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aieeaaail vee, Stipes: experiments were made recent- . Y in France on the penetrative force babs astonishing. The Lebel rifle was | bake, and at a distance of 160 feet the Write targ A bullet from a Lebel th e has mn known, it is said, to go tn rough a ve three and one-half feet cL diameter. That it should penetrate only eighteen inches further into such Soft stuff as sno’ Startling. The exp ation suggested by the experimenters is that the rotat- ing bullet pi Resisting Power of Snow. of bullets through snow. The results t , fe: penetrated only five feet into the seems altogether ks up particles of snow as it goes in, and so gets “balled” or blocked up. 3 Doubtle the ine- character of s oO accounts ' the difference, The closing in of pringy particles of wood behind the bullet tends to facilitate penetra- Any inert 1 such as sand, anmnqeneant th or coal, great r ance ®sainst penet n.—Pathfinder, A Few Timely Pointers. 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Even pale cheeks won't do it. Your ‘household cares may be heavy and disappoint- ments may ‘be deep, but they cannot :make you look old. One thing does it and never fails. It is impossible to look young with :the color of Seventy yearsiia your hair. rmanently postpones the Eiil-tale signs of age. Used according to directions it gradually brings back the color of youth. At fifty your hair may Icok as it did at fifteen. It thickens the hair also; stops it from falling out; and cleanses the scalp from dandruff. Shall we send you our book on the Hair and its Diseases? % Frea. The Rect Adeiee Lote fitg you expected from the use of fhe Vig .F, Write the doctor about tt. Provably al with your general 6: there is some ‘aaress, ly removed. wT S: ALEE, Lowell, Mass. IS NOTHING WRONG? REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE ON MONOPOLY. A Sermon Filled with Hot Shot for the Plutocrats — Monopoly the Bribe- Giver, the Thicf, the Wholesale Op- pressor, The Rey, T. DeWitt Talmage weekly preaches to a larger congregation than any clergyman on earth, owing to the fact that his sermons are published in full by thousands of American newspa- pers. One of the great dailies that has not failed for years to print Talmage’s weekly sermon is that bulwark of plu- tocracy, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and the following extract from one of Rev. Talmage’s recent serm us was clipped from that paper. Neycr before did the Globe-Democrat admit to its columns such a scathing denunciation of monopolies and the monopoly rule which it is that paper’s chosen policy to uphold. Rev. Mr. Talmage said: “In the first place, I remark: There is a greedy, all-grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, and that monster is known by the name of Monopoly. “is scepter is made out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advan- tage and for the robbery of the people. Things went on from bad to worse, un- til in the three, legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a long time Monopoly decided ev- erything. If Monopoly favor a law, it passes; if Monopoly opposes a law, it is rejected. Monopoly stands in the rail- road depot putting into his pockets in one year $200,000,000 in excess of atl reasonable charges for services. Mon- opoly holds in his one hand the steam power of locomotion, and in the other the electricity of swift communication. Monopoly has the Republican party in one pocket and the Democratic party in the other pocket. Monopoly decides nominations and elections—city elec- tions, state elections,national elections. With bribes he secures the votes of leg- islators, giving them free passes, giv- ing appointments to needy relatives to lucrative positions, employing them as attorneys if they are lawyers, carry- ing their goods 15 per cent less if they are merchants, and if he find a case very stubborn as well as very import- ant, puts down before him the hard cash of bribery. “But monopoly is not so easily caught now as when during the term of Mr. Buchanan the legislative committee in one of our states explored and exposed the manner in which a certain railway company had obtained a donation of public land. It was found out that 13 of the senators of that state received $175,000 among them, sixty members of the lower house of <hat state received between $5,000 and $10,000 each, the governor of that state received $50,000, his clerk received $5,000, the lieutenant governor received $10,000, all the clerks of the legislature received $5,000 each, while $50,000 were divided among the lobby agents. That thing on a larger or smaller scale is all the time going on in some of the states of the union, but it is not so blundering as it used to be, and therefore not so easily exposed or arrested. I tell you that the over- shadowing curse of the United States today is Monopoly. He puts his hand upon every bushel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, upon every ton of coal, and every man, woman and child in the United States feels the touch of that moneyed despotism. I rejoice that in twenty-four states of the union already anti-monopoly leagues have been es- tablished. Gcd speed them in the work | of liberation. “T have nothing to say against capi- talists; a man has a right to all the money he can make honestly—I have nothing to say against corporations as such; without them no great enterprise would be passible, but what I do say is that the same principles are to be ap- plied to capitalists and to corporations that are applied to the poorest man and the plainest laborer. What is wrong for me is wrong for grear corporations. If I take from you your property with- out any adequate compensation, I am a | thief, and if a railway damages the | property of the people without making | any adequate compensation, that is a gigantic theft. What is wrong on a small scale is wrong on a large scale. Monopoly in England has ground hun- dreds of thousands of her best people into semi-starvation, and in Ireland has driven multitudinous tenants almost to madness, and in the United States pro- poses to take the wealth of 60,000,000 or 70,000,000 of people and put it in a few silken wallets. “Monopoly, brazen-faced, iron-finger- ed,vulture-hearted Monopoly, offers his hand to this republic. He stretches it out over the lakes and up the great railroads and over the telegraph poles of the continent, and says: “Here is my heart and hand; be mine forever,” Let the millions of the people north, south, east and west forbid the banns of that marriage, forbid them at the ballot box, forbid them on the plat- form, forbid them by great organiza- tions, forbid them by the overwhelm- ing sentiment of an outraged nation, forbid them by the protest of the church of God, forbid them by prayer to high heaven. That Herod shall not have this Abigail. It shall not be to all-devouring Monopoly that this land is to be married.” The editorial columns of the Globe- Democrat and every other plutocratic newspaper in America habitually de- nies that there is any foundation for such Populistic talk as the above by the great preacher. Yet a large major- ity of the voters, and thousands of Re- publicans, will affirm that all of Tal- mage’s charges against monopolism are true, and that the situation is fully as serious as he represents. The asser- tion of the monopoly-owned daily newspapers that ‘nothing is wrong” is not accepted by the masses of the peo- ple. But what is to be done? Can Dr. Talmage and the rest of the American citizens reasonably expect a political party controlled .by such bosses as Hanna, Platt and Quay, and which in- cludes in its membership every large monopolist; to destroy monopoly? Can We expect any l»'p from the pot-house and zar-bling house politicians of New Ycrk and Chicago, by whatever polit- ical name they may call themselves? Shall we allow Wall street to draft the plans for our campaign against mon- opoly? _ Such inen as Dr. Talmage, Gov. Pia- gree and Mayor Jones of Toledo all vote the Republican ticket—as yet. If they are honest and intelligent men they can never vote it again, as the monopoly control of that party is be- coming too apparent. Next year is destined to be a Populist year. The anti-monopoly forces will not everywhere carry the Populist flag, but the battle all along the line will be for Populist as against plutocratic prin- ciples, with Bryan as the popular lead- er. . And it will be a winning fight. The tactics during the coming year of the combined usurers and trusts will make a political ground swell inevi- table. Civilization’s Weak Spots. A Polish laborer in Honolulu writes to a socialist paper in Austrian Poland describing how he and forty others fell into the legal slavery—sanctioned by the U. S, senate—of the Sandwich Is- land labor laws. The German agents at Bremen, he said, sold them to the Austrian consul at Honolulu. When they proved unable to do the work they were imprisoned. On the plantations they were starved, housed with the horses, beaten and driven back to work by dogs. The men beg to be rescued.— London Clarion. Lawrence, Kan., has just been touch- ed lightly on the fifth rib again by the trust. They had a horse collar factory there. The trust offered to buy the owner out, but being an enterprising gentleman who still believed in com- petition he refused to sell. He pro- posed to do business in spite of the trust. He would show them a few tricks with holes in them, so he would. And in the midst of his defiance the trust gently but firmly laid him down upon his back. ‘In other words, after the gent refused to sell to the trust, he could buy no more material to make horse collars. So he had to close up, and didn’t get a cent. The National Harness Review of Chi- cago, May 13, says that a large traffic has grown up in England in tanning human skins for belts, card cases, etc., and is obtained from the unclaimed bodies of the poor. Here is an open- ing for the American capitalists. Many people suffering from an abundance of prosperity produced by competition might get a few pennies by selling their hides. And we live in the most civil- ized epoch of the world’s history! Perhaps the reason why Aguinaldo and his Filipino brethren kick so hard against the march of civilization is be- cause they see poverty, starvation, drudgery, the vagrant’s cell, drunken- ness, crime and prostitution coming hand in hand with it.—Pueblo Courier, Farming the Farmers. The Wall Street News, May 11, re- ferring to the*stock of the Burlington as not likely to suffer because of snort crops in Nebraska, says in defense of its position: “The cost of producing a bushel of corn in Nebraska is 10.7c.; oats, 10.3c.; wheat on car (exclusive of ground rent) 17c. a bushel.” You see these Wall street fellows know more about the cost of farming than the farmers themselves, and they know how to arrange the railroad and ele- vator charges so as to leave the farm- er just enough to keep him from ac- tually starving so he can produce more slave products next year, says the Ap- peal to Reason. These figures show that they do not intend to allow the farmers anything for the capital in- vested in farming, but the capitalists get interest on all their capital. It is an easy thing to farm the farmers. ‘The Wrong Pig by the Ear. The statesman was in an agitate. frame of mind. So was the exploiter. Both paced uneasily up and down the corridors of time. “What's troubling you?” asked the statesman. . The exploiter leaned against the wall, “The unemployed!” he gasped. The statesman turned pale. “What of them?” he cried. The exploiter recovered the use of his limbs with a mighty effort. He said: “What will we do with the unem- ployed?” The statesman laughed bitterly. “You’ve got the wrong pig by the ear,” he replied. “What will the un- employed do with us?” The New English Policy. The British government has given an American firm the contract for a large bridge to be erected in the Sou- dan. All the locomotives for that coun- The process of making America the “workshop of the world” and England the paradise of the rich is setting in.— |_Appeal to Reason. try will be built in American shops. ' DOUBLE STANDARD. | While the most accurate bimetal- lists, perhaps, sometimes lapse into the expression “double standard,” every one of them abhors it as a dangerous misnomer. It is not, as is sometimes said, impossible that there should be a double standard for measuring values. Such exists today in the great ports of India and China. Goods there are worth so much in gold and so much in silver, It is the same in Italy, where paper prices form one list and gold prices an- other. But that state of things is al- ways unfortunate, and if the doctrine of bimetallism proposed such it would deserve only condemnation. What bi- metallism essays to provide is an ab- solutely simple and unitary standard of value, realizable infallibly and contin- uously in either of the two metals, It is not pretended, either, that the value embodied in the unit of this standard will be perfectly stable,though such will be more nearly the case with a value standard incessantly realized in each of two metals than in one re- vealing itself in a single metal only. The contention is that, under bimetal- lism, any given article or lot of goods in a given market at a given time will bear the same price, whether appraised in the one metal or in the other. Again, to favor the Sherman law, the Bland law, or any other scheme for purchasing silver by the government, is not only no part of bimetallism, but in theory flagrantly hostile thereto. That sort of legislation has done the caus2 of bimetallism immeasurable harm. It engenders, far and wide, the notion that what bimetallists de- sire is the purchase by the public treas- ury of all the silver which any one pleases to sell. Bimetallists will have nothing of the kind. They either deny or deplore the necessity of any bullion purchases by government except for subsidiary coins. Their demand is simply that, so soon as it can be done with safety, every holder of silver be permitted to bring it to the mint, as all may now bring gold, and have it coined into money that shall be legal tender in all amounts. Another hallucination about bimetal- lism is that it involves an attempt to fix the relative if not the absolute values of gold and silver by the direct operation of statute. It means no such thing. Supply and demand, economic laws, that is, are to determine gold and silver values under bimetallism, as now. What is expected of. bimetallic legislation is simply that it will set free certain now latent economic forces, whichyshall make a grain of gold bullion steadily worth so many grains of silver bullion. Bimetallism will force no man to give or take any more or less of anything for a given amount of any other thing than he pleases of his own free will to give and take.—E. Benjamin Andrews. Investors Becoming Wary. From the Denver Post: There are already apparent encouraging signs that the country has reached the flood- tide of the trust movement. Human greed is destroying the gorgeous com- mercial structure which was being built with such pains. To buy a prop- erty for $1,000,000 and then to stock and bond it for $5,000,000 was an ex- ceedingly brilliant stroke of enterprise so long as the investing public eagerly bit at the bait. More and more daring schemes were projected and more and more watered stock was issued, until the public began to be surfeited. Later the investors will begin to look for their returns, and they are not going to come with the expected unanimity. It is true the trusts may control the output; it is true that they may, through concentration, reduce the cost jof production and raise the price to ‘the consumer as high as our protective tariff? against foreign producers will permit, but in the end the matter must regulate itself. The thousands of men who are thrown out of employment by the system cannot continue to be large consumers of trust products, particu- larly those which are classed as luxu- r The very system itself destroys the consumers, which are so necessary to its continued profitable existence. When the investing public gives the trusts a cold shoulder, when many of them realize they have been robbed, when the consumers buy as little as they possibly can {and many of them even now cannot possibly help them- selves) there will be a crash in “indus- trials.” Secretary or Senator. From the New York Times: Sec- retary Alger announces that Senator MeMillan of Michigan frequently told him that he had no desire to remain. in the senate if the secretary wanted his seat. he never said what Mr. Alger says that he said and never had any intention or desire of saying it or of acting in the way that he is expected by the secre- tary toact. This is very embarrassing. Mr. McMillan is not in the military service. There is no promotion or degradation in rank through which Mr. Alger can refresh his memory or change the attitude of his mind. Will Wreck More Than Themselves. From the Indianapolis Sentinel: Mr. Clarke, the Peoria distiller, thinks the trusts will fall of their own weight. ‘There are a great many people who ‘have that idea and who also think that when they fall they will smash pretty nearly everybody. There are some ifalls that are difficult to stand from ‘under, and the spread of trusts has ae nearly covered the whole coun- Ty. DEFECTIVE PAGE Senator McMillan declares that~ PATENTS. | List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Freeman 8. Farr and ©. F. Nyberg, Minneapolis, Minn., ice motor; John E. and O, A. French, St. Cloud, Minn., automatic grain bundle shocker; Ole BE. Hegstad, Hegbert, Minn., extension ladder and truck; George T. Honstain, and C. E. Bird, Minneapolis, Minn., coaling station; Charles B. 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