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The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-07-02
FRIDAY, JULY 2. 1909.
Is War On Trusts To End7

Those who imagine that the
Trust can be destroyed by legal
arguments will have an ample
opportunity to test the truth of
that theory when the great law
suit for the dissolution of the
Standard Oil Trust comes off at
ST. Louis, as the preparations
made by the prosecutors for the
demolition of the Trust, in the
form OF legal documents and
charges, are OF magnitude
never before known.
Mr.. Kellogg, the chief prose-
cutor, is, we are told, provided
with a brief " more voluminous
by several volumes then the En-
cyclopedia Britannica" He is
prepared to show by documents
containing over seven million
words, and diagrams innumer-
able, that on an original capital
OF sixty-nine million dollars the
Trust has earned more then one
billion dollars in twenty-three
years; that its profits were and
are extortionate; that in 1904
the Waters-Pierce Co., one of
the Standards subsidiary cor
porations, made six hundred per
cent; and that the Standard Oil
Co. of Indiana declared in 1907
a dividend of one thousand and
fifty-one ercent.; that the cor
poration controls from eighty
five to ninety-seyen per cent. of
the total oil industry; that it
ruins competitors by unfair
means, employs spies, fixes prices
and constantly increases in
stead of reducing them. All this
and much more of the same kind
Mr.. Kellogg proposes to estab-
lish in his attempt to show why
the Trust should be dissolved by
fiat of law.
On the other hand, the defense
has almost as great a mass OIL
evidence in rebuttal and is pre-
pared in addition to demon.
strate that the destruction oi
the Trust would demoralize The
industry of the nation, ruin
thousands of corporations and
plunge the entire industrial fab
ric of the country into chaos anC
anarchy. Says Mr.. Millburn
the leader of the defense: "Ir
the general economy of society
it was ordained that some mer
should succeed and others fail
Some men failed in the oil rein
ing business. They came to III
to sell; we bought
1t seems to be the general opin
ion of the press that this at
tack is the forlorn hope of tn,
trust busters-that if it fails, al
further attacks will be aban
doned, the useless Sherman anti
trust law be repealed, 1.-THE small
business men accept the situa
tion without further struggle
and the nation hereafter conduc
its legislation in accordance'witI
the theory that the Trust is a.
inevitable result of economic dc
velopment. Many have insiste
on the uselessness of seekin,
the obstruction of the Trust, an
have no hesitation in saying tina
The Owyhee nugget. ([Silver City], Idaho) 1905-1984, 1909-07-02

whatever the decision may be in
this case, it will neither check the
process of classification, nor con-
vince the small capitalist that
he should resign himself to his
fate without further resistance.
II the latter we're ready to
throw up the sponge, if the deci-
sion goes against him IL this
case, he would be ready for Ma
tionaI Ownership of the Trnst,
but he is as yet far from seeing
that necessity. He doesn't know
when he is beaten, not because
of his courage, but rather be-
cause of his ignorance; be has no
conception of the invulnerableI
nature of the thing he attacks.
Roosevelt, Taft and others, and
even his Republican platform,
may tell him as they have, that
the Trust is natural evolution
of our Industrial system, but
this has no meaning for him
while the idea that court deci-
sions are more powerful than
economic laws remains in his
4
mind. While he imagines that
the existence of the Trust de-
ponds upon legal arguments"
and judicial decision based on
them, so long will he strive to
find an argument that will van
quish the hated oppressor. Such
exposures as the recent letters
of Mr.. Archbold, which prove
that the Trust has secured the
judges it needs, long before the
small capitalist thought about
the matter, mean nothing to
him.
The Trust is not fighting for
its life. All the attacks made
upon it, including the present
one, are little more then petty
annoyances, envolving no greater
injury then legal expenses, while
the experiencegained teaches the
Trust valuable lessons in evad-
ing these obstacles.
The forced dissolution Of the
Trust by process of law, assum-
ing it to be possible, would liter
ally strike a death-blow at the
very essence and foundation of
capitalistic property, which de-
ponds for it's continuance upon
free exchange free buying and
selling. If the men who fail in
the oil business, or for that mat
ter any other business, are not per-
mitted to sell their assets to those
able and willing to huy-which is
the s.crushing out of competition
process OF which the Trust assail-
ants complain-the entire basis Of
private property is undermined and
its rights" abolished. If the Su
preme Court is guided by the Con
, stitution of which it is the final in
terpreter, it cannot logically find
against the Trust, inasmuch as the
Constitution itself is especially the
protector of private property. In
} short, while our present industrial
system remains, the Trust is both
legally and economically invulner
able.
Of course the small capitalist be
ing practical man has no USE
for theories of this or any othel
Z kind. He wants facts. Heis "from
] Missouri" and has to be Shown
+. and this Missouri suit will perhaps
: assist in convincing him to som'
5 extent. However be will not anC
cannot accept the complete demon
: stration until the Trust has stripped
: him of every vestage of property
e just as the workingmen as a elias
! cannot be reused to action unit
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
IF YOU WERE THE BOSS.

IF
things
You wouldn't tie them
shafe and
yourself and know how
But wouldn't things
for themselves to keep something along this line?
only time; money business and
be canght any
day
III Give the business than the
o pay
any else;
of
Y Dishonesty accident
m have
0
boss might just
from
VIII It's ones business but what
only do half days will
tell o he
hear
vanity.
x If the boss kicks sometimes
n good
he'd
The fellow who these
i
And it's safe bet that day he will be the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
Articles of Incorporation.

Articles of Incorporation have been
filed in the office of the secretary of
state for the following:
The John D. Kuntz Company, War
saw; capital stock $500; plumbers; in
corporators, S. c. Long, Hattie J. Kutz,
j. D. Kutz and Bruce Sherbondy.
The Bankers Credit company, Indi-
annapolis; capital stock, 10000; bond
dealers; incorporators, B. F. Darneille,
J. n Anderson and J. ". Potter
The Commercial club of Indiana Har-
Dor and East Chicago; no capital stock;
to promote the commercial welfare
of East Chicago; directors, A 6. Lund-
quist. c. l. Kirk, H. c. Rutledge, ]. o.
Parks, w. c. Dickey f. J. Block. a.
G. Slocumb. N. r. Ichock. W. L Spen-
Ger. J. r. Farovid. G. W. Lewis, c. A.
Westberg and J. W. Lees.
The Hunter Springs Oil and Gas
Company Terre Haute; capital stock
SIS. 600; developers: directors, Edward
A. Kiefner. Simon Hirschler, John Mar
NOR. Fred w. Beal. ". P. Hunter, c.
L. Kierner, ". r. White, James Dins-
more l. J. Rice, II. ]. Fleischauer and
J.. s. LeVor
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
TIME FOR THIS HAS PASSED.

The editor 0
The
publisher a
responsibility
assaed
skinned by his methods
editors the the with established
the sk who
behind the
o the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
COMMUNICATIONS.
HAMMOND NEEDS A NEW HOTEL.


with the growth and that the city making
The hotels doing n
badly
coming this
able has
Hammond hotel
road splendid
advertisement the
a city hosiery
accommodate hundreds realizes
patterned
the Oliver South beautiful
little Mshwaka
city The time
for people
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
flames spread so rapidly that he was
unable to csc ape.
WATERMELON is EXPENSIVE.

flames spread so rapidly that he was
unable to csc ape.
WATERMELON Is EXPENSIVE.
Eight Bloomington youths. whose
ages range from II to 16. visited a wa
termelon patch belonging to James H.
Brown, a farmer, east of the city. Be
fore Justice Little Saturday they were
each found guilty and the fine and
costs for each one of them amounted
to $1,000.
TO BUILD NEW RAILROAD.
That the long -talked-of. 1ong-wanted
railroad connecting Delphi with the
eastern part of Carroll county and
thence to Kokomo is to be constructed
and that the proposition is being met
in a most enthusiastic manner is evil
denced in the fact that Delphi. Flora,
Burlington and Kokomo people have
united in the project and indications
point to the actual construction work
being commenced within a few weeks.
CRAWFORDSVILLE MAN HONORED.
A native Hoosier in the person of
Henry Lane Wilson, United States
minister to Belgium, is likely to be
the successor of David z. Thompson,
ambassador to Mexico. During Presi-
dent Harrison's administration Mr.. VIII
son was offered the post of minister to
Venezuela. which he declined. He
served as minister to Chilli from 1897
to 1905 and has been in Belgium since
then. He was born at Charlottesville
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
THIS DATE IN HISTORY.

1So1-French evacuated Egypt in favor
of the British.
1S12-George Mathews. third governor
of Georgia, died in Augusta. Born
in Virginian In 1893
1S13-Fort Mimms. on the Alabama
river. surprised and captured by a
large body of Indians under Tecum-
sch.
1S14-Alexandria. Virginia, capftulated
to the British
1S62-The Federals were defeated in
battle at Manassas, va.
1S20-Robert McClelland. governor OF
Michigan and secretary of the in
terror, died in Detroit. Born in
Greencastle. Pa. Aug. .. 1907.
1s94-Samuel J. Kirkwood. war gov
ernor of Iowa, died In Iowa City.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
THIS Is MY 4STH BIRTHDAY.
CHARLES Har,I4n

Charles Sumner Hamlin. lawyer and
diplomat. was born in Boston, August
so. 1861. and was graduated from Har-
ward universit yin 1888. later he stud
led law and after his admission to the
bar began the practice of law in Bos-
ton. Mr.. Hamlin was assistant secre-
tary Of the United States treasury from
1898 to 1897 In the latter year he was
sent to Japan by the United States gov
eminent to negotiate a trade treaty.
and IN the same year he was the United
States delegate to the convention be-
tween Russia, Japan and the United
States to consider the fisheries Of the
North Pacific ocean. For several years
Mr.. Hamlin has been a lecturer on gov
eminent at Harvard university
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
And valpo Is Dry, Too.

The mysterious lights seen in the
skies toward the southwest during the
past ten days and variously ascribed
attached, and other sundry semi-mys-
terious contrivances are nothing else
than our old friend Mars, the planet
whose vegetation is held by astrono-
mers to be red instead of green, as that
Of mother earth.-valpo Messenger.
This is. one result of these late lodge
nights. Zim.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
No Harm in Air Castles.

Building air castles is a solace to
the overworked and overburdened. 1t
may be a blessing or a curse If you
can do days work cheerfully and
control your castle-building there is
no harm
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
Heart toHeart
Talks.
AT YOUR BEST.
By EDWIN AWE.

AT YOUR BEST.
The divinest spectacle in all the
world is a man at his best.
A man is at his best when his sym
pathies are stirred into action by some
appeal of stricken brother-some APP
peal that opens his heart, his hand and
his purse.
In the same way our humanity is at
its best when some great calamity
makes instant and universal appeal.
At such times men are moved in mass
to the high plane of united ministry.
Such cataclysms as the Chicago fire,
the Galveston food. the San Francisco
earthquake, develop in the whole peo-
pie all that is highest in feeling and
noblest in action. There is no stint in
any community of sympathy or help
fulness.
But
Did you ever think that every day
in somebody's soul is q cataclysm as
great to him as fire or food or earth
quake is to the multitude?
Every day some mans substance is
swept away by the fire or by the food
Of competition, some woman's soul is
rent by the earthquake of sorrow or
bereavement, some child's life is inun-
dated by great deprivation.
Every day some human is tried by
fire. shaken by earthquake or sunken
in a great food.
All, if you but knew 1t you would
sympathize and assist
1t may be your next door neighbor
But the calamity does not perhaps
appear. He fears the shame of humil-
iation or he doubts the genuineness of
your sympathy and he is reticent.
Like certain kind of animal he in
stinctively hides his wound.
He has missed his opportunity to be
helped. You have misSed your oppor-
tunity to be at your best
The day Of real brotherhood will
come when the need Of the one has
as much publicity as the need of the
many, the barrier Of pride is put down;
when the concern of one becomes the
concern of all; when individual suffer
ing makes its appeal as does a great
cyclone or food or fire.
1t is glorious when all men respond to
a great call; it is no less glorious when
one man responds to a lesser appeal
Do not wait for cyclone or food.
Men and women and little children
Are bearing burdens you should light
en-. The sick, the discouraged. the
wounded, like the poor. we have al
ways with US.
Help them.
Help not only because you can re-
lieve and bless, but because by so do
ing you can make the most Of your
self, because you can develop in your
life that which we admire when a
great people responds to a great need.
If you would be at your best, help!
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

We Shall Have to Try This.
Little Joe. who had a pin,
Made the baby yell like sin;
Mother said. Here, stop that, Joe!
Why do you hurt baby so?"
Little Joe just yelled in glee,
Ma. my reasons this said he.
IF he bowls with all his might
He'll have none left for tonight"
Denver Post.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

In the far east a girl never sees
her intended husband until she
is married. Here she seldom
sees him after she is married.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
EAST CHICAGO WITH THE BELLS ON.

there is place in Lake Indiana where republican,
IN
will
Chicago
republican
Well you know hat EastC last year
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

1T IS HARD how Lake County
death blow Auto manufacturers whatever
permit
10
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

Don't Crouch If your wife wants
to go away for a couple of weeks.
bedcIothes yourself. You'll APP
preciate wife then.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

Police have arrested a deaf and
dumb burglar trying to break
into q burglars office. Poor
devil. He's not only d. 6 d.
but he's bughOuse as well.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
THE CREAM OF THE
Morning News
WASHINGTON.

President decides to accept resigna-
ton of Assistant Secretary of Com
merce McHarg. who criticised policies.
Taft conferees named with view Of
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

Z. S. took one-quarter of the Chinese
loan. How much did you take? We
owe our Chinese laundryman eight bits
so couldn't take any
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

The Malaprops are not all dead yet.
Crown Point has an estimable old lady
who pIped out cheerfully the other day
that she hoped she would live to be an
octogenarium.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

soon time for the red flannel
chest protector and the cough
drop.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
r n DOM
THINGS AND FILINGS

Welcome to our fair city, Mr.. Far
man, but you have yet to beat the
Knots gas bag record. Aviator Knots
went up in the air three weeks ago and
hasn't come down yet.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
II HRUzZS CHXLTZ

Ill, and was editor of the Lafayette
Journal before practicing law in Spo-
kane, Wash.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

The Beau Brummel vest is the latest.
Made Of cream serge, braided in black.
pockets slashed In scallops and peaks.
Front has double row of buttons, TWEEN
ty-four in all.
Very neat. We shall wait until we
see how Senators Bell and Gostlin look
fore we buy.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

1t is getting to be an awfully long
time between Paines in Gary.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
roy BURNED IN BARN.

Roy stephen Green. of Geneva, was
burned to death near St. Paul last
evening He, with three brothers, has
been baling hay on the John Kimmell
farm a storm coming up the three
boys took refuge in the barn, Roy 60
ing into the haymow. While there
lightning struck the barn and the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

Leafy Groye boxers have lively ten
round go without interference.
Skillful crooks crack three safes,
getting over $1,000; one job near coun-
" jail.
Bishop Fallows declares his belief in
communications from the dead.
Bohemian turner's close great meet
with parade two miles long.
Physicians assert that pellagra is
germ disease.
Health Commissioner Evans will go
on stand in charges against DR.. ]. F.
Biehn
Two Chicagoans and Evanston man
among experts selected to help Census
Director Durand
Country club finds difficulty in get
ting witness against LOFTS.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
AVIATION.

Glenn H. Curtiss wins two prizes
Rheims. giving America lions share O.
honors OF aviation week.
Amateur aeronauts have thrilling ex
perience trying to make trip in balloon
Chicago"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

Professor George Dorsey tells of
strange sights in bazaar in Indian town
when hill men come in to trade
Four hundred bodies recovered at
Monterey. but rain ceases and no
further fatalities are expected.
Mutiny in Athens subsidies; reported
crown prince may relinquish leader
ship Of army.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
DOMESTIC.

Twelve year old girl almost swims
Narrows at New York.
Five persons killed when train hits
auto near St. Louis.
Pastor declares L. H. Hartman is
improving in health; wife and sister
both pleased with condition.
New York develops strange class Of
medical advisers, who are really health
smiths to rich.
St. Louis priest-editor urges that
families be given vote for each child
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

A farmer was telling recently about
the eavesdrOpping that goes ON along
the farmers telephone line he is on.
He said that whenever he talked he
could hear the "cIiclx cIick- of differ
emit receivers coming down.
"And you can bet he amended, "that
they never hear my receiver coming
down. No. sir; 1 always hold on to the
thing and let 1T down easy that it
doesn't click"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30
kTLLED WHILE PLOwING.

While blowing on the John Saeger
farm seven miles south of Logansport.
Michael Spitznogle. farmer SO years
old was killed by lightning. The same
bolt killed his three horses and then
struck a telephone post a halfmile
away
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

We don't believe Ambassa dor Reid
should be left out altogether Give him
a deputyship in the Aguas Calientes
consulate
Just as soon as a man thinks he's on
Easy street in this world, he rolls over
on his back and wakes up.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

Labor leaders will ask government
to investigate conditions at McKe es
Rocks, basing plea on tariff
Street car wage dispute expected to
come to a showdown at conference
this morning.
NEW YORK.
Governor Hughes removes president
Of the borough Of the Bronx.
Little Tim" sullivan spends vaca-
ton at Newport but lodges sufragist
meeting. fearing effect on Bowery.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-30

reorganizing departments dealing witt
corporations begin sessions today.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-30

While the members Of the 10th
United States Cavalry were filing into
City Hall Park preparatory to their
review by the Mayor a member OF
the national guard, who witnessed
the scene from window in the New
York Tribune Building, said: You
can see only the backs of the troop
ers from here, but any one who had
ever seen much of the negro soldiers
would recognize them as such at once.
In every evolution that they make
they are like their white comrades,
but white men cannot mark time to
good music like the negro. They do
1t with more grace and give it
vim peculiarly their own. 1t is al
ways an exhibition of their apprecia-
ton OF music and their ability 20
move In harmony with it,"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-30
BASEBALL.

BY defeating Reading the Lancas-
ter team won the pennant in the Tri-
State League.
There is no possible chance OF the
Giants and the Highlanders meeting
in a post-season series this fall.
The championship of the Carolina
League has been won by the Green's
boro team, with Anderson second.
Montreal fans are not sore at Jim
my Casey because he has not landed
the Royals in the first division this
year.
Two of the fastest runners ever in
baseball, two whoran like real sprint
ers, have been Brownes-Tom and
George.
The National Commission in a de-
cislon handed down awarded catcher
Martel to the Philadelphia National
League Club.
With all due respect to Archer's
good throwing he hasn't yet con-
WINGED fans that he is Johnny Kings
equal as backstop. Not by several
amperes.
Red" Farrell. an outflelder who
was bought by the New York High
landers from the Marion team Of the
OHiO o'oeS League, coHIlnueS 10 play
great ball in that organization.
The New York Highlanders will
have crackajack set of pitchers next
season, but fans right now are fearful
that the proper men to backstop for
them are not now on the reserve list.
Claude Rossman, the former first
baseman of the Detroit champions,
announced he would not play another
game with the St. Louis Americans.
who recently secured him in n trade
for Tom Jones.
The attempted enforcement of the
National Baseball Commissions rule
that players drafted from amateur or
semi-professional clubs must be paid
for has resulted in the release OF pitch
er Bob Howard, of the Los Angeles
Club.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-30
TAKING WHAT uE Can CIT

why IS e. that you don't mani
fest more concern about being are
rested for fast motoring"
Well" answered Mr ChugrinF.
Ito tell you the truth I'm SO delighted
when the machine goes so an. that
am willing 20 pay for tho extra
speed Washington Star.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-30
A FAIR MAN

Then you don't insist on having
your moneys worth OF everything you
buy?"
No; only a reasonable percentage
OF my moneys worth I'm willing 90
let the other man make fair proft. o."
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-30
THE BALD TRrTH

Polite Hairdresser-"Try a bottle
of this preparation. sir. Splendid
thing for badness"
Customer (sarcastically)- so it
may be, but I've got all the badness
1 want, thank Pearson's
Weekly
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1909-11-30
THERE WAS HAIR-PULLING.

Mrs Scrapp-"John. are you go
ing to Mr.. Browns wife's funeral?"
Mr.. Scrapp-"I guess not. It
makes one feel awkward. you know.
to go to anything and not be able to
return the invitation boston
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