Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 July 1891 — Page 4

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SATURDAY. JULY 4. 3S91.

THE wheat crojj in Russia is a complete failure. This will give a higher value to the enormous American crop.

THE Indianapolis Journal tersely asks: "Is there tiny better use for a surplus than paying honest debts and stopping interest?"

IT does seem strange that there should be more tights in Crawfordsville on Sunday than on all the other days of the week. Yet such is the case as THE JOTTHNAIJ readers can testifv.

THE Washington I'oxt says now that JEIJKY SIMPSON wears socks and P12vrr.it has had his whiskers trimmed there is but it small portion of the original farmers* movement extant.

THE Lafavetto Carrier draws attention to the fact that a cloud-burst and the Democratic Convention visited Towa at the same time, and remarks that inislortunes never come sincrlv.

AMKKICAXK have been sending $'21,000.000 a year abroad for tin plate. They will soon be making all their own tin plate, and the money they have been sending to Wales for its purchase will thrn remain at home.

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is starting a pickle fac

tory with a capital of £20,000. The citizens are taking the stock. Of'course there are people up there who make wry faces and declare that pickles can't be manufactured in this coimtrv.

THE present city council should try to break tho record in tho number of street improvements made. Under the Barrett law which provides that proper-ty-owners may pay for them in ten annual installments these improvements need work a hardship on no one.

THE eight or ten Democratic State Treasurers who tire sojourning in Canada, Honduras and other places outside the jurisdiction of Uncle Sam are amazed at the laxness of the Federal ollicials in taking but one dollar when tho big bag of silver coin in the treasury vaults burst.

THE County Board of Review will meet next Monday to hear complaints and protests against the new tax assessments and appraisements. The indications are that the Board will have its hands full and that its otlico for the two weeks following will be tho busiest place in town.

THE more stock of the natural gas company taken by our own citizens the better it will be for the city. The profits are sure and as small a part of them as possible should be allowed te go to New York parties. In Frankfort the annual dividends from the natural gas company are twenty per cent.

WITH upward of $120,000,000 of gold in the United States Treasury and upwards of $43,000,000 cash balance on hand there is no immediate danger of public bankrupcy or any foundation for outcry against the government or the administrrtion. No money is being hoarded by the government—it is out among the people.

THE tariff of 2 2-10 cents on tin plate goes into effect to-day. Tin is free of duty and will remain free until July 1, 1893, when a duty of four cents a pound is imposed, with the provision that tin shall again become free on July 1, 1895, unless it shall then appear that the pro-

duct of American tin mines shrill have exceeded 5.000 tons in one year. With a tariff of 2 2-10 cents pound on tin plate, tin ware is no higher to-day than it was yesterday, with a duty of 1 cent a pound on the plate.

J. 13. McCri.LAOH, now editor of the St. Louis (Hohe-lJciiiDi-nif. in a recent article giving some interesting reminiscences of his days as a reporter and coi respondent, published the fact that tho I platform adopted by the Democratic [convention in ]S(M which declared the war for the preservation of the Union a failure was written in Richmond, the rebel capital, by Alexander H. Stephens, the Yice-lYcsident of the Confederacy.

About two years after the close of the war. Mr. McCullagh spent a short time .'is the guest of Mr. Stephens, at the latters home, and Stephens gave him to understand that he himself had prepar I ed the platform, submitted it to the 1 rebel government for approval, and thai it had b.en sent through the lines to Yallandigham. who was made chairman of the committee on resolutions, and who reported it to the convent ion,which adopted it. Tho statement as to the authorship of the platform was published at that time by 7Ir. McCullagh, and never denied by Mr. Stephens or by I anyone who was in a position to know tli facts. This is a bit of history that should not be allowed to bo forgotten by the men who fought to save the Union, and all who stood loyally to the government in its efforts to crush the slaveholders' rebellion.

Coii. I X. WALKKU. of the State Tax Commission, met tho Assessors of nine counties at Marion on Tuesday. The object of the meeting was to compare and equalize the appraisement of lands in the nine counties represented, and to make assessments on natural gas mains which was fixed at fifty cents per lineal foot. Colonel Walker also notified the Assessors that the utmost care should be taken in equalizing the different townships. He declared that if any county sent in undervalued reports they would bo promptly raised to actual value by the State commission, in compliance with the new law.

"THEY tire determined that no new fires shall be started, no new fields for tho employment of labor shall be opened up,

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increased market for agriculture secured if they can prevent it. They tire so wedded to free trade and the British system they are willing any calamity should happen that would rob protection of its fruits and its blessings. They would rutlier have adversity and "hard times'' than to witness any further demonstration of the benefit of protection. They value their opinions more than the general good."—Major JIcKiuICIJ'S sjx'I'CH of acee/ilmtce.

THG Indianapolis Sentinel objects to the establishment of tin plate factories the United States because of the bad smell connected with the business of manufacturing the product. It was Frankiin Landers, a Democratic oracle, who once said in reply to a similar criticism concerning the American hog that the man -who didn't like the smell of a hog was a leetle too nice to live." And so the man who don't like the smell of tin factories mav be placed in the same class.

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roadway is a far-reaching and

important matter, and as brick has already been tried and found satisfactory in more than one hundred and forty towns and cities in the United States, its practical usefulness and utility has been fully demonstrated, and all wideawake and enterprising communities can find in brick roadways a pleasant solution of tho difficult question regarding pavements which they tire now struggling to solve.

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that tho "tariff reformer" said before the election that the McKinley law, by increasing the cost of tinware, would choke off our export trade in canned goods, our exports of canned beef were nearly twice as large in May, 185)1, over that of May, 185)0. For the latter month they were *4,432,3(51 pounds while for the corresponding month this year they were 7,375,807 pounds.

THE monthly public debt statement issued July 1 shows a reduction of the debt during tho month of June of $2,218,GOO.'22 and a surplus in tho treasury of $53,85)3,808. The bonded debt to-day is $010,529,120. This is certainly a satisfactary showing and affords no comfort to the calamity howlers.

H. C. WHEELER has been nominated for Governor by the Republicans of Iowa. The convention was held Wednesday. It wiis a harmonious gathering. The Iowa Republicans have resolved to redeem themselves. They have got together.

CitAWFOKDSviT/LE will be decorated today with the patriotic colors more elaborately than ever before. These handsome decorations tire object lessons in patriotism.

THE Hags that swing to the breeze to day contain fortv-four stars.

A MEMORABLE DAY.

IIE trouble came just with the end of the racket,

One Fourth of July, as you'll pros ently learn.

'Twas not a lopped linger, nor torn nor spoiled jackot,

I escaped from all harm save a very slight burn.

liut papa had provided a new silken banner, Which swayed in the evening breeze, far out of reach. And our guests were discoursing in happiest manner,

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When, lot some one called upon me for a speech.

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Oh, never did heart beat to time that was faster Than mine, as I stood there, not daring to flee! For I would far rather have faced grave disaster

Than make an oration quite extempore.

How should I begin?—with my hands in my pockels My thoughts seemed to take a precipitous flight I but knew that abovo me the arrowy rockets 1

Left, beautiful arches of jowol-liku light.

IN THE METJiOPOLIS.

How the Fourth Is Celebrated on Manhattan Island.

Fourth is celebrated in pretty much the same style as it is in New York but

noise. Texas is somewhat larger than Manhattan Island. Perhaps that may account for it.

Yes, I rejoiced that it was over, but still 1 was urn, i-r.tlrely happy, for an eleven-inch firecracker had exploded on the rim of my ear, and 1 became an eyesore to my friends. "When we conversed they had to do most of it, for I was kept busy holding my hand to the side of mv head, and repeating such questions as '•1 [ey?" ''What do you say?" I feel perfectly sure that I missed several invitations to "take something" owing to my temporary deafness. For awhile I was very deaf, indeed, but I have recovered my hearing, and now it is no longer safe to invite me to join in passing the flowing bowl.

Still 1 have my doubts about the people of the north being more patriotic than those of the south. Recently, statistics have been published which show that more people have had their arras and fingers blown off in the south than in the north, which also goes to prove that the feeling against the British is more intense in the south than has generally been supposed.

Judging perhaps by the noise made on the Fourth of July the thoughtless observer might conclude that the south was really less patriotic than the north but it should be taken into consideration that in (lotham firecrackers are only three cents a pack, and pin wheels cost only a cent apiece, whereas in southern cities they are much more expensive. Even the poorest classes of New York can afford to express their detestation of George III. and his minions at a comparatively trifling expense.

The high price of explosives in the south is the real cause of the peoplo of New Orleans, for instance, seeming to be comparatively indifferent as to which side whipped in the great revolutionary struggle. In New York, where cannon crackers are almost given away, the enthusiasm is so pronounced that revelers begin to make the welkin ring, and to get tight, on the night of the third of July.

So thorough is the detestation of English tyranny in New York, that even as early as the afternoon of the third I have seen the police wiping up the sidewalks with well-dressed inebriates. In the drug stores boys get their lingers tied up from toy pistol wounds as early

A FULL-GKOW.N MAN WITH AV ADULT GUH.

as the second of July. Two years ago, I saw an elderly gentleman fall out of a second-story window while firing off a Roman candle, and it was not later than eight o'clock of the evening before the Fourth.

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The words "FoUow-citizens" loomed up suggestive, And somehow I managed the form to repeat 1 And then from sheer fright at my voice I grew restive,

And felt I must suffer the shamo of defeat,

At last 111 the kitchen, I heard ice a-shaktng, And instantly roused from diseouilllure's dream, To say, 'midst applause,—for tho motion proved taking— I "I move that tho speeches como after the cream." —Jane Ellis Joy, in St. Nicholas.

the first great national holiday spent in New York. At a-n early hour I bounded slowly ar.(l reluctantly from my couch, and hied

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While I was trying to collect my thoughts, there was a boy in the window of the fourth story of the Hat house in which I resided who dropped, on an average, three lighted tireerackers a minute into the yard and less than three feet from where I was collecting my thinks. The firecrackers were all ruined by the explosions, and I was glad of it. They could never be used again, but I never shed a tear, not even a moist, soli.

In the next yard there was a fullgrown man with an adult gun, who loaded and fired at five o'clock—I don't know whether he hit it or not—and kept it up all day without turning a hair.

I did not make much progress with my patriotic editorial. I wrote. "Thin is the national gala day, the- day that for more than a century has been resonant with the cchous ol Patriotic music. Uansil

O E O W other I don't in a I shall ever for

Fourth of July I spent in New York. In Texas, where I had previously resided,

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other it did not seem to me to make so much

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Kerflum!—tlic.se last two detonations being from the idiot with gun in the next yard.

Then I gave it up. There was no use trying to write under those circumstances.

Nevertheless, I am in favor of tho Fourth. PerhaphPit is just as. well that our revolutionary fathers succeeded as well as they did in dispelling tho Pritish yoke otherwise, more of us might be standing around like clothing store dummies, wilh eyeglass and an idiotic leer and saying in a tone of voice that indicates nasal catarrh: "Aw, weallyl 'Ow's ycr 'ealth, inelud." just like those wretched dudes

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arena 011 the ground floor. My intention was to write a glowing editorial on the "Decay of American Patriotism," but owing to the constant detonations I was unable to finish it.

Fifth avenue. Let

us be thankful that we are collectively no bigger fools than we really are. ALEX E. SWEET.

LESSONS OF THE FOURTH.

A Duty AYIiirli tho Kitting Generation Owes to the Revolutionary Ueroefl.

While exploding their firecrackers and admiring the display of fireworks, the boys and girls of America must not forget the noble lesson taught by tho Fourth of July. It commemorates the birth of American independence and was made a national holiday to impress on the minds of coming generations the valor and disinterested patriotism of the revolutionary heroes who fought, suffered and died to bequeath to their children and children's children the precious boon of liberty. 11 ad the patriotic fathers of our country failed to adopt the declaration of independence on that famous Fourth of July, 1770, what is now tho United States would in all probability still be an English colony with the limited rights grudgingly granted to tho Australian colonies and to Canada. Every political blessing we enjoy to-day —and there is

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nation in the world

which enjoys as many—is the result of the labors of the patriot leaders, many of whose names even have been forgotten by the men and women of our generation.

Fortunately, the Ainerican'people are beginning to realize that for many years Fourth of ul3' patriotism has not been of the type which made the revolutionary war a sueccss. In almost every public school the pupils have for several years past been taught to celebrate the day in a becoming manner and to return thanks for the noble work wrought by their great-gTandfathers and perpetuated by their grandfathers and fathers.

Liberty without intelligence degenerates into license, and license leads to anarchy. Children old enough to understand the meaning of these terms should band themselves together everywhere to spread the doctrine of pure liberty, sanctioned by law and blessed by Providence. In no other way should the youth of America celebrate the Fourth of July and honor the memory of immortal Washington and his faithful advisers, followers and friends.

And if this spirit of '70 animates the boys and girls the explosion of firecrackers and kindred noise-producing trifles will readily be forgiven and sanctioned by their fathers and mothers.

G. W WEII'I'IEBT.

A Natural Mistake.

Pat—Tliet youngster o' your'n is smoking, mum. Mrs. Prown—Good gracious! You must be mistaken.

Pat—No, mum. Oi saw linn wid a rid cigarette in his hand an' the sparks wuz comiu* out o' it loike sixtyl—Judge.

bani —bing-blng-

bansj—banyr-bins—banjj 1 I I 1 I —banal

Put I rallie 1, and wrote out. ''It is well. Lot the cheers be jjivon with a will. Let the lireworks cleave tho .sky with their brilliant path of iiu'iit—"

Here a small boy interrupted me, and I replied in small caps: "Nt! I'm not, going to give you anoifeer cent to buy firecrackers with, and if you fire [mother one of them in this yard I'll slam you against the fence so you will stick there. Get out!"

Then I resumed my writing "L«t us celebrate the clay, ami not mourn that it costs a few harcl-earneil dollars." "NO! I say clcar out! Not a nickel more for firecrackers." Pang! Ping-bang-bang-bang-bing-whiz: Kerflam!

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