Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 1 April 1898 — Page 2
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FRIDAY. APRIL 1. 18B8.
EX-PKKSIDENT CLEVELAND has declared that the course of the Washington administration is simply superb. He bas been there and ought to know.
IN the recent Nebraska municipal elections the free silver men dropped that issue for the first time in several years. They realize that it is fading out.
IT is possible that the newly launched battle-ships Kearsarge and Kentucky can be finished in six months. And if possible it will doubtless bo accomplished.
THK present dynasty in Spain must be in a shaky condition when nothing but a war with the United States will save it. After defeat little Alfonso will be repudiated for losing.
THK fastest fighting ship in the world belongs to our navy. It is the crui&er Columbia, and her run from Southampton to Sandy Hook in six days and twenty three hours has never been equaled by any other native vessel.
IT has long been fashionable to criticise railroad companies and ocean transportation lines, but they are highly appreciatpd when it becomes necessary to reac'v a suffering people promptly with st '•es'of provisions and medicines.
SOMK photog.-.ip. of starving Cubans are on exhibition in a New York show window, and a question frequently asked is, "Are they X-ray pictures?" Their shadowy and skeletonized nature may be,, judged from the pathetic inquiry.
No wonder New Yorkers are not keen for war. A ship like the Indiana could hang off Sandy Hook and drop 1,200 pound shot into the city at the rate of four a minute. Five minutes of such a bombardment would wipe a town like Crawfordsville off the map.
ONE of the most interesting and at, the same time perplexing questions which can be propounded is in reference to what we might expect if some of these little cross roads editors, who are criticising Mr. McKinley, were adorning the presidential chair at present.
HON. THEODOREIJROOSKVEI.T, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, has written an article for the April Century on "Fights Between Ironcladb," with reference to their significance and priority. Mr. JRoosevelt's article is supplemental to-ione by Claude H. Wetmore in the same number on "A Famous Sea Fight." Mr. Wetmore describes the engagement between the Chilean and Peruvian ironclads off the coast of Bolivia in 1879, when the noted Peruvian turret ship, Huascar, was captured. The article will be fully illustrated.
AN important article in the April Harper's on "Commercial Aspects of the Panama Canal," is contributed by Worthington C. Ford, who is chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washing' ton. Mr. Ford discussesithe effects of the isthmian canal on the commerce of the world, and particularly on the commerce of the United States. He points out that trade twith China can never be extensive, that our hopes of trade with Korea are destined to be vain, and concludes by giving reasons for doubting the immediate need of a canal for commercial purposes.
IT is important to remember that the submarine boats} built thus far are available only for harbor defense. But they will be welcome for that purpose. Experiments with them in the war of the revolution and the civil war were not successful, but that was before the era of electric storage battery and gasoline engines. Much is expected from the 'Holland, recently completed near New York. She is the Becond of the type. The first, known as the Plunger, is under construction for the government at Baltimore. They are too heavy to be shipped on the deck of cruisers from point to point, and it is proposed to build several of a lighter pattern, to be utilized this way. That the submarine torpedo boat will eventually be a success is the opinion of many naval construc tors. Two will probably soon be added to the navy, and others contracted for.
WAR IN THE TROPICS. William E. Ourtis gives the following interesting statement regarding the
ODly
war ever waged by this country in the tropics: "The only experience the United States army has ever had in tropical warfare was in Florida, from 1835 to 1S42—the seven years' war with the Seminole Indians. While the conditions there were much more favorable than they are in Cuba, the mortality from disease was enormous in comparison to the number of men employed. The records show that there were altogether 7,400 troops engaged during the seven years fighting against a total of about 3,000 Indians,of whom 1,594 were men,1,357 women and 993 children. The war was carried on in a manner very similar to that ^between the Spaniards and the Cubans. The Indians would never consent to a stand-up fight uu less they had a great advantage, but lay in ambush and attacked the sol diers in the dark whenever they could do so without exposing their own lives. They lived on the country, the native fruits, roots, vegetables and game, while the soldiers were obliged to carry supplies with them and were thus handicapped and retarded in their movements. It took seven years to subdue the savages, and there was no peace until they were practically exterminated. At the end of seven years the fighting men were reduced.- to about 300 and they were bidden in the everglades. "During these seven years outof the 7,400 troops employed 1,531 died twenty-three sailors and forty-two marines, the remainder being officers and soldiers of the regular army. Of this number only 58 were killed in battle, 214 died of wounds and 1,259 of malarial diseases.
As a result of the Indian war there are now on the pension rolls 0,631 persons, of whom 2,373 are survivors and 4,288 widows. They receive an aver age of 8800,000 a year in pensions, and since 1893 have been paid 83,243,708. The total amount thus far paid by the government for pensions growing out of the Florida war will exceed §53,000, 000.",
TIIK speech in the French Chamber of Deputies by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Hanotaux, ought to silence the pessimistic persons who thought that France would aid Spain in case of a war with the United StateB. That official told very plainly that his country would be neutral in any such conflict. The same intelligence has come, though not from such an official source, from Germany and other nations of continental Europe. There never was the slightest excuse for the fear that Spain would get help from any nation, great or small. All the big countries of Europe have troubles of their own which will keep them out of the Cuban controversy.
THE person or persons who planted the mine under the bottom of the Maine were necessarily experts. Fanatics and cranks could not accomplish it unless they possessed the nicest technical skill. The blowing up of the Maine showed the most thorough professional knowledge of high explosives in destroying a ship at a single blow.
IT has been figured out that the 850,000,000 promptly and unanimously voted for President McKinley to spend in national defenses is le68 than onesixth of 1 per cent upon the national resourses.
NA.SIIVII.I.K. American: The ex-Con-federates who enlist for the war with Spain must expect to be called Yankees. Fitzhugh Lee has already been so designated by the Spaniards.
IF, in case of war, this man Rawlins should be forced to take a place at the front it is pretty certain that he would not be so premature with his bellicose resolutions.
Death of a Fortune Teller. A man giving the name of Carlo Pardau died Tuesday at the Harding House on west Main street after an illness of several days. He was the proprietor of the fortune telling fake and palmistry joint which experienced such a frost here last week, and which is now endeavoring to do up the maiden city of Frankfort. Pardau was a victim of the cigarette habit and died of the effectB of his dissipation in this line. He was buried at the expense of the county. He leaves a wife, whom time will probably manage to comfort. Her home was in LaPorte and her father, a laborer named Fred Huth,arrived hereWednesday and will probably take her home with him. Paadau is 6aid, by one of hi-t assistants who came 'from Frankfort Wednesday to attend the funeral, to have been a very clever -fakir and to have made thousands of dollars on his "graft." He spent it all, however, for he didn't have a red cent when he died. The assistant claimed that Pardau owed him 8300, but seemed quite reconciled to the thought that he would never clasp the coin. He imparted the further information that Pardau was a Span iard. wh owas born thirty years Bgo at Vera Cruz, Mexico, and who was raised as a fortune teller.
A T) I
ORIGIN OF LOCAL INSTITUTIONS-
The Reasons for High Taxes and Poor Returns Traced to Their Historical Source—How to Improve.
At the request of the officers of the Indiana State Board of Commerce, the writer will in a series of short articles present more in detail his ideas concerning reform in county, township, city and town government. I propose briefly to sketch the origins of our local institutions and to suggest plans and principles for the reorganization of city, county and township government, in order that public business may be transacted with greater efficiency and economy.
I.
The study of local government is becoming important. Our fathers solved the larger problems of government relating to the protection of civil rights and to the rule of the people. It has been left for the present generation to consider the machinery of local government for the conduct of public business. Our city, town, county and township organisations, in general, work admirably exceotin the transaction of business. Public business is not in general carried on with anything like the economy or success of a private enterprise.
Organization is a very large element in the successful conduct of business. A railroad with a loose and unsystematic organization is much more likely to pass into a receiver's hand than one which is highly organized, with per-
feet system and t.he most approved
poration is organized is incomplete,j
unsystematic and without
and poor returns. In a word,
government Is a machine having cer-1
tain work to do. If the machine is
poorly constructed, out of date, loose,
clumsy, or otherwise imperfect, the
with its separationoflegi6lative.exe-
cutive and judicial functions, bore little resemblance to that of any other country in the world. The various colonies did not immediately reorganize upon the federal plan, but most of the States, if not all, have long since adopted the principles of the national constitution. In respect, however, to local government, wo have not yet adopted the new ideas and principles which control the organization of the republic and the various States, at least in respect to that branch of local government which levies taxes, expends money, makes the contracts, builds roads and school houses, which, in short, transacts the public business of a local character.
in the hands of the new county officials. When the division of functions took place in each community one of the two plans was adopted. In New York the business of the county was intrusted to a Board of Supervisors, consisting of representatives from the various townships. On the other hand, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and other StateB, instead of creating a representative body, the powers of the county were vested in a highly centralized board of three members, elected from the whole county, and called by us county commissioners.
checkB on expenditure. So with coun- taxes and transaction of busi ty, township or city government. If
the law under which a municipal cor- t°°
tutions our local government machin-1 .. rate for his township. The people of ery was not formed along the lines of ... .. the township have no effective reprea a S a a sentation in fixing the tax rate and lagged behind in the march of improvements, following English rather than American types. When the republic was founded there was a clear break from the old theories of despotic government. The federal constitution,
The British parliament exercises, or may exercise, all governmental powers, legislative, executive and judicial. The cities of England are governed by representative bodies, which, on a small scale, strongly resemble parliament, exercising legislative and administrative, if not judicial powers. This systemmaturally was adopted in America, aud to the present day we continue in our city and town government to follow the English rather than the American plan. Thus, with the recent exception of Indianapolis, Evan6ville and Ft. Wayne, all cities and towns in Indiana are governed by councils or boards o* trustees which exercise not only legislative powers, but also transact the executive business of the municipality, and the mayor, who is the presiding officer, also possesses judicial powers. This mixture of functions, conferring unlimited powers upon the same men, may work well in Eagland, where suffrage is restricted to a property basis, but it is the very root of all evil in this country of universal suffrage.
THK COUNTY.
Our county government is also antique. Originally all the powers of the county organization in England and in the colonies were vested in a county court. The judge not merely tried cases, but also levied taxes, dis tributed poor relief, built roads and performed all of the public business. When the Northwest Territory was organized this was the plan of government. At a very early day, here and elsewhere, the judge of the county, which at the time was practically as large as a State iB now, found that he had too much to do. His powers were then divided and a new set of officials were created to exercise the power of levying taxes and carrying on public business, 'Thus the judge became exclusivelv a judicial officer, and legisla
While the former plan, which is to this day known a9 the New York plan, was more popular and more representative, it was urged that the small board of three members was more efficient. When we consider that our board of county commissioners has practically remained unchanged from pioneer times to the present day, when our State contains two acid one half million people and the public business involves untold millions each year, is it surprising that the county board is not adapted to the changed circumstances, particularly in populous and wealthy counties? Rather is it not surprising that this highly centralized institution, exercising both legislative and administrative powers aud having even a trace of judicial power, has survived so long in its present form?
THE TOWNSHIP
In township government the public business was originally transacted by the justices of the peace Then there
came a
m®thod
suitable
checks, the results will be high taxes
local fised.the
mee
division of this power and the
ne88 was
placed in other hands. Here,
ere was a
great difference in the
provided for transacting town-
business. Ne-v York and other
States lhe
People of the township
t&x levy in an annual town
t' of all the voteis. The town
tneet
8' is regarded as the germ of
ree ust tut
work which it turns out must be in- certainly in Old England, if it did not ferior. It is true that good men under
ex5et
ion6. It waS not invented
in New York nor in New
Bmng
a bad law may give bettor government! Indiana, unfortunately, we chose than bad men under a good law, but in the long run a sound business organization greatly raises the average of results obtained.
It is a singular, historical fact, that, ,. ,, ., potic, lortn of local government. Thus, in the development of American insti-: .,
England, but
the Germans themselves,
in our township government, as in the case of county government, to reject the plan which gave the people a larger control in local affairs, and to adopt a highly centralized, if not des-
&
the township trustee fixes the tax
controlling expenses. No despotic country does worse than to have the tax rate fixed by a single man. The levy of school taxes was, indeed, originally made by the people of the town-
Un-
as in to in
happily, in 1865, this popular form of
government was abandoned and the fixing of the school tax, as well as the expenditure of moneys, was concentrated in the hands of a single person known as the township trustee.
The next article will suggest certain changes in our county government. AUGUST L. MASON, Chairman, Committee on Municipal Affairs, Indiana State Board of Commerce.
:"V^-'-.X»ettor List.
Following is a list of the letters remaining uncalled for at the postoffice in Crawfordsville for the week ending Mar. 29, 1898. Persons calling for the same please say "advertised": Bly John Hall E Bowerman Guy Johnson W Craft Lister Miss Melissa
Stradder Newton
GARFIELD.
Miss Josie McCoy is on the sick Miss Maud Binford is not much ter at this writing.
list, bet-
met
The Garfield Literary Society last Tuesday night. Henry Flannigan went to Frankfort lost Tuesday to work.
Born, to S. S. Imel and wife last Tuesday, a seven pound girl. Will Whalen will occupy the house vacated by Willard Binford.
Ed Conrad and wife, of Darlington, spent the week with his brother, Frank.
Rev. Woody's meeting Sunday and Sunday night was not well attended on account of the bad weather.
Rev. Woody and daughter, S. P. Vangundy and wife, C. Mote and Mr. Pierce dined at H. S. Binford's Sunday.
NUMBER THIRTEEN.
Benny Fulwider is building a house. M. C. Graves went to New Market Tuesday.
Mr Jolly has commenced work on his house. Lewis Bannon, the hack driver, was in Veedersburg Saturday.
Mrs. Lou Coffin, of Indianapolis, visited here the fore part of the week. Miss Libby Kerr, of New Richmond, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs J. Thomas, returned home Monday.
C. Graves bought fifteen acres of land south of the railroad from the Vanscoyoc heirs, formerly owned by John Dazey. He will put up buildings soon.
A number of friends and neighbors went in on Mark Lewis and wife on Wednesday evening to remind Mrs. Lewis that it was her birthday. Refreshments were served and all had a good time and went home through the rain.
The Journal Co«( Artistic Printers# tive and executive powers were placed Syrup. rain up there that we have had here.
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON'S NEPHEW
When Worn Out Nothing Helped Him Like
PAINE'S CELERY COMPOUND
To be born a Harrison has been, in this country, as with the Pitt family of Prime Ministers in Eogland, to turn instinctively to politics aud a public life.
Two Presidents of the United States, a Governor of Virginia, who was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of Congress for several years—all within four generations. father to son, has but one parallel in this country and few abroad.
Mr. John Scott Harri's&n, Jr nephew of ex President Harrison, whose hard, telling campaign work in the Southwest showed the strong family g'ft. sends the following appreciative e. Umate of Paine'6 celery compound as an ideal restorative for the body and brain when either are excessively used:
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JOHN SCOTT HARRISON, Jr.
Paine's celery compound is the one means regarded sufficiently effective by conscientious physicians to be relied on in cases of debilitv arising from
NORTH MACE.
Wheat looks very fine. Prof. Jesse Ward spent Sunday with Homer Dice.
Seth Crowder will work for George Linn this summer. ChaB. Ward began working for Wheeler Linn last week.
John W. Ward has the. roads about repaired after the big rain. John Finch sold a fine bunch of hogs to Edwards & Linn Monday.
George Linn and family spent Sunday with relatives at Darlington. QHomer Linn says his horse wants to turn in at every patent gate he comes to.
Farmers are busy repairing fences which were washed out by the big rain.
John Sellars saw another ghost while returning from the party at Eli Chadwick's.
Chas. Clark has purchased a new buggy. Girls, see who will get the first ride.
The party at Eli Chadwick's last Saturday night was not very well attended on account of the bad weather.
IT'S the little colds that grow into big colds the big colds that end in consumption and death. Watch the down from the prairie Saturday. They
John Sellars and Chas. Weaver have their 6orghum mill almost completed, and will be ready for work this fall.
It was a mistake about Homer Dice having the contract of digging the cellar, but it was Homer Linn and Milford Williams.
little colds. Dr. Wood's Norway Pine sav that they have not had near the
SMARTSBURG.
Oath Catterlin will farm part of Bill Long's ground this summer. Frank and Oath Catterlin visited relatives at Frankfort last week.
James Green will have quite a lot of ditching done on bis farm this spring. John Cox and wife, of West school house, moved to Crawfordsville Monday.
George Kennedy has bought a fine horse of Jonathan Fruits, of Gravelly Run.
Sunday school was not very well attended Sunday on account of the bad weather.
Meeting at the Baptist church the second Sunday in April. Everjone cordially invited.
Walter WisehaTt and family have moved on his father's farm and Mrs. Newkirk and sonB have moved into the house vacated by them.
John Downs and Ben Shelton were
whatever cause, and to counteract the strain of unexpected, prolonged work aud excitement. It is the only remedy prepared under the eyes of the medical profession, and in strict accordance with the directions of a physician of acknowledged ability.
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Nerves and brain can be worked out. 'Jhis is the condition of thousands of exhausted nervous tjstems that have beeu almost worked to death in school, counting rooms, factories and stores. Shaky nerves, flabbly muscles, muddy complexions and the general appearance of wearinesB and pain tell the story of exhaustion. Persistent headaches go with nervous debility. That terrible throbbing of the heart comes from a wretched con iition of the nervous system.
The sure way to get back to perfect health of body and brain is tortfiliate and nourish the nerves by m^nrs of Paine's celery compound. It- is a searching cure for all diseases that indicate vitiated blood. It builds up the strength and replaces used-up parts by new, vigorous tissues.
Rev. Johnston, of Lebanon, will preach here Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, also Saturday night before and Sunday night. All cordially invited to attend.
BROWN'S VALLEY.
Fisher Galey went to Crawfordsville Saturday. Robert Leisure, of Russellville, was hero Monday.
Miss Jessie Boyland was in Crawfordsville Saturday. Charley McHaughey, of Russellville, was in town Monday.
Mrs. Alpha Johnson went to Waveland Thursday on business. Elmer French was the guest of Mabel Reynolds over Sunday.
Miss Ina Felton is sewing for Israel Wilkinson'B family this week. Mrs. Lou Servies, of New Yarket, visited relatives here last week.
Thomas Rice, of Indianapolis, was the gue6t of Dee Patton over .Sunday. Mr. Prather and family, of Waveland, were guests of friends here over Sunday.
The town was filled with Gypsies last week begging for things to eat and wear.
On account of the rainy weather but one person, Miss Dora Boyland, waB baptized here Sunday night.
George Daily's bride and ber sister returned to this place last Friday and they are now living as happy as June bugs.
We are going to have a Dew paper. The Russellville Record bas changed hands and is going to start' up again, Lou Etchison being the editor this time. We hope he will have good success.
Mish Rose Glenn Webster will lecture here at the church Sunday morning, April 3, on the Mormons, and at Freedom in tho evening. She is 24 years of age and has lived with the Mormons all her life and will be able to give a good lecture. The lecture is free so it will, yive everybody a chance to hear it. Miss Webster will lecture at Waveland Tuesday night, April 5. Everybody is cordially invited to attend and here what she has to say about the Mormons.
ORDINARY household accidents have no terrors when there's a bottle of Dr. Thomas'Electric Oil in the medicine chest Heals burns, cuts, bruises, sprains Instant relief. I^
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