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« THE TRU8TS AND THE PEOPLE- Rev. Sam P. Jonet Talks to a Reporter of tHe Manufacturer* Rocord, Baltimore. Those who have used The Plaindealer as a medium, and given it a fair trial, will answer, Yes! DR. W. a. BRADFIELD, Specialist of the Englewood Optical Institute Will be in MeHenry on July 12 Mi prepared to thoroughly examine all eyes and cure defects of all kinds. People who see crooked can be cured. People who see poorly can be made to see as good as other people, and even people who see too much can have their eyes remedied. Head­ ache, Eyestrain, Neuralgia, Dizziness, Vertigo and even epileptic fits come from errors of refraction. Prop erly ground lenses in many cases will relieve these troubles cRen hiid now ^ your eye offend you, pluck it out," , In olden times was good, no doubt. No man of sense in this, our day, Would try to fix things up that way. They know that Dr. Bradfield .tries _ to make perfect offending eyes. Burns says: 0 wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursilvs as ithers see us. If he had lived in this our day He never would have talked that way. He would have known the gift he sought By many thousand had been bought, And yet with numbers still in store To please as many thousand more. While Dr. Bradfield offers glasses There's no excuse for lads or lasses, If they their own fault don't decry As well as could another's eye. His glasses are so rich and nice, So perfect and so low in price, That man or maid in every station Can buy them without deprivation. When all your own faults you can see, And some your neighbors have, maybe, For he can suit you to a T. arU Jjotel, ttlest Side The large trusts and combination*! al­ ready formed and being formed by ag­ gregations of capital are considered hurtful to the masses and the common people. This is a theory. Theoretically, a thing may be so, and practically it may be very untrue. When we speak of trusts and combines we think of the Standard Oil tru$t, the Sugar trust, the Tobacco trust, etc. When the Standard Oil trust was formed I was paying forty cents a gallon for kerosene oil; I am getting it now for ten cents a gallon. I wad paying twelve and one-half cents for sugai several years ago, but when the combination set in we got it at five and one-quarter. When the Whiskey trust was organized I was in hopes it would put up whiskey where the poor devils couldn't get it, but they have seemed to cheapen that down to where they can pay the government $1.15 a gallon revenue on it and yet sell it for |1.27|, which demonstrates that they are making it and letting the public have it at about twelve and one-half cents a gallon. There is no doubt about the aggrega­ tion of wealth, with brains controlling it, that they can -manufacture any article cheaper than it is or has beer manufactured on a small scale. Thr great railroad combinations, many think, will eat us up blood rare. Oc­ casionally I get on a little jerk-water road that is not in the combination, and want to double my accident policies and be satisfied with a 15-mile-an-hour gait aad console myself with the idea that I can ride all day for a dollar, but when I get on the Pennsylvania or Van- derbilt system of roads, with their schedules forty miles an hour, vestibule trains, with parlor cars, sleeping cars, dining cars, I have a hotel on wheels carrying me towards my destination, and all this for about two cents a mile. Give me the road that is in the combine to carry me where I am going. Public sentiment is the safeguard which is thrown around all aggregations of wealth and all combinations of inter­ est. The Standard Oil, the railroad combinations, the Sugar trust are as sensitive to public sentiment as the snow-bank to the rays of the sun. Trusts and combines will not hurt the public, but stockholders and bondhold­ ers may suffer later on, when these great bulky insti|utions become un­ wieldy and fall witlr their own weight. Fifty thousand men in the United States, perhaps not more, are interested in the great trusts of the country. Those 50,000 men know that there are 70,000,000 of other people in America, and their wisdom teaches them where boundary lines are, over which they cannot go without peril to themselves and disaster to their business. No com­ bination now says "damn the public," but they have their weathercocks out on every prominent cupola watching how the wind blows. Of course, political capital can be made out of such formations of wealth, and social orders may rise the black flag to fight them; but I am a thousand times more afraid of demagogues and politi- cans than I am afraid of trusts and com­ bines. Good govern in en t--which means not only the well-being of the citizen, but the overthrow of all that will hurt the citizens--depend; upon good men in office, and we had better pay less atten­ tion to what we call trusts and com­ binations and more attention to those whom we elect to office in the municipal state and national governments. Mr. Stead, in his book, ^'If Christ Came to Chicago," speaks of the "Big Four of Chicago," and says of them that "their methods are clean and their transactions are honest, but that in the road of their success lies the blood and bones of the victims over whom they have run to success." The successful man or com­ bination means the downfall of other men and other combinations. One preacher is preaching to 5.000, twenty preachers around him consider seventy- five a full house, and a hundred a per­ fect jam; one physician making $10,000 a year, and forty little doctors in the neighborhood not making their grub. A Wanamaker selling $50,000,000 a year means many little merchants applying for clerkship in his store. It is the sur­ vival of the fittest, it may be. When God made tbis world He made moun­ tains towering into the clouds and valleys below the level of the sea; he made the lakes and oceans; He spread out^the prairies of the West and pil*d up mountains around the little valleys along the ranges of the Rockies and the Alleghanies. In the ocean's waters we find whales and some very small fishes and when the whales come along the little fish have to hide out. I have travelled over this country from ocean to ocean, and from Montreal to Galves­ ton, annually for twenty years. I have watched the progress of events and the processions as they marched. I have yet to know of a single instance where combines and trusts hurt the masses or permanently raised the price of any pro­ duct. I am a thousand times more will ing to deal with the trusts and combines and purchase their products than I am to put my money into their institutions and imperil my holdings, conscious of their want of stability and fearing their final downfall. Of course these great combinations affect legislation, if they do not control it in many instances, but while they may procure legislation in their own in­ terest, yet they have one eye upon the public sentiment all the time, conscious that they can go just so far and no farther, Here and there they have shut down a manufactory or closed up au in­ stitution and affected some individuals, but we are not looking from that stand­ point. When we look at, the 70,000,000 of our population, we say they are only procuring cheaper and buying for less money these products than they could have done under other circumstances. With the final disintegration of trusts and combines--which will inevitably come when financial disaster and shrink­ age of values shall come--of course, the surplus of their product will be thrown upon the market, and only the stock­ holders in these trusts and combines will suffer. As sure as that the sun shines, whenever any institution becomes un­ wieldy because of its size and bulk, it will finally fall of its own weight I am an expansionist, and I believe that one of the causes of the stringency and shrinkage of values in this country is because we have not gone out over the seas with our products as we should have done. While there is a demand for our products of the farm and manu­ factory of this country there will always be plenty of money; but when wheat and corn and cotton and all kinds of manufactures are a drug on the market, and no demand for them, then we have stringency and hard times. But when the highways over the seas shall be la­ den with our products into foreign coun­ tries, and the gold is brought in the ships, then we shall flourish perenially. These great combinations are the only powers in this country that can do this thing for us. A negro and an old mule a'j make corn and cotton; a fellow with a two hundred dollar saw mill can make lumber; but only aggregations of wealth can build ships and open markets in foreign lands.--Rev. Sam P. Jones, in the Manufacturers' Record, Balti- more. - - Ivy poisoning, poison wounds and all other accidental injuries may be quick­ ly cured by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve., It is also a certain cure for piles and skin diseases. Take no other. Julia A. Story. Birthday4 Party. It was a merry little party that gath­ ered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Francisco on |Tuesday afternoon, June 19th, the occasion being the 6th birth­ day of their youngest daughter, Corla. It was a complete surprise to the little one. The guests began to arrive about half past two and she remarked to some of the first arrivals, "you came just in time; today is ray birthday." Games were played until about half past four, when they were called to a dainty luncheon prepared by Mrs. Francisco in the dining room, which consisted of ice cream and cake of different varieties, to which they all did ample justice. They departed at a seasonable hour leaving tokens of love and esteem. Those present were: Grandpa and aunt Helen Granger, Mrs. R. F. John­ son, Mrs Will Johnson and children, Earl, Lee and Esther, Mrs. Will Toyn- ton and daughters, Leo la, Grace and Neva, Mrs. Delva Hobart and daughters, Nina and Sadie, of MeHenry, aunt and couBins of little Corla, Edith Brand, Rosamond, Ruby and Dean Brooks -- Wauconda Leader. The Chinese ask "how is your liver?" instead of "how do you do V" for when the liver is active the health is good. De- Witt's Little1 Early Risers are famous little pills for the liver and bowels. Julia A. Story. Do You Know? Do you know that 50 per cent of all headache is caused by d®|ctive eyesight ? If you have trouble witff your eyes con­ sult H. M. Huemann, the Optician. He is a graduate of the American College of Aphthalmology, of Chicago, and will guarantee to relieve all causes of defect­ ive vision that can be releived by the use of glasses at about one-half the price you would pay some out-of-town or travelling optician. Special attention to fitting glasses for children. Office, postoffl.ee block, West MeHenry, 111. Small in size and great in results are DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the fam­ ous little pills that cleanse the liver and bowels. They do not gripe. Julia Jl Story. Open Air Concert and Social. The MeHenry Military Band will give another of their popular open air concerts in the park next Tuesday even­ ing, July 17. The previous concert drew a very large crowd and was highly ap­ preciated. At the same time and place the Lady Forresters will serve ice cream and cake. All lovers of excellent music and a social evening aVe invited to be present. The concert is free to all and the ice cream will be served at a nomi­ nal price. Our work is up to date--try it. Me­ Henry steam laundry. Opposite park. Chicago Telephope 218. County Tele­ phone 42. W. N. Wyckoff, proprietor. Drop offices at West MeHenry P: O. and Bishop's barber shop, Centerville "I used Kodol Dyspepsia Cure in my familv with wonderful results. It gives immeiLaVj J:ef. is pleasant to take and :s truly the dyspeptic's best friend, "says j- Hartgerink, Overisel, Mich. Digests win vou eat. Cannot fail to cure. Julia A. Story. 4 mmm , , .i v.- , ^or^lie^Miimerwl900 wie ter stock than ever before, and at pricea ' ^ to suit all people. You are cordially . invited to visit the store and be convinced; that our stock is superb in the following lines: •-.V •; ./Laces 7 Ribbons Embroideries Glove* Mitts Shoes, Oxfords Parasols G entlem 011 Shirts, Ties Collar* and Cuffs Shoes Summer Underwear Summer Suits Summer Hats ,. West flcHenry. SlflON STOFFEL Y o u W a l k e d a 1-2 M i l e or sent a clerk and WAITED for your answer A Telephone would have jMit you into instant communication with the party wanted, saved the vteljt, saved the time. It will do it not only once but many times during the hour or day. You would be delightedly surprised at the advantages, conveniences and profit of a Telephone in your office, store or residence. Let us ex­ plain in person. A postal card request will b r i n g p r o m p t a t t e n t i o n , T . . . . . . . . . . « Chicago Telephone Company * Simon Stoffel, Manager, MeHenry, Ilinois BARJBIAN BROS. Makers of Fine Cigars, "Our Monogram IO cent Cigar Leads Them All. 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Students from 21 states n oountries. Rates low. Some peculiar lend for new iiiuttratad catalogue. \ Tms, D.D., Principal, Eroatoo, III.