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Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24

any: whether the tariff has raised
prices; whether prices in certain
cases have been artificially and
wrongly advanced by combinations
seeking inordinate profits; and finally
we shall make a comparison between
domestic and foreign wages and
prices"
Whatever the facts show will be
stated by the committee, said the
senator without any attempt either
to blacken, to whitewash or to mis-
lead" He said he had received dur
ing the past few days one letter
blaming the tariff and another blam-
ing the trusts as the cause of high
prices.
IF the question were as easy OF
solution" he added, cas- the writer's
of these two letters think, we could
deal with it very quickly"
AS an illustration of the difficulties
which the committee will have to deal
cles of wide consumption, all neces-
saries Of life, raw cotton, refined Pc
troleum and sugar, and made a COM
parison of their changes in price and
Of their relation to the tariff and
trust questions.
"Cotton is on the free list and has
been fer half a century," he said,
ut is not controlled or handled by
any trust. Refined oil has been prac-
tically and is now absolutely on the
free list and it's sale is almost en-
tirely controlled by the strongest,
best organized and most relentless
trust or combination Of which we
have knowledge.
Sugas is in the hands OF a trust or
combination and is highly protect
ed Neither the trusts nor the tar
if are present in the case of cotton.
The trust is present and the tariff
absent in the case of oil. Both the
tariff and trust control are present
in the case of sugar.
Now let us consider the facts in
regard to the prices Of these articles.
Taking 100 as the basis in 1899 the
advance in cotton has ranged from
81 to "a points. It was SO points
higher in 1908 than 1899 and it is still
higher at the present time PETROL
cum, starting with 100 as the basis,
in 1899, has advanced 33 points in
ten years; sugar during the same
time has declined 10 points.
"I make no comment on these
facts and offer no opinion. leave
it to you to point out the cause of
the movement of prices in these ar
ticles which will meet every case.
"This is not question nor is it
a time for reckless haste or violence
said Senator Lodge in conclusion,
"but it is a time and occasion for
firmness and for justice for deter
mination to extirpate with a relent-
less hand the evils born Of greed and
unscrupulousness which tamper with
the food supply of the people or with
the necessaries of life, if laws can be
framed to do it."
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24

Standard Oil company, the raw pro-
duct is to an extent produced by the
corporation; in that of the tobacco
ombination the raw material is pur
chased.
While the Sherman law does not
specifically prohibit the organization
of holding companies, the supreme
court declared in the Northern Sc
curities case that the holding COM
pany constituted an organization in
restraint of trade and commerce.
The government charges that from
the time of the organization Of the
Standard Oil company in 1899, a
monopoly was obtained; that in fact
for years prior to that virtual mon
opoly had existed, and that the var
ious forms which the conspiracy al
legged against the oil company has
taken, have been merely adaptations
to the changing needs and conditions
of the times.
In the tobacco case, it is alleged
that originally when the merger was
consummated in 1890, there was a
monopoly only in the cigarette trade;
the defendants claim that the control
of the business then secured has since
materially dwindled.
The Standard OILS counsel have
contended that the corporations
which in 1899 entered into the agree
ments complained of had long since
ceased to be competitors. In the
tobacco case, the defendants contend
that their acts have been confined
merely to the acquisition Of manufac
turing property; that manufacturing
corporations are under no legal obli-
cation to compete-the prohibition
being against specific agreements tc
suppress competition: non-competi
ton as the result Of the acquisition
of property is, the defendants insist
not a violation of the statute.
Another difference between the
two cases lies in the fact that the
Standard Oil company is charged
with offense against the Sherman law
alone; the tobacco corporations are
charged with offending also the Will
son tariff act of 1894, which extended
the application Of the antitrust law
to any conspiracy IN restraint OF
trade, one party to which was an i'm
porter. Furthermore, the govern
ment is seeking to establish the rule
that a corporation entering into ar
agreement abroad which in purpose
conflicts with American law, gains
no immunity from the fact that such
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24

Newark, y. J.. Feb. 23.--Facts, moi
opinions, are to form the basis or
which the senate committee appoint
ed to inquire into the price of com
modities and into rates of wages viii
act. This declaration was made to
night by Senator Lodge, or Massa
chusetts, chairman Of the committee
in an adrdess delivered before the
Newark board of trade. The speak
er asserted further that "the facts
will be collected and given out with
out any reference to any rreconceiv
ed ideas and without any regard as tc
what or whom it will help or hurt
1--WE shall Kew to the line" he said
land let the chips fall where they
will. The Importance of this In
quiry can not be over-estimated," he
continued. 1T is the intention Of
the committee to make the inquiry
thoroughly and lay its results before
the country at the earliest possible
nom ent."
The task of the committee is going
to be difficult one in the opinion
Of Senator Lodge, who said that
=
Gated and difficult in the highest de
gree"
! Personally he had given some
months to an investigation Of these
questions, he said and the one fact
of which he had become certain was
! that the questions involved in the
Investigation were "extremely diff
cult and could not he settled or rem
edied off-hand in five minutes as
some persons, he declared, seemed tc
think.
After outlining in a general way
the method of procedure which the
committee will follow in conducting
; it's inquiry and giving a number OF
specific facts which revealed some OF
! the difficulties the committee will
have to face, Senator Lodge said:
"That combinations to control the
sale of certain articles Rave, in some
! instances advanced prices artificial
ly I have not personally the least
doubt and if I am correct the facts
which will be gathered by the COM
mittee will demonstrate and will
show evils and wrong-doing in GER
, tain particular cases which we ought
to be able to reach. An example OF
such evils is to be found in the case
of meat products and in the use OF
| cold storage to prevent a normal de-
cline of prices which your own grand
jury has been investigating. But
many causes are at work affecting
prices and we do not want to jump
at conclusions or fancy that we can
settle those questions by stroke OF
, the pen"
He said the committee twill try to
determine whether the rise in prices
was sudden or extended over SER
les of years: whether there has been
an advance in world prices or wheth-
! err the advance Is confined to the
United States; whether wages, and If
possible, whether salaries, which are
most difficult to ascertain, have risen
with prices and to what degree, If
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24
n
North Star
s-
1 Lumber Co.


We have been established IN
your territory for a number OF
years and have enjoyed having
; our customers to continue
to deal with us. We
we are going to ask as a favor
not only to ourselves, but your
self as well, that when you are
in the market for anything IN
our line, you come to our Of
flee and allow our manager to
advise with you as to what kind
of material is best suited for
the purpose you wish to use 1t
for. We endeavor to keep our
managers posted on the changes
and they are in position Oft
en- times to suggest to you arti-
cles that will serve you purpose
to much better advantage and
not cost you as much as that
which YOU often times call for
arbitrarily.
Give us a chance to serve
you and, if the above sugges-
ton is not clear, allow our man
ager to explain to you how he
often times can save you mon
ey by his advice.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24
TOBACCO TRUST CASE MAY
NOT BE DECIDED BEFORE
FOURTEENTH Of March
1t and Standard Oil Cases Are Very
Much Alike

NO NT,MA7'oN MADE AS TO THE POSSIBLE oEc's
ION IN THE CASE SUPPOSED II HAS BEEN 0Ec'0
ED AND WILL BE HELD UNTIL DECISION REACHED IN
THE CASE.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-02-24
LODGE CLAIMS HIGH Price
PROBE WILL BE THOROUGH

THINKS PROBE is VERY IMPORTANT MATTER
AND COMMITTEE HE WILL SEE THAT
ALL LINES WILL oRLTERATED THE SEARCH FOR THE
THE CASE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
EIiECTION OF SENATOR'S.

Recent news dispatches from Wash
ington indicated that Senator Bristow
is soon to press a resolution in the
senate which will provide for an
amendment to the constitution so that
United States senators shah be chosen
by a direct vote of the people. Sena-
tor Curtis is also in favor of such legis-
lation, and. therefore, in the fight
which will follow the Kansas repre-
sentation in the senate, regardless of
its differing opinion on patronage and
few other things, will be found unit
ed in advancing cause which is
championed generally by the people
throughout the country.
From the personnel of a majority
of the present senate, several of the
Democrats included with their Repub-
lican colleagues, it does not seem
probable that this resolution will re-
ceive favorable consideration. But a
vigorous contest waged in its behalf
will not be amiss, as this is one of the
things that is coming some day and
all possible and honest agitation of
the question will hasten that day
along. 1t will be well, too, to place
the senators on record in this matter
for in this wise the people will have
an opportunity of separating the
sheep from the goats on this impor-
tant proposition.
1t is reasonable to assume that if
such resolution should pass the sem
ate it would not have much trouble in
making a successful journey through
the house of representatives. Similar
action has been taken by the house
on several occasions in the past but
each time the resolution which has
originated in the house has received
its quietus in a pigeon hole in a SEN
ate committee room.
Nor is there any doubt how the
state legislatures would act on such
a resolution if they had a chance to
express their views. Some thirty odd
of them have already gone on record
| as being in favor of such a procedure
and the sentiment in the states which
has been responsible for such legisla-
tive action is increasing all the time
instead of diminishing.
So great has it developed in several
| of the states that the present constitu-
tional provision for the selection of
United States senators by legislatures
| has been circumvented by legislation
providing for the nomination of Unit
ed States senatorial candidates by di-
| rect primary voting. There should be
no need for such subterfuges, though.
Congress should take the necessary
steps for amending the constitution SO
the people by their direc. votes can
elect their United States senators,
and the responsibility for a failure to
do so will rest with a majority of the
present members of the United States
| senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
AYHAWKER JOTS

Here is a fact you will be more im-
pressed with as you grow older. Money
is a good thing to have and if you
haven't 1t, it is good thing to get.
Begin now to accumulate though the
amount saved each day or week or
month be trif1ing. You will never re-
greet it.-Parsons Sun.
Three of the four newspapers of Man.
haitian have consolidated into one, leav-
ing the town which is larger than Abb
lene with two papers. Belleville papers
have consolidated so that it has only
two. lola, with 5000 population, has
consolidated four into one. Junction
City has one daily and three weeklies.
Salina has three papers. Every town
in this section, except Abilene, seems to
be tired of having too many papers.
Here they thrive and live in peace
Abilene Reflector.
There is yet time to start the year
right by laying aside the binders OF
self Importance and getting a full view
of the opportunities with which the
present is studded. Looking straight
ahead is commendable but there is
more to life than the straight-ahead
view. There is a field fertile with op-
portunity on either side Of your path.
Travelling in binders shuts out two
thirds of the field. Cast off your handi-
cap, and take wide angle view Of the
fleld.-Wichita Beacon.
either, sees one of it's prominent citi-
zens" HE him away into the fields or
into the haylofts, and hears thunder
ing perorations chat the Republican
party is the party Of the people," OF
that hope springs eternal in the Dem
ocratic breast"-there need be nc
alarm. The chances are that the
prominent citizen has been called
upon to speak at the Kansas Day club
banquet or the Democratic powwow on
Washington's birthday.-Kansas City
Journal.
Brady of the Lawrence Journal, 81. l.
Bristow was in school at Baker univer-
sity, Baldwin. He wanted to get into
politics and made his first start by try
ing to smoke a cigar. 1t made him
deathly sick and he threw it away
Years afterward some one found ar
old cigar behind a barn and it was
thought that Joe had hidden it there
A cigar purporting to be made Of the
| same material is on the market and has
been named for him. He is expected tC
give some such testimonial as this:
twenty-five years ago 1 smoked ons
of your cigars. and have used no Other
since"
Every country editor. says F. w
Brewster, in the lola Register, has the
opportunity every other day to print {
| boost for some person under the guiSt
vertising on the ground that you have
to fill the paper with something w;
| beg to stamp this as fraudulent righ
| now, and cite the fact that the Regis.
ter mail each week contains voluminous
prepared copy on the following sub
jects: Conservation. railroad rates. in.
| come tax, the tariff, deep waterways
! liquor traffic, the census. army rife
practice, ship subsidy banking, etc.
etc. Hardly a day passes that we dc
No 1cx17 20 irr,,Ir 6.
the paper and SO per cent of it goes into
| the waste basket.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
GOVERNMENT BANKING.

1nasmuch as the need of reforming
the banking and currency systems of
the nation is one Of the paramount
questions of the day, and the sugges-
ton for the creating of a central gov
ernmental bank is an important one
in the plans that will be proposed, and
new proposition for the people of
this country to ponder over a full and
free discussion of this important SUBJ
ject is in order and is being INDUCED
in throughout the country. There is
an interesting symposium on this
question in the North American Re
view for January, to which attention
has been previously called in these
columns. One of the contributors to
it is w. A. PETER, former United
States senator from Kansas and at
one time a Topekan. His article is on
the subject of Government Bank
ing and several of his ideas in the
premises are of more than passing
interest. Some excerpts conveying the
meat of his argument follow.
Coming closer to the subject, we
find our government now immersed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
Saving the Lives of Babies.

tuberculosis is the great tax upon
the wealth of society as represented by
the tremendous total value of all Ilu-
man lives. The vast unnecessary loss
of young, organically healthy persons
through tuberculosis is an annual bur-
den greater than all the taxes of all the
countries of the world.
Science is slowly but surely reduc-
ing this loss. Some day it will be elirni-
mated, and men will wonder at the
barbaric ignorance of an epoch which
tolerated such waste of economic re-
source.
Another broad field for science is pre-
scented by the appallingly high rate of
infant mortality. In the average large
city one seventh of the total number
of babies born die before they are a
year old. Infant mortality in cities is
tricts, although, owing to better facili-
ties for medical care and professional
nursing, the city-born baby is less like
ly than his country cousin to die with
IN two or three weeks of birth.
Hereditary and infectious diseases
are being eliminated gradually from
babyhood terrors by scientific progress
and education of parents in simple
hygiene Stomach and respiratory
troubles and meningitis must eventual
ly give way to science.
It remains for better housing, better
food, and general sanitary betterment
of crowded communities to carry to a
standard of uniform high grade the
work of saving babies lives and rem
DER the vital statistics of infants re-
markable for a low instead of a large
Geath rate.-Chicago Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15

deeply in the banking business. Up-
ward of six thousand banks in opera
, ton loaning paper money by the bill
lion daily. every single piece of which
is made by government employees with
government machinery in government
buildings. And this has been going on
many. years. A tax is levied on bank
circulation, and congress makes an
appropriation for the work based on
the estimates submitted by the direc-
tor of the bureau of engraving and
printing.
Now let the government do the
rest of the work-the loaning of its
own money by and through its own
agents and appointees. Let the ma
tional banks now in business expire
by limitation of law, their places to
be supplied. whenever needed, by
branch banks. There are now a great
many national banks more than are
required to handle the business they
do. A city of forty to fifty thousand
population gets only one postoffice,
and one government bank could as
easily accommodate that many people.
Let the treasury of the United States
be the Central bank, as 1t was in the
years of our great war; and let the
treasurer be in charge as he was when
ten dollars passed through his hands
to one now.
Let the Central bank loan to the
people at three per cent as bankers
now lend to them at five. six and
more: one per cent of the income
would more than pay all necessary re-
quirements of the national govern
ment."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
QUAKER MEDTTATToNs.

TFrom the Philadelphia Reeord.J
Time is money, if you take it by the
forelock.
When a bowling alley attendant
gets fired it proves that he doesn't
amount to a row of pins.
Tommy-"Pop, what is necessary to
feather your own nest?'' Tommy's
Pop-'Cash down, my son.
Blobbs-"Bjones is terribly near
sighted, isn't he % Slobbs-"Yes, he
doesn't even recognize his own faults"
Doctor-''What you need is a
change of scene. By the way, what is
your occuration?" Patient-"I'm a
scene shifter''
Newlywed-''why don't you take a
trip on the yea of matrimony p, Old
baeh-''Wel. 1 might if I could get a
return ticket
Hoax-"Mrs. Buggins is a charming
woman, SO unusual" Joax="Why,
she scarcely opened her mouth the
whole evening"" Hoax-s'Exac city,"
Wigg-"Buggins is the worst poker
player 1 ever saw" Wagg@'tNatural-
ly- He wears celluloid collars Wigg
What has that to do with it 20
Wagg-"Well, a fellow who would put
up a bluff ike that would never make
a poker player"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15

tangled and the fish beneath the ice
refused to be fooled by any such per-
sons. They even got ready to go home
at the same moment, and turned their
drilled in the chorus.
"Oh, but I want to die, tomorrow
exclaimed Aunt Sarah as the incident
was related in a shame-faced way.
There can be nothing on this earth
so heavenly as snubbing snubber of
| a girli''
As matter of fact, however. the
young man was becoming ashamed of
the part and was hoping for change
OF scenery. Here was the handsomesr
girl he had ever met, and that she
was high-fyer was to her credit
with him. Next time. no matter if he
got the biggest kind of snub, he
would change his attitude. He had
TINS in mind while on his. way to the
pond three days later.
He reached the water to find Miss
kItteridge there. She pretended not
to be aware of the fact that he was
On earth, and he found himself bluff
ed off. He had gone very near the
and now she meant to show her cour-
age over his. He called cut as he saw
what she was up to, but down to the
very edge she went and then-into
the water! Straight after the silly girl
went the young man, and he was hold
ing her up as they went over the dam
with the broken ice and were whirled
about in the foam below until friend
ly hands pulled them ashore.
Mr.. Treadwell had very little to say
during the next three days while the
doctor was warding off pneumonia
and it was still two days more when
Aunt Sarah handed him a note and
said:
Nephew, it's from that Kitteridge
girl. I CUES she wants to see you and
thank you. I guess. too. that I've
been mistaken in her. If you should
fall in love with her.
But ephew already had.-(Copy-
righted 1910, Associated Literary
Presa)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-15
A SATURDAY SERMON.

Let us not be DESTROYS of vain glory.
provoking one another, envylng one an
other. Galatians VI &C.
PauPs epistle to the Galatians is q
masterpiece among his famous writ
ings. Its extraordinary compression, its
richness of argument give it most
convincing character It demonstrates
once for all the freedom and spirituality
of true religion The human note is
dominant throughout There is no
part of if, either. which points the way
to tranquility and happiness in a more
decisive fashion than the few words
used for a text.
The vain glories Of life are many.
They abound on every hand. They
have peculiar attractions for many peo-
pie. But there is really nothing to
them, nothing of substance that is
worth the having. They are destitute
Of force and efficacy. They effect no
purpose, They are shams of the worst
sort, utterly void and worthless and
decidedly unsatisfying as the individ-
uals who cater to them all find out
sooner or later. 'Vain pomp, and glory
of this world, hate thee cried one of
Shakespeare's characters and that
should be a war cry with every one.
AS provokers of envy among men
they have no equal. And if there is
anything that breeds for unhappiness it
is envy. 1t is a difficult thing to fight
against, too The desire to have a
share of all the good things which make
life worth the living, to gain success in
chosen fields of labor, is inherent with
most persons of intelligence. But it's
the way of the world that some are
favored above others in these things,
and for those who have them not it is
mighty hard to sit by and not feel an
envious longing for their possession.
Such lodgings, however, make for dis
content, and discomfort soon develops
into actual hatred.
1t is all right to desire success and
the good things of life, to think of them
and plan to get them. but it is all
wrong to display envy towards those
who have them, to begrudge them their
good fortune. Nothing but unhappiness
comes of 1t. If considerable of the time
that is devoted to envious thoughts
were turned to energetic endeavors the
things that persons are DESTROYS of
would come to their hands.
And perhaps the struggle every man
should make against envious feelings
would be helped along if he kept always
in mind the words of famous philoso-
pher: whoever envies another con-
fesses his superiority"