Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 22 February 1895 — Page 2

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T. H. B. McCAIN, President. J. A. GRhKNE. Spcretary. A. A. McCAIN,Treasurer

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1895.

DURING the last eight years the fire insurance companies have collected in Indiana over §19,000,000, and have paid in losses a little over 811,000,000. The difference of over $8,000,000 is profits. This is out of all reason. The insurance companies have been claiming' that they have been losing money. Most business men would like to lose money in the same way. The enormous profits that they have made show that the people might have cheaper insurance. It is the duty of the Legislature to see that they get it.

IT is not at all unlikely that President Cleveland will name Governor Matthews as the successor of the late Isaac P. Gray as Minister to Mexico. The President might go farther and fare worse. Governor Matthews stands head and shoulders above every Democrat of prominence in Indiana, and the fact that Mr. Cleveland has a high opinion of the Governor's abilities may influence him in calling him to this post. This of course would make Mortimer Nye, a much smaller man intellectually, the Governor, but it is presumed Mr. Nye would not object.

THE Lebanon Patriot shakes up the Indiana School Book Company in the following well merited criticism:

The Indiana School Book Company is a trust which the Democratic Legislature thrust upon the people of the State. The State is a party to the trust but gets no part of the emoluments. Every school trustee in the State is its agent but the tax-pavers pay them for their work. The county superintendent is also a collector for the firm but gets neither a salary or a commission except what is allowed by the county commissioners and paid out of the county treasury. Yet the people are told they have cheap books and some have actually believed that the book question had been settled in the interest of the people. What fools we mortals be.

The Patriot might have added that the Indiana School Book Company is a part and parcel of the American oehool Hook Company, a trust that is just as objectionable and as grinding as the sugar trust.

THE Peru Republican commenting on the extortions of the insurance companies saj's:

Except the burning of a few comparatively worthless, uninsured shanties and stables last winter by some youthful incendiaries who were finally caught, Peru has had an exemption from fires since 1879, when the present system of water work was constructed. In spite of these facts the insurance companies have raised their rates and forced this extortion from the business men of Peru through the agency of a trust, more grinding than that of any of the great monopolies that are squeezing the life out of the people. When a protest is made the answer is given: "The insurance companies are making no money in Indiana," or "we will have a big fire sometime." For the last sixteen years the insurance companies have taken $20,000 a year out of Peru, making $320,000 in cold cash, and if they had paid in losses a total of 850,000 in the entire sixteen years we do not know who has received it. We are tired of hearing this old story about insurance companies losing money in Indiana.

What is true of Peru is true of Crawfordsville. We are compelled to dance to the same music and there seems to be no relief in sight. The insurance lobby at Indianapolis is more powerful than the lobby of the people.

THE House Committee on corporations has prepared a bill which was presented yesterday afternoon as a substitute for the stotsenburgbill regulating building associations. The substitute provides that any association if it sees fit may levy an expense assessment of ten cents a month on each share of stock: that any balance remaining after the payment of expenses shall «be annually credited to the profit account that a pass-book shall be furnished each of the members in which shall be entered, when paid, the amount paid by each stockholder. Each entry shall show in separate columns the amount paid in by such stockholder on dues, premium, interest, fines and expense assessments. No part of the dues of any member shall be taken for the purpose of paying expenses. The bill further provides that an annual sworn statement of all money collected, with an itemized account of all expenses incurred shall be filed in the office of the Auditor of State, and a printed copy of the same shall be furnished to each stockholder. If an association desires it can operate without an expense fund but in no event shall the expenses exceed a sum equal ito 10 cents per month on each share of stock. A penalty not exceeding 8100 is fixed for the violation of any of the provisions of the act.

A BAD BARGAIN.

The contract that President Cleveland secretly made for the disposal of the last batch of bonds, amounting to $62,400,000, has been made public. Everybody can now see that lie has made a very bad bargain with a syndicate of foreign bankers. He has sold them coin bonds running for thirty years on a basis of 3% per cent, per annum. In view of the fact that only a few weeks ago the Government negotiated a ten year loan on a basis of

2%

per cent, per annum, and that nothing has happened in the interim to impair the credit of the United Sta.tes, the transaction looks absolutely indefensible. No one doubts that if he had offered this loan to the people instead of to a foreign syndicate it could have been disposed of at 3 per cent., if the bonds had been made of small denominations so that moderate investors and savings bank depositors could have purchased them. A popular loan was not made by the President because it could not have been made on a gold basis, and to have made a currency loan would have been to admit that the Government lacked revenue. The President insists, despite the enormous deficit in the Treasury, despite the fact that the gold from the reserve fund has been used for current expenses, that the embarassmcnt of the Treasury is due to a lack of gold, and not to a lack of income. And so a popular loan at per cent, is set aside and a syndicate loan at iiilt per cent, is negotiated.

A .JUST KSTIMAT.E.

In its comments on the death of Hon. Isaac P. Gray the Lafayette Courier gives the best estimate of his eharaeacter that has been by any newspaper. It says:

His most friendly biographer will scarce attempt to proclaim Governor Gray a man of exceptional ability or superior attainments. He had a genius for politics, and as a party man he achieved a measure of continued success by cunning artifices rather than by force of merit. He lacked stability, he lacked conscience he was inconsistent and insincere. Originally a Republican, here-, tiered Governor Morton valuable assistance in the way of securing legislation in Indiana favorable to the prosecution of the war along the lines laid down by President Lincoln, and subsequently he went to the front himself in behalf of thei cause of the Union. That constitutes an era in this career that must forever remain a source of satisfaction and of pride to his friends, but his course thereafter was so unstable ar vasciliating that it may be stated in all truth and all kindness that he became a time-server rather than a leader. Asa politician he was a student of resources rather than of principles, and in all things he. was a "man of infinite variety," adjusting himself to circumstances and conforming with changed conditions with the flexibility that is the distinguishing characteristic of demagogy. By degrees he became a so-called "liberal Republican,''then a mild-manner Democrat, and finally a bourbon of the most pronounced type. In the course of this evolution Mr. Gray demonstrated remarkable tact in maintaining his prestige and proved himself a politician of accurate foresight in nearly everything that related to his personal advancement and individual aggrandizement. Personally, he was companionable, courteous and popular, and while his'methods as a public character were by no means admirable, his integrity was never seriously questioned.

A1*L'OUTION KNT IDIOCY. Speaking of the proposed Congressional apportionment the Lafayette Courier denounces it and says that the measure is quite as obnoxious as the existing gerrymander. Tippecanoe is placed in the Tenth, which makes the district not unlike a shoestring running nearly to Chicago, The Courier says: I'-j'iy-

We are decidedly opposed to the arrangement and denounce it as an outrage. Tippecanoe county's surroundings and associations have nearly always been Republican. If proper regard is paid to geographical conditions it cannot consistently be dumped into a Democratic district. So far as acquaintance and relations are concerned, the people of the counties of Lake, Porter and Laporte, especially, are as foreign to us as if they lived in Halifax. There can be no such thing as patience in considering such apportionment idiocy, and the one redeeming feature in the arrangement is that it is so manifestly insane that no member will support it. if it is ever presented, unless he is prepared to confess that he is selfishly interested or else a con tinned and hopeless chump.

The Courier uses strong language but none too strong to meet the present emergency.

THE Indianapolis Journal champions the proposed Congressional gerrymander. At the same time it admits that the "largest district contains 8,410 inhabitants over the average, and the smallest 7,787 below." How the Journal can reconcile this statement with its conclusion that the bill "appears to meet all the requirements better than others, and so well that it is difficult to see how it could be improved" is beyond the comprehension of fair men So far as this JOURNAL is concerned it will not champion the bill now nor when it becomes a law, if it ever does, nor defend any man who votes it."

THIS telephone war goes merrily on in many towns and cities and the people profit thereby. At Niles, Michigan, where a new system reduced the service to twenty dollars a year, the Bell company announces that old subsubscribers can have telphones for nothing.

A CONGRESSIONAL FIX-UP. No positive action has as yet been taken by the Republican caucus on the Congressional apportionment, but the bill which seems to meet with general favor is the one reported by Representative Stutesman, which for grotesqueness in appearance is not excelled by the present Democratic gerrymander. Take for instance the district of which Montgomery forms a part. It is numbered as the Ninth, and is composed of Warren,Fountain, Montgomery. Boone, Clinton, Carroll, Tipton and Hamilton. Its shape is a dead give away. It has all the appearance of having been struck with a trip hammer with Montgomery as the point of depression and upending the extremities to such an extent that Carroll is thrown into midair. If this is the best the committee has to offer the caucus it would be far batter that nothing be done. The Republicans promised a fair apportionment. For the bread that they promised the people are the legislators such ninnies as to believe that they will be satisfied with a stone? No matter whose Congressional aspirations may be nipped with the apportionment frost the people demand that the district shall be symmetrical as well as equal in population and they will be satisfied with nothing less.

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The President and his Secretary of the Treasury have contended all along that the Treasury has a "comfortable surplus" and is certain to have a greater one. Senators vastly more skilled in everything which relates to finance than either Mr. Cleveland or Mr. Clirlisle have insisted that the radical cause of the existing treasury embarrassment was lack of revenue. The Senate, therefore, by resolution called upon Secretary Carlisle for a full statement of the condition of his financial box. In his reply Mr. Carlisle was forced to admit that with the exception of §12,378,451 every dollar of gold of that $117,380,282 borrowed was used to pay the current expenses of the Government. If the President had made the proper recommendations for the increase of the revenues, instead of recommending their decrease, there would have been no need to issue any bonds, whatever. The letter- of the Secretary shows that on January 1, there were appropriations unexpended amounting to $255,955,039, and that there was money in the treasury, exclusive of the small gold reserve, available to meet those appropriations of $100,375,740. In other words, the outstanding appropriations unexpended Jan. 1 exceeded all the available assets of the treasury by the startling sum of $149,579,299. These appropriations were for public works and such other things, which could all have been expended by Jan. 1. It does not include appropriations for department salaries, etc. But the situation has been daily growing worse since the first of January. The deficit since that time amounts to nearly $14,000,000. Hence the treasury owes, or would owe if the law were carried out in regard to appropriations, about $103,000,000 more than it can meet. And yet Cleveland and Carlisle, either from blindness, perversity, or absolute incompetency, officially declare that there is no need of any more revenue, but that legislation is simply required to keep gold in the treasury.

IT must be conceded that the Indianapolis Journal in its contention that the power of appointment should remain in the hands of the Governor has the best of the argument. It reviews the history of the struggles that have been made in the Legislature from the days of Morton to Matthews, and shows that the Republican party has been invariably in favor of the Governor performing this duty. When the Democratic Legislature in 1862 attempted to wrest this power from Governor Morton, rather than that they should succeed he Republican members bolted and went off on a junketing tour to Madison. They made a similar fight when Porter was Governor, and Hovey sent in veto after veto of bills providing that the appointing power should be placed elsewhere than in the hands of the Executive. In all these battles the Republicans were arrayed on the side of the Governor. This principle was embodied in the platforms of the party, and for the last ten years or more the party has declared in favor of standing by the constitution. Those who are contending that the appointing power shall be taken from the hands of Governor Matthews are not inconsistent but they stultify and mar a most glorious record.

WHO would have thought it? Senator Seller has introduced a temperance bill in the Senate. His bill provides that a minor who buys ointoxicating liquors for a beverage shall be fined, but it allows a person who is more than eighteen years old to buy at a saloon. It inflicts a heavy penalty on the saloon keeper who sells to a child, and prohibits parents from sending children to saloons after liquor. The bill further provides that the person taking out license for a saloon must conduct the business. Except for the feature of permitting boys of eighteen and over to buy liquor at a saloon the bill has much to commend it and ought to pass.

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The editorial columns of the Northhampton, Mass., Daily Hampshire Gazette, of Dec. 28th, give the particulars of the remarkable cure by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, of Alderman Charles S. Crouch, one of Northampton's ablest and best-known statesmen.

Editor J. C. Gere, of this leading newspaper, personally investigated the facts of this wonderful cure, and his widely-read editorial states the details of the cure exactly as they occurred, giving Hon. Mr. Crouch's own words.

Following is the editorial in full: Learning that a great cure had been been effected in Alberman Chas. S. Crouch, of Northhampton, Mass.. by Dr. Greene's Nervura blood aud nerve remedy, a reporter took occasion to call an Mr. Crouch and ask him what about it, and among the thousands of testimonials given to this world-re-nowned medicine, none will be more widely read or give more weight than this one, coming from so noted a man as Alderman Crouch.

Mr. Crouch is one of the plain, oldfashioned kind of men, outspoken aud always means just what he says. In conversation with Mr. Crouch he said: "Last Spring I did not feel in my usual health felt as tired in the morning as when I retired had no eneigy or ambition to go about a day's work: no appetite with which to regain strength and energy.- In this condition qI worked along from week to week, thinking that after a while matters would right themselves and I would feel like myself again, But to the contrary I grew worse. "Knowing that Dr. Greene's Nervura was not a patent medicine but a medicine put up from a prescription discovered by the doctor in his private practice, I resolved to try it. The first bottle helped me so much that I purchased another one, and even a third bottle, when, to my great joy I found myself as well as ever I was in my life and furthermore, have remained so."

In further conversation he said "Dr. Greene's Nervura is a great medicine. There is no humbug about it! It was made to cure, and it does cure! No one need be afroid to use it."

Day by day he praises this wonderful mediciue to his friends and neighbors, as the one sure way to regain their health.

A Ounrter Century Test,.

For a quarter of a century Dr. King's New Discovery has been tested, and the millions who have received benefit from its use, testify to its wonderful curative powers in all diseases of Throat, Chest and Lungs. A remedy that has stood the test so long and that has given so universal satisfaction is no experiment. Each bottle is positively guaranteed to give relief, or the money will be refunded. It is admitted to be the most reliable for Coughs and Colds. Trial bottles free at Whitenack & Cotton's drug store. Large sizes 50c and $1.00.

A False Diagnosis.

AN ALDERMAN CURED.

Dr. Greene's Nervura is the Best and Surest Spring Medicine—Hr. Crouch and Editor J. C. Gere, in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Give this Wonderful Remedy a

Glowing Tribute.

ALDERMAN CHAS. 8. CROUCH.

La grippe is confounded by many persons with a severe attack of catarrh, which in some respects resembles the former. These individuals suffer severely with pain about the forehead, eyes and ears, with soreness in throat and stoppage of the nasal passages, and in fact are incapacitated for work of any kind for days at a time. These are catarrhal sufferers. Ely's Cream Balm has been used with the best results in such cases. The remedy will give instant relief.

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His wife, also, used Dr. Greene' Nervura blood and nerve remedy to great advantage, and, like her husband, has been cured and now enjoys her oldtime health.

Mr. Crouch has always been an active man in town and city affairs. In old town-meeting days he was always on hand to help with his eloquent oratory the pressing needs of the time, and since Northampton has been a city he has served for several years in its government and at the last election he received the largest vote for alderman he ever had. He is a contractor, and during the past few years has built some of the finest houses in the citjr. Both Mr. and Mrs. Crouch give Dr. Greene the praise of giving them a medicine that will cure and keep them well.

The word of this widely known city government official, Alderman Crouch, should have the most convincing weight with the public, but when we have added to this the fact that the Northampton Daily Hampshire Gazette, a newspaper of the highest standing, vouches editorially for the truth of every word, and its editor states that he has personally investigated all the facts of the marvelous cure, there should be no hesitation by the people to use this great medical discovery, this wonderful curer of disease, Dr. Green'e Nervura blood and nerve remedy. It is a fact no longer to be doubted, that this remedy cures—that it makes those who use it strong and well—that it is the surest and most certain cure for disease known at the present day.

It is the very best of all spring medicines, and should be taken now by all who are weak, nervous and run down, to strengthen the nerves and invigorate the blood.

It is not a patent medicine, but the prescription of the most successful living specialist in curing nervous and chronic diseases, Dr. Greene, of 35 YVest 14th St New York City. He has the largest practice in the world, and this grand medical discovery is the result of his vast experience. The great reputation of Dr. Greene is a guarantee that this medicine will cure, and the fact that he can be consulted by anyone at any time free of charge, personally or by letter, gives absolute assurance of the beneficial action of this wonderful medicine.

AH Ode to Columbus.

The pnnses of Columbus, We o'teu do rehearse. Sometimes in prose so stately.

Sometimes in ringing verse.

Many a once mournful melancholy, morbid, miserable man sings the praise of even a greater discovery than that of Columbus. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery opens up a new world of hope and health to the sick. It cures tubercular consumption which is simply lung scrofula—the active and dangerous development of a taint in the blood. Its blood cleansing botanic principles specially fit it to cleanse the blood and prevent the formation of ulcers in the lungs and bronchial tubes. Liver complaint, skin diseases and sores, are also cured by it.

May Do As Much For Ion.

Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, 111., writes that he had a severe kidney trouble for many years, with severe pains in the back and also that his bladder was affected. He tried many so-called kidney cures but without any good result. About a yea.r ago he began the use of Electric Bitters and found relief at once. Electric Bitters is especially adapted to cure all kidney and liver troubles and often gives almost instant relief. One bottle will prove our statement. Price only 50c. for large bottle. At Whitenack & Cotton's drug store.

This IsaFact

Hides, Tallow,

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Furs,

And other products in his line, and he is into it deeper than ever. You will find that he always pays more than anybody in the county for the above named articles, and will always treat his customers fair and square.

Anyone having dead animals will notify Joseph Goldberg by postal or otherwise and they will be removed on short notice. Yours Respectfully,

Jos.Goldberg.

$1,000 Made

In the course of time by dealing where you get the best values for your money. Do you know that

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Are making the Best

Cabinet Photos

Ever made in Crawfordsville and at just half the prices others charge? Ask your neighbor if they were ever displeased with any work from Lawson's Gallery.

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 st., Ornbaun Block, Crawfordsville, Ind.

ED VOlilS. MAC STILWELL.

Voris & Stilwell.

(Established 1877)

Representing SO of the Oldest and Largest Fire, Lite mid .Accident Insurance Companies. Farm Loans a Specialty. Prompt, and Equitable Settlement ol' Losses. Office—3d door north ol' Court House, Crawfordsville, Ind.

C. C. K1CE, Solicitor,

$$ MONEY $$

To loan in sums of $100 to $10,000 at 5 and 6 percent, and without commission, with lime to suit the borrower. All inquiries cheerfully answered.

U. W. BURTON.

Office over VanCamp's Shoe Store.

6 per cent. 6 percent. MONEY TO LOAN.

On improved property. In sum& to suit. At lowest rates.

R. E.

BRYANT.

Joel Block.

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Practices in Federal and State Courts. PATENTS A SPECIALTY. S3lr~Law Offices, Crawford Building-.

Opp, Music Hall, Crawfordsville.

GEORGE W. FULLER,

Crawfordsville, Ind. Breeder and Shipper of thoroughbred POLAND

CHINA hogs,B.P.Kocks, White Guineas and Fan Tall Pigeons. Stock and Egtfs for sale. Eggs $1.26

per lu or$2 Write your want-.

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BOILING WATER OR MILK.

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