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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

salt Lake is first. It really doesn't
matter about the second city in the
inter-mountain country
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

King James won the Metropolitan
handicap. Racing used to be the sport
Of kings.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Kermit has killed i giraffe. Pretty
tail shooting, Ell?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

A Denver woman died rather than
lose her ninety inches of auburn hair
Vanity of vanities: all is vanity.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

club tomorrow afternoon. the plans
having been changed to provide for a
dance following the dinner, instead Of
a tea preceding it.
Mrs. George Gambler is expected from
Canada some time shortly to visit Mr..
and Mrs. Russell g. Schulder for part
of the summer. Mrs. Gambler is Mrs.
Schuiders aunt.
Lieutenant Commander Henry A
Pearson left yesterday morning for Lehi
TO visit relatives.
X x
Mrs. Esther Freed Filler has returned
from a trip to California. and is at
home with her parents on First South
street
The men Of the University club will
give a masquerade tonight at the club.
TO which club members and a great
many friends have heen asked.
Mrs. c. s. Vadner entertained few
friends yesterday at luncheon at her
country home She will give similar
affair tomorrow.
Mrs. William McCaskell will entertain
at 2. luncheon at the Country club next
Wednesday for Mrs. Jasper a. McCas-
keil.
X =
NJ. B. SowIes is in Denver visiting his
daughter. Mrs. Harry r. Griffin, for
merlv Miss Sowies of this city.
Miss Maud Miller and Miss Zaida
Boutwell, are expected home today from
Stanford, where they have completed
year of college work.
Miss Mamie SappingtOn entertained
the girls Of the Sewing club yesterday
afternoon at her home.
y
The next meeting of the Regimentsl
Bridge club will be held on Tuesday
with Mrs. William A. Cavenaugh.
A number Of Salt Lake friends viii
go TO Ogden today 10 attend the bridge
party to be given at the Eccles home by
Mrs. George Davis and Mrs. d. c &c
cles, jr.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

A number Of Salt Lake friends will
go TO Ogden today TO attend the bridge
party to be given at the Eccles home by
Mrs. George Davis and Mrs. D. c &c
cles, If.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Miss Mamie Sappington entertained
the girls OF the Sewing club yesterday
afternoon at her home.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

The next meeting of the Regimentsl
Bridge club will be held on Tuesday
With Mrs. William A. Cavenaugh.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Lieutenant Commander Henry a
Pearson left yesterday morning for Lehi
70 visit relatives
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Mrs. Henry Key KIingender will en-
terrain tomorrow afternoon at q bridge
fra
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Tomorrow-"Uncle Sam, Publisher. .
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Yundt announce
the engagement of their daughter.
jeanette. to John F. Hartmann. The
wedding viii take place during the
present month.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Mrs. Frank Lawrence entertained the
members OF her club yesterday at a
luncheon at the Lawrence home on
North Main street. Carnations were
used for decorations, and covers were
laid for eight
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

There viii be no tea at the Country
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Mrs. Harry Lane, who has been
spending some time with Mr.. and Mrs.
George Parks. viii leave Monday for
the east to visit relatives all through
Pennsylvania, and TO spend some time
with her brother, Frank Foote, and his
wife in Camden. y. J.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Mrs. Esther Freed Filler has returned
from a trip to California. and is at
home with her parents on First South
street.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Miss Maud Miller and Miss Zaid
Boutwell, are expected home today fror
Stanford, where they have completed
year Of college work.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-14

Mrs. Hugh Anderson and Miss Mary
Louise Anderson are now spending some
time in Bangkok on their tour around
the world. They go thence TO Japan,
and sail later from the Orient TO the
western coast Of this country before re-
turning home
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

The question put direct to the farm
er whether or not the average prices
that he now receives for tobacco and
has received since the formation of
the tobacco trust are less than those
received in the years before the for
nation Of this brigand band Of the
tobacco fields will result in the uneQui-
vocal reply: I'VE have received far
less for our tobacco than in the days
before the trust and at times the av-
erage has been below the cost Of pro-
duction."
1t is upon this first hand knowledge
hat the opposition to the great tObac-
co trust is based, as we'll as upon the
fact that as it a grown it has crush
ed and driven from business the in
dependent manufacturers, and has,
wher it could, either cajoled or
bought or bullied the iobbers and re-
tailers OF the manufactured tobacco
in the determined purpos TO drive
from the field of competition, from
ent concerns. A huge monopoly has
been its aim, and to attain this, the
American Tobacco Company, the to-
bacco trust, has used every resource
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31
August 81. 1909.
TUESDAY.
MORNING -

phillips BrOOkS.)
When We scarce know what to do;
The little sharp ~vexatiOns,
And the briarS that catch and fret
Why not take all to the Helper
Who has never failed US yet?
Tell Him about the heartache,
And tell Him the longingS. too.
Tell Him the baffied purpose
When We scarce know what to do;
-: Then, leaving all our weakness
I With the One diVinely strong.
! Forget that we bore the burden,
And carry away the song.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

at its command and has thrived be-
cause Of its illegal practices and Of the
extortions it practices upon producer
and consumer.
There are those who come to the
defense of the trust and declare that
these things are not so, that trust con
troll Of the situation has not lowered
prices, and that the American Tobac-
co Company is a beneficent organiza-
ton that has helped the farmers and
has helped prices. These grow red
in the face and appoplectic in their
anger when there is made an attempt
to pass avs that have teeth in them
and that will really make the tobacco
trust behave itself, and not rob the
hard worked tobacco farmers until
their condition becomes that Of mere
yassals Of a heartless organization
whose nav is never satisfied, and
whose demand is that of the .leech,s
daughter for more, always more
These advocates of the trust and its
methods have no place in their minds
for the men driven from business, and
for the hard lives and scant comforts
of the tobacco farmer under trust OPP
erations. They are dazzled by the
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

The New Bern Sun say "the pro-
hib:Iion law is certainly enforced bet
ter than the antitrust law OF
course. The prohibition law was writ
ten by men terribly in earnest. The
antitrust law was framed by men who
wanted TO substantially comply with
the platform without troubling the
trusts. Moreover the State alone con
trolls the prohibition law. Trusts, too,
a hide ehind both Federal and State
laws.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

There is proof Of prices before and
during trust periods that are illurnt-
mating as to the desperate DRIVING
down of prices by the trusts. Is there
not@reason for the farmer to know
that the products Of his labor are
being taken from him by this huge
monopoly, which must be crushed if
the producer, consumer and indie
pendent manufacturer are to get their
just dues?
further on in the communication
to which reference is made it is stated
tt at the tobacco acreage for the
United States for 1908 was SO per cent
as conpard win 1907; acreage for
1909 is 126 and 6-1O per cent as COM
pared with the crop OF 1908, showing
an increase of 33 and $40 per cent
in acreage for 1893" With the data
before US it appears that the corre-
spondent is in error about this in.
CONTINUED on Page Five.)
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

One of the best farmers in Wake
county last week sold $50 pounds of
tobacco for $1S-less thar three cents
a pound. Last year he got nine cents
for tobacco of the same grade. The
farmer who gets less than ten cents a
pound for his tobacco cannot make
any money. The trust is a plain rob-
Der in the forum of conscience when it
takes a pound of tobacco for less
than ten cents"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

There is none so blind as he who
cannot see that the tobacco trust, the
American Tobacco Company, the great
behemoth in the eXtortiOns upOT
which it has grown fat, annually robs
h tobacco farmers Of millions OF
ollar by reason Of the lower price
paid for tobacco since the trust was
organized in 1890. The figures which
show this " been published and
the evidence is conclusive.
But it is not alone the tobacco pro-
Queer who is robbed unblushingly, but
the insatiate appetite of the trust de-
mands food from the wholesaler, the
jobber, The retailer and the consumer
Of it's products. From every interest
it touches it demands toll, and it even
goes to the edge Of the cradle to
seek to nave it's goods advertised
None are too young, none too old,
cape the exactions of the tobacco
trust If it can get money from them
or use them in any way in the exploit
ing of it's goods. It is money alone
that the tobacco trust seeks and it
cares not how mankind suffers if it
gets money.
In what the tobacco trust takes by
force from wholesaler, jobber, retail
example at hand in the case Of Duke
Mixture, a bright, granulated smoking
tobacco. made from North Carolina
scraps IN the trust factories at Dur
ham. 1t is a fact that the American
Tobacco Company is getting practi
it's tobacco than it did before the
SpaniSh-American war, and it is lift
ing this out of the pockets Of tn
people who consume the product, TO
it is not giving to the farmer NOR
money for his product. 1t is a trust
but it puts hands into both the peck
Of both Peter and Paul and rob
them "a-comin' ana a~-gwine."
Prior to the Spanish-American wa
there was a United States Government
of six cents a pound on tobacco
this Dukes Mixture tobacco being sold
to the trade at twenty-six cents a
pound, the consumer getting a full
weight two ounce package for five
When the war came on the
United States Government placed an
additional tax of six cents on the
pound, making a total tax of twelve
cents. When this additional six cents
was levied the American Tobacco
jumped its price seven cents
a pound, from tWenty-six to thirty
three cents, and in place of giving it's
customers a two ounce package it cut
the weight to / 2-3 unces which it
sold for the five cents which it had
for the two ounce package.
The thirty-three cents a pound
proved only a starter, for the price
has kept On being increased until it
is now Sc IL cents a pound to the
wholesaler, While the Spanish-Ameri
wal tax Of six cents additional
been taken off and the tax is back
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

This is one year they can't fool the
obacc farmer. He knows the trust
fixes the price of tobacco and that it
feels it can pay what 1T pleases with
out fear of being punished.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

Those papers that abuse The News
and Observer in order to i~ngratiate
themselves in the good graces Of the
tobacco trust, may not find it profit
able. The late Mr.. Duke bought the
Morning Post a press, but it didn't
pay the Post very we'll. Ditto, the
Tribune
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31
ALL FOR $1.7O

There has never been offered in
North Carolina so much good reading
for SO little money as we are Offering
under the following propositions: For
$1.7O we will send the following Tor
one year:
eight-page weekly, newspaper.
The COmmOner, an able weekly
tournaAs published by William Jcn-
niDgS Bryan.
The Farmer and Mechanic, sixteen
page North Carolina home II farm
weekly journal.
Thus for One Dollar and Seventy
Cents YOU can get all these papers
one year.
v. C. MOORE, Manager.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

Mr.. YOkum shows hat the cost of
supporting the army and navy i'm
poses a tax of SIT per year to every
average family Of five persons. We
should spend more money on water
ways and conservation and less on
powder.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31
HOW THE TOBACCO TRUST R0BS THE WHOLESALER, RETAILER
AND CONSUMER.

! from twelve cents to the original tax
of six cents. The American Tobacco
Company, however, has not gone back
to it's before-the-war pr1c~ Of twenty,
six cents, but it has kept the price
at thirty-six and a half cents to which
it had jumped this, thus charging
nearly eleven cents more a pound Ter
it's tobacco. In this increase in price
should share, but in place Of this
the price for his tobaccO is on the
down. grade. And the public, tho
consumer, is still being robbed. as It
still pay five cents a package for l p
ounce packages that before the war
price Of five cents. That is how tfo
trust is robbing both the wholesaler,
the jobber, the retailer and the con
sumner, having first robbed the farmer
who made the tobacco.
Condensing and dissecting these fig
ures we get the following facts:
h consumer before the Spanish
American war, with a six cents tax
on tobacco, got two ounce for five
cents.
The consumer, with tax conditions
unchanged, now gets 1 2-3 ounce for
five cents.
The retailer before the Spanish
American war had a profit Of eleve
cents per pound On his tobacco, Dough
at 26 cents a pound.
The retailer now gets a profit Of tie
cents a pound on his tobacco, tn
consumer losing a third of an ounc
out of every two ounces.
The wholesaler before the Spanish
American war got a profit Of tire
cents a pound on Tobacco.
The wholesaler now makes a prof
Of 2 Il cents a pound on obacco.
The government now gets the sam
six cents a pound as before the war
The o pays nine cent
a pound more for his tobacco.
The jobbers profit is one cent less
on the pound.
The retailers. profit is two cents a |
pOulO more on the TOBACCO he sells.
The farmer, robbed by the trust
since it's formation, still continues to
be robbed and gets low prices for his
tobacco, despite the fact that the,
Tobacco Company charges
more for it.
The consumer finds the hand of tn
tobacco trust in his pocket taking from
him as we'll as from the producer
and giving him short weight packages
The remedy? Well, it is in IN
hands Of the people who are being
held up and robbed, and who should
see to it hat antitrust laws with
teeth are passed and be satisfied with
no pink tea laws that appeal only to
the ear. Grinding down the farmer
eXtortion on the consumer
and crushing out the in~deperden
manufacturers is the sport Of the to
bacco trust. It is high time that an
public should arise in its
wrath and put an end to such illega
practices.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

WHY Tobacco is Low" takes up
many columns. The answer is plain
and simple: Because the trust is a
hog and the law is impotent. All
other alleged reasons are mere ex-
cuses for the greed of the trust
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

'WoOdnan spare that tree" In GU
climate 1t is better to have narrow
p~avenents and good hade. We hope
G~oldsboro will not sacrifice any Of its
trees, but plant a double row down
Centre street.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

AlIAlIN0
dollars spent by the Tobacco Trps-,s
president in making a palatial home
exceeding in the beauty of its sur
J coundings all other palaces of the
! world.
In an eastern North Carolina news
paper a correspondent discusses the
tobacco question and IN the course Of
his communication declares that to-
bacco sold at lower prices before the
trusts were formed than it has since
his words being:
Having been in the tobacco bust
ness for twenty years, a few years
before the of the trust,
ave seen tobacco lower before the
trusts were formed than / have since"
While there is no data at hand as
to the average prices paid in North
Carolina in the years before and since
the formation of the trust, a DanVile
Va, man has sent US the records of
the DanviIle Tobacco Association.
which are directly at variance with
the statement made in the
cation to which reference has been
made. While the record given from
DanvilIe is of five year intervals from
1869 to 1893, the tobacco trust having
been formed IN 1890, and each year
since that dime up to 1908, still the
range of figures is such as to show
the crushing and depressing effect Of
the trust for year after year. The
average prices on the anville tobac-
90 market q oro9t hriOht 1nnSa IaaF
tobacco market, which handles As
10000 to $1,000, 600 pounds OF to-
bacco annually, run on a par with the
tobacco market of North Carolina for
the same classes of tobacco, and the
figures of that market will show that
the tobacco trust has reduced prices
from SO to &C per cent, or reversing
the figures that tobacco before the for
nation Of the tobacco trust sold at
at from 100 ito 225 per cent
higher than it has during the years
of the trust, and hat since the trust
the only times in the years
reported when the figures got in the
of the prices of the
years before the trust were when the
Imperial Tobacco Company was on
the market in 1901 as a competitor
Of the trust. and in 1907, when Roose-
Welt was making his grand stand play
against trusts and the Legislature of
North Carolina had before it a bill
with teeth in it for trusts. II that
the trust got good for awhile. as
it feared the aroused wrath of an in
people and put up a temper
AIRY umbrella to protect it from the
storm of public Indignation.
The figures in detail, of prices be
fore and since the formation OF tho
carry their W lesson. These
from the Danville tobacco market
Ire as follows:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-17

the purch - rice of tho 200 eorea.
and the cl are that if he had it
to do over asain, he would refuge 20
sell even at that figure.
This incident shows the rapid IN
crease IN the value OF Iowa farm land.
1t is one of multitude Of instances
that prove that there is Zig money to
be made In investing III Iowa soil.
The farm that sold ct an advance
of $40 per acre will probably CON-
mand an additional increase OF $50 in
very few more years. The limit has
not been reached. lowe. land will con-
tinue to increase in value.
Iowa land will increase in value just
as rapidly as cheaper land elsewhere.
1t may increase more rapidly. We are
sure Of Iowa.
Land seekers with money to invest
would be wise to look about their own
state before going further. They know
what Iowa land Is. They may have
to pay more for 1t. but they are not
getting 'crags and moving sand
dunes" for their money.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-17
AVERY.

Avery-John G.. Evans returned
from his st. Louis trip last week.
large number of friends and the
e,ass OF w gathered at the home OF
WI ana MIS- Ollie Huston Friday att
ernoon In honor OF the principal Miss
Mahon, and q pleasant afternoon WAS
spent. Refreshments We're served. n
Is WIN regret that the people Of this
vicinity see Miss Mahon leave. after
three years work in the school.
MIS- van Matre attended the Baptist
! day. ''"' s'uie
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Delashmitt and
ohiidren of Ward, Ia, spent SUNDAY
WIN 1lram Davis and wife.
MISS Gay Pearson was a SUNDAY
visitor at Abba.
FRANK Mcmillan departed last week
with his brother James. v'''
Mrs. Van Matre was an Ottumwa
visitor Saturday. w /"
HeV. COX and wife of Buxton yisjted
Mitn friends here last week. Rev. Co.'S
| iHnng MS regular appointments
~, "a. iync5 A. ]. Haddon and r. n
| last week. oiie Wy
| r. H. IIynes is having new add,-
a porch. GU az
me {. b. & O. switch engine let the
- WIN tank Saturday on the Avery
| AZ AZ, requiring the wrecking crew from
D a,,.a to clear the track. Both en-
slle ana Tank had to be taken IN for
repairs ~ ior
C t,n, = day exercises will be held
at the church next SUNDAY eyenina
Ihose having charge OF the e,
are Mrs Susie DeTar Mrs Snsis
| walker and Miss Gaw Pearson. Tryarv..
body cordially invited, i' i'Sefy-
me Avery M e. church presents a
! neal appearance, with it's two coats
eide s'ii I've paint paint outside and yarnish in
sue, tne fresco work being as neat al
When It was put on two years AGO Ths
s ola coal house and fence VIII also ia
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-17
LlBERTYviLLE.

Libertyville-June and Mrs. Maggie
Alberts and little daughter of Cedar
Rapids are visiting at the Tom Lewis
home and with other relatives.
Mrs. VIM. Ross Of Chicago is spend
ing the week at the c. Vaught home.
Mrs. James Peebler and two child
rem are spending the week with the
formers parents near Eldon.
Mrs. Mary Wilson is reported bet
ter
A large crowd attended the Child
rens day program at the M. e. church
Sunday evening.
S. C. Ross spent Sunday in Wash
ington with relatives.
Misses Mayme and Ruth Davis spent
Saturday evening In Fairfield.
Mrs. Ray Loehr and little daughter
spent Tuesday with her sister Mrs. c.
Vaught.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Morley and
children spent Friday in Ottumwa
Mr.. and Mrs. Foster We're visiting in
Ottumwa last week
j. Acton of Eldon visited with rela-
tives Friday.
A large crowd of Libertyville people
attended the Memorial exercises of the
different lodges in Fairfield last Sun
day.