Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 1, 1902, Page 5

. SOOSESS LOweCesou’e : MINNESOTA DEMOCRATIC CIRCULAR NO. 3. { THE PROTECTED TRON RANGE MERGER. February 25, 1902, six weeks after the inauguration of Governor Van Sant, the United States Steel corporation of New Jersey incorporated with a capital cf $1,100,000,000 and merged the two Iron Range railroads of Minnesota, in vio- lation of the state statutes, into one consolidated company. The Duluth and Iron Range road and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern are parallel roads wholly within the boundaries and jurisdiction of the state of Minnesota. They begin at the Minnesota Ranges and end at the Minnesota docks. In the case of this merger, therefore, the state administration would seem to have unquestionable jurisdiction. \ The iron ore rates charged by these roads are so high, that the state rafl- road commission appointed by Governor John Lind issued an order reducing x * these rates 25 per cent—an order which the present Republican commission, elected on the saine ticket with Governor Van Sant, promptly revoked. The surplus applicable to dividends, earned by these Iron Range merger roads, amount to, as chown by their own reports to the state railroad commis- sion, 40 per cent upon their capital stock outstanding—all of which is turned over to the billion-dollar steel trust of New Jersey. | One of the merged roads, the Duluth and Iron Range, has been specially favored by the state of Minnesota with a land grant of 606,720 of iron range Jands—a mineral domain equal to tl.ree-fourths of thé area of the state of { Rhode Island. The Rockefeller syndicate operating the sister merger road has foréyears been favored by the state with the lease of the great state mine, the Oliver, at a royalty so low that the syndicate has been able to sub-lease this state prop- erty to Carnegie at double the royalty paid to-the state of Minnesota. H Notwithstanding these special grants and privileges at the hands of the state of Minnesota, those two Iron Range merger roads have charged Minne- sota traflic among the highest rates known on the continent, and curing the Republican administration of the past two years have successfully defied the power of the state to in any manner regulate or reduce their extortionate | charges. Within the past sixty days, at the time of the Minnesota State Agricultural these two merger roads refused to aid and encourage that invaluable state j DOOOCOTOOOE M éunensactecesiatl a} 2 = Fy ig s B ict B. br i ey i= @ 3 & 9 a a a 7 2 a o g 2 o & & e 8 it {3 ° 8 a a e and bring action to enforce the laws in re- ze meiger; but no action has yee been taken, either since re adjourned, cr at any time since the merger was formed ia ‘ 2biuary, 1901. time, since the above date, and during the present Republican state administration, the parent tiust of this Iron Ranse merger has raised the price of pig iron aud steel billets upwards of 60 per cent, with a corresponding trust ‘ tax upon hardware, machinery, and ell other iron and steel products used by tke people. Organized in violcticn of ihe anti-trust laws of both the state and the nation, it ass American people per cent to 50 per cent hisher prices ys abroad—the difference between its American and n prices, if applied to its total product last year, amounting to $40,000,000. This $40,000,000 tax of puie discrin tion against the American people is the product of the nearly 200 protective duties which the steel merger receives f:cm the Dinsi law, a measure which the Republican managers of this state, as of the in to maintain. It is this measure t! es the great steel merger to pay its president a salary of $1,000,000 a year, to issue to its stockholders $56,000,000 of dividends on the first year’s cperat and anneunce that its net earnings for the cur rent year will reach $150,C06,000. 4 In view of these facts, IS IT NOT FAIR TO INQUIRE OF THE PRESENT STATE ADMINISTRATION WHY This OF ALL MERGERS SHOULD BE , OVERLOOKED AND PROTECTED? \ Why is this merger of February, 1901, par7ed by? Why is this merger which carrs 40 per cent dividends by extorticnatd rates protected? Why is the aries and j Is it bee | and supporied | Is it j merger inte curing the pa | Is it becau on holding the no less r «ame to his public oflice from the employ of one of the Iron Range merger roads? Do the people of Mianesota propose to continue the conditions thus re- vealed and endorse the favoritism and extortion thus exposed, by re-electing to office the present state administration? Or, will they start anew with a bd clean slate, and elect to the office of governor a man of backbone whose party is free from trust aflil’ation—by electing Leonard A. Rosing on the platform: That the law of Minnesota shall be no respector of mergers; That the trust and merger laws shall be enforced without fear or favor; That the power of the state to regulate rates shall not be surrendered; J That the laws governing railroad rates shall apply alike to the line of the billion-dollar tariff-protected merger, as to the lines of any non-tariff-and-trust- protected Minnesota and Northwestern company. . L. BUCK, Chairman of Democratic State Central Committee. FRANK A. DAY, Chairman of Democratic Press Committee. : ‘whose lines are exclusively within Minnescta bound u jorgeticn and icro:ed? rger is a Repudlican ward—protected ron and steel ix: services which the Iron Range party in controiling elections ae AMERICAN TRUST PRICES ABROAD. (Dispatch Bureau, 1345 Pennsylvania Ave.) j ‘ | Washington, Sept. 27—Senator Harris of Kansas has injected some life {nto the rather listless congressional campaign. The senator has just returned ’ from Europe after a three months’ sojourn, He is wearing a pair of shoes of American make which he bought in London 20 per cent lower than the same shoes made by the same firm is selling for in Washington and other cities. Sen- ator Harris in an interview today says: & “Everything of American make is cheaper abroad than in this country. My x for the St. Louis exposition took me to all great stock farms and I was icvlar to ask what the Englishmen paid for American farm machinery, Pi pitehforks, hatchets and other necessaries of farm management, and I found that they paid a great deal less than I am forced to pay in-Kansas City for the same articles. “It seems a very great injustice and imposition for American citizens to be forced to pey such high prices here when foreigners secure the same things eta mach lower rate. The American manufacturer says that he must be pro- tected against the foreigner. This is not true. He has nothing to-fear from tn» foreign manufacturer because he is successfully invading the foreign mar- ket. “Neither is it true that the American goods which are sold abfoad are sur- | plus products. “the American manufacturer is selling his goods at a fair profit abroad and at a tremendous profit at home.” hat is the remedy?” seems to me that on certain schedules it would be very easy to lower hich would give the American consumer an opportunity to purchase 4 ,» soods at a decreased price, and if necessary the American manufac- ‘3 er ¢ aise the price slightly abroad. : <co. hing ought to be done. The present condition of affairs is not just. the crican consumer, and I do not believe the Ar-erican people will stand Something is radically wrong when I can buy American shoes ‘or less than I pay for them here, notwithstanding the fact that freight ) miles has to be paid upon them.—St. Paul —ispatch: SHEVLIN’S' “MAN FRIDAY.” ¢ Hon. .W. D. Smith, editor-of that rank Republican sheet, the Winnebago » Poterprise, has this to say of the Republican candidate for lieutenant gov- You may just as well elect Thomas Shevlin for lieutenant governor as to elect Ray Jones, his man Friday. Are the people awake to the necessity of having @ man in complete syiapathy with their interests or are they asleep? What is the moaning of this apathy? Gentlemen, lieutenant governor is noi a Sen? fieivetoad, te is all powertul, Why do not the country papers take more. : apievos! nthe matter.” Sees pe Se ies eee od it : BY JULIA TRUITT BISHOP, (Copyright, 19@, by Daily Story Puh. Co.) There had been a bad quarter of an hour at breakfast; ending which, he flurg himeel! away from the table and into his overcoat. Ifis good humor was not increased by the sact that he ripped the lining half out of his siceve as he dragged the coat on. + “There it is!” Le snarled savagely, with- out looking at her. “I think I mentioned a week ago about this lining—” “It Was last night, John,” she said with tragic calmness. “And I haven’t had time since.” “Oh, it doesn’t matter in the least what beesmes of my clothes,” he retorted. “What do they amount to? I can hire some one to mend them, or I can go in rags, just as 1 “prefer!” And then she burst into tears, most un- reasonably, knowing as she did that he detested crying women; and she declared that she was glad, yes, she certainly was glad that she had telegraphed for her mother yesterday, and that she would be here to-day, for she couldn’t stand this life alone any longer. “Good Lord!” he ejaculated, “is she coming! Well, that ends it. A nice life for a man, to have his peaceful little home broken into by a herd of mothers-in-law without his consent being asked!” And giving a final yank to the coat, which produced a grisly sound of ripping and tear- ing from witiin, he slammed the door of his peaceful little home and went down- town. “Hello, Mayne! Been to a funeral?— or just going?” asked his partner, as he flung his hat at its accustomed hook in the office. “Neither one--wish I were,” he replied, gloomily cecepting the latter suggestion. “Just had my first quarrel with my wife —and behaved like a beast, of course— and now mother-in-law’s coming.” His partner whistled dolefully with his lips and laughed sneakingly with his eyes; which is a way partners have when the other man is in trouble. “Great Scott! but you're in for it!” said the partner, after a few moments cheer- ful thought. “I pity you when you go home. Wife in tears, of course, and mother-in-law silent, but glaring. You try to be cordial, to be pleasant, to be funny, in succession; soul frozen by tue glare. You slump down to 70 degrees below zero, and then apolo- gize for everything you didn’t do, and prom- ise never to do so again. From this time on you will sneak and crawl and cringe. Your rule is ended, Mayne. You are a Lcrpecked man.” . He omily into the vault, and gloomily it out a big ledger, whore: depths be gazed as one without Lope. “Ip wishi there was some business that would take me out of town awhile,” he muttered, hoarsely. “Can't do it,” said the partner, prompt- ly. ‘Business keeps us both here, right here, and business mustn’t be neglected, even for pleasure. Stand up to the rack, Mayne. It’s all day with you, my boy. 1 can’t see what you ever were begun for xhen you were so soon to be done for.” With these and other pleasantries did the :artner beguile the time until noon, introducing him to another old friend who came in, as The Man with the Mother-in- law, and being mournfully facetious at his expense. “Put off the evil day as long as you ean,” ne said at noon. ‘Don't go home until grim necessity dri you, ‘Mayne. Come out to lunch with us. i : It was lste that evening when he rung the bell at his own doar, It was opened promptly and his wife threw herself into his arma. “Oh, Jobn scolding me “mother’s been q rt the way I acted this morning, and I.see now how eelfish it , and I thought you'd never come, so that I could ask your pardon, as motier d fcebly back until she could t the deor for support, and ed his band to his throbbing Was he awake? Or was this one he symptoms of paresis? “And of course you are too angry to speak,” she wailed, distractedly; “and mother said she couldn’t blame you if you were—but do: forgive me this time, John and here’s mother going to stay only one because she’s so vexed with me—” ith mouth ajar and eyes distended, he saw'her mother coming along the hall. she walked straight up to him. She laid a gentle hand on his shoulder. “I’m so sorry, John,” she said. “It eer- tainly was too bad of Nellie to-be so un- reasonable, when you are always so good and kind. I told her at the first that if there was any difficulty between herself and you I knew it would be her fault, for you are so co! erate. She certainly has acted like a child—a spoiled child—she told me all about it—but-I’m sure she'll not be so thoughtless again. And you'll pass it over this time, won’t you?. ply broken-hearted about it. His hand came slowly down from his brow. He straightened himself up. Some- thing distinctly like a smirk crept under his mustache. “There, Nell; it’s all right,” he sai ily, kissing her with condescension. be I was to blame, too—some. And _per- haps you had a headache this -morning, and that put you out of sorts. Of course J forgive you, you little vixen! What’s all thie talk about your mother staying only one night? I hope you don’t think I'll allow anything of that kind. Just make up your mind to stay a year, mother, Send right home for your things, and tell “em to look for you back when they see you soming. And say, Nell—wbat do you say if ‘we all go to the theater to-night? I'll run right out and telephone for tickets. He ran down the steps and came faee to face with his partner. ~ “Turned out of the house already, eh?” #ked that gentleman, jocosely. ‘ “Turned out of the house!” he repeated, with, warmth. “You don’t know -what you’re talking about! That mother-in-law of mine is a woman of a thousand, I tefl you. Shés a woman of taste and judg- ment, and she has common. sense like a man. It didn’t take her any time to straighten matters out, and show who was in the wrong.” » And she and her mother stood in the hall, looking at one another with laughter and with silent clapping of hands. ~ “They can always be managed if you go at it right,” said her mother. ‘Have my trunks taken out of the shed and put into my room, dear. You did very well, indeed. Some women would have gone at their husbands, hammer and tongs, and would have led everything with the very first word, It’s singular, isn’t it, that a wife can do more with her husband by begging abject pardon for something she lean again wildly y isn’t logic that you need in ma life, my dear; it’s hypocri: how sweet he was about yon" ‘SHE AND HER MOTHER | | by Rev. Dr. Charles M. Herald, pastor | Herald appeared at the council didn't do than by any other means? Jt. arried | “Yes, mother,” said ‘he, dutifully And | New York Preacher Who Had Lost His Sight Cured, He Cfaims, by Divine Intervention: Religious circles in New York city are interested in the announcement of the Bethesda Congregational church, Brooklyn, who was recently. attacked by blindness while in the pulpit, that he had recovered. Dr. of Congregational ministers at the Im- manuel Congregational church, called to sanction the resignation of Rev. Dr. E. P. Ingersol, who has accepted the position of secretary of the Amer- ican Bible society. . In speaking of his recovery Dr. Herald declared that God had re- stored his sight. He said: “When the surgeon performed the operation he said there was no hope of my eres recovering my sight. I then fought the battle, the most stubborn and most trying battle I have ever known in my 12 years’ ex- perience as a preacher of’the Gospel. The enemy of my soul then appeared and jeered at me, saying: ‘Now do you believe that the grace of God is all-surviving, as you have preached to your,congregation for 12 years? Now will He help you?’ God heard my. prayer and did what man could not do. He restored my sight.” “PAUL SPRAGUE.” J. M. Eastwood’s Black Stallion Brought ‘to Itasca County. Horsemen of this county are much pleased with the advent of ‘Paul Sprague” to the farm of J. M. East- wood on Trout lake. This magnifi- cent animal will get a number of colts next season in this vicinity. He is a beautiful jet black, 6 years old, 15+ hands high, weighing 1,075 peunds. In style and form he is much like his sie and grand dam: long neck, high head, eyes large and bright, short back, long body, deep shoulders, bas hair as fine as silk, and his appearance is excecdingly grace- ful. Pedigree :--Paul Sprague was sired py. Beaver Dam Boy, who is registered in Wallace’s American Trotting Register No. 10,364; he sired by Badger Rprague, No. 1,097; dam Lucy K., by: Swigert No, 650. Badger Sprague by Gov. Sprague No. 444, who also sired Kate Sprague, (2:18, with thirty others in the 2:30 class) placing him at the head of speed pro- ducing stallions of his age. Dam Beaver Dam Boy, Badger Girl (2:224)* by Black Flying Cloud No: 378; Gov Sprague by Rhode Island No. 267, Dam, Bell Brandon’ by Hamiltonian No. 15, who stands at the bead of speed producing stallions of any age; having 40 performers in the 2:30 class. Dam of Paul Sprague. Jennie Lind sired by St. James. COUNTY ANDi(VILLAGE OFFICERS COUN’ Attorney. Register of Deeds. Clerk of Court. Judge of Probate. cont . Clair 1. D. Russmussen COMMISSIONERS. 1. (Chairman. A. D. Brooks rank S. Lang . W. G. Moore ‘T. H. Hennessy District No. john Fraser President ...... -...-. e-s++ -+-:-.D. M. Gunn, J.¥. O'Connell Trustees ......--. --+-++++ . i J. 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