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THE SUN, BALTIMORE, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1905. STERN HAND AT MANILA Two Provinces Practically Put Under Martial Law. OUR TRUE AMERICANISM President Roosevelt On The People, The Army And The Navy. FOOLISH CRY OF MILITARISM BEEFTRUSTLOSES Supreme Court Unanimously In Favor Of The United States Attitude. fir JgEfcllH whole nation if he falls to prepare himself with all the strength thatti him lies to do Ills duty should the occasion arise, and one of your great duties is to sete that shots hit.

Applause. The result is going to largely depend upon whether you or your adversary hits. I expect you to be brave I rather take that for granted. It is not that you are to be commended much for bravery. You would.be condemned forever if you lacked It.

If you kicked it in the highest form, courage physical and moral, the courage that will assumte responsibility, no less than the courage that without thought will face death, that we have a right to expect from every one of you, and I say that you are less to be comnfvnded for having it than to be condemned for failure to have it. But in addition you have got to prepare yourselves in advance. Every naval action that has taken place within the last 20 years in which our own ships have been engaged or in which any foreign ships have been engaged has shown, as a rule, that defeated party has suffered, not- from lack of courage but because It could not make the best use of its weapons or had not been given the right weapons. Occasionally, of the victor to be matched against people who did not show courage, the courage counted. ConrHjfe To Meet Courage, "But I want every onte here to proceed upon the assumption that any foe he may moet will have the courage.

Of course you have got to show the highest degree of courage yourself or you will be beaten anyhow, and you will deserve to be but in addition to that you must prepare yourselves by careful training so that you may make the best possible use of the delicate and formidable mechanism of a modem warship. The reason that you are trained here, the reason that you are put through this flcadeiny, the reason that your training goes on in the service is because without that training no man can hop's to do the work that is set before you to do. It is equallj true that the training cannot be given you only from without unless you actively and earnestly seek to get the best possible benefit from it yourselves; that the best teachers, the best superiors cannot supply wholly or more than in a very small part the lack of that which is within you. Xo other body of men of your age in oar country owes so much to the United States, to th'e flag that symbolizes this nation, as you do. No other body of young men has on the average as great a chance as each of you has to lead a life of honor to himself and of benefit to the country at large.

Deep will be our shame if you fail to rise level to your opportunities and duties and great will be the honor that I know you will win because I know that, judging you by thosVj who have gone before you in the service, you will rise level to your opportunities and keep untarnished the proud fame of th'e American officer." Applause. MIDSHIPMEN GRADUATES Tbe Class Of 195, Wlileb Received Diplomas From Tbe President. 1. Hugo Frankenburger, Charlestown, W. 610.90.

2. Roy C. Smith, Xiles, Mick, 609. S9. I I and disposing of all of them as Insufficient, Justice Holmes said "The defendants cannot be ordered to compete, but they properly can be forbidden to jglve directions or to make agreements not to compete." Modifications of the Injunction were suggested as follows "The general words of iho Injunction 'or by any other method or device the purpose and effect of which Is to restrain commerce as aforesaid should be strlcke out.

The defendants ought to be informed accurately as the case permits what they are forbidden to do. Specific devices are mentioned In the bill and they stand prohibited. The words quoted are a sweeping Injunction to obey the law and are open to the objection which we stated at the beginning that it was our duty to avoid. To the snme end of definition as fur as attainable the words 'as charged in the bill' should be Inserted between 'dealers in such meats' and 'the effect of which sales' and two lines lower, as to charges, for cartage, the same words should he Inserted between 'dealers and consumers' and 'the effect of Further suggestions looking to the modification of the injunction were made as follows "Xo objection was made on the ground that it Is not confined to the places specified In the bill. It seems to us, however, that It ought to set forth more exactly the transactions In which such directions and agreements are forbidden.

The trade In fresh meat referred to should be defined somewhat as It Is In the bill, and the sales of stock should he confined to sales of stock at the stockyards named, which stock Is sent from other States to the stockyards for sale, or Is bought at those yards for transport to another State." MR. MOODY'S OPINION. In speaking of the decision, Attorney-General Moody said "I was present In court when a synopsis of the decision was stated orally by Mr. Justice Holmes. There is no impropriety In my saying that, as I understood that statement, the opinion sustains In all respects the contentions of the Government and affirms the decree of the court below In all substantial particulars.

The case decides that the traffic In live stock transported from the State or Territory of Its origin to another State for sale and held there for sale is interstate commerce, and that those engaged In buying and selling such live stock are engaged In interstate commerce. "This question has been before the court twice before, but was left undecided because the cases In which It was presented turned upon other considerations. The decision condemns as an unlawful restraint of trade the combination between Independent dealers to suppress all competition In the purchase of live stock thus situated. It condemns as an unlawful restraint of trade the combination between nuch dealers for the purpose of fixing and maintaining uniform prices In the sale of meat throughout the country It condemns as an unlawful restraint of trade tbe combination between such dealers to obtain preferential rates for the transportation of their product by common carriers. The decision makes It clear that all combinations between independent Individuals, partnerships or corporations engaged in Interstate commerce, by which competition between them in such commerce is suppressed, fall under the prohibition of the so-called Anti-Trust act.

ONLY ONE PRECEDENT. "In this case the opinion of the court was a unanimous one. There is but one precedent for this, of the cases brought under the Anti-Trust act, and that is the Addys-ton Pipe case. Of the other five cases brought by the Government and decided by the Supreme Court, two cases the Hopkins case and Anderson case were decided against the Government and three cases the Joint Traffic Association, Trans-Mlssou-rl Freight Association and Northern Securities case were decided In favor of the Government by a vote of 5 to 4 of the justices." The Attorney-General declined to say anything with reference to any future proceedings in this or any other anti-trust case. But the closing words of his oral argument before the Supreme Court In this case are regarded as important and significant.

In closing his argument the Attorney-General said RUSSIAN CHURCH IN WARSAW A prominent building in the city where the Russian riots have centered. JOHANN HOCH CAUGHT Alleged "Bluebeard" Arrested In New York. TO GDRB CORPORATIONS President Says Power Must Not Be Used Against People. TO BE NO HURRY AND NO HALT Government Must Exercise Heal And Effective Control Over The Railroads, He Says. Philadelphia, Jan.

30. President Roosevelt was the guest of honor and principal speaker tonight at the forty-second anniversary banquet of the Union League. The President came to this city over the Pennsylvania Railroad from Annapolis, where he attended the graduation exercises. An immense throng greeted Mr. Roosevelt at the railroad station here, and he received an ovation on his way to the Union League, which he acknowledged, by continually raising his hat.

At the clubhouse he passed through two lines of cheering members to the reception room, where from to 7 o'clock he stood and shook hands with several hundred prominent citizens. The First Troop, Philadelphia City Cavalry, acted as the President's escort while he remained in the city. The banquet room was a marvel of the decorator's art. The national colors predominated in the floral and electrical effects, and the tables were designated by letters in red. white and blue, forming the name "Roosevelt." President Roosevelt occupied a seat in the center of the guests' table, with President E.

T. Stotesbury, of the Union League, on his right, and United States Senator Penrose on his left. Seated at the same table were former rostmaster-General Chas. Emory' Smith. Congressman Bingham, Surgeon-General Rixey, Frederick D.

Grant, S. B. M. Young, Governor Lea, of Delaware, Governor Stokes, of New Jersey, and Mayor Weaver, of this city. Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylvania, was indisposed and could not attend.

Former Postmaster-General Smith was also one of the speakers of the evening. His address was devoted to a history of the Union League. In introducing President Roosevelt Mr. Sotesbury referred to him as the only Vice-President who, having succeeded to the office of President through the death of his predecessor, retained that office by the votes of the people. Ovation To The President.

When Mr. Roosevelt arose to make his address he was greeted with long-continued applause. Then the entire assembly stood and sang the "Star-Spangled Banner," accompanied by the First Regiment Band, of the National Guard of Pennsylvania. Mr. Roosevelt in his address said "This club was founded to uphold the hands of Abraham Lincoln when he stood as the great leader in flie struggle for union and liberty.

We have a right, therefore, to appeal to this club for aid in every governmental or social effort made along the lines marked out by Lincoln. The great President taught many lessons we who come after him should learn. Among the most important of these was the lesson that, for weal or for woe, we are indissolubly bound together in whatever part of the country we live, whatever our social standing, whatever our wealth or our poverty, whatever form of mental or physical activity our life work may assume. "Lincoln, who was more emphatically than any other President we have ever had, the President! of the plain people, was yet as far removed as Washington himself from the slightest taint of demagogy. With his usual far-sighted clearness of vision, he saw that In a republic such as ours permanent prosperity of any part oi" our people was conditioned upon the prosperity of all, and that on the other hand any effort to raise the general level of happiness by striking at the well-being of a portion of the people could not but be In the end disastrous to all.

"Basis Of Right Living." "The principles which Lincoln applied to the solution of the problems of his day are those which we must apply If we expect successfully to solve the different problems of our own day problems which are so largely Industrial. Exactly as It is impossible to develop a high morality unless we have as a foundation those qualities which give at least a certain minimum of material prosperity, so it is impossible permanently to keep material prosperity unless there is back of it a basis of right living and right thinking. In the iast analysis, of course, the dominant factor in obtaining this good conduct must be the individual character of the average citizen. If there is not this condition of individual character in the average citizenship of the country all effort to supply its place by the wisest legislation" and administration will in the end prove futile. But given this average of individual character, then wise laws aud the honest administration of the laws can do much to supplement it.

"If either the buslnes world or the world of labor loses Its head, then it has lost something which cannot be made good by any governmental effort. Our faith in the future of the Republic is firm, because we believe that on the whole and in the long run our people think clearly and act rightly. For Increased "Unquestionably, however, the great de-velopnient of industrialism means that there must be an increase in the supervision exercised by the Government over business enterprises. This supervision should not take the form of violent and ill-advised interference, and assuredly there is danger lest it take such form if the business leaders of the business community confine themselves to trying to thwart the effort at regulation Instead of guiding it aright. Such men as the members of this club should lead in the effort to secure proper supervision and regulation of corporate activity by the Government, not only because it Is for the interest of the community as a whole that there should be this supervision and regulation, but because in the long run it will be in the interest, above all, of the very people who often betray alarm and anger when the proposition is first made.

Xo Toleration Of Uncontrolled Power "Neither this people nor any other free people will permanently tolerate the use of the vast power conferred by vast wealth, and especially by wealth in its corporate form, without lodging somewhere in the Government the still higher power of seeing that this power, in addition to being used In the interest of the Individual or individuals possessing it, is also used for and not against the Interests of the people as a whole. "Our peculiar form of government a Government in which the nation Is supreme throughout the Union in eeitfain respects, while each of uearly half a hundred States is supreme in its part of the Union In certain other respects, renders the task of dealing with these conditions especially difficult. No finally satisfactory result can be expected from merely State action. The action must come through the Federal Government. The business of the country is now carried on In a way of which the founders of our Constitution could by no possibility have had any idea.

May Have To Amend Constitution. "All great business concerns are engaged in interstate commerce, and it waa beyond question the intention of the founders, of our Government that Interstate cotnni'wce In all its branches and aspects shouJt be under national, and not State control. If the courts that this intention' was not carried out nnd made effective in the Constitution as It now stands, then tn the end the Constitution, if not construed differently, will have to be amended so that the original undoubted Intention may be made effective. But, of course, a constitutional amendment Is only to be used as a last resort, If every effort of legislation nnd administration shall have been proved inadequate. "Meanwhile the men In public life and the men who direct the great business interests of the country should work notjn antagonism, but in harmony, toward this given end.

In entering a field where the progress must of necessity be so largely experimental It In essential that the effort to make progress should be tentative and cautious. We must grow by evolution, not by revolution. Hnrry, Hut Xo Halt." "There must be no hurry, but there must also be no halt, and those who are anxious that there should be no sudden aud violent changes must remember that precisely these sudden and violent changes will be rendered likely If we refuse to make the needed changes In cautious and moderate manner. "At the present moment the greatest heed Is for an increase in the power of the national Government to keep the great highways of commerce open alike to all on reasonable and equitable terms. Less than a century ago these highways were still, as they had been since th dawn of history, either waterways, natural or artificial, or else ordinary roads for wheel vehicles drawn by animal power.

Tbe railroad, which was utterly unknown when our Government was formed nnd when the great principles of our Jurisprudence were laid HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED Opposition To Internal Hctciinft Iaw One Of Causes Of 'I'lie lleeen Serious Out break. Manila, Jan. RO. Habeas corpus bns been suspended in the provinces of Cavlte and Batangas. Major-General Corbin Is heartily coop-crating with Governor Wright and Is giving him every possible aid in suppressing resistance to American authority.

Federal troops, consisting of detachments of picked sharpshooters, work iu conjunction with the native scouts and the constabulary. Troops garrison the towns nnd martial law has practically been established in the two provinces. The present situation In these provinces Is partially due to ladronlsm and to disnf-fection fostered by the opponents of the internal revenue law. The force of the "ladrones" Is estimated at fiOO. They have intimidated peacefully inclined natives, who have been forced -to assist them.

The party who captured the wife and two children of former Governor Trias In the attack on San Francisco de Malabon. on the night of January 24, now demand a ransom of o.ooo pesos for their release. Iiear-Adrnlntl von 1'rlttwltz. of the Ger man squanron in Asiatic waters, who nr rived here January 18 on his flagship, the Fuerst Bismarck, sailed today. During the Admiral's stay in Manila he wasentertalned on pti dlfllinrutu srnl.

In- 4)it and the civil government, Mn jor-Gonoriil Corbin, Bear-Admiral Stirling nnd Govern- ui iuihui lumiis an acuve parr in an tue festivities. Admiral von I'rIUwitr. feelingly expressed his appreciation of the courtesies shown hlin nnd referred to the good will existing between his country and America. HANDS ACROSS THE SEA Ahhey Says IJterary Men Cnnneil The 1'eelliiK Of Fellowship. London, Jan.

Kdwln A. Abhey, the American artist, was the guest at dinner of the Authors' Club tonight. Henry Arthur Jones, the dramatist, presided, and many distinguished men of the literary and art worlds were present. Mr. Jones, In toasting Mr.

Abbey, said ho was a stanch comrade, a Jolly good fellow and the inspired illustrator of Shakespeare. Mr. Abbey. In responding, was given tremendous ovation. He said the affection that has grown up In America for Kngland In the last half century Is due to the authors, poets, essayists nnd dramatists The pictures of English life drawn by IMc'kens, Lamb and Thackeray hadkindled an undercurrent of warmth toward Ftiglnnd that could not be chilled by all the quarrels and mistakes of politicians and diplomats.

Mr. Abbey said he had devoted the belter purr. of his life to the effort to give form nnd shape to the great men tho past had con-jured up. Ills greatest regret, he said, was that his pictures were not more worthy of them. PROMISES TO GERMAN MINERS Government Will I rge A Bill Rcjs- ulatiiiK Their Labor.

Berlin, Jan. ao. llerr Moellcr, Minis, ter of Commerce and Industry, speaking In the Prussian Diet today, said the Government would press the bill regulating labor in mines. A few weeks would suffice to prepare the proposed law. He had hoped that the Government's announcement that It intended to pass such a law would result In the strikers returning to work, but to his great regret they had not done so.

Herr Moeller, replying to a deputation of coal strikers. HRked them to maintain a moderate attitude and said they would retain the sympathy of right-thinking people. The Government, he declared, would do everything possible for them. The official report shows an increase of strikers, the number out being 105,015. PRAISE FOR REGICIDES Their Work: At Beljrraile "Thankfully Acknowledged." Belgrade, Servin, Jan.

30. The semiofficial newspaper organ here today publishes the following: "The Government Is fully convinced that the regicide officers believe In strict constitutional government, but never will mix uu In any Government affairs, for, after risking their lives to save the country from anarchy and demoralization by an net which the country thankfully acknowledges, they Immediately installed a parliamentary government." Condition Of ICiiiser's Sick Son. rotsdnm, Jan. The following is this evening's bulletin of the physicians attending Trlnee Eitel, second son of the Kaiser, who has pneuinonln. "The Prince had less pain during the dny nnd slept much.

Ills temperature ls100, pulse respiration 2S, appetite good. UNPARALLELED ACHIEVEMENT! Importations in 1004 rf 13L330 Cases The GrentQst QcajsTIty Ever imported By Any Brand in tho History of tho Champagne Trade. Urfjardinpr champagne importations in 104 lionfort's Wine and Spirit Circular of Jan. 10, 1005, says: "Messrs. Fredk.

Bnry Co. brmiRhl over last your to this side of the wnter a ifrrnbr number of msm if ChampARne than hns cer hitherto been known, nnd tlirs Import it ions spenk In thfi nlmiifrest terms of tha prcst popular fstecin in which i. It. Champagne is held on this continent." St rw nB liUL ISiruDDuCEUuuaiu FOR COUGHS AND COLDS. .1 superior remedy for ca-larrhal affections of the throat.

Avoid imitations. Alarms Growing Ont Of Baseless Figments Of Disturbed Imaginations. President Roosevelt in bis address to the graduates at the Xaval Academy said "Captatn Brownson, Members of the Graduating Class, Governor "Warfield and to the Other Midshipmen and Their Friend; and Kinsmen Here Gathered Together: I fail to see how any good American can be sther than a better American when he comes here to Annapolis and sees the academy as it is and as it soon will be, thanks to the wise munificence of Congress, and I am not surprised that you who graduate from this institution should make the kind of men that as a rule you do make afterward; should show thtqualities of courage, of lofty fidelity to duty, of devotion to the flag and of far-sighted preparedness to meet possible future emergencies; should show the traits which I think. Captain Brownsou, I can Bay without flattery characterize the service to which you belong. I am not surprised that you should show those traits, for I should be heartily ashamed of you if you did not.

More than any other people in this country, with the sole exception of those in the sister service who have had your advantages, you owe a peculiar fealty to the nation which has trained you. which, has given yon a career in after life a career in which, if you do your duty, you are sure to lead honorable lives and to deserve well of the public, and a career in which there is always the chance that you may spring into one of those few places to be occupied by the men of the nation who win deathless fame for themselves by the way in which they serve the nation in the hour of the nation's need. On the one harfd we have the right to expect a peculiar measure of self -sacrificing service from you. Tribute To Governor Warfield. "On the other hand "we have the right to expect from the representatives of the people a peculiar care for your interests.

It is well that every public man should feel under a peculiar obligation to see to the welfare of the army and the navy. Governor Warfield, if you will pardon, the personal allusion, I want to thank you for the way in which you have made evident your feeling toward this institution for the reception you gave just the other night to these very men about to graduate. It is well that they should understand that because of the position they hold the Governor of the great State in which the institution is situated recognizes their possibilities of usefulness to the country, the obli gations uue mem anu ine ouiigaiions we have a right to feel that they will recognize to the whole nation in return. Many Baseless Alarms. "There are a good many baseless alarms which some worthy people feel from time to time in this country and which other less worthy people affect to feel, but of all foolish crimes, of all baseless figments of a disturbed imagination, the cry of militarism in this country is the most foolish and the most baseless.

Not only there does not exist now, but there never has existed in recent times any nation so wholly free as this is from any danger of excessive militarism, so wholly free from any danger of an undue growth of the military spirit. The danger is now, will be and always has been the exact reverse the "danger is lest we do not take sufficient thought in preparing the men ajpd material which will make our attitude in claiming to be a great nation respectable. I would be sorry to see us content to assume the positioiwf a nation unwilling and unable to play a great part in the world, unable to hold its own in the shoeS of arms, should it be ever necessary, which I most earnestly hope that in the lifetime of no man here present it will be necessary. Should it ever be necessary, aud I hope it will not be, to appeal to arms I should be sorry to see us take the position of avowed weakness-take the position that we did not 'ntend to rank ourselves among the great powers of the earth. I should be sorry to see that, but I would a great deal rather see that than see us insist upon taking such a position and refuse to provide the means which would make such a position other than a sham.

Some Foolish Things. "If this country believes In the Monroe doctrine; if this country intends to hold lao ir-Biiippmes: if it intends, besides building, to police the Isthmian canal; If It Intends to do its duty on the side of civilization, on the side of law and order, and that duty can be done only by the just man armed; if this country intends to do that, then it must see to it that it is able to make good if the necessity arises to make good. It is idle to talk of our faith in the Monroe doctrine if we are not able to make that faith evident. It is foolish to remain permanently in the Philippines unless we provide a base of military action for our fleets and army should it be necessary to defend the Philippines in time of war. It Is foolish to assert our position as entitled to the respect of other great nations unless we are willing to build the ships, to build the guns and to train the men who are to man the ships and handle the guns if ths need arises.

I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling. But I would rather see it play that part frankly than see it boast what it was and then so handle itself that if anyone questioned the boast we should have to retreat from the position we assumed because we lacked the power to make our words good. Avoid War, Bat Be Prepared. "I earnestly hope that our foreign policy shall be coutinued absolutely without regard to change of administration, to change of party, along the lines of treating every forelen nation with all possible respect, of svoiding all provocation for war, for trouble of any kind, of taking every step possible to minimize the ohance of trouble occurring, and at the same time of taking every step possible to see to it that if by any chance trouble does occur we do not come out second best. Applause.

'Must at this moment, to illustrate what I moan, we have negotiated certain arbitration treaties with the great foreign powers. I most earnestly hope that those arbitration treaties will become a part of the supreme law of the land. Every friend of peace will join heartily in seeing that those arbitration treaties do become part of the Bvprem'e law of the land. By adopting them we win have taken a step, not a very long Rtep. but undoubtedly a step in thedirec-t'on of minimizing the chance for any trouble that might result in war; we will hnve in a measurable degree provided for a method of substituting international disputes other than that of war as regards certain subjects, and as regards th'e particular nations with whom those treaties are negotiated.

We can test the sincerity of those people rfevoted to peace largely by fcceing whether this people does in effective fashion desire to have thosv treaties ratified, to have those treaties adopted. I have proceeded upon the assumption that this nation was sincere when it said that It desired peace, that all proper steps to provide against the likelihood of war ought to be taken; and these arbitration treaties represent precisely those stepH. But the adoption of those treaties by themselves wimld not bring peac e. We are a good many years short of the millenlum yet. and for the present and the immediate future we can rest" assured that the word of the mun who is of desiring peaf-e lecause he is afraid of war will count Tor but little.

What we desire is to have It evident that this nation seteks peace, not because It Ik afraid, but because it believes In the eternal and immutable laws of justice and of right Applause. Therefore, hand In hand with the negotiation of treaties of thi't character, hand in band with the effort to put our foreign relations with every ne-ti-n on a better footing, must go the steady upbuilding of the army and navy above all th navy, so that our national honor may sui'e of an adequate safeguard should our national honor ever be actively menaced. Applause. A Word To "Vou Boy." "I want to say a word to you boys here in particular. I am about to have the good fortune to present a sword to the best gunner and certain medals, also for gunnery.

The sword is given by the class of '71, given annually, so as to put a premium upon marksmanship and Captain Brown-sou. I would like through you to thank ihe members of that class for the patriotic service they have done in making such a gift. "The one thing that you graduates here, and all of the others in this school, must remember Is that you ought to band your entire energies to fitting yourselves as you can only be fitted by the most careful training iu advancte for the possible supreme day when upon your success or your failure will depend not only whether your own lives will be crowned with triumph or blasted with ruin, but whether the nation will or win uui write a page oi giory or a page of shamfe on her history. There Is not one of you who la not derelict in his duty to the OPINION BY MR. HOLMES Injunctions Of Court At Chicago Slightly Modified, BUT THEY ARE PUT IN FORCE Justice Holmes Sustains The Action Of Judge Grosscnp, Which Is Based Upon Allegations That A Conspiracy Existed To Control The Meat Trade Of The Country.

I A Farreacliing Decision. Justice Holmes, of the United States Supreme Court, delivered a unanimous opinion upholding the Injunctions granted in Chicago against the so-called Beef Trust, against which it was alleged a conspiracy existed to control the meat trade. The injunctions were modified in unimportant details. Judge Grosscup, who Issued the injunctions, states the opinion probably will aid in bringing corporate ownership within the reasonable confidence of the people. The packers say they will not be affected, "because they do not violate the injunction." Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.

Washington, Jan. 30. The "Beef Trust" case was decided by the United States Supreme Court today In favor of the contention of the United States. The Injunctions procured by Attorney-General Moody prohibiting the so-called Beef Trust from maintaining a combination in restraint of trade, as prohibited by the Anti-Trust law, are sustained and put permanently in force by tbe decision of this court. This is regarded "as the greatest victory yet won for tlue Anti-Trust law, and it is believed the decision will have a far-reaching moral influence upon thte organization and operation of such combinations.

Backed up by this decision, it is believed the Department of Justice will proceed vigorously to the prosecution of trusts. Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes handed down the opinion of the courV upholding the fight of the Department of Justice against Swift Co. and others. The decision affirms the decision of Judge Grosscup, of Chicago, granting an injunction against Swli't Co.

and other packers all'eged to have been in a conspiracy to control the meat trade. It also affirms the features of the decree of the lower court with sonfe very slight modifications, of the language of that decree so as to make it more definite. Attorney-Gteneral Moody declared today that the vital results of the decision would be to prohibit the continuance of a combination to suppress competition in the purchase of cattle for slaughter, to forbid combinations to maintain uniform prices in Celling meats and to forbid combinations between parties to obtain discriminatory rates from the railroad companies, all of which will redound to the benefit of cattlemen, farmers and consumers. THE SCHE3IE ALLEGED, The first half of the decision discusses in detail, the allegations of the Department of Justice against the packers and the decree of the court granting an injunction against them. Mr.

Justice Holmes summarized these allegations in a few words by stating the scheme of the so-called Beef Trust to be as follows: "It charges a combination of a dominant proportion of the dealers in fresh mVat throughout the United States not to bid against each other in the live sock markets In the different States, to bid up prices for a few days in order to 'Induce the cattle men to send thteir stock to the stock yards, to fix prices at which they will sell, and to that end to restrict shipments of meat when necessary; to establish a uniform rule of credit to d'ealers and to keep a blacklist to make uniform and Improper charges for cartage, and finally to get less than lawful rates from the railroads, to the exclusion of competitors." The Beef Trust appealed the case to the Supreme Court on the grounds of lack of continuity and on the grounds of multifariousness in the charges. In disposing of-the charge of multifariousness, Mr. Justice Holmes said "The as'a whol'e seems to us to be within reach of the law. The constituent elements, as we have stated them, are enough to give th'e scheme a body and, for all that we can say, to accomplish It. Moreover, whatever we may think of them separately, when we take them up as distinct charges; they are alleged sufficiently as elements of the scheme.

It Is suggested that the several acts charged are lawful and that intent can make no differene'e. But they are bound together as the parts of a single plan. The plan may make the parts AS TO THE INTEXT. "Intent is almost essential to such a combination and is ess'ential to such an at tempt. Where acts are not sufficient in themselves to produce a result which the law seeks to prevent for Instance, th'e monopoly but require further acts in ad dition to the mere forces nature to bring that result to pass, an intent to bring it to pass is necessary in order to produce a dan gerous probability that it will happen." Justice Holmes also said "The combination alleged embraces restraint and monopoly of trade within a single State, although Its effect upon com merce among the States is not accident, secondary, remote or merely probable." Speaking further on the question of in terference with interstate commerce, Justice Holmes said that a charge was made of a combination of Independent dealers to restrict the competition of their agents when purchasing stock for them in the stock yards.

"The purchasers and their slaughtering estimates are, he said, "largely In different States from those of the stock yards, nnd the sellers of the cattle, perhaps It Is not too much to assume, largely In different States from either. The Intent of the combination is. not merely to restrict competition among the parties, but, as we have said, by force of the general allegation at the end of the bill, to aid In an attempt to monopolize commerce among the States." INTERSTATE COMMERCE. Justice Holmes added "When cattle are sent, for sale from a place In one State with the expectation that they will end their transit, after purchase. In another, and when In effect tjfey do so, with only the Interruption necessary to find a purchaser at tbe stock yards, and when this is a typica, constantly recurring course, the current thus existing is a current of commerce among the States and the purchase of the cattle Is a part and incident of such commerce." With reference to the allegation that no interstate commerce Is Involved in the sale of meats by the packers, the opinion says "The allegations of the second section, even If they import a technical passing of title at tbe slaughtering places, also Import that the sales are to persons In other States (ind that the shipments to other States are part of the transaction 'pursuant to such sales' and the third section imports that the same things which are sent to agents are sold by them, nnd sufficiently Indicates that some, at least, of the sales are of the original packages.

Moreover, the sales are by persons In oue State to persons In another. But we do not mean to Imply that the rule which marks the point at which State taxation or regulation becomes permissible necessarily Is beyond the scope of Interference by Congress In coses where such Interference is deemed necessary for tho protection of commei'ee among the States. Nor do we mean to Intimate that the statute under consideration Is limited to that point." MODIFICATIONS SlGGESTEll. After referring In detail to the various objection to tho original bill pf complaint down, has now become almost everywhere the most important and in many large regions the only form of highway for commerce. The man who controls its use cannot be permitted to control it in his own interest alone.

Control Of The Railroads. "It is not only just, but it is in the interest of the public that this man should receive the amplest payment for the masterful business capacity which enables him to benefit himself while benefiting the public, but in return he must himself recognize his duty to the public. He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that In the sharp competition of the business world the conscientious man is put at a disadvantage by his less scrupulous feliows. "It is in the interest of the conscientious and public-spirited railway man that there should be such governmental supervision of the railway traffic of the country as to require from his less scrupulous competitors, and from unscrupulous big shippers as well, that heed to the public welfare which he himself would, willingly give and which is of vital consequence to the small shipper. Every important railroad is engaged In interstate commerce.

Therefore this control over the railroads must come through the national Government. "The control must be exercised by some governmental tribunal, and it must be real and effective. Doubtless there will be risk that occasionally, if an unfit President Is elected, this, control will be abused, but this is another way of saying that any adequate governmental power, from the power of taxation down, can and will be abused if the wrong men get control of it. Details Rest With Congress. "The details must rest with the lawmakers of the two houses of Congress, but about the principle there can be no doubt.

Hasty or vindictive action would merely work damage, but in temperate, resolute fashion there must be lodged In some tribunal the power over rates, and especially over rebates, whether secured by means of private cars, of private tracks, In the form of damages, or commissions, or In any other manner, which will protect alike the railroad and the shipper and put the big shipper and the little, shipper on an equal "Doubtless no law would accomplish all that enthusiasts hope; there is always disappointment over the results of such a law among the oversanguine; but very real and marked good has come from the legislation and administration of the last few year's, and now as part of a coherent plan it is entirely possible and, indeed, necessary to enact an additional law which will mean further progress along the same lines of definite achievement in the direction of securing fair dealing as between man and man. To Deal Out Even Jnstice. "In some such body as the Interstate Commerce Commission there must be lodged in effective shape the power to see that every shipper who uses the railroads and every1 man who owns or manages a railroad shall on the one hand be given justice and on the other hand be required to do justice. Justice, so far as It is humanly possible to give and to get justice, is the foundation of our Government. "We are not trying to strike down the rich man; on the contrary, we will not tolerate any attack upon his rights.

We are not trying to give an improper advantage to the poor man because he is poor, to the man of small means because he has not larger means; but we are striving to see that the man of small means has exactly as good a chance, so far as we can obtain it for him, as the man of larger means; that there shall be equality of opportunity for the one as for the other. Xo Government By Classes. "We do not intend that this Republic shall ever fail as those republics of olden time failed, in which there finally came to be a government by classes, which either in the poor plundering the rich or in the rich exploiting and in one form or another enslaving the poor; for either event means the destruction of free Institutions and of individual liberty. Ours Is not a Government which recognizes classes. It is based on the recognition of the individual.

"We are not for the poor man. as such, nor for the rich man as such. We are for every man, rich or poor, provided he acts justly and fairly by his fellows, and if he so acts the Government must do all It can to see that inasmuch as he does no wrong, so he shall suffer no wrong." SHARP DROP IN STOCKS But General Market In Sew York: Rallied Again, New York, Jan. 30. The decision of the Supreme Court to hear argument on the petition for a writ of certiorari in the Northern Securities case caused a sharp drop In all the stocks which have been sensitive to the course of that case.

Weakness had developed before the court's action was announced, and became more acute after noon. Northern Securities on the curb, after selling early at 155, dropped to 147. Union Pacific and Southern Pacific yielded over 2 points and St. Paul nearly 2 points. The rest of the market was affected In sympathy, but in a moderate degree, and fell Into dullness on a moderate rally from the drop.

Enormous accumulation of Union Pacific was resumed at the lower level, and the stock was lifted again to within a shade of the high price of the morning. The general 'market rallied in sympathy and the various Vanderbllt stocks were conspicuous for buoyant, advances. Counsel for the narrlman interests made this statement "The effect of the granting of our grayer for a writ of certiorari Is to stay all action under the decree of the court below. The writ of certiorari supersedes the opinion of the court below, and the whole case is now before the Supreme Court. That court may render a decision which will dispose of the whole litigation or it may send It back for a trial on thcmerlts so that witnesses may be examined.

So far the case has been heard only on affidavits and the parties have not had the opportunity to orally examine and cross-examine witnesses and to produce the books and documents." President Hill, of the Northern Securities Company, said "I do not believe there will be much delay by the courts after the arguments have been made. Personally I have no doubt as to the outcome." Youth Convicted Of Aunt's Murder. New York, Jan. 30. Frank Furlong, 19 years old, who has been on trial nearly a week charged with the murder of his aunt, Mrs.

Margaret Keeler, today was found guilty of murder In tbe first degree. He will be sentence dnext Monday. Furlong beat his aunt to death last November and then stole her jewelry. WAS TRYING TO MARRY AGAIN First Denied His Identity, Then Admitted Pictures Eighteen Women Said To. Have Been His Wives.

Special Dispatch' to the Baltimore Sun. New York, Jan. 30. A man said to be Johann Hoch, who is Wanted in Chicago to answer the charges of having murdered at least IS women, whom he is said to have married in the last 10 years, was arrested at 546 West Forty-seventh street tonight by detectives of the West Forty-seventh Street Station. He first said his name was Henry Bartel and denied any knowledge of Hoch, biit afterward he admitted that newspaper pictures of Hoch were those of himself, and while he was being taken to police headquarters he confessed that he was the man wanted.

Hoch evidently pursued in this city the same tactics used in the West by the man he is alleged to be. Mrs. Catherine Kim-merle, who rents rooms on the second floor of 546 West Forty-seventh -street, went to the police station this afternoon and said she had been struck by the resemblance of a man named Henry Bartel, who was occupying one of her rooms to the picture of Hoch in a newspaper. Proposed To Her In Three Days. She then said that Bartel had come to her house last Tuesday, in response to an advertisement, and had engaged a room.

Before he had been in the house three days he had made himself her helper about the house, peeling potatoes, making beds, and then he proposed marriage to her. The stories of the same kind she had read concerning Hoch had aroused her suspicions. "He was so anxious to talk that I did not know what he was after," said Mrs. Kim-merle, "till all of a sudden he told me he wanted to marry me. I remembered reading in the papers about that awful man, and it suddenly flashed across my mind that this man who wanted to peel potatoes after being 20 minutes in my house and wanted to marry me after knowing he a day or so was the same man they wanted in Chicago, and I ran to the station house as quickly as I could." Detectives O'Neill, Cahill, Fry and Kerns were sent to the house.

Hoch was out and O'Neill went up to his room to wait for him. He returned in a short time, and as he entered O'Neill turned up the light and said "How do you do, Mr. Hoch According to the detective the man answered "How do you do?" then, catching himself quickly, he added: "I'm not Mr, Hoch." Said They Were His Pictures. Without more ado he was taken to the station and put under examination. First the newspaper pictures of Hoch were shown to him, and he said "Yes; those are my pictures, but I'm not Hoch, and it'll all come out in the wash." In answer to questions, he then said he was a salesman for a wholesale wine house in Frankfort-on-Main, but admitted that the house had no local connections.

He also said that he traveled between New York, Philadelphia and Boston, but did not go to the West Then he added that up to two years ago he had kept at saloon at 30O East Ninety-Ninth street, but when asked to locate this more definitely, he made blunders which convinced the police that he was not telling the truth. Search of his clothing revealed a revolver, a pocketbook, three card cases and an address In the pocketbook were six $100 bills, five $5 bills and some small change. It also contained a billhead, with the name of the business house torn off, showing purchases of furniture amounting to $120, made within the last six days. This was signed, "Paid in full, T. Shauley." Acknowledged Two Marriages.

In his room were found nearly a dozen new suits of clothing. In most cases the tags had been torn from these, but those that had not showed that the garments bought in Western cities, among them Chicago, Peoria, and Seattle. In his hat were found slips from a Chicago paper bearing the date of December 4 last. Detective Sergeant Fogarty went to the station with a telegram just received from Chicago saying that Hoch had often used the name "Henry Bartel" nnd furnishing a description of the former that exactly fitted the prisoner. Fogarty took the man to headquarters and on the way he is said to have admitted that he was Johann Hoch and that he was the husband of Mary Fischer, for whose alleged murder he is first to be arraigned.

He said he lived at 6340 Union avenue, Chicago, but left that city four days after his wife's death to come to New York. He denied that he had married more than one other woman besides Mary' Fischer, but aid not give her name. He also told the police, that he had furniture worth $2,000 stored in Chicago and that he was willing to-go back without extradition proceedings. Hoch's Alleged Wife Keeord. The names of his supposed wives and the times of their weddings and deaths are thus given by the New York Journal "Anna Hoch, married in Vienna, 1881, died 1883; Mrs.

C. A. Mayer, married in Chicago, 1892, died three weeks later; Mrs. H. Irlck, married in Chicago, 1802, died one month later Mrs.

S. Hauck, married in Peoria, 111., 1803, deserted immediately after the ceremony name unknown, married in Chicago, 1894, died two months later; Mrs. Julia Steinbreeber, married in Chicago, 1894, died two months later, left 4: 000; Mrs. Janet Spencer, married In Chicago, 1805, deserted two months later, lost several hundred dollars Callle- Charlotte Andrews, married in Chicago, 1807, deserted two hours later, lost $500 Mrs. J.

Huss, married In Wheeling, W. 1S97, died three months later, left $2,500 Mrs. Martin Detz, married in Chicago, 1S08, died three months later; sister of Mrs. J. H.

Schwartzman, married in Milwaukee, 1800, died three weeks left Mrs. Mary Schuitz, married at Argus, 1900, both she and daughter disappeared, left Mrs. Mary Becker, married in LoUis, 1001. died few months later; Mrs. Anna Hendrlckson.jnarrled In Chicago, 1004, deserted after a few weeks, lost Mrs.

Lena Hoch, married in Milwaukee, 1004, died three weeks later, left Mrs. Caroline Strelcher, married In Philadelphia, 1904, deserted after one week, lost $200 Mrs. Marie Walker, married in Chicago, 1904, died one month later, loft $250; Mrs. Emllle Fisher, married in Chicago, 1905, deserted after one week, lost $750; Mrs.Marle Goerk. married In Chicago, December, 1901, deserted; Mrs.

T. O'Connor, Milwaukee, married in December, 1903, deserted." 3. 4. 5. 6.

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72. 73. 74. Ormond L. Cox, Rix Mills, Ohio, 594.01.

Royal E. Ingersoll, South Bend, 588.99. "Herbert F. Leary, Baltimore, $584.31. Lee S.

Border, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 576.74. Chester W. Nimitz, Kerrville, Texas, 501.09. Reuben B. Coffey, Joseph, Mo.

Joseph V. Ogan, McArthur, Ohio. Ernest A. Swanson, Mason City, Iowa. John C.

Sweeney, Paris, Tenn. Albert T. Church, Boise, Idaho. Winfield Liggett, Harrisonburg, Va. Hiram L.

Irwin, Franklin, Pa. Logan Cresap, Annapolis, Md. James O. Gawne, Fredonia, N. Y.

Samuel Gordon, Port Jervis, N. Y. Alvah B. Court, Houston, Texas. John N.

Ferguson, Waynesville, N. C. Louis C. Farley, Rowe, Mass. William S.

McClimtic, Fort Lewis, Va. Byron McCarsdless, Florence, Col. Arthur C. Stott, Stottsyille, N. Roscoe C.

McFall, Dover, X. J. Robert L. Irvine, Salt Lake City, Utah. Turner F.

Caldwell, Nashville, Tenn, Edgar G. Oberlin, Masslllon, Ohio. Bruce L. Canaga, Scio, Ohio. Walter B.

Woodson. Lynchburg, Va. Edward L. McSheehy, Logansport, Ind. William R.

Furlong, Roscoe, Pa. Charles H. Shaw, Amher3t, Mass. Edmund S. Root, Delaware, Ohio.

Gerald Howze, Birmingham, Ala. Earl R. Shipp, Centerview, Mo. 'Arthur B. Cook, Evansville, Ind.

Simeon B. Smith, Little Rock, Ark. Herbert E. Kays, Phoenix, Ariz. Glenn O.

Carter, Kennedy, Ohio. Earle Farwell, Brooklyn, N. Y. Louis P. Davis, Wilmington, N.

C. Arthur W. Sears, Jackson, Mich. Harold G. Bowen, Providence, R.

I. George C. Pegram, Memphis, Tenn. Lucian Minor, Galveston, Texas. Robert S.

Furber, Xorthfleld, Minn. George V. Stewart, Glens Falls, N. Y. William O.

Spears, Jasper, Tenn. John A. Mandeville, Carrollton, Ga. Jonathan S. Dowell, McKinley, Texas.

Isaac F. Dortseh, Gadsden, Ala. Walter H. Lassing, Ky. Stanford C.

Hooper, San Bernadino, Cal. Coburn S. Marston, Skowhegau, Maine. Ernest Durr, Baker City, Ore. John M.

Poole, 3d, Wilmington, Del. John H. Xewton, Carbondale, Pa. Edward S. Robinson, Mercer, Pa.

Albert Xorris, Philadelphia. Andrew F. Carter, Dillon, S. C. Theodore G.

Ellyson, Richmond, Va. Isaac W. Hayne, Greenville, S. C. William E.

Eberle, Fort Smith, Ark. Nelson H. Goss, Rockville, Ind. Anthony J. James.

Chicago, 111. Elliott M. Pegg. Danville, Pa. Arthur K.

Atkin3, Butte, Mont. William L. Culbertson. Carroll, Iowa. William T.

Lightle, Searcy, Ark. Harry E. Shoemaker, Blufifton, Ind. Hugh Brown, Indianapolis, Ind. Malcomb Campbell, Newark, N.

J. Carl A. Lohr, Ceresota, Mich. Walter E. Reno, Trenton, Mo.

Wilhelm I Friedell, Texarcana. Ark. Hubert Burnham, Evanston, 111. John J. London, Pittsboro, N.

C. Rofs S. Culp, Norwalk, Raymond P. R. Neilson, Far Rockaway, N.

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Haines, Savannah, Ga. John W. Wilcox, Macon, Ga. Horace C. Vernon, Texas.

Duncan I. Selfridge, Washington, D. C. Sylvester H. Lawton, Toledo, Ohio.

Grafton A. Beall, Wheeling, W. Va. Joe R. Morrison, Saco, Maine.

William Baggaley, Snsquehanna, Pa. Henry A. Orr. Traverse City, Mich. John F.

Atkinson, Waverly, Ga. Vaughn K. Coman, La Crosse, Wis. Burton II. Green, Pousman, Wis.

Virgil Baker, Bloomington, Tenn. Benjamin Dutton, Meadville, Pa, Reed M. Fawell. Lincoln, Neb. Alexander.S.

Wadsworth, Elizabeth City, North Carolina. James S. Woods, Lewiston, Pa. Edward G. Hargis, Winchester, Ky.

Lloyd W. Townsend, Atlantic City, N. J. John C. Sumpter, Bowling Green, Ky.

Frank N. Eklund, Eureka, Cal. Robert A. Jackson, Petersburg, Va. Herbert H.

Maxson, Reno. Nev. Francis G. Blasdel, New York city. Halford R.

Greenlee, Lyndon, 111. Benjamin H. Steele, Troy, Kan. John M. Smeallie, Amsterdam, X.

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John E. Pond. Hawaii. Henry Rawlo. Philadelphia.

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112. 113. 114. LEASES INVERARY CASTLE Merchant Seeoren' Country Seat Of The ArsrylU. Special Dispatch to Ihe Baltimore Sun.

Boston. Jan. :0. The historic castle of Inrerary of Argyleshlre, Scotland, with Its sfate of over acres, one of the finest country seals of Great Britain, for centuries the ducal seat of the Campbells and for genera Ions the home of the great family of Argyll, has just been leased for the next shooting season by Kben I). Jordan, head of tbe firm of Jordan-Marsh Coiupuny.

Mr. Jordan says he will remain In Scotland nl mt three months. Mr. Jordan came the head of the dry goods firm of Jor-dan. Marsh Co.

upon the death of his father, Kben I). Jordan, in 1S05. The younger Jordan wits, born In 1857 and was a member of the class of 1880 at Harvard. Since he took hold of the reins of his father's great business. Mr.

Jordan has, In addition to becoming famous as a merchant, become' known all over the United Slates for his blooded horses, which have taken scores of blue ribbons in tbe horse shows of several cities. Problem For Snayne Committee. Washington, Jan. Senator O. II.

riatt, of Connecticut, has called a meeting of the special Swayne committee for tomorrow to go over the records of prew vious impeachments, In order to Bhape the course of procedure. One question Is as to whether Senators, sitting as a court, shall discuss the issues, or whether this shall be left entirely to the managers of the trial and representatives of the defendant. "I can only hope that.wben.the law shall have been declared these defendants will observe It In spirit, as well as In letter. All men have an Interest in the supremacy of the law none so great- an interest as those who, like the defendants, own great properties and control great interests they should inculcate by precept and example they should cling to. as the rock of their salvation respect for an obedience to the law of the land." SUSTAINS SHERMAN ACT Besides, Says JTndgrc Grosscnp, It Opens Way To Popular Control, Chicago, Jan.

30. Judge Grosscup, of tho United States Circuit Court, speakln of the decision, said "The substance of the case presented to tho Circuit Court was whether the purchase of cattle from sellers, living In different States, to manufacture Into dressed meats and the sale of such meats to purchasers in different States constituted Interstate commerce or not. In holding that such transactions were interstate commerce the Circuit Court entered upon the ground that, from aadlcial standpoint, was almost wholly wrw, for It was ground that had not been covered by previous decisions of the Supreme Court, or of the other Fed eral courts. Naturally the decision of the Supreme Court, upholding the srround taken by the Circuit Court, is personally pleasing to me, "The decision establishes the right of the Government to prevent combinations among the manufacturers of meats. It for tifies the Sherman act.

It is a long step In tne direction of effectual fiovernment su pervision. But, to my mind, the real slg nifleanee of the decision Is much deeper and tar-reaching than even this. It effectively clears the decks for what I believe will be the next really great national movement as the restriction and finally the abolition of slavery was the last great fundamental movement the organization and super vision, by the nation Itself, of the great corporations of the future, a movement whose chief object will be not so much to control prices or merely to curb power, as to bring corporate ownership within the reach a till reasonable confidence of the peo pie at large and thus to repeoplelze nnd re publicanizc again the industrial ownership or tne country. John s. Miller, who acted as special counsel for the packers In the proceedings, said "The order, as I understand it, simply makes permanent the Injunction restrain ing the packers from doing business In re stralnt of trade and In violation of the Sherman anti-trust law.

They have as sured me repeatedly that they have done nothing in violation of these. Hence the permanent restraining order does not In any manner Inconvenience them. It does not charge them with or convict them of wrongdoing. I cannot say what further-action may be taken. The only thing that I see that could be done would be to re quest renearmg or the case." PACKEP-S PROFESS SERENITY "They Do Not Violate The Iu junction." They Say.

Kansas Citv. Jan. 30. Backers say today's decision of the United States Supreme Court will not affect them, because they do not. violate the injunction forbidding a combination In restraint of interstate commerce.

C. W. Armour, of Armour said: "The business of the Armour Tacking Company Is conducted entirely Independent of that of the other packers. The price of cattle and of fresh meat Is governed entirely by supply and demand, and there is no combination or understanding among the packers as to the price of cattle or fresh meat. We are In the market for cattle and there Is open competition among the packers for the purchase of offerings at the stockyards." THE TRIUMPHANT FEMININE These are tough days for the he-sex- These are the times when It's shown That man Is a weak, helpless creature, Too feeble to stand up alone! Woman Is fragile, they tell us, Cllnglug, dependent on man Frail as a reed In a tempest.

Frail as the sticks of a fan But nowadays, as you will notice, Women financially thrive. Despite this much-talked -of frailness, By skinning he-creatures alive I Hardly a day but you'll read of Things which can scarce be believed IIow wealthy old codgers by women Of pelf by the ton are relieved Maybe the women are feeble But still, you will notice, they win The guarded shekels of rich men Where an army couldn't break In -Cincinnati Commercial Tribune..