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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-14
STATES CASE
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Court Will Have to Pass on Diff
ferent Questions Involved in
Other Appeal.
Serious Problems for Merger
Heads Involved in the Read
justment Process.
Absolute Compliance With Order
of the Circuit Court Seems to
Be Impossible.

The governments victory in the
Northern Securities case does not end
the litigation. There still remains on
the docket the appeal of the state of
Minnesota from the decision Of Judge
Lochren. Attorney General w. B.
Douglas is on his. way home from
Washington. and could not be seen to-
day, but attorneys familiar with the
litigation say that the state case will
have to be decided without reference
to the federal decision. It may be
thrown out for lack Of Jurisdiction.
and so far as the result to the merger
is concerned, the decision given to-day
covers the same ground. There are
different principlese Of law involved,
however, and attorneys for the state
hope they can get a decision of their
case on it's merits Such a decision
will determine whether the federal
courts can be appealed to in order to
prevent outside corporations from vio-
lating the laws of a state.
Nice Questions Raised.
Tt is understood from officials Of the
Great Northern and the Northern Pa
cidc that they will continue to act in
/ harmony, and as far as the operation
and traffic agreements Of the two
roads are concerned, there will be no
change caused by the decision. How
ever, the affirmation Of the order OF
the circuit court will lead to some
interesting problems, whose solution
| will tax the resources and legal acu-
men of Mr.. Hills advisers.
It will be recalled that the Northern
Securities company, which is now held
| in substance to have effected a con-
spiracy in violation of the federal
antitrust law, took over a majority OF
the stock Of the Great Northern and
| the Northern Pacific in return for its
own capital stock, issued at the ratio
| of $115 of Northern Securities for
500 Of Northern Pacific and $3.50 OF
Northern Securities for 500 of the
Great Northern. In the decree of the
circuit court, which is now affirmed
the continuation of the Securities
company as the controlling factor in
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-14
MERGER IS a POOL
FORMED BY ROADS
AT PUBLIC EXPENSE.
Sherman Law Prohibits All Contracts, Req
s0nabIe or Unreasonable, in Re-
sfrainf of Trade.
THE COURT STOOD FIVE TO FOUR
Washington, March AThe Harlan opinion concurred
In by Justices Brown, Brewer Day. while
Justice Fuller Holmes dssened

Washington March 14The opinion of the
States the of the Northern Securities Company
the United States involving the of the Northern Pacific and
Northern handed
favor OF the government The
Harlan.
The opinion the United
Minnesota affirmed.
The effect is to sustain the contention that the Sherman
applies railroad of the character question
Justice Harlan said that the the roads the stock
holders disappeared the Securities
two thus becoming practically consolidated holding company
the principal object being competition The court says
NORTHERN SECURITIES MERGER IS HELD
TO BE TRUST WITHIN MEANING OF ACT.
mo scheme device could certainly effectively
within the prohibition of the antitrust law and within
ling of the act trust
device could certainly effectively within prohibition Of
the antitrust law and within the meaning the
The has attracted attention than any other before
the court the first nsuar decided and has been
regarded by bench and bar those
and with the income tax
argued December last for days and attracted
er attention that time did previously when the decision
rendered the
The action brought
H. 1903 which for expedng the
heard by the four circuit judges of the circuit They united
favorable the United States and the contentious
of the railroad companies.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-14
ELEVEN wARsHIPs SUNK?
Russia Gives Out Official List Of Jap
anese Vessels Disabled.

Special to The Journal.
ST. Petersburg, March 1.-THE
Russian official list Of Japanese YES
sells sunk or disabled includes the bat
tleship Shikishima and the cruiser
Tsushima, both repairing at Sasebo,
the cruiser Takashibo, sunk off Chem
ulpho, the cruiser Mutana, sunk of
Chi-fu, an unknown cruiser sunk off
Chemulpho, and six torpedo boats.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-14
NAVAL BATTLE AT
PORT ARTHUR WON
BY JAP WARSI7IPS
Russian Destroyer Sunk in B0W=to=B0W
Fight Between F1OtiUas and Mines
Sunk in HarbOr Entrance.

the aid rendered by the British and
American Red Cross societies.
Many foreigners, mostly men who
have served in the Boer war, are VOL
unteering to serve with the Japanese
army. The military authorities, how
ever. are most emphatic in their re-
fusal to entertain any such offers.
The kind treatment of the Russian
wounded at Chemulpho is SO appreci-
ated by the Russian government that
it has contributed 1000 yen to the
Japanese Red Cross society thru the
French minister at Seoul.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-14
VIRTUALLY A POOL OF ROADS
AT THE EXPENSE OF THE PUBLIC

The instituted by United against
Pacific and the Northern and their leading the
Of dovng the Of the roads which the United
pany Securities company. This consolidation
claimed behalf Of the that this consolidation
created the interests Of
claimed that the transfer Of the stock Of the
the Securities in the nature Of sale and perfectly
NORTHERN SECURITIES CONVENTIONS
ARE OVERTURNED ONE BY ONE .
The contentious Of the Northern Securities
quoted the various opinions involving the question saying that
from them is to be gathered that all restraint Of
congress the power establish such regulations laid
Rep nt detail e. %
Justice Harlan said that the contention that the law
companies incorporated well founded In such he
Of congress G oo 1a
the property true that the right Of the Northern Securities
voved.
|GovERNNGENTs ONLY OBJECTION IS
TO EFFORT TO RESTRAIN COMMERCE.
Such wide Of the Of straw All
repesa and not with the other points
said this day there should be doubt Of
might purpose prior
saies was he question
which the need ITSELF the question that Of
asserted the interstate
n 5 Plea the law should de-
he said that the court could its
to
ALL RAILROADS WOULD HAVE RIGHT
! TO COMBINE MERGER WERE LEGAL.
Securities contentious
all the railroads Of the United States
and by the device Of holding control rates
thruout country IL defiance Of congress -
Justice Harlan also took occasion to that there had been
Northern Securities certificate
to be that Of destroying and
Of Jersey Of
such knowledge in advance.
It might be that federal court had to dissolve
he
enforce the law than corporations
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
A PAYING INVESTMENT.

The commerce Of the United States
with its noncontiguous territories ag-
gregated more than 100 million dol
lars in the fiscal year just ended. I'm
der the term noncontiguous territory
are included Porto Rico, the Hawaiian
Islands, the Philippine Islands, Guam,
Tutuila and Alaska. The reports of
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor, through its bureau of statistics,
show that the total shipments of mer-
chandise from the United States to all
of these noncontiguous possessions in
the fiscal year 1904 was $3S,096, 52S,
and the value of merchandise received
from them S59,137,752. Adding to
these the gold bullion produced in
Alaska and shipped TO the United
States, the total is $103, 5S6,30S The
figures speak for themselves and are
eloquent of the good results of expan-
sion.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS OF THE
WORLD.

Editor Herald:--When the search.
light is turned on we find the United
States in the fore front of the whole
world from moral and spiritual
standpoint. We here quote a few OF
the leading nations Of the world in re-
gard to population and their Sunday
school attendance, in comparison to
the attendance in the United States
China, with population of over four
hundred millions, has Sunday school
attendance in scholars of 5,26f. Rus.
STA, with population of over one hun.
dred and thirty millions of people, has
an attendance of Sunday school scfol
airs of 1859. Japan, with a popula
ton of forty-one millions of people
has an attendance of 1913. France
has a population of forty millions OF
people and Sunday school attend
ance of $4,000. England, Wales, Ire
land and Scotland with a population
of forty-eight millions, has a grand
attendance of Sunday school scholars
of over eight millions. The United
States has an attendance of over thir,
teen millions Of Sunday school schol
ars, SO if this counts for higher civ,
ilization, then England and Americs
are the peers of the world.
Yet we as Americans can afford K
DO better with a population Of eight,
E4seea qk ylfyws sly IL. Jay e
effort towards our Sunday s st,oois a
we do with our public schools, w
would soon reach the !. Temarkabl,
mark of seventeen millions of Sun
day school scholars. AS all Ameri
cans feel proud that we have the
greatest army of educated children il
the whole world, this is big thing
to say, but it is a sober fact
Il w Il.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
THOSE ROOSEVELT ExPENDI-
r. ~ TURES.

We are indebted to Leslies Weekly
for exact figures to refute the exag-
gerated statements of the democratic
press concerning the government ex-
penditures under Roosevelt.
las shown by the government re-
ports, the expenditures for the ten
months of the fiscal year ending with
June 30, 1902, which cover the first
part of Roosevelt's service ,Roosevelt's
accession dating from Sept. IA, 1901,
were 1913, 100000. For the year end
ing June 80, 1908, they were $500, 00O,-
900 and for the twelve months ending
at that date in Il ey were $685.
100000, or $1,467,O 0 in the aggre-
gate. Add about $ 100000 for the
time since June 80, 4, and we have
an outgo of $1,567,e 4 900 for Presl.
dent Roosevelts administration to
date, or at the rate of little over
$500, 900 a year"
This amount is considerably less
than the $2,64O,0OO, 900 claimed by Mr..
Parker's editors. Leslie's Weekly
concludes it's examination of the real
figures as follows:
Several things have taken place,
among them the Spanish war and the
increase in the army and navy which
that conflict and the country's grow
ing Importance necessitated, that rem.
der comparison between the govern.
ment's outgo now and in Cleveland's
days decidedly unfair. Several mil.
lions have been added to the coun-
trys population since March 4, 1897,
when Cleveland left Office"
"The country's wealth and the vol.
ume of its business activities have,
since that date. increased in a much
higher ratio than have the govern.
ment's expenditures. Our Charleston
friend has been deluded about the
cost of Roosevelt's administration
probably by the New York democratic
papers. Not cent of the govern,
ment's outgo in the past three years
has been unnecessary or improper"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22

Indispensable to these others, how
ever little we may mistakenly think
we need 1t ourselves. Again, il
can not be denied that an institution
which Jesus Christ inaugurated and
His apostles organized presumably
has some merit. II they thought Il
worth while to establish the church
surely we ought to consider it worth
sustaining and transmitting to those
who come after us. Our Lord declar.
ed that where two or three are gather.
ed in His name, He will be there In
the midst of them and assuredly such
meeting can not be without profit
even to the most self-poised and self
centered soul, if there is any sensi
tiveness at all to spiritual impress.
sions. And, finally, it is patriotic
duty to attend and contribute to the
support of the church. No one in his
senses would think that the world
would be bettered by the extinction
Of the churches of Jesus Christ. No
one would wish to live in a church.
less community. The churches are
lights in a world Of darkness, and our
civilization, our laws, the safety OF
society, the blessings. of civil liberty,
are the result of their fructifying and
illuminating rays"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22

The death Of John Eclroat, one
of the representative men of Mahaska
county, makes the fourth member of
Co. G, Of the old 33d Iowa, who has
died within the past six months. Cap
tain Comstock was captain of Co. @
and Major Lacey was connected with
the same company during his services
in the ranks. The other three who
have recently preceded Comrade Eek
roat to their reward are Sam Barleau,
]. H. Spain and Sam Van Cleave As
once the ravishments of war decimat-
ed their ranks, SO now the limit of
age is playing havoc with the "old
boys" and it will not be many years
until taps will be sounded over the
grave Of the last survivors.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
WHY GO TO CHURCH?

The Examiner (Bapt.) of New York
asks the question, "Why Go to
church," and then makes the follow
ing comment: There are several rea-
sons which, we think, should have
weight with intelligent minds, why at
tendance upon the worship of the
Lords house should be felt to be OBJ
ligatory. "a In the first place, the
habit of churcn-going is good one
in this workaday world because it
draws the thoughts away for a little
space every week from the humdrum
routine of everyday life. The world
and its sordid pursuits are too much
with us. We need break in the mo-
notony, and lifting of the vision to
higher things than dollars and bonds
and yardsticks. In the next
place, while truly devout soul is not
wholly dependent upon the form or
quality of the service for spiritual
nourishment, it is largely dependent
upon the associations of time and
place to arouse the sense of worship.
If the prayers are thin and lacking in
spirituality, ones own heart aspira-
lions may supplement and enrich the
crudeness of the spoken petition. II
the singing is WEAKNESS to the SEN
Isitive ear, one may make. melody in
his own heart to the Lord. 80 . - In
the third place, it is an obligation we
owe to others to sustain by our pres
ence and interest service which is
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
PRESBYTERIAN GROWTH.

"The showing for the year 1904 is
on the whole very encouraging one,
says the Interior (Pres.) of Chicago.
That sensitive thermometer of Pres
byterian pirituality-the total of
members received on confession of
faith-has by the steady application
of evangelistic fires been lifted to a
marking higher than that of any other
year except 1894, when it came close
to $4,000. The past years net in
crease-27, 500-is considerably larger
than the church has been gaining in
recent years on practically equivalent
additions, indicating that pastors and
sessions are making some improve
ment in holding the membership from
strangling. The ratio of numeral ad.
vance from last year is more than two
and a half per cent, which is better
than most of the leading American
denominations are doing. 1t is inter,
esting to note in the whole number
column that the church has now al
most filed in the first hundred thous,
and on its second million. There is
a wholesale increase in foreign and
home mission giving, and quite to the
credit Of the Presbyterian name, gifts
to the permanent committee on tenn
perance have taken sudden leap up
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
CATHOLICS FoR ROOSEVELT.

A Washington special says: RE
publicans of high standing and high
administration olncials here are
claiming that Judge Parker's attitude
toward the Philippines and the ex-
preston of his belief that the islands
should be abandoned by this govern
ment at the earliest possible moment
have alienated the Catholic priesthood
from his support. 1t is stated posi-
Parker to John Milburn has given to
President Roosevelt the support Of
the hierarchy of the church.
The men in charge of the interests
of the church believe-as it is known
that President Roosevelt, Secretary
Taft and Governor Wright believe
that if the American troops should
leaVA the Philippines, within a week
after.4heir departure there would not
be one Catholic church left standing
in the islands and that every Catholic
priest would have been massacred.
1t has been commented upon by
leading republicans who have visited
Oyster Bay this summer that among
the presidents callers have been a
number of prominent Catholic priests.
Dominic murphy, commissioner IF
pensions under President Cleveland,
formerly editor of the New Century
and for years one of the leading Cath
olics of the country, said today:
Whether the United States should
govern the Philippines is of course
not a debatable question. We are
there and it is our duty to do the best
we can by them. independence to
the Philippine or at least for long
time to come, would be calamitous,
especially to the Catholic church in
the islands. The Aglipay schism is
nothing more nor less than a continu-
alton Of the Aguinaldo rebellion, and
we all know how hostile that move
ment was to the Catholic church.
Il believe that ii independence were
granted to the Philippines and our
forces were withdrawn from the ISL
ands the last ship would hardly have
sailed out of Cavite bay before our
bishops and priests would be in immi-
nent danger of their lives and our
churches and church institutions
burned to the ground"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
TWO DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
eoopRY, SWEET DAY!


Good-by. sweet day, good-by!
| have SO loved thee, but can not
hold thee,
Departing like dream, the shadows
fold thee;
Slowly thy perfect beauty fades away;
Good-by, sweet day!
Good-by, sweet day, good-by!
Dear were thy golden hours of tran
gull splendor,
Sadly thou yieldest to the evening
tender,
Who were 80 fair from thy first morn
ing ray;
Good-by, sweet day!
Good-by, sweet day, good-by!
Thy glow and charm, thy smiles and
tones and glances,
Vanish at last, and solemn night adj
vanceS;
All, couldst thou yet little longer
stay!
Good-by, sweet day!
Good-by, sweet day, good.by!
All thy rich gifts my grateful heart
remembers.
The while watch thy sunsets smold-
ering embers
Die in the west beneath the twilight
gray.
Good-by, sweet day!
Celia Thaxter.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22

Burlington Hawk-Eye: The Iowa
Society of Friends held their forty.
second lnual meeting in Oskaloosa
last we~1 The closing exercises on
Sunday were attended by crowds that
were estimated at 10000. Penn col
lege, which is maintained by the
Friends in the west, is fine institu-
ton with some 300 students and is
in a flourishing financial condition.
The Friends, going their own way
quietly and unobtrusively, antagoniz-
ing no one, are doing good work ev-
erywhere, and are highly respected by
those who do not share their belief
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
LOCOMOTIVE pEvELoPMENT.

Leaving out narrow gauge switch
ing and other light engines there were
twenty-nine American engines at Chi.
cago in 1893 having an average weight
Of 128,55S pounds. AT the st. Louis
exposition there are twenty-nine
American locomotives having an aver
age weight of 1929 pounds. At
Chicago the total weight Of the heav-
lest locomotive was $4,000 pounds.
This was criticised for excessive
weight, and the general opinion was
that was the limit. At st. Louis the
average is greater than the heaviest
at Chicago, the heaviest being S9S,O12
pounds eight weight engine and ten.
der). This is a mountain climber
which is yet an experiment. The
next heaviest weighs 2S7,5S0 pounds,
and there are six others weighing ov-
er 100000 pounds each. The total
weight Of the twenty-nine largest To-
comotives shown at st. Louis is s.
603,425 pounds. The heaviest en-
CINE at Chicago was exceptional,
weighing $4,000 pounds more than the
next heaviest, which in turn weighed
$4,000 pounds more than the next.
Perhaps it would be fairer to omit the
heaviest at st. Louis as being entire
ly exceptional, a sporadic case We
would then have the average weight
at st. Louis of 1876 pounds, as
against an average of 1859 in Chi
cago, an increase of about 461b per
cent. If the Malet compound is in
cluded in the comparison the increase
has been over so per cent.-The
World Today.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22
PLATr RETIRED.

Chicago Inter-Ocean: Plat goes.
The New York republican convention
shows that he is to be retired from
party leadership. New times have
brought forward new men. They are
too strong for the old and worn lead
er. And so Plat goes
Thomas G. Plat was a political
boss. That is, he worked for his par
ty, and through it for his country,with
the materials at hand AS good
workman he did not complain Of his
materials, but used what he had and
did the work.
Now that work is done, all fair
minded men who know his work adj
init that his work was honest, his
method respectable, and his influence
wholesome. They admit that to the
limit of his power he served his par
ty and his country well.
Yet when Thomas c. Platt was do
ing his work he was continually re-
viled, merely because he did it. From
the Rev. Charles Parkhurst up and
down-from the pharisaical Evening
Post up and downfall group of New
York "reformers" who were and are
loudest in their professions of polit-
ical righteousness was always against
him-always seeking to destroy him.
Tweed at. his worst was no more bit
terly denounced than was the Hon.
Thomas G. Plat by these men.
Yet what did they offer in his place?
What was the only power that their
efforts could put in his place? The
most INSCRIPTIONS and conscienceless
organization that this nation has ever
known, namely, Tammany Hall. Who
does not remember how, at the height
of the agitation against Mr.. Plat, the
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst boldly proclaimed
his preference for Richard Croker and
advised his fellow ''reformers" to do
likewise?
Many Of the professionally respect
able gentlemen who were guilty of
such plotical crimes would like to
have it forgotten today that they were
ready and eager to drag up from the
mire, almost any political scoundrel
and clasp him to their bosoms If only
by so doing they could ruin the Hon.
Thomas c. Platt. But the record is
made up.
Platt goes, respected by all mourn
ed universally. He. fought a good
fight, He served - republic well.
not be forgotten
Nor vim It 8 .otten that il this
.uworls Jfle was a Jailed srallsrad and
vituperated by every ) Fg--.s-7T =
isee in New York, even e ~ exS SINE
that they called on the people to place
Croker over and above him.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22

The loss of $4,000 men in the re-
cent battles about Lao Yang has been
enormously stated to have been the
greatest in history. The Washington
Post has been looking up some of the
figures of history and quotes Plutarch
as saying that at the battle of Plataea
the Persians lost 100000 men killed
out Of an army OF 100000. Spartacus
left 260fs T3dt of an army Of 300,00t
dead on~rhe held at the battle of SiIa
rus. Caesar was the arch destroyer
In ten years fighting he is reported
to have killed 100000 men.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-09-22

This campaign acrostic from the
Springfield Ill) News isn't bad, as
campaign songs go. The words are
to be sung to the tune of "Hail Colum.
bia:"
Raise your banners, hail the chief,
OF our country, great and glorious /;
Of our country, long victorious;
Strenuous always pressing onward
Ever notwithstanding forward.
Vote for him who is truly leading,
Earnestly all good causes pleading,
Lest our nation come to grief,
Trust in himT-our faithful chief.