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f STEEL TRUST the far Kajs tf the Gigantic Ctrptratian Laid Bare by Gary i ONE OF TEDDY'S PETS While President, Roosevelt Personally Licensed it to Absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company in Open Violation of the Laws of the United States. Elbert H. Gary, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United States Steel Corporation, toia me House Investigating committee recently that the Bureau of Corporations had been investigating the Steel Trust for five or six years. Judge Gary said further that it had cost the trust hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the bureau's requests for information and statistics, and that "the bureau must have a household of facts." None of these facts has ever been wade public by the Government. The Bureau of Corporations was one of Mr. Roosevelt's pet hobbies. As he said in his first message to Congress Dec. 2, 3 901: "The first essential in determining how to deal with the groat industrial combinations is knowledge | of the facts?pubcity in the interest I of the public; the Government should have the right to examine the workings of the great corporations engaged in interstate business." The same thought was expressed in a speech made by Mr. Roosevelt in Boston August 25, 1902: "The first thing we want is pubPlicity; and I do not mean publicity as a favor by some corporations?I mean it as a right from all corporations affected by law." Again at Wheeling, Sept. 6, 1902, Mr. Roosevelt said: "The first thing to do would be to find out facts. For that purpose 1 am absolutely clear that we need publicity." Congress yielded to Mr. Roosevelt's entreaties and gave him a Bureau of Corporations, which was organized Feb. 2 6th, 1903. The act creating the bureau upon the Commissioner of Corporations?power and authority to make, under the direction and control of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, diligent investigations into the organization and management of the business of any corporation, joint-stock company or corporate combination engaged in commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, excepting common carriers subject to "An act to regulate commerce," approved on Feb. 4, 1887. The United States Steel Corporation is the greatest of all trusts that control manufacture. As Judge Gary said in his testimony the other day, "the Steel Corporation does absolutely no operating. It manufactures nothing. It gets its income - - - * * t... | from the dividends neciareu uy mu subsidiary companies.'' Its control of these subsidiary companies is ab?.. solute, as Judge Gary's testimony I shows: "The subsidiary companies have I their own directors and officers and have the right to act independently; but as the Steel Corporation owns the securities, If the conduct of a subsidiary company was antagonistic in any way it would ony be a question of time when the administration of that subsidiary company would be changed." "You mean the parent company I would control the policies of any subI sidiary company?" I "It might not for the moment, I or the month, but when the time to I elect officers arrived it would." I Yet after five ojr six year? of I "dllligent investigation" of the afI fairs of this gigantic trust the RuI reau of Corporations has been unable | to furnish any "publicity in the inI terest of the public," says the New I York World. [ One residential campaign has been I fought?and financed?since the buI reaureau began its investigation ol I steel. The tariff has been revised and 1 1 ? J - V> / 1 preparations are unuer wa^ iui m* arations are under way for anothei Presidential campaign, but the facts collected by the Bureau of Corpora tlons under two Republican Admlnls trations have yet to see the light o During the last five or six year the heavy hand of the United State Government has been laid upon Ha riman, upon Beef, upon Turpentine upon Sugar, upon Standard Oil, upo Tobacco; but no administrative fir ger has disturbed the serenity of th Great God Steel. It has remained Immune, and Mi Roosevelt as President of the Unite States personally licenced the absorj tion of the Tennessee Coal and Iro Company by the United States Ste< Corporation In further recognitio "of the great Influence of the Moi gan Interests 'which have been s friendly to us," thus giving it a ultimate monopoly of the hlgh-grad iron ore of the country. Is the United States Governmer Mother of the Steel Trust'* subsk lary concerns? The crop* that are up are loot tag well. LAM SELLS HIGfl O WONDERFUL INCREASE IN VALUE OF GEORGIA DIRT. Little Over Three Hundred Acres Increased Over Two Hundred Thousand Dollars in Forty Tears. The Atlanta Constitution says the sale of the almshouse property by the J county last Saturday brings up a very interesting] bit of history which shows the wonderful increase of real estate values near Atlanta. Fulton county bought the propertj in three different lots and at three different times. In 1869 the county bought from the Mechanics Building and Loan Company two hundred and two and a half acres for $1,000. In 1 877, the county needing more land for an alms farm, bought forty t * r > 1.1 ^. three acres irom j. u. ivianiewsun for $705. More land being needed the county bought, in 1881, seventy-seven acres from Henry Irby for $770. This made a total of three hundred and twenty-two and a half acres, and the total amount paid by the county for the entire tract of land was only $2,475. It will be seen that the first purchase was made forty-two years ago, the second purchase thirty-four years ago, and the third and last purchase thirty years ago. Now, after a lapse of forty-two, thirty-four and thirty years, the same tract of land that cost only $2,4 75, has been sold for $209,23 2.53. These figures show that the land was bought for about $7.50 an acre, and sola for about $6500 an acre. There were two sales of the property. On June 26, 1909, more than one-third of the land, including the valuable Peachtree road frontage, was sold at auction, and from the sale was realized $69,690.76. Last week the remainder or nearly two-thirds of the property, was sold at auction for $130,541.77. It was thought two years ago that the property brought an exceedingly high price, and yet that price was small as compared with the sales made last week. MURDERED BY BURGLARS. A Lady Suffocated in ller Room With Her Stocking. With a stocking tied closely about her neck, another crammed into her throat and her hands tied behind her, Mrs. Ida Hill was found dead I nt thA heme of her mother. Mrs. J. H. Ragsdale, at Jamestown ,N. C., early Thursday morning. The deed is supposed to be the work of burglars who entered the house between midnight and day. Indications of burglary led to the theory. /Mrs. Hill is the widow of the late Dr. Joel Hill, who was a prominent physician of Lexington, N. C. Dr. Hill died about four months ago. Mrs. Hill was returning from Philadelphia, where she was treated in a sanitarium following ^ | nervous breakdown after her hus- j band's death.She was accompanied from Philadelphia by her sister, Miss Jennie Ragsdale, who is a member of the faculty of Bryn Mawr college. Miss Ragsdale was in the house when the murder was committed. No clue has been found as yet to the perpetrators of the deed. MONKEYS TO PICK COTTON. Trial Was Suggested by Antics of Pet Chimpanzee. An attempt is to be made in Fulton County, Oa., by French cotton experts to teach monkeys to pick cotton. If the experiment succeeds a colony of monkeys will be imported and put to work. The idea was suggested by the antics of a pet chimpanzee carried by a farmer boy into the fields. The little animal, after frisking around for a time and watching the negroes at work, began of its own accord to pick the cotton with almost incredi1 ble rapidity. j Animal trainers find it very easy . to teach monkeys to perform any manual trick or labor. Hy utilizing 7 monkey labor tne coai 01 narvBsuu^ cotton would be infinitely less thar with human labor * His I/ast Game. At Carson City, Nov. Patrick Cas 8 ev, an old time ball player, who ii s under sentence of death for murder committed in Goldfleld Monday actec , as an umpire in what will be his las n game at the state penitentiary. Fo [m some time two convict ball team e have been practicing within hearini of Casey's cell. Casey appealed t< P the warden for the privilege of see (j ing and umpiring one more igamc ). He was allowed to do so. n 3] Return State's Records. n An Albany, N. Y., dispatch say p- Gov. Dix has signed the bill requii 0 ing the state board of regents to d n liver to the state of South Carolin le the records of the commissioners c the navy board of that state and cei it tain other records now in possessio 1- of the New York authorities. Som of the records which South Carolin c- desired returned were destroyed 1 the capltol fire. NEVER BETTER That Is What Gaverasr Wilsen Sajs < the Deaicratic Praspccts PEOPLE WANT CHANGE Delighted With Tour Through the Far Weet and Indorses Progressive Tendency?Stops in Washington and Commends House Caucus for Refusing to Put Wool on Free List On his way home from Columbia wiiann otntvnofl nff at Washing \Jf V/ ? IT 4 lUVit M W? . ? w ton on his w?ay home from a tour of the far Western States, and all through the day his suite in the Wlllard was crowded with senators and representatives who discussed with him the political outlook. He declared Democratic prospects were never brighter. Gov. Wilson congratulated the members of congress on the work done my the Democratic minority thus far during the extra session, and heartily indorsed the action of the house in reducing the wool schedule 5 0 per cent, instead of putting wool on the free list at this time, as urged by Bryan. The New Jersey Governor was delighted with his trip through the West. It was the first time he had crossed the Rocky mountains, and his traveling companions said they were greatly surprised at the warmth of the receptions he received. The statements made that Mr. Wilson was unknown in the West were proved false they said. "I was delighted with the "reception I received in the West. Party lines have been demolished compitw ly in the West as far as the desires of the progressive people are concerned. I found that there was virtually no difference between a Democrat and a progressive Republican except on the tariff question." Asked if lie inciuaea in mis cmss the insurgent senators who have been fighting reciprocity with Canada Gov. Wilson smiled and said. "They are not exactly the class of progressives to whom I referred. I am heartily in favor of reciprocity, and I think most real progressives are likewise. "I was not able to find any difference between the progress for which the people of the West are fighting and the progress for which we are fighting in the E-ast. The people of some of the Western states have actuially put the progressive measures on the statute books. While we in the East have not had as much success we are fighting for virtually the same things. "There is little difference in what the Eastern American wants and what the Western man has gotten. They have got their desires a little faster than we have, and they have used means which we may not use - - J* Ul 1 M In the East. Tnere is no auuui m my mind thAt we will continue fighting in the East until we get virtually all they have accomplished in the West. "The initiative and referendum they have gotten in the West is the same that we want in the East and the same that we will eventually get. I am and always have been in favor of the initiative, referendum and recall?except in the cases of judges? simply as a safeguard, to be used only when it is necessary for the purpose of putting the will of the people above the will of the men who happen to be in office. "I do not think the Western people expect to use any of these safeguards often. They merely want them to protect themselves when they feel that their desires are being trodden under foot. I believe that they will work the greatest benefits when applied, but I do not think they need wov r?v<*rturn the electorate in auj f? v . w. except In segregated Instances. Oreeon used them often when they were first put into effect, but only to standardize their form of government. "My trip through the West haj convinced me that the prospects ol the Democratic party for succesi ? were never brighter. The present 1 house has redeemed its promises, anc the people of the West realize it They feel that they are not beinf hoodwinked, hut that they are beinf - eiven the legislation that they ex a pectod. "The party is stronger than i 1 was last November when it carrie< t tho election. It is advancing b; r leaps and hounds. The growth o s Democratic sentiment is more thai g normal; it seems to he at high tide o No man can tell what the next yea - will bring,, hut I believe that a con >. tinuance of the present policies o tho party will mean success i 1912." s Speech Pleases Sims. Representative Sims, of Tennei 5- see, a Democrat, was so please a with President Taft's reciprocit >f speech a Chicago that he announce r- at the White House Tuesday his ir n tention to ask Congress to make ! e a public document. Mr. Sims sal a he preferred that a republican off< n the resolution but if none rose to tb occasion tie would. INDICT T. B. FELDtR I BILL WILL BE HANDED TO NEW* BERRY GRAND JURY. Governor Blease and Hub Evans on Felder's Latest Letter About Them and Their Acts. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says it is; learned that at Newberry Monday Thomas B. Felder, the Atlanta attorney, will be formally indicted. It is understood that the indictment1 will be in accord with the warrant recently sworn out against Col. Felder, changing him with offering a bribe and conspiracy to defraud the State. The following witnesses, it is also learned, have been summoned to appear at Court: Governor Cole L. Blease, H. H. Evans of Newberry; John Bell Towill of Batesburg, and L. W. Boykin of Camden. The information at hand is that the bill of indictment will bo placed before the grand jury upon the convening of Court at Newberry Monday. In regard to tfte open letter of Col. T. B. Felder, published in the Atlanta Constitution several days ago, charging in effect that Governor Blease, when a State Senator, represented certain liquor houses, .and otherwise reflecting on South Carolina's Chief Executive in connection with the old State dispensary, Governor Blease had the following to say: "I do not care to say anything as to such stuff emanating from a man that I have made a requisition for to answer to corrupt practices in attempting to bribe the former State official of this State. I shall not be diverted from my purpose to bring him to justice. The public will soon * " - ~ ? t- ? o 1 tnl/viin O n /I f All 1 learn now ioonsu, nuiuuuim have been and are the charges made against me by such persons and their friends, and will see how they will be confounded in their own filth. Let them go on. The commission will continue their work of investigation, .2nd I will do my best to have Felder answer for the violation of our law and his friends here will find that there is a day of reckoning. * Referring to Col. Felder's recently issued open letters, "Hub" H. Evans, of Newberry, who was in Columbia Monday, entered a sweeping denial to all allegations made by Felder concerning himself (Evans) in connection with old State dispnsary affairs and signifies his readiness to meet all charges made, even to the extent of giving "them personal satisfaction" at ?ft\y time and place they or either of them may desire. SHRIXERS AND ELKS FOLDERS A. C. L. Issues Attractive Display of Atlantic City. The Atlantic Coast Line has issued beautifully illustrated folders of standard form in two colors, advertising the low round trip rates tc Rochester on account of the Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine, July 11, 12 and 13 and of the Grand Lodge of Elks at Atlantic City, N J., July 10 and 15th. These folders are replete with in formation to those contemplating th< trip, as they contain the rates, stop over privileges, many pretty half tones and brief write-ups of th< many attractions of those two beauti ful cities. The round trip rates which are open to the public, fron Orangeburg is $36.60 to Rochestei and $2 4 to Atlantic City and th< ~ tnw nanh nnlnf ni tICKGIS H.I" 15 "Uli ocx iu iui umvu w. July 7, 8 and 9. While the re turn limit is comparatively shor an extension of about a month cai be obtained by depositing ticket wltl agents and upon the payment of $1 Every Shriner and Elk shoul write to Mr. White, the general pae senger agent at Wilmington for cc pies of the folders and they wil ! find much therein to interest them. ; MAKES TERRIFIC SPTEO. J Attains Velocity of One Hundred an i Fifty-five Miles. I The "L'Auto'' estimates that V< drine, the winner of theP aris-t< ' Madrid race, whose proper name ^ Jules Vedrines, attained the prod ' gious speed of 155 miles an hour o Tuesday, covering the 77 5-1 0 mll< ^ separating Dijon and St. Lauren . Les-Macon in 8 0 minutes. The pap< quotes the aviator as saying that 1 was pushed by a wind so violent th at times he flew with the tall of h , machine perpendicular. He also ei ^ countered wind pockets that cause his monoplane to make frightf f drops, sometimes descending 8( feet in a few seconds. Vedrlnes su fered only through the strain on h eyes. j. Killed in a Runaway. d A special from Flomiaton, Al, y says: iMrs. B. Shivers was kill d and her son Willie, and daughte i- Miss Alabama Sampley, were injur it in a runaway accident there Tu< d day. All the occupants of the vel )T cle were thrown heavily- to t ie ground, Mrs. Shivers dying within few minutes. s^LOtt Ml s?jForrhe BEGINNING J Now Is the time to begin to prepare Lemons by mail If desired. Posltloi Sout^erp CoiQn] Calhoun & Meeting sts., Charleston, I Salisbury, Durham, N. C. The. highest South Atlantic. Enter any time. V CLASSIFIED COLUMN 25 Beautiful Foreign View postal cards, 20c. Ferguson, 1042 Lafay-j1 Avft.. Kansas City. Kansas. | 1 Stop! Get wise to the best moneymaking opportunities. Send stamp, j U. S. Specialty Co., Greenock, Pa. c At Glenn Springs, 8. CM The Garner House offers good serivce. Splendid fare and the best location. 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Thif 1 ij our 27th year of uninterrupted success here, hence we are better pre pared than ever to supply the beai pianos and organs and will save yoi money. Write us at once for catalog! a and tor our easy payment plan an< prices. Malone's Mnstc House, Co )r lombla. 8. O. ed ,fl_ Took Poison by Mistake, ll- Rev. H. R. Schramm, a Baptls he minister of Wylam, Is dead as a re a suit of mistaking carbolic acid fo paregoric. ran first. * H for the fall and new year position. is guaranteed. No Tic&tioL letcM School I. O.; Wilmington, Wip 8 ton-Salem. I I ; eiidorseq BubIqmv College ik the |^H yrlte for full Information. | ! . I. ? l I TAKES HIS BRIDE ' WITH HIM ON HONEYMOON TRIP TO THE CHINA SfeA. I riaby Girl Rescued, Attacked by Pirates and Their ftelteading, Drive I Monotony of Trip Away. Romance, adventure and heroism were juet a few of the liitle incl- I lents that caused so much |bod fel- I lowship between Capt. Frank Downs I find his crew on the four-masted steel bark Juteopolls which reached New York Monday .after a trip to hongkong and back. / When the bark was In Baltimore ^H| a little more than a year ago the ^H| skipper met Nelly Cahter, and, after i three weeks' courtship, Neliy ciiang- v ed her name, and as .Mrs. powns ? H went aboard the Juteopolls and made the voyage around the horn for a I honeymoon trip. The bark spent 153 days in mak- I ing Hongkong and then went to Canton. Whilo in Canton River the mate, Harold J. Symonds, started tor it swiiii. i no mate snys that the Chinese longshoremen do not like baby girls. He did not know this when he saw a twelve-months-old girl tumble off a sampan. Her parents watched her sink. flH The sailor swam with her back to i^H tho sampan, but the Chinese poked him away with bamboo poles and forced him to take the bahy back to his own ship, where the skipper's B wife took care of her. Pirates that infest the Canton Rlv- B er learned that the crew of the Jut- ^ eopolis had been given shore leave. Unluckily for the pirates and for- f B tunately for the bark Capt. Downs kept his men ashore that night. A little before midnight the Chinese pirates attacked the hark, but the warm reception accorded them B from half a dozen lengths of steam hose sent them scampering away. Some of them were captured later ^B and the mandarin sent an invitation 'f* to Capt. Downs to witness their exe- B cution, which was done in the old- ^B fashioned way hy a headsman, who i^B clipped off head after head until there were no pirates left. Then the Juteopolis hoisted sail and start- B ed for home. ^B LET US HAVE IT ALL. ^ I Folder' May Furnish Sonic Sonsa- ^B tional Evidence. ^B A special dispatch to the Greenwood Journal says there seems to he no misgiving among the mem- ^B hers of the dispensary commission as ^B to their ability to bring Co*. T. B. B Folder to the town of Newberry on the charge of conspiracy to defraud the State. It is said that in oase B that Governor Brown should refuse to grant requisition papers that the H dispensary commission will wait un- IB hi Hnvprnor Hoke Smith takes office ^ as It is understood that he will grant requisition for Felder. H The old dispensary commission re- H main in Columbia and they hold fre- H quent conferences behind closed H doors but will not talk to report- H era nor will Attorney General Lyon S discuss his trip to the north recently. H Intimations around the capital are H that something may drop soon. It is believed that Felder will come ^ I back good and strong with some evi- J fl dence showing that he did not write the letters which were produced by H. H. Evans, of Newberry, although experts, it is said, declare that the I writing is that of T. B. Felder. At H any rate a sensational step will be y taken and it is believed as stated above, that Felder will bring another I man into the case. I Thrown From Buggy. Ttev. B. A. Yongue, i>astor of the I Chester circuit, was painfully hurt V on Sunday while returning from I church by being thrown from the < bui2gy. His buggy was filled and he ~A ~ '1? > <-? +Via l,nr>lr whon hifl WHS DIUUUHIB uil mo >/?ui? , horse took fright, and Mr. Yongue was pitched off. lie was knocked unconscious and otherwise badly bruised, hut fortunately no ilmos were broken. INoeh's Liniment *h? I best remedy for Rheum J- r tlsm, Sciatica, Lame Back, ^ Stiff Joints and Muscles, * Sore Throat, Colds, Strains, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises, Colic, Cramps, NeuralgJ. Toothache, and all Nerve, Bone and Muscle Ac he a > and Pains. Th*genuine , In RED toET Beware of esses?