Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 April 1893 — Page 2

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SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1893.

ATTORNEY GENERAL OLNEY haa failed, up to date, to smash even one little trust.

TAX PAYING time is over and the people have learned that Democracy is a tax with a big T.

CHAIRMAN JOHNSTON still has a hankering for the flesh pots of Egypt. He is in Washington looking after "poi."

SOME of the South Carolina free trade papers want to have cotton put on the dutiable list. Hancock was right. To Democrats the tariff is a local issue.

THAT primary election for postmaster has not been ordered yet. As soon as the collectorship matter is settled Mr. Brookshire probably then will know what to do.

UNION township seems to bristle with hungry candidates for federal appointments. After the disgraceful showing they made in Crawfordsville at the last election they appear to a |acasual observer to be exercising an unwarranted amount of nerve.

THE New York Presa wants to know why Grover does not appoint William N. Roach, of North Dakota, as "my commissioner" to teach James H. Eckels the rudiments of banking. Mr. Roach has the reputation of being a unique expert in the banking business.

THE Sentinel's Washington correspondent says that Walter F. Hulett "who was" a candidate for the collectorship of the seventh district had an interview with the President and then left for Indiana. The wording of this would indicate that Mr. Hulett is no longer in the race. His claim has probably been Jumped.

'"IF we see nothing in our victory but a license to revel in partisan spoita, we shall fail at every point," said Presidentelect Cleveland in New York on the 18th of November last. And what do we see.

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but a "ravel *w*»qan

apousr it begins to dawn uponthe public mind that the Administration "fail at every point."

IT seems to be the impression thatthe syndicate which captured the

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ranchise at Indianapolis through JucUe Elliott, its attorney, is the same syedi. cate which has bought the Crawfordsville, the Lebanon and the p°f—-1 -.•mural gas lines.

Frankfort

The same syndicate

owns the Indianapolio artificial and natural gas plants. It has an unlimited amount of capital at its command.

ATTORNEY GENERAL SMITH has giv6n his opinion on the new laws concerning roads and school funds now in fo.-oe. He savs: Road supervisors now |Q office will serve their terms out, and the new trustees to be elected in November, 1894, will then appoint supervisors for. period of four years. The old eight fjer cent, school fund loans, unpaid, mu^t pay eight per cent, until February, I7 1893, when the new law took effect, aiLj from and after that date the interest will be six per cent.

THE "constitutionality" of Hawaii annexation does not bother anybody cept a few doctrinaires and cranks. Je ferson had some double about the coi etitutionality of the Louisiana pujrchase, but he went right ahead in tl scheme nevertheless, and no one attac! this transaction on legal or any othtr grounds now. The constitution htl8 nothing whatever to do with tl Hawaiian matter. If the white res dents of the islands insist on annexatio and the United States agrees to it ar nexation will take place and the inc: dent will be closed.

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DURING the eighteen months the reel procity treaty with Spain has been ii

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force our trade with Cuba had increase* to the amount of $18,482,323. The im ports had increased from $120,377,46!} to $106,270,348, and the exports fron $18,136,659 to $32,706,097. Tghis is wonderful showing, but with a few,years development there would be an( even more extraordinary exhibition.1 The real object of the ^Administration in abrogating the reciprocity treaties is not to bring benefits to the United States.) For spite 'Jocreuirj Gresham would re sort 1J any Etep that would undo the', diplomatic successes of the Harrison administration.

RESULT OF RECIPROCITY. One of the best features of the Me Kin ley law was the provision relating to reciprocal trade arrangements with foreign nations. It was one of the great est feats ever accomplished in statesmanship, and to the Harrison Administra tion belongs the credit. Steps are now being taken by the Cleveland Administration to abrogate theBe treaties, and for no other reason than to gratify a personal grudge which the present Secretary of State holds against ex-Presi-dent Harrison. A study of the statistics contained in the Becond annual report of the Bureau of American Republics shows the following results in regard to the workings of the reciprocity treaties with Brazil and Cuba. The United States exported to Brazil in the years 1890, 1891 and 1892 respectively, merchandise to the value of $11,972,214, $14,120,246 and $14,291,873. In the same years the imports of merchandise into the United States from Brazil were §59,318,756, $83,320,595 and $118,633,604 respectively—an increase within two years of over 100 per cent. The exports to Cuba increased in round numbers from $13,000,000 in 1890 to $18,000,000 in 1892, and those of Porto Rico from $300,000 to $2,850,000. Cuba's exports to the United Stated in the three years in lound numbers, $54,000,000, $02,000,000 and $78,000,000 respectively, while those of Perto Rico to the United States decreased from $4,000,000 in 1890 to $3,150,000 in 1892.

To CUT down the pension nso and to raduce the wages of American labor are the purposes of the free trade party, which is made up of the solid South and the alien importers resident in New York. To reduce the pension list is a condition precedent to what they call "tariff reform." For without great reduction of the expenses of the government there can be no great reduction of tariff revenue, which, even now, is less by nearly $60,000,000 a year than it was before the passage of the McKinley bill. The alien importers would just as soon have the expenditures for the judiciary, or for the army, or for the navy cut down their purpose simply is the importation of European goods without duty, or at such low duties aa will not give protection to the products of American well paid labor. But the Southern free traders, who furnish the majority of the votes for their party, insist that the reduction should be in the pension department, for from that department little or no money flows to the solid South. Consequently, "down with the infamous pension

ByBtera."

JOHN E. LAJIB is said to be disgruntled because Grover refused to accede to his demands and rescind the order^of President Harrison placing lettar carriers on the civil service list. It may be a little presumptuous on the part of Mr. Lamb, but on the theory that the President is only a clerk to the Senators and Representatives, his demands are not extraordinary, as he expects to be the next Congressman from this district. And besides are not Yoorhees and Lamb one and the same?

As Senator Yoorhees and Representative Brookshire] profess to be "strict constructionists" of the constitution, will they please quote the section of that instrument which gives them the power or the authority to appoint the collector of internal revenue and the postmasters A casual reading of the newspapers leads one to believe that the President is their .clerk and must act as he is ordered by Senators and Representatives.

PBESIDENT CLEVELAND and Secretary Carlisle this week reached a point in their relations of absolute disagreement. They have come to the place where the autocrat of the White House says, "You shall," and the insubordinate Secretary of the Treasury defiantly replies, "I won't." Mr. Carlisle's financial statement indicates that threatened disrup tion of the Cabinet has caused the President to yield.

APPEARANCES would indicate that John E. Lamb practically wants the earth.

rfife'is not satisfied with simply naming In'g his law partner, Joshua Jump, to be Collector of Internal Revenue, but he ^insists that he Bhall also name the post.piaster at Terre Haute. As Lamb and .Voorhees drink from the same canteen it oan safely be set down that they have it in for Brookshire. A pretty fight is brewing.

AFTER all it begins to look as though the investigation of the Southern Prison had done some good, even though a whitewashing report had been made by the majority of the committee. Gov. ernor Matthews has fired two of the trustees which probably means a new Warden. A thorough overhauling of that institution is badly needed.

THE rise in coffee will be still higher ,when the Democrats put a tariff duty on

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next winter.

A TRIUMPH FOR THE COLLEGES. The New York Pi-ess, editorially commenting on the action taken by the court in the Fayerweather w'll case, says:

More than twenty universities and colleges will be benefited by Judge Lawrence's dismissal of the complaints against the executors of the will of the late Daniel 15. Fayerweather. Headers of the Presx will remember that Mr. Fayerweather left several million dollars to various colleges and other institutions on a plan of distribution which showed the marks of muclx forethought, The colleges to benefited wore scattered over the most populous part of the United States. It is a matter for congratulation that the bequests (as now seems certain to bo the case) will soon be paid over to the beneficiaries. Meanwhile any other millenaries who are making their wills will do well to bear In mind Mr. Fayerweather's example, and, if possible, to avoid all such ambiguity in the expression of their purpose as will tend to postpone the carrying of it into effect. Probably the best thing they could do would be to imitate Mr. Fayerweather while they are still alive. Much more real fripndship to tlio cause of education would be shown by endowing a number of institutions of learning already iu existence, and vhlch have made some progress toward real inlluence than In founding new institutions of this sort, where they are necessaiy, in order to advertise one's name.

Wabash college being one of the beneficiaries of the Fayerweather will to the amount of $100,000 is to be congratulated that the provoking and uncalled for litigation is nearing the end.

THE question of brick paving is agitating the people of Frankfort and the cost, of course, enters into all the discussions. As to the cost the Neies says:

From tho best Information at, hand we have been led to believe (hat the cost would be about JG.50 per foot each side of tho street, or per lineal foot. Many persons place it at much higher than this. Some as high as 824 per foot.

The cost per lineal foot depends upon the width of the street to be paved. If the paving cost,

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$2 per square yard,

and the street to be paved is 30 feet wide, the price per lineal foot is $6.66, or $3.33 to each property holder. It is asserted by some who pretend to know, that the work can be done for much less than $2 per square yard. Re _atly the city of Goshen contracted with an Ohio firm at $1.11 per square yard, while Mattoon, 111., has just made a contract for three miles at $1.89 per square yard.

THE Chicago Inter-Ocean, which formerly worshiped at the shrine of Judge Gresham, puts tome questions to the Secretary of State which will puzzle that gentleman to explain. That paper says:

A Senator who has talked with Secretary Grcsliam about the Hawaiian question says that he is convinced of the Secretary's firm determination to secure "an .American solution" lo the whole problem. Now let some one explain what Secretary Gresham means by "an American solution." It certt.inly was not American to send "mv special commissioner" to Hawaii with the power of attorney to act for the President of the United States, and there area good many people who have never regarded it as American to haul down the American flag. The 8eeretary of State should explain what is his understanding of an American solution since he became a Democrat We know what it was before by the rebel lead he still carries in his body.

JOSEPH THROOP, Collector of Internal Revenue for the Seventh District of Indiana, was first appointed October 12, 1889, and took charge of his office November 6, following. He was not confirmed until January 4, 1890. He will, therefore, serve under the rule, if it b6 not changed in his case, until next January. If the fight for the collector ship continues to increase in bitternesB for the next eight months proportion ately as it has for the last two months the situation will be one of intense interest.

THE salaries of the Brittish Ambassasadors are: To this country, $35,000 a year to France, $45,000 to Austria, $40,000 to Turkey, $40,000: to Russia, $39,000 to Germany, $37,500 to Italy, $35,000 to Spain, $27,500. The Brittish Ambassadors have, also, official residences.

THE $100,000,000 reserve fund held for the redemption of the $346,000,000 of greenbacks haB been invaded to the extent of $3,000,000. What is it there for but to use in cases of emergency like the present.

IT is to be hoped that the litigation over Fayerweather's millions is nearing the end. That $100,000 that Wabash College is to get will then be forthcoming. She needs it in her business.

UP to date President Cleveland has appointed twenty editors to positions trust and emoluments. Thus the work of "subsidizing the press," as Mr. Cleveland once termed it, goes on.

REPRESENTATIVE BROOKSHIRE has made up his mind not to lie down and let everybody run over him. He proposes to have his share of the offices or know the reason why.

THE next General Assembly of the Presbyterian church will be held in the New York avenue church, Washington, D. C., beginning May 18.

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If your name is on our books please call at the mill and settle. J. L. THURSTON. 4 8w4t Sperry Mills.

MUNICIPAL CONTROL 01' PUBLIC WORKS. On Monday, May 8, Lebanon will submit a proposition to the voters as to whether or not the city shall erect, maintain and control a system of water works. An affirmative vote would indicate that the people are in favor of municipal ownership of a water works plant, while a negative vote would mean that the franchise should be given away to a private corporation. If the voters of that city are wise and understand themselves they will cast a unanimous vote in favor of owning the plant and controlling it themselves. Such ownership has been demonstrated in more than one instance to be advantageous, and the tendency of public opinion now after years of experience is undoubedtly in this direction. The theory is that, being essentially public works, for the benefit of the public, dependant on a public franchise and the use of the public streets, they should be owned and controlled by the people in their corporate capacity. There is scarcely a city in the United States that has not literally given away franchise after franchise of great value to private corporations, thereby creating private monopolies in what should be a source of public welfare and revenue. The franchise is not only given away but, as the case of our own water works, the city annually pays into the coffers of a private corporation from $5,000 to $7,000 additional. Instead of being a source of revenue to the city it is the source of a big leak. Logansport owns its own water works and it has proved a fine investment for the city and a great saving for the people. The Journal of that city says it has the cheapest water rents in the United States, ana a plant which can be sold at'any time for almost twice its original cost and the water rents which the city would have to pay annually for fire purposes, if the plant was owned by private parties, would amount to more than six per cent, on the cost of the system. What is true of Logansport is true of every city that owns its own water works plant. Heretofoie cities have voluntarily tied their hands and surrendered themselves to oe ridden over roughshod for long terms of years by giving away franchises of enormous value, which, instead of being made a source of revenue, are made a means of public lilunder and political demoralization. The whole system, whether it applies to water works, gas, electric lighting or street cars, is radically wrong. The ultimate remedy lies in municipal ownership of all public works of the kind indicated and their operation in the interest of the people.

SOME SANITARY OBSERVATIONS. It is a conceded fact that Crawfordsville needs a system ef sewerage and needs it badly. A rigid sanitary inspection of the city would reveal a deplorable state of affairs, which cannot be remedied without a system of Bewers. The town is dotted with dry wells or "cesspools," into which are deposited all the household waste of every character. Being sunk to the sand the pollution is distributed through the porous soil to the wells and the water becomes more or less contaminated. And the soil itself in the vicinity of these dry wells has become a seething mass of poiton. The public health therefore demands that the authorities should take some steps looking to a complete system of sewerage. An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Before an epidemic spreads over the city and carries away the loveliest of many house holds the remedy should be applied. It is, of course, not necessary to construct the entire system at any one time, but whatever is constructed should be in accordance with the plan of a sanitary engineer. This will make the work ac tually done conformable to a definite plan so that when additional work is contemplated it will never be necessary to reconstruct any already done, with the consequent twaste

of money. It is

to be hoped, therefore, that the City Council should direct its attention to the importance of the question of a thorough and complete system of sewerage. When this is done then let us pave the streets.

THE Indianapolis City Council in the early hours of this morning approved an ordinance granting to the new City Railway Company a franchise to use the streets for the operation of a street railway. The company agrees to pay the city for the use of the streets 10 per cent of its gross receipts for the first five years, 12.V per cent, for the second five years, 13i- per cent, for the third five years, and 14-J per cent, for the remainder of the term, which is thirty years. The revenues to the city it is estimated will run from $300,000 to §900,000 a year. Granting such a franchise displays sound business sense.

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