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FREEHAND, PA., JANUARY 23, 1893.
Keport on the Keadiug Combine.
The committee appointed by congress
to investigate the Heading combination
did its work quicker and more fully
than the majoritiy of congressional in
vestigating committees. In the house of
representatives on Thursday the report
was made. The committee has held
many hearings and taken thousands of
pages of testimony since last July, when
it was appointed. It is a very exhaus
tive document and has receieved the
unanimous signature of all the members
of the committee.
The report gives an exhaustive review
of how the anthracite coal lands were
acquired by railroad corporations until
all of them are now so controlled. In
mentioning the various corporations that
are interested in coal lands or in the
combination, the committee notes that
the New Jersey Central does not appear
to have any contract or agreement with
the Reading road, but it asserts that
while it has not been able to develop
any direct arrangemens between trans
portation companies by which the latter
are obliged to fix and determine the out
put and price of anthracite coal, there is
no necessity for a written stipulation to
determine the existence of such a com
bination.
There I* a Combination.
The report states that a combination
has been found, that conclusion being
based on the fact that coal transporta
tion and producing companies hold
monthly meetings together, at which no
minutes are kept, but at which the
monthly output and price of coal is de
termined. These companies act in con
cert, and if a colliery owner should re
fuse to limit his output to that fixed by
the combination, he is forced into line
by the railroads withholding from him
the cars necessary to transport the ex
cess of the output. These monthly out
puts, as regulated by the combination of
transportation and producing companies,
explain why the annual output is ten
millions of tons less than the capacity of
the mines. This reduction, the report
says, is brought about, not by the coal
producers, but by the transportation
companies who control them. The
operators who are not in the combina
tion are at the mercy of the rate-makers.
On this point the report states that of
thirty-four individual operators on the
line of the Reading railroad prior to
1892, five have been compelled to retire
from business.
Coal Price* Have Advanced.
The committee finds that an advance
in coal used by housekeepers of from
$1.25 to $1.35 a ton has been made.
This, the report states, makes it clear
that the combination has a monopoly,
and, while not impugning the motives of
the gentlemen in the enterprise, it says:
"The public are the sullerers; the price
of an article of universal necessity is
very much increased, ami the power of
a common carrier deriving its franchise
from the public is used and misused to
that end."
Control of the Coal Output.
The report says that the anthracite
coal region comprises an area of about
477 square miles in the state of Pennsyl
vania, penetrated by the following tide
water railroad lines:
The New York, I.ake Erie & Western;
New York, Susquehanna & Western;
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; New
York, Ontario & Western; Central Rail
road of New Jersey; Lehigh Valley
Railroad; Pennsylvania Railroad; Phila
delphia & Reading Railroad.
The capacity of the anthracite col
lieries is estimated at about 50,(J(I0,000
tons annually. The actual output is
about 41,000,000 tons. Fully 05 per cent,
of the anthracite coal output is now di
rectly and indirectly controlled by the
railroad companies, and the tendency is
toward the entire absorption of the coal
fields and the collieries by the common
carriers. The lease of the Lehigh Val
ley and New Jersey Central roads by
the Reading is spoken of and the report
says:
Heiuling the DOlll limtinj; Factor.
"By this arrangement the Philadel
phia & Heading controls at least 40 per
cent, of the anthracite coal going to
tidewater and becomes an important and
dominating factor in determining not
only the output, but the price of the
product."
The startling fact is commented upon,
that, notwithstanding coal can be hand-
led with less labor and transported with
less cost and risk than almost any other
class of freight, the freight charges are
tacitly and apparently solidly agreed
upon by all of the coal-carrying roads,
nearly double the rate for wheat or cot
ton. This excess over just and reason
able rates of transportation constitutes
an available fund by which railroads
are enabled to crush out the competition
of independent coal producers, using for
that purpose their own mines for those
owned by affiliated companies.
The committee is not prepared to
give an an opinion as to the liability of
the roads investigated to punishment
under the provissions of the anti-trust
law, but feels justified in saying that the
facts disclosed merits the fullest consid
eration of the law officers of the govern
ment.
Six Itecominemliitioiifl.
The amendments to the interstate
commerce law which this committee re
commenee are as follows:
"First, exempt from prosecution par
ties called as witnesses, so that when
called to testify they cannot be excused
on the ground that they might incrimi
nate themselves; second, provide for the
indictment and punishment of railroad
corporations who violate the law; third,
make it an offense punishable by law for
witnesses to refuse to testify; fourth,
provide that testimony before the inter
state commerce commission be taken in
writing and be preserved as part of the
records; fifth, provide that when action
of the commission is brought into court
for review the same shall be tried on
the evidence adduced before the com
mission, except when the parties could i
not have reasonably anticipated the ma
terality of any proposed new evidence;
sixth, amend the act so as to define the
meaning of the word "line" in the long
and short haul clause by providing that
when connecting lines by any arrange
ment transport freight for a longdistance
at named rate, no less number of lines
shall transport the same freight for a
short distance at a greater rate."
Theße changes, the committee believes,
would liaye a tendency to weaken the
injurious effect of the existing monopoly,
and that in time private enterprise
might possibly be built up again.
Everybody Can Correct Them.
One of the most famous literary men
in the United States, a gentleman who
writes habitually elegant and forceful
English, bringing to the reader's counte
nance a smile or a tear at will, habitual
ly makes in conversation the most vil
lainous and atrocious errors of grammar
and pronunciation. It is because of the
influence of corrupt early associations
that he did not try to get rid of and does
not try to this day, more shame to him.
His parents undoubtedly said "them pa
pers" instead of "those papers," and he
does the same. If a cultivated foreigner
were to meet him and converse with him
awhile, what would he not be justified
in writing about American literary men
when he went back home?
Next summer the country will be full
of the finest specimens of humanity
from Europe, representing the culture
of the ages, come to visit the World's
fair. Will the citizen of the grandest
country the sun ever shone upon cause
them to think we are a nation of igno
ramuses by making constantly such
slips as "there ain't nobody," "1 didn't
see nobody," etc.. instead of saying
"there is nobody." "I didn't see any
body," and ' I know nobody?" Stop us
ing two negatives. Are the women with
diamonds and the man with a gold
watch chain going to persistently use
"them" where they should use "those,"
and say "them cars" and "them books,"
instead of "those cars" and "those
books?"
Nay, more. Shall we pose as an Eng
lish speaking nation that habitually usee
"jist" for "just," "sich" for "such," "git"
for "get" and "right away" when we
mean "at once?" Shall we let these
foreigners know that there are Ameri
cans, and plenty of tliem—Americans
educated in our public schools—who
think it sounds stuck up and pedantic
to use the best language they know
therefore they drop into the vulgar idiom
and mispronunciation with which the
foreigner from Africa and from Europe
liave corrupted our common lingo? For
the sake of our country and the memory
of George Washington, nol Do not let
them know it.
Therefore start in now, early in 1893,
and talk English. Don't say "The boys
is going to school" or "people says."
"The boyß are going to school" and
"people say." Stop giving us these de
formed, crippled monstrosities of lan
guage.
After twenty-five yearß of knocking at
the government gates at Washington the
women who would vote nave scored a
second point. The first was to have their
case regularly referred to a special sen
ate committee. The second is that Sen
ator Warren, of the select committee on
woman suffrage, has reported to the
senate a joint resolution to amend the
United States constitution so that the
right of citizenship shall not be denied or
abridged on account of sex, and that
congress shall have power to enforce the
prohibition. Now, when both honses of
congress pass Senator Warren's bill and
tho president signs it, and then it is rati
fied by thirty-three of the forty-four
states In the Union, that amendment
will become part of the United States
constitution.
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THE BOOM IN SHODDY.
IT IS DUE TO THE DOMINATION
OF THE M'KINLEY BILL.
The Tariff Having Put a Tax on Wool,
the Manufacturer In Order to Keep
Down the Prices of His Products Adul
terates with Old Clothes Ground Up.
Evidence is coming thick and fast
from all quarters that the shoddy in
dustry is experiencing an unprecedented
boom. Readers of The American Wool
and Cotton Reporter cannot but have
noticed the notes on new shoddy mills,
additions to old ones, etc. Here is one
from that journal of Oct. 10, 1892:
"James Bowers' Sons, Chester, Pa.,
manufacturers of all wool shoddies, re
port business with them as very good.
They have been obliged to run some de
partments np to 9 o'clock evenings to
keep up with their orders. The firm
have now in process of erection a new
addition to meet the growing demands
of their trade. This building will be 80
by 50 feet."
Here is another under date of Oct. 27:
"Messrs. T. H. Gray & Co., manufac
turers of and dealers in wool shoddies,
factory located at Hyde Park, Mass.,
have completed a large addition, the di
mensions of which are 75 by 45 feet, and
are now running with increased facili
ties for extracting, dyeing and manufac
turing all grades of wool shoddies and
extracts. This is in addition to the reg
ular shoddy business which they have
carried on for the past twenty years."
This same journal, in speaking of the
importations, says:
"In cloths there has been a notable in
crease over last year, while the amount
of rags, shoddy, wastes, etc., has nearly
doubled, the total amount of this kind
of stuff brought in for the eight months
being over 208,771 pounds, against only
118,780 pounds last year, an increase of
nearly 100 per cent."
The shoddy column in this journal
testifies, as it has done for more than a
year, to the brisk demand lor shoddies,
woolen rags, new clips, extracts, wool
wasto, cotton waste, etc. Advertise
ments of twenty-seven different shoddy
manufacturers and dealers appear on
this page. On another page is a descrip
tion of an exhibit of wools, hairs, shod
dies, etc., at the mechanics' fair in Bos
ton. Here are two extracts from it:
"In the corner of the building where
this exhibit is railed off are fifty-seven
different samples of cotton and wool,
each of which is different in some mate
rial aspect from every other. Here is
shown nearly every kind of fleece—the
cheap and much used shoddy and the
hair of the cow and the goat, which are
all used in the weaving of fabrics for
human wear.
"There is camel hair from Russia and
quantities of goat hair and cow hair so
treated that it does not look like the
original article, but it is all in a state of
preparation on the way to manufacture.
It has some sort of fiber, some length
which enabled it to be woven in with
wool, and so it helps to add body to the
fabric. But the shoddy is the most sug
gestive. Here is something of which it
is said truly that it is 'all wool,' but it
has no fiber at all. It is old white
blankets and white wool fabrics of other
sorts all picked to pieces till it is per
fectly comminuted, and it lies up light
and fluffy, ready to be mixed with the
fiber of wool and so woven into cloth.
There are collections of these wool ex
tracts, as they are called, each of which
is true to the test of being all wool, but
none of which has any fiber to enable it
to hold together of itself. Such is the
stuff which is largely used in some of
the mills, even to the extent of 40 per
cent., as the agent of one of the promi
nent mills has said."
A short time ago this same journal,
which, by the way, is a protectionist pa
per, said on the subject of adulteration
of goods:
"There is some complaint made by
clothiers that the quality of the goods
now being made by the domestic mills
jis not up to the old standard. The com
plaint is not alone with the manufactur
ing clothier, but is made also by the re
tail dealer; even some of the well known
standard makes are put down as falling
short of their old standard. No doubt
some of the trade will remember that
one of the leading clothiers in this city
came out with a letter some two years
ago in which it was stated that as a re
sult of the McKinley bill prices would
either be higher or else the product of
the mills protected would deteriorate.
Almost immediately following the pas
sage of the bill prices were advanced,
but in many cases they did not hold, as
public sentiment was strongly against a
wholesale advance.
"When many of the prices returned to
their old figures and business became
more settled, manufacturers commenced
to make a poorer fabric, yet claim it was
the same thing, and held to the old price,
This practice must have proved profit
able, at least for the time being, as it
was continued and carried further, BO
! that today the trade complains. To the
eye many of the oloths appear fully up
to the Btandard, and it is only after they
are doing service for the consumer that
the deception is discovered."
The New York Times of Oct. 30 says
editorially:
Governor Russell, of Massachusetts,
has supplied some striking facts with
special reference to the substitutes for
wool. Every one knows that the dura
bility of woolen cloth is due to the pecu-
I liar fiber of wool, a fiber that is not only
j very strong to resist strain, but which
|by a curious arrangement of minute
barbs will so lock and combine as to
make a cloth that will, if well woven of
good wool, last almost indefinitely. Now
the McKinley tariff having put a very
heavy tax on wool, the manufacturer, in
order to keep down the prices of his prod
uct, uses a great variety of adulterants
or substitutes, chiefly the former in
clothing and the latter in carpets. The
adulterants are generally in the nature
of "shoddy," or old woolen cloth ground
np, or "noils," which are the short fibers
left by the carding out of the long fibers,
ftooe of them gives way strength to the
fabric, but trill rapidly disappear in
I wear.
I Governor Russell showed from the sta
tistics of manufacturers how the making
1 of these adulterants has come to be a
I regular business openly followed and
steadily increasing. Thus the shoddy es
tablishments in the United States in
creased from 98 in 1890 to 134 in 1891,
and the capital from $4,091,207 to $6,000,-
000. Here was an increase of nearly one
balf in the investment of capital in this
strange business in one year under the
stimulating influence of the McKinley
tariff. The process has been going on
for ten years, and during all that time
had advanced, but the greatest advance
was within the last year. In that year
—the climax of McKinleyism—we have
the following amazing totals of various
substances used to make fabrics of
"wool:"
Shoddy, mnngo, cto 81,620,261 pounds
Animal hair 16,865,764 pounds
Cotton 75,000.000 pounds
These figures are eloquent. They show
the real nature of the pretended "protec
tion" to the workinginan. It is "shoddy."
The Result Explained.
The election of 1890 distinctly and em
phatically bespeaks the condemnation of
the McKinley tariff law by the Ameri
can people. The verdict of 1890 is again
pronounced and judgment is affirmed in
every particular.
The McKinley bill was doomed from
the day it waseuacted into law. So long
as a trace of McKinleyism remains in
the tariff laws, so long will the tariff be
a political issue. The Democrats have
to thank Major McKinley for his serv
ices to the Democratic party. To Mc-
Kinley perhaps more than to any other
one man is due the thorough under
standing of the tariff question by the
American people. History has not yet
recorded an instance wherein the people
knowingly and patiently rested long un
der the burden of unnecessary taxation.
Even the French peasantry, degraded
and oppressed by centuries of the domi
nation of the clergy and the nobility,
finally revolted, drove away the customs
officers who stood at the gateway of
every town to collect taxes from every
person bringing his wares to the market
place. The people finally awoke to the
fact that famine and want were caused
by the preveution of the free interchange
of products through these customs offi
cers. The French revolution resulted.
England for years endured tariff laws
under protest, but when famine brought
the people face to face with the fact that
the tax luws were responsible for the
famine not only tlw) corn laws, but all
protective laws were stricken from the
statutes. Doubtless this response of the
English parliament in 1846 to the urgent
demands of the people averted an Eng
lish revolution.
In this country the tariff question lias
been fought out again and again. High
tariff has never given the people satisfac
tion. It has always brought opposition,
which lias ceased only when tariff has
been reduced. In 1856 the tariff had
teased to bean issue, and then it was
I lower than it had been Bince 1824. The
rates had been reduced in 1833, and again
in 1842, and the result was that perhaps
for the firßt time in the history of tho
' country the tariff was satisfactory to all
to such an extent that no political party
referred to it in the national platform.
This indicates that a moderate tariff
graded to the needs of the government
is the policy to pursue if the question is
to be permanently settled. The McKin
ley bill awoke such a storm of opposi
tion as to indicate that the people will
never consent to endure a high tariff.
McKinley centered the assaults of the
Democrats upon the tariff and brought
about a condemnation of the high tariff
policy far more emphatic than would he
pronounced upon the tariff of 1883.
Cleveland wrote the tariff message of
1887. The response of the Republicans
was the McKinley tariff law. The
people did the rest. The position taken
by Cleveland is approved most emphat
ically, not only by his party hut over
whelmingly by the people of the whole
country. The position taken by the Mc-
Kinley Republicans is approved by tho
party, but utterly repudiated in all sec
tions of the country by the people. Mc-
Kinleyism has weakened the Republican
party in every state in the Union. Mc-
Kinleyism is a thing of the past in
American politics.—Utica Observer.
Cumpulgn Method** Contracted.
It is very fortunate that the means
adopted by the two parties in the con
duct of the campaign should have con
formed to their respective ends. The
aim of the Democratic party was to
benefit the whole people of the country
by relieving industry of hampering bur
dens, but this aim appealed to the whole
people, and no one class had a special
interest in it such as could be made the
basis of an appeal for money to carry on
ihe campaign. There were of course
the usual and inevitable ambitions of 1
! office seekers, but these were engaged in '
I local conflicts, and left little to spare '
: for the exigencies of the general canvass. !
I On the other hand, the Republican
i contention in behalf of the hampering
j °f all traffic and industry for the en
richment of a few favored persons made
a campaign of corruption absolutely in
l evitable. The managers had no diffi
culty iu making out a list of the men
whose interest it was to supply them
with money in quantities large enough
to stifle the popular protest against the
methods by which that money had been
acquired. The newspaper owned and
edited by the Republican candidate for
the vice presidency saved them all
trouble beforehand by compiling a list
i of such persons, a list of which the pnr
| pose was so evident that it became
known at once as the "Fat Friers'
i Guide."
| It was because these men had private
interests dependent upon legislation and
opposed to the public interest that they
were expected to contribute largely to
the fund of their party.
Of course this situation made inevi
table a campaign of corruption. While
: the Democratic managers could not ha ve
; carried on such a campaign if they
, would, the Republican managers could
not have avoided it if they would.—New
1 York Times.
M'KINLEY SWAMPED,
t HE NAPOLEON OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY OVERTAKEN BY DEFEAT.
Victory for Free Trutle Won by the Fair
et Fight Ever Seen in a Presidential
Caille—Harrisou Beaten ltecause He
Represented the Protection Doctrine.
Major McKinley has prided himself as
being the Napoleon of the Republican
party. Election day was the Waterloo
for McKinley and McKinleyism. Noth
ing cold save McKinley from the ditch
digged for him, Roberly, silently and re
morselessly, by the people who pay the
taxes, and who believe that revenue is a
tax, and a tax for anything but the
honest expense of government is an un
warranted hardship. In that ditch Mc-
Kinley will probably he left by the party
he has brought to such disastrous defeat.
If the party is to survive it will have to
choose new leaders and return to its
older and better faith. McKinleyism is
dead.—Chicago News-Record (Ind.).
Now perhaps we may hear more
truth and less humbug about McKinley
prices and McKinley wages, American
tin, Peck's statistics, Frick's Democracy
and British gold.—Buffalo Courier
(Dem.).
The victory has been won by the fair
est fighting ever seen in any presidential
battle. From start to finish the strug
gle has been free from personalities. Mr.
Harrison is beaten simply because he
was a representative of Republican doc
trine in its ictensest form. It is not a
personal but a political rejection. This
defeat should leave no sting and excite
no resentment. Two lines of policy were
distinctly defined during the campaign,
and the verdict is given with a clear un
derstanding of the merits of the case.
We rejoice that tho decision has fallen
on the side of tariff reform.—New York
Herald (Ind.).
What are the causes of this defeat of
the Republican party? One does not
need to go far to seek them. It has not
yet recovered from the popular preju
dice against the McKinley bill which
two years ago, just after its enactment,
rose like a deluge and swept away the
Republican majority in congress which
had enacted it.—St. Paul Pioneer Press
(Dem.).
The people of the United States have
declared in favor of the Democratic can
didate, and presumably of Democratic
principles, and so the United States is
to have an era of free trade for at least
two years and possibly four. All good
citizens, no matter how much they de
plore the result,will bow to the public ver
dict, but we venture to make this predic
tion—that if this country shall have four
years of free trade or of tariff for reve
nue only there will not be another
Democratic victory for half a century.—
San Francisco Chronicle (Rep.).
McKinleyism, the force bill, bread
and butter politicians, civil service
abuse, pension frauds, billion dollar ex
travagance, jingo foreign policy, nepo
tism—these are a few of the products of
Republican misrule that were over
whelmingly repudiated and rebuked at
the polls yesterday. The American peo
[ pie can be trusted to correct abuses in
its government.—St. Paul Globe (Dem.).
The quietest presidential campaign
known closed with the heaviest vote ever
cast. The people had made up their
minds to vote and knew exactly what
they were going to vote for. They had
been thinking for four years, and did not
need the stimulus of fireworks displays
and the beating of drums to awaken
them to the importance of voting accord
ing to their convictions.—Cleveland
Plain Dealer (Dem.).
The labor vote is largely foreign and
ignorant of the extent of its prosperity.
It has been misled by demagogues and
has revolted against the best conditions
it has ever known. Its mistake will be
seen when the prosperity on which labor
lias thrived as never before receives the
inevitable shock through legislation
based on the platform on which Cleve
land is elected. A majority of the vot
ers have decided to put their labor on
an equality with that of the cheap labor
of the countries of the old world.—Port
land Oregonian (Rep.).
Tariff Reform Tliat In Within Reach.
It has been suggested that an extra
session of the Fifty-third congress should
he summoned on the 4th of March next,
in order to inaugurate with as little de ;
lay as possible the economic reforms de
manded by the people in the elections of
Tuesday. There are substantial reasons
why a new congress should meet on the
4th of March following its election, in
stead of waiting for more than a year to
carry out the mandate of the country.
But let the existing senate, on the
meeting of congress next month, take
up and pass the neglected tariff reform
] hills of the house that are now lying in
its finance committee. These measures
—among the rest the hill to make wool
j free and to reduce the duties on woolens
and to restore the old duty on tin plate—
j would, if passed, go far toward satisfy
ing the wishes of the country until the
! new congress could enact a more com
| prehensive measure of tariff reform.
| Had the senate been capable of com
j prehending the meaning of the popular
verdict of IH9O, its Republican majority
would have promptly seized the oppor
tunity to remove the most glaring iniqui
ties of the McKinley tariff. But instead
of giving the least consideration to the
house tariff bills, the senate stowed them
away as passed in the pigeonholes of its
committee on finance. This indecent
disregard of the will of the people, as
] expressed by their representatives, has
been terribly avenged upon the Repub
lican party in the elections of 1892.
( Though utterly deaf to the voice of
| 1890, it is hardly possible that the Re
publican senate will prove callous to a
second rebuke, compared with which
the former was but as a gentle whisper
of admonition. In the few brief months
that remain of their power the Repub
licans in the senate could do much to
rehabilitate themselves and their party
with the people by passing the house
, tariff bills. Will they have the courage
of the occasion?— Philadelphia Record.
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Ladies' Coats.
Newmarkets at half price. *
An §8 coat for $5.
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Special Bargains
In WGolen Blankets.
Have them from 79 cents a
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Remember, men's gnm boots,
Candee, $2 25
Muffs, 40 cents up to any
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Ladies' woolen mitts, 2 pair
25 cents; worth 25 cent* a pair.
Some 50-cent dress goods at *
25 cents.
All-wool plaid, which was 60
cents, now 39 cents.
Some Special Things
In Furniture.
A good carpet-covered lounge,
$5
A good bedstead, $2 25.
Fancy rocking chairs. $3.50.
Ingrain carpet for 25 cents a
yard.
Groceries & Provisions.
Flour, $2 15.
Chop, sl.lO and $1.15.
Bran, 50 cents.
Ham, 13 cents.
Bologna, 8 cents.
Cheese, N. Y., 13 cents.
Tub butter. 28 cents
18 pounds sugar SI.OO.
5 pounds Lima beans, 25 cents.
5 pounds currants, 25 cents.
5 pounds raisins, 25 cents.
0 bars Lenox soap, 25 cents.
0 bars Octagon soap, 25 cents.
3 packages pearline, 10 cents.
Best coal oil, 12 cents.
Vinegar, cider, 15 cents gal.
Oider, 20 cents a gallon.
Syrup, No. 1, 35 cents gal.
No. 1 mince meat. 10 cents.
3 pounds macaroni 25 cents. r
3 quarts beans. 25 cents.
0 pounds oat meal, 25 cents.
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