Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 24 November 1893 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1893.
EVERYTHING that the Democrats predicted would get higher under the MoKinley bill have got lower. This is alwnyB the way with Democratic predictions.
A GREAT many reasons have been suggested for the great defeat of the Democratic party at the late election. But the best reason ot all is the general "cassedness" of the defeated party.
CLEVELAND, GRESHAM & Go. are not without hope that Queen Lil has been restored. They are awaiting the arrival of the next steamer from Honolulu with great anxiety. It's a case of the wish being father to the thought.
THE purpose of the Ways and Means Committee to put iron ore, wool and ooal on the free list will start a big rampus in the Democratic party. The Republicans will have a good deal of help from the other side in fighting this tariff bill.
THE pulling down of the stars und •tripes and the overturning of Republican Governments are not calculated to endear an Administration in the United States to the- people. This Hawaiian humiliation will furnish one of the nails for the Democratic coffin in 1896.
CONGRESSMAN BROOKSHIKE having endorsed the President's Hawaiian policy as promulgated by Seoretary Gresham, of course be will endorse his financial 'policy as promulgated by Seoretary Carlisle. If the President says that black is white then white it is. When he says gold then let it be gold and nothing else.
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L. J. COPPAGE, of this oity, in a communication to the Indianapols News, •peaks of Gen. Harrison's administra tion as having been condemned by an overwhelming mnjority of the people. It would be just as fair to say that Mr. Cleveland's administration was condemned by an overwhelming majority of the people, for Mr. C. lacked just about one million votes of having a majority of the popular vote.
CLAUB SPRECKLES, whose name figured
so conspicuously in Democratic news papers at the beginning of the Hawaiian troubles, seems to have dropped into inoocuous desuetude, so far as they are concerned. Since they have learned that he is a royalist and in favor of the restoration of the harlot Queen he iB not nearly BO bad a man in their eyes as when they supposed he was in sympathy with the movement for a better form of government on the Islands.
THE JOURNAL notes with pleasure that Capt. W. H. Hart, of Frankfort, is in the field for the Republican nomination for Congress to succeed Judge Wangh in the Ninth District. Captain Hart is a man of conspicuous ability, thoroughly in sympathy with the cardinal princi plee of the Republican party and withal a gentleman in the higheBt sense of the term. The Republicans ot the Ninth District will honor themselves and the State by selecting such a man as Cap tain Hart for their standard bearer.
THE conference of Republicans at Indianapolis Tuesday was a surprise iD the numbers in attendance and the enthusiam which characterized the meeting. Nearly every part of the State was represented not only by thoae who were in at the birth of the Republican party but a host of young men who have come on to the stage of active political life since the party was born. The were there, both old and young, with all the enthusiasm of youth. The Republicans of Indiana are determined to step into the oampaign next year with the right foot foremoBt, Bnd Tuesday's meeting was but an augury of the battle that is to be fought. That they expecL to win, obtain a majority in both branches of the Legislature, and secure an additional number of Congressmen, the gerrymander notwithstanding, goes without saying. From every quarter of the State the news was brought that the people are ripe for a political revolution. They are very tired of Democracy.
PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. It has always been the boast of Americans that tne United States ia a representative government and yet under the mo«t favorable circumstances this has never been strictly true, and of late years under BO many gerrymanders the term representative government has been a delusion and a 6nare. By reason of gerrymanders the Democratic mtijority in Congress is 84 over Republicans and populists, whereas, if popular strength were truly represented the majority would be but slight, if anything. But supposing politicians were so truly good as to always give a fair apportionment still there is always a minority in every district which is unrepresented and if the district is solidly Republican or Democratic a member of the minority may vote all his life time and never be represented in Cougress or in the Legislature. True, his party may be successful in the next district, but that does not giye him any representation. His candidate is always defeated and no wonder he gets discouraged and loses interest in voting after a while. No wonder that hundreds of voters stay away from the polls on the ground that there is no chance of electing their candidate. Proportional representation is a reform which proposes not only to make a political gerrymander impossible, but also to give every minority its proper quota of Congressmen and members of the Legislature. It not only proposes to do justice to minorities, but has already accomplished it in many places. It iB in operation in Illinois under the name of "minority representation," where by the cumulative system of yoting each legislative district elects three representatives. The minority, by centralizing on one candidate instead of trving to elect three, can always have representation, even if they poll but one-fourth of the votes, Another ByBtem is also successfully used in Denmark, but the best form of proportional representation is that adopted by the cantons of Ticino, Geneva, and Neuchatel in the sturdy little Republic of Switzerland. It is called the "free list syetem" and Congressman Tom Johnson, of Ohio, has introduced a bill in the National House of Representatives applying to all Con gressional elections. Like the secret ballot law it is very simple when its provisions are once understood. The following are the main points: 1. For the election of Congressmen the entire state would be consldeied as one district and each voter would vote for thirteen candidates. 2. Each party would nominate a full ticket, which would be printed all on one Bheet, as under iho present law and the samu opportunity for voting straight or scratching would be afforded, 3. Judges of election would osbablish the total number of votes cast and the number cast for each candidate. 4. The total number of votes would be divided by the number of Congressmen to be elected, thus giving the electoral quotient.
Dividing the nuirber of votes cast by each party by the electoral quotient would give the number of Congressmen each party was entitled to.
For instance, supposing the total vote ot Indiana is 130,000, the electoral quo tient obtained by dividing by 13 id 10,000. Supposing the Republicans cast 50,000 votes, the Democrats 60,000, the populists 10,000 and the Pro hibitionistB 10,000, then our Congressional delegation at Washington would consist of five Republicans, six Demo ciats, one Populist and one Prohibition ist. Each party would be represented exactly in proportion to its strength. The Legislature could be elected in the same way, except that there would be districts containing some odd number of representatives, say seven or nine. The justice of such a plan is so plain as to need no argument. Its practibility is proved by the fact of its sue cessful use elsewhere.
A QUESTION OF VERACITY. Paramount Commissioner Blount's report has been published. It was up on this report that Seoretary Gresham based his letter to the President. It is needless to say that the report is based on exparte evidence and does not agree with the facts of history. Miss Mary Krout who spent three months at Hon olulu and had as good opportunities to learn the true state of affairs as had Paramount Blount states the following to be the well-authenticated facts:
Although warned aud advised not to do so Queen Liliuokalanl attempted to promulgate constitution of her own devising, by which sho thought to disfranchise all the white men In her kingdom, except those married to na live wives. It was of no consequence to her that those from whom she proposed to wrest the rights of citizenship were men who were heavy taxpayers and who contributed largely to the revenues of the kingdom, Slio was not able to carry out her designs, becausc her ministers refuted to countersign the dncument, which was necessary ti} establish its legality under the existing constitution.
She spent one entire day endeavoring to force her unarmed ministers into submission, while her soldiers were drawn up in front of the palace, and the. throne-room was crowded with hercadherents.
When she could neither cajole nor frighten them into obedience, sho announced in a public speech (in the throne-room, reiterating it afterward from the gallery of the palace to the crowd waiting in the grounds below, "that she desiral tolissnc the constitution, but was pre
vented from doing so by her ministers, but would do no in a few days." Hundreds of credible, witnesses hoard this declaration, which Mr. Blount did not hoar, and he would probably have garbled it if .ho had heard it. More than ihis, those who saw the woman while slieluttered tills pronunciamento, have testified that her face was fiendish in Its ballled rage and hatred.
This Is the Irrefutable testimony of men and women whose word cannot he discredited, though Mr. Blount collect statistics and the Secretary of State write letters until the crack of doom. When Judge Gresham wantonly and stupidly, aDd apparently with malice, attempts to set aside the testimony of such eyewitnesses, upon the hciesay testimony of 'My commissioner," he attempts to do that which, before the days of his own decadence, he would not have tolerated In any court joom where ho presided for one moment.
The Queen WHS never "induced to change her mind." She publicly declared that she had only postponed that which she would carry out in a few days, and she persisted in this declaration.
A SET OF UNSELFISH PATRIOTS. The Democrats ot Louisana, Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, South Carolina anl Missouri are very far from desiring the Congress they did so much to elect to carry out the tariff declaration of the National platform. These patriots, who in 1890 and 1892 registered their protests against protection and their desire for tariff reform, now plead that the reform may be applied to every section save their own. These unselfish patriots are Bwarming to Washington to show to the Ways and Means committee that to remove the tariff from the product in which they are particularly interested would ruin thousands of mem who have their capital invested, throw other thousands out of employment and would be of no espeoial benefit to anybody except the foreigner who would find a market for his goods by displacing the home product. This argument has a Republican sound. What these Democratic wool men from Texas, the Democratic sugar men from Louisiana, the Democratic rice men from South Carolina, the Democratic lead men from Missouri, the Democratic iron ore and coal men from Alabama, Tennessee and the Virginias, have said to the dark lantern conspirators in the basement of the National Capitol is just exaotly what the Republicans have been telling the country for the last thirty years. These Southern Democrats are late in learning the lesson, but they seemed to have learned it.
WILL CLOSE HALF OUR WOOLEN MILLS. The Bradford (England) daily Argus of November 7, 1893, contains the following:
Last night, at the Shipley Technical School Mr. W. li. Mitchell, of Bradford, gave a lecture on "Our Future Trade With America." Mr. Mitchell spoke on the prospects of Bradford's trade with America, and anticipated tne possibility. after the tariff bill had been passed, of a larger trade than had ever been previously known. Mr. John Maddocks, who presided, said that he had heard that the new tariff was to bo wool free, 35 to 40 per cent, ud valorem duty and no weight duty. He himself did not wish the reduction to be too extensive all at once. With a 30 per cent, ad valorem dutj only the English manufacturers would be put In such a position that perhaps hail' the mills in America wouid bo closed for a time, and the people of the States would. In vheir disappointment, begin to look at the matter in a false light, and there would bo a groat reaction in the hopo of finding employment for the people.
Commenting on this extract the New York Pi-ess pertinently asks: How will the proposition of the Bradford rnanufactuerer to close up half of our woolen mills affect this important branch of the textile industry The Eleventh Census shows that the capital invested in 1890 in wool manufacture waB about $300, 000,000, the number of hands employed, in round figures, 220,000, and the wages paid, nearly $77,000,000. In closing up over half our woolen mills, therefore, the Democratic party proposes to confiscate about $150,000,000 of American capital, throw out of employment about 110,000 operatives and stop about $38,500,000 annual wages, thereby reducing to beggary certainly not less than 400,000 men, women and ohildren dependent upon this industry.
POTATOES.
The report of the Agricultural department at Washington shows that the av erage yield of potatoes this year is about 71 bushels to the acre. At the present price of potatoes this is infinitely better than raising wheat or corn It is further shown by the department that during a period of ten years potatoes have brought more clear money to the acre than any other orop. The average yield of wheat is about 13 bushels, and the price about 50 cents per bushel. Farmers should quit wheat and raise more potatoes. Potatoes are higher than wheat and the yield nearly six times as great.
THIS winter will be full of splendid opportunities for unostentatious charities.
I have been a great sufferer from catarrh for over ten years had it very bad, could hardly breathe. Some nights I could not sleep and had to walk the floor. I pur abased Ely's Cream Balm and am using it freely, it is workine a cure surely. 1 have advised several friends to use it, and with happy results in every case. It is the medicine above all others for catarrah, and it is worth its weight in gold. I thank God I have found a remedy 1 can use with safety and that does all that is claimed for it. It is curing my deafness.—B. W. Sperry, Hartford, Conn.
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LAST vear we imported fully $130,000,000 worth of articles which ought to have been and could have been produced in this country. At a verv low estimate one-halt of that value represented the labor that entered into the production of those articles, so that $65,000 was 6ent abroad to pay foreign workmen for doing what our own workmen could have done as well, and the same money was aotually withdrawn from circulation in this country. Is it any wonder that we have an army of unemployed men when we are threatened with a policy which will largely aggravate the situation indicated by the above figures?
MB. CARLISLE, Mr. Cleveland's Secretary of the Treasury, and all who agree with him, assert that no nation can fix a standard of value by itself, but must adopt what they call the international Btandard. And then they proceed to argue that as England has adopted the single gold standard all other nations are bound to do the same thing. The rule first laid down, that no nation can fix a standard, does not apply to England. She can make standards for all the rest of the world, and all other nations must conform to her standard of value. This is the Cleveland theorj.
COLFAX.
Thanksgiving is next Thursday. Mrs. O. W. Eldred was in Frankfort last Thursday.
Miss Florence Anderson returned from Darlington last Friday. There is to be another saloon in this city. Nobody seems to kick.
Oliver Bull was visiting his cousin, Miss Lulu Williams, last week. J. W. Lydy", the county superintendent, was in this city last Friday.
Miss Pearl Hawk and a Miss Hill, of Thorntown, were in the oity Sunday. The Epworth League will give an entertainment at the M. E. church Thanksgiving evening.
The story of "In Dixie's Land" iB being published in this paper. You must not waste this opportunity to read it. Subscribe now.
J. C. Dukes, Ben Baily, Park Hollowas, Bill Wilson and George Fruit, all farmers, living east of town, have purchased a new corn husking machine.
Last Wednesday was Adam Wainscott's birthday, and his sister gave him a surprise by inviting his friends to assemble at his home. A good time reported.
The Wesley scribe is right in the temperance cause. Organize a club and do all you can toward destroying the painted glass of the one room shanties which are scattered all over America.
FRUITS.
Prepare for Thanksgiving. Isaac Follick is moving to Wayne town.
W. B. Wilkinson and wife were in Crawfordsville Saturday. Health is good with the exception of a few cases of chickenpox.
Miss Cora McCormick is visiting her sister, Mrs. Emma Fink, of Yountsville. Calvin Bayles and M. M. Luzader are the trappers and hunters of this community.
H. L. Brown and wife, of Orawfords-
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That is what Jake Joel, the Clothier, did to high prices. He pays no rent and having bought his goods of factories that were on the verge of breaking, he can undersell and does undersell all competition. That is at panic prices nobody else can touch. A dollar will buy as much as two dollars would buy a year ago. Prove it by calling.
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ville, visited at James Wilkinson's the first of the week. L. W. liatcliff and Abner Livingston passed through here Monday with good loads of timothy hay.
W. S. Fink, one of our best citizens, is talking of leaving us and locating in Waynetown. We hope it will just be talk.
Runyan, of Waynetown, and Herron, of this place, made a dash at the hogs the first of the week and almost swept the county.
Mort Hunter and Oliver Lane, two dashing sports of Crawfordsville, were here Tuesday on a hunting excursion, but as the weather was so cold and wet the "poor boye" went home with little game.
MARCEAU.
Harry Ward is all smiles. As a teacher Mr. Walkup excels. The Arkansas Traveler is very popular.
TwiBty Evans has found his overcoat.
W. C. Loop uas erected a large cattle shed. Silas Hunt will start to Kansas soon.
Ed. McCarty is authority on "Americanism," and THAT'S no lie.
About seventy-five persons witnessed the immersion Friday night.
As a result of the inclement weather the proposed Epworth League failed to materialize Friday night. "Another county heard from," making two in all, viz "Cougar" Coulter and "Sagamore" Stafford.
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