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The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
STATEMENT By GOV. HOcH.

The fight Kansas is making is a
fight for fair playa fight to restore
competition and to relieve great and
growing industry from the grasp of
an industrial desEotism.
We hope to prove by actual demon
stration that the Standard Oil COM
pany has robbed the oil producer on
one hand and the customer on the
other.
By engaging in this battle as a state
we hope, first, to encourage the loca-
ton of Independent refineries with the
assurance that they will have the pro-
lection of the state; and, second, to
enlist other states and the general
government in a battle against mon
opolistic tyranny.
The proposed state refinery is sim
ply a means to an end-not the end
itself-E. M. Hoch.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03

found it advisable to retire from bust
ness. The same was the case with
the man who had his thousands
locked up in extensive plants. In
either instance he was offered a price,
often generous one. If he conclud-
ed to accept it. well and good for him.
The few who decided to fight it out
found their pocketbooks much thin
ner.
The profits of the concern were so
enormous that it eventually became
hard to find employment for them.
The owners of the Standard Oil COM
pany bought into one railroad after
another. They were, for example, re-
puted a powerful factor in the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road back
in the sos. Somewhere around 1890
their names began gradually to re-
place those of the old leaders in Wall
street. They kept branching out. first
bringing one great stock market en-
terprise and then another under their
control. In retrospect, Jay Gould
seems a small man beside them.
Eventually they caught up with the
Vanderbilts as railroad magnates. In
1901 they were believed to be back OF
Hartman in the Northern Pacific
fight. To-day they are reputed to
have the dominant voice in the great
est railroad combine in the world.
Tomorrow. it is feared, the Whole rail-
road situation of the United States
may be at their dictatiOn.
But oil and railroads have not alone
absorbed their energies. They have
been active in many other directions.
In 1897 the Third National bank of
New York was consolidated with the
City bank, making an institution far
transcending in size anything of the
kind in the country. In 1899 it had de-
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
HISTORY OF STANDARD OIL.

Many attempts have been made to
bring the Standard Oil company to
account. So far, these have met with
Indifferent success. Some years ago
the concern was, in the strict sense
OF the term, trust. 1t was a pool
whose members owned a great num-
Der of oil properties in various parts
of the country. The law had this
much terror for 1t, It forced it to aban-
don this somewhat loose form of Or
ganization and become an incorpor-
ated company. But the change was in
name rather than in fact The public
are no wiser regarding the affairs of
the combine than before; and it is
not easy to see how they have bene-
flied in any direction.
The Standard Oil company has be-
come tremendous factor in Amer
lean finance. Up to say fifteen years
ago not much was said about 1t apart
from the oil industry; but it used to
occasion very lively talk in connection
with that industry. Tradition painted
its methods in black colors. 1t had
determined to acquire a monopoly in
the oil business, and had practically
succeeded. Competition went down
before it like card house at the
touch of finger. II man with a
few hundreds Of capital bought one or
two teams and attempted to peddle
any other oil than that made by the
Standard Oil company, he speedily
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
MOVES AGAINST MONOPOLY.

California.
Railroads were induced by STANDARD
to raise freight rates on Oil, ana IN
dependent pipe line to seaooard Is
projected.
Illinois.
House passed resolution indorsing
Kansas action and providing Tor con-
mittee to investigate Standard vi
company's work In Illinois.
Kansas.
Both branches of legislature calieo
on president, secretary OF the interior,
and congress to annul leases maze
to Standard Oil company eight years
ago by Usage Indians. Fraud IS
charged. Independent Investigation OF
trust likely.
Missouri.
Bill to subject Standard Oil COM
pany pipe lines to restrictions 'prepar-
ed.
indiana.
Antitrust bill, introduced in behalf
of oilmen, will give damages to per-
sons injured by Standard OIL company
and require forfeit of charter.
Nebraska.
Bill recommended for passage to
protect Independent dealers.
Ohio.
Frank S. Monnet, former attorney
general of state. employed by indie
pendent oil men of Kansas to fight the
trust there.
Oklahoma.
Lower house passed resolution ask
ing president to investigate oil leases
covering Indian lands and declared
to be owned by trust.
Pennsylvania.
Government officials investigating
at Pittsburg in belief old rebate sys-
ers' business, still is in operation be-
tween railroads and Standard Oil
company; contracts for Oiling cars the
scheme. Independent pipe line COM
pany to fight Standard in Scranton.
Texas.
Every Independent oil producer in
state signed petition asking for fed
eral inquiry into Standard OIL oper-
ations against them.
Legislature is taking steps to make
all pipe lines common carriers and
give state power to fix rates.
Wisconsin.
Wholesale grocers who suffered
from trust discrimination will move
for more stringent legislation; anti
trust bill now in legislature.
Washington.
TN cd tn IF
leases on oil lands in Oklahoma;
charged that trust controls property
and pays too little royalty.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
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power in Wall street speculation. It's
methods have been sharply criticised
The panic of May 9. 1901, was openly
laid at its door. The Northern Pa
cific deal, out of which that panic
grew. was titanic affair. 1t was a
contest between the mightiest finan-
cial interests in the United States. A
more recent episode in, the career of
the City bank was the Munroe & Nun
roe affair. The failure of this concern
brought to light the fact that the
largest bank in the United States was
as willing to aid in floating Montreal
& Boston mining stockton a credulous
public as to engage in great railroad
deals involving hundreds OF millions
Of capital.
Nor is this all. 1t was Standard
Oil money that started the Amalga-
mated Copper company. Boston peo-
pie have not forgotten that enterprise.
They recall the methods employed to
buy control of the great Boston &
Montana company for a song. They
remember. too, how the price of Anal
Samated copper stock was doomed to
about 100, just prior to a dividend re-
duction, in order that the insiders
might unload on the public. And the
part played by the City bank in pro-
noting the Amalgamated company is
also fresh in mind. The profit to the
Standard Oil coterie from promoting
and manipulating this enterprise will
never be known; but it is almost in
calculable.
Meanwhile, the oil monopoly has
been growing more and more coE.
plete. AS it has progressed in other
directions, the Standard Oil clique has
increased its means of sitting compe-
tition in the manufacture and distri-
button of oil. 1t was by railroad re-
bates that it got its first real start;
and now it is itself mighty power ir
the United States.
But last week the mandate went
forth for it to be investigated. A res
Clution to this end was rushed
through the national House, and the
President has been prompt to act upon
it. Commissioner Garfield of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor has
been told to institute proceedings, and
to see that they are thorough. The
specific task. In compliance with the
congressional resolution, is that of in
vestigating the cause of the low price
of crude oil. and OF the unusually
large margins between the crude and
refined products. The aim is to find
cut. how much the present situation is
the result of combination or conspir-
acy in restraint of trade.
In short, an effort is to be made to
find out everything possible regarding
the Standard Oil company specifical-
ly If the Commissioner of Corpora
tons is as successful in this instance
as he was in the case of the beef
trust, he is likely to produce results
that will startle the country. He il
also, it is said, going to look into tho
doings of the STANDARD Oil crowd"
An adequate report on the Standard
OIL company may enable us TO Obtain
cheaper oil. But real knowledge OF
the STANDARD Oil crowd will be OF
immense value in conserving the en-
tire financial interests of the people
of the United States. now and here.
after.-Boston Post.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03

posits of something like $3.50. 900. 900,
and to-day they are we'll up to $780,
100000 The City bank has from the
start been known as the Standard
Oil bank" 1t has been tremendous
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
Early New England Library.

1t appears that there was a public
library in Peru, Vermont, as early as
1911. The editor of the Manchester
Journal has book, on the fyleaf of
which is written, peru library No. 81,
October 8, 1911, cost fifty cents. Lii
brary meetings, the first Tuesday of
January, April, July and October. This
book is presented to the Christian,
people of Peru by the Hampshire mis-
sionary society and committed to the
care of the standing committee Of
their social library"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
Defends Alaskan Indian.

Gov. Brady of Alaska protests
against talk of the vile, dirty Eslki-
no." saying those who make such
remarks are in ignorance. Il don't
know what he may be like in other
divisions of the frigid zone, but l do
know that the Alaskan Indian is as
fine a type of his class as can be
found anywhere. Take them as
whole, they are sober and Industrious.
make homes and adopt civilization
readily. They are truthful, honest,
hospitable, gentle and kind-hearted."
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03
Small Boys Definition Of Duty.

SmaII 6OyS OcItHtion OF Outy.
A small boy went to Sunday school.
When he went home his mother asked
him what the lesson was about.
Faith" says the boy. whats that?"
his mother asked. "Believin' what
you've got every reason to suppose
amt So" the boy replies. And then"
he afterward remarks, there was
some talk about duty too" Whats
duty?" his mother asked him. "Oh,
duty" he replied. sis to any old thing
that you have got to do when you
want to play baseball"
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03

The board of head managers Of the
Woodmen of the World, Pacific juris-
diction, met at Denver and chose John
H. Foley of Los Angeles to be head
consul for the unexpired term of the
late F. A. Falkenburg. The head
camp meets in Los Angeles April 1S,
at which time successor will be
chosen.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-03-03

The real work in the trust busting
movement that has brought Kansas so
prominently before the nation has been
elements affected by Gil. Senator w. 5.
Fitzpatrick. leader of the upper house.
comes from the oil regions. and repre-.
sents the producers in the drafting OF
remedial legislation. Senator r. Dumont
represents the consumers. into winch
class nearly every citizen of the common
wealth fails. The other two are Presi-
dent H. j.. West and Secretary j. M.
Parker of the Kansas Oil Producers As
sociation. Senator Porter is former en-
ploye of the Standard Oil Company, yet
he drafted and introduced the state re-
fncry bin, which has become n law.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

and direct primary systems. It pro-
vldes for county and state conventions
which are to vote on all nominations for
county, legislative, congressional and
state. The three candidates receiving
the highest number Of votes at the con:
vention will become candidates at the
primary, election, and all others are
barred from the primary ballot. The
candidates take precedence on the bal
lot according to the vote received in the
convention.
The ca.ncuses Of the parties for So.
Letting delegates are t. be held the
third Friday Of June, and the county
conventions the third Saturday, at II
am. The county conventions are ia
select delegates to the state conven.
lions, giving the commissioner districts
as near eevn representation as posi-
BILE: Only one ballot for county and
Legislative officers is to be taken. The
state convention is to be held on the
fourth Friday of June, and COMPRESSION
al nominations are to be voted on at
that time, by the delegates dividing ur
into district conventions. The bill also
includes the Bowling plan for non.
partizan judicial nominations. Candi
dates going Oil the primary ballot are
to pay tho same fee as at present, and
the date Of the primary election is not
changed.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
MUST GIVE BOND
Substitute Agreed On for Carlson Bill
in House Committee.

The house committee on general legis-
lation yesterday voted down the Carl
son bill requiring notes given for the
purchase of stations and lightning rods
to be, STAMPED "not negotiable" In
its place tie committee will recon-
mend a substitute bill requiring all
dealers selling stations in the state to
give bond for $4,000 to make good
their guarantees, or else take nom
negotiab notes: Some members Of the
committee, including Representative
Zelch, who is a householder, are op-
posed to the bond feature, as they say
it will operate in favor: of the large
dealers and shut out competition.
The same committee decided to make
favorable report on the Hickey bill
directed against piracy or plagiarism
Of copyrighted plays. The Hugo bill
allowing the managers Of children 8
homes to give consent to the adoption
of children was also recommended ia
vorably. .,.. >,... .
The committee reported for indefinite
postponement the Adams bill repeating
all bounties for horsethieves, and the
Collier. senate bill increasing the penalty
for Wilfully poisoning animals.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
.' CHANGES RECOMMENDED
Senate Committee on Insurance Gets
Advice

The senate committee on insurance
met yesterday afternoon and reviewed
the new insurance code. Commissioner
r. D. O 'Brien and former Commissioner
Elmer H. Dearth were present. Both
suggested various changes. being made
in the revision. Commissioner OBrien
made a number of recommend ations,
among them the following:
That insurance companies be prohibited
from investing funds in the stock Of pri-
vate corporations. - --."s~
That a statement Of the conditions on
which a. policy is issued be attached to
life insurance policies as well as to fire
insurance policies. -: -s.tss 80.
That the per cent premium tax COL
lected under the law from fire insurance
companies be apportioned among the fire
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
MONTHLY COURT TERMS
BILL TO BE INTRODUCED PROVED
ING NINE TERMS A YEAR IN
TWO LARGE COUNTIES.

A bill providing for monthly terms of
the district court in. j Hennepin and
Ramsey counties will be introduced to-
morrow. The measure has the ap.
prevail of the bar associations, and at
torneys generally favor it. It pro-
vides for nine terms, beginning the first
Monday Of each month excepting July
August and September.
Grand jurors are to be drawn for the
terms Of January, May and October
and for other terms as the court may
direct. Some one judge is to call the
cases and set them for trial at the
opening of each term, according to the
convenience Of counsel. It is not TIC
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
CAN'T FIX LIMITATIONS
'Bjorge Bill Declared Unconstitutional
School Bills Considered.

The Bjorge bill fixing qualifications
for the office of county superintendent
was put to death by the house commit
tee on education, after an opinion from
Attorney General Young, who holds
that the bill would be unconstitutional.
It provides qualifications which are not
required by the constitution.
The committee considered the various
agricultural school bills yesterday
afternoon. Professor Robertson Of the
L. H. johnson bill for a system Of
county agricultural schools, and had a
lively tilt with the author. The state
school man favored the bill for redis-
tricting Of counties into consolidated
school districts and the Mannix bill
giving special aid to consolidated dis
tricts. This special aid would assist
the district in building the enlarged
schoolhouse required. L. P. Harrington
of Hutchinson and G. It. Englund of
Alexandria, both county superinten-
dents, appeared in favor Of the bills.
D. D. Wayne, principal Of the state
| school of agriculture, said the Wiscon-
sin plan of county schools was not a
success, ...
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
SESSION ENDS APRIL Is
ATTORNEY GENERAL SETTLES A
DISPUTED POINT AS TO THE
NINETY-DAY LIMNIT.

Attorney General Young has rem.
dered verbal opinion to the house .ju-
dietary committee, to the effect that
the present legislative session will end
by constitutional limitation April 10.
The point was raised in the commit.
tee that the ninety days in the consti.
tuition might mean ninety days Of ac,
tual session. AS both houses have ad.
journed over a number of working days
this would protract the session.
The attorney general held that the
ninety days means days exclusive Of
legislature might legally meet. This
is the established rule. Under it the
session must end at noon April IS, and
no bills can be passed after midnight,
April II.
The session is just half over today
forty-five working days having elapsed
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
FAVOR PENSIONS
Hennepin Delegation Gives Favorable
Hearing to Police Officers. -..

The Hennepin house delegation voted
yesterday in favor Of the Hickey bill
to establish a pension fund for retired
policemen. Arguments in favor Of the
bill were made by Representative j. r.
Mannix, who said the plan was Endorsed
by Mayor Jones, and by Captain Jacob
Helm. . st. Paul has had the system for
two years and it was explained by Lieu
tenant Boerner of the St. Paul depart
ment. In the Minneapolis delegation
were James Hankinson, George Bahan,
geant Fred Shepard.
The delegation also Endorsed the
Gjertsen bill raising the salary Of the
deputy sheriff who is to care for the in
sane prisoners to $1,000, and the Bard
well bill to continue the appropriation
of $4,000 for Improvement of the lakes
in Hennepin and Ramsey counties.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

departments Of the state, whether or not
the departments are accompanied by re-
lief associations or have a hose cart, en-
gine and hook and ladder truck.
That the provision in the code stipulat-
ing that no company shall be allowed to
do life insurance business until it has
deposited with the insurance commits
sioner 100000 be annended SO as to allow
mutual companies to- do business when
they deposit With the commissioner their
reserve until it. reaches 800, 900.
Former Commissioner Dearth sug-
gested that the law relative to bicycle
insurance companies sbe omitted alto
gether as the Nc "bieycle craze is a
thing of the. past, ana no bicycle insur-
ance company has ever been organized
in this state.
Senator Stephens called attention to
the fact that the law he fathered at a
past session relative to hail insurance,
has been entirely omitted from the new
code.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
be necessary to notice a cause for tria,
more than once unless stricken from the
calendar for cause. :,
Rate Inquiry on Again.

The railroad rate inquiry was resumed
by the joint legislative committee at ::
10 CLOCK this afternoon E. NJ. Ferguson
Of Duluth, who recently appeared before
the house committee at Washington. wa
the principal witness today, giving ties.
timony in regard to3the private freigh,
line monopoly. ,'sz -
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
CODE COMING MONDAY
House Will Get to Work on It EARLY
s5.s.-r Next Week.

Speaker Clague warned the house
members today that miscellaneous bust
ness not attended to this week will have
to go on the sidetrack for some time,
pending the disposition Of the new CODE.
The house Judiciary committee will
send the code out about Monday The
military code chapter is being revised,
but the committee has turned down TIE
tee, that the present code be inserted
in the revision. The national guard Of
ficers are making fight for their point,
and may carry it on the floor Of the
house.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Want. the Present Code.

Adjutant General Wood and com
peared last evening before the house in
dietary committee to urge that the pres
ent military code be lifted into the re
vised statutes, in place of the substitut
code prepared by the revision commits
sion. They declared the present Min
nesota code equal to any in the coun
try
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
IT WILL. KEEP

1t is not always necessary
to use a whole bottle Of
SCOTS Emulsion What is
left Win keep. We have seen
a bottle Of cur Emulsion
three years old that is still
good. What other prepara.
tion Of cod Ever Old will keep
sweet and permanent for halt
that length Of tirne2 SCOTS
Emulsion IS always reliable
because it's always absolutely.
pure.
Well send you sample free.
SCOTT & BOVINE. 400 Pearl Street. New York
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Stephens Law Cut Out.

Senators A. D. Stephens has discovered
that the revised code leaves out en-
tirely his hail insurance bill of 1898,
which regulated and limited the opera
tions of hail insurance companies. He
will labor to get it's provisions incor-
porated into the code.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Portrait of General Hahn.

A portrait in oil Of the late W. j.
Hahn Of Minneapolis, who was attorney
general of the state from 1881 to 1887,
was hung in the attorney general g
rooms at the new capitol today.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

Backache is almost Immediately re-
lieved by wearing one of Carter's
Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache
Plasters. Try one and be free from
pain. Price Is cents.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Want More Pay for Judges.

The Ramsey delegation gave some
consideration yesterday to a proposed
bill increasing the salaries Of district
Judges IN the twin cities and Duluth to
$4,000, along with the pending bill to
raise the salaries Of country Judges to
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
Demurrage Bill Deferred.

The house committee on railroads
yesterday afternoon referred the w. A.
Nolan reciprocal demurrage billst to a.
subcommittee consisting Of Representa-
tives Flower, Putnam, Ware, Bennett
and Gandrud.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24
More Help for Attorney General.

Senator Peterson introduced a bill
increasing the force of the. attorney
generals office and the compensation
Of assistants. The number of assistant
attorney generals is increased from two
to three and the salaries from $4,000
to S3Goo clerk at is add asd
at 5000 :
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

On Standard Oil Investigation.
The senate passed a resolution this
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-24

morning introduced by Senator Cole,
commencing President Roosevelt for
starting the investigation of the Stand
ard Oil monopoly. 80. ....r.