His most important achievement, aside from his work in the railway cases and in helping to obtain the enactment of several important laws, has been in connection with his fight to force the Standard Oil Company to obey the statutes of Missouri. This contest not only exposed and drove out of business one oil company that was fraudulently posing as a competitor of the Standard, but it furnished the Federal Government much of the information on which it has based its recent important proceeding against the Standard Oil Company as a trust. Such a complete revelation of the Company's methods had never been made in any court.

The Attorney-General stumbled on on the case while in other work. In a legislative hearing on terminal charges in St Louis the manager of the WatersPierce Oil Company happened to testify that the Standard had no agency in that city. Mr. Hadley remarked to him that that was odd. The manager thought not, but he failed to convince his questioner. A few days later the AttorneyGeneral discovered that the WatersPierce Company was not represented in Kansas City. He learned also that the Republic Oil Company, which was everywhere soliciting trade on the ground that it was "fighting the trust," had head offices at 75 New Street, New York. This address he found was the rear entrance to the Standard Oil building, No. 26 Broadway.

The proceedings that he instituted put the "fake" company out of business and prevented the Standard Oil Com

from arbitrarily apportioning the State for trade without regard for the convenience of their customers. If his work did not reduce the price of oil, at least it had the salutary effect of demonstrating that huge corporations could be compelled to obey the law.

Mr. Hadley habitually insists that he is no politician, but solely a lawyer. Any conflicts with corporate interests, he contends, are merely incidental to his duty to his clients, the people. It is inferred that, with no sacrifice of principle, he might enter the employ of a corporation at the expiration of his term. He has not proclaimed himself a man with a "mission." But while he regards the law as his profession, he is frankly interested in politics.

"Why is it, Hadley," a Standard Oil attorney is quoted as asking him, "that you always take the public into your confidence? Why not handle this litigation without a blare of trumpets?"

And the Attorney-General is said to have replied: "Every lawyer imparts the fullest information to his clients. He wants the man who hired him to know all about the case. The public is the client of the Attorney-General's office."

All of which is quite true. At the same time it shows an instinct quite akin to the politician's understanding of the value of publicity. This full information which has been imparted to the client of the Attorney-General's office-this blare of trumpets, if you please-in view of the results obtained, is what has assured to him, if he will accept, the next Republican nomination for Governor of Missouri.

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HE Boston housewife would almost as soon be without ancestors as to think of buying any but Penobscot salmon. The New York hotel-keeper would as soon confess to the use of canned vegetables in spring as to offer any but Atlantic halibut. Any French restaurateur would swear by all his sacre-bleus that the only sardines are those caught in the net of a Mediterranean fisherman. And as for cod-why, George's and Grand Banks are household words.

And far be it from the Eastern fish dealer to disturb any of the fondly cherished traditions of his patrons. But yonder on the Pacific coast there are men who boast, and can back their boast with figures, that more than ninety per cent of the fresh salmon sold in Eastern markets is caught in the salmon rivers of the Pacific; that at least eighty per cent of the halibut used on the Atlantic coast is caught between Puget Sound and Bering Sea; that sardines packed on the California coast are used in every city of size in the United States; and as for cod, from two to three thousand tons of Alaskan cod go out of Gloucester every year.

The Pacific coast has long been looked to for the world's supply of canned salmon, and the annual catch of the cannery-men is more than one hundred thousand tons. Canneries line the coast from the Columbia River to Alaska, which now makes the market on the canned product. The value placed on this product for a single year, in the Government reports, exceeds by two million dollars the price paid by the United States for Alaska, where, fish ranks second only to gold among the natural resources yet developed. Northwest States fish is second to lumber now, though the salmon canneries were practically the sole support of this territory until the men and the money came to develop the forests and farming lands. Three and a half million cases of canned salmon are the average yearly output of the Northwest coast during the past ten years, which means more than a hundred thousand tons of fresh fish.

In the

Yet within the past few years there has been a steady decrease in the output, in spite of a very considerable increase in facilities for catching and handling the fish. This has given rise in some quarters to grave fears regarding the

traveled across the ocean in the hold of the very steamer on which he sailed. The American market now requires large quantities of this mild-cured salmon, and from fifteen to twenty-five thousand tierces of a thousand pounds each are shipped annually from Columbia and Sacramento River points.

The cold-storage process of preserving salmon in sugar and salt has been superseded to a great extent by freezing the fresh fish. Steelheads and silver salmon, which run through the fall and winter months, are used chiefly for this purpose. They are brought on barges from the traps that picket every salmon river for miles and stop the up-stream flight toward the spawning-grounds, or by grill-netters who, to cheat the traps, risk their very lives at the bars where rivers meet the sea. Weighed in by the packers, and carefully washed, they are taken to the storage-rooms, where the temperature is always below freezingpoint, and dipped in water, which forms a coating of ice upon them. They are then stacked in cords, like so much wood, until time for shipment, when

they are wrapped separately in paper, packed in ice, and loaded in refrigerator cars. The annual shipments of frozen salmon to the East and to Europe from Puget Sound are not less than five million pounds.

But, important as the shipment of fresh salmon has become, it stands second to the halibut industry. The halibut catch in the Pacific last season was about forty million pounds, of which twenty-five million pounds went to Eastern markets.

That the Atlantic has been fished out of halibut and cod is a statement that one sometimes hears from Western fisherfolk who have not lately stood on the old T-wharf at Gloucester when the fishing fleet came in, or on a big market day. But the drain of more than two hundred years has been felt, and for the evergrowing demand of ever-growing cities, whose people refuse to be governed by seasons, the catch of the North Atlantic is inadequate. And since cold storage has become a practical science and refrigerator cars a known quantity—at least to the initiated-and since railways make