be lost and
the entire commerce Of the immense
territory In the northern part of the
United States between the Great
Lakes and the Pacific at Puget sound
will be at the mercy OF single hold
ing corporation. organized in state
distant from the people OF that terri
.ory."
The decree Of the circuit court. he
said. could not have been Of smaller
scope and 1t had In no way exceeded
It's authority. The law must not be
narrowly construed, but reasonably
construed. The defendants could not
complain OF the finding OF the circuit
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
OF THE
GOVERNMENT UPHELD.

The suit was instituted by the Unit
ed States against the Northern Securi-
ties company and the two railroad
companies, the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern, and their leading
stockholders for the purpose Of dis
solving the merger of the two roads,
which the United States declared had
been created by the creation of hold
ing company, the Securities company.
This consolidation was claimed to be
In violation of the Sherman antitrust
law. 1t was claimed on behalf of the
government that this consolidation was
In effect a pool created to promote
the interests, not Of one system at the
expense OF the other, but of both at
the expense of the public. The rail-
roads claimed that the transfer of the
stock of the two companies to the
Securities company was in the nature
OF sale and perfectly legitimate.
The contentious of the Securities
company were reviewed and Justice
Harlan said they had received full at.
tention. He quoted the various opin.
ions involving the trust question, say.
ing that from them ii is to be gathered
that all contracts In restraint OF trade,
reasonable or unreasonable, are pro-
hibited by the Sherman law and that
congress has the power to establish
such regulations as are laid down In
that law.
Replying i'm detail to the points made
for the Securities company Justice
Harlan said that the contention tnat
the law is an interference with the
rights of the individual states by which
tha companies are Incorporated was
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
SEVERE AT MILWAUKEE.
Blizzard Interrupts Traffic Throughout
Wisconsin,.


Milwaukee, March ia severe
blizzard started in here about mid
night 1t is reported by the weather
bureau as the worst of the season.
Early in the day street railway serv-
ice was crippled but the snowplows
soon made a passageway on all the
city lines and the service, while some
what slow. is said to be open on all
the lines. Suburban traffic is only
partially crippled. The snow is light
and not hard to handle.
The storm is more severe in Mil
waukee than in other parts OF the
state. La Crosse reports four inches
of snow, Green Bay one inch and Mar
quette, Mich, none. Colder weather
is predicted to follow the storm.
Detroit, Mich, March 15.-A furious
blizzard descended on Detroit and
Lower Michigan during the night and
the heavy snowfall. drifted by the
high east wind. is delaying traffic con
siderably. Street car service in this
city was almost at a standstill.
Burlington Ia, March 15-The
worst snowstorm of the season is rag
ing over this region. Steet car traf-
fic is badly interfered with. The snow
is ten inches on the level and drifting
badly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
PREVENTION OF COMPETITION
ONLY OBJECT OF MERGER

Justice Harlan declared that the only
object of the merger was to prevent
competition and he said that II no one
else knew this to be the case j. Pier
pont Morgan, one Of the defendants,
knew that to have been the case.
Extracts from Morgan's testimony
were quoted in support of this state
ment.
Logically construed Justice Harlan
said. the decision should be followed
by the criminal prosecution of the par
ties AT interest in this case.
Speaking of the general understand
ing that the Sherman law applied only
to large corporations the justice said
that this impression was breathed
from every pore of the statute, but
that its language did not bear out the
conclusion.
In our Judgment" said Justice Har-
Ian, 1.-The evidence fully sustains the
material allegations of the bill and
shows a violation of the act Of con-
gress in SO far as it declares illegal
every combination or conspiracy In
restraint Of commerce among the sew
eral states and with foreign nations
and forbids attempts to monopolize
such commerce. Laying aside the
many things of minor character and
summarizing the principal facts it is
indisputable, upon this record, that
under the leadership of the defendants,
Hill and Morgan. the stockholders OF
the Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railway corporations, having COM
peting and substantially parallel lines
from the Great Lakes and the Missis-
sippi river to the Pacific ocean at Pu-
get sound, combined and conceived
the scheme of organizing a corpora
tion under the laws of New Jersey
which should hold the shares of stock
of the constituent companies"
Continuing Justice Harlan said that
this combination is, within the mean
Ing Of the act trust. but If not it is a
combination In restraint of interstate
and international commerce and that
Is enough to bring it under a condem
nation OF the act"
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not wen founded. In such cases, he
said, the authority of congress is SUI
preme.
He also declared it to be unneces-
sary to determine the right OF owners
of railroad stock to sell the property,
nor was 1t true that the right OF the
Securities company to own and hold
railroad stock is the only question in
volved Such contentious are wide OF
the mark-mere men of straw. All
that the government complains OF is
the existence Of a corporation to re-
press commerce and is not concerned
with the other points.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
MERGER HELD ILLEGAL
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
susTAINs GOVERNMENT IN
SECURITIES CASE.
H0lrIhG COMPANY DECl AIRED A TRUST
sTIFLiNG OF COMPETITION MAIN
OBJECT OF CONSOLIDATING
PARALLEL ROADS.
SHERMAN LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL
POWER OF CONGRESS OVER IN
TERsTATE COMMERCE HELD
TO BE COMPLETE.

Washington. March 15.-The opin-
ion Of the supreme court of the United
States in the case of the Northern
Securities company VS.. the United
States. involving the merger of the
Northern Pacific and the Great North
ern Railroad companies, was handed
down during the day and was In favor
OF the government The opinion was
read by Justice Harlan and concurred
I'm hy Justices Brown, Brewer, Me
Kenna and Day while the chief justice
and Justices White Peckham and
Holmes dissented.
The opinion of the United States
circuit court for the district Of Mime
sofa was affirmed.
The effect is to sustain the cOnten-
tion that the antitrust law applies to
railroad combinations of the character
In question.
Justice Harlan said that in the mer-
ger of the two roads the stockholders
disappeared and reappeared in the Sc
curities company, the two thus becom
ing practically consolidated in hold
lIS cOIHpduy, 'Ae piihSiP"i ooJ''' "
ing TO prevent competition.
mo scheme or device could certain
ly more effectively come within the
prohibition of the antitrust law and
II is, within the meaning OF the act
q trust"
The case has attracted more atten-
ton than eny other suit before the
decided and has been regarded by
bench and bar as equal in Importance
with those cases and with the income
tax case. Ii was argued in December
last and attracted general attention at
that time. as it did previously when
the decision was rendered by the cir
cult court for the district OF Mime
sofa.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
MILES FOR PRESIDENT.
iowa Democratic Reorganizers Back
the Retired Soldier.

Des Mones. March 15.-The reor
ganiZers in the Democratic party in
Iowa are back of the boom for General
Miles for president, which was inau-
gurated i'm this state at conference
held in this city. The fight in Iowa
will now be between the old line or
conservative Democrats, backing
Miles. and the radical or silver wing
which is aligning itself for Hearst.
Seventy-five Democrats attended the
conference in the interests of General
Miles. Ii was called as a part of a
movement started at the same time in
several states. including Michigan
Illinois, Massachusetts and Texas.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
FRENCH STEAMER MISSING.
Feared That the Pro Patria Has Met
With Disaster.

Halifax. NJ S.. March l5.-No news
has been received from the French
steamer Pro Patria, since she left St
Pierre, Miauelon, for Halifax. fourteen
days ago Fears are now entertained
that she has met with disaster. She
should have reached this port March
2. The Pro Patria carried crew ol
twenty men, under command of Cap
tain Lafonread and on board were
forty passengers.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.
House Committee Begins Work OF
Postal Invest gation.

Washington, March 15.-The special
committee of the house to investigate
the postoffice "indictment" OF members
of congress continued its work behind
closed doors from 10 to 12:45 p. m.
The committee is making detailed
study of each case in this report and
will send TO the postoffice department
for the original records in full. 1t
will first determine those cases In
which there appears on the surface an
indication OF wrongdong on the part
of members. If there are any such. be-
fore taking the testimony of witnesses.
Much time, it is believed. will be saved
by this preliminary work.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15

court and justice Harlan, III conciu-
sion, announced the confirmation OF
the decision of that court, saying.
The judgment of this court is that
the decree below of the circuit court
be and hereby is affirmed, with liberty
to the circuit court TO proceed In due
execution of the decree as the circum-
stances may require.
Judge Harlan concluded at 1:lS
o. m. He was followed by Justice
Brewer. who. while concurring in the
Judgment, did not accept all of the
language of the opinion.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
PRESIDENT is PLEASED.
Expresses Satisfaction at Decision In
Merger Case.

Washington, March 15.-President
Roosevelt received the news of the
supreme courts decision in the North
ern Securities case from the Asso.
ciated Press. He was engaged at the
time in conference with some friends.
but put aside all else to express salts
faction that the court had sustained
the contentious OF the government.
Later he will express his personal
congratulations to the attorney gen.
eral
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
Whole Family Perished.

Rogers, Ark, March 15.-Fernando
Walters and his three children, Claude,
aged fourteen; Gertie, twelve, and
Melvin. ten, were burned to death in
the destruction of their home, fourteen
miles north of here. near Garfield A
brother of Mr.. Walters aged fifteen
years. was SO seriously burned that
death is expected hourly.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1904-03-15
FREIGHT TRAIN DERAILED.
Three Men Killed and as Many Other
Injured.

Joplin. Mo. March i5.-A Kansas
City Southtr IN freight train was de-
rallied six miles south OF Joplin while
running at a rapid rate down the Sag
inaw hill. Three men were killed.
three injured and seventeen cars OF
merchandise demolished