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Standard Oil Company Of Ono on tne charge of conspiracy to restrain trade, all the officials being summoned. On OCT. 10 the jury adjudged the con- pany guilty, and the sentence of So,ooo day retroactive, was imposed py Judge Banker. The case was appealed.
 The New York Central railroad was prosecuted for rcbating to the sugar trust and fined $10S,O00. while the sugar trust was fined $16S,00O for re- ceiving the rebates
 Prior to the oil prosecutions the blg beef packers brought to trial at Chiaa- go on criminal charges had gone scot free on the decision of Judge llum- phrey, holding that they were immune because their testimony had been gwen confidcntialIy to Garfield. At Kansas City JUNE 12 four of the packers-A- imour, Swift, Cudahy and Aorris-Were found guilty of accepting rebates from the Burlington.
 In nearly all of the larger cities com- binations of ice companies were attack ed for conspiracy ill forcing up prices, the most promptly successful prosecu- tiop being against the five Toledo deal- CTS, who were not only fined but who began their jail sentences, but later got out on bond and appealed. At Phlla- delphia the indicted ice men got off with q nominal fine, but were warned against second offcnse.
 District Attorney Jerome of New York reported that he could find noth- ing on which to base case against the Mutual, but the New York Life was still under scrutiny, and the cases against the Burnhams and Eldrdge of the Mutual Reserve came to trial in December, George Burnham, Jr., being convicted of larceny.
 Supreme court decisions were:
 Holding it to be illegal for railroads to deal in any commodities which they haul; that the railroads may select through routes; upholding the Michigan ad valorem railroad tax; refusing Mis-, souri's appeal against the Chicago drainage canal; uph0lding the suspen, sion of Chicago street railway charters for ninety-nine years. but not the con tract rights hereunder.
 Circuit courts at St. Louis and Gin cinnati held that an illegal trust could not collect bills by legal process.
 In February the arrest of President Mover and Secretary Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners, togeth CT with d member, Pettibone, at Den yer, on the charge of having planned the murder of ex-Governor Steunen berg in December, 1905, and theil hasty Imprisonment in Idaho without extradition formaiities caused wide spread resentment among labor anC Socialist classes. Pending their trial g habeas corpus appeal was carried up tt the supreme court and there refused DEC. 2.
 Negro racial animosties were iLten sified by the increasing frequency ol lynchings in various sections, a tend ency which took the form of wholesale mob murders in several cases, notably at Springfield, O., FEB. 27; at Spring field, Mo, APRIL 12, and at Atlanta Ga, where riots extending over three days, SEPT. 22-25, resulted in twenty two violent deaths, mostly of negroes against whom no charge lay. At Sails bury, N. C., AUG. 6, six negroes ac cused of murder were lynched, an( promptly two of the mob were triet and sentenced to fifteen years impris Onment.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30
The Rhodes-Haverty Furniture

The Rhodes -Haverty Furniture company have removed their whole sale office, which has been in the retail department, to their ware house.
 Mr. A. w. Lowe, principal of the Lakeside school, returned yesterday morning from Little Rock, where he has been attending the State Teachers Association meeting.
 Mr. Joe Scott of Birds Point, Mo. is in this city visiting friends.
 MT. Fred Fessler. wao nas been very sick for some time, is grad uaIly improving.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30
Walter COtter and COmpany's Daily
 Cotton Letter.
Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 29, 1906

Pine Bluff, Ark, Dec. 29, 1906.
 Circumstances considered, the be- haviOr of the different markets at present is perfectly logical, with the weight off January in New York, at least, for the time being that option is moving closer to later positions and
 the general tendency is towards clos CT approach to other marets and more normal parties. Liverpool and New Orleans, therefore quite fill the bill by remaining steady. Futures Ill Liverpool closed to 3 higher, spots prices are 10 up, total sales 4'0oo. Opening trades here were practically unchanged and there were no fluctua- tions of moment during the entire nall session trading without special fea- lures. A little easiness followed in the last hour on the easier closing in New York. The visible supply statement was bulish as expected. showing a large rate of spinners talk ings for the few business days which it covered. There is a demand for spots of better grades, cotton below strict middling common staple, rather neglected and outlay much larger. Business is somewhat checked by the difficulty of moving owing to the blocked-up condition of the wharves @l, idays with the resumption Of business /; next Wednesday and ginners' report
 to be published probably on January | g, is liable to become the principal point for consideration and trading. | This census will give the amount Ill bales ginned to January first, which
 number we shall compare with g. 725,436 ginned to same date last year. There are comparisons available with years other than last. Opinions as to the probable figures shown vary
 so greatly that we cannot say yet what reports the popular expectations are We will say that this report will carry with it for many the maj decision as to crop size and that for l this reason it is very important. If
 ginnings are small and support the contention that the crop is nearly all
 in, it would give bull speculation a
 great impetus. If large, say 11,6OO,-
 900 or over, consequences would be
 reversed.
 l Yours very truly,
 WALTER COTTER AND COMPANY.
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becoming pre- m fer. ='TrooH were necessary to quen the serious III in . strike riots at;
 CT the fatal rH
 ploSion at Co}3
 rierS. in whlei
 more than 1.0Oo men lost their lives. Here N Wa% felt the stron. hand of M. Gle nenceau. thea ,nipiStar of tli,s
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30

Der of Liberal
 leaders were ar rested, and Gen eral Pino Guer-
 la head ed d
 trong force of .ebels in Pinar
 del Rio. An of fer of amnesty
 was rejected and martial law declared. Sever al fatal clashes occurred before an armiS tice was arranged by yZMessrs.. Taft and Bacon. sent
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30
TWELVE

vocating a system of federal aud state owned railroads.
 With one or two exceptions the states east and west that have gone Repub- lican usually were found in line, the Democrats carrying Rhode Island, Min nesota, Oregon and Nevada, controlling Oklahoma's constitutional convention and recovering some lost ground EE Missouri.
 Under the stress of much radical talk in both the older parties the Socialists didn't make so big showing as they
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30
Dumont and Peary
 Take Scientific Honors

After centuries of dreaming and ex- perimentation it was the privilege of the year 1906 to see mans first me- chanical navigation of the air from a
 standing start in screw propelled aeroplane. This was accomplished by M. Santos Dumont at Paris, SEPT. 13. and in later flight he won the $1O,0OO prize by flying over kilometer from a standing start. Lieutenant Lahm, an
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30

expected, especially in view of the impe- tus given to their movement by such notable accesSiOnS aS Chicago's young mil lionaire, Joseph Me dill Patterson, who resigned MARCH 9 as Mayor Dunne's commissioner of pub lie works, and J. e. Phelps Stokes, the wealthy New York cn%%ln,,o Anf Unuix nI.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30

has scared the party so badly that it shies away whenever you come along. You had your opportunity and threw it away, and it will never come to you again, Billy. No. Never!
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30

American, won the international bal loon race from Par is, OCT. 1.
 In popular estima- tion no work of the year ranks higher than that of Robert E. Peary. who car
 T AL
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30

Billy Bryan says he is again in a receptive mood, and would probably intercept and attempt to capture a nomination for the presidency If it came loafing along his way. Don't lie awake O nights watching for it, Billy. That government owner
 ship speech of yours in New York
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-12-30

MT. \. T. Jenkins of Sherrill is in this city today on business.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
1T Is AMERICAN.

Some of the country press OF Nor.
mon sfiliation are velplng about the
great progress which Salt Lake has
made since the "American party ticket
failed OF election this fall"
What nonsenscl OF course Salt Lake
is Observation-Disclosures wonderfully
since last November; but also Salt Lake
has been advancing-and advancing
wonderfully since n year ago last No
vember. The great movement for the
progress of this city began with the
public announcement which went out
to all the world, that this municipality
was TO be, by the free choice of free
citizenship, under American party rule.
That advancement has not been stayed,
nor will il be stayed; for American citi-
zsns are conscious of the benefits and
they realize the reasons therefor
Just one indisputable proposition
demonstrates the whole case; In the
months Immediately preceding the or
ganization of the American party, peo-
Pile were leaving Salt Lake is shoals.
A prominent citizen and profes
sional man-not belonging to the
American party-stated to The
Tribune in the winter Of 1904-05
that in Just one month Of the
preceding summer (and before the or
ganization of the American party, al
though he had forgotten the facD
forty-five families of good citizens had
left Salt Lake to find n place of peace.
That was the condition during the un-
disputed hierarchical sway in this COM
munity. Men and money were not
coming to us; and much money and
many men were going from us. But
as soon as American citizens learned
that the people had been aroused In
their majesty to overthrow un-Amerl-
can conditions, those who were here de-
termined to stay and those who wanted
to be here determined to come; and
the result is a prosperity the like or
which this community never before ex-
perienced. Salt Lake City is still un-
der American rule. The American party
lost nothing at the election last No
vember, The hierarchs had previously
COUIIO!ICu cdlJ Lane "h' WY
continued to control the county. The
American party was in control OF Salt
Lake City, and it cast an increased
plurality vote within this city at the
last election.
If put to a secret vote, the business
men of this community would testify of
their own knowledge that American
party rule is the sponsor for American
progress in this community.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27

the States could not interfere with the
bringing in and the sale of goods in
the original packages; but the moment
those packages are opened and their
contents are offered for sale, they are
subject 10 State inspection in the inter
est OF the public health, and 10 con-
demnation if they are found deleter,ous
thereto or offensive TO the senses.
But the States failed to act, and In the
interest of the public welfare the Con
gress took the matter up, and after
many years effort and discussion,
passed the "Pure Food Bill But if
the States had exercised their undoubt-
ed prerogatives in this matter. and had
enacted and vigorously enforced appro-
pirate and competent legislation,
there would have been neither need nor
proprietv in Congressional action.
1t is this phase of the big question
that Secretary Root sought to bring
forcibly to the attention of the Ameri-
can people. He meant to say, and did
say, that IN such cases, when the States
allow their powers to lie in allegiance; !;
when they create corporations without
easily controlled supervision and ready
check to ravage the communities OF
other States, there will be an inevit-
able demand for action by the Ma
tlonal Govednmept, and some way
will be found TO exercise National
jurisdic ton. This evident fact is
clearly illustrated in the example given
above. in the passage Of the pure food
bill, and il will be seen in other direc-
tions, as in the railroad rate act. For,
when the popular demand is strong
enough. and persistent enough, Con
gress will be sure to find some way
to act that will stand the test of the
courts.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
About Women
WOMEN AS AMBASSADORS.

New York World.
The decision Of the Storers not to en-
gage in a social war with the President
is no doubt dictated by regard for the
nation S best interests.
a salon at the capital in rivalry of
the White House would not only serve
to coalcscc party opposition, but it
would also inevitably cause diplomatic
complications. Would the representa-
tive of n friendly power who was per-
soma grata on the Executive tennis
court risk compromising his official rela-
tions by drinking tea with the ex-Em-
bassadresse A situation might easily
arise such as in France led Theirs TO
intimate that if Lady Granville. wife
of the British Minister did not discon-
tinue her incivllity to Mime Theirs
Lord Granville might be recalled.
The publication of the Roosevelt
Storer correspondence has elected var
ious sighting remarks about "cmbas-
sadresses. Tho contcmptuous refer
ences of the Bismarcks, father and son,
to harem politics. and ''petticoat
politics. are recalled. But what is
there in the feminine temperament to
prevent the successful exercise Of diplo.
macy? Who was the ambassador at
Naples in Nelson s day, Lord or Lady
Hnmilton' Prince Bulow has recently
advised aspiring young diplomats to
take as their model Alcibiades, against
whom the Athenians levelled the re
proach of effeminacy,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27

question is one which would better be
abandoned
Our own Monroe doctrine is accepted
in its spirit by European nations We
dominate in this hemisphere; we do not
brook undue interference with the af
fairs Of other American republics, and
certainly would resent any interference
into the internal affairs of this nation
Senator Bacon expressed, by a resolu-
tion which he recently proposed in the
Senate of the United States, the ex.
actitude of our own Monroe doc ctrine
when he proposed that the Senate
should say: 'This country has no pur-
pose to depart from the traditional
American foreign policy which forbids
participation by the United States in
the settlement of political questions
scope. That resolution was offered in
view of tho lmminency of an effort, par
ticularly on the part of Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, to carry the official
responsibility of this nation into the
capital of Belgium and the heart of
Africa
Just at this present moment the
United States has business of its own
on hand. And just at this moment it
would better attend TO its own affairs
than to interiect itself as an unneces.
sary quantity into questions with which
our nation, as such, can have no direct
concern.
No doubt the effort of the leading
pubbcists Of this country-prcachers OF
international renown, and the great
Gnanciers who have European relations
will be of some avail in making IN
citment of public sentiment in Europe
against the frightful barbarities which
are practiced in the Congo Free State.
! Acting as individuals these gentlemen
are strictly within their right and their
Christian duty; and acting as indivd
uals they doubtless can accomplish as
much for reform as could be attained
by this nation if we were to attempt
to intervene even in the way of adj
vice-and in their effort will be no dan
ger of producing international compli-
cations.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
THE GREAT Guest CONES.

While the cobbler mused there passed his
pane
A besgar drencned by the driving rain.
He called him In from the stony street
And gave him shoes for his bruised feet.
The beGgar went and there came 4 crone
Her face with wrinkles of sorrow sown.
a bundle Of fagots bowed her back.
And she was spent with the wrench and
rack.
He gave her his loaf, and steadied her
load
AS she took her way on the weary road.
Then 10 his door came a little child,
Lost and afraid in the world so wild.
In tho big dark world Catching 1T up,
He gave it milk in the waiting cup,
And led IL home TO Its mothers arms
Out OF the reach of the worlds alarms
The day went down in the crimson west
And with it the hope OF the blessed
Guest;
And Conrad sighed as the world turned
gray:
why Is H.. Lord that your feet delay? I?
Did you forget that this was the day?'
Then soft In the silence Voice was
heard:
Lift up your heart. for I kept my word
Three times / came To your friendly
door.
Three times my shadow was on your
floor.
l was the beggar with bruised feet
7 was the woman you gave TO eat;
] was the child on the homeless street.
Edwin Markham In the Delineator.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
ROOTS TRUE MEANING.

AS the smoke of the conflict over
Secretary Root S speech rolls away, IL
is seen that the portions Of IL which
caused the .commotion were more IN
the nature of a warning than of ag-
eression. His idea was, not TO OBJ
hterate State lines. but to spur the
States on TO the enactment of reason
able and beneficial legislation. he
did nor mean 10 assert the National
power TO encroach upon the rlgnttul
local power Of the States, but 10 urge
the States 70 do what they can for the
common welfare.
Thus. the pressure for Che National
control of corporations arises from the
fact that the States do nothing IN
the charters which they grant TO
prevent overcapitalization, extoriion,
and other abuses. There is no effect
i've provision, as a rule. against I'M
position. graft, unfair combinations,
and undue intrusions into the do
mains of other States by corporations
enfranchised by any State. 1t is true
that it may be difficult for State to
fully guard against abuses and the OPP
pressions imposed upon the people
of other States by the corporations
which it creates. But no attempt has
thus far been made by any State to pre-
vent such abuses, nor to control in a
reasonable manner the corporations
which it authorizes to do business all
over the country There is no require
meut of sworn reports in detail; there
| is no provision to punish for perjury
the making of false reports; there is no
prompt method of dissolving such
| corporations when they betray the trust
reposed in them. So there has grown
up a sentiment in the country at large
in favor Of making the Nation the
custodian of the power, in cases
where the operations Of the fran.
chse extend into two or more States.
| This sentiment includes railroad com
panies. and legislation has recently
been enacted as to them in accord with
| the general popular sentiment. IL e1-
tends to banks of issue, and these are,
| and for many years have been, under
National control it extends to in
suranee companies. both life and fire,
| but so far no National statute has re-
quired either Of these classes of
| corporations to take out National
charters, and there are grave doubts
whether it is in the power of Congress
to extend jurisdiction over them,
though the life insurance abuses and
Iootings show how ineffective the
State supervision has proved. 1t is
true that New York has recently
| passed strict laws governing the life
! insurance business but the companies
doing this business can AT any time
get out from the jurisdiction of these
laws when they find them in the
way Of plots and schemes, by moving
their headquarters to some other State.
And though fire insurance companie
have escaped the fierce scorcbing that
life insurance companies have been
subjected 10, their oppressive increases
in insurance rates and the failure Of
so many companies to meet their San
Francisco obligations have created a
feeling for their regulation also under
National auspices
The matter of pure food is one which
one would suppose could be effectively
dealt with by the States. To be sure
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
NO BUTTING IN,

Distinguished diyines and eminent
a protest against atrocities in the Con-
90 Free State. where. natives are trent
ed as less than brutes of the field.
1t is all very we'll for humanitarians
to engage their personal attention in
the redress Of existing wrongs and the
prevention of such brutalities. But the
effort to involve our country in the
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27

One of the agencies flies passion be-
York; in speaking editoraly
''Undoubtedy hierarchy polygmsts criminals
ought o one of United does
With the obstnacy of the sefdeuded polyga
allies hierarchy attribute
Judgment anything but the
Primarily they charge by the
New York because of the influence spread by the Salt
Tribune. compliment under ordi
nary modesty The
hattery particular the
influence of the church the GENTLE
agencies admitting their
unrelbity they The Trib
conviction to the minds
people all the
hired liars combined In probably that
Tribune this the response
by the New York Times with the
polygamists horrifying testimony
Smith other Mormon leaders the witness
Washington concerning political authority
living itself sufficient convince the
New York Times that Utah ruled by polyenmous hierarchy call
ing itself church. That emne mt New York did not need
TO official
the proceedings in the smoo is ample authority for the
Utah;
that they have brazenv broken their made this Naton
live poygamy and continue to live
pygamy For choice of the harsh and sweeping language
with which the New York Times characterzes this ofense
the of the world the New York Times itself is
sponbe Probably in the question: it would
testimony by the heachs them
Privileges Elections
to charge.
agency this
is
violate law
religious
longer
this their the of God
longer should they be supported their extraction
millions the toll of their suffering people with which to
agencies do heir bidding time to
halt for the sake Utah The influence of the hierarchs
upon public this all respects malign.
illustration the business
why a should be called
entirely o the nquitous efforts of the organ
the hierarchy the the smelling interests of this
made the of the United Not having
gate The organ of notified
through
smelers of the world which
elsewhere; while is well known fact that
hierarchy which the
agricultural array efunder hearchical
tection-agans greatest
il would be by all
law in existence, that and special laws would be
to in conflict.
cry polygamy the crushing of the
smelling but all the public affairs
selfish lives hierarchy that this illustration
we'll other They rule and they rule yrannousy
They would things which control 1t
that the business of this should call halt And
while calling should the Gentle
allies of The church seeking the which
destructive of business absolute bar the kind
of progress which the country demands
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-27
LIGHT AS A BARRIER.

Youths Companion.
The Danish government has recent
" begun. under the direction of Mr..
Petersen of the Biological station at
Copenhagen, an interesting effort TO
aid the fishermen of the Baltic by pre-
venting the migration of eels from
that sea into the ocean, The means
employed is a "barrier Of light. -
formed by placing fifty electric lamps
along a submerged cable between the
Island of Fano and the coast of Flu
nen, The effectiveness of such a
barrier depends upon the fact that the
eels migrate only during the dark hours.
Accordingly. rs soon as darkness be-
gins, in tho season of migration, the
lamps arc Illuminated, and thus wall
cells recoil. A similar principle is said
TO have been employed from time i'm
memorial by fishermen on certain parts
of the coast of Italy.