Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 2, 1900, Page 7

Antiquity of Familiar /Terms. The antiquity of familiar terms fs surprising when it is known. Many people are not aware that “What the dickens!” occurs in Shakespeare; but fewer still will be prepared to hear that the phrase, “a regular shindy,” is found in an author's note to a poem called “The Popish Kingdom,” pub- lished in 1570. A writer in the Athe- nacum quotes this note, which refers to the celebration of Maundy Thurs- day: “Midnight services are held in church. the lights are put out, and a regular shindy follows, men being beaten and wounded.”—London Globe. PATENTS. List of Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors. ore Burgett, Winthrop, Minn., George W. Hardin, Chokio, hitching device; Eugene Jac- mn, Minneapolis, Minn., grain Henry Lenling, Gem, S. D., five- lraft equalizer; James E. Mar- 3raddock, N. D., vending ma- Randolph J. Moulton, Minneap- Minn., grain distributor; John ‘son, Minneapolis, Minn., safety synchronizing device; Waldemar H. T, Deyils Lake, N. D., beater or mixer. Merwin, Lothrop & Johnson, Patent Attor- weys, 011 & 912 Pioneer Press Bldg., St. Paul Getting Points. The Great Man—Well, what are you i to have me say in to-morrow’s low Journal Reporter-.Oh, I don't know. What would you rather not bave sai Harper's Bazar. MUST NOT IMITATE CURE. Joseph W. Burgess of the firm of Burgess & Van Horn, chemists, and Harry Lay and W. T. Fuge, barbers, were arraigned in the criminal court at Kansas City, May 2, on the charge of refilling bottles which originally contained Coke’s dandruff cure with a spurious article and passing it off for the genuine. They pleaded not guilty and were released on bonds of $500 each to appear for trial May 24. It is understood that other arrests will follow and that the cases now pending will be vigorously prosecuted. the Shovel and— exclamed papa, throwing “the poetry they print ressing.” vt mamma agreed. aA new poem yesterday by Don't ‘you know? n-With-the-hoe—” know,” d little Tommy—” Old Uncie Ned!’—Philadelphia Press. what’ Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get into the habit of reading the advertisements; they will help you in the way of getting some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable; they send what they adver- use. Ladies and Men to Canvas for a sell quick large g patented household article; exclusive territory free; 75 rt you. Address Wm Emert » or The Ovenette Co., 905 . Paul. One ‘Way. ‘ger—He'll never er make a living, in ingumbeb—Why do you ger—Oh, every time he opens ath he puts his foot in it. ngumbob—Well, that’s one way atking both ends meet.— ! If You Have Dandruff please try Coke Dandruff Cure. Money re- Pi At Druggist’s, $1.00. ed a child: the axis of the earth?” nary line passed from one e other, on which the earth answered he, proudly. said the examiner, well “and could you hang a bonnet And what kind of a bon- “An jmaginary bonnet, sir.” Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken internally. Price, 75c. Radical Cure. taking the drug treatment for 13 he had lost his fondness for ggested k , it’s because reading maketh the full man!” he exclaimed, shuddering abhorringly. From this we perceived that the cure was extremely radical—Detroit Jour- nal. In hot weather the butcher may lose lots of flesh without getting any thin- per. Piso’s Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. SAMUEL, Ovean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. A stage murder is not always effect- tive when an actor simply murders his part. Many courtships find smooth sailing until they are launched upon the sea of matrimony. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 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Governor Lind’s Efforts to Have Them Pay Meets the Usual Republican Rebuff. fm Hanna Parlance, “We Know Our Business”-- Something About “Prosperity.” The difference between Republican and state reform administration has had no mofe forceful illustration since the election and inauguration of Gov- ernor Lind, than in the governor’s at- tempt to have the foreign corporations doing business in the State, brought to time as to payment of taxes and penalties, under the much-talked of Somerville act of the last legisla- ture. The correspondence in the case may well be allowed to speak for itself, and for the record that will go to the people cn the subject of law enforce- | ment, and of equalization of the bur- dens of government, as between the people and the corporations that have been given certain rights and privil- eges by the people. The Somerville law went into ef- fect over six months ago and it nas been notorious that the corporations taxed under the law have in large numbers utterly ignored the act and become liable to the penalties pre- scribed for failure to comply with the law. Having seen no sign of action by the secretary of state’s office, Gov- ernor Lind having ascertained the names of some hundreds of such de- linquents and law violators addressed the secretary of state in the following communication: - “Hon. Albert Berg, Secretary of State: “Sir—Permit me to call your atten- tion to the provisions of Chapter 69 of the General Laws of the State of Minnescta for the year 1899, and Chap- ter 70, amendatory thereof; this being the act usually known as the Somer- ville law. Under its provisions the secretary of state was required imme- diately after Oct. 1, 1899, and as often thereafter as he might be advised that corporations were doing business in this state in contravention of the act, to repcrt such fact to the county at- torney of the county in which the business of any such corporation is located, it being also made the duty of the county attorney to institute pro- ceedings to recover the penalties pre- scribed by the act. I cannot learn that any report of that character has been made from your office. I find upon investigation that there are sev- eral hundred foreign corporations do- ing ness in this State, who are subject to the provisions of the act re- ferred to and who have not complied with its requirements. with a partial list of the foreign cor- porations doing business in the cities of St. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth, who have not paid the license fee cr obtained the certificate required to en- title them to transact business in this State. There are undoubtedly others that are also subject to the provisions of the law, both in the counties re- ferred to and in other parts of the State, and there may be some in the list submitted which are not, but I think it sufficiently accurate to serve you as a guide. “I deem it exceedingly important that the provisions of this act should be enforced by the officers charged with its execution, not only on account of the proteciion that it is designed to afford our citizens who do business Ww them to serve process in our own courts, but ‘also because of the revenue accruing to the State. The collection of merely the minimum fee of $50 from each cf the corporations named in the schedule transmitted would mean up- wards of $10,000 to the State, and many of them are liable in a much greater sum, to say nothing about the penalties which they have incurred for refusal or failure to comply with the law. “For these reasons and because it devolves upon you te take the initial step in the matter, I earnestly hope that you will take the action directed statute. If this office can be of ice to you, cheerful co-op- eration will be given at all times. Yours very respectfully, “JOHN LIND, Governor.” The list submitted with the gov- ernor’s letter, located the companies as follows: In Ramsey county 52 com- in Hennepin county nearly t freight lines numbered 50, steamship lines a dozen, while some sixty were located in St. Leuis county. In the list are every variety of cor- poration, the trusts being well rep- resented. Now what was the response of the Republican secretary of state to this act of the governor? Was it a cordial co-cperation, with expressed or implied obligations for his interest in the mat- ter? Hardly. But it was such a reply as was given by the G. O. P. mouth- piece, the Dispatch, as a studied in- sult to the governor. The Dispatch said it was a “slap in the face,” and boasted that the governor was not even replied to as such official, but merely as “Citizen” Lind. But the secretary of state’s reply can speak for itself, for here it is: “Hon. John Lind, Executive Depart- ment, St. Paul, Minn.: “Dear Sir—I have the honor to ac- knowledge the receipt of a communica- tion from you bearing date May 18, 1900, relative to the operation of Ghap- ter 69, General Laws of Minnesota for the year 1899. . “I take pleasure in informing you that this department has taken all steps authorized by the act in question to enforce the law, and has at all times notified the county attorney of I enclese-here- | ith foreign corporaticns by enabling | every county wherein the secretary of state has been advised of violations of the law. Respectfully, “A, BERG, Sécretary cf State.” And here the matter rests. Of course by the statement that the secretary of state has notified the county attorneys in all cases “wherein the secrets.y of state has been advised of violations of the law,” is intended to give the impression that the law is being ex- ecuted and the duties of officials being discharged. As a matter of fact no steps are being taken toward enforce- ment of this act and the public is very well aware of the fact. That these corporations should es- cape is in entire accord with Repub- lican policy and administraticn, and is entirely in line politically, since the Republicans in convention have made it a point to head the big district dele- gations to Philadelphia with corpora- tion and trust men. “PROSPERITY” OINTMENT. Is Not Soiling Garments nor Bedewing the Whiskers of Our Producers to Any Alarming Extent. The country press are well aware how false and misleading is the talk of Republican “prosperity,” and more and more are our papers talking about the real conditions that surround them. Continued low prices for nearly ev- erything that the farmer sells, and double and treble for what he has to ibuy, is not a beautiful situation. | Says the Winona Herald, speaking \for usually prosperous southern Min- nescta: - “The notion “his been going about that the farmers are afflicted with “as- |tounding prosperity,” simply becau3e prices of farm produce have, in the last two or three years, partly recov- ered from the low level they reached lin some previous years. Now the |farmer ought to know, and the rec- ords of mortgages in the various !eounty clerks’ and recorders’ offices jdemonstrate the fact, that all these increased receipts, if anybody can |show a bank account demonstrating any increase, are more than absorbed |by the increased price he must pay jfor everything for which the farmer |exchanges his produce. He must pay ‘tribute to the trust, and no better illustration of the truth of this can ;be made than in the case of the | American Steel Company. Six thou- ‘sand men were thrown out of employ- |ment because of the lack of demand ‘for implements which the farmers {could not purchase because of their thigh price. If there was so much | brosperity, why could rot the farmer afford to purchase the necessary im- |plements? The fact is that a heavy | {mpost is laid upon nearly everything ‘the farmer needs in his househcld land in his business, while the prices ‘of his own products are at the me: | of speculators, combines, corners. jete., ete. The farmer has to meet | the world’s price in disposing of his | product, but he enccunters a different {state of things when he comes to | purchase for himself. The range of | price set up by the speculators is | artificial, and what they gain in the lspeculative market they pocket— ! what they lose they mercilessly force |the farmer to pay by an increase of |prices in manufactures. This seem- ling prospérity will be discovered the | more you look behind it to be a myth, ‘and although the misfortunes of the |rest of the earth have enabled the | farmer to dispose of more of his pro- ducts than formerly, still there are |combinations to be broken dewn, ‘trusts to be abolished and the finan- cial system eliminated before the farm- ler can really say that a period of | prosperity has been inaugurated.” Tracey Herald: The Traveling | Men’s Anti-Trust League now numbers j over 46,000 members. | Building is at a standstill in In- | dianapolis, Ind., and 400 hod carriers went out on a strike lately. | Two thousand coal miners are on strike in western Kentucky fields with ino prospects of settlement. At Quincy, Mass., the granite cutters ‘are still on strike and the bosses | threaten to employ non-union me2. | The 50,000 members of the Chicago | Building Tradas are still on strike and | there is no prospect of an early settle- ment. | Fears are expressed that the miners’ strike in Pittsburg, Pa., district may ;cause a coal famine and cause many {faetcries to shut down. that Ian Hamilton’s force was at Heil- bron and that our cavalry, which had crossed the Rhenoster some miles lower down the stream, was threatening their right and rear. “The bridge over the Rhenoster, sev- eral culverts and some miles of the rail- way were destroyed. “Hamulton’s force drove the Boers under Dewet before them from Lindley to Heilbron. The passage of the Rhe- noster was strongly disputed. Our loss might have been heavy but for a well concocted plan, which brought Smith- Dorrien’s brigade on the enemy’s flank | just at the right moment. “The officer commanding at Boshof reports that upwards of 350 Free Staters |have surrendered during the last few days and that they have given up 330 rifles, 100 horses and a large amount of ammunition. “Kelly-Kenny reports that three companies of yeomany, who were sent to repair the telegraph line and clear the country between Bloemfontein and Boshof, have returned to Bloemfontein, having performed the duty exceed- ingly well.” Lonpon, May 24.—The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of The Times says: Mrs. Reitz, wife of the Trans- vaal state secretary, and her children have gone. to Europe on the Bundes- rath, which is believed to have taken a large quantity of bullion and possibly | several Boer politicians. Sroux Fatts, 8. D., May 24.—The Re- publican state convention adjourned sine die at4a.m. The ticket as nom- inated is as follows: Governor, Charles N. Herreid; lieutenant governor, George A. Snow; secretary of state, O. B. Berg; treasurer, John Schamber; auditor, J. D. Reeves; superintendent of schools, E. E. Collins; land commissioner, David Eastman; attorney general, John L. Pyle; railroad commissioner, OFF SAME. PIECE! 13 G. O. P. ADMINISTRATION IN WASH- INGTON AND IN THE NORTH STAR STATE. Army Frands and Cuban Steals in the One, and Untaxed Corporations in the Other—Governor Lind’s Efforts to Have the Somerville Law Enforced — Our Goppite Secretary of State—Forcefpl Lesson of the Need of Reform Officials in All Departments—Other State and National Points—State After State For Uryan—Reform Press Note and Com- ment of the Week. Reform Press Bureau, St. Paul, May 28, 1900, While the trusts pull the strings at! Washington and Cuban steals follow embalmed beef and other.army scandals in the all-prevailing rottenness of | money controi of the G. O. P., we have | the same kind of goppite cloth in Min- | nesota, lacking only the presence of im- perial troops and colonial offices to give us the full fruition. Thus we see the state Republicans placing ‘a lumber truster, department store king and the Twin City Street Railway magnate at the head of the delegation to the Hanna- McKinley convention, but of most force- ful application we see the Republican department charged with the adminis- tration of the laws governing corpora- tions utterly ignoring its duties and | meeting Governor Lind’s efforts to have | foreign corporations taxed with ridicule and studied insult. Lesson after lesson has appeared since Governor Lind was inaugurated of | what the people lost by not making a! clean sweep in 1898. None is perhaps as forcible as this case of the Somerville law and the Republican secretary of | state. The secretary of state had! knowledge of the law, for its original } ties in the vaults of his office. How did he observe it? Very leniently. | The act did not take effect until Octo- | ber, 1899, six months after passage. | Now the law has been in non-effect for | six months more, although all that was required of the secretary of state was | that he file information for prosecutions | for violation. Governor Lind found a} list of some 200 such derelicts, each | subject to penalty, of which the gov-| ernor formally notified Secretary Berg, | furnishing him such list, with the re- sult now known all over the state. To} date, the only action taken by this Re- | publican official has been to weed from the list here and there a corporation \ikely to escape. The list remains suf- ficiently large to bring to the state thousands of dollars in just taxes and | penalties. | | There are thousands on thousands who | case that there will be gunpowder and Governor Lind’s earnest desire to} have this law enforced goes back to his | '| inaugural message in which he recom- | mended taxation of foreign corporations. | _ In what marked contrast stands the | songs, log cabins, banners, miniature insurance department, in reform ccn-! steamships, canoes, ‘raccoons,”” cider trol, with the Republican secretary of | state’s administration, Insurance Com- | missioner O’Shaughnessy having turned into the state treasury some $12,000 in | fees required of foreign insurance com- panies under the same act. Action by this derelict Republican official would have multiplied this sum at least sev- | eral times, by this time. | | It is directly in point, and something | that the people should know, t Sec- | retary Berg has for months been a meze | figure head in his office, he being en- gaged in ‘‘citizenizing’’ himself in a far | distant portion of the state, engaged in acquiring a “homestead,” and in a new | townsite operation at the Lake of the} Woods, not neglecting, however, to | draw his salary with proper regularity. Daring this period he has probably not spent 10 per cent of the time for which the people pay in discharge of his offi- | cial duties, At least cuch is the decl: ation of a fellow Republican state offi- cial. The Globe, in extended comment, says on this point: “Now if the honorable the secretary of state will arrange matters so that he can spare the time to act promptly upon the advice of Citizen John Lind—not that The Globe desires that he should neglect his valuable claim on the shores of Lake of the Woods, or absent himself from Ros- eau county so long as to impair his squat- ter’s rights—if he will proceed as the law } says he shall proceed and should have proceeded to compel foreign corporations to comply with this law, the state treas- ury will be the richer by perhaps $50,000 and Mr. Berg can then retire once more to the fertile plains of Rosean and allow the dust toonce more accumulate upon his office chair.” This lack of co-operation in officials and boards left in Republican control has been the most severe thing that Governor Lind has had to contend with. The greater portion of his present term has been required to even get boards in control of men in sympathy with him, not as partisans but in his pur- poses of reform. In the discourage- ments encountered no wonder that at times it made his task seem greater than could be borne, and yet results that he has obtained with patience and long suffering have repaid the people. Many boards have been reorganized and the state’s business improved. In the case of the railroad commission, within four months of having been brought intc full reform control, the people of a single congressional district received back into their pockets more than one-third of a million of dollars a year in reduced grain rates. This secretary of state incident has come in the very nick of time. It will | Wasa national banker and trust pro- sound a keynote for the state campaign. emphasizing to the people that if they want true and complete reform they must make a clean sweep of the depart- ments and bring in a thoroughly reform legislature. The humbug that Republican admin- istration makes volume of business is not better disposed of than by the fig. ures of railway earnings in different ad- ministrations of party control. Take any reliable manual and see the figures of such bus‘ness in the United States in the presidential terms since 1881. Thus, Republican, 1$81-2-3-4, the Democratic, from 1885 to 1889; then of the Repub- lican administration from 1889 to 1893, and that of the Democratic party from 1893 to 1897. The figures are: 1881 to 1885 (Republican), gross railroad earnings 1885 to 1889 (Democratic), gross railroad earnings..... 3,075,000, 00 1889 to 1893 (Republican), gross railroad earnings... . 3,145,000,000 1893 to 1897 (Democratic), gross railroad earnings $2, 900,000,000 4,590,000,00C And speaking of comparisons, Demo- cratic ‘‘soup houses,’’ so called, do not compare with wholesale strikes and lockouts, as political reminders. Andasto such reminders, govern- ment by injunction, where, as in St. Louis, New York and other places, the courts have doubly increased their sweeping orders to include eyery possi- ble demand of the corporation against labor, even to prohibiting contributions for feeding the strikers, exceeds them all. How many who condemned the Chicago platform for its declaration in 1896 against ‘‘government by injunc- tion”’ are not since come to see the wis- dom and justice of the declaration? have. In an extended canvass for the favor- ite for the Democratic candidate for governor of New York by The Journal Hon. Bird S. Coler had by far the larg- est vote. Coleris said tobe the com- ing New York man. He is a strong Eryan man and stood loyally for him in 96. Memorial day this year, under in- creased patriotic impulses, will be more generally observed, if possible, than heretofore. Governor Lind’s proclama- tion especially appeals to the people to make this occasion one marked for patriotic devotion. Speaking of political devotion, a movement ison foot for making the coming Fourth one long to be remem- bered in political annals by celebrating on Natal day the people’s nomination of W. J. Bryan forthe presidency. The nomination may not be confirmed at Kansas City on that day, although the ¢onventions will be called to order op that day. It is possible that the nom- ination will be unanimously proclaimed immediately upon assembling, in which fireworks galore throughout the country goes without saying. Speaking of the campaign, there are sigus of such a campaign as that of 1840, or the log cabin and “hard cider,’ at least on the side of Bryan. If Mc- Kinley sits on the Canton porch this summer he will resemble the campaign of Van Buren, with ‘‘stuffed chairs” and trust ‘‘gold spoons” and other briquets that belong tothe ‘‘Tarquins, while the Harrison parades, music, barrels, etc., are certain to have a du- plication in some form or other in the Bryan enthusiasm. There will cer- tainly be many a counterpart of ‘‘Tip- pecanoe and Tyler too.”’ That was a cracking good point made by Lentz of Ohio in daring the Repub- licans of the house to put trust-made goods on the list of interdicted goods in interstate traffic. ‘*You will not do so,” declared Mr. Lentz, ‘‘because the trusts, to whom you offer up your daily pray- ers for revenue in the coming cam- paign, will not allow you to.” During the past week several state and district conventions have been beld, the list ates for Will- usetts, North Carolina, Penn- sylvania, Nebraska, Rhode Island, O: gon, District of Columbia, Utah, M gan, Iowa and Kansas. It is a safe prediction that convention after convention, as fast as held, will follow suit. By the way where are those wiseacres who predicted defeat for Bryan before the convention? The goppites in one of the Ohio dis- tricts (Norwalk) are so harmonious and patriotic that it took 2,001 ballots to nominate a congressman. The winner moter. For the cash jobs at the disposal of the Republican national convention there are more applications, 20 times over, than places. There are also more demands for tickets of admission many times over than tickets all told. Phila- delphia will be a, good place to stay away from. The Alger scandals are not out of smelling distance until the Cuban postal steals arrive. And nearer and nearer tothe Hanna-McKinley person, each new scandal approaches. Neely, the arrested, is connected in business with the Heaths, of whom one Perry is Mc- Kinley’s ‘‘man”’ in the postoffice de- partment. Also the duck Rathbone was Hanna’s man in his bribery opera- tions in Ohio, when he was elected to the senate, his name appearing in the sworn testimony in connection with Ce- livery of a certain $10,000 of boodle. Rathbone years ago also figured in the Dudley ‘‘blocks of five” election frauds in Indiana. Precious scamps these, connected with and underlying the ad- ministration. National Chairman Jones believes we shall win this year ‘‘because God is with us.” “If God be with us who shall prevail against us?’’ While Secretary Gouge was engaged in the search for the lost $400,000.000 in treasury gold, he discovered an error of $50.000,000 in the treasury surplus. But Gouge will not mind a little book keep ing eccentricity like that. G. 8. 0. Revenge. Editor—I cannot publish your poem, Poet—You would better reconsider. If you don’t accept it I will dedicate a book to you, or I will hereafter use your name as a pseudonym.—New York World. Are You Using Allen’s Foot-Ease? It is the only cure for Swollea, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen’® Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists.and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Ad- dress Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Yo Theatrical managers announce strong attractions for the week. 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