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HE EOPLE'S JOUR L 0 4 PICKENS,. S. C., THURSDAY MAY 31, 1894. R ROBERT KIlRKEY, Physician and Surgeon, hie. 0t lins re-rsidnace.\l~ttn -- ree-. March 8, 1894 1-. 0. BowBN. L. E. CuIrDBE8s. OWEN & CHILDRESS, Attor neys at Law, Pickens. S. C. >t5, 1893. i. J. W. NORWOO), Dentist. Dr. WLW M. N. iwooD, Assistant Office, 883 Main 8truct, Greenville, S. C. Jan. 9, '92 y DR. J. P. CARLISLE, Dentist Gren ville, S. C. 01lice over Addison & McGee's Drug Store. J. S. COTHRAN, G. G. WELs, Greenville, S C. M. IF. ANSIM, T. P. CoTintAN,l pcenS p C L. HOLLUNSWorTH, Pickens, S. C., Have associated themlvesnh together fop the practice of law in its various branches, and will give careful attention to all busir ness undertaken by themli. Loans and discounts negotiated. May 1, 1894. The Exchange Hotel, GREENVILLE, S. C. C. W. HENDERSON, Proprietor. Mloaern Improvements Large Rnoms. Special attention to Commercial Travel an Tourists. Table Fare Unsurpassed. Fine Climate the year round. Ap. 7, 9'2 J. E. IIAGOOD, J. L. THIORNLEY, Jn L. C. THORNLEY. HAGOOD & THORNLEY BROS., Liery, Joel, ie I Zialnie gtablg, Easley and Picktns, 8. c.. (Opposite Hotel.) Carriages, Buggies. and Saddle Horses, at - reasonable rates. X" Your patronage solicited. ABE CLARK. GEO. E. COOPER. Clark & Cooper, Dealers in W'alIIQ ad Draite Mounti, TOMBSTONES, of every description Also. MANTELS, s'TAUARY, VASS and Wrought Iron FENCING, Greenville, 8. C. Sept. 19, '91. Phmxcot:ogram;p13an If you want the finest PICTURES made in the State, go to Wheeler's Studio, 113 McBee Aveune Grcenville, S. C SW Crayon Portraits a specialty April 7-y. Veterinary Surgeon. Having an experience of lifteen years in treating all diseases of cattle, and having made the disease of Murrian, in all of its forms, a specialtb , I offer my services to the public. Will trait cattle suffering with any ordinary disoaes. 11. P. GRIFFIN. Feb. 1-1y- Pickens, A. C. PRIZE WINNERS Furnished on 15 days test Trial when he proper cont ract is signed. if yout vant an organ of Reputtiol Buy the Carpenter Organ. LOW I ' PlVtICEFS VOlt CA-4l, W. J. B. STILES. Nov 9, 93 Dealer ini YEches, Diawouds & Joelry, GREENVILLE, S. C. REPAIRING A 8PECIAL.TY. Oct. 19.-Sm New Store E now have for inspecti'mi the most WVcomplete line of MILLINERY, DRESS G00DS, NOTIONS AND LATEST NOVELTIES ofth renk tselected in person in thme Misses Rogers, 45 Coffee Street, Greenville, 8. C, Mfay ra Hous. Mxsa McfKAY Has just opfono d l latlest stylos of SpriNg aNd Svmr Milnery A t tho lowest possiblo prices. Main Streot, Groonvillo, S. C. April 19, 1894. QUM-ELBASTIC co'sts only, *2.00 por 100 squaro feet, Makes a good roof for years, and ally one can put it on. GUM - IiLASTIC PAINT1 cost only 60 cents per gal. in' bbl. lots, or $4.50 for 5 -gal. tubs. Color (lark red. Will stop leaks in till or iron roofs, andl will lamst for years. 'ray I'T. Send stamps for samples, and full particulars. GUM ELASTIC ROOFING 00,, SD & 41 West Broadway, NEW YORK. LOCAL AGENTs WANTED. Feb. 8 1894.-6m. W'OR D)YSPEPSIA Use Drown's firn HItr. Physiciana recommend It. Al .ele."e.I.: SI.'O pe bt.. '.Genuine A. K. PARK. DRY 00008 AND SOE8, [West End] 16 PENDLETON STREET, oEENV1LLE, S. U. Although our spring Sales have been far above our expectation, we have not allowed our stock, as yet, to suf fer bioaks in any department, but are still receiving new goods in al most every line. SHOE DEPARTMENT. Oxford Ties. Our only trouble in these goods have been getting then fast enough to meet the demand. A large and choice assortment of Black and' Tan Oxfords arrived Friday. Qualities better, styles newer, prices lower than any previous offers. Hess & Bro., E. - Banister's Hand Sewed nan's $0.00 shoes at $4.00. Chas. Hieisor's man's 11and-Sewed $6.00 shoes at $3.75. Lonsdale Cambric (no remnants but best goods sold off the bolt) at 10 cen ts. Yard Wide Fruit of thC Loom (not 7-8 or quantity restricted) at 7 en-IIt s. 40 inch Curtain Serim at, 5 cenk. 40 inch Silkaline, beauitifuil qual ity at 10. Very Sheer Satin Striped Lawns in White, Cream and Cenary at 1.0 cents. Ladies Swiss Ribbed and Lisle Thread Undervests, exceptional val ues 8 to 33 conts. Nice Quality Men's Balbrigan I'n dervests at 25 cents. . Fans from 1 centlto-$,.00. May 30th, 1894. pssseseessassalslsuasosaneess gogNine$ .Are out of employment, or in - a position that you do not like? Possibly the solic-. iting of Life Insurance is". your special forte. Many i :people have, after trial, j !been surprised at their:i Efitness for it. To all such !it has proved a most cou- i Sgenial and profitable occu- i Spation. The Managemient:i Sof the IEquitable Life ~in the Department of the - jCarolinas, desires to add i to its force, ,some agenits i of character and ability. - i Write for information. i W. J. Roddey, Manager, :Rock 11ill, 5. C. wUFOR_ A CASE IT WIL.Li NO An agroeablo Laxative and NERvE NO Bold by ruggists or sent by mail. 250.,5We. Bud $10 per package. Samples freeo. Unptain Sweeney, U.s-A., Ran Diego, Ca.1 says: "8lhilh's Catarrhliiteily is tio' irsa. medicino I havo over found~ t hat woldc do me10 any good." P'rico 50 c(.a. Sid by D~ruggiat3, SHILOH'S CURE. Peal lotcreft .IF roConmn p tin it nie S3oeicm Amecrican Agencly for' To in atton adfranetc.wi,, t~oplt y anotiee given troo o Eargo HOW GRANT BECAME A SMOKER. , An Incl~dent That Caused the General to Be Overwhelmied With Cigar. "My father, " said Colonel Grant, "tried to sm'oko while at West Point, but only because it was against the reg ulations, and thou ho didn't succced ' very well at it. He really got; the habit 'rom smoking light cigars and cigarettes during (ho Mexican, war, but it wasn't a fixed habit. When ho left the army and lived in the country, ho smoked a pipe-not incessantly. I don't think that ho was very fond of tobacco then, and really there was always a popular i misconeoption of tho amount of his smoking. But he went on as a light smoker, a casual smoker, until the day 1 of the fall of Fort Donelson. Then tho a1 gunboats having been worsted some- 0 what, and Admiral Foote having been wounded, ho sont ashore for my father I to como and seo him. Father went o a.board, and the admiral, as is custom- ' ary, had his cigars passed. My fathor 1 took one and was smoking it when ho I went ashore. There he was met by a stafY officer, who told him that thero 1 was a sortie, and the right wing had been struck and smashed in. Thon my father started for the scene of opera- I 'dons. He let his cigar go out naturally, but hold it between his fingers. lie rodo t hither and yon, giving orders and direc- t tions, still with the cigar stump in his o hand. . 1; "The result of his'exertions was that a Fort Donelsou fell after he sent his mes- 1: sage of 'unconditional surrender,' and 'I proposo to movo immediately upon i your works.' With the messago wvas sent all over the country the news that a Grant was smoking throughout the bat- 0 tle when he only had carried this stump b from Foote's flagship. But; the cigars I began to come in from all over the Un- t ion. He had 11,000 cigars on hand in a 0 very short time. He gave away all ho g could, but he was so surrounded with P cigars that he got to smoking them reg- I ularly, but ho nover smoked as much as f he seemed to smoke. He would light a P cigar after breakfast and let it go out, 0 and then light it again, and then again 11 let it go out and light it, so that the s one cigar would last until lunchtime. " 1 -From an Interview With Colonel I Frederick D. Grant About His Father 8 in McCluro's Magazine. I A Gotham Inident. s A sceno that attracted a crowd o curredl in the Bowery very early one morning. A girl not over 20 years old, many of whose natural beauties of face 0 could be distinguished through her c tears, Fat on. a doorstep of a saloon. Sho -was well dressed. A group stood watch- t ing her, and while some' of them in- 0 quirod sympathetically wvhy she seemed so distressed a young miss wearing.the 1 eustoiury pok l)honiet of the Salvation Army edged her way through the Ire wd, and catchiming sight of the way ward girl vent up to her. Tho Salva tionist, resting upon one knee on the stone step, throw'hor right arm over the shoulder of the weeping girl, and tak ing her by the hand drew her closo to her and began talking to her earnestly fin a tone too low to be heard by the by standers. The itmost quiet prevailed, although the crowd soon numbered sov oral hundred. After a little while the girl was noticed to have ceased crying. She brightened up, and the blinding moisture disappeared fromt her eyes. A smile.took the place of the drawnt look ' on her face, and sie clung closely to her comforter. She finally arose, embraced 1 the Salvationist warmly, and they both started up toward Third avenue, the arm of the Salvation Army lass in twined around the waist of her appar ently reclaimied sister. The crowd si lently dispersed.--Now York Suni. Enmgish Hlome.s and Arnmrean. Y On entering an Englishman's house til the first thing one notices is how well c' his houso5( is adapted to him. On enter- bl ing an American's house the first thing d 01n0 notices is how weoll lie adapts him self to his house. In -England the estab- 9 lishmient is carried on wvith a primio view c to the comfort of the man. In America M the establishnieuit is carried on with a P prime view to the comfort of the wom- 0 anm. Men are more selfish than wocimen; conseqently the English home is, as a 01 rule, imre coumfortable than the Ami- 7 canl home. d 'An Enigl.ishiman is continually going s1 home; an Amecricani is continally going ti to business. One is forever planning t and scheming to get home, and to stay 0 home, and~ to enjoy the privileges of homeit, while the ether is more apt to a devote his energies to make his business V a plaice to go to and in which to sponid a himself. These minor details of deomes- C tic life put their implress5 upon larger ~ matters of business and politics.--Price y Collier in Forum. C A F~able. A swallow flewv downt and plucked a li small pice of wool from the back of a I. sheep. Tiho sheop was very indignant c aind den~ouncedl the swallowv in scathing I. terms. qI "'Why do you make such a fuss?'' o asked the swallow. "'You niever say anyt hing wheni the shepherd takes all pI the wool y'ou hamvo on1 your hack. "' y '"hat 's a different thing entirely, "' s replied the sheep. "'If you know how to take any wool without hurting moemam sj the shepherd does, I would not object t< This fable is merely intended to ex plin why millions cain hec stnhin wi th iimunity, while thme thef.t oif a pir~ of f; botIs ar a loatf of breadu~ is punmished ti wi; hi such l merity . -Texas Siftinigs, c4 (ouiek Tr''zan41. i "Did yer' 'ver~ stopi ter thuink,"' said it Meiandering Mlike, " 'bout this world's 01 turn ingt. onm it s axis once eve'ry 2.1 hours?" n "Ct ourse I have, '" said Plouddiung Pete. "'it's miighty fast travel, so fast thot ii it don't seem wuth while tryin ter im- si provo on it. Er feller that ain't content- ti 0(1 ter jes' sit down an slide with thme o earth at that rate of speed is so (log- g goned hard ten satisfy that his opinion a ain't wuth list'nin to nohow. "--Wash- S ingtoni Star. ., c The riumber of cigar factorica inI the United States is placed at a a little more thlan 83,0Q% <d M.HE INDIAN EMWJ?RE. NTERESTING COMMENTS BY AN OB SERVING TRAVELER. 'he Past and Future of a Great Country and Reinarkablo rcople-Mado Poor by the Spoliation of Foreigners - English Language Coning Into General Uso. We have traveled more than 2,500 iles in India, have seen its grandest enery, its largest and 1ost interest ig cities, its most fertile and some of ts desert regions. We have found in )elhi, Agra, Benares, Aibur and Ah Madabad the boat examples of inludoo iid Mohammedan architecture. Of ourso thero is much we have not soon. 'ho Dravidical temples of the south of ndia, remarkablo for their sizo and laborato decorations, boat illustrated at 'anjore and Madura, we can only judge y small specimens soon at Madras and 'ondichorry. The wonderful cave tem les at Ellora, Ajunta and niany other laces we have got a fair conception of rom that of Elophanta. One could pend years exploring India without ex austing its layers of civilization. Wo avo endeavored to intelligently study, y observation and reading en route, lie ethnology, sociology and theology f the countiry. We have missed no op ortunity to talk with British officials nd educated natives. We bavo looked ito the work of the missionaries and omo to the conclusion that they are do ig i great deal of good, though not ex. otly in the way it is popularly under :ood at home. I think I may say-that ur travels in India have materially roadened our views of Asiatic history. speeially have we been impressed with ic spectacle of an empire of 240,000, 00 people of different races -and reli ions, governed by a handful of Euro cans, and in the main well governed, 'ith a largo measure of liberty, as per ,ct protection of life and property as is rovided in the most civilized countries f Europe and increasing means of ed cation. The universities and colleges :attered over India are turning ou't an ually thousands of educated natives. t is a curious fact that the Indian who peaks English speaks it without accent nd rather better tlimi the averago of :nglishi or Americans. Nearly all of tho :hools above the primary grade teach nglish, and in the majority of thon it the imediuni of eduantion. More than alf of the native news4papers and peri dlicals, which are numerouis anl well miducted, are printed in English. I do not think it a wild prediction hat English will hoe-esseniially the Im unago of India a hundred years hence. t is curious to contemplate what will >o the political result of tho education if the Indian people. Will they be con. ent, especially those of the Aryan race, apablo of high development, with thu lhadow of a government which is some imies driven to its wits' ends with iti wn domestic problems, in a group o ittlo islands 5, 000 miles away? For th< )resent I (an scareoly conceive of r p'entor enlai ty for India than the fail tre of Great Britain to hold and govern lie country. It would bo the signal for narchy, which would entail the destruc ion of the people and seriously obstruct lie onward march of human progress. India is a poor country. Its fabulous mealth has been carried off by conquer rs or gathered into colossal fortunes y the few rich. The great body of the cople are miserably poor. Thuey barely eep body and soul together and do not tor ump any vital fore to resist (disease. 'he failure of one crop entails wide pread distress. The failure of two in iccession means fain o for mill ions. ho government is doing something to uprovo the conditions. In the last five earis canals have beeun built, increasing io are~a under irrigation about 25 Per mt Iow much advantage thme tiller of 10 soil gets from these improvements I ) not know. The government costs too Luchl, and the people are taxed to the mit of endurance. The British India vil service is called the best in the 'eld. It is undoubtedly thn most ex maive. it costs 211,000,000 ($5b5, )0,000) a year. Tihe civil servant rves in various capacities, from ai ork to ai lieutenant governor, for 25 mars, four of which are given for holi lys, and~ retires wvith ai minimum pen on of ?1, 000 per annumn. The cost of all his comles out of thle inudiani people, arnd moir supeorsti t ions and cuustomsa rob them Sa part of what is left. There are grave p~rrblems inI India ad more to come, and~ to solve thiem 'Ill require all the t alenit which can bo acured. It is doubtful whether the mier kmuts of London, the mnanufacturers of [anichester or the hereditary aristocrats 'ho are sent to held vice regal courts in 'aleutta will solve thremu in the interest f the people of India, who are today bout the poorest fed, clothed and oused pe~ople on earth, Vet I canmnot ut think that theso people aro capablie f groat things ini the future if they can o properly niourishod and1( educated1. 'heir bright, distincetly Aryan faices look ut appealingly thrrough su rroundingsn C squalor and1( superstition and give romniso of high developmenit unmder fa oraiblo conit~iIions. ]ndeed'45 we see )l&JIdidl spcuiimen~s of manlih~ood amnonig wm11 todany, and( I heir giraeful courtesy nuines our rudor numnlers. -Cor. lies )I IIeraldl. Servhumg Troant. Dry toast should be served directly onm tile toaster. When this is not prae cal, Il It on a heated bread lafte, >vern it with a rnaulkini and put it on uo heart hi or in the oven. Toast is given all slight, aittaceks of siecknessu because is soi easily digested. The more thor *ghu the (cunversiohn of ther starch the oro easi ly and pt-infectlhy the systemu ill ma~IInage it, for the change of starch ito de'xtino by tihe action of heat is niply docing (outside of thed body what dkes place ini it, ini the ordinar~iy course f dlige'stion, by the actioni of the (di es8tive fluidS. There'fore whein this Is ccompliished by art i fiial means nature 1 spared soe miuch energy. --Philadel hria Times. Theo p)oplar hoelief that May is ni unlucky month for marriagos atinn frnm Rnman.imolles CLEMSON COLLEGE BURNED. TUE HANDSOME MAIN BUILDING DESTROYED BY FIRE. Early Tuesday morning The Register received a telegram stat. ing that tho main building of Clemson college had boon destroy. od. Tho information was immedi ately posted upon The Register's bulletin board and from it the news sproad throughout the city. Tiolograis wore sont to Governor Tillman and other officials, giving I homn the startling news. Expressions of sorrow could bo hoard on ovory side. Clemson Col lego has won a firm place in tlii hearts of all citizens of South Car olinla, not excepting those who were at first its enemies. There was no break in the general ox prossion of sorrow at the destruc tion of the magnificent main building of the collogo at Fort [Mill. Fr6m one and all camo ex pression of the hopo that the work of the college would not bo inter forod by the disaster. In thOe afternoon The Register recoivod the following tologram fron President Craighead: Calhoun, Mayg 22.-Firo was discovered in the museum on the third floor about 4 a. m. The mnuseun was filled with the Augus ta exhibit and contained much combustible material. Every ef fort was mado to extinguish the fire but to no purpose. The fire company did hereic work and saved the chapol adjoining the main building. The dormitory was not injurod at all. The cause of the fire is unknown. A corner of the mnuseuim was used for a reci tation room. The building cost $65,000. It was insured for $20,. 000. Many believes tho fire tc ho tho work of an incondiary, Th( houses of profeseors and other col. logo buildings will be used as roci tation rooms. Everything is quio hero and there is no reason for an: boys to go hemo. No one hurl (Signed) E. B. CRAIGHEAD. From another sourco the follow ing account of the firo was obtain, ed : Charloston, S. C., May 22.-Fire at Clemson College was discovered about 4:30 this morning in the third story of the main college building. At first in did not ap poar very largo, but soon made great headway, enveloping the whole building. The cadets wer promp~tly awakened and formed into a bucket brigade. Three lines of hose wore turned on, but it was soon apparent that the building was dloomed. All offorts were di rectedl to saving the chapel, which joins the college, and the dormnito rios just opposite. There was no windi andl a slight rain had fallen. The dormitory escaped, but the chapel was sligntly injured. Some things wore saved from the first and second stories, and every thing of valum, in the secretary and treasurer's ollico was saved. Many books in the library and reading rooms were burned. The loss is ostimauted at $50,000; insurance, $20,000. The fire is supposed to lbt the wvork of an incendiary. An investigation will follow. Clasa rooms will he fitted up at once in the nowv mechanical hall, in the chemistry building and other avail able rooms and the college exor cise will be resumed immediately. The Board of Trustees have been summoned by wvire to meet on the 25th instant. Until then, it is not kno1wn) when I ho work of rebuild ing wvill conmnence. A scant in spectioni only has beon made of the bild mug, but it will probably have to he rebu.il t enti rely. The casual ties to the cadlets wore slight, the most serious being to J. E. Brog doCn, who sp~rainod his anklo. Credit is (1u1 the endo1ts and em ployoos for their great efforts to save the property. Tfhe main building was a hand some three-story brick building. In it were located the class rooms, the. library, the museum arid the offico of the secretary and treasu ror. The chapel adjoined it to the East. It must have taken hard work to save it. The large dormi.. tories are North of the main build ing and about fifty yards from it. The other buildings on the grounds are at seine distance from the main building. Governor Tlllman was in Rook Hill yesterday. He returned to the city at an early hour this morn-. ifg.~ Frona Looper*. May 21st, 1894. There is some misunderstand. ing with regard to the action of the business committee of Nine Forks Church in what was publish od. Evory action must have a causo, and the first part of their report was made by the chairman of the Business Connittoo of Nine Forks Church, showiug the cause. The report bogins at the words, "wo the business comnnitto of Nino Forks Church, ote." J. A. Robinson was not present when the report was adopted by the Church, the first report was roject ed, and the second one is the one publiseod. By an action of Cross Roads Church they have appoint od a committoo to roply, to lot theni reply. Wo will reply too. It is claimed by some of their members that our action was illo gal. Was it logal for them to jerk up a poor fathorloss girl, who is working to keep her old mother up, who is now sovonty years old, and on the testimony of ono wit noss, dating his chargo back sovon years, and a very sorry witness at that, and excludos her. The b i hb1 e . says that in the mouths of two or three witnesses every word shall be established But they say it was not legal for members of other churches to sit in council. Was it. legal for their witnesses to volunteer and walk live or six miles to give testimony? Was it legal for their members to go to Griffin church-was that le gal? On the first Saturday in May there was )eoplO from the surrounding churches prosent and from their membors we took sovon ten to sit wi'th us in council, and they dono it, and the report shows wvho they was. Now, if' the peoplo want to hoar it again, tho action of couincil was basod ol sworn (vi donico, and wo intend to do right by our ministors and stand by b them and all our mombers--a( wO mean they shall all have juw tice. J. P. ROBINSON, Chairman of the Coin ittoo, (For the Journal. AlI~hane Talks As I havo soon nothing in your paper as to the demands of the alliance concernmg the own orship or control of public trans portation I will write a little on that lino for informa tiongiving the facts as I have gatherod them. Aloxandor 11. Stophons, of Georgia, during tho latter years of his life, predicted that if the peop1)1 of this county ever camo to undlorstand the injustice of the trosont financial system thore would be the greatest revolution the world has soon) sincoe the crusados. In the tremendous op pressiveness of the system the chief factor of cruelty, groodl, corruption, andl robbery is the corporation. Judge Blandford, late of the Su promo court of Georgia, saidl that whenever half a dozon mon) made up their mnindsl to swindl() somno body they always went and incor porate~d th mosolvoes. Tholi corpora tion is a convenient cloak for the rascality of the individual, it is al so his protection, his share in the profits has no limits save the amount of the profits, while his share of the losses is confined to the stock he subcribes for, besides he escapes mndividual odium. When Jones steals a horse Jones must face the music, but when a cor poration composed of Jones and thirty-nine others steals a rail. road the corporation gets the money, cuseing the corporation dIosen't hurt Jones. It is like fighting aL man's coat while the man. is a milo off. These cor~ porations are thme feudall garons of this century. Their (directors live in lordly laces and castles. Their yachts are on the sea. Their p a r lo r cars on the rails. They spread feasts that would feed a t a r vin'g fac tory town. Tihey throw away on their directors of a ball room enough to clothe the children of a city. They keep bands of mialitia to do their fighting. In Pensylvania it is called the coal, and iron police. In New York and Illinois It Is called the Pmn kerton's Detective Agency, at the word of command the hire ling assassins shoot down men, women and children. Time and again they 'have wai4n tha streets run red with the blood of innocent people are the murderw eralnever punished,they are epir. ted away on trains. Not only do the corporations keep armed retainers, they keep oily and servile courtiers to do their bid ding in other walks of life, their paid lobby bribes the voter, their paid editor feeds the public with liers, their corrupt lawyers and judges peddle out justice to the highest bidder, their attorneys go on the bench or into senate to vote the will of their masters. The ambitious young man, their power is so terribly great, the pulpit fears them. For the plush-covered pow is the seat of the milionaire, the pew over awes the sacred dosk, they can close up a magnificent natural harbor like PortRoyal,on the Car olina coast and keep it closed, they can compel congress to givo them millions of the taxes of the people to prepare them an infe rior harbor at another place at few miles distant like Savannah, they can destroy a city by a change of freight rates, they can steal my land under the law of "eminent domain." They can violate the law without foar, as they do evory State in the union. They are kings more cru el than the Cwsars, marauders, more sapacious than tho spanish pizarros and Alvorados, conspira tors more subtle in their designs than the Bargias or Catalinos; cor rupti onlist, more systematic, cold bloodod and unscrupulous than tho minions of the basest monarchs ihat ever sat on a thone, combina tion among thom have locked up l'or gambling puriposs tho treasur e'rs of t110 1m1111ose coal fie(s, minor r-al disposits, tiiber lands, oil w'l Is, gas wells, and kopt the bon ofit nwy fron ) the public at large. Tie markets of the world have boon (cluthelid by tho throat, in vi olation of law, and the price of overyconinodity takeni vay from compotition and givol to the trust, small doalers overywhero in overy thing, oxist at, the pleasure of the largo doaler. 'Tho individual sinks boforo the corporation. Tho ian goos (low under the blows of the "ring" money, combined monoy, unprinciplod, law-piotected mo noy, dominatos the stroot, the mar kot, the court, the church, the Iv gislaturo, the editorial room), the Stato, the school-room, tih hnom. Verily, verily, the rottenocss of the latter (lays of Romeo of the latter dlays of the French Mlonar chiyis upon01 us. The quiestioni is, do(es0 society coni th~ 1.1 e oods of its own rodemption? Ar thoso true men and true women oniough to overturn and rebuild? To il lustrate one of the ways in which corpiorations victimize the public j, lot us consider some examples of watering stock. In 1869 the Newv York Central and the Hudson river railroad consolidated. Their capital was . $45,000,000. They at once watered it up to $90,000,000, a clear steal of $45,000,000. Since that time more "watered" has been put in and the capitalization is now $146,000,000 of this sum $110, 000,000 is fictitious. It exists by virtue-of pen, ink, paper and ras cality. It existe again by reason' of the fact that the peoplo0 can he made to submit to almost any thing. No wv o n d e r Vanderbilt scornfully said, "The public be, damned." The Erie railroad is just as bad. Its real capitalization should be $65,000,000, but it has boon watered up ito $160,601,000, a steoal of nearly $100,000,000. On these watereod stocks the public is comipolled to pay dividends. La. borers on the road have their wa ges cut. down, and shippers have their freight charges run up in or der' that these enormous blocks of fictitious stock shall yield an in.. come,.and thus have a value on the market. To showv how far reaching is the leprosy of this dis honesty I state that when the Richmond Terminal bandits got hold of the Central railroads of' Georgia, they. promptly watered the concern to the tune, of $16,000, 000. The people pay the fiddlor. The railroads of the United States costs some $4,000,000. They were built by donations of land. and money and credit. 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