Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, July 1, 1899, Page 7

oy Se IMPORTANT LAW POINT. Has Just Been Established for Califor- nia Fig Syrup Co. An important decision has just been rendered in San Francisco in the United States Circuit Court, in the case of the “California Fig Syrup Company vs. Clinton E. Worden & Co., et al.” The principal defendant is a large non- secret manufacturing concern, A per- manent injunction has been granted enjoining the defendants from using the name—Syrup of Figs, or Fig Syrup—and ordering them to pay the costs and account for damages. The decision is of the greatest value, not only to manufacturers of proprietary articles, but to the public generally, as it affirms that the valuable reputation acquired by an article of merit, will be protected by the Courts, and.that the party who builds the reputation by ex- tensive and legitimate advertising, is entitled to the full fruits of his enter- prise. This confirms the title of the California Fig Syrup Co. to this genu- ine and most valuable remedy, “Syrup of Figs.” An Unexpected Courtesy. “I was returning home with asmall traveling bag in my hands,” says the woman, “and as it chanced to be just the rush hours and the cars crowded, of course I did not have a seat. But 1 was standing beside a gentlemanly young man who had a seat, and who, 1 Secon saw, was also in possession of kind heart. I hold your bag for you?” he 1, politely, raising his hat. I own I was a little surprised at first, but street car etiquette is devel- oping in so many directions that one lnust be prepared for anything. For a nioment I dly knew what to say, and then, as it occurred to me that this was pro y the very latest develop- ment, and it would not be well to check uriosity, I thanked the young man, hauded him my bag,-wbich he held z say until I reached my des- tina ? stood in front of him.” —New York Times, Locomative Runs. During the past few months, the Bal- timore and Ohio Rail Road has materi- ally extended the runs of the passenger locomotives on through trains. Form- erly, engines were changed on an aver- age of 100 or 150 miles, It was thought that the mountain grades of the Balti- mere and Ohio Rail Road would pre- vent an extension of the runs. How- ever, the experiment was made, It has proved successful and reduced the number of locomotives formerly re- quired by 24, which can be used in oth- of the service, and save se of more motive power. Cirecmstantial Evidence. Husband (after the performance)—I ' » show very much; L go News. Anti-Trust Sentiment. “The anti-trust movement is spread- £ ll parts of the country. dly replied Slimpurse, “my s caught the fever.’—Colum- » Journal. Good Reason, “I wonder why a busy man like Jenks should want to go to the legis- lature. “I don’t know—unless he needs the r ouey.”"—Puck. Not Really Fighting. “Have you been fighting, Willic?’ ed. “No,” he replied, ruefully. “I only thought I was.’—Chicago Evening Post. Why Ict your neighbors know itP : And why give them a chance to guess you are even five or ten years more? Better give them good reasons for guessing the other way. It is very easy; for nothing tells of age so quickly as gray hair. Ayer’s Hair Vigor is a youth-renewer. It hides the age under a luxuriant growth of hair the color of youth. It never fails to restore color to aray hair. It will stop the hair from coming out also. It feeds the hair bulbs. Thin hair becomes thick hair, and short hair becomes long hair. It cleanses the scalp; re- moves all dandruff, and prevents its formation. We have a book on the Hair which we will gladly send you. If nr do not obte{n all the tens. fits you expected from the use of the Vigor. write the doctor about it, Probably there is some difficul with your general thay) whit may be easily removed. Address, ‘Dr. J. C. Ayer, Lowell, ALL’ OF ONE VOICE. DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COM- MITTEE FOR 16 TO 1. Republican Effort to Substitute Another Issue a Failure—The Platform of 1896 Is the Only Proper Remedy for Trusts and Imperialism. Democratic national committeemen all over the country are nearly unani- mous tor making 16 to 1 the chief ship- boleth in next year’s campaign. Here are copies of a few letters sent out from the Press Bureau of the Demo- cratic national committee: Secretary Walsh Positive. C. A. Walsh (Iowa)—In the cam- paign of 1900, as in the campaigns of 1892 and 1896, the issues of free silver and “down with the trusts” should go hand in hand. The Democratic party, in its national utterances, has always stood for bimetallism and against trusts, and the Chicago platform of 1896 should be reaffirmed in all its parts in 1900, its pronouncements against trusts made strong and explicit and a remedy for their prevention offered. The Republican party is today endeav- oring to treat the trust issue as a new question, and undoubtedly Republican leaders in the next convention of that party will try to deceive people by in- serting a plank in their platform de- nouncing trusts. Their denunciation will mean no more on that question than did their planks prior to 1896 fa- voring bimetallism mean for free sil- ver. The Democratic party in 1892 in its national platform said: “We recognize in the trusts and combinations which are designed to enable capital to secure more than its share of the joint prod- uct of capital and labor, a natural con- sequence of the prohibitive taxes that prevent the free competition which is the life of honest trade.” And in its platform of 1896, after declaring against the “national bank” trust in the matter of the issuing of paper money, it said: “We denounce as dis- turbing to business the Republican threat to restore the McKinley law, * * * which, enacted under the false plea of protection to home indus- try, proved a prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies.” The Democratic party, always for bimetallism, always for free coinage at the existing ratio, and always against monopolistic trusts and combinations, will occupy its his- toric position on these questions in 1900 without a backward step and without relinquishing.a single princi- ple of the Chicago platform of 1896. And these positions, taken long ago by a party that has always said what it meant, always been true to its prin- ciples, and has stricken down its own leaders when they betrayed their party on these questions, will mean some- thing, while the people will put no faith in similar utterances by the party whose protective legislation has been the “prolific breeder of trusts and monopolies.” The history of the cam- paign of 1896, when every great cor- poration, combination and trust was turning loose all its forces to defeat Bryan and to elect McKinley, is too fresh in the memory of the people to make it of doubtful choice in whom to confide. The trust-made and trust- making Republican party can never get a vote of confidence of the people on these issues. Acting Chairman Johnson. J. G. Johnson (Kansas)—Nothing has occurred since 1896 to shake the faith of Democrats in the principles announced in the Chicago platform. The financial question is still the domi- nant issue, and all other economic questions are but collateral to it. If the present program of the Republican party—gold standard, retirement of greenbacks, control of paper money issue and volume by the national banks —had been honestly announced, or even hinted at, in their platform of 1896, Mr. Bryan would have had a mil- lion plurality. By next year they will be fully committed, in their national platform, to the program of the banks and money lords, and as the Chicago platform of 1896 presents the political antithesis of that program, the Demo- crats will without doubt reaffirm that declaration, thus presenting the finan- cial issue of 1900 far more concretely than it was in 1896. The trust question has since 1896 become an issue of the fizst magnitude. Democrats have al- ways contended it is the logicai growth of the protective tariff system. The tariff protects from foreign competi- tion, the trust destroys domestic com- petition, and the beneficiary of these Republican theories becomes a monop- oly. The people have a right to con- trol or destroy monopolies or combi- nations in restraint of competitive trade. The Democratic states of Mis- souri, Arkansas and Texas have this year adopted drastic laws against suca combinations. The Democratic na- tional convention of 1900 will emphat- ically and specifically deal with this question. Their tariff protection must be canceled. Possibly the national taxing process which destroyed state banks of issue must be resorted. to. The reported control of 40,000 miles of railroad north of the Ohio river by the Chicago & Alton syndicate pushes to the front the theory of federal control or government ownership and opera- tion in dealing with a railroad trust. Whether the Filipinos are “benevo- lently assimilated” (with the soil) or subjugated during the next year or not, the Democratic platform of 1900 will declare emphatically against the Mc- Kinley program of colcnization, impe- rialism and British alliance. If Mr. Bryan-had been elected in 1896 and hag pursued McKjnley's policy of the iast two years the Republican press and congress, instead of lauding him as a statesman, would most likely be now impeaching him for exceeding his con- stitutional rights-and plotting the over- throw of our system of government. The Democrats will not stand for either a borrowed English money sys- tem, a borrowed English colonial sys- tem, or an agreement to take part in English quarrels with other nations. There may be other matters declared upon, but in my judgment the above outlines the salient features of the coming Democratic platform and “the storm centers of the campaign of 1990. From Bryan's State. W. H. Thompson .(Nebraska)—The battle cry of the Democracy in 1900 should be the financial ‘question, as by it declared in 1896, and anti-trusts, an- ti-militarism, anti-Anglo-American al- liance. These issues should have precedence in the discussions in the order named. However, each writer and speaker will undoubtedly be gov- erned by his own personal views and his immediate surroundings. Editor Daniels Arraigns Money Trust. Josephus Daniels (North Caroiina)— The shibboteth of the campaign the Democrats will wage in 1£*0 will be “Down with the trusts—from the gold and national bank trust down to the peanut trust.” The Chicago platform will be reaffirmed, Bryan will be re- nominated, and all men who are op- posed to trusts of all sorts and to militarism will be invited to join in a struggle to restore equal opportunity, which the trusts deny, and to crush the attempt to saddle old world mili- tarism upon this country. The con- test is largely for a country for the currency as well as a currency for the country. In view of the policy of “criminal aggression” and militarism adopted by the administration, the struggle to rescue the republic from destruction as a republic looms up a3 a matter of the highest importance. If militarism and colonialism are to stay, the republic founded by the fathers has been destroyed. The Democratic party favors returning to the old prin- ciple that “All governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The real issue in 1900 is manhood against money, no matter what special phase seerhs paramount. Represented by the control of cur- rency, by the organization of trusts, by the policy of imperialism and mil- itarism—they are one and inseparable —money will seek to re-elect McKin- ley. He is the agent through whom the government lavishes favors and special privileges upon the trusts and syndicates which gave Hanna enough money to buy the election in 1896. They will raise another corruption fund in the same way in 1900, and will demand greater bounties and subsi- dies in return for their contributions. The trusts are behind the demand for imperialism and a big standing army. They wish to put the soldier over the civilian so as to crush labor if it pro- tests against oppression. Republican platform declarations against trusts will not avail against the fact that more trusts have been organized since McKinley was elected than in 100 years previous. In Ohio the Republican plat- form contained a declaration against trusts. The same convention refused to Attorney-General Monnett a renom- ination. He is the only living Repub- lican officeholder who tries to enforce laws against trusts. The trusts de- manded of Mark Hanna his head on a charger. They got it. This incident shows that Republican denunciation of trusts is a sham. Voice from Tennessee. James M. Head (Tennessee)—In my judgment the national Democratic con- vention in 1900 should reaffirm every principle laid down by the Chicago convention in 1896 without any trim- ming or equivocation, and, if possible, in more direct and unequivocal lan- guage. It will be impossible, even if it might be considered advisable, to avoid making the money question practically the leading issue of the campaign. The Republican party has done nothing, and, in my judgment, the next congress will do nothing upon the money question. When the bill recommended by the caucus com- mittee is introduced in the next con- gress the whole financial question will, of course, be reopened and will be made the leading issue before that body and before the people. Both po- litical parties will, no- doubt, have strong declarations against the forma- tion of trusts, but only that platform which goes further and specifically points out the methods by which trusts are to be destroyed will receive the confidence of the American people. By those who believe that the gold trust is the parent of all others, and that only through its destruction can a de- cisive blow be struck at all other trusts, the free, unlimited and inde- pendent coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 will be assigned the place of most importance in the declaration of war against trusts. The Democratic platform should also denounce in un- measured terms the acquisition of ter- ritory by force of arms; should reaffirm its allegiance to the principles of the Monroe doctrine, and should demand that the declaration of principles upon which the war with Spain was com- menced should be adhered to in the settlement of all questions arising be- tween the United States, Cuba and the Philippine islands. Plain Talk from the Coast, William H, White (Washington)— In 1900°the Chicago platform of 1893 will be reaffirmed in {ts entirety. Free silver will not be abandoned, but the fight will be against the money trust and industrial trusts as well. The na- tional bank syndicate and the effort made by it to substitute national bank currency for the greenback currency will be vigorously denounced. If the Democratic party opposes the reten- tion of Porto Rico and the Philippines under control of the United States, the party will be defeated at the polls. In my opinion no fault can or should be found with the administration of Pres- ident McKinley in dealing with the Philippines as he has, Atkinson, Hoar and Cleveland ‘should not be permitted to frame the policy of the Democratic party with reference to the Philip- pines. This state gave W. J. Bryan nearly 15,000 majority in 1896, but if the party adopts a platform against the retention of the Philippine islands, and McKinley is nominated for presi- dent by the Repubitcans, McKinley will carry this state by a greater ma- jority than Bryan carried it. Woodson Speaks for Kentucky. Grey Woodson (Kentucky)—The Democratic gatherings at St. Louis and Louisville the last two weeks ought to clearly show the gold standard press that its predictions that the Democrats are preparing to drop the silver issue are altogether erroneous, for every speech made and every resolution adopted was ip favor of maintaining the same firm stand for free coinage in 19€0 as was taken in 1896. The truth is, the gold standard press is quite well aware that it has been misrepresenting the Democratie voters in making such assertions; nor will it cease doing so now. The gold standard press of the country is in league with the Associat- ed Press, as shown by the reports sent out from St. Louis, to keep up such de- ceptions in the hope of influencing Democratic sentiment, and as there are few newspapers of general circulation except those committed to the gold standard, and a large per cent of the public is always more or less credulous, it is only through the speeches of Mr. Bryan and other Democratic leaders at frequent intervals that these persistent agents of the gold standard can be thwarted in their conspiracy to mis- lead. However, the great majority of the Democratic hosts have learned to believe nothing they see in the gold standard papers, and with the prevail- ing deep conviction that the silver question is not settled and will never be settled until silver is no longer dis-: criminated against in favor of gold, tae designs of the enemy will make no se- rious inroads upon the Democratic or- ganization. A year hence Bryan will be renominated upon the Chicago plat- form unaltered save by such additions with reference to trusts, imperialism and other new issues as may seem nec- essary. Gold the Father of All Trusts. Thomas Martum (Indian Territory) —it is worse than nonsense to suppose that the principles enunciated by 6,500,000 Democratic voters in their platform of 1896 will be changed in 1900: It is idle to say that opposition to trusts, that have flourished under the fostering care of the Republican party, will not be inserted in the plat- form of 1900, and to contend that the money trust is not the source of all other trusts is too absurd to discuss. The platform of the Democratic party of 1896 is the embodiment of Demo- cratic doctrine. The defeat of Democ- racy is no terror to the party. If its platform was right in 1896 it is night now. The vaporings of subsidized newspapers that the silver issue is dead because it was defeated in 1896 is too childish to be considered. Ac- cording to such nonsense every time a party is defeated it would be consid- ered dead. Harrison defeated Cleve- land in 1888 on the tariff issue, and Cleveland defeated Harrison in 1892 on the same issue, and in 1896 high tariff and monometallism prevailed. So neither the tariff nor the silver issue is yet dead, and never will be until rightfully settled. One might just as well say the religion of Jesus Christ is dead because the majority are sinners as to say the silver question is dead because it was overcome for a time by the purchasing power of the Repub- lican party. Fremont was defeated in 1856 and Lincoln was elected on the same platform in 1860. From the Far East. : Alexander Troup (Connecticut)— Personally I favor the Chicago plat- form of 1896 as the paramou.t issue in the campaign of 1900. I have yet to find a man in Connecticut or New England who voted for Bryan as the representative of the principles of the Chicago platform in 1896 who desires any modification of the platform or any change in the leadership. The so- called gold Democrats, who, to all ap- pearances, are without a party, are the only ones who desire to modify the currency plank of the platform by omit- ting the ratio of 16 to 1 and making op- position to the industrial trusts and opposition to imperialism and militar- ism the dominant features of the plat- form. No one who voted for Bryan, so far as I know, in 1896, is willing to gratify our gold friends, even if they return to the old fold. The doors are open, and the way they went out they can come in, but the platform and creed of the Democratic party will not be changed in order to admit of their return. The vote for Bryan in Connec- tient and New England, in my opinion, will be largely increased in 1900, and the issue, instead of being between in- ternational bimetallism and independ- ent bimetallism, will be between the single gold standard, as advocated by the Republicans and the Chicago plat- form, It will be a fight to the finish No Sign of Progression, | * “TIere is a paragraph which will in- terest you, my dear,” said Mr Darley to his wife. “A progressive woman in St. Louis | uses the telephone in making social | calls.” “Tkat’s not progressiveness,” said Mrs. Darley. “No?” “No; she simply has no new clothes to wear.”—New York World. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. Paul W. Amile, Cooperstown, N. D., hopple; Charles E. Bird, Minneapolis, Minn., grain separator; Clarence W. Carter, Howard Lake, Minn., painting apparatus; Johnston Mealey, Howard Lake, Minn., check rein hook or fasten- er; James H.. Nagle, Minneapolis, Minn., dust or waterproof casing for fields of electric motor; Allen W. Pow- ell, Lead City, S, D., miners’ candle- stick; Edwin C. Washburn, Minneapo- lis, Minn., oil box and draft rigging; George W. Youmans, Rochester, Minn., pump piston. j Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson . Patent At: | torneys, 910 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul. Slighted. Lizzie—I’m as ma as I can be with Tom, Bessie—Why, what has Tom been do- ing now? Lizzie—It’s what he has not been do- ing. He has never told me I am the ouly girl he ever loved, and he has told; al: the other girls so. I don’t care par- ticularly for Tom, but one doesn’t like to be discriminated against, you know. —Boston Transcript. To Catch the Public, First Capitalist—I understand you are forming a trust for the manufac- ture of a new bicycle? Second Capitalst—Yes; that’s so, First Capitalist--What are you going to call the wheel? Second Capitalist—You won’t tell? First Capitalist—Certainly not. Second Capitalist—We'll call it the “Anti-Trust,.”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Go Urs. Pinkham Lynn, Mass. [LETTER TO MRS. PINKHAM NO. 41,207] “* DEAR FrreND—A year agolI wasa great sufferer from female weakness. My head ached all the time and I would get so dizzy and have that all gone feeling in the stomach and was so nervous and restless that I did not know what to do with myself. ‘“‘ My food:did me no good and I hada bad case of whites. I wrote to you and after taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vege- table Compound as directed, I can truly say that I feel like a new woman and cannot tell you how grateful lam to you. “‘T have recommended it to all my friends and have given it to my daughter who is now getting along splendidly. May you live many years to help our suffering sisters.”—Mnrs. C. CARPENTER, 253 GRAND St., BRooKLyN, N.Y. Over eighty thousand such letters as this were re- ceived by Mrs. Pinkham | during 1897. Surely this is strong proof of her ability | to heip suffering women. Not Much of the Angel, After Al. Prison Chaplain—Ah! you have a pet, | I see, | Convict—Yes, this rat. I feeds him | every day. I think more of that ’ere} rat than any other livin’ creature. Frison Chaplain—Ah! in every man there is something of the angel left, if one can only find it. How came you to take such a fancy to that rat? Convict—He bit th’ warder.—Tit-Bits, ! So They Are. ! “This magazine article,” said Mrs, } Northside, “says that the kangaroos of Australia are being rapidly See | ated.” “So those animals are on their last legs literally, as well as figurativey?’' edded Mr. Northside.—Pittsburg Chron- icle-Telegraph. Unavoidable. “Can’t you children play without ringing the door bell so much?” “No, mamma. Edith and I are play- ing house, and Willie is the collector.” —Truth. , holds his trade-mark GREAT TAMMANY LEADER, (Phe Catarrh of Summer.) — New York, Oct. 11, 1898. _ | Pe-ru-na Drug M’f’g Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—Pe-ru-na is good for ca- tarrh. I have tried it and know it. It relieved me immensely on my trip te Congressman Amos J. Cummings. ; Cuba, and I always have a bottle im reserve. Since my return I have not suffered from catarrh, but if I do I shall use Pe-ru-na again. Meantime you might send me another bottle. Yours, Amos J. Cummings, M. C. Summer catarrh assumes various forms. It produces dyspepsia and bowel complaint. It causes biliousness and diseases of the liver. It deranges the kidneys and bladder. Summer ca- tarrh may derange the whole nervous system, when it is known to the med- ical profession as systemic catarrh. Pe- Tu-na is a specific for all these forms of catarrh, Pe-ru-na never disap- points. Address Dr, Hartman, Colum- bus, Ohio, for a free book on summey catarrh. On the Steamboat. Muddle—By Jove! just look at that hat skimming into the water! Tangle—By the way, where is your hat? Did you leave it in the cabin’ Muddle— I distinctly remember having it on when I came on deck. Great Scott! Come to think of it, that must be my hat!’—Boston Transcript. Supreme Court Sustains the Foot—Ease Trade Mark. Justice Laughlin. in Supreme Court, Buffalo. tas ordered a permanent sinjunction, with costs, and @ full accounting of sales, to issue against Paul B. Hudson, the manufacturer of the foot powder called “Dr. Clark's Foot Powder,” and also against a retat} dealer of Brooklyn, re: ining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark's Foot Powder, which is de- clared, in the decision of the Court, an imitation and infringement of ““Foot=Ease,” the powder to shake into your shoes for tired, aching feet, now so larzely advertised and sold all over the country. Allen S- Olnsted. of Le Roy y., is the owner of the trade- mark ‘Foot=-Ease,” and he is the first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. He will send a sample Free to any one: who writes him for it. The decision in this case up- nd renders all parties liable \dulently attempt to profit by the extensive Ease” advertising, in placing upon the market a spurious and similar appearing preparation, la- beled and put up in envelopes and boxes like Foot= Ease. Similar suits will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot=Ease trade, mark and common law rights. Luxury. “Mike,” said Plodding Pete, ‘“d only one time when I envies de ri “I’m ashamed of yer weakness.” “I don’t blame you. But when I re from uErope as saloon passenge: can’t help feelin’ a pang o’sjealous; Washington Star. “Nothing but wheat; what you might call a sea of wheat,” is what was said by a lecturer speaking of Western Can- ada. For particulars as to routes, rail- way fares, ete., apply to Superintendent of Immigration, Department Interior, Ot- tawa, Canada, or to Ben Davies, 154 East Third St., St. Paul, or T. O. 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