Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1897 Page: 7 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
r
;’s wrong;
wore than
he Cen-
knd will
eld for
reunion at
inst polyg-.
imongst his
four wives
ip it from
now have
ahd their
Id educate
after that
ly people
I wife nor
le. I te-
ll called a
Ithe court
I passed a .
Inen who
kifeuihal{
Id it there
one wife
price. ”
ble, dig-
»reed In-
can not
us name
[ * While
11 by the.
lives, six
Lind- of
Id them,
Imall ar-
plo fur-
her hat
f light
khat .»>,
I state- '
one of his i
'ashington,
he met the * .
r, Who Mid *
.want to
you have.
p. 14. 5JL
if’ **
I hie own
Lg.JM4-.-l——-
GROWTH OF TRUSTS.
ie
(Special Correspondence.)
I
__
ki
‘..v
*
>
A Cheek Put Upon Their Meth-
ods in Texas.
I
'I
■ "II
fl
Att*rMy*-Gcneral Crane After the Ratl^
.roads for Their Iniquitous
Rebate by
I
servants on guard.
the care of Democracy, with all it is to be hoped the
the vigilance of its elected officers, will put a tl 1 ,
this evil of trusts has made its im- of the most iniquitous pieces, of
press upon Texas commerce. Our < class favoritism at. the expense of
the masses of producers .and con- leller, wh0 ls at the Auditorium,
ipeiMte violated, favor- Burners that could tie imagined—a said in reference to the recent fall
- on
profit^ from
these products? These trusts •fetitors of these merchants, of
would not only suppress a free course, were almost helpless, and.
by dictating to’the beads of our The jfreat trouble is that while th«* wrirld and th.-n i
universities, as evident the intol- near!/ one hundred cases have ------- -- -7
erant and shameful dismissal of. been ‘"Und where evalenceisabout acting business in Kansas.
"President Andrews from Brown sufficient to convict, the full extent °nlv thls*bu ‘ the Kansas n^tfon of
L’niversitv in Rhode Island be- 'hfe evil is difficult to imagine, ties maintain that the injunction of
cause the gentleman held and ex- II doubtless extends into a|] gec-*J,udKe Williams was m violation of
■ I
THE FALL IN SILVER.
Teller S«y» I he Price Is Beln« Forced
Down by ArtlAcUI Means.
Chicago, Augus 8.—Senator
Teller, who is at the Auditorium.
- .-.aaiu iu mcreinx iu iuc recent rail
one in silver: . ‘ "
u-it “No matter how low the price of
V®°P. Pa?, the cost ■ silver may be forced or how greatly
jt njay vary or fluctuate in the gold-
Controlled.bullion markets of the
world, it will still remain one of
tne rare arid valuable, essential and
iccount* of its intrinsic value 1
strument of Canovas.
not pumehjj^
cipal,.
•wn -geTnow tire fgiWr and fire
and zeal to bear them up in their
fight for the freedom of Cuba.
The killing of Canovas will do
much toward bringing thefCuban
war to a close.
“The Spanish realize that Spain
js hopeless. .
“The first protest was the death
of Canovas. 1 rejoice at-the-news.-—
I first thought it too good to be
true.” _ ,
"7 Spain l.-PraotleaHy Bankrupt
London* advices to the New York
papers say that so 4ar as Can be
gathered there in well informed
circles, the opinion is that the assas-'
si nation of the Spahish premier
miy greatly influence the govern-
ment. and Will probably strengthen
the Carlist agitation, which “has'
lately been developing rapidly, and '
thus, by causing Spain domestic
embarrassment, lead her to seek to
avoid all foreign complications.
By a coincidence the foreign office
report dealing ' .
finance was issued giving apprpxi-
. a. — t — — r_. a I—. 1 a a i —.. . a * al-. —
Spanish debt.-* This, including
Cuba, amounts to no. less than
$i,56j.ooo,ooo gold with a charge
for interest of $70,000,000. Be-
yond this is $19,000,000 interest
for liabilities on operations in Cuba,
which means 25 per cent additional
to the* debt. This of course means -
utter bankruptcy to a country
whose income is $i3o,ooo*,oi3hk
5
since-Democracy, the'party i enabled to force all competitors
of the neo’nle uartlv Victorious in out of his until he virtually supreme court, zwuug up.u luls r""" ---” 7"" w.
IS^ -anTw th everv Drosrect for R®»8 the cotton at his own price, belief Attorney General Boyle went! nated by the gold shyl^eks. this
la9~,-amt witn every prospect toi *- aimer of the i„« before the state supreme .court, 1 country, with a bimetallic money ••a8Jln.
complete triumph m lb9b, was ;^r1^ “£4“*”®* Jbringing proceeing-in que-warranto ‘ ’ ’ " ' ” v““ ’ ’
sailed from wijhm her own ranks 1W.h,ch th. T.ite Tn^nrnnee
the one side and fraud on
other, that crowing success was
^defeated which never c— ..... — 1 -
been prevented in open, honest and nails that he is enabled to tin-11
* combat. That Democracy is of1‘'er8®11 nl> competitors for fifty !
and for the people, witness the miles around, and he makes money
Chicago platform of TS96, and the thr°URh the “hold-up” methodsof 1
unprqcedyuted
......tthBSB^.^wqged' 'Ey th?
wealth of the beneficiaries of Re-
77 publican class’legislation. 'False
’ ■"““‘‘""'an imaginary party and deceive as
many Democrats as possible and
mislead them from the field of ac-
tual battle, while the combined
forces of the Republicans, aided
by those alleged Democrats who
? had been sharing in the ill gotten
gains of. the trusts and corpora-
tions, with the labor vote ifitimi-
dated or suppressed, the boodlers
triumphed and secured one more
terip of misrule rind public
. plunder.
' This is the general situation
throughout the whole country;
but here in Texas, where Democ-
racy has governed since the la-
mented Cbke drove the usurpers
out of the state citpithl, corporate
’ power has been timid, and only to
a limited extent and with extreme
caution has it dared encroach upon
the righta- off thej people which
gave them existence under the
• promise that aggregated capital
,. Mould accomplish much for the
. public which individual enterprise
could not, and believing that our
pepple would always keep good
laws on the stat u'e books for their
control,’and, beu^r Mill, elect men
7 who would fesi l« ssly enforce
those laws; here it has been nec-
essary on sevei al occasions to hit
the head of the mdnMer and let it
the country from Chicago,
tariff on coal, which even
. purely to keep out the New found
Jand product and aid the Pennsyl-
vania r~J ------i—
ing up high pricei
■ the miners.
■J
-
I
g
1
I
J
me loreign omce " A
with Spanish ?
mately for the first time the'total
WUCdL tUC OlcllCrv plvUULCS .... •* va.
nearly all the silver, and if silver . pacincos in Cuba, who are now
. I can not believe that jt _
was an anarchist that killed*Cano-
vas. I think that some member of
the ultra-republican party in Spain
did it. The news of the killing' of
Canovas will fire the pacificos and .
make of them partisans for Cuba
people. The ^ery first day that **bre; ft is the right thing in this $
■ " ■ struggle for freedom. .
“Canovas had himself to blame
for this. Weyler js the brutal in-
They did J
^-.txte prin- 7- • .^3
1
I
of habeas corpus will at once be
made to the United States supreme
court, and in such, a proceeding the
attorney general ’would have the
support of the entire state adminis-
tration.
" Gov. Leedy has declared that
the issue has been made and the
matter must be fought to a termi-
nation. ' . >
The application filed by the at-
torney general simply states that
the Mutual Life insurance compa-
ny, a corporation of the- state of
New York, not licensed to do busi-
ness iri the state of Kansas, and
demands that the corporation be
compelled to show by what author-
ity it is so doing in violation of the
statutes of of the state.* - No "mon
tion is made of the injunction of
the federal judge.
Myrtle St., El Paso, citizens are
stirred up over an effort of the street Managers
railway company to secure pokses- jfelieve th;
sion of the avenue. The company
sprung an application for a tran- era
chise on the city council, and the* (he
property owners filed a big protest.
Some towns in Massachusetts
grow rapidly. Tbsr&is one on the
cape which had seven, houses 70 .:ru.. w
years ago, has had two built in the tee age of IS years ahd under 21
meantime, one of which has since in. the senate they receive $1400 a
that the people had faithful freight upon the commerce that.a burned.
- '...i- '■ ■■■ " ■ > .
District Judge John A. Wi) : out the world effect the markelgj
^_-'zz~zzz, at Colorado of the precious metals, but the]
Springs, Col , by which he posi- market quotations are largely fic-1
tively enjoined State Insurance j titious and not predicated upon I
Commissioner McNall and Attor- values. Thus wheat has gone .up
hey General Boyle of Kansas from to 75 cents, partly as a- result of a
bringing any proceedings whatever great corner, but primarily 1 as the
under the state laws to prevent the result of a shortage in Argentine
Mutual Li'e Insurance company and ether wheat- producing coun-1 ot ,a debt that
from doing business in Kansas. tries of the world. The fact that «*—
— - —-----7" - -—-- . merchant8 h v rec.elvc<i thniisamlx The injunction of Judge Wil-, wheat fell off three cents yesterday , ceeding with the slaughter.called
and dividends grow npraeulous y liains was a sweeping document an shows that the price is not stable in Cuba. It will have a very
on unnatural and ^legitimate ‘^"v flX.hed The e m character, and amounts, according or permanent. I expect to see great influence m shaping the con-
the consumers of pr®88®8 have ffoOrished. Ihe com- Gpvernor Attorney Gen-' wheat go to $1 and hope it will, in j tfae island ^nd will give to.,
eral Boyle amd Commissioner Me thejnerest of the farmers, butthgjtheinsurge^jiJxBsh,vigor,'-*4-
” ^-.L;t,‘^cr777a_6yrspeculatorsTto the opanish forces in Cuba a
under and regulated by the quantity oi J greilte1' restlessness. I firmly be-
--- 1 ■ 1 ■——_ JL----1 c—a d—___— L 1 11AVA tout th#1!** will lux q rrroo^
lus- — — number of desertions from the
Not does not fix or affect permanently Spanish army in Cuba following
■. the real value of wheat, which is | uP°n the announcement of the -
death of Senor Canovas, rind that
uu c wuuauuwmiuvivuiuuuw- _____ ____ _____ - _____ — ' • jniltn-
theUniltdStates constitution, in wheat is* less stabtejor the. com- becr acPegsuiDB to C u bin. army.* -
that it prevented the state from’ en- iTHOdlty than the value of stiver, -feu;. While I do not lielieve in as-
u
■■■•a
189t>, was as- depriving the farmer of the just
and by treacherous leadership on legitimate competition would se-
town, a hardware” merchant gets j to appear before the state supreme
‘ *7-—“---‘7
it is transacting business in Kan-
'sas. ’ . * ■ ■ ■ —*
The attorney general , has done
precisely what the injunction of
j arid the presumption is that-the
.« federal judge will cau^e his arrest
wa’S’Wl' tb'hiF a^mt" STindly partisan as the house.
1. • _ . 8 .. __________ _in -a ____want nn crnld-controlled anrx
But with all ’ few favorites might thrive. Theo
hoped the punishment
the vigilance of its elected officers, will put a check upon the evil, one
year, and in the house $1200.
iLr- 1-
anti-trust laws jhave be^n disre-
garded, comr'*“t‘ 1
ites enriched and honest-merch'ints
bankrupted wbo failed to obey the
edicts of their political, manipula-
tors during campaign years. __
Attorney General Crane has re- afford these rebates to the favored
jcently obtained a verdict against; few. ' . *
I Aithtin, Aug^-10-/ 1897.—In the *be oil trust, one of the boldest ■ Whatever becomes of these spits
■ present depressed condition of the! operating in Texas, which will the fact remains that that the re-
I entire country, ahd the starvation have a wholesome effect in that bate system shows an inequality
wages which has been the cause of i direction. Now he has arraigned in freight rates which should and
the great mining strike, the direct tb® railways for their violation of doubtless will be regulated by the''.recognition by men and govern-
and immediate result of Republi- commission Jaws. Only a.few commission If upon a rate of SO, ments, but because there is not
■ > •; can legislation, we have incontj*o-q year» since jexas Democracy, see- cents On cotton the roads can makej eneovh and in all human
vertible evidences pf that class fa lng this evil, created a railway .enough to give bund reds of thous- probability there never will
I vpritiwn.which has built up the commission, and put upon it ber ands of dollars to favored com- be, to transact the monetary affairs
great corporations of Our country most trusted men. - Ex[)ert knowl- presses and buyers, then ifis clear of’men and nations, without con
• Xnd fostered syndicates and nur ®dge of railway business was the rate on cotton should be re | current use of sitvef. "’ *~ v-
■ tured trusts until the commerce needed, and experts were procured duced, perhaps as low as. 35 cents I *• -
and industry of the country are no ^r?P1 ra'lwaV oifieas. . . r.
’ longer conducted Upon legitimate 1 lle ®ff®ct of this movement was refit of it.
I lines of fair profit upon, goods, ; most wholesome.1 ^Rebates and I ---- ■----—
L manufactures and merchandise'}'118®riminations were less open, in j KANSAS V8. UNCLE SAM.
L with jtfSt compensation to labor. “‘act ’X WaH supposed • they had
r 12 ... have ceased in obedience to the law; and A n,r.a
one?of ‘the most striking levjes-of- thus matters have stood for two
tribute ujjonr’the consumers of the i or three years. But communities
country in favor of particularjn-' aD‘' mt’es have witnessed failures The”L»nv’ exnected clash between
dustrial enterprises, while prices which astonished the nnhlie Men 3.._?Pect
of the raw materials grow lower ’",U8^-V’. caPac“y aa" authorities bf the state of Kansas a question whether the people will
and lower. The tobacco trusts are mtegnty have failed, while along- . u ,------„ 7 7. I
' enriched while the ptbducer of the sltl® them less capable merchants
leaf can hardly earn the-: necessa- have prosjiered., Men -have suf-
rihe-of life. The increased tariff f®red from, like influences in other-
on* hides will add 25c. to each pair Xet“now“‘lr»rtl?“^ ine «ate courts in op
ot shoes, and the^S Te^eraTautESHS
—-4»4be producer-of Illg W^or TCe iiwrrer®e number of suits -filed by . u n
laborer who makes .the shoes, but; Attorney-
tO _ t^l^l X* ■ ..... ■ - . v.... , . . v r~r
which control?? the hide product of | )lon8 of the commission rules and
. « A l<» vav aatox k«4 a 1 |
few roads have given rebates to com-
renegade Democrats favored, was press men amounting to hundreds
r * • * •’ " *. of thousands a year. One bard-
ware merchant^received $18,000 in
and Ohio companies in keep ! rebates on hardware shipments
„p high prices on coal while during,pne year. Lumber mer-
they continue 'to cut the rifages of } chants have starved competitors
- • The oil trust’s stocks !aDt' grown rich on rebates. Other
{Merchandise'.
In the protective tariff we have 7*'■*'*• **•“*-'' ‘Y *“? “uu A Direct; Conflict Between the Federal
one of ‘the most striking levies of- thus1 foetters have stood for two and Kanaaa conrta.
<nbut. »^tb. C»..u»BJUJJ_ Topeka. K.o„S A.a
, '.tn. .’S’S
grow lower capital, industry, capacity and , kr v I a «.w.atinn whether th.
The tobacco trusts are ,nte^nty nave railed, while along
reproducer of the hZvereuF “P“ the‘advice gold .power.
with the concurrence of the fall’s electio.
The
Armour-Swift- quartette-8^veral railways for gross violn-^V’*,y^<
kt.le ef tioDS of the commikkion rnlns »n<l oiare.
jbe inter-state law .on rebates,
a I
trusts "ftetitors of Ahese merchants, of
,-k:^.„tNatlr~tO a praettral T.innlnient [mai'koV~ cOii tiofled Sv speculators |
1 one part of lleve that there will be a great
volved had been barred from trans-j the world and then in another, "I”"1?""
the real value of wheat, which is llPon the announcement of the
- an inherent value. — * A C tzJ
I “But this inherent value of “®re _W111 be a corresponding
¥uuv.u,u uv... . nrtwib]v jnt„ the United States constitution, in ; wheat is less^tabie . tor tne c
pressed decn led views favorable to tfons o^ the Mate^^Jinto nte(1 the Ptate from- en. ‘niotity than the value of silver,- ----- -------~
true.bimetallism.- TJjis great Cvil, .e'®ry town. . Here m ono town a i carrvimr out its own while matiy Countries produce [ suseimttion, 1 think the-removing
the curse Of America, has steadily J™ “an^ thereby' hw/andllso in contravention to wheat the United States produces of Canovas will be the salvation of
grown under Republican rule .TTM8’ tk. decisions ot the United States nearly all the silver, and if silver he pacificos m Cuba who afe now
i.hnd not been betrayed, and assassi- butchered ruthlessly by
Standard, could rule the silver
market of the world. . ..
‘.‘The president within ten days
recognized the money question as
the most important one before the
1—1— —'— • —- ----
the seriate convenes next December
this question wifi come up. , The
administration wants to be fortified
with the report of such a commis,
sioff •--*vtifo* IsHKauapoUS
plaS, or a similar one. But, _th^.
• We
want no gold-controlled appointed
commission, with a cut-and-dried
plan on hand, to instruct us what
to do, and compiit this nation to a
policy jepugnant to the industrial,
and producing masses.”
Nd’ Silver Panic in Mexico.^
y City of Mexico, Aug. 7.—-There
is no panic in commercial circles
here. Thfe prediction of a still
lower price for silver made by Di-
rector PCeston of the United States
mint is published by newspapers
here and rffuch commented upon.
The government Will punctually
meet its gold interest on debt held
in Europe, also in the City of
Mexico. Fortunately the federal
revenues have been augmenting
so that the government faces the
silver crisis in a good' condition.
It is probable that the silver out-
put will be somewhat checked.
' 1 of smelters generally
dieve that lower prices of silver
will diminish the output. Smelt-
ers wjll not be much affected by
uie drain in silver, except as they
are owned abroad and owners get
an income when- changed into Jhe
equivalent of gold.
Pages in congress must be over
th® masses of producers -and con-
favoritism which,, enriches <
merchant and ruins a dozen, while I
the common p r‘._
in freight tAriffs inflated so as to
controlled.bullion markets of the
r'
necessary money metals, not, only
on account* of its intrinsic value I "r- 7*17 "* . <>pa*u, w
an<f its established and hereditary | l- >• eie words upon
ments. but because there" is not Th® ,afi8a??in. wa8 iniffiediatnly. J
U arrested He is a Neapolitan ana -
v. givefythe name of Rinaldi, put it is
believed* that this fe an assumed
’ name and that his real ‘ name i®
. Michele-Angino Colli. I ,
"A great ado is made about the \:iTh? “urder®r <'®‘;lafe81 that he ■
---„ ju^t vengeance,”
- * - and that the deed the outcome of
37X5 il" , a-
‘ trust io 118 believed to have .arrived at a*
S^nta Agueda the sam$ day as the ‘
premier, and he was frequently
seen lurking in the passage of the
bathing establishment in a suspi- - “
cious manner.
. What the Junta Thinks.
, mt| ... 1 --------» anffln-'i:
The result of last ber of the Cuban junta, at* NfewT'
' United States, ; Yor--ki who was aq Officer in the!
1 blow to silver] ton year8’ war, and .nftW-haa-twoA
■ iu open dfetiance oL-.in_.Eurepe. .--Tfo?reet^ TTghting for independ-
lorities. This a? adopting a gold standard militated ! 06 undec Major Geh. Calixto
-General*1 k* hion is the outcomeof aninjunction .agatnst it. The extravagant ac- [ «a™a, aPpeared pleased when
aifwavs fo Xs ^ofoL.is?ued on J11^ 9> last* bV L’nited counts of gold disC(lveries through I remierCanovas hairnet
* • y . District Judge John A. Wi) out the world effect the markets]a deat£-, .. .. .
liams oi Arkansas, at Colorado of the precious metals, but the] It means, he said, the over-
' • - - - throwing of the present govern-
ment and the overthrow of the
forces that are backing Weyler in-
Cuba: It means that the people
have at last some tangible evidence
of what they think of the paying
" J“u‘ ‘■'-"t can never be paid
and the inutility of further pro-
secret- is
grown
- ------- ... : tire decisions ct the United States
of the people, partly victorious in OUI °I his fields until he virtually ‘,uPr].I^e■ C41lirt- 1
.AAn i . j I cruta th. rntt.in ut h4a own ,Oelief Attorney General BojTe went
'ti before the state supreme .court.
implete triumph in 1
lied from wijhniber own ranks
j se_ , against the Mutual Lite Insurance
cure ta him. ‘There, in another company to compel that corporation
could have 8Uch rebates on barbed wire, plows j$°urt andwhow by what authority
1- • 1- l .A 1 11 15 «♦ iu-n rt.nntiMO klicittocc «n Von.
in prevented in open, honest ant* nails that he is enabled to un-
ubat. That Democracy is of1 t'ers®11 all competitors for fifty
miles around, and he makes money
i96*"and the through the “hold-up” methodsof
tries of Re- legitimate -profits, v^hich are di-'
ion. 'False vi(led '°to the coffer^
-<Cr-,’ rnot yet al) thq extent of the evil.
One railroad gives rebates, and its
competitor, a few miles distant or
nearby, obeys the law. The one
gets the freight, the other gets
left. The one gets into the hands
of the receiver because it can not
"pay interest on its debt, and the
stockholders and bond holders lose,
while the “manipulator” of stocks
and bonds who knows thecause
and the remedy makes his pile.
How about the other read, the one
that gives rebates? They make
money? Not much! The profits
go out in rebates to various friend/1
and side-partners of the managers;
and the recipients of the rebate, in
violation of law, grow rich, but
the road doesn’t. It is held up to
the gaze of the public, however,
as a road “starved. to death” by
the low freight rates of the com-
mission, and it is argued that the
tariff rates afe oppressive and the
commissiqn should be abolished.
The minimum penalty in each
.case is $500, the maximum $5,000.
There are nearly a hundred cases,
which, at $1000 each, would mean
$100,00$- to the state treasury,
which, in lieu of that much taxes
for the support of the govern-
ment, would partly riompensate
the people for the levy of unjust
. .that’ the producer can get the be^ latetp^Xly It^dy foVimsHven ^££“°of
was ebt of it. Democrat. Itsfah in price was not unexpected j thK?. a J-U8t. ven?
to tfOJnends and proponents-of
bimetallism.
the international' tgpld trust is I
powerful enough to controlgovern-
ments, the policies of nations, and
the destinies'of people, the value
of silver as a money metal may be
’. It is only
occurred Monday. Attorney Gen submit to being made slaves to the Major Antonio Serrano,
..... »k. advice i gold„power. The result of last Ihe Cuban junta.
of the fall’s election in the United States, | wh°
state administration, took action in a.s proclaimed, was a I
the state courts '
This a? I adopting a gold standard militated j ®j*'
viivn/wfapaliist it. The extravacrant ar- I
SPAIN’S PREMIER 'KILLED!
\ \
AosaMlnated by an Anarch
KiTect on Cnb«. \
Madrid, Aug. 9—SenoV- an<>-
vas del Castillo, prime minil|®r °I
Spain, was assassinated Suna$£ at
Santa Agueda, by an anarab]81**
Thp murderer fired three shV
ope striking the premier in ■
forehead and another in the ches
The wounded man fell dying i
the feet~of hiy wife, who was wil^,
him, lingering in agony for an
nour and then passing away with
j the cry of “Long, live Spain,”
his Ups
1
> I
L I
K.
I. GA.
SI
leur» of
low.d.
-n-
\
I
i
»•
’A J; .Mp- <j.-'
1
J
. A
B- O
£?
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Wills Point Chronicle. (Wills Point, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1897, newspaper, August 12, 1897; Wills Point, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1302553/m1/7/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.