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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

steel mills found that the corporation
was opposed to organized labor and
preferred foreign labor.
The result" he says, lis that about
80 per cent of the unskilled laborers
in the steel and iron business are for
eigners OF these classes. With the
benefit of a skilled American foreman
such a crew can work out results in
unskilled labor production. The prof
it's of this system of labor employ
ment go to the steel corporation while
the displaced American workman
shifted as best he could.
OWNERSHIP OF ROADS.
In discussing the ownership of rail
roads and steamship lines by the steel
corporation, the report says:
There is no question that public in.
terest requires a segregation of rail,
roads and the steel corporation. The
! control of such public agencies by an
! industrial corporation carries with it,
! in addition to the advantages which
/ this record discloses, possibilities OF
even greater abuses"
The part that United States steel
the absorption of the Tennessee Goa
and Iron Railroad company, President
/ Roosevelt and Wall street financiers
played in the panic of 1907 are cover
ed in the report and the insinuation is
made that the panic was an artificial
one designed for the benefit of tbs
steel corporation.
In it's comment the committee says:
How a panic which had persistent
ly resisted the combined efforts of the
federal government and John D. Rock
efeller and J. P. Morgan & Co, anC
remained in undated fury after Nor
gan and Rockefeller had turned loose
$50 100000 and the federal treasur!
$25, 100000 more should suddenly bt
stilled by this manipulation of Gran
B. Schley's loan has not been explain
ed either by Mr. Roosevelt or by an!
ether witness. Yet it is urgently main
tanned that the panic continued prio
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

the committee traced the development
subsidiary of L. S. Steel, by J. Pier
pont Morgan He told the committee
that he investigated the condition of
the tube trade and found that the
actual value of these plants did not
exceed $40 900 900, and that the owners
were demoralized and disheartened."
The committee comments on this stu
alton as follows:
"Undismayed by this dismal pros
pect. ]. P. Morgan & Co, with an amaz-
ing audacity, launched this new $19,-
coo, 900 monopoly on its course with a
total capitalization of S0,000,000, and
received as compensation securities of
this concern aggregating S20,0G0.000."
Representative Beall of Texas made
a study of the Gary dinners influences
ton of the report, which deals with
them. His comment on them follows:
THE GARY DINNERS.
Accepting the dinner of January
1911, as fairly typical of the rest and
the things said and done there as
fairly representative of the things said
and done at the others, we think the
conclusion is irresistible that the Gary
dinners were instituted as a means OF
conveying to the entire steel and iron
industry information as to what the
attitude of the United States Steel cor
poration was upon the questions of out
put and prices and of impressing upon
all engaged in the industry that it wa.
the part of wisdom and prudence tc
govern themselves accordingly.
I'VE further believe that by this
means prices were maintained, output
restricted. territory divided, competi
ton stified, and trade restrained, JUS
as certainly, just as effectively, anC
just as unlawfully as had been done
under the discarded pooling agree
ments of former years"
Representative McGillicuddy, who
studied the labor condition in thu
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02
MASONIC BOARD
RECEIVES BIDS
Seven Contracting Firms to Be
Considered by Building
Committee.

The Masonic board OF control held
a meeting in the Masonic temple last
evening ana received BIDS from a large
number OF contractors who are desir-
Gus Of securing the contract of the
building of the new home for the Ma
sonic fraternity which is 10 be erected
at Eighteenth street and Fifth ave
nue.. Seven bids on the general build.
ing contract were received while
numerous bids on the heating. light.
ing and plumbing contracts were Of
feTed.
The board decided to refer matters
TO the building committee anS left in,
structions for that committee TO can,
vass the bids at a meeting to be held
Monday night and thereafter make
recommendations for letting the con
tract
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

to this magical scoop of securities and
that the instant the steel corporation
acquired the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company's stock it subsidized instantly
and permanently"
ON ROOSEVELT ACT.
The committee reports that Oct. 26,
1907, President Roosevelt issued a
statement congratulating Secretary
Cortelyou and the business men who
headed off the panic. The committee
says of this:
up until the time of this inter.
view the steel corporation owed its
success and it's permanency to the
power and the skill of the financiers
who had created and the iron masters
who had directed it's operations. Since
that time it's dominance has been due
in no small measure to the sudden
ill-considered, and arbitrary fiat of the
chief executive.
The presidents refusal to inter
fere was an absolute warrant to pro
coed. A suggestion from him to the
attorney general was equivalent to {
command; and upon a refusal of tht
attorney general to act. the corpora
ton was immune. This is admitted
by Colonel Roosevelt, and he unhesi
tatingly assumes full responsibility
| in the matter"
The report occupies more than 20,
pages, and much of it is criticism o
the methods of the trusts. Andrew
/ Carnegie's steel making methods ant
his desire to extend his business are
held out as the motives which com
PEELED ]. Pierpont Morgan and his as
sociates to organize the steel trust.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02
Wire Sparks

Duluth-C. L. Nichols, general sup
erintendent of the Northern Pacific
railway, says stories of a scarcity of
men for the harvest fields in the
northwest are not true.
Rock Springs, Wyo.-Crops were
washed out by cloudburst that broke
over the Point of Rocks section.
Philadelphia-Two men were killed
and a 10-year-old boy was injured
when a 10000 gallon water tank crash
ed through the dyehouse of the Stead
& Miller Co.
Gadsedn, Ala. P. Emmett, a vo
calist, has been enjoined from singing
in the First Baptist church of Albert
Vile. Deacons objected to his taking
/ part in the services.
Minneapolis-In an attempt tc
change John Howard, aged 81, a con
fessed burglar, into an honest citizen
! two physicians will perform an opera
ton to relieve a pressure on his brain
'Cleveland-A municipal conduct
ed dance hall will be opened in a pub
lie park with the dance fee cents
Mayor Baker will attend the opening
Men dancers must wear coats. Thu
turkey trot," bunny hug" and "griz
ly bear" are barred.
ladelphia-"Graft" among EN-
ployes of the department of public
safety was disclosed by the arrest o
Michael Bendon. for % years connect
ed with the municipal stables. HI
was charged with theft of horses, lum
Der and saddles. More arrests will
be made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

mittee was authorized to begin its
work on May 4, 1911. Since that date
IL has heard many witnesses and made
many trips of inspection and investi-
CATION. Among the witnesses heard
have been most of the great American
financiers of the present age, with the
exception of ]. Pierpont Morgan, An
drew Carnegie. E. H. Gary. George W.
Perkins, James J. Hill, the late John
w Gates. and others prominent in the
railway and steel world were heard at
length. The committee TOOK thous-
ands of pages of testimony and spent
many thousands of dollars.
During the progress Of the hearings
a difference of opinion between the
chairman, A. o. Stanley of Kentucky,
and Representative Gardner Of Massa-
chsetts cased a near fist fight, and at
W Perkins of New York was threaten
ed with a jail sentence for declining TO
answer a question as TO his contribu.
lions TO the republican campaign in
1908. Later the chairman of the com
mittee, Mr.. Stanley, withdrew the
question.
| The effort OF the committee TO mas
ter the moves of the financiers who
conceived and organized the steel cor
| poration resulted in a mass of figures
which showed enormous profits tC
those who We're interested. In speak
ing of watered stocks, the majority
comment is:
STOCKS DELUGED.
'In some instances stocks were not
'watered' in the ordinary acceptance
OF that term: they were literally de
luged The cost of constructing or re
producing the several plants constitut
ing the combine was inconsequenta
as compared with the value of this new
device for enjoying with immunity ar
old and hitherto forbidden privilege
an absolute monopoly in a valuable
and necessary article of commerce.
From Julian Kennedy. an engineer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02
STEEL TRUST IS HELD
TO BE A SOCIAL EVIL

tContlnued fro Page opeN
act as a director or other officer or
employe OF any railroad company
which conducts an interstate commerce
business"
The third bill IS intended to hit at
the system of interlocking director
ates. and would separate Industrial
from railroad business
MANY WITNESSES HEARD.
The steel trust investigating com
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

is said by her lawyers, to be fore
gone conclusion, owing to the cfrcum-
stances under which she shot Mrs. ].
E. Bridgman.
Peking-Dr. George Ernest Morri-
son, correspondent of the London
Times, has been appointed political
adviser of the president of the Chin
csc republic for five years.
Philadelphia-John Thompson lies
| in a hospital with nine longitudinal
sutures in his heart. The surgeons
believe he will recover from stab
wounds. 1t was necessary to saw away
three ribs to repair the injuries to
the heart.
Port of Spain-The first reciprocity
agreement with Canada was carried
/ in the Trinidad legislative council by
a vote of Is to and in the chamber
of commerce by majority of vote.
London-Sydney Buxton announced
Great Britain intended TO withdraw
from the Brussels sugar convention
on the ground that the protocol in
creasing the amount of sugar to be
exported by Russia was unsatisfac-
tory.
Cape Naturalization OF Haiti
and Domingo are becoming more
tense All male Haitiens between IS
and so years of age have received or
ders to be ready to leave Santo Do
mingo.
Soreness of the muscles. whether IN
duced by violent exercise or injury, is
quickly relieved by the free applica-
ton of Chamberlain's Liniment. This
liniment is equally valuable for mus
cular rheumatism, and always affords
quick relief. SOLD by all druggists.
All the news all the time - The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02
Sarcasm.

He-Has our new laundress melan>
cholia. my dear? She-Pm sure don'f
know. Why do you ask? He-NOth-
ing. only l noticed the clothes are so
blue.-Exchange.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02
Men s 81, IS

S as NJ. & K. have been giving during their Big
everyone get their share of the bargains.
of stock of mems patent feathers that sold from 81 Sc
$5 Edw Capp oxfords and blacks S85 Florsheim
SIS and gunmeta $685. Packard 81 and $50 and
oxods S28 All $3.50 gunmeta and oxods $685.
All So grades at $235
In misses and children's oNords and slippers we
have made the following reductions So patent and
fod $235 $3.50 and gunmea oxfords ST. S25 lines
Sl65 Sl85 lines Sl35 Sl65 lines Sis $35 Roman
sandals and ankle Csc 81 ankle four sandals
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

Wipe ont the past. trust the future
and live in glorious now.-TOwpe.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

ger Sale only short before this sale Closes
1t is only once in life time that ladies can buy
party slippers and kid SOC and Csc pair slippers that
sold from So ST. Ladies' oords small and widths
only that sold from S. 49, SOC Regular lines ST.
S. low and pumps S295 pair All $3.50 oxords
and and colonial at sos All $3.50
fords strap patent and canvas pumps at $195
Mems patent feathers, where there are one, two
three of kind that sold from $50 S. S95 Choice
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

Paris-The acquittal of Nine Bloch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02

tcontInued fro Page oUe,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-02
r in the history of the shoe busir

offered such shoe values NJ. & K have been glv
before this sale Closes their
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

Church, dance a jig and if there's
ennything in the world the deacon
is most down on its dancin. Also
he made Anne FIillyer, our talented
loryer & legal lite, Notary Pub
lick, ]. of the P, ct cettery, drink
what Anne thort was a glass of
rum whereas it wassent nothink but
a glass of worter and Anne he
sn1acked his lips and said right out
before the hull Town Hall full of
folks that was the best rum he ever
tasted and he'd like a mother tum-
blerful. please We don't deny that
Anne likes his rim, but he likes it
on the sly and he was turrible mad
when he found out that he had been
made a specktakle of.
Then another time we had
moving picter show but it broke
up with a stampede before it had
got started hardly being as there
was picter of a big fire ragin and
it was so nacheral & lifelike that
most everybuddy present thort the
Town Hall had took a fire and
rushed outen the hall pell nell over
each other hollering Fire! Fire"
as loud as they could holler and
Jason Tucker, chief of the Fire
Dept, responded prompt after half
a hour only to discuvver that the
Town Hall was still in tackt. Being
as the Admission to the picter show
was 10 cts. per head and nobuddy
saw hardly ennythink being as they
all dispursed to their homes on the
run, it was the general opinion that
the show was a swindle.
The first show to be give in the
Town Hall is knowd as "Uncle
Toms Cabin" which is said to be
somethink new and very spicy. The
theatre ackters who give it are now
playing at the Co. seat but will play
one night only in Bingville which
Will be next Saturday night. Doors
open at p. m sharp. Tickets to
be had of any lady of the Ladies'
Aid who will make a house toI
house canvass of Bingville or you
can get tickets often Hen Wealth
ersby at his store who has some for
sale. Admission to crowd ups 10
CTS. and Children under 10 yrs. 10
cts.
Let US all turn out conscious of
the fackt that we will probably see
somethink worth seeing and at the
same time be paternizing good
cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

We announce with great cheer that
the Ladies Aid of the Bingvi1le
Church has decided to give a series
Of entertainments in the Bingville
Town Hall at intervals during the
rest of the winter, the perceeds of
which will go lords paying Rev.
Samuel Moore our beloved pastor
porshion of his back salery which
is now SO fur back (being several
yrs. back) that there amt skeerce-
ly emmy hope of getting him paid
off and yet Rev. Moore shows the
pashients of Job to stand there in
the pulpit Sunday after Sunday and
preach & holler until he is hoarse
in a frantick effort to steer the
wicked sinners of Bingville into the
strate & narrer path while half of
them is asleep and don't hear a
word he says while the other half
lets what he says go into one ear
and out tother.
We are exceeding glad that the
Ladies Aid has decided to give a
few entertainments in the Town
Hall being as this win give the cit
items of Bingville a chanst to git
out onct in a while IN the evening
and see something worth while in
std of remaining dend up in their
homes all winter like lot of wood
cilucls.
1t will do US good to assemble
together in the Town Hall occa-
shional and meet one another and
what we see there in the way OF
entertainment will give US a wider
outlook on life and enlarge our
skope & horryzone as you might
say.
Sinst the Town Hall was bilt
four Cor was it six yrs. ago?) there
has been a few entertainments give
in it but that's not enuff. What we
want is reglar course of enter
tainments.
We reco1leckt onct at the Town
Hall for instants there was a hip
notist give show, but it wassent
much of sucksess according to
the views of them as was present,
being as the hipnotist got a lot of
our most respeckted citizens onto
the stage and then hipnotised them
when they wassent expecting it
and made blamed fools outen 'em.
He made 'em do things which was
ridicklus in the extreme and which
they wouldn't of did if they had
been in their right senses.
For instants that hipnotist had
Deacon Butterworth, one of the
stanche pliers of the Bi-gville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

There was a turrible disgraseful af-
fair TUX place in Hen Weathersby's
store tothr afternoon which we
wouldn't say word about in the Bugle
(which a1lus aims to print nothink but
clean, wholesome reading which would
not corrupt the morals of even a week
old child) if it wasent for the fackt
that our readers likes SCANDALS better
than ennythink else we can print & we
try to give EN- what they desire.
Last Wensday afternoon Lem Quigly
walked into Hens store when there
wassent nobuddy else in the store but
Hen, who had settled hisself in easy
chair close to the stove and had went
sound asleep. Lem he woke Hen up and
said he had come to pay him what ever
he (Hen) had on his books aginst him
Gem) Hen told him he felt so sleepy
81 comfortable that he would ruther let
it go until some other time, but Lem he
said he wanted a settlement right then
being as he had brung the money with
him and was ready to pay, and If he
diddent settle up then like as not he
would go and fritter away the money
for somethink else.
1t amt eVerybuddy that lien wealth.
ersby will trust for mdse., but he allus
trusts Lem, being as the latter is allus
sure pay and Hen knows that whenever
Lem owes him money it is jest as
good as wheat in the barn. We visit
to goodness there was more like Lem
in Bingville who was so constituencies
about paying their debts, being as we
would probably git few more dollers
on back Subscriptions than We do.
Well finally Hen went and got out his
books and turned to LENS acct. Hen
don't keep books like most people, be-
ing as he has a kind of a bookkeepin
system of his own. Hen is poor speller
and besides, its turrible chore for
him to spell. We have seen Hen work
ing on his books when owing TO the
Eases he made and the way he stuck
his tongue out when he wrote, we
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

Fire Dept, says he hopes there wont a
fire break out in our midst at present,
being as most of the pumps in town is
froze up and by the time the Fire Dept.
could melt snow enuff to make worter
enuff to outen the fire it would probably
be beyond control.
Elisha Virgins of Calamity Corners
was a Bingville visiter last wl, having
walked all the way from the Corners.
Lish says the snow balled up on his
heels to SIGH extent that he fell twict
and sprained his ankel onct.
Miss Samantha Deevers has not been
enjoying SIGH poor health for the past
wk as ushua1, but in spite of this Sa-
mantha is bright and cheerful, being as
she looks forward to being more miser-
ADLER next week than she is this.
We amt got as much room for Per-
sonal Brevyties this wk as ushual, being
as the acct of the fife betwixt Hen and
Lem took up so much room. If you like
SCANDALS read what we wrote about
that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30

suit Bale had to go to bed with one boot
on, which he stuck out from under the
covers so as not to soil same, and slep
with the bot protruding from the bed
all night. Next morning, Enos Snod-
grass, his nabcr, helped him off with it.
Hez Andrews has had his COW to go
dry on him and he says he'll haft to go
without cream in his coffee for a spell,
but not for long, being as Hez is ex-
pectin a addishion to his COW family
before a great while.
Jed Peters, our intelligent school
teacher, got hit awful belt on the ear
with a SNOWFALL while passing along
Main st tothcr evg after dark Jed says
he'd like turrible we'll to know who
throwd that ball We calidlate it must
of been little Tommy Tucker, who Jed
thrashed in school the day before for
pullin Mary Wilkins hair.
Now is the time to subscribe for the
Bugle and to pay for it in advance.
When you come to pay for the Bugle
there is no time like the present, accord
ing to our views.
We guess this is about all the lolSals
we can think up at this time and will
therefore cease to write same, but by
next wk we hope to have a whole mesa
of lokals to entertain the readers of the
Bugle with as we'll as personals and all
the other news of Bingville & vicinity
that's fit to print as well as that which
Amt If you want to keep stricl1ly up
to the times and know what's going on
in your midst read the Bugle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
Personal BTGVytieS

Gid Smalley asked us tother day if
we'd let him have the Boogle emmy
cheeper per annum if he'd agree not to
lend it to his nabers? We told him en-
fatically, No. What's the difference
whether Gid gifts his Boogle cheeper than
he's gettin it now or not?-he amt paid
ennythink on it for the past six yrs
ennyhow.
Dave White, Our popular undertaken,
and Doc Livermore, our expert human
speshialist & veterinary, have been saw
good cal together of late, but we would
not like to say on that acct that we think
they are in cahoots together. We don't
think Doc would dc a thing like that
Lige Green happened to wear too
tight collier to church last Sunday which
choked him until his Ease was as red as
a beet. Lige says he don't know when
he's suferd SIGH turrib1c agony and he
was in SIGH anguish he can't recolleckt
a word the preacher said.
Jason Ticker. chic Of the Birsville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
ICE!
ICE!
ICE!

Have you made arrangements for your
winters ice as YETI Then why don't you
see me about it? AS you all know, I
live right on the shore of Gootchic
Pond and for this reason its turrible
handy for me to haul ice. That's why I
went and bought another horse. Witch
makes two horses that 1 now hav and
am prepared to put up your ice for you
at reasonable rates. This ice which you
get at Gootchic Pond is awful fine ice.
What is home without a mother? And
what is a ice house without no ice in
it? Of course you don't feel much like
ice at this writing, but that's because
the weather is coolish. Next summer,
when its hotter than blazes you'll be
sorry you didn't have no ice put up.
Now is the time to make arrangements
for next summers ice-there is no time
like the present. will draw your ice
on short notice because now its good
going 6 I can draw it on snow. About
the price will charge you to fill your
ice house for you, desire to saw that
depends on the size of your ice house.
If it amt very big ice house of course
I wont charge you so extravagant as IL
it was considerable larger. Better ord.,
your ice now and give me a cbanst 20
fill up your ice house before spring
comes. HTNK BARCLAY
Binsville. Ice House FiII;...
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-30
Locals

Miss Sadie Perkins, one of our most
estimable young ladies, visited the Co.
seat last Thursday for pleasure with her
father, who went on business. Ever
sinst she returned home Sadie has had
a stiff neck which she thinks she got
from lookin at the high bi1dings.
Bale Hawkins had one of his boots to
stick on his foot and had to git his wife
to help him pull It off tother night, but
she couldn't, although she blamed neer
puld Bales leg often him. and as a re-