The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1906-08-10

agent and lind out whether his eoocs
have come. Instead of hitchng up and
riding that distance TO lnd out.
FOUR FOR A QUARTER
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Ice street.
The Tidewater Railroad offered the
Norfolk and Western Railway $500
for crossing the latter's tracks, Tie
Norfolk and Western demanded $685.
600. The commissioners decided that
$500 wa, The proper figure. This de-
maud of the Norfolk and Western Is
worse than trying To make "a railroad
paw $3.50 for killing "a SO COW.
senator Elkin,, a multi-millionairc,
say, that every rich men never wills
te." Why should they? a poor
man whistle, to keep zap his courage.
The Republicans are asking for dol-
Oar contribution, for the congressional
campaign President Roosevelt has
sent one dollar, and n q letter says,
-spcud my dollar" The New York
insurance companies will no doubt send
a dollar. as they did toelect Roosevelt.
utitwill he the policy holders doll
lar. not their own.
five are correct i'm our mterprcta-
ton of il, editorial ON the Button case.
the Richmond Times-Di~patch J.,
plainly of the opinion that the Court
of Appeals did not have its law pin
ned ON straight when it decided that
Button had "a right To his position
The Corporation Commission
Thought it was a clear case of Button
out The Court Of Appeals decided
that it wa, a clear case Of Buttin' in.
So Johl d. Rockefeller is not TO go
% Jail. OF even TO be prosecuted Grim
inally 10y the Federal authorities. but
if the Administration can screw mp its /
courage, he may be fined and the farce
of prosecuting the Standard oil Trust
will be another nine days wonder
There Will have to he shake-up iu /
the n anagemeut Of express compau- /
les under the new law. As it is now /
the officials of railroads are officials of
express companies and vice versa,
which would indicate a conspiracy in
restraint Of trade, especially a, there
is mo- competition between express /
companies at joint points. What the /
people are bound to have b fore they /
get done legislating about corporations /
is competition, or where competition /
is not possible such just rste, "a, the /
situation demands. If the new law j., /
found not sufficient to insure that the /
law will be further amended by Con- /
gress. Congress hereafter will be .in .
the hands of the people instead Of be-
ing as heretofore a corporation annex. /
When the news was received over F.
"the ticker" i'm Wall Street that Attor-
ney-General Moody had decided not .
to press for any Jail penalty against /
John ID. Rockefeller and other Stan /
dard oil officials "the fact was pointed .
TO joyfully,' says a New York journal
i'm its market report, "as evidence that /
the Roosevelt Administration and the .
trust were now i'm accord snd that oc-
currences i'm the near future will de-
monstrate clearly that the two have
reached a thorough understanding.
Wall street regarded the developments
ion connection with the Standard oil
investigation i'm Ohio by the Federal
Government as moral victory for the
great trust IL seems impossible to
divorce the Republican leaders from
Wall Street influences and trust as
sociations and the above Wall street
news indicates that the campaign fund
Of the Republican party will be re-
plenished from that source. The dol
lar subscription dodge Of Chairman
Sherman is only fake to fool the
the voters into believing that trust i'm
luences have been banished from the
Republican campaign.