Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 29 July 1893 — Page 4

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8A TURD AY, JULY 29,1893.

THE market for "substitutes for the Sherman law" is overstocked. And they are all worse than the law itself.

THE number of people who are sorry they voted the Democratic ticket last fall is increasing at a rate which is beautifal to behold.

ABOUT a year ago the Star was singing the refrain, "Grover, Grover, we'll all be in clover." The Star has discovered that the clover crop is a failure.

THE total number of pensioners dropped from the rolls sinoe March 4, 1893, is 2io. The total number of pensioners suspended since March 4 pending a further investigation of their cases is 5,090.

THE greatest ass in Colorado is the Populist Governor of that State, who is anxious to swim in blood up to the horses' bridles. Not far behind him is Rev. Myron W. Reed who is in favor of confiscation and redistribution. They are indeed a pair of fools.

THE editor of the Mt. Vernon Democrat is sorry, real sorry, that he "stumped" for the Democratic party last Fall, and says, frankly, if not politely: "The editor of the Democrat greatly regrets the untruths told on the stump last year about Cleveland's great love for the old soldiers. It was not done willfully—the old Mugwump ingrate deceived his friends in this and many other things." If all the Democratic editors wer6 as frank and as patriotic as our Mt. Vernon contemporary it would be refreshing.

J. K. ARMSBY & Co., brokers and grocery commission merchants, of Chicago, in their weekly circular to the trade, say this which hits the nail squarely on the head:

It Is hard to sayjanythlng about a market for merchandise with the flnunces of the country in'.thelr present disturbed condition. OurDemocaatic friends promifeed us last l'all a perfect wave of prosperity, if we would give them ti chance to run things. Well, they got their chance. The wavo is with us. We are not entirely happy, but we suppose that we will'like it better when we get accustomed to it. Our Vice President, Henry Newton, who is a good healthy Democrat, says, "1 would kick if*1 was going to be baptized. As I don't flud any fault, Just simply cuss."

There area good many Democrats besides Mr. Newton who are doing some vigorous cuEsing.

IT is announced that Representative Burrows of Michigan proposes to introduce a resolution eurly in the extra session of Congress calling for an inquiry into the treatment of Union veterans by the Cleveland Administration. Such a resolution should be brought forward, and it should be supported by the full Republican strength in the House. Republican speakers on the floor of Congress should characterize the Democratic campaign of slander and malice againBt the old soldiers in the terms which it deserves. Nothing meaner or more unpatriotic has been witnessed in American politics than the soheme of the present Administration to assail the good name of the veterans under the pretense of honesty and to plunder them of their hard won pensions under the plea of economy.

WITH the statute on the books and with a necessity before him which had aroused the greatest anxiety among New York bankers, Mr. Carlisle, repre eenting the executive branch of the Government, refused on April 27 to entertain the proposition of the New York bankers to supply the Treasury with $25,000,000 in gold. With the aid of this sum the gold balance in the Treasury would have been large enough to have dissipated any fears as to the stability of the currency, and would have averted the commercial and financial panic through which the country has passed since Mr. Carlisle met the New York bankers. It is known that the policy of the Administration was fixed before April 27, and that policy was to refuse to use any means to add to the gold holdings of the Treasury and to contract credits in the West and South in order that the people of those sections might be led to prevail on their Congressmen to vote for the repeal of the July silver law. The commercial difficulties were welcomed by the Administration as an object lesson to silver fanatics, and the panic followed Mr. Carlisle's interview with the New York bankers just as naturally and just as certainly as result follows cause.

THE REAL CAUSE-

In an article in the latest number of the North American Review Mr. Edward Atkinson declares that "trade is checked, men are beginning to fail, banks are subject to ruin, distrust prevails everywhere," because "bad legal tender money is now driving good money, made of gold, out of circulation." In reply to this twaddle the Philadelphia Manufacturer says that we have just the same kind of money now that we had a year ago. Every dollar of that money is interchangeable at par with every other dollar. Every dollar will buy as much material as every other dollar. Why, if the presence here of such money produces disaster and panic in 1893, did it not have the same effect in 1892 Why Bhould the currency permit the highest measure of prosperity last year and bring about depression and distress this year? Mr. Atkinson can give no satisfactory answer to that question nor can any other man. There can be but one explanation of the extraordinary revolution in the condition of business. It is that there has been, within one year, an extraordinary revolution in politics. The control of the machinery of the government has passed into the liandd of a party which is pledged to give the country free trade, and this single fact fully accounts for the hard times, the prevalent distrust, the scarcity of money and the multiplying failures. Mr. Atkinson does not like to admit the truth, and he beats desjDerately about for some explanation which will divert public attention from it, because, as much as any other Americon, he is responsible for the revolution and for fastening upon his country the policy devised by and in the interest of Englishmen. But no amount of effort will avail to hide the truth or avert the oatastrophe. The mere threat of free trade has done immeasurable harm, and has permitted men to estimate what the consequences will be when Mr. Atkinson's highest hopes are fulfilled in the complete overthrow of protection in this country.

A LEVEL HEADED DEMOCRAT.

The South Bend Times, edited by John B. Stoll, the ablest Democratic editor in the State, as he. is one of the most sagacious and prudent, derides the idea that the Sherman silver purchase act is the cause of the disturbance and the uncertainty and apprehension prevailing in business circles, and

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no terms in giving expression to his views. He says: of all the' drivel, rot and unmitigated nonsense that was ever put in print, none equals in point of stupidity that which seeks to imbue 110 public mind with the notion that the only thing needful to restore confidence in financial circles and to bring about '-a new era of prosperity" is the repeal of the Sherman act. Such Idiotic twaddle is an insult to ccommon intelligence.

The Times is right. Apart from the unfounded alarm which has been worked up against the Sherman law the real operation of the statute has been wholly beneficial. It has furnished us $140,000,000 of lawful money as good at home as gold. The real cauBe of the present distress is in our industrial affairs. The proposition to repeal our tariff laws has caused the distrust which prevails throughout the country. If the Democratic party would pass a resolution in Congress, when it convenes in August, saying that it did not intend to disturb the tariff legislation, the money would come out of the old stockings, cracks and safety deposit vaults and go into circulation aDd restore confidence. MillB and factories and furnaces and mines would resume operations and the tens of thousands of workingmen who are now idle would again be given employment. This is the true diagnosis of the present sickly condition of public affairs.

THE pension office authorities have been running their opy system for over three months and they are cackling loud that they have discovered "eleven deserters who never returned to their commands—who are now receiving pensions." Now give "the eleven" a chance and see if half of them were not in Libby or Andersonville and were marked as deserters on regimental rolls because careless officers did not know what had become of them.

THE special session of Congress will please the people in exact proportion to to its brevity,

sayB

the St. Louis Qlobe

Democrat. If it will pass a resolution that there will be tinkering with the finances and the tariff for the next four years, adjourn and go home, it will be a long step toward removing the present distrust and restoring confidence. The prosperity of 1892 will return at a'hop, Btep and jump.

IT is a little early to nominate Presidential candidates for 1890.—LaFayctte

Journal.

The inference to be drawn from this remark is that the Journal does not take much stock in the boom which Judge Gresham has started for himself through a nobody named Torrence, of Chicago.

WHEN the Democrats went out of power in 1889 there was a surplus In the treasury of $85,000,000. The gold above the reserve was $98,000,000. The annual excess of revenue above expenditures was nearly $1,000,000. The silver purchased was coined,not heaped up like useless iron. The country was prosperous. Trade was good. Gold was coming this way--the net gain in four years having been $54,000,872,000.—Review.

The attempt of the Review to represent the agitation and disaster financial circles as the result of a squandered surplus and an empty treasury brought about by Republican rule is a severe rejection on the gentleman who is now the President. It was the existence of a surplus in the federal treasury that Grover Cleveland made the excuse for his tariff manifesto in 1887. He went into the campaign in 1888 on the express issue that the nation surplus at that time was a menace to the financial and commercial welfare of the country. He pledged himself that, in case he was elected, this surplus should go. Incidentally, American industries were also to go. The Democratic party endorsed this position. To ascribe the present business business uncertainty and distrust to a squandered surplus and an empty treasury is to denounce the policy upon which the Democratic party and Democratic candidate sought to gnin national power five years ago.

IT IS really amusing to see such pu pers as the Frankfort Crescent and otlier Democratic papers advocating an income tax This country has never resorted to such a tax but once in its history and that was the dire necessity brought about by the war. Democrats then denounced it in unmeasured terms. It was passed by a Republican Congress and approved by a Republican President because other sources ot revenue were practically exhausted. It proved to be unpopular although it was only intended to afford temporary relief. An increase tax is an exaction which is not only inquisitorial to an intolerable degree, but in practice has been prolific of wnolesale injustice and fraud. When David A. Wells was Commissioner of Internal Revenue he asserted that the income tax in force in 1868 was paid by only 250, 000 persons out of a total population of 40,000,000. It requires the maintenance of the most expensive machinery out of which grow evils which more than counterbalance the benefits. Those who are demanding an income tax may as well save their breath. Congress will never again pass such a law.

THE Revieio, which is the organ of the Ragged Reuben wing of

the

Demo

cratic party, the wing that captured the postoffice, occupies the position of being able to read the riot act to the Swallowtails for their presumptuous attempt to dictate the minor appointments under the next postmaster. The Review says:

Since it has been settled that Mr. S. E. Voris is to be the next postmaster of Crawfordsville, that gentleman, we understand, has been ovcrrua with applications for positions under him, and many persons have maiio themselves quite officious in seeking to dictate to him who should bo favored with these places. Mr. Voris for his good luck in securing the position, is not indebted to any party leaders here in particular, nor to the good wishes of any sect or nationality, but more to his o^n standing: as a citizen and a Democrat, and should promptly inform those officious individuals just how the land lays. The postmaster is strictly responsible for the management of his office and the conduct or his deputies, and receives the bless Ings and curses alike for the manner in which he serves the public. If anything goes wrong in his office he alonemust shoulder iho responsibility. Consequently thecchoosing of assistants should rest solely with him, and if he has the true quality of independence he wiil al'ow no dictation in the matter from any source whatever.

THE Springfield Union asks this question and asks it pertinently: Did it ever occur to you that if Harrison had been elected President the mugwump press of the country would have howled about this terrible disaster to business that had followed the incoming of the Admin iseration, and that it would have been laid at his feet and at the feet of the Republican party

PEOBIA Transcript This Democratic administration, in its antipathy to the old soldier, seems trying not so much to punish fraud as to make loyalty odious. No other construction can be placed upon the recent order to dependent soldiers to prove their innocence of a sweeping charge of fraud or lose the pittance paid them by the government for their support.

AN eastern exchange asks, "What is the President's silver policy?" Who cpn tell? Does he know himself? What will he recommend abotjt tariff? Who knows Does he know himself It is just this uncertainty that is making the people restless and restive.

WHAT "a good year for business last year was"—and the year before, and the year before that. A great many people are asking, "What is the matter?" People will work out the problem themselves, if given time.

WHEAT last year, and year before, and year before that was selling at 80 cents, 90 cents, and $1 per bushel and the same Sherman silver law was in force as now.

WHEN the Democrats were restored to power, after four years of Republican rule, the suri'lus|was spent and a deficiency impending. The free gold had been drained out of the treasury. The expenditures of the government exceeded the receipts, though these had been increased. A Republican silver law had menaced the national credit and hud unsettled business. The country had ost to Europe $122,000 000 in gold. Tariff-fostered trusts and unmolested lawless conspiracies, failing through grasping greed and revealed rascality, had brought the country to the verve of a (J rent panic, which only the faith ol' the peo .le in President Cleveland has averted.—Review.

The downward tendency iu values and the popular feeling of distrust began with Grover Cleveland's election. The 8th day of last November

was

the start­

ing point of the movement which has reduced the value-of the popprssiona of the American people by hundreds of millions of dollars. No matter how much Democratic organs may prevaricate, they cannot obscure the fact that the country was magnificently

prosper­

ous under the Harrison administration, aid that the election of Grover Cleveland, on a platform of fivp

rade,

has

sharply checked its prosperity. The blundering and dishonest administration, conscious of its own incapacity, may endeavor to humbug the people into the belief that thie paralysis of credit and this shrinkage of values is the result of the Sherman law mouthpieces of the Administration like the Revieiv may misrepresent facts and indulge in malignant sneers about the country's being brought "to the verge of a great panic but the truth will still remain the truth. Voters of intelligence will not be deceived. The nation will hold the Democratic party to a strict account for the disaster it has brought upon American industrial interests.

IT is plain that some of the most strenuous advocates of free trade are experiencing a change of heart. Only a year ago they were insisting that protection was ruining the farmers, was covering their lands with mortgages and was driving them to despair. But that was before the tariff reformers had had opportunity to clearly estimate the virtues of the McKinley law. Now that its beneficent operation is apparent they are falling into line with all the grace possible. President Cleveland goes on record as saying that the silver-purchase law is the only present menace to the country's prosperity. This testimony, wrung from the unwilling lips of the free traders, is confirmation strong as holy writ that protection does really protect.

UNDER the Bland law the silver purchased by the Government was coined by the pro visions of the Shermau law, it is stored in bul lion, a useless commodity.—Greciieastlc

crat And of the nearly $500,000, coined under the Bland law, but §57,000 is in circulation among the

MAYOK SULLIVAN, of Indianapolis, was last week renominated for the office whin he is at present occupying- This is a good indication of the esteem he is held by the party in that city and & strong approval of his administration.—

Review.]

Sim Coy, of the same citv, was renominated for Councilman by the same party that nominated Sullivan. This is a very good indication of the esteem in which he is held by the party in that city and a Btrong approval of his administration.

IT is an old and safe rule of law to convict first and -punish afterward. A man is tried upon suspicion of crime, but to punish before the suspicion has been made the subject of inquiry is a new departure, made by one Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and made by him applicable only to men who fought for the Union while his friends were fighting against it.

EABLY in the administration the President gave it out cold "No editor need apply for office." The Commercial Gazette has taken pains to keep tally and finds just "fifty-nine Democratic editors already appointed to office/' and a lot more with credentials pending.

THE Democratic panic of 1893 is the people's panic. "It is not poverty, but distrust" of Democratic politics.

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 special 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. CLABK, Agt.

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SOUTH 44 a 5:20 ill 8:10 in 2:33

Demo­

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mainder being piled up in the treasury vaults where it does nobody any good. By the provision of the Sherman law the bullion is piled up in the vaults, but this bullion is paid for in treasury notes, and these notes are in circulation and are just as good as greenbacks or national bank notes. When the Democrat denounces the bullion as a useless commodity it is very evident that it does not understand the provisions of either the Bland or the Sherman law.

Reader, suffering from any complaint peculiar to the femalo sex, ZOA-PHORA Is worth everything to you. letters for advice, marked "Consulting Department," are aeen by our physicians only. ZOA-PEOEA CO., H. G. COLMAN, Sec'y, Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Indeed, the woman of whom he spoke was lovely. Her face was clear and smooth, her cheeks fresh and rosy, her eyes bright with perfect health and the enjoyment of life. She has passed the critical "change of life" without falling into "the sere and yellow leaf," as most American women do. How .had she succeeded in doing this? Simply by using Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription at a time when nature stood in need of some assistance. She had taken it at the right time. In doing this she was wise. Wiser than most women who "trust to luck" in getting through the critical and trying period safely. This standard remedy is just what is needed fat such a time. It is, from girlhood to old age, woman's best friend. In all diseases peculiar to the sex, it accomplishes what no other remedy does—a cure. Take it, woman, when life's autumn begins and "grow old gracefully." Your money back if it doesn't help you.

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