Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 23 December 1899 — Page 4

The Review. PETER PORCUPINE.

SEQUITURQUE PATREM HAUD FASSIBUS /EQUIS.

The Grandson of His Grandfather

Finds the Old flan's Pen and

Polishes It Up.

Nemo me Impune Lacessit

Once fliers lived a man, a satirist and in the itural course\of time his friends slew him and he died.

The people came and stood about his corpse. 'He treated the whole round world as- his football,' they said, 'and he kicked it:'

The dead man opened his eyes. '•But, alwiys toward the goal" he said.—Schwai'tz.

UCH is the cost of criminal aggression. Indiana mourns the N loss of a distinguished citizen, and the nation the most trusted and admired general of her army Maj. Gen. Henry W. Lawton was shot through the heart by a Filippino sharp ^hooter, at the battle of San Mateo, Tuesday morning last, while leadin his men against the entrenchments of the insurgents. He died as heroes die, in the very front of the battle He was the one man of the army whose record, military and civil, was not dimmed by gossip, or even a mistake of judgment. He was honored loved, admired by all. Modest, brave, careful, earnest, honest, clean. Gen Lawton has gone to his reward, and his brow will be crowned with new and immortal laurels, by the god of battles. The pity of it all is, that by the order of his government he was forced to fall in battle against those who were fighting for their liberty, which is the God given right of man, and for which Gen. Lawton fought in behalf of the black man through four long, bloody years of civil strife. What a price to pay is this, for conquest! The life of such a man as Lawton is worth more to America than all the 2,000 islands of the Philippine Archepelago, the Sulu islands, or all the South Pacific coutains of islands, volcanoes and sava ^es. But what does the beef trust, I he railroad trust, the bread trust the clothing trust, and all the flocks of speculative and political buzzards which darken the air care for death, mourning and woe?

There's millions in it for them. On with the war! Uphold the flag! Pay our dividends! No matter how many mourn. With the army, it is, as with the plague stricken British garrison in India: "Tnen stand your glasses steady title the time on swift feet llies,

TUree cheers for the dead already, Hurrah for the next that dies"

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proposition to revive the rank of vice-admiral in order to provide for Sampson and Schley, and settle the controversy between these two worthies, ought to be turned down. There is no good reason for rewarding either of them further. The public appreciates their services, and they have beer, amply rewarded for them, but the aforesaid public has grown very sveary over the dispute as to their relative merits. In fact it does not care a copper about it, and no amount of creating ranks and conferring titles can alter tin- verdict of public opinion. It were best to drop the matter and let history write its epitaph. The present and the future have other and more pressing problems.

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knowing, scholarly, critical, but viciously prejudiced, talented, but inexperienced young friend, the editor of the Repub­

lican organ is having numerous pains, and they are of a dangerous sort, too. He is in a very critical condition, and needs every attention his friends can render to pull him through. This lias all been brought about by worry from fear some Democrat may fail to get a scat at the Jackson banquet. In his delirium he has counted the chairs at the Bobbins House and finds there are only 125, and this discovery

has made him worse. He is afraid some Democrat may get left and not get his feet under the mahogany ou that occasion. If it will b« of any benefit to his attending physician in handling this case of abberration, I will state that an invitation is extended to every Democrat, Populist, Silver Republican, and those who are opposed to the policy new being pursued by William the Silent, President of the United States, Emperor of the Philippines, Grand Keeper of the Harem to his majesty, the Sultan of Sulu, and Caliph of Gaum, to be at that banquet, and if there are 10,000 of them they will aiJ be provided for some.vhere, somehow. Ths only bar to entrance to the banquet hall by any Democrat in the county is the lack of a ticket. These tickets sell for one dollar. Every man who wants one can buy it. I always like to lend a helpiug hand to the distressed, and call the attention to the editor's physician to these facts.

They may enable hitr. to deal more intelligently with this sad case of political paresis.

UEEN VICTORIA in these sorrowful days is echoing the cry of the aged* Emperor Augustin when twenty thousand of his legionaries lay dead in the wilderness of Germany, slain by the barbaric Teutons of Armenius. "Varus! Varus! Give me back my legions!"

ERRIBLE, terrible is war among nations whose people are devout followers of the Prince of Peace.

As Ooui Paul looks on the pile of British dead he sees the hand of God stretched forth in behalf of justice. Before the eyes of the Christian Queen of England arises the specter which tells her that God's hand is delivering out vengeance on her land for its criminal aggression on weaker peoples. As the ghosts of the slain come trooping forth from the battle fields of America, Asia, Africa and

Europe and pass before Brittania's vision, she could well repeat the soliloquy of King Richard III on the night of Bosworth Field as his star sank in darkness.

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N now we are to lose the Bradly Martins, too. They have packed their belongings and followed

Willie Waldorf Astor across the briny deep to old England. Like him they will simply make room for better people. Well are we able to spare such people as having grown rich in this country, find it not good enough to live in. America is good enough for any man, whether he is a millionaire or a beggar, and if he possesses a particle of patriotism he will not voluntarily expatriate himself. Such toad-eating anglo-maniacs as the Bradley-Martins are to be pitied.

REEDOM'S cause throughout the world depends on the issue of the war in South Africa. A victory for England means to set back the hand on the dial of liberty's progress one hundred years. She has stepped on the same old rattlesnake she trod upon on American soil in 1776, and the indications are that instead of Africa becoming a huge British empire, the soil of the Dark Continent will be dedicated to freedom, and ou the ruins of British colonial government will be erected the United States of Africa. For years it has been the dream of African land and diamond pirates like Cecil Rhodes to make of Africa from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Gibraltar, from Cape Verd to the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, one huge empire over which would float the

Cross of St. George. Her plans were all right none of them miscarried while she was hurling death from modern weapons of war into bands of Zulus armed with spears and assegias into naked Matabeles and Buchanas into hordes of fanatical howling dervishes around Karthoum. This was easy comparatively, though thousands of brave Englishmen lie buried in the hot sand, or their bodies were eaten by vultures and hyenas, to do it. The Transvaal Republic and Orange Free State stood in the way of the progress of the dragon across the continent, and Cecil Rhodes determined to remove the obstruction. Accusations were lodged against the Boers, to the effect that they were enslaving the natives, that they were taxing the outlauders without representation, robbing them without giving them any voice in the affairs of govern-

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ment. These stories set afloat by Rhodes, have been accepted as facts by mdst people without any inquiry into the Boer side of the controversy. The facts are there is no slavery in the Transvaal—never was any slavery there. The British in the Kimberly diamond mines practice what they are pleased to call a "compound system" which is little less than slavery, and to this the Boers objected. The

natives of the Boer territory live on reservations as our Indians do. The tuxes of which Rhodes complains are placed on gold mines owned and operated by European capital, and not by residents of the Transvaal. The foreign residents there pay no miru taxes than the Boers themsehe*. No Englishman is disfranchised in the Transvaal after a two years' residence, the taking out of naturalization papers, fully renouncing his allegiance to the mother country, and accepting liability to the military service of the Republic. Just as we do here. Another complaint is the refusal to teach English in the schools. Germany or France might with equal propriety try to thrash us because we do not teach in our public schools his own language to every little Dutchman or son of a frog eater who attends. The fact of the whole business is, England wants the Transvaal gold mines she wants to subjugate everything as she marches both north and south across the continent from Algiers and Cape Town. She has war, bloody war on her hands. Within sixty days she has engaged the Boers in 13 battles on her own soil—the Transvaal not being touched—and has met with defeat, and 6,500 men make up her losses. The whole world is staggered at England's calamity, and her national prestige is at stake. Russia is glaring with greedy eyes at Iudia and preparing to grasp Herat, the key of Asia. Germany and France have interests at stake, and some old scores to settle. Oom Paul declares that

God is with him, aud it does look as though providence had not forgotten his prayers. Isaiah 12-17.

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is strange how narrow-soulcd and hen-headed some men can get. Some men are born fools, others acquire the art, while still others make fools of themselves. A very little individual sometimes swells himself up to an astonishing size. Grimm in his fairy tales tells of a toad which, on a wager, tried to swell himself up to the size of an ox and burst himself in the operation. This is likely to happen in cases which could be named where the individual attempts to \r-t the "whole works." A list of the names of those who had tickets for sale to the Jackson Day banquet was taken to an alleged Democratic paper for publication. It published all except the name of M. V. B. hmith. That was left carefully out and when askt-d iu regard to it, the tea box marker who presides over its_ failing fortunes, flew into a terrific rage and the air was blue tinged from contact with his fiery "cuss words."

He had "fired" Smith and Nolan out of the party, and never more forever should their names be smeared with applebutter in his shop. Yet this fellow yells loud and long for "harmony" while engaged as a Highbinder in making way with harmony. Smith and Nolan are better Democrats than he ever was. They have been true to the party under every condition. They never kick. They nevei entered into any combination to defeat Demo crats for office. They wanted to elect a Democratic County Superintendent, aud did not sell out to the enemy. They are true blue at all times. If there are Democrats who have been buncoed into believing that his paper

Democratic, and reliably so, let

them take the Journal and see. The Journal is no more bitter on Democrats than it. The Journal has less to say about the "disruption" aud "demoralization" of the party than it. Take

TUE NEW REVIEW,

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one. D'ye see Peter! I want the young machine expert to publish his figures on this thing." I am inclined to think myself that the saving iu expense is counted much too high. I also understand that the ward heelers seeing no chance to beat the thing are opposed to it. The Journal is flying iu the face of opposition which is the life blood of the party on election day, in advocating the purchase. Has it. too, developed into "not a party organ, but an independent newspaper and will do as it pleases?"

It would be well in the event the commissioners conclude to purchase to keep a weather eye out for schemes and commissions, aud all such things. When a thing which will cost to build probably $200, is offered with a profit of 300 per cent, tacked on, it is well to be careful in closing a contract.

OME newspapers are recommending that the guerillas in thePhilippines be summarily shot. Excellent advice, but they might well consider the old recipe for cookiug a hare, which began with the sage advice: 'iirst catch the hare."

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begins to look very, very much like "somebody blundered" in South Africa. In fact the British nation has blundered, and may sit down to a larger meal of humble pie, before the affair is over, than has touched the British palate since the surrender of Cornwallis.

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NE thing is certain to any observer, aud that is, that the Prohibition party of Indiana is tireless iu its agitation. It is an agitation, too, that is going to count in votes iu 1900. The Prohibitionists in a hopeless minority in 1896, have not stopped work for a single day since that campaign closed. They have been tireless in their propaganda. In this state they have organized each congressional district, aud have employed an evangelist in each one whose entire time is spent in the distribution of literature, the taking of subscriptions for their papers, and each night addressing a meeting somewhere. I have been an interested reader of their state paper, the Patriot Phalanx, for three years, and have watched closely the movements of the party, and they are rapidly gaining ground, if we may believe the reports in that paper. I notice that the thirteen evangelists in the field report collections for the propagation fund which average from 840 to $150 each per week. They have lately had Stewart and Woolley holding rallies in the state at central points, and each rally has paid its expenses and left a good surplus for the fund. But very little notice is given these meetings by the press o' the state, but the indications now are that the Prohibition party will be a great big factor in the campaign of 1900 in this state. The indications also point to the'fact that no party can tell who will be the loser in votes. The fact that money is furnished so liberally by the people and no one knows just who furnishes it, puts an element of doubt in the matter, which makes it difficult to figure on the loser. Politicians have to reckon with an unseen foe this campaign.

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ana take it

now. One dollar per year, and vou will know that harmony prei ul-s

ALPOLE once said of the English people gone mad with joy over a declaration of war against Spain: "They are ringing the bells now, but soon they will be wringing their hands." History is repeating itself in South Africa.

MET a prominent tax payer the other day who had been reading the local Republican organ and had been doing a little figuring on his own account on the amount to be saved by the use of the voting machine in this county. He cannot make it appear on the face of the returns that the machine will save more than one-fourth, and a scant fourth at that, of the expense of an election. He said "I'm from Missouri on that proposition, and would like for that young man to show me the figures. I'm not against the voting machine, but I do not want the people to take his word as to its cheapness and find out where they have been sold. That paper took it upon itself to bring the machine here. There was no particular demand for it. They will cost the county $600 apiece, and leave a profit to the makers of $400 on each

is still insisted by the ex-City School Trustee that there is lack of harmony in the Democratic party of this county, and he is trying to add to what little he finds by issuing bulletins from day to day expelling Democrats from the party. A campaign with his sore toe aud bruised ambition for a foundation, will certainly be a failure. Howfoolish to try to molify such a creature. His influence only extends to his own vote, and perhaps not that far at all times. To me it seems as though his entire attention is being given toward disruption. The party is harmonious as a whole, and yet the constant circulation of this fellow's stories to the contrary among Democrats is bound to have a bad effect. No matter how closely the party gets together this fellow can be relied upon to rise up aud swear by the point of the sword of Robert E. Lee that there's a traitor in the camp. Great Heavens, what a major general of a sore-toed brigade he would make! Don Quixote come again.

OR many years the Democracy of Montgomery county has been without a reliable thorough going Democratic paper. The ex-proprietor of THE REVIEW did not fill the bill, and in search of something which did, the leaders tried many experiments, all of which proved failures and costly ones, to them. But now from the way they are rallying to the support of THE NEW REview it is to be inferred that they have found that for which they have searched so long. The Democracy of this- county know a good thing when they see it.

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Warner

The people of Crawfordsville, Montgomery County and surrounding counties will be interested in learning that Mr. Edward

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 1

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

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Overcoats.

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Underwear.

A large lot of odds and ends wall worth 50c at 25 Regular 50c Camel's Hair at .25 Best tleced lined 10-lb goods in blue and natural at .40 Balbriggar.s in blue and brown, worth 75c, ut 45 Sheard' all wool health underwear, $1 25, at 80 very best Australian wool in blue, tan and natural,

SI 50 goods, at 1.00

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A. S. MILLER.

HUGO has proclaimed

that the century just closing was the "Century of Woman." It would appear that the great French novelist was right when we review the history of the world and discover that woman has made more progress during the past one hundred years than in all the world's history before. In 1800 no country in the world permitted women to control property nor will it away at death. The legal existence of a wife was so merged in her husband that she was "dead in the eye of the law." The husband not only controlled her property, but collected her wages and used them. She was not allowed to select her own clothing. If she disagreed with him he had the legal right to punish her, and this was upheld by public opinion. At one time in England and the United States within this century the courts held that a man in punishing his wife should be restricted to a stick no larger than his thumb. All the woman's possessions passed into the husband's hands at marriage. She could not collect her wages she could not make a will she could not sue or be sued no occupation, save housekeeping, was open to her no

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college in the world admitted women at the beginning of the century they were educated—rich men's daughters only—in convents and boarding' schools, iu nothing save reading, writing and elementary arithmetic women were prohibited to speak or pray in churches or to sing in choirs. It was upon such a scene of female degradation and slavery that the curtain of the nineteenth century arose. But thanks to Christianity, and that aloue, it falls ou woman enjoying all the privileges of man, and entering every door which one hundred years ago was closed against her. If this was the only triumph of the past century, it would be enough to make it blessed. ./

O the "wurrum" has turned. Poor "wurrum!" "Whom the gods would destroy they first make: mad." The dog has returned to his vomit, which is personalities of a weak sort. The ROW has returned to her wallow, which is filth, and. with a grin which would cause a catfish to blush the "wurrum" says "I've done it." Poor fool! Poor fool!

Yours Observantly, PETEB POBOOPINE, Jr.

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