Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1905-02-03
10 MCDILL'S MUSINGS.
SHERMAN RAT.kliLER.

President Roosevelt was elected under The
suppos'ion that he would oppose trusts, and
the Northern Securities supreme court decision
was widely published III support of the claim
tnat Teddy was after the sea ps OF The mergers
Well I am not saying that the President is
not sincere, but what do say is that the North
eru Securities decision doesn't amount to a hill
OF beans.
shall put the situation in my own words as
gained from the Literary Digest. The North
ern Securities Company organized for the pur-
pose of placing the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railways under management.
Hill and Morgan were at the head of the new
company number of governors Of north
western states set up a great rear Ill protest,
ard so influenced the administration that a suit
became necessary to either allay the excitement
OF the people or right wrong. AS is gener-
ally known, the supreme court decided that the
H.ll- Morgan mtrger was IN violation OF the
pl iurs Sherman anti trust law. Apparently,
Hiii aud Morgan yielded, and set about the dis
,rbuiou OF the shares OF the company dis
solved by the decision Of Ike supreme court,
and proposed distribution pro rata basis
Hartman objected, and brought suIi IN the
United States court of appeals 10 have shares
returned to original holders.
The decision of the court Of appeals sustains
the Hill Morgan program. AS Hill and Nor
ean have enough shares in the roads 10 control
their management, and since Hill and Morgan
agree to operate the roads the same as ii the
roads were in the hands of one company, it
follows that there is merger in fact, and that
the people have not gained cant for ali their
time, sleeplessness and votes for 'Roosy."
II
A dozen or fifteen years ago. there was
Trans Missouri Tariff Association, and the
Sherman antitrust animal got its back up like
mad cat and went to court. The court de-
cided that the Sherman anti 'ler had
IT'S fur slroked the wrong way, and that Its big
tail was entirely justi6abe; whereupon, the
Trans- Missouri Traffic Association took down
its old sign and continued to do business along
The old lines just as long as it pleased.
II.
Those are the only two times that the Sher-
man trust killer has ever been disturbed 10 the
extent of manitesting disposition to catch
and kill the vile rodents that destroy the peo-
pe's grain and cut up their best Sunday clothes.
There is not claw. mark on any rat or mouse,
made by the Sherman cat, in all the region
living between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans,
and from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Pole.
wouldn't trade hshworm even up for the
Sherman cat unless the cat is put under new
se, of trainers.
Roosevelt says he is going to train the Sner-
man cat or there will be such ructon as has
rot been seen since the famous Irish fight at
Dounybrook Fair. Recently, he sent out &
man by the name of Moody in search of prey.
Alter great efforts on the part of the trainer a
scent was run to hole, but the cat wouldn't
even hump its back OF spread is tail. Beef,
hoes and other slaughtered animals excite no
more animosty III The breast of the Sherman
cat than oil excies the Rockefellers. "Roosy''
will have to have a new cat and new set of
trainers, or he will tall far below The fame he
won on San Juan hill