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St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15

vast sum has not been allowed to &C.
cumulate in vaults and strong boxes
Practically every dollar of 1t has been
invested where 1t has earned other dol
lars. Many of them, directed by the
keen trading instinct of their owner
have multiplied themselves threefold
within the past dozen years. One of the
advantages of aggregated wealth is that
it enables its possessor in times OF
panic or depression to purchase valuable
properties cheaply and by the simple
process of holding them until better
times to realize multiplied return on
the investment.
Three-Fold Profit in Iron.
Mr.. Rockefeller has done this in many
instances. A notable case was that of
his iron ore properties. During the de-
preston of 1893 he bought, cheaply for
cash, the ore lands Of Lake Superior and
the Minnesota ranges. He improved the
mining equipment, built great docks and
invested in huge ore carriers on the
great lakes. When the era of high
p4ASoo eAuo oioA5 oA IAc prosperity
wave of 1900 and the United States Steel
corporation was organized Mr. Rookie
feller sold out. The $25,000,O0O which
Mr.. Rockefeller has in one form or an
other of steel holdings may be said to
represent almost entirely profits on his
investment of dozen years ago. It is
understood that in addition to his inter-
ests in the United States Steel corpora
ton, however, he has very large hold
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15
nEc,,r eikuGGLE WHICH HAS BEEN
oN AGAINST THE GREATEST
cF ALL COMBINES
The FIRST GUN FIRED IN KANSAS
Rae - uers - an Investigation VIII ich Will Law
no '1ethods of the Oil Octonusyohn
Hockefeller and the Part He p,.ve
n the Game-In Fifty Years
ne mas Become the Worlds
Greatest Potentate

oniess 1t Is case Of clouds withou,
ram and storm without wind and ou'
cione without any twister. the tamnes,
which is gathering about tha ares.
standard Oil octopus is going to eivs
tnat many tentacled trust sometime :
eise 10 90 in the near future besides
crusnlng out competition, forcing nm
the price OF Oil, sucking in the nrofits
ana declaring the regular quarterly d;v,'
dend of Is per cent. to it's greedy stoa,.
holders. s'oeA-
A good many people are beginning 70
tnlnk that the Standard is the kew loo
In the trust lam, which is dam
ming up the commercial, industrial
ana financial streams of the conn
try, and destroying the individ-
ual rights of the common people. and
that II the dynamite of equitable law.
ana perfect publicity, can be touched
on, under this key log, SO as to com
pei 1t TO yield to reasonable adiust.
ment and just control, all the other
trust logs will float harmlessly down
the stream of the nationallife. ard tho
danger OF unlawful combination will he
passed
But however that may be, certain it
is that a war cloud Of ominous propo1-
tlons IS arising upon the horizon of
tne Standard Oil company's sky. It
began to gather in Kansas, that home
OF the cyclone, and has spread until
from Texas to New York and from
the Indian territory through the
prairie states of Illinois, Iowa and In
diana to the capital city on the Po-
tomac thu ominous mutterings of the
coming storm have been heard. Had
the Standard only had to deal with the
situation in Kansas it would have
been the merest chiid's play, the most
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15
The worlds Greatest Potentate.

AAe WoflQS greatest Potentate.
From the purely financial point OF
view, however, Mr.. Rockefeller is easily
the worlds greatest potentate. The
czar OF Russia enjoys an annual income
of about $12,ooO,o00; Emperor William,
as king of Prussia, receives little less
than S4,O0O.000; the emperor of Austria
Hungary, 3.S75.0O0; King Edward, 81
225.000, and the king of Spain, 81, 900 900.
In the expressive phrase of Wall street,
King John, as emperor of OIL king OF
steel, banking and railroads, and
prince of several lesser dominions,
could buy and sell them all. If he had
TO earn his present wealth at the rate
OF two dollars a day, which many of his
employees receive, it would take him
something more than $4,000 years to
accomplish the task, or considerably
longer than we have any record of in
human history. It is not merely the
number of John D. Rockefeller's mil.
liocs, astounding as Is their total. that
is most impressive. 1t is the power
which they convey. By reason Of his
ability to reward and punish, to make.
and unmake values. to bestow riches or
ruin, he is almost absolute master not
only of those enterprises in which he
holds major monetary interest, but in
all those to which he cares to turn his
attention in any way The enterprises
in which he holds investments aggre-
gate capitalization Of over $5,O00,-
100000. Though he owns outright but
tenth OF this, he can sway the destinies
OF every company involved il he so de-
sires.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15

ments are coming to the aid of plucky
Kansas.
The Government to Use It's Probe.
Ihe most important of all develop.
ments in this fight has been the action
OF congress in ordering the department
OF commerce and labor to begin In.
vestigation of the business of the
Standard Oil company. and as az evi-
dence of the thoroughness with which
the work will be done, the note of
President Roosevelt to Mr.. James R
Garfield may be quoted. 1t is terse, and
businesslike: Act vigorously on the
resolution at once.'' And if the way
In which Mr.. Garfield's department
has handled the beef trust investiga-
ton, and brought matters and condi-
tons before the interstate commerce
commission, which promise ill for the
beef trust, is any indication of the
spirit and thoroughness with which
the investigation of the Standard Oil
business will be conducted, Mr.. Rookie
feller may well begin to fdget in his
chair and recall unpleasant memories
OF how Frank S. Monnett, the attor-
ney general of Ohio, forced the
Standard to abandon it's trust form
OF organization, leave the state and
take refuge in its present form of a
New Jersey corporation.
Monnett Deals Standard Blow.
This will not be the first time the
Standard has been Investigated. Three
times the trust has been up before leg
islative commissions and has once
been taken before the courts. The
legislature Of New York delved into
the affairs of the monopoly in 1897,
with the Hepburn committee Con-
gress tackled it in 1888 with the
Bacon committee. and again in 1890
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15
WOMEN SHOULD
BEWARE OF
CONTRACTING cATARRh.

catarrhal arrangements. Few women
escape.
Upon the first symptoms of catching
cold Peruna should be taken. 1tfortifies
the system against colds and catarrh.
Pe-ru-na for Colds and Catarrh.
The following interesting letter gives
one young woman's experience with
Peruna:
Miss Rose Gerbing, popular society
woman of Crown Point, Ind, writes:
Recently took a long drive in the
country, and being too thinly clad I
caught bad cold which settled on my
lungs, and which l could not seem to
shake off. had heard great deal of
Peruna for colds and catarrh and l
bought bottle to try. l am pleased
that did, for it brought speedy relief.
It only took about two bottles, and l
consider this money well spent.
"You have firm friend in me. and l
not only advise its use to my friends,
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15

while he is a recognized factor in the
affairs of the Colorado Fuel and Iron
company
! Very much the same story as his
| profitable investments in iron-ore lands
could be told of his connection with the
| lead and zinc mines which were trans
ferred to the trust at a profit that ran
into millions.
Other industrial companies in which
he is largely concerned are the Ameri-
can Linseed Oil company, two of the big
express companies, the sugar trust and
the various organizations known collec-
| lively as the tobacco trust.
| Not a Railway Man, But
John D. Rockefeller is not known as
a railway man. While there are Van
derbilt, Hill, Morgan and Hartman
systems, there is no combination of
roads known as the Rockefeller system.
Nevertheless Mr.. Rockefeller is the larg-
est individual holder Of railroad securi-
ties in the country. He is heavily inter-
ested in the Gould roads Missouri Pa
cific, Missouri, Kansas & Texas, Texas
G. Pacific and Wabash-and it is through
his backing and assistance that George
Gould has been able to fight his way
successfully against the powerful COM
bination of railway interests in bringing
his lines eastward toward the Atlantic
seaboard. But in addition to this he is
a heavy holder of the stocks and bonds,
more particularly the bonds, of almost
every one of the big eastern lines, as
well as of Northern Securities and of
half a dozen of the big roads running
out of Chicago. Probably not less than
50.000.000 of his wealth is invested in
railways. And it should be borne in
mind that practically all these holdings
were bought when their market rating
was much less than it is. to-day.
The solidity and power that come from
the backing of unlimited millions are
valuable assets for bank or trust COM
pany. A number of the most important
of these institutions in New York and
other cities have prospered through the
magic of connection with the Rookie
feller name Certain of these, like the
National City and Hanover banks, of
New York, the First national of Chi
cago and the two largest banks in Cleve-
land, are known as Rockefeller institu-
tions.
The Country's Richest Banker.
These are by no means the measure
of Mr.. Rockefeller's banking interests.
A well-informed Wall street financier
showed me list recently of so banks
and trust companies, all Of which arc
reputed to be more or less undsf the
Rockefeller influence. # John D. Rock
efeller had nothing but his bank hold
ings he would be known as the coun-
try's richest banker and would have q
fortune equaled by few in the United
States.
Oil, steel, railroads, banks and trust
companies have not been equal to the
task of providing occupation sufficient |
for all the fast-multiplying Rockefeller
millions. Within the past ten years
especially a great many of them have
gone into particularly lucrative form
of inyestment-city1i lighting and trac-
ton companies. Whether $40 ,00O, 900 or
$25 100000 more nearly represents John
D Rockefel1er's investments of this sort
in and about New York it is impossible
to say, but the amount is likely to be
near the latter figure, while he has other
large sums similarly invested In New
England and the central west
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15

omusing diversion, to have IN time
crushed all opposition and forced the
people and the state into submission.
rohn D. Rockefeller has been laugh
,re nm his sleeve and serenely waiting.
- has amused him to read in the pa
,,arc that the Kansas legislature had
annropriated $4,000 for the estab-
,;shment OF q state refinery to buck
ssainst his $3.50, 100000 company. He
has been annoyed, perhaps, at the ef-
eort to meddle with his pipe lines, but
10 has felt confident that the end
.ro,,ld come in victory for him and the
astahlishment of his company in the
state on firmer basis than ever before.
Ha has mapped out campaign OF
waiting. This great financier, this
s55o 600. 900 money bags, can afford to
wait for his dollars work Wnlle ne
.,aa,,a and he can keep busy banking
tha 5000, 900 yearly income from his
.-S,astments while the poor Kansans
=. s.s their $4,000 refinery sink hole
80 80 which to pour the wealth OF the
A.st. . and the independent producers
there brought to state OF SUD
m;ssion Mss. where they will be willing to
80 neace at Rockefeller's own
.a@,ns n-ns and il reports are to be credited
p.,crefeller,s 3, az. terms are never generous
a.cent to the interests OF Rocke1eller
s,mself. si.vp He is never satisfied, 1t IS
sa;d unless be can buy at rulnously
80 49, nrices and sell at figures Wnicn
.om -, the story Of fair (D proh1 o1
seyeral Il. hundred per cent.
K.nsas Fires the First Gun:
uansas seems to be always .a; aolng e
.,,nsa m,.ST which other states are al a,ra,a sna
:. % do or never think OF doing. @ anu tra sne
e e 90, area = = the nrst gun in this. this ire, ire,
mas andous nau war, and, as Linooins m NJ cav crx
= n,e. srma il 81 was met Dy .,11e 1ne =, ara
e arIs tSe 4 inherent states: we ,eo ane ane
,n'nr 1ro% =. Father Abraham. mnsaa. so11pst tpst
stroas, s 8 the a iii octopus has aa a5ou.ea ana
s snot r.tion, e and On every nano; .a;nforce. s
the, the nn, nn,nerpected directions re'n'0
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15
ALL NATIONS BRING THEIR OFFERINGS

| with the Industrial commission. But
the most severe shaking up it has re
ceived in it's history was that given II
by Monnett, and though it was bit
ter pill for the Standard to swallow
it had the grim satisfaction at the next
election of defeating Monnettforr reelec.
ton as attorney general, and forcing
him into private life.
Monnett is as familiar with the
Standard Oil business as anyone out
side of the company itself, and Kan
sas has turned to the one man who
has given Standard a black eye,
The Ohio man is now at Topeka and
will aid in the fight. He will assist
the Kansas Oil Producers association
in preparing data to be submitted to
Commissioner Garfield.
Lawson, eager to get into the fight
has sent word that to help the lnvesti-
gators he will go to Washington bare
foot in the snow, if necessary.
At New York, District Attorney
Jerome is preparing to bring proceed
ings against the directors Of the
Standard in an effort to indict them
for conspiracy as defined in section
168 of the penal code.
Secretary Hitchcock, head of the in
terror department, and ex-Secretary
Hoke Smith are being drawn into the
fight, too, through the blanket lease of
100000 acres of oil lands in Indian
territory granted to the Standard for
ten years by Smith in 1896 Mr..
Hitchcock says this deal is public
scandal, and Mr.. Smith replies that
the field had not been tested and that
there was little hope Of finding oil.
But the upshot of it all may be that
the Standard may lose part or all of
its valuable Usage leases.
Even Paul Morton may not escape
the investigation Of Standard Oil
methods in Kansas. Charges have
been filed against the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe Railroad company
alleging that this company, by raising
rates until they were prohibitive, as
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15
MISS FLORENCE kENAH.

I had little faith / felt 50 sick
brought me blessed relief at once, andl
last. Within three weeks / was come
ect health since.
'runa. Florence e. Kenah.
but have purchased several bottles to
give to those without the means to buy,
and have noticed without exception that
it has brought about speedy cure
wherever it has been used. Rose
Gerbing.
Pe-ru-na Contains no Narcotics.
One reason why Peruna has found
permanent use in SO many homes is that
it contains no narcotic of any kind. Pc
runa is perfectly harmless. It can be
used any length of time without acquir-
ing drug habit. Peruna does not pro-
duce temporary results. It is perma-
nent in its effect.
It has no bad effect upon the system,
and gradually eliminates catarrh by re-
moving the cause of catarrh. There are
"a multitude of homes where Peruna has
been used off and on for twenty years.
Such thing could not be possible If
Peruna contained any drugs of q mar
cotic nature.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
All correspondence held strictly con.
fdential.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15
Hunnor.

Some persons are so dry that you
might soak them in joke for a month
and it would not 60 through their skin.
Henry Ward Beecher.
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15

The cold wind
and rain, slush
and mud of win
ter are especial
ly conducive to
St. Tammany farmer., 1905-04-15

ernment and municipal bonds it were
idle to speculate. His benefcent atten-
tions have been bestowed on other fields,
. too. that are not included in any of the
above classifcations, such as that OF
the big insurance companies, steamship
and telegraph and building corporations
and other things, as the department
store advertisements say too numerous
to mention.
Taking into account all these wide
spread interests, it is not difficult to
figure out that John D. Rockefeller is
already possessed of upward of $780,
100000, or that, with the power which
his vast wealth gives him of buying
cheaply when prices are at rock bot
tom and when financial stress compels
the holders of particular properties to
let them go, he will become a full
fledged Millionaire within another ten
years, if he lives so long. Indeed, the
accumulation of his yearly income OF
S50.000.000. or thereabouts, will carry
him to that point without any allowance
for the appreciation of the properties in
which his money is invested such as is
certain to occur.
If one were to construct a table show
ing chronologically the growth of Mr.
Rockefeller's fortune it would read about
as follows:
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-25
SALOON men MAY
DEFY THE MAYOR
UNITED EFFORTS TO IGNORE SUM
DAY-CLOsING LAW TALKED OF.
Suggestion Made to Some Members of
Retail Liquor Dealers Association
Law Giving Mayor Power to Re-
woke License Without Councils Con-
sent Said to Be Unconstitutional.

Police officers are investigating re-
ports to the effect that there will soon
be united effort by the saloon men to
defy the Sunday-closing law and to
open their places for one day, just to
see what the mayor will do.
This suggestion is known to have
been made to some members OF the Re
tail Liquor Dealers association. Those
who have been favorably impressed
with the scheme say they have consult
ed attorneys and that good fight could
be made on legal grounds. They say
that the law giving the mayor the
consent of the council is unconstitu-
tional On the other hand, if the cases
should be taken to court, they say there
are not enough policemen in the city to
get sufficient evidence in one day to
convict half Of the saloonkeepers.
Saloon men will not discuss the .ques-
tion in any light but do*not deny that
the scheme has been proposed. Some
more conservative members of the as
sociation believe that they would be
the losers if the law should be defed.
It is understood that nothing Of the
kind will be done unless all agree to
fall in line. ::..<.
If Mayor Jones keeps his promise and
the saloonkepeers carry out their idea
there wilEbe an upheaval in saloon cir
cles. He has openly announced on sew,
eral occasions that every attempt to vi
olate the Sunday closing law would be
met with the revocation Of the offend
er's license. hTe police look for trou
BILE about Dec. 8 or 10, and it may be
that 400 saloons will be put out Of busi
ness to stay until the close Of the pres
ent administration.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-25
S1REE1CAR WORKER
MEETS AWFUL DEATH

G. E. Fallstrom, 627 Whital street, st.
Paul, was torn to pieces on Selby hill
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Fallstrom was
employed by the street railway company
as an oiler for the counterweight device,
and it was his business to descend into
the different manholes along the conduit
to perform his work.
At one side Of the cable and the
tracks for the counterweight is a clear
space, where a man may crawl on his
knees and escape contact with the
cable or weights. It is thought that
Fallstrom was oiling the cable on the
opposite side or this space when the
weight began to descend, and that he
was dragged under the cable. <
When found, his body was wedged be-
tween the tracks of the counterweight
and the cable in such manner that it
had to be dismembered by Deputy Cor
oner Whitcomb before it could be re-
moved. One leg andeone shoulder were
crushed: and the cable had cut deep
groove in his body.
The remains were taken to the
morgue to await instructions from rela-
tives. The body was identified by the
high, heavy shoes which were on the
feet. - ~
Fallstrom came to St. Paul from Ell
roy, Wis, seven months ago. He was
about 80 years old, \
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-25
CARPENTERS UNION RAISES THE
WAGE SCALE TO 40 CENTS AN
HOUR AFTER APRIL /.

AS result Of the action taken by
the Carpenters union last night in
voting to raise the wage scale from 81 "a
cents to 40 cents an hour after April
/, Minneapolis may see a building
trades struggle next spring.
A special meeting Of the union was
held last night, 500 or 600 members be-
ing present. No change was made in
the working rules, but the advance of
213 cents an hour was ordered. Several
prominent contractors, when seen to-
day, remarked that employers might
perchance have something to- say before
the increase was granted. Few care
to make definite statement until there
tion between the, master builders. An
officer of one Of the largest contractors
employing union labor said:
"We will never pay the increase. 1t
is small, perhaps, but we are now pay
ing some men more than. they ever
will be worth, and there are few who
are worth 40 cents an hour. Contrac-
tors cannot continue to pay higher
wages to men who, at best, are worth
not more, than .2523cents an hour.
Other contradictory admitted that the
increase might cas- Ase-trouble, but pre-
fe1rred to {: make a9 statement at pres,
.ent. The amount land nature Of the
work on hand April l. will have con.
siderable effect on future action. G.
+. Haghn, one of the leading contrac'
tors of the city, who employs non-union
labor exclusively, remarked that il
would make no difference to him. ~
have an individual agreement with
every man, said he. Men are paid
according to their worth, and mine re-
ceive from So to So day. I am thirty
days ahead Of all, my contracts, have
all the men I can use and can get plenty
mOre.''
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-25
MODERN W00DMEN HAVE
A GREAT INITIATION

Thirty.fve Minneapolis camps Of
Modern Woodmen united last night to
initiate a class of over a hundred to
the mysteries of Woodmen lore. The
meeting was held in A. O. U. w. hall.
The initiatory procedure was directly
under the direction of Anchor and Flour
City camps, which furnished the degree
teams for putting the candidates thru
the ritualistic course Of sprouts, and
also furnished a quartet from each Of
the two lodges to contribute entertain
ment thruout the evening.
Previous to the gathering in the hall,
200 men Of the degree teams of twelve
local camps assembled at Nicollet ave-
nue. and Third street in full uniform
and marched to: the Hotel Nicollet, from
where out-of-toWn Woodmen were es-
corted to the hall. Fully five hundred
Woodmen crowded into the. hall, and
nearly as many more were turned away.
The first degree was administered to
the 129 candidates by Anchor camp de-
gree team, while the second degree was
given by the Flour City team.
At the conclusion Of the initiation,
speeches were made by Head Director G.
W. Riley Of Illinois, National Lecturer
p. s. Burns Of Detroit, State Deputy G.
s. Riley Of st. Paul, District Deputies
John Moore of st. Paul and E. G. Olds
Of Minneapolis, and Special Deputies g.
W.. Evans of Duluth and William Mark.
ham Of Austin. At the close of the pro.
gram, refreshments were served.
The Minneapolis journal., 1905-11-25
HE DROVE AT A GALL0P
TO SAVEBRYN MAWR DAM

About 2 am. today Sewer Engineer
dlstru:p received a message from
frantic watchman that his dam across
Bassett''s creek at Irving avenue was
undermined and would soon be washed
out. He dressed in hurry, ran to the
home Of Street Foreman NJ. E. Sleeper
and between them they managed to
arouse enough men to constitute re-
pair crew: From away down in South
Minneapolis they drove to Irving ave-
nue. N at a mad gallop. In the Bas-
sett $ creek bottoms the horses mired,
and there was all kinds of trouble. The
second team fell into waterhole and
the entire crew had hard struggle to
get the animals out.
On arriving at the dam It was found
to be all right, but the creek was pour
ing water into the sewerwork, about
fifteen feet above the structure, thru a
hole eighteen inches in diameter, which
was increasing steadily. :.
With bags Of SAND and hay the open
ing was finally closed, and by that time
the entire crowd was as disreputable
in appearance as bunch of scarecrows.
but the dam had been saved. =