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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

With the prospect that the big
telephone company will control
practically all wire communication
in this country, the government will
have to maintain strict supervision
and control over this business. or
there will be an Irresistible demand
to have Uncle Sam own the whole
outfit.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

After reading about the sugar
frauds it takes some little resolution
to believe there is any honesty any
where. But it still remains true that
the man who misrepresents usually
finds that his failure to deliver the
goods Is we'll understood.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24
STANDARD OIL co. DISSOLVED.
United States Circuit Court Holds
1t an Illegal Corporation and
Orders 1t Dissolved Within
Thirty Days.

Thirty Days.
In an opinion written by Circuit
Judge Sanborn of st. Paul, filed in
st. Louis and st. Paul Saturday, the
United States circuit court for the
district of Missouri held the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey an illegal
corporation and ordered that it be
dissolved.
The case was heard in the United
States circuit court at St. Louis in
April, 1909, by Circuit Judges San
born of st. Paul, Van Devanter of
Cheyenne, Hook of Leavenworth and
Adams of st. Louis.
Sanborn, presiding, wrote the
opinion and the decree in which all
the judges concur and sent them with
the concurring opinion of Hook to
Adams at st. Louis, who filed them
and entered the decree in that city
Saturday morning.
Suit was brought to enjoin John
d. Rockefeller VIM. Rockefeller,
Henry M. Flagler, Henry Fl. Rogers,
John d. Archbold, Oliver H. Payne,
Charles M. Pratt and the Standard
Oil company of New Jersey and about
seventy other corporations from
maintaining combination and a
conspiracy in restraint of trade to
monopolize interstate and interna-
tional commerce, and the decree
grants the injunction sought by the
government.
The case is one of the most notable
in the history of the nation on ac-
count of the important industrial and
legal questions and financial inter-
ests it involves.
The various steps taken to organ
ize the Standard Oil combination are
reviewed. Beginning with the con-
troll of nineteen competing oil COM
panies, the Standard Oil gradually
has absorbed others until that cor
poration had absolute control of the
production and selling of oil, limiting
the production and debating prices.
The decree enjoins the individual
defendants, the Standard Oil COM
pany and subsidiary corporations,
from continuing or carrying into ef-
feet ae illegal combination they have
formed and from entering into any
like combination of conspiracy, the
effect of which will be to restrain
interstate commerce in petroleum or
it's products or to prolong the unlaw-
full monopoly of such commerce OBJ
tanned by the defendants as stated
in the decree and they are forbidden
from engaging or continuing in in-
terstate commerce until they discon-
tinue their illegal combination.
Thirty-three of the seventy odd
subsidiary corporations of the Stand
ard Oil Co. are excepted from the
order of dissolution and the bill is
dismissed as against them. The de-
cree of dissolution takes effect in
thirty days unless suspended by ap-
peal to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

The pathos of the Cherry mine
disaster is that as soon as laborers
become skilled workmen they tend to
quit the dangerous trade of mining.
This leaves the work largely to ig-
norant laborers whose carelessness
brings on many disasters.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

With the American climate rang
ing from eight-foot drifts at Fargo
to lawn tennis weather at Boston on
the same day. the weather mans
predictions ought to make good
somewhere.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

John Mitchell, under sentence for
contempt of court, speaks strongly
for the boycott. The trouble is that
the boycott is too powerful a weapon.
Business men thereby can be ruined
for a trifling cause.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Uncle Joe Cannon says his un-
popularity with the newspapers is
due to the print paper duty. Did it
ever occur to him that there are
9O.OO0.00O newspaper readers, and
that all of them hate to see the pub
fishers of favorite journals need
lessly hampered?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

A Delmonico waiter has taken a
million in tips. There are fortunes
lying around loose in cultivating the
Americans love for singing dollars
around.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

1t is said that either Ballinger or
Pinchot must leave the interior de-
partment. This accords with the
prospectus that clubs were not to be
wholly trumps during this admins
tration.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

The Lawrence (Mass.) American
says it's a bad year for the bosses.
They exist because people think their
grating is cheaper than the time
politics takes. But the trouble is
there's no limit on the game the
bosses play.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

The sinking, two minutes after a
collision, of French steamer near
Singapore, suggests that wireless is
not much good unless vessel has
water tight compartments.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

When Mr.. Taft remarked in his
Thanksgiving proclamation that 1--WE
had lived in quietness" he must have
forgotten Cook, Peary and Harry X.
Thaw.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Eusapia iPalladino, the Italian
medium, made table dance in New
York. If only her spirits would do
more serviceable things, like moving
the lawn or feeding the furnace. they
would be worth cultivating
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

With one more death reported
from football, judicious fathers will
see that the boy is kept we'll ac-
quainted with the wood pile in the
fall, but has all the tine he wants
for base ball practice in spring.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

The mine horror at Cherry. ILL.,,
is one in long list of frightful ira
gedies. Are mines required as strict
ly as factories to put in safely ap-
pliances?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Iowa is the only state in the
world" says the Ida Grove Pioneer.
where enough is permitted to rot
upon the ground every year to feed
a million people"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Hips are to be in fashion once
more tits said For the time being
the effort to make people believe
the feminine anatomy is the shape of
cylinder is given up.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Why not buy the Christmas pres
ent today? Or do you prefer the
flying wedges and mass plays of
foot ball as seen holiday week in the
stores?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Some of Taft's friends fear a
Roosevelt boom for 1912. 1t all
depends whether any job can be
found for Teddy lively enough to
interest him.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Henry Watterson denounces the
yellow press and invasion of domes-
tic privacy. He evidently holds that
man can be both reporeer and a
gentleman.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

1T is easy enough to be pleasant
when life flows by like a song, but
the man worth while is the man who
will smile when everything goes
wrong"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Everyone admits that DR.. Cook
should have place in the Hall of
Fame, but some say it should be as
a writer of high grade fiction.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

If the sugar trust were an up-to-
date advertiser, it would ere this
have picked out some athletic bacil-
lus and handed out million to put
him to sleep.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

The piano workers urge the Fed
Grafton of Labor to become a factor
in politics. Many candidates, on TAX
ing a cash inventory after election,
regard this advice as needless.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Another challenge for the Amer
ica's cup. Tom will not get this
cup, but the advertising will help
him to sell many cups of his Upton
teas.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Roosevelt, it is said, can have De-
pew's place in the senate if he wants
it. That's the place for him. We
want to see If his breezy personality
will stir the Millionaires' Clubs
musty traditions.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Mrs. Eddy has effected financial
settlement with her sons. Theo-
retically money must be an illusion
with her, and she should be able to
create a belief" in money out of
hot air. Actually. she put over the
cash.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Mary G.. Baker Eddy again mani
tests the mysterious force of her
personality by reducing to subsection
Mrs. Stetson of New York.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

1t seems appropriate to Thanks
giving dinner that President Taft
should say appropriations should
be carved to the bone'
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Judge Gaynor is being hailed as
the next president. He takes his
chance along with 1,000,000 boys
who are each told they stand show
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

If these fraud charges against the
sugar trust are SO, the public will
be anxious to pay the board bills
of some of its bosses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Peary is criticised for drawing his
naval officers pay all this time. But
at space rates he has secured mil
lions of advertising for Uncle Sam.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

William j. Bryan Is going abroad
again, 1t is reported. Don't miss
your usual date with us for 1912.
William.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24
Current Comment

Now the prudent man beginneth
to hoard up storage room against
the coming feast!
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Anxiety is expressed that the new
coins don't fit the slot machines. If
they don't the savings banks will be
the gamers.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Tackling in football may be
abolished. it is said. Will they rob
the public of the delicious spect-
acle Of broken arms and legs?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24

Say. do you want an automo-
bile?
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1909-11-24
Entered Post ONCE in Decorah, Iowa
as Z \ Glass Mail Matter.
SubscriptA price $3.50 a Year
Canadian Sui ,tions $500 Year

Omce..3l7 West Water Street
Telephone No. IS
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-26
A DEsPICABLE ATTEMPT.

An attempt to ruin the reputation
Of the late Senator John T. Morgan.
so despicable as to be almost unbeliev-
able has been revealed through the
opening of papers in the Department
OF Justice left there under the mark
CONFIDENTIAL" by the late Attorney
General Charles ]. Bonaparte. Senator
Morgan had aggressively opposed the
Roosevelt administration. particularly
on its Panama Canal policy and the
confidential papers show that officers
OF the government. acting beyond
doubt under the direction President
Roosevelt attempted to crush him by
connecting him with the western land
frauds as Senator Mitchell was ruined
by them.
| But search ss they might and with
all the power of the Roosevelt Adj
ministration behind the contemplate
effort they never found a scintilla OF
evidence of any act. which IL made
public would tarnish the name of the
veteran Alabama Senator. If they had
succeeded in finding such evidence, If
they had been able to twist and uis-
tort any correspondence of Senator
Morgan into the appearance of guilt.
the fact would have long since been
blazoned forth to the world. But the
Senator's incorruptible honesty defeat
ed the despicable attempt to ruin him.
These damning facts Of the acts OF
the Roosevelt administration were re-
vealed by the investigation of SEN
ate committee of evidence bearing on
as United States District Attorney at
San Francisco. Devlin had indicted
and prosecuted DR.. Z. L. Perrin, a
former Albanian. for land frauds. The
reports sent to the Department of JUS
tice and which were there pIgeonholed
and marked confidential showed that
DIR. Perrin had been convicted by per-
jured testimony. The reports were
made by agents Of the Department. of
Justice and there was no question as
to their accuracy.
The Senate Committee had decided
to decline to confirm Mr.. Devltn on the
ground that he had continued the pros
ecution after knowing the nature of
the perJured testimony Mr.. Devlin's
reply to that was that he had direct
orders not only from the Department
of Justice but from the President him.
self to prosecute and convict DR.. Perrin
regardless of the perjury in the case.
william ]. Burns. the government de-
tective. brought the word direct from
the President to Mr.. DevLn, ordering
him to continue the prosecution re-
gardless OF the perjured testimony.
Back of it all. 1t now develops. was
a plan to trap Senator Morgan in land
fraud deals. DR.. Perrin being a form
@r Albanian and having relations
With the Federal Government had ma
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-26

turaiiy written several letters and re-
ceived replies from Senator Morgan.
When Perrin was under arrest secret
service men ransacked all his papers.
his letters and his checks to try 10
prove that Perrin had divided profits
with Senator Morgan. But the evil
dence was not there. It had never been
there. The miserable attempt 10 black
en- the character Of one of the ourest
men that ever sat In the Senate failed.
because there was absolutely nothing
on which q charge or a denunciation
could be hung.
This is what has been revealed by
an examination of confidential papers
in the Department of Justice mis-
cradle attempt. participated in and d.
! rected by the former President to de-
stroy Senator who had had the man.
hood to oppose the Roosevelt Admin
istration was about as petty q piece OF
business as a Federal Administration
ever engaged In. A new light has been
thrown on the Roosevelt Administra-
tion and the hypocrisy OF its Square
Deal" talk
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-26
A Wartime Incident.

Rome IflDune Herald.
New York. whereby Miss Elsie SIgei, a
granddaughter OF Franz Sigel. a Federal
general was killed by a Chinaman in New
York The occurrence has recalled an in
teresting bit of wartime history to the mind
of NJ. F. Govan, Of Rome.
through the valley of Virginia ard destroy
the crops which supplied food to General
That General sigers march down tNe val
ley would have been victorious one, but for
the bravery Of a few hundred little Southern
boys, is now conceded by many authorities
on the war This handful OF little sol
diers were the cadets Of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, who. with several other COM
front and those convalescent from wounds
received In battle. met General Sigel at
New Market, in the valley Of Virginia and
OF not only the South but the entire world
The ages of these little cadets. whose
ranks had been depleted by the loss of all
Lees army, ranged from fourteen to seven
tene years. Tney were so young and agile
the crippled old soldiers on their left and
right and while Immediately in front Of the
enemies artillery they were commanded 70
halt and mark time until the right and left
wings came up. There they remained In
the face of a terrific fire of shrapnel and
canister for some time. their ranks closing
as fast as they were shot down, which was
in conformity with the tactics of that day.
This incident has not received from the his
tOfianS the II 9PiNS
~ the fact that military writers declare
that no troops In the history Of the world
mad ever before halted and marked time in
Inc face of fire of shrapnel and canister
nor have any done since then.
Finally the command came 20 again mov'
forward and the little fellows or those that
were left Of them. charged over the work
and captured the guns which had played
such havoc in their ranks Soon Sigel'
whole army was IN confusion and flight fol-
lowed.
This battle resulted in a change in this
song Of HiRers troops so that II began;
~ fight NIT SiGel in der vaiiev
! runs NIT Sigel, too
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-26
DAY OF CHEAP room.

Only In the CITIES and Towns Is Complaint
New York world.
II the day Of cheap food has passed as we
are now Informed with great frequency,
movement from the cities to the farms.
Good wages in America have added greatly
TO our artisan population. High prices for
food. II maintained and justly distributed.
cannot fail to carry many thousands back
of population and industry IL in evidence
proves that food Is high only In spots. and
that manipulation. rather than scarcity Is
to be charged with the soaring prices.
Whole commemorative in this country
have cheap food. Great sections OF popu-
setts have cheap food. 1t is only in the
cities and towns that complaint is heard.
In Manhattan measure OF potatoes or
beans or onions or berries Is TO many people
may be almost worthless. In one place the
man who would buy finds prices high. In
the other place the man who would sell
meets an Indifferent market and nominal
prices.
II is not true. therefore, that the day Of
no important change except in the congest-
ed markets. Transportation charges. the
profits Of middiemen. the exactions of com.
binations, and the other costs of distribution
and delivery have increased in spite Of i'm
proved methods. but the enhanced prices
rest upon products which in the first in
stance barely paid for their growth. II our
farmers received fairer proportion OF the
money paid by consumers for their commod-
tiles. they would be the richest class Of
fact, their earnings after interest charges
are deducted average less than 5000 q year
on the basis OF crop valuation adopted by
the Agricultural Department.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-26
A National Gem .

New York Times.
Nations and States are represented
by floral symbols, Sas, for example,
France has the lily, England the
rose" while New York State. as the
result of a vote taken among public
school pupils. also has the rose, as
Pennsylvania. by a similar election.
let carnation. Kansas, by action OF
the State Legislature. is represented
by the sunhower.
Why not have the United States and
each of our States represented by 9
gem?
Let the election be by the school
children, and If such action can be Sc
cured let the States legislators ratify
the choice of the coming men and wo-
men of America. The agitation and
~discussion OF the subject would tend
to concentrate the attention of school
children upon precious stones, and
through the study OF these beauties of
nature, upon mlneraiogy and geology.
to the educational betterment Of the
children.
To encourage the offering of further
suggestions. I win present one. How
would the sapphire. most beautiful and
valuable of blue gems. serve to rep
resent our country? There are white
sapphires as we'll as blue. and these
If combined with the ruby. which Is
the same mineral as the sapphire
corundum would give us the red
white and blue. Or why not the new
gem mineral kunzite7 This is an orig
fnal gem, discovered within a decade
at Pala. Cal This beautiful lilac or
pink nethystine -colored spodumene Is
named after an American, Dr. George
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-26
STATE OWNED RAILWAYS.
UiscOuragfng ARecord of Annual De-
neits and surplus Complaints.
Moody's Magazine r. ,HHsoaf TO-.

Discouragfng ARecord of Annual De-
aeita and Surplus Complaints.
Government railways are having
rather a hard time Of 1t in Europe
The experiment OF ownership and OPP
s sn BY the sta as n11 far IN E 4 6Ss
but elsewhere, seems to have failed
and time and trial more and more
demonstrate Its Inevitable and inher-
Everywhsre state operation is eritti-
ereasingiy unsatisfactory to every
body EXCEPT the politicians psSds and tnd the the
that the railway administration Is
now contemplating. what is practically
both in freight and passenger rates,
It is that or bankruptcy for the
In Switzerland government exploita-
tion regularly works an annual deficit
with less than 5000 miles Of lines
the budget for 1905 showed a dehct Of
about ss25.O0O, and in 1908 OF about
tep.s without oS t taking sson eeSunt deS
amounting to s24o, 900, 900 Govern
msnt operation In that compact lit
tie country, with only about 100000
rea Rst i sRe s s area q Gay aSH
sstts. has given, such unfavorable re-
suits that the. public are CRYING. out
against IT. ana IL promises 10 De
leading issue in the coming electoral
campaign
In Japan state ownership has proved
SO disastrous to the finances OF tbs
country that the government is now
looking to a syndicate of foreign capt.
talists to help 1t out. The statement
Is made that goXhrnment ownership
there has imperilled the national nm.
ances, prevented railway improvements
and chacked the efficiency OF tbs
service
Grafton are thus far notoriausly bad
The operation results, of course, in an
annual defict and altogether the traflC
constantly increases, the receipts con.
stantly diminish. During recent
months operation. out of 1000 passen-
ger trains ass were an hour or more
late, and there Is constant and bitter
complaint both from shippers and pas
sengers as to the unsatisfactory char
acter of the service.
In France the least satisfactory op-
era tion is that of the state, and in
Germany things go from bad to worse
in spite of the strenuous efforts OF
the imperial government, with an ev-
ceptionally competent and accomplish
ed general stan of superior railway
officials, TO ge around the increasing
difflculties and to make good appear
ance,