Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 20 October 1893 — Page 2

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WEEKLY

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FRIDAX, OCTOBER 20,1893.

THE stars in their course are fighting for McKinley this year.

AT present tlie Treasury's net gold is down to about $84,000,000, or the lowest point it has ever reached.

REDUCTION in wages is now an every day occurrence in industries which recently started up. Is this the change workingmen voted for a year ago?

THE restoration of the sugar duty is inevitable, and what is still worse, it will come at a time of decreasing wages and diminished chances of employment.

IT is said that the Ways and Means Committee has decided to recommend that the duty shall be replaced on sugar. Now is the time to buy stock in the Sugar Trust.

THE finanoial plank of the Minneapolis platform continues to be the safest place for the feet of all citizens who believe in sound money and a reliable banking system.

THE New York Recorder consolingly remarks that if the Senate fails to confirm Mr. Van Alen, the President, as in the case of Mr. Blount, can send him somewhere as "my direct personal rep resentative, with paramount authority."

LARKY NEAL, the author of the tariff plank in the Chicago platform, and the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio, iB advocating on the stump the policy of placing a duty on Bugur, tea and coffee. This is one reason why we think McKinley's majority will be 50,000.

THE Frankfort Crescent wants to know why the Lafayette Journal can't "tell the truth.', As both papers are Democratic the question becomes an interesting one to Republicans. Instead of "getting together" the different fac tions seem to be getting farther away from each other. 3^

IF the Democratic Congress increases the internal revenue tax on whisky by 50 per cent., as is proposed, it will help the Whisky Trust to a splendid fortune. It holds 13,000,000 gallons, and this will be increased $5,200,000 in value. The Democrats are fixing things to help the trusts every time.

THE San Antonio (Texas) Express says: "If wool is placed on the free list by a Democratic Congress, West Texas will elect at least two Republican Con gressmen next year. Paste that prediction where you can study it occasionally." As the Express is a Democratic paper it probably knows what it is talking about.

THE free-trade papers that howled themselves blue in the face last Fall ever the starvation wages than paid to American labor, now hail the resumption of factories and mills as "signs of prosperity." Their logic would inevitably leaa them into asserting that the millennium had come if no wages at all were paid.

No compromise! Let us have what the vast majority of the people want, or wait till we can get it.—Indianapolis New*.

The last declaration of the people of the United States, through their several national conventions, was in favor of "both gold and silver as standard money"—not subsidiary money—not token money, but money with which to measure values and pay debts. When did the whole people of the United States change this opinion and become followers of Mr. Cleveland in his mad attempt to establish gold monometalism and British ruin in this country

THE sober judgment of the people is already beginning to manifest itself as witness the Indianapolis election. The public meetings and the public senti ment which greet McKinley in Ohio seem to absorb all interest and give evidence of returning reason. Congress, with a deoisive Democratic majority in both branches, iB wrangling over ques tiens that concern the great industries, and are unable to agree on anything. In the meantime the people are thinking and preparing to vote. The party in power now has shown its incapacity to govern and indications point to an "overwhelming flood."

'THB Chicago platform on which Mr. Cleveland was elected Preaident, declared that "We denounce tlio .Republican legislation known as the Sherman act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift, fraught with possibilities ol'danger in tlio future, which should make all of its supporters, as well as its author, anxious for its repeal."

The President convened Congress on the 7th of August for the specific purpose of repealing this "cowardly makeshift." With a Democratic majority of 84 in the House and of five in the Senate he had reason to think that with the Chicago platform staring them in the face every Democrat in both houses would vote for repeal. With the aid of Republican votes the House passed the repealing bill some time ago, but two months or more have passed and it still hangs fire in the Senate, notwithstanding there are twenty-seven Republicans stand ready and willing to assist the few Administration Democrats out of the cavity into which they have been placed.Qln thus refusing to repeal thB "cowardly ^makeshift" they have spit upon the platform and repudiated the President. The indications are that a compromise will be made and the "cowardly makeshift" will be substituted by a "makeshift"' equally as "cowardly."^,They propose to act on the financial question as Bourke Cochran said they intended to act on the tariff question. "We propose," said he, "to repeal the infamous McKinley law, and then pass one as near like it as possible." Democrats want to repeal the "cowardlyj makeshift," and then pass another as near like it as possible.

BY the way, what has become of that Amherst professor who received the news of Cleveland's pardon of "Ed" Stokes, the murderer of Fisk, with the lamb-like remark that lie gu6ssed it was a Tribune bugaboo, and that, anyhow, it didn't shake his faith in the unspeakable greatness and goodness of Cleveland? It would bo interesting to obtain from this Amherst professor's point of view the ethics of the Van Alen appointment. What do the Amherst professors teach their young men as to the morality of selling'publie offices for campaign subscriptions? And if Mr. Van Alen says that lie gave $50,000 to the Democratic fund last.your, and if Mr. Cleveland says he gave Van Alen the Italian embassy, would it shake an Amherst professor's confidence in Cleveland? Or would be put his head into ethereal distance, and say that lie doesn't believe there is any Van Alen, or that it was probably the 'Tribune that sent him to Home? aud that, as for Cleveland, how can the Immortal gods fall down?—yew York Tribune.

When mugwumery takes possession of a college professor he is little different from the ordinary run of politicians.

Du. VON HOLST, the eminent German historian, who has lately taken up his residence in this country, will furnish to the November Forum a slashing criticism of the Senate filibusters. Dr. Von Hoist, who is outspoken in his condemnation of the silver men's tactics, it is understood is convinced of the necessity for immediate revision of the Senate rules and for immediate protest Dy the people in mass meetings all over the country, if the Senate is not to become a source of grave public peril.

NEW YORK Republicans manifest no inclination to shirk the issue between protection and free trade. Their platform adopted at Syracuse contains this declaration:

We believe that the delai'ation made in the national platform of 1892 in favor of a protective tariti has been brought home to numerous industrial communities and a myriad families of wage-workers by the present uncertainty existing in all branches of industry, and which is undoubtedly due to a large extent to the fear of au indiscriminate reduction of protective duties now in course of proirress at Washington.

NEW CASTLE Courier-.—If the brutality practiced in games of football last year again becomes prevalent it may_ become necessary to take summary measures to prevent the games. As carried on last fall these games were but little above the "constests of science and skill" practiced at Roby. The season is just opening now, and it is understood that some of the brawny fellows insist lat to win it is legitimate to even kill an opponent "in play."

A PRACTICAL test is BOOC to be made of the electric propulsion of canal boats in the State of New York. That State has provided $10,000 for the trial, which will be made on the Rochester level of the Erie canal. Two wires will be suspended over the canal, exactly as trolley wires are suspended over city Btreets, and the current is brought down a trolley-pole to an electric motor in the boat's stern, which rune a screw pro peller.

IN respsnse to the Senate resolution Hoke Smith says that the total number of pensioners suspended under the general law was for the year 1,598, and under the act of 1890 for four months, 10,782. Of the latter number 6,072 had been restored. He thus admits that he made 6,072 blunders. As a blunderer Hoke is a brilliant success.

THE Indianapolis Sentinel wants the Senate to shoot or give up the gun. The gun will be surrendered in due season. A Senate with a Democratic majority of five is a good "object lesson" for the country.

THE BBEAD OF DEMOCRACY. A great many buBinesB men remember the calamities that followed the abandonment of protection in 1833, by the compromise act of that year, which provided that there should be a yearly reduction of the tarifF, at a given rate, till all duties were reduced to 20 per cent, of the value of the importations upon which they were levied. In other words, the idea of adjusting the tariff so as to protect our manufacturers, by making the rates higher on goods we were making, or could make at home, was entirely abandoned, and all our manufacturing enterprises were left to the tender mercies of Great Britain, who had worked incessantly in conjunction with the South Carolina fire-eatere for this free trade tariff. The bare possibility of a return to this system has thrown all our manufacturing industjiee into confusion, doubt and unrest, and deprived hundreds of thousands of people of the means of earning a livelihood. And this deplorable condition of affairs has been brought about by the votes of men who were entirely ignorant of the dreadful consequences of the abandonment of protection in 1833. A new generation has grown up who have given little attention to the history of our politics, and the country has been flooded with ignorant foreign voters who know nothing of the dear-bought experience of 1833.

It is known to all intelligent men that Mr. Webster opposed the free trade tariff of 1833 with all his power, and that he predicted all the evil consequences that followed its passage. In a speech delivered years afterwards, he said:

No measure overpassed Congress during my connection with that body that caused me so much grief and mortification. The principle was bad, the measure was bad, the consequences were bad, I then said that its principle was false and dangerous and that when the time came It would rack and convulse our system. Has not this been as predicted?

The people would not listen to Mr. Webster in 1833. The fire eaters of the South dsmanded the repeal of all protective legislation, and in order to keep down an open rebellion protection wa6 abandoned. The consequences were that in less than five years every business enterprise of the country was in a state of collapse. The papers were burdened with advertisements of sheriff's sales. Bankruptcies were as com mon as day and night, and distress was universal. It is the remembrance of theBe things that has filled the minds of the business part of the country with dread and doubt and stopped the enterprise of the whole nation. The Sherman bill has had nothing to do with it. It is purely the dread of free trade Democracy that has sent so many out into the streets to beg for bread. The hardest times the country ever experienced was precisely when the tariff rates had reached their lowest point under the compromise act of 1833. It was then that bankruptcy stared half the people of the country in the face and children everywhere cried tor bread. It is indeed no wonder that the thinking people Btand aghast at the prospect of a repetition of the folly of 1833.

FRANKFORT News: The esteemed editor of the Lebanon Pioneer is feeding his brethren moonshine. He innocently affects to see a glimmering chance for Mr. Sam Ralston's appointment as collector, on the theory of availability, growing out of the contract between Senator Voorhees and Congressman BrookBhire, over their candidates. Senator Voorhees has had a cinoh on Judge Jump's appointment ever since he closed his dicker with the President to make a spectacular ass of himself in his apostasy to the cause of silver. Ralston will get what the balance of the Ninth District Democrats have gotten—left!

THE Inter Ocean will have to thke a few lessons in ornithology, as the following reference to Mr. Voorhees shows it is little acquainted with the habits of birds:

It at any time Senator Voorhees is missed from his seat or the cloakroom the scrgennt-at-arms will likely find him roosting up the nearest tree.

A goose doesn't roost up a tree.

R. OATES, in his speech in the House said that he believed the President was a bi metalist to some extent. This is about like saying that one believes that two and two make four to some extent.

THE closed factories which are resuming business do no pay the same wages that they paid before their suspension and it is not likely that they will do so as long as the Democratic party ie in power.

FOR the first Sunday in many moons the saloons of Indianapolis were closed yesterday and the bartenders had a day of rest. Where there's a will there's a way.

EVEN Democrats are forced to admit that the Cleveland Administration during nearly the eight months it has been in power has been p. melancholy fail are.

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.

WHATEVER may be said of the idiosyncrasies of the Indianapolis News on political questions it cannot be accused of catering to a low standard of moralp. On all questions affecting the public morality it has ever taken high grounds and has been instant in season and out of season in favor of a vigorous prosecation of the laws against gambling and the laws regulating the saloons. Editorially commenting on Rev. Mr. Milburn's sermon delivered in that city laBt Sunday the Netvs says:

Though we may agree with Mr. Milburn in all this, and we do, we wish to make the point that the way of putting it may excite an expectation in proportion to deficiency of information. It may work some harm to the present, we shall not say administration, but the present great effort to set Indianapolis forward in amoral way, to suggest that any city administration can do as Mr. Milburn urges, rightly, is desirable. Our city already exacts all that tlie law allows it ol the saloons. The regulation of the saloons is a matter of State law. They are licensed by the Hoard of County Commissioners.

The city has simply the right to collect, in addition to State and county licenses and lees, a city license of of $250, which it does. It is, of course, charged with the enforcement of the State laws prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sunday and othor speciliod days, aud at nights after 11 o'clock, When this latter is done, as itis and as we hope and believe it will be done, all is done that our city can do. We cannot, as a city, exact a greater license. We can not exact a law closing saloons earlier. We can not diminish their number. We can not control the character of the licensees. This we think should be emphsized. The place to operate for a better law concerning the saloons is in the Legislature, and it is needed. We believe that to cities should be given larger powers in this particular. But let us have a clear understanding of things as they are,and not as we should like to have them.

What is true of Indianapolis is true of Crawfordsville. However desirable increased restraints may be to regulate the saloons yet there is the danger of the City Council stepping beyond the bounds of its power. With the News THE JOURNAL believes that the place to operate for better laws restraining the saloons is in the Legislature. Reaching out after more laws, especially laws of questionable validity, may be the means of retarding rather than of speeding the car of moral reform. It is idle to say that our present laws cannot be enforced. Where there ie a will there is a way. This was shown at Indianapolis last Sunday. The responsibility after all rests upon the officers entrusted with the authority for their execution.

JUDGE A. C. CAPRON, of the Fulton Circuit Court, has rendered a decision of vital importance to the stockholders of every building and loan association in Indiana. Some weeks ago the county assessor directed the Auditor of that county to place on the tax duplicate $1,500, the assessment on paid up stock in the Indiana Farmers' Building and Loan Association of Roohester, held by Frank H. Terry. The latter immediate ly commenced an action against the Auditor to restrain him from following the directions of the Assessor. Upon the hearing the court found that all paid-up stock issued by building and loan associations in Indiana, as well as installment stock, was exempt from taxation under section 89 of the acts of 1891. The court is adverse to the opinion of the Attorney General and the decision of the State board of tax commis-

THE following is a vivid picture of conditions in free trade England: Thousands of women and children are subsisting on raw vegetables in the colliery and factory districts of Bngland, owing to the miners' strikes. Merchants are giving one guinea per ton for the poorest Scotch eoul which they will retail at thirty shillings. Ol' course tlie poor cannot buy. Meanwhile the railroads are suffering a decline in their tariff receipts, and relief committees are vainly endeavoring to feed 2,000 families rendered destitute by the stopping of the strike pay. These deplorable conditions sadly need mending.

And yet monacled near-sighted statesmen are demanding that the United States should adopt English "tariff reform." They point with pride to the prices which prevail in that country and the Ways and Means Committee are at work now framing a tariff bill to bricg about similiar conditions in this country.

THE Sherman law is better than any compromise that has been suggested. Repealing one "miserable makeshift' and substituting another is too much like an attempt to define the difference between tweedle dee and tweedle dum.

IT becomes plainer every day that dollar wheat went out when Democratic rale came in.

Hawkers and Peddlers.

What ear-splitting cries we hear daily ia the streets of every large city! But these itinerant dealers who hawk their wares about, are, when under proper re strictions, a useful portion of the community, and are not such nuisances as the catarrh hawkers. This is a stubborn disease toconquor, but Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy does it. Jtis mild, soothing, and antiseptic, unlike snuffs that irritate, or solutions that burn. It corrects offensive breath, and restores taste, smell and hearing. Nasal catarrh often ends in consumption. Apply the only cure in time. Price 50 sents, by all druggists.

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