Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 July 1893 — Page 2

WEEKLY JOURNAL.

POINTED EVERY. SATURDAY MORNING By T. H. B. McCAIN.

Entered at tlie Postofhce at Cra-nfordsvllle Indiana, as second-class matter,

WKBKIiY-

One year In advance 81.25 Six months 75 Three months 40 One month 15

DAILT—

One year In advance.. ..... .. .15.00 Six months 2.50 Three months 1.25 Per week delivered or bv mall 10

SATURDAY, JULY 22,1893.

THE dropped pensioners are increasing at a rate which will make several of the doubtful States surely Republican in the next election.

WE.congratulate Mr. Voris and also congratulate the Democratic party in getting a postmoster .named before Mr. 'Cleveland's term of office liad ended.—Star.

The grapes are still too sour. Add a little more sugar.

SENATOR VOOBHEES gives it as his opinion that when Congress meets in August it will be in continuous session one year. The Senator's opinion usually is not worth much but we give it for what it is worth.

DURING the eleven months ending May 3.1, 1893, the imports which came in without paying a dollar of duty amounted to $475,000,000, while the dutiable imports amounted to only $389,000,000. And this under a law which the Democrats charge with "strangling trade."

THERE will be scars left that time alone will eiface. The cause of these scars is so plain that the perpetrators of tho wounds will lierealtcr be shorn of power to hurt anyone.—Star.

Is it possible that Mr. Brookshire, one of the "perj^etrators of the womnds," is to be shorn of his power? Is this thrust made in the interest of the "blueeyed boy of destiny?"

COMHISSIOKEB MILLEK has prepared a statement which shows that the total Bugar bounty for the fiscal year ending June 30 will be 86,403,089.86. The amount actually paid is as follows: On cane sugar, $8,697,994.73 on beet sugar, $531,363.81 on sorghum sugar, $19,817 on maple sugar, $60,119,32. Total, $9,309,294.86.

THE President said in his Fourth of July Tammany letter: "If those who now celebrate the anniversary of American Indepondenco guard against the sordid struggle for unearned wealth that stilles patriotism if they exact from public .servants the strictest accountability in the performance of public duty," etc. lJrobably the unearned wealth which the President possesses is what stilies hie patriotism. His speculations in real estate and Wall street, which have made him a millionaire, probably enables him to speak by the card.

THE Philadelphia Jiecord, a Democratic and free trade paper, makes mis frank acknowledgment: "There has been such a severe liquidation in all forms of speculative venture, such a depression in the prices of staples, such difficulty in the management of safe and solvent business, and such a rude tearing up of the very foundations of credit, that the most sanguine believers in the ability of the country to cope with the troubles that beset it have taken alarm."

THE soldier haters are loud in claiming that the men who draw pensions, as a rule did not do much Bervice that they were "feather bed" soldiers. An examination of 475,915 claims, shows, 9,924 served in the army three months and under 42,217 served six months or over three months 84,595 served seven months and under 12 months 116,312 served for more than one year and less than two years 222,867 served two years and over. Does it refute the lie?

ANOTHEK fiction of the "pension fraud hunters" has been exploded. A great ado was made over the allegation that Allen G. Peck, a Rhode Island veteran, receives his pension on account of baldness. Mr. Peck comes to the front with the statement that his application was on the ground of serious physical disability, and that it is not hiB fault if the pension officers "picked out & remote circumstance" and falsely asserted that it was the basis of his claim. So falls another of the Blanders on the ex-sold-iers of the Union army.

THE Star delines to yield gracefully to the selection of Ed Voris as postmaster. While it gives a perfunctory endorsement of Mr. Brookshire's choice it nevertheless sends up a wail which betrays its unhappiness. It thus waileth:

He was chosen by a coterie of three Democrats—Dr. W. T. Gott, J. M. Sellar aue Walter Hulett—who stood close to the Member of Congress. It was the candidacy of one of these three lor^a series ot offices at the same time that delayed the appointment so long. The delay has been unfortunate. No matter that It was the selection which was cut and dried months since, the delay .nevertheless, has been fatal to the recognition of Democratic carriers who are left in the soup.

All of which indicates that the Democratic party is anything but a happy amily.

THE FRAUD ADMITTED. Jp The New York Press says the Demo' cratic party?gained power last Novem ber by promising to increase prosperity The nation was then more prosperous than at any time in its history. But it suited the purposes of Democratic journals and campaign orators to represent the American people as impoverished and disheartened. The Chicago platform declared that the protective policy "fosters no industry so much as it does that of the Sheriff." The Democratic Presidential candidate declared, in his formal speech of acceptance in Madison Square Garden, that the people were "burdened as consumers, by a tariff system that relentlessly and unjustly demands from them in the purchase of the necessaries and comforts of life an ammount scarcely met by the wages of hard and daily toil." The whole Democratic campaign was conducted on the assumption that the country was suffering from the evil effects of protection and that Democratic success meant "better times" for everybody. The most reckless and extravagant promises were made to the people by Democratic spokesmen promises which it were absolutely impossible to fulfill and which those who made them never intended to be fulfilled. Thanks to the active assistance rendered by the "People's Party" in the West, this gigantic confidence game succeeded. The structure of deceit and falsehood on which it was founded has been crumbling away ever since.

Instead of prosperity, Democratic triumph has brought ruin to multitudes. It has enormously multiplied failures. It has brought about a suspension of credit that has checked legitimate business development in every line of activity. It has cast doubt upon the currency of the nation. It has restricted wages and increased the number of unemployed. It has reduced the values of the securities in which the savings of the American people are invested by more than a BILLION Dollars. Yet great as is the damage that has already been wrought, it is only the beginning of disaster if the Democratic platform of free trade and State currency is to be carried out. Free trade organs that were foremoat in assuring the people that the election of Grover Cleveland would inaugurate an era of increased industrial production and enhanced prosperity for labor are being forced by the progress of events to admit that not only were the Democratic ante-election promises of immediate improvement in business and industry false, but even worse distress than that existing at present is to be expected in the future. ANew York Democratic newspaper that is generally supposed to maintain close relations with the Cleveland Administration urges the Democrats in Congress to repeal the Sherman act on the ground that its repeal will restore a measure of confidence that will enable the country to withstand the assault upon its industries which the Democracy is pledged to make. The Cleveland organ declares that "it is the history of tariff legislation that any radical changes in customs duties visibly effect trade conditions and sometimes produce a period of industrial depression.'''' It asserts that the result of the repeal of the Sherman act "would in effect constitute a balance against which the party might draw to cover any loss of credit due to the necessarily protracted and painful surgery to 'which it must resort in removing the McKinley tumor.'''

There was no hint in the Democratic platform or th.? deliverances of Democratic newspapers and orators last fall of "industrial depression" or "protracted and painful surgery" as a result of Mr. Cleveland's election. The Democratic party was then in search of votes. Its leaders were not ignorant of the disastrous effect which the enactment of their party principles must inevitably produce. But they knew if they told the people the truth about free trade he Democracy could not carry a single Northern State on the Chicago platform. Now the truth can no longor be concealed and the voters of the United States who have already paid a heavy penalty for the restoration of Democracy to power are coolly informed that they must look forward to still greater losses as soon as the tariff haters can get to work.

THE reports of the two National Banks of this city, published in to-day's JOUKNAL, show chat these institutions are in fine condition. In a financial way Crawfordsville banks are all right. The people need have no fears that they will go Democratic.

LOGANSPOKT is in the throes of a natural gas war over the proposed plan to put in meters, and charge consumers so much per thousand feet.

WEDDING invitations, printed or engraved, THE JOUKNAL CO., PRINTERS.

TARIFF AND CURRENCY.

In the New York Tribune of the 3d is a letter from Senator Chandler of New Hampshire, stating clearly and ably the cause of the present grave troubles in the business world. He eays that the tariff, and not the currency, is the vital question—both important, but the first lying at the foundation of our difficulties, and threatening increased peril unless promptly met and settled. The Senator eays he shall vote for the repeal of the "Sherman Act of 1890," which was passed, he says, not as the best measure, but as a campromise to prevent something worse, and then continues as follows: "But what has this question to do with the pending commercial and financial crisis which will pass into history as "the Cleveland panic of 1893?" The Government will nominally lose something for the time being by Its purchase of silver, but the price will undoubtedly rise again belore it disposes of the metal. Meantime, the currency of five or six millions of dollars a month, which the Treasury issues, increases the volume of currency in circulation and tends to prevent astringency in the money market and to avert, and not to cause commercial and financial distress. "It is a folly and an absurdity to ascribe the present suffering in manufacturing circles to the silver law of 1890 and to clamor for iw re peal as if that would have the slightest ellect in removing the troubles which are even now upon the country, and will continue to multiply as the months roll on.

The distrustand misapprehension which, indeed, truly have already caused great loss and damage to our people, and threaien {to cripple our merchants, stop the wheels of mauufsicture bring distress and privation to our farmers, and withhold from our workingmen the wages of labor, exist not at all because the Treasury buys each month 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion instead of coining 2,000,000 silver dollars, but the3T come solely and entirely from the election of Grover Cleveland and a majority of the two houses of Congress upon a platform and a pledge that the McKinley act shall be repealed, and that all laws for the Piotection of American industries against foreign competition shall be deemed unconstitutional and revoked and annulled.

Mr. Cleveland and his party have brought on the panic ann will not be allowed to escape ihe weighty responsibility. No manufacturer dares look forward a year to the continuous revolution of his factory wheels, but a wide spread stoppage of manufactures is sure to take place. The me chant and the farmer will suffer with the manufacturer while the wages ol all kinds of labor are beginning to go stead, ily dpwnward all as Republicans predicted would be the result if Grover Cleveland and a majority of both houses ol Congress should be elected upon the Chicago platform of 18!)2. As men sow so snail they also |reap. Verily the retribution has come quickly."

For this state of affairs the only remedy is pointed out in these strong words: "There is but one safe and sure way for relieving our present commercial and financial troubles and for averting the worse calamities which tire threatening us, and that, is the frank, open, public and unconditional recantation by President Cleveland and the leaders of the Democratic party of their destructive and damnable declaration of warfare against the American Tariff system.

"Let President Cleveland and the Democratic leaders speak, and the panic may be averted and terminated.

"Thus and only thus can the President's announced purpose that uie people shall be relieved 'from present and impending danger and distress' be achieved. The silver law and the currency which it adds, however unwisely, to the circulation tend to relieve that danger and distress, and by no means to cripple the merchants, stop the wheels of manufacture distress the farmer and reduce tho workman's wages. The danger comes from this Chicago plank: 'We denounce the ltepubl lean policy of Proteclion as a fraud. We declars it to be a fuudamental' p'incirleof the Democratic party that tho Federal Government has no power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purposes of revenue onlv. We denounce thugMclvinley tariff law as the culminating atrocity of class legislation and we promise its repeal.' It is this principle of the President and his associates acontrolling Congress whichjis working the terrible result he depicts. He should speak in loud and unmistakable terms concerning the tariff policy of his party. Is the above pledge to stroyall protective lawsland.to repeal the McKinley bill to be carried out or not? Let us know the worst or the best. If it is not, the crisis will be easily averted, the factory wheels will continue to revolve, the merchant and farmer will prosper and the present high wages will continue."

This is the whole case tersely stated. No treating of the currency as inconsequent, but going to the vital center to find the root and cause of the disorder, to ignore which is sore sicknefas, to recognize and remove which is health. Increased imports and debts abroad are the least of the evils before us. Home industries employing millions of our people, and producing thousands of millions yearly, are to be stabbed, and every farmer and carpenter and bricklayer. every artisan and laborer, every working man and woman are to feel the dagger's thrusts first and most keenly. Fix the currency question ^on the best possible basis to-morrow, and leave the free trade element to run, not under the guise of tariff reform, and there might be a transient alleviation but the cancer would still gnaw at the vitals and disease would soon break out in FORMB worse than now. Leave the currency just as it is, with all its faults, alleged or real, and let it be known that the McKinley tariff is to stand for five years, and the cancer is extirpated, the pain and paralysis are healed, the wheels of industry move cheerily and confidence brings hope and prosperity.

Farm for Sale.

A farm of 68 acres, two miles west of Crawfordsville on the Yountsville road, 50 acres under cultivation, balance in good timber. For terms apply to 24-2mo MICHAEL 7,v.T.r.vn.

WE print sale bills on short notice. THE JOURNAL Co., PRINTERS.

I

GOVERNMENTS sometimes become as ridiculous in their levying and collecting of taxes as was the man who killed the goose to get all the golden eggs. Russia sells the last horse of a poor peasant farmer for taxes ntul

makeB

him

incapable of paying any more tax, for how can a mau farm without a horse? George Kenan, speaking of this shortsighted policy, says: "Every American farmpr knows that he would find it extremely difficult, if not absolutely impossible, to work his land without the aid of ahors*- arid that the complete absence of horses on a farm is an unmistakeable evidence of extreme poverty and destitution. What is the condition of the Russian peasant when tried by this test? In the year 1882 there were in the village communities of European Russia 9,079,925 peasant householders. Of this number 2,437,555 householders, representing a popu lation of perhaps 14,000,000 nnd constituting 27 per cent, of the whole agricultural class, did not own a single horse. Of course these 14.000,000 people had not always been without borsep. They had lost them, partly through contagious diseases, which they knew not how to combat, partly in forced settlements of debts to moneylenders, which they were unable pay, and partly as the result of the ruthless and shortsighted government that eells the last horse of a poor peasant farmer for taxes, and thus renders it almost impossible for him ever to pay taxes again."

THE Star and the Review are members of the same political household, but there are evidences that family jars have obtruded themselves which threaten that domestic felicity which has so long existed among the brethren. The Star of this week thus pays its respects to the Review and the Gott-Seller-Hulett-Brookshire "coterie":

The Review of this city, which for months had denounced Senator Voorliees and Cleveland with all that is foul and tho editor jf which hasbeTeaned Mr.Iirooksliire in epithets that eould not be printed, denounces as "thugs" tho Democratic masses who caused Mr. Hrookshiro to bounce Mr. Bonnell! What a lovely creature to thus assail the men who made the party what it is. The coterie who have attempted to keep Democrats out of office should get back into the party before it is too late.

If this thing of reading the riot act continues it will be very apt to bring about "strained relations."

IT appears, according to a recent statement from the Pension Office, that the Confederate investigation with the view of disgracing and degrading veterans of the Union armies is to proceed at the rate of six minutes to each pensioner. The man who fought four years in the Union ranks is to have this fraction of time devoted to the question, involving not only his means of living, but also his honor. Without counsel, without an opportunity for appearance or defense, the record of the Union soldier is to be tried in six minutes by men who, if not themselves avowed enemies of the soldier, know that their prospects for Cleveland's term are dependent upon the ex-Confederates and their Northern associates.

No one knows what the President wants and no one knows what Congress will do. No one knows whether Congress will act this year or next. When Congress meets, instead of merely considering the question of the repeal of the silver law it will be found that all the great questions of finance, of banking, of circulation and of government credit have been opened wide, and that the settlement of them rests on a body in which cranky Populists and Democrats have the balance of power. It is to be hoped that the end will be good for the country, but, remembering the record of the Democratic party on the money question sirce I860, there.„ is little hope of a satisfactory or beneficial outcome.

HUNTINGTON Herald:— Judge Jenkins, Cleveland's appointee to succeed Judge Gresham on the Federal Bench, has been indicted on the charge of having assisted to wreck the Plankinton Bank, at Milwaukee. Judge Jenkins can consider himself paired with exGovernor Chase. We trust the Democratic papers who have been denouncing Chase as a "robber" will now give their opinion of Judge Jenkins. Meantime, pending these investigations, suppose it be agreed that Rev. Chase shall refrain from preaching and Judge Jenkins withdraw from the Federal Bench. It will be time enough for them to resume their duties when they have been tried and declared innocent.

THE proposed organization of the farm hands of Kansas into a union for the purpose of securing an increase of wages is not favorably looked upon by the members of the Farmers' Alliance, who say they are unable to pay the scale of the wages demanded. The laborers are going to demand $30 a month as wages, and t&e farmers say they will not be able to pay that amount. The present rate is about $18 per month, which the farmers say is better than $2 a day for city laborers. This brings a serious {question before the Alliance statesmen of Kansas.

Is tho best remedy for all complaints peculiar to women

Old

Soldiers

GOING TO THE ENCAMPMENT A7 INDIANAPOLIS WILL NEED

Cards

Remember

The Journal Co.

Printers.

Low Rates to the Fair.

The Monon Route wishes to remind you that they have made a §5.05 rate to Chicago and return with a limit of 10 days, for the benefit of the citizens of Crawfordsville and vicinity. Go with the crowd Monday and Tuesday, train leaves 12:30 noon and reaches Chicago at 4:30 p. m., the quickest time and the only direct route from the city. We have made Bpecial arrangements to receive by telegraph any advice of change of rates in order to be the earliest in benefiting our patrons. We are at all times pleased to give any information. Call and see us. L. A. CLARK, Agt.

The Father of Many Ills. Constipation leads to a multitude of physical troubles. It is generally the result of carelessness or indifference to the simplest rule of health. Eugene McKay, of Brantford, Ont., writes: "I had for several years been a sufferer from constipation, had taken a gieat many different remedies, some of which did me good for a time but only for a time, then my trouble came back worse than ever. I wes inducedcv a friend, whom Brandreth's Pills had benefited, to try them. Took two each night for a week,then one every night for about six weeks. Since that time I have not experienced the slightest difficulty whatever, and my bowels move regularly every day, I believe firmly that for sluggishness of the bowels and biliousness Brandreth's Pills are far superior to any other."

Overloaded.

You'vs eaten too much .turkey. And so you cannot work, eli' Your head feels very murky— There! I don't believe I could add another line and make it rhyme if I had a dollar tor doing it, A fe-v cents, however, will cure me. To relieve stomach and bowels from the effects of overloading, a full dose of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets is the best remedy. They operate gently, yet thoroughly, and without griping, nausea, or other unpleasant effects. In vials, convenient to carry.

When Baby was sick, we gave her Costoria. When sht was a Child, she cried for Castoria. When she became Miss, she clung to Castori*. When she had Children, she gave them Caatori*.

"Who hath not own'd with rapture-smitten frame The power of grace, the magic of a name?" asks Campbell, the poet, in his "Pleasures of Hope Pleasures of hope, forsooth. Many and many a woman knows them no longer. They are in despair about their health. They are run down, debilitated, suffering from what they know not. It may be dyspepsia, heart disease, liver or kidney disease any oi allot them. The sicknesses of women are cured by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescristion. That's where the magic of a name comes in. This improves digestion, invigorates the system, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, produces refreshing sleep, dispels nervousness and melancholy, and builds up both the flesh and strength of these reduced be low a healthy standard, It is a legitimate medicine, not a beverage. Contains no alcohol to inebriate no sugar or syrup to sour in the stomach and c&use distress. It is as peculiar in its composition as it is marvelous in its remedial results.

Children Cry for

Pitcher'sQastoria-

Health and Happiness.

Honey of Figs is the queen of all catharticsyrups or pills. One anticipates its taking with pleasure. No other remedy sells so well or gives &uch satisfaction. It acts gently on Inactive bowels or liver, relieves the kidneys, cures constipation, colds fevers, nervous aches, eti., and restores the beauty of health. Ladies and children prefer it. Doctors and druggists recommend it. THE FIO HONEY CO., of Chicago, make it. Try a bottle. Only one ent a dose. Nve & Booe, agents- d-w 6-7

Children Cry for

Pitcher's Castorla.

A MEDICAL BOOK worth DOLLARS, sent for 10 cents in Sealed Envelope.

81 Per Bottle at Druggists. 50c. Trial Size sent by mail.

Letters for advice Marked "Consulting Department" are seen by our physicians only.

ZOA-PHORA MEDICINE CO.,

"ZEE3ES

H. G. Colman, Scc'y, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Write to oi call on

I

A. S. CLEMENTS,

Crawfordsville, Ind., agent

Home Insurance Co,

Of NEW YORK.

Cash Capital, S3,000,0001 Cash Assets, §6,000,000!

Insures Farm Property against Fire and Lightning, cyclones or wind storms, on cash, single note or instalment plan. Most liberal blanketed policy issued. Farm property a specialty address as above and I will call and see you.

Office—204 East Main street, with Krause & Crist, Florists.

J. J. DARTER,

REAL ESTATE & LOAN AGENT

Farm and City Property for Sale. Monej to Loan at Lowest Rate of Interest, 122 North Washington Street.

$100,000 TO LOAN I

7 percent, Annual interest

With ommissioD.

NO HtTMUJG.

Cumberland & Miller

118 West Main St.

ABSTRACTS OF TITLE Hster,

aving secured the services of Wtc. Web late ol' the firm of Johnson & Webster, abstractors of title, I am prepared to furnish on short notice, full and complete abstracts of title to all lands in Montgomery county, Indiana, at reasonable prices. Deeds and mortgages carefully executed. Call at the Rocorder's office. octSyl THOS. T. MPNHALL. Recorder.

MONEY to

LOAN.

At 4% and 6 per cent for 5 vears on Improved Farms in Indiana. We gra*t you the privilege of paying this money back to us dribs of $100, or more, at any interest payment.

C. N. WILLIAMS & CO.,

Crawfordsville, Indiana.

O.W.PAUL. M. W. ERUNEK.

PAUL & BRUNER,

Attcneye-at-Law,

Office over Mnliorney's Store, Crawfordsville, Intl. All business entrusted to their care will receive prompt attention.

THEO. McMECHAH, DENTIST,

CHAWFOHDSVILLE. INDIANA. lenders his service to the- public. Motto good work and moderate urices."

White, Hnuiphrey & Reeves.

V: ATTOKNEYS-AT-LAW, Crawfordsville, Inr. Office 103}i Main street.

Money to Loan.

Houses and Lots for Sale also Dwellings to Rent.

Abstracts ot Title and Deeds and Mortgages Carefully Prepared.

ALBERT C. JENNK0N

Loan and Insurance agent, abstractor and Conveyancer. 122 East Main St., Crawfordsville

Morgan & Lee

ABSTRACTORS), LOAN AND

INSURANCE AGENTS

.Money to Loan at 6 per cent Interest.

Farms and City Property For Sale.

Life, Fire and Accident Insurance. Office North Washington et., Ornbaun Block, Crawfordsville, Ind.

O. U. PERRIN. Lawyer and Patent Attorney.

Joel Block,

Washington St., Crawfordsville, Ind.

FIRST MORTGAGE

LOAN,

AT 41-2 PER CENT,

Interest.»payable Annually

APPLY TO

G. W.WRIGHT

[PACIFICAgricultural,WashingtonDikoU,describingthaA4dniaMontana,VOregon,8Ind.8,andFUI*Publications,aalllatwMAPNorthMailedRoomGraitarVERNMENTLANDSIllustratedR.settlers.GOVERNMENTBllnnetota,Idaho,to1R.PRICEIBlock,optoFREEI••beatLOWCrawfordsville,aow••NORTHERNTheIIlkLwiTH••ANDr«rLao•HVTFisher

Washington and Oregon* tho

tsr Land* B. LAKJAOUA. Laad CM..A.

B.

r.

K.