Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 3 December 1898 — Page 7

ESTABLISHED 1841.

Jeweler and Optician

No. 207

"East Market Street.

RINK'S

Can You Match 'Em

Answer Never

$8.50 for full silk-lined Jackets, tan, castor, black, blue and green. 200 pieces in stock. $10. This is the best kersey made, and never sold for less* than $15 and $18.

Furs all go at accordingly low prices—collarettes, neck scarfs, muffs— best stock in Indiana.

RINK'S

INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA.

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with a just eye. If vou are watching your own interest in house or in office, you can't do it properly witbont your eyesight is perfest. If it is affected in any .way have your eyes fitted with the proper glasses. We will furnisli you with glasses that will make you think you lave a new pair of eyes after we have tested them.

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108 South Green Street.

YOU GET

Opp. Court House.

Winter

Better Beer from a half barrel than from a fourth of a barrel. You also get better beer from a barrel than a half barrel. We are now tapping fromjbarrels exclusively.

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CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3

lhe Fix We are In

Ed. Rkvif.w. Nearly a year ago the Crawfordsville Journal made a complaint that our ships had b»en driven from the eeas, and that we are paying $300,000,000 per annum to foreign vessels to do our carrying trade for us, and about three weeks ago when Landis spke in Ladoga, he complained of the name thing, saying that our peace commissioners had to go to Paris in a foreigu ship bocause we had no decent one fit for them to travel in. Now if those gentlemen will take the paiqs to read up a little, they will discover th-.t their own party imposed such a heavy tax on copper bottoms, and copper fastenings that a ship could be built cn the Thames or the Clyde for about oue-fourth less than in the United StateB. This is what drove our commerce from the ocean, this is why we pay 1300,000,000 per annum to foreign ships. Under Garfield's administration a well known statesman from Crawfordsville said that during a sojourn of three years at Constantinople, he only saw one vessel enter the sea of Marmora bearing the stars and stripea During the year 1893, while 2,405 British vessels passed through the Suez canal, 3 American vessels passed through it. I can say with the poet: "Ships sailorless lay rotting on the Bea, they all fell down piecemeal and asthey fell they slept upon the abyss without a surge." Patrick Henry said: "Our immense forests must be hewn down aod made into ships to carry our product to foreign countries" Thomas Jefferson advocated the construction of a dry dock somewhere on the Ohio river so that the immense forests along the Aleghaney, the jdonongahala, the great Kanawa, the Little Kanawa and the Big Sandy rivers might be rafted down the Ohio, sawn up and made into ships andtaken into the gull and into the Atlantic ocean to carry our commerce to distant lands beyond the 6eas. As a result a city was built and called Jeffersonville and a dry dock was constructed and ship building got to be a flourishing business, and numbers of men got lucrative employment as ship builders and sailors, and nobody wanted to ruin their business and make tramps of them till the republican party arose to power. Now if thr McKinleytes will track themselves on back track for about fifteen years, they will find out what it is that has driveD ourcommerce from the seas, and compelled our sailors and ship carpenters to be idle or go to foreign countries to find employment

And yet they tell us we have prosperity in this country. Now thoy are trying to drive foreign ships from our shores. For instance a ship comes irom Scot-, land, Australia, or South America loaded with wool, and we meet it at the shore and take half the cargo and tell the owner that we got up a racket among ourselves thirty-six years ago, and we are unable to pay our war debt and we want foreign markets to pay it for us. A captain comes from the Argentine Republic with a cargo of hides, and we treat him in the same way until they come again. Can they afford to come again? Can we expect him to buy our stuff that we have to spare under such treatment? Why, sir, it costs $6,000.00 to coal a ship across the A tlantic, 3,000 tons at $2.00 a ton §12.000 for tho round trip it she has the best of luck, and if she is driven out of her course by adverse winds it costs still more, and then if we take one-half of his cargo to pay our old chronic war debt, 1 calculate that he will find a market some where else. But republicans say, "Let him go we do not care whether he comes back any more or not." Look here, my republican friends, your party has been in power most of the time for thirty-eight years, and during that time you have spent millions and millions of dollars making treaties of amity and commerce with about evory nation on the globe, now do you want this money all to be wasted? No, sir, let us make tha best use we can of those treaties, let the foreign ships come laden with such things as we need, and let her go back with oUr wheat, apples, mutton, beef, pork, lard, and everything else that we have to spare. If a foreign ship would come to our shores laden with whiskey oa wine then I would give her such a back set that she would not visit our shores very soon again. Lanflis nays the country is prosperous, and then winds up by saying the banks are full of money. Some men are always prosperous,. A man that draws $5,000 par annum and perquisites can talk gibly about prosperity if he don't have to pay too much money into the campaign fund. There are 100,000 officers that draw salaries from tho government, and they will all tell you that timeB are good. Of course they have no complaint to make. "Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass or loweth the ox over his fodder." -Job G,5. But there is another class wtio cannot comply with the terms at the banks, and cannot get work to do and they must inevitably suffer before spring.

Carpenter* and plaaterers only got work

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about half the time during the past summer and now must go into the winter empty handed, and tho butcher and the grocer say they cannot carry them any longer, and a man with no money, no work and no credit cannot feel this great prosperity, for how is he to get money to buy bread with? Thousands of carpenters, plasterers, and painters are idle, and one fourth of the houses in the country are not tit to live in. Big clothing stores abound on every hand, and we daily see people poorly clad, shoe stores are abundant and yet we see people going with their feet cold and wet. What is the reason that these people cannot get together and transact some business? Simply because the leaders in thie infamous party will not put money enough into circulation to do the legitimate business of the country. Greenbacks have been redeemed and destroyed, silver has been demonetised and gold was at apremium, As a result, oats went down to 8 cents per bushel, corn to 15, wheat to 40, hogs to 22c, hay to $2.50 per ton and horses to half price. As a result farmers cannot even repair their old houses much lees build new ones. What is the matter? The republican party has increased the purchasing power of a dollar. Farms are selling at half the old price. Many farmers that had 160 acrfes of land a few years ago, worth $7,000 don't know now whether they are Worlh anything or not. Farms are being sold|of? at sheriff's sale at the rate of fifty per year and half what they would have brought' a few years ago. The republican party has increased the purchasing power of a dollar.

Wealthy men are buying things at half the old price and real estate is passing into the hands of wealthy men. There are not less than 5 firms in this little town and about IS or 20 firms in Crawfordsville that make their living loaning money and taking mortgages on real estate. Indiana is mortgaged for $645,000,000. 1 stated this fact to a lady from Iowa an 1 she said: "let him manage better." Why don't he manage better? How can he manage better when the President, the Cabinet, the Congress, the banker, tha bond holder, the millionaire and the allied powers of hell are all against him. Brittish capitalists have got possession of our rcai estate to the amount of $1,000,000. Go to a .Jonny Bull aod try to rent one of his farms and you will see what extortion is. We have a law to prevent aliens from holding real estate in this country but it is couched in ambiguous terms so it can be construed any way to suit anybody and it is not enforced.

Those Jonnnies met with a good deal of encouragement from the St. Louis Louis convention two years ago, proposing to do something for the relief of the people whenever Europe will concur.

British capitalists sent Ernest Seyed over here with $500,000 to have silver demonitized and told him if that was not enough to send for more, and was it done in such a shrewd manner that James G. Blaine and D. W. Voorhees did not know it until afterwards and Ernest went home and told his people that he coul'l do things in the American Congress that he would not dare to undertake in tho Brittish Parliament.

Men are murdering their wives and children to keep them from starvation. Men are deserting their families in order that they may not have to see them 6iifTer the pangs of cold and hungerMarried women are getting divorces on tha ground of failure to provide. Young men are tramping over the country or riding on freight cars hunting work. A young man said, "if I don't get a job of work soon 1 intend to steal something and get into the penitentiary," Neighbor can not pay neighbor and as a reoult people are njt living in peace as they should. Young men are afraid to marry for fear they cannot make a living for a family. As a result the country is full of old maids and bachelors. Poor people cannot dress as they should and as a result there is sickness and death. Churches and Sunday schools are in Want of money. Millions of poor people and their chilst away from church and never hear the gospel preached because they have 110 clothes lit to wear. Merchants are selling goods on credit and have $4,000 to 810,000 out that they can not collect-

At a time like this men become desperate and there is more crime going on than there would be it there was plenty of money in circulation among the common people. Line fences are down and cattle get mixed and neighbor fall out. God has sent us the sunshine and the rain and has blessed us with abundant harvests and there is no need that anybody should suffer if man would do his pari.

The plow stood still in the field of promise, and briers cumpared the garden of beauty. A man has 125,000 acres of land and raise thistle and bazel brush while many of

strength, being wholly at ease and quiet, "His breasts are full of milk and bones are moistend with marrow, another dieth in tho bitterness of his soul, and £never eateth with pleasure. They shall lie down alike in the dust and the worms shall cover them."—Job 21, 23, 24, 25, 26.

Legislation has been in favor of the rich because they are able to pay for it and against the poor because they are not able to pay for it. I want to warn the American people that some of the bloodiest revolutions that ever drenched the earth with human gore arose from this cause. Witness the downfall of Nero the French revolution in 1799 Cromwell's revolution in 1640. and the overthrow of the Spanish authority in Mexico in 1820.

Lvcurgus prevented a revolution in Sparta by making concessions to the poor. We can do the same thing let us act wisely before it is too late.

Issue greenbacks in the place of those that were destroyed. Restore silver back to where it was previous to 1873. Re-enact the Sherman purchaeiug clause and let the government start the mints and coin both gold and silver.

Tax incomes to pay the national debt. Tax men on what they own, and cease to tax men on what they don't own. Send rich men to the penitentiary when they perjure themselves before the assessor. Oust those British syndicates from our western domain and give the land to actual settlers. Curb the Chicago speculators and let the farmer get full value for what he raises. Raise fewer cattle and sheep, let hides and wool come in free, cultivate more boiI and give the renters a better chance. Prosecute all men of all parties found guilty of bribery and corruption.

Elect United States Senators by a direct vote of the people and this will, to a certain extent, prevent rich men from buying their way into the Senate We must cease to create strife and sectional animosity. We have already shown how unwise legislation has ruined the ship builder and the sailor. It has also ruined the miner, the silver producer, the wheat raiser and the cotton producer until within the past few years. Loe all things be done decently and in order. W. R. Gbayisili..

The Tree is Blown Down The wind storm in Carroll county a few days ago revives the story of the Luella Mabbitt murder case as is shown by the following from the Logansport Pharos:

During a wind storm last Saturday night, the walnut tree, from which Atner Green was hung was blown down.

It will be remombered that Green was taken from the Delphi jail on Oct 8,1888 and was within a few hours after lynched.

Green was accused |of murdering Luella Mabbitt. of Carroll county, and the mystery surrounding the case has never been solved. The tree has boen an object of much interest ever sinco that time and people have come from many distant places throughout tb county to got a piece of bark or branch as a souvenir ot the greatest sensation Carroll county ever had.

I. Fired Anvils.

Bob Osborn, of the New Kiehmoud Enterprise formerly, must have been most anything but a popular individual On his departure from that place, few days ago, for Hillsboro, Fountain county, where he will reside, it is said, anvils of powder were fired and there was general rejoicing at his departure. The "Yelper" as he was pleased to be termed, probably had an up-hill time of it while residing at New Richmond.

Cave v,ms.

Some time since, Albert Cave, Darlington, as agent sold for H. H. Swindler his farm. He asked a commission of $75 for his aid in making the trade. no, and Cave sued him. Swindler said

brush wnue many 01 hia neighbored In a trial of the cause last week in have not got a square yard upon which oircuit court Cave waa given a verdict to raiBe a potato hill. One dieth in full (or $75.

58TH YEAR.- NO. 13

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A Lack of Fuel Gas in the Center Gas Belt. Anderson the center of the gas belt, surrounded by "gushers"' and always considered the last place in the country that would likely suffer from the lack of this fuel, is to-day realizing what the shortage of gas means. Where the trouble lies is hard to tell, and it is not generally believed that the wells near there are playing out, but it is a fact nevertheless, that hundreds of homes in that city are not properly heated, and woman, children and invalids are actually suffering with tho cold, which they have never experienced before. Many believe the gas company is not as solicitous of their welfare as it should be, and that an abundance of gas could be se cured by drilling new wells. The situation is serious, and immediate relief is not looked for, as the company has already collected the tolls.

December Weather.

Hicks has predicted the following re. garding the weather for December: Minor storm tendencies will be manifest in most sections on and touching the 9th and lOtn. High dangerous wintry galea will prevail over the north Atlantic seas during all the December solstice periods.

During the next regular storm period, the 13th to 18th, look for return of storm conditions. About the 13th the barometer will begin to fall in weetern sections, warmer days will advance eastward, with barometer falling to reading and ending in active storms of rain, with probable wind and thunder southward during the 15th to 17th. The moon being on the celestial equator on the 18th, the probabilities are great for a heavy continuance of heavy winter perturbations over that date and into the reactionary storm disturbances central on the 19th, 20th and 21st, These last dates are at the center of the winter solstice, the point where earth turns in her orbit aod begins her return for longer days. For a number of days before, including and after these central dates, the correct history of wheather phenomena all over the northem hemisphere will show a decided tendency to boreal storm. All areas of mountains and plain where beavy accumulation of snow and Ice are common... will receive large additions at and about this time. Another severe, far-reaching cold wave my be expected with the on coming high barometer that will succeed the storm of thi9 part of December. lhe last regular storm period for the month will fall from 25th to 26th to 29th. This will bring a return to warmer weather, falling barometer, and more storms of rain and snow progressively from west to east duriug three or four days, say about the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th.

Change of Pastors.

Following the end of Rev. Mc* Gaughey's pastorate Dean at the Chris-, tian church here, Rev. A. L. Crim, of Crawfordsville, late of Thorntown, has been chosen to succeed huu. Mr. Crim is a most forcible speaker and a much learned man and whom our people will remember as having conducted thereviv-. al at the church here last winter. The" exact date of Mr. Crim's first appointment has not been fixed but will be announced presently.—New Rich mondRecord. •••.v

New Suits Filed.

Wabash College vgj Louisa Miller ot al. Forclosure. Eliza E. Davidson vs. L. A. Stump a::d Robt. W. Stump Foreclosure.

Chas. A. Barrett vs. E. C. Nolan and Levina Nolan. Complaint.. Francis C. Peck vs. Asa M. Pickerell. Complaint.

Win. H. Gray vs. Soloman W. Peterson. On chattel mortgage-

Special Prices on Ladies' Wrappers. We oiler the dozen ladies' wrappers made of extra heavy fleece back material in neat designs, separate waist lining, bound arm holes, cut full across hips, skirts about 3'/2 yards wide, and a regular SI quality, choice 75c. Can you afford to make wrappers in the face of this offering? L. Bischof. Tha Big Store.

Blanket Weather.

Iheso chilly nights are strongly suggestive of warm woolen blankets. Our assortment is equal to anything ever shown in the city and the special prices on all woolen stuffs in the Rebuilding Salemakes them great bargains. In addition to the Yountsville line we carry all qualities in cotton and wool. L. Bischof, 'lhe Big Store.

Back from Alaska.

J. R. Bonuell is in receipt of a letter from bis brother. Will, who has just returned from a several months sojourn up the Copper River country in Alaska and who has now settled down at Seattle. Wash. He writes that hia party didn't find gold enough to fill a tooth and that he is utterly disgusted with that over-rated country.

Happily Married.

Sylvanus E. Bundy and Miss Rebecca Ruble, of Snannondale, were married on the 27th instant by Rev. G. W. Stafford, at his residence east of the fair ground. The many friends of this worthy young couple wish tbem much happiness and prosperity in their future lives.

Bowers' Postmaster.

Isaac Woodward has resigned aBpostw master at Bowers and John Hutchin*. son appointed to the position.

Good health is worth more than any, thing else tb you, and every bottle ot Hood's Saraaparilla contains good health.

Smoks tho "Hoboe" oigar.