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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02

Old timers in the tobacco business
and in other lines advised the young
man that he was plunging headlong to
ruin But Duke plunged right along.
As prizes to smokers of pipe tobacco
he wisely offered shaving mugs, clocks
and bedroom sets. Pipe smokers are
hOmebodies. Cigarette smokers. gem
orally speaking. are "Johnnies." and
the pictures of actresses caught them.
Duke understood human nature.
Duke went after the Allen & Ginter
people with deluge of advertising
ideas. Allen & Gintcr soon came in
out of the wet. With them came in
the Kinney Bros. and the other great
cigarette and smoking tobacco firms.
Advertising seemed to pay so we'll
that Il new firm spranG up to capture
some of the cigarette trade through
like methods. Do you remember the
Admiral cigarette? The new concern
made the Admiral and advertised il
with astonishing boldness. Just as
the millions We're getting ready to
pour in the Admiral people discovered
that they were up against n stone wall
Big orders for their goods were can
celed The cigarette trust had gone
to the dealers throughout the country
and said to them something like this:
I'VE make eighteen or twenty brands
of cigarettes for which our advertising
methods have created great demand
You handle them all and make money
out of them. Now. If you sell the Adj
miral you shant sell any of our goods.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02
He Walked the Plank.

The dealers saw. The Admiral walk.
ed the bridge no more; he walked the
plank. 1t was all very simple. but very
serious. Anybody could make ciga-
rettes. but If he couldn't get anybody
TO handle them what was the use?
The Duke of Durham held all the aces
In that game.
Having conquered the cigarette
world. Duke looked about and saw the
chewing tobacco world. He went after
that The Lorillards of Jersey City
and the Drummonds ard Liggett &
Myers of st. Louis fought him fiercely
for about seven years. but eventually
had TO knuckle under. Scores of small.
er concerns were forced into the fold
Duke practically owned the American
trade in cigarettes. pipe tobacco and
chewing tobacco. Then he crossed the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02

gar stand competition. The United
states government devotes n special
section TO the United stores in its
complaint against the trust.
Meanwhile Emperor Duke lives IN
lordly spiendor ut his country estate
near Somcrville. y. J.. where he owns
$500 acres of land. every acre land
Scapcd at vast expense and every
building on the place constructed OF
costly stone. He is fifty years old. has
S50.0O0.OO0 or so. and his millions are
increasing faster than his years.
DeWitts Kidney and Bladder Pills
are best for backache and weak kid
neys. Sold by all druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02

education, which his father offered
him. Before many years he was the
boss. 1t is related that when the firm
was making 100000 year and there
We're five partners James b. insisted
that he and the others should draw
S1G6.G6 a month and no more. All the
rest went into the business. Every
thing was business with James b.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02

Duke appeared in New York in 1883
TO open an office and conduct the Dur
ham establishment from that city lie
lived in cheap lodging house. paying
s. Il week for his room. Later when
his business was earning 4 great deal
moro he moved into n two dollar room.
The dollar thus saved he needed in his
business. At Il later period when the
bachelor had stable Of horses lie Oc-
cupied apartments in the second story
of his stable. There was no high flying
for Buck Duke. That tobacco en-
pire was yet in the future. but Duke
saw it just as plainly as he saw, the
lamp post across the street He work
ed steadily and surely.
The American Tobacco company was
organized in January. 1890. At first it
was known as the cigarette trust.
Duke of course was the head of IT.
He built it. Five concerns We're con
solidated to make the American Tobac-
co company. They were w. Duke.
Sons & Co. Allen & Ginter. the Kinney
Tobacco company, W. s. Kimball &
Co. and Goodwin & Co. How Duke
got them into his hands may be Illus
trated by one instance of his methods.
Allen & Ginter were his chief competi
tors. Duke went to Major Ginter in
Richmond and proposed consolida-
ton Ginter declined. Then he pro
posed the purchase of the Allen & Gin
ter business. Ginter laughed. He told
the Young man:
You haven't got money enough TO
buy MS. and you can't borrow money
enough"
I'VE are making 100000 year out
Of our business" replied Duke. land il
necessary We'll spend every cent of II
in advert iSiDp"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02

ocean He fought the British tobacco
interests To staudstiil. the British
American Tobacco company was form.
ed. the r"St of the world was divided
IN between the American and Euro
pcan interests in the combine, and
Dukes tobacco empire was we'll nigt
universal.
But don't forget the cigar. Rcmem
her that the cigar is the ariStocrat oi
the tobacco realm. Duke went after
the cigar last of all. The United Cigar
Stores company now has more than
500 stores In the principal cities of this
country. controlled by the trust and
selling nothing but trust goods. This
concern is rapidly killing off small eli
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02

purely luxury. We could do without
tobacco. Many of us do. But many
of us don't and won't, Rockefeller and
Carnegie and Havemeyer monopolized
neceSsaries. Duke mOnOpOlizes lux
ury. This distinction should not be ig-
nored.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02
Soon Became the Boss.

When Buck" as his cronies called
him. was eighteen years old he was
taken into the firm, which had branch
ed out and built a small factory in
Durham. The youth preferred a sixth
interest in the business to a college
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02
Spent Millions In Advertising.

This made Major Ginter vince. The
Duke methods of advertising already
had hurt the majors firm. Duke pour
ed millions in advertising as Napoleon
poured blood. He says himself that
in his career he has spent at least SoO,-
100000 in advertising Only a small
portion of this went to the newspapers.
Much of it went to billboards. Much
more went in the shape of Autograph
pictures Of pretty girls which Duke
placed in his cigarette packages. One
of the Duke exploits was to give away
$4,000 chairs. costing 80 cents apiece
with cigarettes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-08-02
"WaterIoos Are Still Possible"

Late in the eighteenth century man
named BOnGDarte set out to conquer
Europe and rule it. He very nearly
Waterloo. Late in the nineteenth cen
fury man named Duke set out to con.
Quer the tobacco trade throughout the
world and rule it. He has more nearly
succeeded in this ambition than did
Bonaparte in his. But WaterloOs are
still possible.
Napoleon Bonaparte and Buck"
Duke employed the same general plan
of campaign. Napoleon first made him
self master of France. but that was
not enough to satisfy him. Italy and
Spain and other countries were doing
fairly well in their OWL way. NapO-
leon wanted to run them. He coerced
them, beat them down. bruised and
battered them, until they submitted to
his protection in order to preserve
their remnant of vitality.
Duke was the head of big tobacco
firm, but that was not enough for
Duke. Other big tobacco firms were
doing very well. The LOrillards, the
Drummonds. Liggett & Myers and
many others there were. Duke wanted
to run them himself. He went aftet
them beat and bruised them and bat
tered them down. and at last they
came into his tobacco empire to save
themselves from absolute extirpation:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
The Tariff Did 1t.
Baltimore Sun,


President Woodrow Wilson, Of Princeton
University, hits the nail on its head when
he calls attention to the absurdity OF the
present cutlery of some persons against
excessive wealth-the direct effect of the
Dingley tariff-seeing that they favor the
high tariff itself. The present high tariff
has no other object but to make certain
industries exceptionally profitable. By its
very nature protective tariff fosters mo-
nopolies and monopolies may be expected
to produce multimillionaires. The tariff is
an artificial and statutory means of accu-
mulating money in certain hands. When
it has been found to work badly and pro-
duce glaring inequalities Of wealth the OBJ
vious remedy, as Mr.. Wilson shows, is to
reform the tariff, not to keep up the cause
of evil and seek roundabout methods of
counteracting it. The way to reform is to
reform. The unwillingness of the President
and his party to face tariff reform must
ultimately compel the people to turn else
where for relief. 1t is not wise statesman
ship to resort to unconstitutional methods
of reducing existing tendencies to excess
sive accumulation of wealth in certain
hands when it is plainly only necessary to
lower the tariff rates to an equitable aver
age. If the friends of projection will not
do this, they are losing sight of patriotism
as we'll as justice.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
Cotton Ginned.

Washington, March 2O.-The final CEN
sus report on the cotton for the year issued
to-day shows that 13, 29O, 677 bales Of cot
ton, counting round bales as half bales,
including linters, have been ginned. The
number of active ginners this year is
%, 7O2.
The 1905 crop is compared with 10, 1885,
Sol for 1905, and 13, 697, $40 for 1904. The
average gross weight of the bale for 1905
is 51O.7 pounds, and the crop, expressed in
5OO-pound bales, is 13, SIC, 226. The items
entering the totals for the crop of 1906 are
13,O99,927 square bales, 266, 795 round
bales, 1888 sea island bales and 321, 100
linters. The quantity of cotton estimated
by ginners and delinters as remaining to
be ginned and included in the report of
1905 is 155, 7O4 bales.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
OUT IN THE STATE WITH THE EDITORS

Shreveport Times: When all the facts
are known, it will be found that the people
of Louisiana will want nothing more nor
less than a square deal-a square deal for
the railroads as we'll as square deal for
themselves.
New Orleans Picayune: One of the
oldest churches in Louisiana is st. Martins
Church, on Bayou Teche. 1t was refuge
for the exiled Acadians whom the English
drove from Canadian shores, and tradition
declares that Evangeline lies under an
oak in the old burying ground.
New Orleans Item: Louisiana is per-
haps best equipped of all the States of the
Union for the approaching era of water
transportation. This State has more miles
of navigable streams than has any other
State; has fewer miles of land beyond
easy hauling distance of the rivers and
bayous.
Monroe Star: We hope to see the time
speedily come when every legislature will
enact strict and severe laws against lobby
ing. Louisiana has a s'third house. -
whose baneful influences have often been
exerted in the interest of s'class legisla-
ton" as against the people. Such prac-
tees should be prohibited by the enactment
of rigid laws, which in no sense would be
a reflection on the members of the General
Assembly.
Crowley Signal: The South does not
want the pauper immigrant. This is the
haven for the poor and distressed of all
lands, but our available anchorage for this
class is already full. The immigrants we
want are those who want to build homes
and have nest egg to start with. We
have plenty of room for the industrious
home builder Of all lands-those who will
make good citizens, but do not need thai
class OF foreigners who constitute the float
ing population of most of the Northern
cities.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
D,sAPPovAL OF SALOON INFLUENCE.
Meridian Star.

Meridian Star
1t is no longer the prohibition cause, but
the anti saloon crusade that Is being propa-
gated. and the argument is developing
greater strength every day. 1t is getting
to be very live issue in Atlanta, and In
Vicksburg the town is stirred from center
to circumference over the agitation. A
saloon keeper in that city undertook to
DEFY the law and the courts, refusing to
obey an order of the Supreme Court OF the
State to close his place of business, upon
the ground that his license had not been
rescinded, and he had paid for the privilege
of conducting his business. This challenge
to the moral business sentiment OF the city
has been taken up, and may develop INTO
a prohibition election for that city. Not
one of the newspapers printed in Vicks-
burg has word to say in behalf OF the
obstreperous liquor dealer, and the Herald
openly threatens the alternative of prohl-
bition. if the laws regulating saloons are
not enforced, holding that the blind tiger
is preferable to the legaGzed den of vice.
/ These are current developments that can
not be ignored and their significance is
unmistakable. The advocates of temper
ance welcome them; but the Interpretation
placed upon the manifestation ought to be
discriminating. 1t is not SO much approval
of prohibition as disapproval of the saloon
influence, that animates the movement ;
and any action by extremists, predicted
upon the assumption that the sentiment
now so rapidly gaining ground can be used
for radical prohibition measures is sure to
create q reaction. 1t is not the time fol-
the radicals, but the more conservative
temperance advocates to take hold ano
direct the movement for diminution Of
the liquor evil. 1t is. one of the larges
questions in our political and social econo-
| my, and supremely needs sanity and mo-
emotion in the solving of it. In the mean
time. the saloon influence is growing
: beautifully less in the South, and this il
| much to be grateful for.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
Louisiana School Teachers Association

The Shreveport Journal says the places
for the different meetings by the teachers
at the convention to be held in that city
next week have been definitely decided
upon as follows:
April 4, Up. m.-Business session at
Majestic Theater.
April 4, s p. m.-General session at Ma
jestic Theater.
April 5, Friday 8 a. M:
(a)-Ungraded school section, in audi
forum of High School building.
b)-Kindergarten section, at 9O5 Texas
Avenue, in Miss Schuster's kindergarten
room.
(c)-Primary section, First Presbyterian
Church lecture room.
(d)-Grammer section, First Presby-
terian auditorium.
(e)-High School conference, in Grand
Opera House.
(D-Drawing section, in library of Cen
trail High School building.
(g)-Music, in Mrs. Williams room, No.
2, High School.
(h)-Principals, in Majestic Theater.
Friday, 2 p. m.-General session, in
Grand Opera House.
Friday p. m.-General session, Grand
Opera House.
Saturday, 8 a. m.-Business session, in
Majestic Theater.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28

The 1000 Osages in Oklahoma are
the richest community on the face of the
globe, and they are getting richer.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
FROM OVER OUR GREAT STATE.

High prices prevailed in the real estate
market in New Orleans last week,
Fire at Ahbeyille Friday destroyed the
Catholic Church, causing S35, 600 loss.
The corners stone of 100000 school
building was laid at Shreveport Friday.
1t is announced that a lighthouse tender,
to cost 100000, will probably be built in
New Orleans.
The Times says there are now between
fifteen and twenty wide open gambling
rooms being operated in Shreveport.
Articles of incorporation for the pro-
posed s2,5o0,O00 steamer and barge line
between ST. Louis and New Orleans was
filed in st. Louis yesterday.
Farewell services were held at the First
Baptist Church in Shreveport Sunday
night. The building, which was erected
thirty years ago. will be torn down to give
place to large commercial building.
DR.. j. H. White Of the Marine Hospital
Service has been appointed supervising
quarantine inspector for Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi and all the Central American fruit
ports, with headquarters in New Orleans.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
LATEST NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS.

Snow fell Sunday in New England and
at Albany, N. Y.
Eight men were killed by snow slide in
Vancouver, B. c.
Six men were killed by powder mill
explosion near Emporium, Pa.
Fire at Pine Bluff, Ark, Friday, caused
$500, 900 loss to lumber plant.
Capt Edward Aldrich was killed by a
train at Gulfport, Miss, Thursday.
Attorney General William Williams died
Friday at his home in jackson, Miss.
Two men were killed and three injured
by boiler explosion at Marlin, Texas.
Heavy rains, winds and snow caused a
complete tieup in the Northwest last week.
Six students were killed and seventeen
injured in a train wreck at Claremont, Cal.
One man was killed and seven injured
by the derailing of a passenger train at
Avon, Indiana, Friday.
Nine hundred veterans in the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth, Kansas, were pois-
oned by ptomaines in beef hash.
Ex-President Cleveland advises the
Democratic party to make the tariff the
paramount issue in the next campaign.
| An American mail bag, the contents OF
which are valued at 100000, has been
stolen in transit between New York and
/ Paris.
A special from Washington states that
presidents of the railroads west of the Mis-
sissippi and south of the Ohio Rivers hac
agreed to fight all two cent fare legislation
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
They Have Built Monument.
New Orleans Picayune.


For two days in the past week celebra-
tons have been held in honor of the found
ers of Tulane.
When the Roman poet Horace declared
in stately verse that he had reared to his
own glory monument more lasting than
bronze and more majestic than the Egyp
tan pyramids, he was referring to the
books he had written, and which have
come down through nearly twenty centu-
ries to delight the men of the present day.
But the great Roman song writer, with
all his vainglory and self-praise, had never
done anything one-half SO meritorious as
have the founders and builders of our
Tulane University. They have truly rear
ed, in this great educational institution, a
monument which perpetually refounding
and rebuilding itself in the hearts and
minds and lives of the sons and daughters
of the successive generations whom it
shall teach and train in its halls.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
WHAT THE PAPERS ARE SAYING.

Baltimore Sun: The true jester never
jumps on any heart but his own.
st. James Sentinel: The world doesn't
owe you iving-it was here first.
Baltimore Sun: 1.-THE people," thinks
Mr.. Roosevelt: 81 am the people,
st. Louis Republic: The man who waits
for soft job is likely to have hard job.
State Journal: We know some people
whose souls weigh considerably less than
a whole ounce.
Florida Times Union: Success comes
to the man who does things while the other
chap is thinking it over.
Nashville American: A tax on buncomb
would pay off the State debt, but it might
impoverish the politicians.
Baltimore Sun: Atlanta is to have a
June music festival, but it is not thought
that many will move away.
Chicago Tribune: The most heavenly
pictures seen on earth are men and women
doing common loving kindness.
Baltimore Sun: No other man except
Andrew jackson and Cleveland ever got
three nominations and two elections to the
Presidency.
St. Louis Republic: Every once in a
while you ought to do something good, sc
the preacher will not be overworked or
your funeral sermon.
/ Dallas News: The den means deviltry
| The dive spells crime. People who tolerate
the snares and deadfalls must expect theil
own boys and girls to be caught, their owl
friends to fall. They must expect to suffer
the inevitable penalties with the rest.
| De Kalb Tribune: To the man that il
trying to make the world better this is ;
good world. When man has his shoulde
down to the wheel, lifting with all hi
might, there is no time to stop to see wht
else is lifting. The thing now is to ge
the load started.
Sardis Reporter: Nothing can ever b.
accomplished by a divided people. Eithe
get together and work together, or quit
It does place no good, but great deal o
harm, to be always crying down the pro
posed improvements which those of a NOR
enterprising spirit have suggested. LIE
everybody in a community join hands 70
the upbuilding and betterment OF the place
and the result will be apparent in a shor
time. SIN union there is strength"
Frankfort American: Sometimes yo
see the wicked flourish and you conclud
that rightness does not pay. There coul
be no greater mistake. Ignoble success
after all, is only successful failure. Up
rightness and honesty do not of themselve
insure success. Much less do dishonest
and unrighteousness secure success. Dis
honesty and viciousness do pay. Wha
you learned at your mothers knee neve
will be barred by the statute of limitations
Clarke County Times: The foolish jun
at the promise of the moment, while tn
wise look to the end. The love and conf
dence of mans neighbors is the mos
precious thing upon earth; no temporar
gain can compensate for the loss. If 20
will study closely the higher truths, yo
will find that they are not mere sentimen
but are facts, real facts, that will rewar
us in pocket or material things as well a
spiritual, and all will lead to that gran
aim and happier end.
OUT In THE STATE WITH THE EDITORS
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28
Found at Last.

J. A. Harmon, OF Lizemore, w. Va, says CAT
last have found the perfect pill that never dsap-
points me; and for the benefit of others afflicted
with torpid liver and chronic constipation, will
say: Take DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Guaran-
teed satisfactory. Is cents at all drug stores.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1907-03-28

For MANUFACTURING TOwN.-You may
take the dullest and most prosaic town
and erect within its borders busy, thriv-
ing manufacturing institution, where large
numbers of workmen are employed, and
new life is at once impaired to the place.
The dull monotony of the past gives way
to the sound of the steam whistle and the
clangor of the shop. The streets no longer
look deserted. People move with an active
restlessness in strange contrast to the times
when no manufacturing was carried on
in their midst. The iveliest towns that
we have in this country are those wholly
devoted to manufacturing st. Louis
Echo.
.
The Dolores star., 1907-04-05
PULLING TOGETHER
HOME MERcHANrs SHOULD "a
vRo~szG EAcH ovHER-
KEEP DolLAR CONG ROUND
% Not Let it Esesps BY urnsess<as-
lily Sending it to the city-ost aR
Example to Others.

The community that win pull to-
Eether. that win work as one man
for the general interests, will and an
abundance Of prosperity.
And working together means the
spending Of the dollars of the COM
munity within the community. Nor
does 1t mean only that the farmer. the
mechanic. the doctor. the preacher.
the editor must spend their money At
home. but 1t means also that the
merchant must do the same thing. It
means that you. Mr.. Dry Goods Nor
chant, must patronize your neighbor.
Mr.. Furniture Dealer. when you want
furniture. 1t means that you. Mr..
Furniture Dealer. must patronixe your
neighbor, Mr.. Dry Goods Merchant,
when you want dry goods. 1t means
that the groceryman must patronize
the home implement dealer when he
wants . new wagon. and the imple-
ment dealer must buy his groceries
In tho home town. II means that
whether Mr.. Butcher. Mr.. Grocery
man, Mr.. Dry Goods Merchant. Mr.
Furniture Dealer, Mr.. Hardware Man.