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Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Rt. Rev. (
Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York. I
preached in St. Ann's Church on the r
Heights. Sunday. His subject was c
"The Church and the Labor Ques- r
ticn," and for his text he took the e
two passages: St. Luke 3:10 to s
14 (R. V.): "And the multitude c
asked Him what then must we do? e
He answered and said unto them,
*He that hath two coats let him im- \
part to him that hath none; and he s
that hath food let him do likewise.' \
And there came also publicans to be c
baptized and they said unto Him, i
'Masfer, what must we do?' And He f
aaid unto them. 'Exact no more than t
that which is appointed you.' And 1
the soldiers also asked Him, saying, i
What must we do?' and He said unto c
them, 'Extort from no man by vio- j
lence; neither accuse any one wrong- r
fully; and be dontent with your t
wages." And St. Matthew 11:2 to v: r
"Now when John had heard in prison c
the works of Christ he sent two of his Y
disciples and said unto Hira: 'Art c
Thou He who should come or look we *
for another?' And Jesus answered j t
and said unto them. 'Go your way s
and tell John the things which ye c
see; the blind receive their sight and e
the lame walk; the lepers are a
cleansed and the deaf hear, the dead a
are raised up and the poor have the I
good tidings preached to them; and t
blessed is he who shall find no occa- (3
Bion of stumbling in Me.' " Bishop r
Potter said; i
I wonder if it has ever occurred to \
you to ask yourselves the question, d
how far the absolute incidents of the t
gospels are a witness to their truth? t
There are incidents like that which t
must present itself to you in connec- r
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UUU Willi juiiu (.(it; JDit|?nsL. ituu iuai s
other which occurs at the close of St. t
Matthew's and St. Luke's gospels in a
connection with Peter which make p
us fee} that if any one -were writing a b
book in which he desired to present t
to us simply a favorable impression a
of this or that man there are certain v
things in the gospels which would li
have been left out. Nothing is finer, t
for example, in its way, than the lan- 1
guage of John the Baptist in connec- t
tion with the coming to him in the r
desert of the people, and of the sol- n
diers, and the tax gatherers and the r
rest. It is a singularly direct and c
explicit way in which he lays down to e
each group what should be the law c
of their life. And it is entirely an- l
other man, if we stop and think a t
moment, whom we encounter in the f
gospel for the third Sunday in Ad- d
vent: "Art Thou He that should a
. come? Really, I do not know wheth- s
er you are or not." 1
That is the implication of the p
words, and I can imagine an unbe- t
liever using these words as a very i
effective argument against the belief v
of John the Baptist in the divine r
claims of Jesus. Here is a man who r
has been sent as the forerunner of a
Jesus, who had baptized Jesus, who c
was profoundly persuaded of the mis- r
Bion and truth and divine character \
of Jesus, and yet there comes a mo- y
msnt in his life when he says: "Well, s
really, I am not clear about you. You t
claim to be the Messiah. You have c
appeared to this nation and to this i;
era in the history of the world with r
a revelation of the Supreme Force in d
the world. Art Thou He who should c
come?" But the fine thing about I
these two texts is the fact that each y
one of them is a distinct and explicit s
witness to that thing of which you t
and I are perfectly conscious in our- r
eelves. That is, that every man and c
every woman is made up of two men a
and two women; that there are types c
i of character which are so contradic- s
tory and so unlike each other that
abstractly we should say they are ab- c
eolutely irreconcilable and yet they p
belong to the same person, influenced o
' by different circumstances and chal- v
lenged by different perplexities. There I
ran ho nn rtnnht as to thp irrmrPSQinnc r>
which had Been made by the teaching t
and life of Jesus upon John the Bap- \
Ust in the words I have read. John. \
in other words, grasped and seized i
with singular clearness and force the t
' fact that here in the advent of Jesus d
there had entered the world an abso- t
lutely new law in the conception of t
life and of the individual's relations t
to other lives about him. a
Go back to the beginning of civili- t
zation and trace step by step to this r
hour and you will be amazed to find t
how largely they built on the compli- a
cations and philosophies of caste. My a
brother (Dr. Alsop) might make an \
interesting sermon upon the tragic
and dramatic forces of caste in India.
whose religions it would be well
to remember are older than ours. In e
other words, the moment that bar- y
barism begins to lift itself by organi- *r
zation, by the creation of the govern- a
ing society, it differentiates barbar- s
Ism from civilization. It begins also e
to emphasize the distinction of caste. f
Do you know that to-day a Pariah,
one or the classes in India, cannot ^
walk on the sidewalk of the street s
after 3 o'clock in the afternoon be- s
cause it is possible that this Pariah, c
whose touch is defilement, might j
brush against a Brahmin? In other s
words, the Brahmin has pushed the <]
theory of the isolation of the caste to 2
that point where he cannot allow {
one not of the same caste to walk on t
the same side of the street with him. s
When I was in India I asked a Hindu
on a boat on the Koogly River to sit
down and eat with me, and he turned
as if I had struck him and said: "My
caste forbids; I cannot eat with you
because you are a Christian."
Now, Jesus came and John the
Baptist sees first of all that He ^liad j
struck at the foundation, at the jays- t
tem of the theory of caste. The^ie- j
ory of caste carried with it the right {
of certain privileged people to main- t
tain a certain autocratic and imper- j
lous sovereignty over the lives and
property of others. "No.." said John,
having been long enough in the presence
of his Master to grasp that great
["?- central truth of the Master's teach- 1
ing, "no, you and I, the soldier and '<
the tax gatherer and the men who I
pay taxes, and, all the rest, are one ?
family in the family of God. and in i
your relations to one another you 1
must govern yourselves by the law of <
equity and not by the power which 1
comes into your hands because of any i
mere caste inheritance whatever <
your office or place may be in caste 1
L inheritance of power over another."
I i'ne oeuevers xn cue reugiuii ui >
Jesus Christ were slow, to grasp that t
truth. John the Baptist himself be- '<
gan to doubt whether Christ had i
come to create a new system under <
which men should sustain new rela- <
tions to each other. "Art Thou He 1
' who should come? If so. why don't <
you strike at the foundation of this 1
concrete, ecclesiastical-political-social 1
order of which you and I are a part?" <
Now, we come to the great truth 1
which Jesus strives to get to the t
I minds of His disciples: "Go tell John ;
Lv the thinzs you have seen." What :
vas the definition of the Master's
nethod? That He put into human
;ociety an absolutely new conception
>f the relation of man to man and left
t as ?. seed. He did not deal with
he miseries of society, as you and 1
ire often tempted to deal with them.
-Ie did nnt dismiss the blind and the
ame and the rest out of His sight
md teaching. He dealt with then
our-square. and relieved them. Hf
ranslated the mind and the heart of
>od to the consciousness of man and
le mads them realize at last that His
eligion was in the world to be a recreative
force. First of all. beginling
at the individual heart and life
md then bringing about the reconduction
of society because of the
lifferent way in which men regarded
;ach other.
That brings me to the subject on
vhich T have been specially asked to
ipeak to-night. You and I, whether
ve are disposed to like the situation
>r not. and most of us resent It as an
nsufferable impertinence, are conronted
in this republic, and in this
wentieth century, with incompara?ly
the most tremendous problem, in
ts relation to the right construction
>f human society, with which the remblic
hc>s yst had to deal, and that
>roblem is the problem of the unificaion
of the ideas and sympathies and
lurposes and aims of men. and you
annot go home to-night and lay your
lead upon your pillow without being
onscious, whether you choose to acknowledge
it or not. that there is in
he depths of poverty and want and
hamp all about you a profound sol's
l rtisrnnfpnt. and that there are
arnest and able men (let us be just,
iltliough we don't love them), who
ire deeply persuaded that there can
te no peace in human society unless
hat peace is wrought by the absolute
lestruction of principles which are
>recio;i9 and beautiful and dignified
n human society. They say the
vhole social fabric must be pulled
lown and thrown to the ground and
he man who stands in the way of
hat must be got out of the way. Now,
he question which confronts you and
ae is: How are we to deal with this
tate of mind and what are we to do
o remedy it? We know that if such
, social revolution were to come to
>ass to-morrow it would be attended
>y cruel and brutal indignities and
hat the guardianship of the family
.nd the safety of the State itself
rould be imperiled. Our social probem
here in America, and especially
hose problems which involve our reations
to the men who work with
heir hands, are not to be solved by
evolution, but by quite another
aethcd. First of all we are to recoglize
the situation, the tremendous
onvolution, the transformation I
nay venture to call it, which has
ome to pass in the workingman's
ife by the invention of machinery,
>y the building up of great central
orces for the employment of men tinier
conditions which separate him
bsolutelv from the master whom he
erves. The workman is as absolutey
unknown to the man or the corloration?and
it is often a corporaion?who
employs him as if he lived
n Dahomey. It is along these lines,
whether you choose to recognize it or
lot, thatdanger lies; and the church's
elation to that problem is one, aiter
.11, which is in the hands of every
ine to whom I am speaking. How
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nuca ao you KUUW ui iuc me v/i <-1*^
rorkingman? How much time have
ou given to understanding it or to
often it or to inspire it? It is not
he giving of money, or the creation
if charitable institutions that builds
ip the feeling of brotherhood among
aen. The poor man resents our con[escension.
He does not want that
ir your gold; he wants recognition of
lis manhood. The shop girl wants
ou to honor her womanhood; to repect
her in the task in which she is
oiling and suffering. You can do
Quch to make that task easier and
reate an atmosphere in which she
,nd you can move alike as members
if the same divine society and fellow
oldiers under the same Master.
That brings into view the relation
if the church 'to these great social
iroblems. You and I somehow or
ither must bring the man who works
rith his hands to recognize his place,
lis right, his office, his calling in the
hurch of God. The first business of
he church is to place her houses of
worship at the service of the people
rho work with their hands and then
n the life of the church to encourage
hat spirit which will help us to un[erstand
and to serve it. There is
rat one way to do that. Instead of
urning to any "ism" of the hour or
heory of social reconstruction, or
tny new philosophy which underakes
to re-create society upon theoies
which are essentially barbaric in
heir nature, you and I must go back
.nd look into the face of the Master
,nd find in Him the secret of our service
and our triumph.
Dependence Upon the Holy Spirit.
Christ said to His disciples on the
(Vening of His resurrection, "Receive
e?take ye?the Holy Ghost." The
nessage is to us also. These words
rp a command?not a mere permis?
ion. It is not a passive receiving,
lither, but an active taking on our
lart.
If we take this Holy Spirit, what
vill it mean? It will mean that wo
hall have the spirit of missions, the
pirit of power. Livingstone wrote
in his last birthday but one, "My
fesus, my King, my life, my all, I
igain dedicate my whole self to
Thee." When the Lord called him
Lwav, he was on his knees, with his
ace buried in his hands, praying for
he regeneration of Africa. The
ipirit of missions within us prompts
o various kinds of service. Ke
noves one to say, "Here, Lord, am I,
lend me;" another gives of his possessions
to send the Gospel across the
ieas. while another spends days and
lights in earnest prayer for the
vorld's conversion. May the Spirit
ead us during this coming year
o consecrate at least one evenng
in the month to an earnest study
)f this great cause that is so near Lo
^ nf nnr Mnchor' WJ i 11 i o T7*
Petiibone, in Pacific Eaptist.
A Prayer.
Soul of our souls. Thou to whom
ve turn for life and health, inspire
ma quicken us, and by our worship
;repare us for our work. Give us a
iieadfast spirit, a heart enslaved b>
10 appetite or passion, a will guided
jy wisdom and firm for the right
jive power to work and power tc
,vait. mercifully look upon our infinities
and those evils, which bj
)ur frailty, our sin, or our ignorance
,ve have invited, turn from us
rransform evil into good. Out ol
nortal weakness bring forth immor
oi cfrenffth. May the fire rurify
md not consume; and, when we pass
.hrough the rivers, may they not
jverwhelm us. Stay with us frore
lawn till eventide. Should the waj
)e rough and gloomy, may we pul
)ur hand in Thine, aiid, if we an
ed out into the dark, still let us hotc
:ast by Thee, and cast away fear, li
;he crush and clang of life, may i
jlessed calm often visit us, tell ins
hat a Holy Ghost has entered in
Mid will not leave us till we bid H}n
:o. Amen.?P. E. Vizard.
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.; THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA
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CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK
WINNING ALL ALONG LINE.
i : Poem: Justicc?The Number of Total
Abstainers Who Are Being Elect|
ed to High Office Shows a Grati*
> | fying Increase.
J Three men went out one summer night,
1 ! Vn fnrr> hrvl ihpv or aim.
And dined and drank:
. "Ere we go home
i We'll hare," said the}-, "a game."
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, Three girls bepn that summer night
A life of endless shame,
And went through drink, disease and death
As swift as racing liame.
i Lawless and homeless, foul they died;
Rich, loved, and praised, the men;
Eut when they all shall meet with God,
And Justice 3peaks?what then?
?Stopford A. Brooke.
Total Abstinence Mayors.
It is gratifying to note the great
increase in the number of total abstainers
among those who were elect;
ed to a first place in civil administration.
In 1902 there were in England
forty total abstaining mayors. In
1906 the number had grown to
eichty-two. How many are in Ire
land we are not able to say. We fear
few, if any; but we venture to express
the hope that the time is not
far distant when the city of Belfast
and other centres of administration
In our island will he delivered from
the disgraceful stigma that has too
long rested on them, where a total
abstaining mayor could not be elected
because civic hospitalities without
alcohol would not be tolerated. For
many years we have been listening
to good men again and again deploring
this fact, but none seem willing
to draw public attention to it. We
I take leav6 to say plainly, that to
make it an essential qualification for
a chief magistrate that he should be
able and willing to drench his council
statedly with debasing intoxicants is
not civilization, even at its lowest
point,but is downright belly-worship;
and of the guilty here we h-ve the
highest authority for saying, that
they will also "glory in their shame."
No human language could be strong
enough to express the dishonor with
which such a circumstance brands
any community.?Everybody'sMonthly,
Belfast, Ireland.
A Terrific Excoriation.
Georgia is certainly to be congratulated
for having passed the laws
prohibiting the sale of intoxicants
within the State. Whisky is doomed,
and it should have been condemned
by every State in the Union years ago.
Examine the records, and you find
that all sorts of crimes?yes, ninetyfive
per cent, of them?can he traced
to whisky. It has reduced many a
home to poverty and has broken up
hundreds of thousands of happy
homes. It furnishes the asylum with
patients, the penitentiary with inmates
and sends its victims to hell.
When we think of the wrecking
power that whisky possesses, we
stand amazed that a Christian nation
should tolerate for one moment the
manufacture and sale of intoxicants.
The Government long ago enacted
laws for the protection of our fish,
and the birds, and beasts in the forest;
yet have let the American home
go on unnoticed and unprotected from
the clutches of the whisky demon.
But we hehold the dawn of a new
day. Other States will follow Georgia's
example, and sure at some time
our posterity will enjoy better things,
nrill r?Qtror ho qJiIo fn ItTlflpr
auu lucj n in
stand why their forefathers, representing
a Christian nation, could, for
one moment, have tolerated such a
condition of whisky affairs as we have
to-day.?Southern Fruit Grower.
The Temperance "Wave."
The movement toward moderation
in the use of alcoholic drinks, which
is often referred to as a "wave," is
too widespread and too continuous to
answer to that term. Consul Mahin,
of Nottingham, forwards some statistics
that show that it is gaining in
force in England, and seems to be
progressive as well as persistent.
Since 1900 the consumption of
beer per head has fallen from 32.29
eallons. the highest point reached in
i the history of the trade, to 27.81
gallons, or fourteen per cent. This,
still leaves a consumption of rather
less than four pints a day for the
adult male population, which would
seem to be adequate for legitimate
thirst; but if the rate of decrease,
one-seventh in seven years, can be
kept up or nearly approached, the
middle of the twentieth century will
see a practically beerless England.
Of course, no such result ia to be
looked for, but the decrease is substantial
and unquestionably wholesome.
During the same period the
consumption of spirits declined from
1.18 gallons per head to .91, which
is twenty-three per cent., a still more
encouraging showing.?New York
Times.
Have Never Seen a Saloon. *
Governor Hoch says: "A quarter
of a million people have been born in
Kansas who have never seen a saloon
or a joint, and have grown up to believe
as a part of their creed that it
j is an unmixed evil."
Of the 105 counties in tne state
only twenty-one have any paupers.
Only twenty-five have poor-houses.
Thirty-five have their jails absolutely
1 empty. Thirty-seven have no criminal
cases on their dockets. Kansas
! has the smallest number of paupers
of any State in proportion to its pop!
ulation. It spends more money for
1 education in proportion to its population
than any other State.
How soon can these things be saiil
; of your State??Carrio Nation's
Hatchet.
i Temperance Notes.
The prohibition Chautauquas have
been well attended and sown lots of
seed.
In Tennessee only Chattanooga,
i Memphis and Nashville remain as
> cities that license the sale of liquori,
In the southwestern part of VirJ
ginia, the wildest part of the old
, Commonwealth, many towns have
voted liquor out of business, and it is
' said that the next Legislature of
North Carolina will consider a prohi'r
bition law.
) Every asylum has half its inmates
. because of rum, every poorhouse
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L iuicc"4uttiicra ttiiu cvcij j<n* ?
. fifths. Three out of four of all dol,
lars paid in taxes go to defray exj
penscs caused by saloons.?Connectit
cut Citizen.
1 The prohibition movement, which,
according to the National Temperance
Society's report, has overspread
? Continental Europe, is taking England
by storm, has penetrated Scot[
land?that "most Biblical and bibu,
lous country in the world"?and is
' i sobering Bourbons in Kentucky, as
J ! also the other States south of Mason
, and Dixon's line.
. V'.. ..Jk.
Commissioner I
Frovr,
Mr. Herbert Knox Smith, whose zeal in the !
cause of economic reform has been in no wise
abated by the panic which he and his kind
did so much to bring on, is out with an answer
to President Moffett, of the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana. The publication of
this answer, it is officially given out, was delayed
several weeks, "for business reasons,"
because it was not deemed advisable to
further excite the public mind, which was
profoundly disturbed by the crisis. Now that
the storm clouds have rolled by, however, the
Commissioner rushes again into the fray.
Our readers remember that the chief
points in the defence of the Standard Oil
Company, as presented by President Moffett,
were, (1) that the rate of six cents on oil
from Whiting to East St. Louis has been issued
to the Standard Oil Company as the
lawful rate by employes of the Alton, (2)
that the 18-cent rate on file with the Interstate
Commerce Commission was a class and
not a commodity rate, never being Intended
to apply to oil, (3) that oil was shipped in
large quantities between Whiting and East
St. Louis over the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois at six and one-fourth cents per hundred
pounds, which has been filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission as the lawful
rate, and (4) that the 18-cent rate on oil
was entirely out of proportion to lawful rates
on other commodities between these points
of a similar character, and of greater value,
such, for example, as linseed oil, the lawful
rate on which was eight cents. President
Moffett also stated that thousands of tons cf
freight had been sent by other shippers between
these points under substantially the
same conditions as governed the shipments
of the Standard Oil Company.
This defence of the Standard Oil Company
was widely quoted and has undoubtedly exerted
a powerful influence upon the public
mind. Naturally the Administration, which
has staked the success of its campaign
against the "trusts" upon the result of its attack
upon this company, endeavors to offset
this influence, and hence the new deliverance
of Commissioner Smith.
We need hardly to point out that his rebuttal
argument is extremely weak, although
as strong, no doubt, as the circumstances
would warrant. He answers the points made
by President Moffett substantially as follows:
(1) The. Standard Oil Company had a traffic
department, and should have known that the
six-cent rate had not been filed, (2) no answer,
(3) the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
rate was a secret rate because it read, not
from Whiting, but from Dolton, which is
described as "a village of about 1,500 population
just outside of Chicago. Its only
claim to note is that it has been for many
yqars the point of origin for this and similar
secret rates." The Commissioner admits in
describing this rate that there was a noie
attached stating that the rate could also be
used from Whiting.
The press has quite generally hailed this
statement of the Commissioner of Corporations
as a conclusive refutation of what is
evidently recognized as the strongest rebuttal
argument advanced by the Standard.
In fact, it is as weak and inconclusive as
the remainder of his argument. The lines of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois do not run
Irons in the Fire. Colombl
An amateur authoress who had According to
submitted a story to a magazine Mining Journal
waited for several weeks without um exports of
hearing from the editor concerning Cartagena and
It. Finally she sent him a note re- exports througt
juesting an early decision, because, ventura are sai
is she said, she "had other irons in quantity.?Engl
;he fire."
Shortly after came the editor's re- National C
ply: Regulations i
"Dear Madam?I have read your costume of bott
story, and I should advise you to put people have be<
It with the other irons."?Harper'- there are nine i
Weekly. tumes.?Shang]
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Then They Killed Him. The pen was
"No," said the offensive punster;
'a girl who persists In hailing men i jmes uureu
can't be a reigning belle. She'll Pazo Ointment is
meet a good many frosts and soon case of Itching, Bli
find her name under a cloud. It m6tol4day
won't dew."?Leslie's Weekly. To get rid o
dians marry th
There is more Catarrh In this section oJ the flowers an
the country than all other diseases put to- widows, and vi
gether, ana until the last few years was supposed
to be incurable. For a great many cu<3aP'
years doctors pronounced it a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by con- WORN i
gtantly (ailing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven -rrrjn
Catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and, wu* Ulna Jum
therefore requires constitutional treatment. Menri
Hall'i Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. **ro ttt t
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con* * " '
stitutional cureonthemarket. Itistakenin- Aye., Anoka, M
ternally in dnees from 10 drops toateaspoonful.
It acts directly on the bloodandmucous
surfaces of the system. 11'hey offer one hundred
dollars forany caseJh fails to cure. Send
for circulars and test imtrunlH. Address F.J.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold tiv Druggists. 75c. Jgb
Take Hall's Family J'illa for constipation.
The Good Time Coming. Vrflffo
wtiPTi airshins come into common
use people who tell us how far it is ; ||iTT
as the crow flies will be of real ser- '
vice.?Chicago Record-Herald.
would do the
Moravian Barley and Speltz, woman sufferin
two great cereals, makes growing and fat- Sold by all d
tening uogs and cattle possible in Dak.. Foster-Milburn
Mont., Ida., Colo., yes, everywhere, and
add to above Salzer's Billion Dollar Grass,
the 12 ton Hay wonder Teosinte, which
produces 80 tons of green fodder per acre. A good man
Emperor William Oat prodigy, etc., ana a lie if they
other rare farm seeds that they offer. say ?
JUST CUT THIS OUT AND RETURN IT '
with 10c in stamps to the John A. Salzer Ct
Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., and get their atop
;big catalog and lots of farm seed sam- before it be
plea. A. C. L. Brown's Bronc
One may reasonably expect to have nine PrePara**on
foya' sickness out of the year. Soap ha8 be n
3000 years.
A. I" ' Itch cured in I
Syrup trnfis
? ^ eighteen feet in I
^Oixirsfoenna sou0,
x > BU i?K
,QCIS VtJUliy ytri Uiuiiipi uaDies nau ;
\ L i ') ? Caticura J
Iv ontne bowels, cleanses -My baby ha<
X\ \ C[ \ U neck and nothin
the system effectually, effect until 1 U8e
, y/ JJ , */ ' nearly full of te
assists one in overcoming dise e- woul
v v v \ . \ could hardly star
habitual constipation, cc^s?aep a^.0a,
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>mith vs. The St
i the (Railway World, January 3, ig
Into Chicago. They terminate at Dolton,
from which point entrance Is made over the
Belt Line. Whiting, where the oil freight
originates, is not on the lines of the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois, which receives its Whiting
freight from the Belt Line at Dolton.
The former practice, now discontinued, in
filing tariffs was to make them read from a
point on the the line of the filing road, and it
was also general to state on the same sheet,
that the tariff would apply to other points,
e. g., Whiting. The Chicago and Eastern
Illinois followed this practice in filing its rate
from Dolton, and making a note on the sheet
that is applied to Whiting. This was in 1895
when this method of filing tariffs was in
common use.
Now let us see in what wuy the intending
shipper of oil could be misled and deceived
by the fact that the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois had not filed a rate reading from
wmhtic PommlsBioner Smith contends that
"concealment Is the only motive for such a
circuitous arrangement," 1. e., that( this
method of filing the rate was intended to
mislead intending competitors of the Standard
Oil Company. Suppose such a prospective
oil refiner had applied to the Interstate
Commerce Commission for the rate from
Chicago to East St. Louis over the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois, he would have been informed
that the only rate filed with the
commission by this company was 6% cents
from Dolton, and he would have been further
Informed, if indeed he did not know this already,
that this rate applied throughout Chicago
territory. So that whether he wished to
locate his plant at Whiting, or anywhere else
about Chicago, under an arrangement of long
standing, and which applies to all the industrial
towns in the neighborhood of Chicago,
he could have his freight delivered over the
Belt Line to the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
at Dolton and transported to East St. Louis
at a rate of 0*4 cents. Where then is the
concealment which the Commissioner of Cor
poratlons makes so much of? Any rate?
from Dolton on the Eastern Illinois or Chappell
on the Alton, or Harvey on the Illinois
Central, or Blue Island on the Rock Island,
applies throughout Chicago territory to shipments
from Whiting, as to shipments from
any other point in the district. So far from
the Eastern Illinois filing its rate from Dolton
in order to deceive the shipper, it is the
Commissioner of Corporations who either betrays
his gross Ignorance of transportation
customs in Chicago territory or relies on the
public ignorance of these customs to deceive
the public too apt to accept unquestionlngly
every statement made by a Government
official as necessarily true, although, as In
the present Instance, a careful examination
shows these statements to be false.
The final point made by President Moffett
that other commodities of a character similar
to oil were carried at much lower rates than
18 cents, the Commissioner of Corporations
discusses only with the remark that "the
'reasonableness' of this rate is not in question.
The question is whether this rate constituted
a discrimination as against other
shippers of oil," and he also makes much of
the failure of President Moffett to produce
before the grand Jury evidence of the alleged
illegal acts of which the Standard Oil official
said that other large shippers in the terrian
Platinum. New Postal Ri
the Engineering and ' The Postmaster-Geni
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Colombia are from which requires publish
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d to be increasing in ers whose subscriptioi
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llfferent grades of cos- tors of electric power
tiai Mercury. the Increase in Denma
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tory had been guilty. Considering the fact
that these shippers Included the packers and
elevator men of Chicago the action of the
grand jury in calling upon President Moffett
to furnish evidence of their wrong-doing may
be interpreted as a demand for an elaboration
of the obvious; but the fact that a ratebook
containing these freight rates for other
shippers was offered in evidence during the
trial and ruled out by Judge Landis, was
kept out of sight. President Moffett would
not, of course, accept the invitation of the
grand jury although he might have been
pardoned if he had referred them to various
official investigations by the Interstate Commerce
Commission and other departments of
the Government.
We come back, therefore, to the conclusion
of the whole matter, which is that the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana was fined ah
amount equal to seven or eight times the
value of its entire property, because its traffic
department did not verify the statement of
the Alton rate clerk, that the six-cent commodity
rate on oil had been properly filed
with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
There is no evidence, and none was Introduced
at the trial, that any shipper of oil
from Chicago territory had been interfered
wHh hv the eiehteen-cent rate nor taat the '
failure of the Alton to file its six-cent rate
had resulted in any discrimination against
any independent shipper,?we must take this
on the word of the Commissioner of Corporations
and of Judge Landis. Neither is it
denied even by Mr. Smith that the "Independent"
shipper of oil, whom he pictures as v
being driven out of business by this discrlm- ,v; .' "fp
lnation of the Alton, could have shipped all
the oil he desired to ship from Whiting via
Dolton over the lines of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois to East St. Lonis. In short.
President Moffett's defence is still good, and
we predict will be declared so by the higher
court.
The Standard Oil Company has been
charged with all manner of crimes and mis- 1 . - '
demeanors. Beginning with the famous Rice
of Marietta, passing down to that apostle of
popular liberties, Henry Demarest Lloyd,
with bis Wealth Against the Commonwealth,
descending by easy stages to Miss Tarbell's
offensive personalities, we finally reach the
nether depths of unfair and baseless misrepresentation
in the report of the Commissioner
of Corporations. The Standard has
been charged with every form of commercial
piracy and with most of the crimes on the
corporation calendar. After long years of
strenuous attack, under the leadership of the r
President of the United States, the corporation
Is at last dragged to the bar of justice to ? .
answer for its misdoings. The whole strength .
of the Government is directed against It, and
at last, we are told, the Standard Oil Com-.
pany is to pay the penalty of Its crimes, and
it is finally convicted of having failed to . verify
the statement of a rate clerk and Is
forthwith fined a prodigious sum, measured
by the car. Under the old criminal law, the '
theft of property worth more than a shilling
was punishable by death. Under the Inter-; ! v-:.i
pretation of the Interstate Commerce- law
by Theodore Roosevelt and Jndge Kenesaw
Landis, a technical error of a traffic official
'* /*/snflonoHAn rtf a
is made tne excuse iui cue wuiuvouu^ ..
vast amount of property.
iling. Sermons In Esperanto. , '+'
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try 1, 1908, by a German merchant who died at
ers of weekly Cottbus, to found a church In Conheir
subscrip- stantinople for all denominations.
f all subscrib- The sermons are to be preached In ,
as are twelve Esperanto.?London Standard.
ears. Cancel- ;
:ond-class mail In 1906 the United States profor
failure to duced 26,238 flasks of quicksilver,
rule. valued at $985,634, a decrease 1s
_____ quantity of 4213 flasks, and a vaJue
ors as genera- of $144,486 in 1905. California,
is greatly on Texas, Utah and Oregon are the prork.
ducers.
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