Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 November 1892 — Page 5

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Evolution of the Bepublican Bugabo* Qg^1

Waving the Bloody Shirt.

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English "Free Trade"—WorkinK the Cobden Club Racket.

NATIONS

The "Wild-Cat" Money Bugaboo.

Honest Grovcr for Honest Money. [Grover Cleveland's Letter of Acceptance.] The people are entitled to sound and honest money abundantly sufficient in volume to supply their business needs, but whatever may be the form of the people's currency, national or state— whether gold, silver or paper—it should be so regulated and guarded by governmental action, or by wise and careful' laws, that no one can be deluded as to the certainty and stability of its value. Every dollar put into the hands of the people should be of the same intrinsic value or purchasing power. With this condition absolutely guaranteed both

gold and silver cau be safely utilized upon equal terms in the adjustment of our currency.

In dealing with this subject no selfish scheme should be allowed to intervene and no doubtful experiment should be attempted. The wants of our peopli arising from the deficiency or imperfect distribution of money circulation ought to be fully and honestly recognized and efficiently remedied. It should, however, be constantly remembered that the inconvenience or loss that might aris« from such a situation can be much easier borne than the universal distress which must follow a discredited currency.

$1100,000 from Carnegie. Pious John IVunainaker.

Mr. Andrew Carnegie having given ^uSust number of The Postal $100,000 to the Republican boodle fund

Gl\ide' iss"ed

the Philadelphia Times makes the fol-T f1'' l)ostmaste,r general by the grace

their waQes and then making a gift of derstood that these visits were planne $100,000 to the Republican corruption Pay the expenses of the postmasters fund, would not the workinginen ofthe county seats while they are fixing Homestead and of the state be tola, ^n^Sam pLTfhrbm.1'

much more inclined to vote for Harri- It was a grand scheme of this pioiv fion? administration of Wauamaker. It is "Suppose that Mr. Carnegie had con-?r,avel,y

state for its outlay of ^000,000 to protect very cheerfully comply and accept your bis property against workmen striking 0Vanamaker's) invitation to again visit against reduced wages, instead of giviii'- •'!,

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sample ballots.

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enpoit and David Martin to debauch and the country postoffice will be tliorthe election, would not the people oi

Pennsylvania, of all parties, feel that he?1

oughly

had made a better use of the money ho^SE? WSS Infc has mado by tariff taxes intended to ben-personally supervise this grand political efit labor, but which he has refused toBC£,emelabor?

it Kill be the last one eouducted by oir,- Mr cers chosen by the people. If the Re- Pious John surpasses the magnitude publicans win, the force bill will be re- hVs contribution of 1888, but this time vived and passed. As it provide th-.t

There should be held in every school

hy Pious John Wan

Carnegie had con-formed that all the postmasters at

tnbuted $100,000 to the wages of his county seats in the whole country hav^ workmen, instead of cabling from hi

bee

{ollowinS Wanamaker's direction

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announcec^

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the Republicans win this election rsJ

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elections shall be conducted by officers Go to the polls early and stav all appointed for life by the United State.-day. court, the people will have nothing to do To vote a straight ticket stamp within except to vote. Tlio life-long federa the big square containing the rooster office holder will do the rest. and no other place.

If you 'make a mistake in stainpingWill never inquire. The intelligent liii'n return your ticket to the poll clerks will not be afraid to ask questions, They will give you another one.

of Democratic let-

tone of the letters received from

tlie count)' seat postmasters is very

so the August

the bills.

hn±(mce

"houso of the county, next Saturday Save your county paper containing the night, voting s.chools where the voters leg®1 advertisement of the state" and the district can familiarize themselve.'county ballots. You can use them to with the method of voting under t.h( instruct voters if you have no sample amended Australian election law. Sam ballots. pie ballots will be provided by th" county committee. It is the man who knows 'it all that will lose his vote t!lis year because lie

within tho

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To vote a straight ticket, stamp any-

Don fail to attend the school districOvliere insido the tqnare containing the meetings for the purpose of practicingfooster. Stamp but once, or your ticket

will be thrown away.

not comply with the standard above provided for, either loaded or unloaded. Section 11. That any employe of any such common carrier who may be inby any lo use contrary to the provisions of this act

jured' locomotive, car or

shall not be deemed guilty of contributory negligence, although continuing in the employ of such carrier after habitual unlawful use of snch locomotive, car or train has been brought to his knowledge.

Section 12. That any snch common carrier "violating any or the provisions of this act shall be liable to a penalty of $100 for each and every snch violation, to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought in the district court of the United States having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have been committed by the United States district attorney of such district, and it •hall be the duly of such district attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred. And it shall also be the duty of the interstate commerce commission to lodge with the proper district attorneys information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge.

Passed the house of representatives July 8,1892. JAMES KERR, Attest: Clerk.

Two Side* to the Labor Question. REPUBLICAN. Chauncey Depew was chiefly responsible for Harrison's renomination. Powderly says Depew forced his men on the New York Central to strike in order to drive organized labor off his road. "The Americans know a good thing when they get it."— Andrew Carnegie's congratulations to Harrison on his renomination.

E I E W S E E N T.

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DEMOCRATIC. In twenty years Adlai E. Stevenson has never had a difficulty with the employes in his coal mines.

It was a Democratic house that suspended the rules to pass the safetycoupler bill.

A Democratic congress passed the eight hour bill.

D. O. Mills, White law Reid's father-in-law, was the first man to import Chinese cheaplabor into the United States.

It was a Democratic house that forced the passage of the first Chinese restriction bill.

The Republican senate refused to pass the safety-coup-Ier bill by which 20,000 railroaders would be saved from accident yearly, after the Democratic house had passed the bill. This was after the Minneapolis conven tion hau pledged the Republican party to enact the law.

A Democratic legislature in Indiana repealed the infamous conspiracy act drawn by Benjamin Harrison, which made striking a felony and was intended to break down all labor organizations.

Whitelaw Reid has run a non-union printing office for many years. Three times he has unionized his office just before election and violated his contract by non-unionizing it just after election.

A Democratic legislature made Labor Day a legal holiday in Indiana.

Whitelaw Reid opposed the Chinese restriction law and called Blaine a demagogue and thief for advocating it.

A Democratic' legislature drove the wolfish "pluck-me stores" from the mines of Indiana.

Whitelaw Reid declared that "Labor is trying to get more than its share—more than the share of capital and directing faculty."

A Democratic legislature made eight hours a day's labor in Indiana.

Whitelaw Reid opposed paying laborers on the dangerous work of building tin Croton aqueduct Si a day because that was "more than laborer was worth."

A Democratic legslature made it a t'elony to blacklist any discharged employe.

Whitelaw Reid op posed the eight-hour law. 'W hitelaw Reid em ployed none but nonunion labor on his Ophir farm i'uprovements.

A Democratic legislature compelled employers to pay wages at least once in twos weeks in lawful money.

Whitelaw Reid declared that eight hours might do for labor in Europe, lint Americans ought to work longer.

Humocratic leg-

i.sliituro prohibited the ^mploymeiit of Pinkertoiis in Indiana and rendered it impossible to repeat the Homestead horror in this state.

A Republican legislature in Indiana passed a bill drawn by Benjamin Harrison to make striking a felony.

The Republican managers in Indiana, led by their stf.te organ, sought, to prevent the giving of relief to the starving families of the coal miners of Clav county.

A Democratic legisturc gave the wageearner a mechanic's lien for his wages on the house lie had built.

Carnegie and Frick have given S 110.000 to the Republican campaign fund this year.

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that they wil,

postoffices. Of course they

•V Democratic legislature enacted a law to protect labor union labels from counterfeits.

Benjamin Karrison said, "A cheap coat mean?! a cheap man under the coat.

"V\ orkingmen, which side do you choose?

I'ree Trade for Iiieh Hen.

There is one bill that the last house passed that we challenge the Republican papers to publish, and that is the bill to compel the rich Americans, like Chauncey Depew, who visit Europe every year, to pay tariff on the clothes they bring back with them from the "pauper tailors" ot' Europe. Before the McKinley bill became a law an American on returning from Europe was allowed to bring foreign made clothes to the amount of $30. But the McKinley bill changed this and now clothes to the amount of $."500 are allowed to come iii free of duty. In the last session the tailors of the country united, and upon their petition a bill introduced by Congressman Cooper, of Indiana, passed the house, compelling these American dudes to pay tariff on the clothes they bring back every year from Europe. But it did not pass the Republican senate. Last year over $5,000,000 worth of clothes were thus imported free by rich Americans who spend their summers in Europe. The Democrats are ready to prove that all the clothes that Chauncey Depew wears aro made by an English tailor in London, and lie pays not a cent of taxes on the same to bring them lo this country. That is the way the McKinley bill protects the workingman— free trade in clothes for the.millionaire and protection on clothes for the workingman.

A vote for Harrison is a voto for the force bill.

CAE-COUPLING BILL

Failed In the Democratic Bonie Dndei

Suspension of Rolea—Killed In the

publican Senate at Depew'* BeqoMt.

Following is a copy of the railroad car coupling and air brake bill whiohf the Democratic house passed under the suspension of rules but which the Republican senate refused to pass:

It is known as house bill No. 9350 and any railroad man can procure a copy bv writing to his congressman. The bill was originally introduced by Congressman Martin, of Indiana:

An act to promote the safety of employes and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their looomotive with driving-wheel brakes, and tor other purposes. fie it enacted by the senate and honse of representatives of the United StateB of America in congress assembled. That on and after the 1st day of July, 1898, it •hall be unlawful for any common carrier engaged in interstate commerce by railroad to put into use on its line any new locomotive to be used in moving interstate traffic that is not equipped with power driving-wheel brakes.

Section 2. That from and after the 1st day of July, 1895, it shall be unlawfor any such common carrier to use on its line any locomotive engine in moving interstate traffic that is not equipped with a power driving-wheel brake so arranged as to be operated in connection with the train-brake system.

Section 8. That on and after the 1st day of Jnly, 1895, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to use on its line for the purpose of moving interstate traffic any new car or any old car that has been to the shops for general repairs to one or both of its drawbars that is not equipped with automatic couplers of the standard designated under and in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Section 4. That on and after the 1st day of July, 1898, it shall be unlawful for any such common carrier to haul or permit to be hauled or used on its line any car used in moving interstate traffic unless such car is equipped with automatic couplers of the standard designated under and in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Section 5. That on and after the 1st day of July, 1895, no such common carrier

Bhall

put into use or haul or permit

to be hauled on its line for the transportation of interstate freight traffic any new car belonging or leased to it or any old car belonging or leased to it which subsequently to the passage of this act has been sent to its shops

for

Erakesunless

general re-

airs, such car is equipped with for each wheel and with trainbrake apparatus of suoh a nature that the brakes can be set and released from the locomotive.

Section 6. That on and after the 1st day of July, 1898, no such common carrier shall haul or permit to be hauled on its line for the transportation of interstate freight traffic any car which is not equipped with brakes for each wheel and with a train-brake apparatus of such a nature that the brakes can be set and released from the locomotive.

Section 7. That on or before the 1st day of July, 1893, every such common carrier shall file with the interstate commerce commission in Washington a statement certified to under oath by the president and clerk of the corporation, as the action of said corporation through its board of directors, setting forth such details with reference to the height, form, size and mechanism of freight car couplers as it deems essential in order to insure requisite uniformity, requisite automatic action, and requisite safety in service, and also stating the number of freight cars owned by it and under its control, and also the number of other cars tinder its control by lease on the 80th of June, 1892, exclusive of those use solely for state traffic. Such statements shall be made upon blanks to be provided by the interstate commerce commission and the determination of such commission in relation to the validity of the several statements received shall be final. If upon examining the statements so received said interstate commerce commission is of the opinion that companies owning at least 75 per centum of the freight cars owned and controlled as aforesaid by companies Which shall have duly filed statements as aforesaid have agreed upon such details of freight car couplers as will insure requisite uniformity, requisite automatic action and requisite safety in service, said commission shall thereupon declare and publish that couplers complying with such details as agreed upon shall thereafter, until otherwise ordered according to law, be the standard couplers for use in the freight car interstate service. If the common carriers fail to establish a standard coupler as herein provided, then the standard automatic coupler shall be such coupler as shall be selected by the interstate commerce commission and it is hereby made tho duty of said commission, within six months after the 1st day of July, 1893. to select.and designate some automatic coupler as

"standard type," under the

provisions of this act, and to promulgate notice of such selection. Section 8. That after July 1, 1898, any such common carrier mav refuse to accept or receive any car used in interstate commerce that is not properly equipped as required by this aet, and the carrier loading or starting such car shall be liable for the damages, if anv result therefrom.

Section 9. That from and after the 1st of July, 1893, until otherwise ordered by the interstate commerce commission, it shall be unlawful for any railroad company to use any car in interstate commerce that is not provided with secure handholds in the ends and sides of each car.

Section 10. That within ninety days from the passage of this act the American Railway association is authorized hereby to designate to the interstate commerce commission the standard height of drawbars for freight cars, measured perpendicular from the levei of tho tops of the rails to the centers of the drawbars, and shall fix a maximum variation to be allowed between tho drawbars of empty and loaded cars. Upon their determination being certified to the interstate commerce commission, the commission shall give notice of the standard fixed upon, at once, to all common carriers, owners, or lessees engaged in interstate commerce in the United States by such means as the commission may deem proper, and thereafter all cars built or repaired shall bo of that standard. But should said association fail to determine a standard as above provided, it shall be the duty of tho interstate commerce commission to do so. And after July 1, 1S93, no cars shall be used in the interstate traffic which do

M'KtNLEV BILL TALK.

frleei of Clothing HIT* OOM Che Same Direction Dutlee

The following prices of clothes and clothing are from a number of Tariff Reform just issued by the Reform club. The duties on these goods are mostly from 60 to 100 per cent., and were increased 20 to 25 per cent, by McKinley. The prices are retail, unless otherwise specified, and were obtained from leading New York houses. Where several prices are given for the same article, they are for different grades or qualities of that article:

Aug., Aug., 1890. 1891.

Woolen night shirts $3.44 $4.19 Neckties, each 74 .69 Neckties, each 09 1.24 Foreign umbrella 1.99 2.24 Handkerchiefs, plain white, cotton and linen, printed borders, each .17 Handkerchiefs, plain white, cotton and linen, printed borders, each 12 .15 Handkerchiefs, embroidered, linen and cotton, each 79 .93 Handkerchiefs, embroidered, linen and cotton, each .99 1.19 Spotted curtain, muslin, per yd. .24 .28 Spotted curtain, muslin, per yd .80 .36 Buttons—Staple pearl Jettons, per gross 10 .12 Manila pearl bottons, cheapest, per doz 80 .45 Silk plush for garments 50 inches wide, per yd 8.00 1.00

C0B88TS.

Black wool s.99 8.61 C. P. French, No. 263 2.99 3.61 FINS NATUHAL UNDERWEAR,

Price in England.

Aug., Aug., 1890. 1892.

Ladies' light weight, 3X pounds to dozen, per garment |1.75 12.00 tl.00 Men's light weight shirt, 4 pounds 1 ounce to dozen 1.90 2.25 1.15 Men's shirts, 14 pounds to dozen a95 4.75 *1.95 Men's shirts, medium weight, 11pounds to dozen 8.50 4.00 1.65

UNDERWEAR. Aug., Price in 1892. England.

Men's Furley & Buttram shirts, retail..13.00 $1.20 Men's Furley & Buttram shirts, retail.. 2.00 .60 Twelve thread merino

Bhirt, 16 pounds to dozen, retail [email protected] [email protected] Ladies' merino shirt,

Cartwright & Warner or Furley & Buttram, retail [email protected] 1.08 Ladies' merino garment, retail 4.25 i.68 Child'n's merino shirt, retail l.oo

.00

Child'n's merino shirt, retail 2.08 [email protected] HOSIERY.

Price in

1890. 1S92. Englaud

Ladies' cotton ribbed stockings, per pair. .$1.25 Ladies' cotton stockings, per pair 50 Woolen stockings, per pair Woolen stockings, per pair Woolen, men's half hose Woolen, men's half hose

$1.50

....

.02

.50 .20

1.00 .4*

.25 (£30 .12

.45@50 .13

UPHOLSTERY GOODS.

Common lace curtains, per pair 78 .90 Same, better quality.. 1.02 2.11

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GLOVES. Aug., Aug., 1890. 1892. England.

Price

Men's Fowne's or Dent's. Craven tan, per pair—$1.50 $1.75 '5 Men's Trefouse, per pair 2.00 2.25 (France) 1.50 Men's kid gleves,

Dent's or Fowne's 2.00 2.1 Ladies' four button, Fowne's 1.50 1.' (All the above prices for average sizes.)

Pattern A Pattern Pattern Pattern Pattern 10 Pattern Pattern (i Pattern

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1.10

LINEN GOODS—WHOLESALE. Present price in 1892. England.

1S90.

Cheap crash toweling per yd 07 Cheap crash toweling, per yd 11 Huckaback towel, per doz 1.50 Huckaback towel, per doz 1.75 Glass tovvelings. 18inch, all linen,

.10

.00

.12^

.07

1.75

2.00

1.20

Pef.yd-:- .00 Napkins, %, pur dz 1.00 l.l([email protected] Napkins,%, per dz 1.25 l.-io oii Napkins,'){, per dz 1.75 do S4 Napkins, %, per dz 2.00

Cotton embroideries, wholesale. Hamburg edgings, common patterns, per yard—

•07M .10% •101{ .12 .06 •02% .00 .02%

.09 .12^ .12 .14 .07 .03 .07 .03

.05

OjiV/5 00 •o*.Y .01 .02 .01 .02

These embroideries aro tho most com

mon

patterns and very extensively used

fact they are used by nearly every woman in moderate circumstances. They aro iv/ed for trimmings on all undergarments and white dresses.

Sumplt ISiillots on JCnctiim Day. Great precaution should be taken to have the voters properly instructed. It is the duty of tho county committee to supply sample ballots to bo used near every polling place in the county on election day. Two or more persons familiar with the ballot ought to be placed in charge

the sample ballots,

and every Democrat should be requested to practice on sample ballots before voting. Tho precinct committeeman who neglects to provide sample ballots, stamps and pads for use on election day neglects his duty.

Voting is so easy under the Australian ballot law that a child livo years old could vote.

Touch the ink pad with the stamp then stamp but once.

CORPORATION TAXES.

Three-Void Mare Paid Under the New Taj law Than Under the Old. 'Is

Republican stump orators U» various portions of the state are telling the people that telegraph, telephone, express and sleeping car companies pay leas tax under the new tax law than they did under the old. This is not true. The reverse is the exact condition. Under the new law telegraph, telephone, express and sleeping car companies are paying into the state treasury, on account of business done in Indiana, more than three times as much tax as they paid under the old law of 1889.

This is not mere assertion. It toproven by the records in the office of the auditor of state, through which channel these special taxes are paid. The printed reports of the auditors of state fo, 1889,1890 and 1891, and' the auditor's books for 1892, his report for the current year not being as yet printed furnish the incontrovertible figures which prove true our assertion. As the new tax law has been in operation hut two years, a comparison of the special taxes paid by these corporations daang these two years with the taxes they paid during the last two years of the old law is here given from the official records in the office of the auditor of state: Special Tax Collections Vnder the Old L«tr. 1889. Express companies 1... $326 03 Telephone companies 820 94 Telegraph companies 1,1S4 57 Sleeping car companies

Total.... ........... $1,831 54 1890. Express companies $1,676 43 Telephone companies Telegraph companies 52 18 Sleeping car companies

Total $1,728 61 Special Tax Collections Under the Law of 1891—Mew Law. 1891. Express companies $1,182 5.1 Telephone companies 628 63 Telegraph companies 1,215 "it Sleeping car companies.. 1,343 12

Total $4,370 07 1892. Express companies $1,300 29 Telephone companies 668 45 Telegraph companies 1,482 40 Sleeping car companies 1,492 4:J

Total $4,843 63 Total collections for two yeara under the old law $3,560 15 Total collections for two years under the new law 9,213 60

Two express companies have refused to pay their tax under the new law, and are fighting the same in the courts on the ground that it is unjust and burdensome, and is so largely in excess of the amount they were required to pay under the old law. *It is estimated that the tax 011 these two companies would, amount to $1,800 a year. This added to the total for two years under the new law gives $11,013.09, or a total of more than three times as much taxes as were paid during the years under two old laws. •s

HOW TO VOTE.

Stnmp tin ltoosU'r ami You Will Mako No ."Mistakes. If you want to vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC TICKET, stamp within the BIO SQUARE containing the ROOSTER at tho top of tho ticket. If you stamp within the big square you must not stamp anywhere else on the ticket or you will lose your vote.

You must not mark on the ballot with anything but the stamp. You must-not stamp except on the squares. If you accidently stamp oil' a square, return your ballot to tho poll clerks and get anew one.

You must fold your ballot before coming out of the booth, so that the face will not show and the initials of tho poll clerks on the back will show.

The following information will help the voter: 1. If tho voter wishes any information as to the manner of voting he may ask tho poll clerks. 2. There are two ballot-boxes and two ballots to bo voted. One ballot-box is painted red and is for the state ballot. which ballot is on red paper the other ballot-box is painted white and is for the county ticket, which ticket is 011 white paper. 3. The voter enters the room, tells the poll clerks his name the clerks givt him the two ballots to be voted and a stamp (the stamp is a little stick with a rubber 011 the end of it the voter goes alone into one of the booths with the two ballots and the stamp in the booth on a little shelf he will find an ink pad (this is a cloth saturated with ink the voter touches the ink pad with the stamp and then stamps his ballots. Let the ballots dry before folding. ^•^,er sli'.mping his ballots and the ink has become dry, tho voter then folds each ballot separately before leaving the booth: he must fold them so that no oiie can see how ho has voted, and so that the initials or first letters of the polls clerks' names can be seen on the backs of tho ballots he then goes and gives the stamp back to the clorks, and hands the two ballots to the iri spec tor then he leaves the room. 5. After the voter comes out of the booth into the room he must be careful not to let any one see the inside of his ballots if I10 exposes his ballot so that it can be known how he votes, his ballot will be rejected." 0. If the voter can not read English, or is blind, or is physically unable to stamp his ballots, he has aright to call 011 the poll clerks to stamp his ballots for him this must be done in his presence and 111 the presence of both poll clerks. 7. The voter must vote the ballots given him by tho poll clerks and none' other.

S. The voter must not put any mark or sign 011 his ballots: if he does, his voto will not be counted.

If by accident ho blots his ballot in stamping or makes a mistako, lot him return the ballot folded to the poll clerks and get another.

[f you make a mistake in stamping •eturn your ticket to the poll clerks. They will giv« yuu another one.