Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 October 1899 — Page 4

The Review.

PETER PORCUPINE.

SI-QUITURQUE PATREM MAUD

PASSIBUS /EQUIS.

The Grandson of His Grandfather

Finds the Old Han's Pen and

Polishes it Up.

A ni: Impunc Laic's sit."

"Once titer I iced a man, a satirist an11 in the naturaJ course\of time his friends slew him and he db'd.

The people came and stood about his torpse. treated the whole round world as his footballthey said, 'a ml'.he kicked it."

The dead man opened his eyes. "But always toward the 'joal" he said.—Schwartz.

IFcome

the Lion and the Boor finally to the conclusion to lie down in peace together, it is quite safe to infer that the Boer will be inside the Lion.

BRYANwork

is urging Kentucky Democrats to lay aside differences and together in harmony for a common purpose. It is high time for the injection of a little common sense into that Kentucky campaign.

EXPANSIONsound,

or imperialism has a

seductive but when it means the maintenance of a large standing army, its beauties are not so apparent nor

it3

ENGLAND

melody so

sweet. Has not thejjroducer in this country burden enough without putting a soldier on his back?,

DOWIE,

the faith healer of Chica­

go, is again getting more or less unsavory notice from the calamitous effects of ihis treatment a'noug his followers. It is a question whether it sometimes is not expedient for the strong arm of the law to save the fool from his folly. It is not in evidence that Dowie has a special commission fromJProvidewe to serve as, fool killer in Chicago.

W S the^campaigu of l'.HX) draws II near there is a decided tenden{M cy on the part of thinking Rs1 publicans to concede that Bryan is a man of power and influence and a most formidable presidential factor. That he is more than a man of one idea becomes every day more patent. He is a clc-ar-thiuking, conscientious statesman keenly alive to the issues of the hour. Even Republican Senator Thurston is moved to remark: "Ijwould not care to make any predictions. I believe we will win, but it is a bard fight, and the result will not be known until the ballots are"counted. There is no doubt that Bryants holding his people together. They believe that some day he will be president." And such a concession as this is made by a strong supporter of the administration. It

#is

a confession of Bryan's strength, and the truth of it is recognized by many Republicans.

is in the^busiuess of

benevolent assimilation on her own "account now. There are some'evidences being manifested that the task will not be accomplishedjin onefday, though Sir Redfers Buller is yet to be tried as a typewriter expert in war. He may develop into a"good .match for our Otis later on.

ENGLAND,1

Germany and the

United States are

HOW

discuss­

ing the feasibility of partitioning Samoa. In the deal it is safe to predict Jthat the simple Samoan will be left out altogether. The Samoan^king^might well echo the words Caractacus to his Roman conquerer: ''Since the Emperor is possessed of all this splendor, how can he envy Caractacusjhis poor hut?"

BRITON

Jjand Boer) [are] engaged

in the death grapple. To one who looks on there can be but one end—the annihilation of the Boer. I maylnot be an Anglo-Saxon maniac. If so, well and good. But in my heart of hearts I sympathize with the Boer.1 [I sympathize with

any man who is fighting for his own fighting for the soil made sacred by toil and tears and blood fighting for the God given right of liberty on land he has wrested ftom its primnl state. I The Boer may be stol: !, unsightly and uncouth he may not rep ^nt the highest type of t.ivihz-.i'jon little Republic in Smith Africa may not be the acme o: .rfpcut?i but what of that? Ho crossed three thousand leagues se to get to spot of laud in a dark and unknown continent where he could build a home. When it was built, and enemies threatened to devour him, he welcomed the flag of Englaud as a savior, but in his simplicity he took an adder to his breast he welcomed a worse tyrant than the one dethroned.

The Boer started on his long journey across arid plains. He met in the way savage men and beasts and conquered them, in the rocky fastnesses of the Transvaal, on land no one else wanted Le established himself. Here he rested in pence. He found the hills and mountains full of yellow gold, and he ,grew rich. The little republic grew fat from the product of its gold mines. The yellow metal acted like magic on the hearts of those reckless souls of every land who shake dice with tte, and they hastened to the land of the Boer. Most of them came from England. They as aliens and fortune hunters demanded rights the Boer refused to grant. England looked in scorn on the sturdy Dutchman who dared to own any spot of earth on which gold and diamonds grew. Then came war for the possession, but again the Lord came to the help of the weak against the mighty, and the Battle of Majuba Hill gave the Boer a longer lease on the land he claimed as his own. But the desire of England to make au African empire from [Cairo to the Cape still grew. Lust for gold and empire fouud the Boer blocking the way. In the name of God and the British empire they now propose to wipe him from the earth. It is the old, old story of Ahab and the coveted vineyard of Naboth. They have massed their forces, and will doubtless sweep the Boer republic from the earth, roll over his land the chariot of imperialism, whose blood stained wheels have already crushed India and Egypt, and liberty's star will be for awhile eclipsed. The same might be written when the flag of the Transvaal republic falls as was written by an Englishman when Poland was wiped from the map of nations: "lloin- for a season bade the world farewell

And freedom shrieked when Kosciusko fell.'i

The tempest has broken, and weak republic and giant empire are locked in deadly embrace, and free, libertyloving Americans are found who on account of Anglo-Saxon blood desire the death of the Dutch republic, at the hands of this assassin of weaker peoples. True we are Anglo-Saxons, but I hope not such as these. These British builders of empire, who are now goading the patient Boers, are the heirs of those Britons who struck the blows at Lexington, Bunker Hill, and Savannah in the bloody seven years war for American independence. They are the same tories who for hundreds of years have smitten freedom's form wherever she dared to make strife with privileges and classes. Freedom even in England pleads against this wrong being done the Boer. These makers of empire on the ruins of republics are not our kindred. They are inspired by the voice of William the Conqueror, rather

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Does the

Baby Thrive I

If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the mother's milk doesn't nourish it, she needs SCOTT'S if EMULSION, it supplies the elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not nourished by its artificial food, then it requites

Half a teaspoonful three or four times a day in its bottle will have the desired effect. It seems to have a magical effect upon babies I and children. A fifty-cent bottle will prove the truth

than the spirit of Washington. The

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Anglo-Saxon with whom we should claim kinship is that type which like Bright. Emmett, Burke, Pitt and Gladstone raise? its voice to plead the cause of God and humanity agaiuit the claims of greed.

3 Bryan thrusts his javelin info ji\ the hide of the Republican eleiA phant, the animal squirms anil trumpets its distress. It is the galled jade that winces.

FEDERAL

JUDGE

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office holders over the

entire country have been solicited to contribute to the Republican campaign fund in Ohio, with the plea that the election is of national significance. It is equivalent to saying Ohio must not be lost to the Democracy, and that it simply must be bought. And yet the G. O. P. poses as the enemy of [corruption and the champion of purity in politics, and makes one long perennial howl against "boodle" and '"boodlers." Great is the G. O. P.

MARTIN, of the Bloom-

ington circuit court, has issued au announcement that if, hereafter, any representative of the press publishes a detailed account of divorce proceedings, such person shall be arrested and fiued, and ^denied the privilege of visitingjjthe court room or looking over the].court records. In the matter ofjdecency and good taste, the Judge is probably perfectly correct, but when he attempts to suppress the publication of public trials and forbids examination of records, he will probably find that he has taken a rather large specimen of the masculine bovine by the horns. If a publication is indecent, it may be shut out of the mails, and perhaps the judicial gentleman may find this the better method. It is evident that the Dogberry of Bloomington is trying to swell himself to a size which demands the breeches of a Czar. If the press of Monroe county is "onto its job" it can make life a burden to this 2x4 Ca-sar.

anything hurts worse than the truth it has never been discovered. long as a public official is pat ted on the back he is your friend, and you are a great fellow.3$But call attention to some of his official acts .nd

hell is deep enough nor^hot

enough for him to consign you to. They forget that they are servants of the people, and not bosses.-! [[Crookedness is not a divine inheritance which comes with public office by any means. There are some practices in this section which must be broken up at all hazards. There are some things which stink and must be dis infected. They are well known to officials of the city but are winked at. They are going to be granted abundant time to clean them up, and if it is not done, I am going to expose a rotten condition, a condition of lewdness and debauchery which will make the hair stand on end. It will not be a simple "reflection'^ then that certain officials will have to kick about, but the real old thing itself. I call on the city authorities to do their duty. They know where the trouble is, and they know what it is, and they also know how to stop it. Will they do it, or will they wait for the shower which is coming if they fail? A hint to the wise is sufficient. Let the police board get down to business and clean up these hell holes in the valley, and a few other things I could name.

pfENERAL HARRISON is hob1^ nobbing with kings and queens in Europe in quite a matter of

A fact style. Almost any American would make a good king, but very few kings would make even passable Americans.

WHENtheman

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of our statements. Should be taken In summer at well aa winter.

•:J,-..y/^oc. and $1.00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNK, Chemists, New York.

a who has his ,eyes open and is up-to date, who is such a wise cuss, as the editor of Linden Leader profess­

es to be, runs up against the real old thing he ought not to squeal. This is apropos of the onslaught he has continued to make on our street fair. It may not have been a paradise, such as he is used to, but if he knew it was bad he might have stayed at home. We would'nt have missed his presence here, and his innocence would not have been so rudely shocked. "The Art Studio" evidently was all he saw of the street fair, and he went home to blush and howl over his lost innocence. He perhaps took the windjammer's word for what was inside the tent and bit, only to find it not half so bad as he had been led to believe.

f)EV. T. E. COX, pastor of St. JarL| lath's Catholic church at ChicaX\ go, in an address before the

Presbyterian Ministerial Association of that city proposed anew and unique system of regulating the liquor traffic. His plan is a complete

system of compensation on the part of brewer? and distillers for ail damages or injury done states, cities and individuals through the use of liquor. He proposes to abolish all forms of saloon license, and enact a, law requiring the manufacturers of liquors and beer to establish and maiutaiu a fund to be used in paying various claims growing out of the liquor trafic in all its various forms. If the sale of alcoholic beverages imposes additional responsibilities upon a state or city, the proper amount of damages would be drawn from this fund. In cases where men or boys are killed or their usefulness impaired by drink, their relatives would be entitled to draw on this fund for relief. He would make all claims against this fund payable only after duly proven in a court of equity. In this way fraud would be prevented, and none save those entitled to damages would receive assistance from this fund. .-"f

INliquorhigh

the above proposition we have a remedy for many of the ills of the traffic, and coming from a man in the councils of the Romish church, I am inclined to look upon his proposition with favor, for several reasons. In the first place it would put the burden where it of right belongs. For instance, this county and city would not receive anything from liquor licenses, but on the other hand it would be relieved from the payment of all costs accrued in our criminal courts where liquor was at the bottom of the trouble. Criminals tried at great cost, as the result of drunkenness, would cost the manufacturers of the stuff instead of the general public. Police work on account of liquor would be paid for by the ones whose business calls for such work instead of the people who do not need it. Paupers made by alcohol would be kept by those whose business made them such, rather than by the people who had nothing to do with it. Under such a system we would have one saloon where we now have ten. Manufacturers would be exceedingly careful who handled the stuff everywhere, for the reason that they would be responsible for any damage done by the careless sale of it. Every fellow would not be allowed to sell, for the manufacturer would not allow him to. It would become a business matter at once. As it now is, the manufacturer cares not a farthing. The state will talje care of the crime, pauperism and disease his stuff creates, and he organizes a trust and controls legislation. With this law in force the boot would be on the other foot. He would have to take care of his own child of discord and be responsible to the people for its acts. Such a law would be more effective in the closing of saloons, and the cure of drunkenness than any prohibitory law ever enacted, no matter how vigorously enforced, for it would be a regulator that regulated. The manufacturer of strychnine tablets would be sent to the penitentiary if he scattered his product broadcast where it might be swallowed by everybody. Why make an example out of him, aud protect the manufacturer of alcoholic liquors which are just as deadly? Make him financially responsible for his work, aud the liquor problem is solved. This does not mean the saloon Jkeeper. but the man man who makes the stuff.

COPPERHEAD

is a name I notice

applied quite frequently to those who dare to take issue with the administration of President McKinley, or to criticise in any way the war now being conducted in the Philippines. 1 take it that this word is used by calamity howlers and shriekers, ignorant cross-roads editors and pap-sucking politicians, in the same manner in which the pickpocket rushes through the crowd crying "stop thief." It is handy as an attention distractor. It may be cruel in me, but I cannot help regarding those who uphold the idea of imperialism, which means the conquering of weaker peoples and placing upon them a yoke, as Tories. There are Tories to-day. The breed did not die when Cornwallis surrendered, and they have -thf! same old tricks to-day they had then. Then they were men of vast wealth and possessions who saw no light save that which came from the imperial courts of esar. They were men who knelt at the shrine of caste they bowed the knee and the neck to custom, state, church, and looked to the king as their sovereign lord and master. They were sycophants fawning at the feet of power. They were ready to oppress, become extortioners, and cruel task-masters for personal gain, or to be counted as the friends of power. They were traitors to human liberty and equal rights, and are so written down on history's page. I aay that the breed still exists, and after

II

The people of Crawfordsville, Montgomery County and surrounding counties will be interested in learning that Mr. Edward Warner has decided to go out of the Cloihing business. They will be vitally interested because it will effect their pocketbooks—because, before retiring, Mr. Warner intends to conduct the

Ever known in the history of Crawfordsville. A $35,000

Clothing, Hats, Caps, Gents' Furnishings, Etc.,

Will positively be placed on the altar of low prices and sacrificed at absolute cost. Everything goes—counters, fixtures, etc.

HERE AREA FEW OF THE PRICES:

Overcoats.

Vermont Frieze, worth So 00 for $ 2.25 Black and blue beavers weli worth $6 00 for 3.50 Heavy Chinchillas, in blue worth $6 00 for 4.00 Extra heavy beaver, in blue and black, worth ST 00 for.. 5.00 Fine Covert cioth, made up in extra wide facing,satin bound fancy check black, sells every whece for S3 00 for 5.00 Kersey beaxer in black, blue, and brown, satin bound,good value at $10 00 for .... 7 00 Raw edged English Kersey, worth $12 00 for 8.00 Extra tine English Kersey, elegantly tailored, worth $14 00 for 10 00 Fine Kersey Beaver in blue and black, wide facing, satin yoke and sleeves, worth 815 00 for 12.0^ Extra fine quality K-rsey I'eaver, equal to finest merchant tailored garment, worth $20 for 15.00

Underwear.

A large lot of odds and ends well worth 50c at Regular 50c Camel's Ilair at Best fleced lined lG-lb goods in blue and natural at Balbriggar.e in blue and brown, worth 75c, ut Sheard' all wool health underwear, SI 25, at very be9t Australian wool in blue, tan and natural, 31 50 goods, at

One Price Clothier and Hatter.

12o years of liberty and equality it shows the cloven foot agaiu. The Tory of 1776 was the prototype of the modern Tor}'. There is ouly one difference the old Tory worshiped at the altars of power and Mars, while the latter day Tory worships at the altar of Gold and burns his incense to Greed. In his worship there is no idea of human liberty. In his geometry, one dollar is the equal of many men. He would see vast temples erected to the great god of business, even though the foundation was builded on human bones cemented together with blood. He would build an empire of wealth as the walls of Babylon were built, by the sacrifice of much men. In every one of his equations the value of man is represented by "x" it is an unknwn quantity. Weallh, business, commerce, dollars are set over against the undying principle of the Fatherhood of God aud the brotherhood of man. What difference does it make to Dives and Shylock how many men die to build empire, and to cause commerce and to whiten the sea with the bellying sails of ships? He will cart away the bones of the slaughtered Filippino and American soldier and dump them in a common heap and erect a sugar factory over their graves. Everything must give way before the dollar the sacred traditions of the Republic must be swept away the declaration of independence declared null and void the constitution be violated and stabbed in its most vital part in the interest of capital. Vacant chairs must stand in many homes. The first born must die in conflict to drive from their land some "darkbrowed, sullen people," that greed may fatten on the good things. The modern Tory hides the truths and principles for which our fathers died, and for which every freeman should be willing to die, under loud cries of "Destiny," "Hand of God," "Benevolent assimilation," "Civilization and Christianity," "Commerce," "Great wealth," "Business," and mingling with these cries are heard the crack of Mauser and Krag-Jorgensen rifles, the bellow of artillery, screams, yells, curses and shrieks of the wounded

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Men's Suits.

Men's Union, 60 per cent, wool suits, cheapat 85,go at

S 2.50

Men's blue and black cheviots and clay worsted patterns. well worth $C, at.. .3.00 Regular all wool cassiraeres

Darville and South Bead woolen mill goods, worth SB to S10, at 5,00 Wendel's celebrated cassimeres, all wool, elegantly made and trimmed, worth

SO, 812 and 814, at 7.00

We Want Your Trade.

and dyiug, on battle-fields far away, and occasionally—frequently of late— is heard amid it all, some agent of prosperity hissing "Copperhead!"

Traitor, at all who dare to differ with the administration in its crusade of blood and tears and death in the interest of "BUSINESS," in imitation of those who in 1776 declared every lover of liberty a traitor to George III. These parrots should learn that the real traitors of the world, and the ones the race has most to dread from, are the traitors to liberty, equal rights, brotherhood and humanity. Given the opportunity and the Tory of today would fall on his face and cry:

The Republic is dead! Long live the King!"

WEdownthe

like liberal spirit of the editor of the Linden Leader, here at the county seat. That paper raises a lively roar

OAer the fact that the citizens of Linden purchase goods of others than Linden dealers, and because others than citizens of Linden sell goods to citizens of that burg, and he says "we still maintain that the Leader is for Linden." I said, Bully for the Leader! After I had said that 1 looked into the columns Of his paper and I fouud a half page advertisement of a big dry goods house at Lafayette, a three column ad. for Louis Bischof of this city, a Crawfordsville clothing house occupied a twelve inch space, three Crawfordsville tailors filled considerable space therein, a Crawfordsville laundry was represented, a real estate firm and a jeweler of this city each had good space, and a Darlington furniture dealer took a liberal slice of his sheet. I discovered that he had 300 inches of advertising and of that, 162 inches was devoted to Crawfordsville, four to Darlington, and 104 to Linden, while 22 inches was in exchange for the Chicago Record and I^arm World, This convinces me beyond a doubt that the "Leader is for Linden."

Yours Observantly, PETER PORCUPINE,

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