The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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PLAYS MANY PARTS
MEAN TO END ABUSE
PIRATICAL COMBINATIONS HAVE
TIRED PATIENCE OF PEOPLE.
Paper and Lumber Trusts Have Long
Been Conspicuous for Their Grasp-
ing Proclivities—Report of Com-
jnlssioner of Corporations.
There is a relationship between the
paper trust and the lumber trust. The
lumber trust is the most conspicuous
of the selfish interests fighting the
Canadian reciprocity treaty. The
American people believe in the protec-
tive tariff, but not in the abuses of
the protective tariff—the excrescences
and abnormalities, which are not pro-
tective in the sense of safeguarding
the general Interest, but which on
the contrary permit swollen combina-
tions of capital to gouge the people
by contriving artificial conditions
which create monopoly and enable
unscrupulous manipulators to exact
extortionate prices.
It is not the protective tariff, but
an abuse of the protective tariff, which
is responsible for the lumber combine
and that spoiled child of the lumber
combine, the paper trust. Here are
conclusions presented in a report by
the commissioner of corporations,
Herbert Knox Smith:
“In the last forty years combination
has so proceeded that 195 holders,
many inter-related, now have prac-
tically one-half of the privately owned
timber in the investigation area
(which contains 90 per cent, of the
whole). This formidable process of
concentration in timber and land cer-
tainly involves grave future possibil-
ities of impregnable monopolistic con-
ditions, whose far-reaching conse-
quences to society it is now difficult
to anticipate freely, or even to esti-
mate.”
The report of the commissioner of
corporations reviews the recent his-
tory of combinations in the lumber
industry and remarks:
“Such concentration in standing
timber, if permitted to combine and
increase, makes proable a final cen-
tral control of the whole lumber in-
dustry. A few strong interests ulti-
mately holding the bulk of the timber
can set the price of timber and its
products. The manager of the Na-
tional Lumber Manufacturers’ associa-
tion recently said to lumbermen on
the Pacific coast: ‘The day of cheap
lumber is passing and soon will be
gone, but the men who make the
money will be those who own timber
and can hold it until the supply in
other parts of the country is gone.
Then they can ask and get their own
price.’ ”
Is this a consummation which the
American people will permit? Will
they look kindly upon the mainten-
ance of artificial conditions to prevent
competition and wring from them ex-
tortionate prices for a commodity
whose preparation for the market
needs no skilled labor? The Taft ad-
ministration is proceeding in two
ways to beat this game. It has insti-
tuted suits under th~ Sherman law
to call the consolidated lumber inter-
ests to account for organizing com-
binations in restraint of trade, and it
is pushing the Canadian reciprocity
agreement. In the forests of Canada
there are unmeasured billions of feet
of lumber, stores sufficient to supply
the world for generations to come.
Why should not the people of the
United States who are purchasers of
lumber have the benefit of free access
to the Canadian supply? The recipro-
cal trade agreement with Canada for
which President Taft is contending
would cut off the $1.50 tariff which
now confers an inequitable advantage
upon the lumber trust of the United
States, and would go far to check the
denudation of American forests.
BOW TO SPECIAL INTERESTS
Recent Developments Have Showr
How the Republican Party Is
“Influenced."
The influence of special interests on
legislation at Washington has been s
matter of speculation, and still is, al
though recent developments show that
It extends much farther than has beet
suspected. These developments havt
resulted from Democratic investiga
tlon of departmental affairs, and tc
the Democratic majority of the house
belongs the credit.
The Aldrich tariff law, for instance,
was manifestly framed to promote the
welfare of special interests wherever
possible so to do, as has been indi
cated by the effect of that law on
business and on the cost of living.
One of its provisions related to the
importation of scrap iron largely con
sumed by the iron and steel mills oi
New England. This provision was
liberally Interpreted by an assistant
secretary of the treasury, and his In-
terpretation was questioned. Investi
gation developed the fact that he con-
sulted Senator Aldrich before render
ing his decision ^whlch was in favor
of the New England mills. The same
investigation disclosed the additional
fact that another assistant secretary
was an Aldrich appointee, as well as
an employe of the Aldrich monetary
commission, drawing two salaries con-
trary to law.
Thus Senator Aldrich not only de-
cided an important revenue question
in favor of the interests that he
served In the senate, and still con
tinues to serve, but also controls im-
portant officials in the treasury de
partment in furtherance of his mone-
tary plans. All of which means that
special interests not only frame legis
lation but supervise execution of
laws.
Gates and Carnegie.
John W. Gates is always entertain-
ing, but he has never been so enter-
taining since as he was a dozen years
ago when he told the story of his
career to a New York newspaper, in-
cluding his enormous profits on barbed
wire and his management of a con
gressional election in Missouri for the
election of a Republican congressman
in order to save the duties on wire
and other steel products, though out-
side of business he purports to be a
Democrat.
Mr. Gates was’ almost as interesting
when he told the committee that is
investigating the steel trust that Car-
negie was- "demoralizing” the steel
business by doing a competitive busi-
ness. In order to stop his competi-
tion Moore and Frick paid him a mil-
lion for an option on his business,
but were unable to raise the neces-
sary money and lost what they paid
for the option. Later Carnegie showed
a disposition to “demoralize” the tube
business by establishing a large tube
factory., and then J. P. Morgan, Gates,
Schwab and a few others organized
the Steel corporation, buying out Car-
negie with a bond issue. The combi-
nation has been highly successful be-
cause It stopped the “demoralization”
to which Carnegie Is addicted; It
stopped all competition between'steel
companies whose producing capacity
was more than half that of the entire
country.
Profits In excess of the amount that
would look well lu dividends have
been Invested in extending and re-
newing the plant, so that the watered
stock Is coming to represent actual
value, but value contributed by the
customers, and not the shareholders.
We don’t think Roosevelt’s part In
the expansion pf the steel trust by
tha acquisition of the Tennessee cor-
poration so very wicked; but it was
iniquitous from the point of view he
promulgated and emphasized as pres-
ident.
i HAD BEEN SILENT SUFFERER
_____
1 Subordinate Officer the Recipient of
Hlnta Intended for Hia
Superior.
A sou oaplaln’H wife tells this story
i of u maiden woman, ulster of one of
the owners of the ship on which she
once made a long voyage. She had
very decided opinions on most blat-
ters, and she and the captain had
muny spirited arguments at the din-
ner table.
The captain’s wife, a meek, submls-
llve little soul, fearing that in the
heat of argument her husband might
any something to offend their august
passenger, was in the habit of kick-
ing him on the shins to hint at mod-
eration. Nevertheless, all these re-
minders passed unheeded.
One day she administered a more
vigorous kick than usual, and noticed
an expression of pain flit across the
face of the mate, who sat opposite
her.
“Oh, Mr. Rrown, was that your
shin?” she asked.
“Yes, Mrs. Illaikie,’’ said the mate, |
meekly, “hit’s been my shin hall the j
voyugo, ma’am."—Youth’s Companion. I
"The Bard of Odon.”
The Rev. George F. Culmer, “the
bard of Odon,” celebrated ids eighty-
sixth birthday the other day. The
Rev. Mr. Culmer was born May 22,
1825, in Kent, England, during the
reign of George Frederick (George
IV.), for whom he was named. At
the time of his birth John Quincy
Adams was president of the United
States.
Dr. Culmer has been a minister for
many years In the Methodist Eplsco- ,
pal church, until his advanced age
made It necessary for him to retire.
He is a scholar and poet. Many of
his poems have been published in
magazines and newspapers.—Wash-
ington Correspondence Indianapolis
News.
Showed Tact of King.
It was the order of the day at a
late shoot at Sandringham that when
pheasants should not be shot, and one
of the guests brought down a hen
which fell near King Edward’s place
In the line. Anxiou% not to hurt the
offender’s feelings by an over rebuke,
the king pointed to the corpus delicti
and said: “Ah, Gurney, what a man
you are for the ladles!”—Life of Ed-
ward VII.
When Fate Mocks.
“To bad about Joe.”
“What’s the matter?”
“He sprained his arm and they are
afraid he can never pitch again, 6o his
folks are going.to make a doctor or
something of that sort out of him.”
If it were not for their long faces
some people have an Idea the world
wouldn’t know they were religious.
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For Your
Enjoyment
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“DEAF” BEGGAR COULD HEAR
Incident That Struck Householder as
Being Along Slightly Humor,
ous Lines.
"Mnny funny things happen In a
flat during the course of a few
months," said a Milwaukee flat dwell-
er, “but one of the best things I ever
saw happened yesterday.
”1 was suddenly roused from my
slumber by three loud knocks on the
door. Jumping to my feet and into a
bathrobe, I hastened to see what was
wanted. I opened the door In time
to see a young fellow half wray up the
flight to the next floor.
“ ‘Hello, there’ I yelled at him.
"lie turned around, hastened back
and handed out a small envelope,
pointing to the Inscription. I glanced
at it. It was an appeal for aid be-
cause the applicant was deaf and
dumb.
“Say, I was mad enough to kick him
down stairs. Then the Joke struck
me and I slammed the door in his face
and went back to bed laughing."
The Old Gag.
Miss Lillian B. Rowe, at an adver-
tisement writers’ dinner in Denver,
said of the harem skirt:
“It will soon be so widely worn that
the old gag, perpetrated in the’40s on
men, may profitably be revived*- for
women victims.
“Some sharper, you know, will re-
vive the gag by advertising in the
Ladies’ Own—
“ ‘Send $1 and learn how to keep
your harem skirt from becoming
fringed at the bottom.’
“Thousands of dollars will pour in,
and to each victim the sharper will
reply:
“ ‘Wear knickers.’ ”
HARD ON CHOLLY.
Cholly Chumpleigh — Would you
leave your happy home for me?
Miss Caustique—Yes, if I saw you
coming and the back door wasn’t
locked.
A Heartless Father.
“I need some* help with my house-
hold duties,” announced a woman
when her husband came home the
other night.
“What’s the matter with our daugh-
ter?” the husband wanted to know.
“Our daughter? The idea! Why,
Jim, you know she’s awfully delicate,
and she would die if she had to dc
any household work She has hei
school, and—”
“And what? Her teacher’s reporl
shows that she isn’t doing a bit oi
school work.”
“But she is the star member of he!
basketball team, and you know she is
eager to take the prize at the gym-
nasium contest. But that’s just lik«
a man—wanting a delicate girl to en-
gage In rough, hard labor. Be asham-
ed of yourself, Jim Jenkins! You
have no feeling.”
(A short human-interest story written by C. W. Post for the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd.)
To tell you the curious story of how the mind
affects the digestion of food.
I refer to the condition the mind is in, just
before, at the time, or just following the taking
of food.
If he has been properly educated (the major-
ity have) he will help you understand the curious
machinery of digestion.
To start you thinking on this interesting
subject, I will try to lay out the plan In a general
way and you can then follow into more minute
details.
Pawlow (pronounce Pavloff) a famous Russian Phy-
sician and Chemist, experimenting on some dogs, cut
into the tube leading from the throat to the stomach.
They were first put under chloroform or some other
anaesthetic and the operation was painless. They were
kept for months in very good condition.
When quite hungry some un-appetizing food was
placed before them and, although hunger forced them
to eat, it was shown by analysis of the contents of the'
stomach that little If any of the digestive juices were
found.
Then, in contrast, some raw meat was put where they
couldn’t reach it at once, and a little time allowed for
the minds of the dogs to “anticipate” and create an ap-
petite. When the food was finally given them, they de-
voured it ravenously and with every evidence of sat-
isfaction. The food was passed out into a dish through
the opening before It reached the stomach. It was
found to be mixed with “Ptyalin” the alkaline juice of
the mouth, which is important for the-first step in di- *
gestion. Then an analysis was made of the contents of
the stomach, into which no food had entered. It was
shown that the digestive fluids of stomach were flowing
freely, exactly as if the desirable food had entered.
This proved that it was not the presence of food
which caused the digestive juices to flow, but the flow
was caused entirely and alone as a result of the action
of the mind, from “anticipation.”
One dog continued to eat the food he liked for over
an hour believing he was getting it into his stomach,
whereas, not an ounce went there; every partiole went
out through the opening and yet all this time the di-
gestive juices flowed to the stomach, prepared to
quickly digest food, in response to the curious orders of
the mind.'
Do you pick up the lesson?
Unappetizing food, that which falls to create mental
anticipation, does not cause the necessary digestive
juices to flow, whereas, food that is pleasing to the
sight, and hence to the mind, will cause the complicated
machinery of the body to prepare in a wonderful way
for its digestion.
How natural, then, to reason that one should sit down
to a meal in a peaceful, happy state of mind and start
off the breakfast, say with some ripe delicious fruit,
then follow with a bowl of crisp, lightly browned, thin
bits of corn like Post Toasties, add a sprinkle of sugar
and some good yellow cream and the attractive, appetiz-
ing picture cannot escape your eye and will produce the
condition of mind which causes the digestive juices
nature lias hidden in mouth and stomach, to come forth
and do their work.
These digestive juices can be driven back by a mind
oppressed with worry, hate, anger or dislike of the dis-
agreeable appearance of food placed before one.
Solid facts that are worthy the attention of anyone
who esteems prime health and human happiness "as a
valuable asset in the game of life.
“ There’s a Reason" for saying “ The Memory Lingers" when breakfast is
started with POST TOASTIES.
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Waggoner, Thomas T. The Carter Express. (Carter, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1911, newspaper, June 30, 1911; Carter, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc955895/m1/3/?q=no+child+left+behind: accessed July 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.