Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 10 June 1893 — Page 2

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THE following bids were made for making complete sewerage plans for Niles, Ohio, a city of 5,000 population: S. M. Gray, Providence, 11. I,, SI,000 J. H. Harlow, Pittsburg, Pa., 2J- per cent. J. D. Fitzgerald, Schenectady, N. Y., $800 Alexander Potter, New York, $750 G. W. Sturdevant, Chicago, $750 G. E. Horsey, Youngstown, O., $700 O. M. Gardiner, Jamestown, N. Y., $650 Albert Smith, Saltsburg, Pa., $600 L. E. Chapin, Canton, O., $600 J. E. Wright, Kuoxville, Tenn., $DG0 E. D. Smalley, Syracuse, $300. The contract was let to Alexaner Potter.

IT is not often that a man gets what he voted for as quickly as did the one mentioned in the following from the Indianapolis Record:

A story is told of an ardent Indianapolis pensioner who went about last fall fayoring the election of Cleveland because it promised a thinning out of the pension roll. His principal objection to the roll as it now stands was because "everyone who dreamed he was in the army is drawing a pension." At the last quarterly payment he went to the agency to get what was due him. He was paid and informed that he had been dropped from the roll. Then there was wrath with revilinga and threats of vengeance. When reformers can bear self-eaorifice with Spartan fortitude, the easier will be the work of adjusting reform to meet the favor of the people.

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SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1893.

THERE is in Japan no kissing, not even in the nursery. Some of ourCrnwford8ville boys should be exported to Japan.

NEARLY $60,000 will be expended this season on a system of sewers for Marinette, Wis. And Marinette is not any larger than Crawfordsville.

THE opinion is gradually formulating at Washington that Hoke Smith is a glittering and iridescent ass, to judge from the utterances of the Democratic New York Sun.

"IN essentials nnity, in non-essentials charity, and in all things liberty," is a matter that should have found a 2:)'ace in large golden letters in the General Assembly room at Washington,

OF the eighteen Commissioners from Indiana to the Presbyterian Genera! Assembly twelve voted to sustain the appeal of the New York Presbytery in the case of Dr. Briggs and four against. The two Commissioners from the Crawfordsville Presbytery, Messrs. Williamson and Myers, voted with the anti33riggs people. Two dodged and did not vote.

JUDGE WALTER E. OLDS placed his resignation from his position on the Supreme bench in the hands of the governor yesterday. His successor has not been named but the indications point to Thomas It. Marshall, of Columbia City. Mr. Marshall graduated from Wabash College in 1873 and is a classmate of Ben Crane. Judge Olds speaks of him as a man whose legal ability is beyond question, and his other qualifications are such as to render him an ideal judge.

AFTER howling for years about the burden of "war taxes," it is funny to see the Democratic party talking of adopting the most odious, unequal and most bitterly denounced form of the taxation to which we were compelled to resort during the civil war—that of a tax upon incomes. But it was to be expected that the Democratic pnrfcy would, make some such absurd spectacle of itself. It has never been able to formulate a satisfactory linancial national policy in all the years of its existence.

ON last Sunday Prof. Swing discoursed on: "Logio and Religion." "There is gradually coming," he said, "a scientific Christianity." The Professor said: "The future of the Christian religion depends upon the errancy of the old scripture. The success of Christianity depends upon the general admission that the Bible was not all written by the fingersof God. Are there any human errors in the Old Testament? To the credit of our religion we may well hope they are numerous. When the writer said that God told him to kill in war anything that breathed, we hope the writer was mistaken. When men pretended to receive word from God not to suffer a witch to live, we hope the •writer was in error abont the source of the order. Christianity demands that there be plenty of errors in the Old Testament."

"OFFENSIVE PARTISANSHIP." The President has announced the revival of his old policy of removals for "offensive partisanship." The charges must be made in writing and supported by competent testimony, and it is promised that the fulfillment of these conditions will be followed by the prompt dismissal of the offending Republican and the equally prompt naming of a Democratic successor. It will be noted that no provision is made for the removal of Democrats on the establishing of similar charges, but of course such partisanship is not offensive to the Administration. Of course one result of this will be that the neighbors of every postmaster who is removed will be given to understand that there is something wrong for which he is held responsible. Another result will be to hatch a brood of "partisan informers" in every town in the country—men whose cowardly bnck-bitings will be shrouded by a veil of official secrecy from the sight and knowledge of their victim. In discussing this subject a Democratic newspaper of Virginia, the Buchanan Banner submits the following truthful and purgent observation: "[nthe requirement by the Administration at Washington that, charges shall be preferred against incumbents lie lore removals will be made, a greater wrong is belnjr perpetrated than would bo done by the violation of any Civil Service law. Everybody knows, in t,lie llrst place, that any charge that may be made in ninety-nine eases out ol" a hundred is made not because of any inellieieney or dereliction on the part of the incumbent, but, solely for the purpose of putting out Kepublieansaud putting In Democrats. Everybody knows, further, that there is likely to be just as much partisanship exercised by Democratic oiliceholders as by Republican ones and vice versa, and the Administration knows it. Then why not come out in an honest, straightforward way and tell tho presont Republicans to 'git'because the Democrats are in power and want the spoils? It would be a thousand times more manly than to pretend to justify removals because of charges liled against the incumbents. People may like to be humbugged, but they cannot be humbugged by this ilimsy pretext. Put tho Republicans out because they are Republicans if you choose, but do not wait a year or two or three, only to find some charge against them when another party lias come into power. It looks suspicious, and the theory is pernicious and vicious. It compels aspirants and Congressmen to be 'informers' before they can get an oilicc, and usually those who do the informing are undeserving of office. Wo have known schoolboys to get a Hogging for being informers, and we believe they got their deserts."

These are honest and manly words and show the difference between a straightforward, independent course and one surcharged with hypocrisy and cant.

THIS is a billion-dollar country. The official statement of the appropriations made by the recent Congres shows a total of $1,027,101,547. Its Republican predecessor, the 51st Congress, called falsely the "billion-dollar Congress" by the Democrats, appropriated a little over 018 millions. The Democrats, therefore, spent some $109,000,000 more than the Republican body, although early in its first session it passed Holuian's resolution denouncing the "extravagance" of the 51st Congress, and pledging the Democrats to tho strictest "economy." Probably the outcome is the Democratic idea of economy.

THE JOURNAL to-day gives space for the essential portion of Dr. Cunningham's sermon delivered Sunday,May 28, at Center Presbyterian church, which will be read with more than passing interest as it relates to the recent trial by the General Assembly at Washington of Prof. Charles A. Briggs on charges of hearsy. Dr. Cunningham is a representative Presbyterian and as will be seen dissents most vigorously from the action of the ecclesiastical court.

COLUMBUS, this State, has a man, John S. Crump by name, who has built a fine opera house, a large and modern hotel, a safety deposit vault, and an electric street railway. To show their appreciation of this public spirited citizen, the people held a public meeting the other day and presented him with a gold medal souvenir. This is more commendable than to stand round on the street corners and curse capital.

"BUSY men of this sort," observes the Philadelphia Times in an editorial article on the causes leading to ex-Secretary Foster's financial embarrassment, "are of much more value to the community, even when they fail, than the prosperous fellows who venture nothing and accomplish nothing." There is much in these few lineB that are applicable to other communities than Fostoria.

EIGHT members of the faculty of the State University will sever their connection with the institution at the close of the present year. The only reason given for the members leaving is the question of salary. When an institution like the State University is dependent on the liberality of fool legislators it cannot expect to retain its trained teachers for any length of time.

WHEAT touched the lowest notch that it has reached in thirty years last Thursday in Chicago. What has become of the $1 article that the Democrate promised if Cleveland should be elected?.

KAWFORDSVILLE LETTER CARRIERSPostmaster Bonnell this morning received the following Circular Letter from tlie Civil Service Commission which explains itself:

UNITED STATES CIVIT, SERVICE COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, D. C., June 5,lKOii —Postmaster, Crawfordsville, Ind.—Sue lit accordance wit the decision of the Attorney-General rendered May 5, ISO.'}, in regard 1o the free-deliv-ery postollloes included in the order of the President of the United States dated January ."i, 1S03, in which he declared that an office becomes classified when an examination is held thereat,, tho Commission hereby not'.iles you that the classification of .your office was completed on May (i, 1893, and that hereafter all •ippnintments to classified non-excepted positions therein must tie made us the result of certification from the eligible registers of your local board.

Please forward at once, through tho secretary of tho local board, your reports, on form 415, of changes in the service from January ", to May HI, 18!)3, to be followed at the ginning of each month with a report for the preceding month, whether .nny changes have occurred or not..

If it, is necessary to fill a vacancy immediately, and if no eligible registers have been established, please notify the Commission so that it may expedite the marking oL' the papers of the recent examination. If no candidates appeared for that examination, or if no eligibles resulted therefrom, you should call the attention of the Commission to the facts so that another examination may be ordered.

Very respectfully, CHAS, .LYMAN, President. Notwithstanding the liowls that have ascended from the throats of tho Democratic spoilsmen that the Crawfordsville postoflice is not in the classified list it will be seen from the above the t, the contrary is] true. The first vacancy that occurs arncng the cairiers will be supplied from the list of eligibles which will probably be received in a few days. Therefore it?!matters but little to the carriers who is postmaster, whether it be Bonnell or whether it it be Hulett, they are secure against the raids of the spoilsmen. In the future Democrats, Republicans and Populists all stand an equal show to be 'placed on the list of eligibles. The man who can pass the best examination will get there first regardless of his political opinions. In the meantime the heathens can continue to rage.

WHEN a meeting of soldiers at Edinburg meet and pass a series of resolutions denouncing the attempts that are now being made in certain quarters by newspapers and magazines to oast discredit on pensioners and the pension system, thelndianapoliB News protests, and asks the Edinburg soldiers to name the newspaper that has made any serious charges against the pensioners or the pension system. The Edinburg soldiors might retort and ask tho New,s to name the soldiers who are drawing fraudulent pensions. It would not be asking too much of the Neirs to "particularize," to use its own language. Doubtless the Nevis concurs in tho statement of ex-United States Commissioner of Pensions, John C. Black, when he says: ''The pension rolls am polluted with the names of cowards, deserters and impostors." If the News tubsdribes to this statement will it "particularize?" This libel comes from a man wuo is drawing a pension of $100 a month for "total disability" and yet is sufficiently able-bodied to earn $5,000 a year as a Congressman. The Neics probably also subscribes to the statement of J. DeWitt Warner in an artiole in the Forum, in which he endeavors to pluce every pensioner in the position of an enemy to his government,and makes an assault on the widows. Like all the onslaughts that have been made on the pension system it is a wholesale allegation. The Neivs should assist the man who parts his name in the middle to "particularize." It should not apply a rule to an assemblage of soldiers that it is unwilling itself to work by. Let it "particularize."

HUNTINGTON, this State, has employed a sanitary engineer to make a plan for a system of sewerage for that city. Huntington has about the same population that Crawfordsville has, but its

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have come to a realizing sense of the great necessity that exists for sewerage. What Crawfordsville needs worse than anything else is a comprehensive and complete sewerage system. The voice for such an improvement is well nigh universal. This is a tax the people would willingly and cheerfully pay.

ALEXANDER A. JOHNSON, who for the past eight years has been connected with the charitable institutions of the State, has been choBen to succeed John G. Blake aB Superintendent of the School for Feeble-Minded at Ft. Wayne. This is a most excellent selection and he will make a worthy successor of Mr. Blake. The latest information concerning this unfortunate man is that he is in a private sanitarium with his life rapidly ebbing away.

THE additional improvements reported by the assessor amount to $28,300 in Union township and 852,160 in Crawfordsville.

MABSHALLTOWN, IOWA, ia advertising for bids for 3,256 feet of pipe sewers, varying from 12 to 18 inched in diameter. ...

THE CAUSES OF FINANCIAL DISTRESS THE Review of Review's asks this question: "What, then, have been the chief factors in producing that disturbed condition of the money market, that loss of business confidence, and that sharp collapse of credit, which filled the news record of May with a long list of business failures and suspensions, and which has inflicted a sort of paralysis upon the commercial and industrial life of the country?" And this periodical proceeds to answer it. "First and foremost, in our opinion, this state of affairs must bo aiJ at the door of our politiciaus. Their failure to settle the silver question in one way or in another is of itself sulli cient to account for much of that over sensitiveness of the money market which has checked the flow of credit just at the moment when it was most desirable thai, credit should iiow freely in order to avert disaster. If the last Congress had repealed the present silver law, practically all of our recent business troubles would have been avoided. Our present monetary laws and their working, far from being of any advantage to the sil•er men or of any value for the future realization of bimetallism, either American or international, are of the most serious detriment to the silver cause." And then it proceeds to argue for stable tariff laws, that is that our tariff laws whatever their nature, should be permitted to stand for a defiinite period, Lt says: "It is not in the least true that this country has been victimized or imperiled to any alarming extent by the protective policy, nor is it true that the MjKinlev act is the monstrous thing that the politiciaus who have never read it declare it to be. On the other hand, it is not in the least true that this great country would be ruined by trading freely with other countries. The fact is that our principal trade has long been and always will be with ourselves, and our industrial life cannot be fatally affected by any tariff policy that any conceivable American government could be foolish enough to enact, always provided the policy were to be stable for a reasonable period."

THE Indianapolis Record in defense of the j^ension system against the attacks of the soldier hating press, says: "The attacks on the pension list come at a time when its defenders can apply their strongest argument. It is one altogether outside of patriotic sentiment, and pertains strictly to busines. If the pension payments this month had been absent, thousands of people would be looking about to borrow or find a dollar. The 812,000,000 paid to pensioners in Indiana this year will have a great deal to do in lessening the effects of stringent money conditions. In view of such conditions now or hereafter the administration should go slow in diminishing the amount of money the pensions put in circulation each month. Pensions in this way are a greater boon to the country than free coinage or State banks of issue would be."

As A funny man Peck, the Governor of Wisconsin, must surrender the bolt to Flower, the Governor of New York, who is reported to have said in Chicago that Tammany loved Cleveland, that the Hall organization was united in support of the President, and that there is no reason why Mr. Cleveland should not be the nominee of the party in 1896.

COUNCILMAN VANAHSDALL bays the sentiment is growing so strtmg in favor of a system of sewerage that it cannot much longer be resisted. While he dreads the expense yet the necessity has become so urgent that the Council must make a move in the matter. He realizes that the public health demands it.

THE Republicans made part of tho breakfast table free in 1872 by taking off the duty from coffee and tea, and they finished the job in 1890 by putting sugar on the free lift. Now let the Democrats in 1893, or any other year, replace the taxes on the breakfast table if they dare.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has announced that he will call 'a special session of Congress not later than September 15 to consider the financial question, which he says is the "only menace to the country's welfare and prosperity.'" The "robber tariff" after all is not to be considered.

TWENTY national banks failed between January 1 and June 1, 1893, as compared with Beven in the corresponding period of 1892. O, yes, we were to have such flourishing and prosperous times Bhould Cleveland be elected President.

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