Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 September 1898 — Page 5

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Our New Line of

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Suits worth $ 5.00 at Suits 6.00 at Suits- 8.00 at Suits 10.00 at Suits 12.00 at Suits 15.00 at

F^all

Clothing

Made expressly for us at our own factory will arrive in a few days. Until they arrive we ^will close the balance of our light weight zfj goods] at the following low prices:

The lots and sizea are broken, but good values are many throughout the stock.

THE AHERICAN

Manufacturing Clothiers,

arid Green Sts., Crawfordsville, Ind.

$3.68 3.79 4.75 6.75 7.89 9.87

lb Time of Peace Prepare For War.

-25 HEAD OF-

YEARLING TUNIS RAMS

-AND-

EARLY RAM LAMBS.

Also 40 Head of Cross Bred Rams

Locust Grove Stock Farm.

Tor this year's trade. This lot of Rams has no equal for quality in the I'tato of' Indiana—no breed excepted. As strong as Sampson, as Dewey and frt^h as a May morning. Hobsou's choice in this lot is good enough. I wilt c.-rif M' 't all rroFs hred

Tur'« wools produced from Rams sold bvinof. r^

tb curR h.t cents per dm 1 wvn,iimi ever peneral price of best who's i. f, tin (.(•Iivt ry. biiid wool in lie elivt rid in good condition at Locust (!fi,v» l'llrci in i.omprtiUoii with fiber. in reach of nil. Dou't be deluded hi whit told brecdurb toil vou, but see tins lot, of Kams stud be convinced. cToiue ...... tnrly us the supply will go soon

CHAS. ROUNTREE.

YOUNTSVILLB, IND,

•w DO YOU WANT TO Bsi.

as

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Well Suited

An elegant line of Suitings is. Don't fail to come and my line before buying ycur fall suit.

Hats at Reduced Prices.

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D, F. SMITH,

SEPTEMBER TALK...

Ur flelcis

I.nmin82?nfJ^c V,i0an'V

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?J, month In which Hon Cholera la most prevalent. Usually if vour hum nnaa

bring you in the market 2. To have something to feed the immeSsI

term

if

ils W Silt

examine

becoming lofected they will rerailn healthy for the fall nfonths

cholera originate in tne hoc summer months. There are two reasons

wny you should give your hogs sp?clal attention during this month. 1 To save the nrnfl? I™ SiR

Promi3„e- FEED YOUR IXOGS OUn FAULT si

HOG FOOD and Cholera preventive and your hogs will not have that disease Thn So

ln

Quantity. We have the first report to

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V. ,M. C. A..

BLOCK,

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receive

while using this remedy. We are also prepared to All your nrlv&te renetnta

at the lowest prices consistent with rood worir. your private receipts

J. H. WHITENACK,

of hogs

Druggist, The Blnlord Comer,

T"y'

RENOUNCES DEMOCRACY.

If on. J. Maurice Thompson is ISnliever in the Expansion l'olicy of tliti Republican l'arty.

Hon. J. Maurice Thompson, of this city, is not in touch with Wm. J. Bryan and Bailey, of Texas. The following is a portion of a letter he has in today's Indianapolis Journal: "AL the present moment in our national history we need, a6 we never before have needed, the clear vision, the high cour&ge and the abounding self trust of youth. It is time for us to stand on firm legs, to look facts in the face and to feel competent. We have come to our early prime. If we limp and lag now the whole future will be a failure and a regret. If we act with boldness, energy and patriotism the life of our nation will take on a new and splendid power. "To the young men of Indiana I have something to say, and I should be glad if every young man in America could hear me. Who are the young men? As I would define youth they are the men who have young minds, young hearts, young feelings, no matter what their age in years. A man of eighty is young if he still is open to conviction, to new ideas, to wholesome change of view, to the broadening influence of progress. Any man is old, though not yet twenty-one, who is content to live upon the past and is unwilling to accept new conditions and new ideas. With this understanding of what 1 mean when I say that young men must control the future of America, I respectfully ask young men of Indiana between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five to give me a hearing. I purpose to deal in facts. "And first, a few historical facts about conquest. Youhave seen in certain newspapers the statement or formula of the so-called 'friends of Cuba' to the effect that it is 'not American to make conquest of territory, or to ba guilty of land-grabbing.' But I boldly say that the history of our country is a history of 'land-grabbing' from its beginning to this hour. Am I right? Let us see. How did we get Massachusetts? How did we get Vir ginia? Go to ycur histories and read how we took them by 'bloody conquest from the Indiaus who held them by immemorial right of possession. To come home, how did we get indiana? Go read the history of the Miami people, the biography of Tecumseh. We took Indiana by conquest from a nobler race thaa the large uaaj r'.ty of Cubans. How did we acquire our great southwestern territory, including Texas, New Mexico and California? A right bloody little war was the main influence. We whipped Mexico and took territory 'rom her. These facts will suggest others to the intelligent young mind, and I need not go further in proving that it is American, historically and characteristically American to take territory by conquest. Almost all the territory we possess, including most of our states, has been acquired by forcibly taking it from its ownerp. History is better evidence than editorials. ft'e-i "You have heard and seen it reiterated, in season and out of siason, 'our solemn promise' that we would not annex Cuba. What tole'mn promist? To whom was it made, and where, and how? The so-called promise was a part of the congressional resolution passed just before war was declared. It reads thus: "That the United States hereby disclaims tiny invention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdiction or control over i-aid i&itt/id (Cuba), except for the pac ti tition thereof, and asserts its detertuinution. when that i« acjciupli&hed. to leave the government tvnd control of the island to its people. "Taken by hsalf, without hUtO'icjl explanation, this ref-olntion is a e'etr statement of our trov^rr, iprt'n.attitude toward Cub*. But attain history is more potent than editorials. The joint resolution, of which the above is the final paragraph, was passed on the 10th of April and was sent to Minister Woodford at Madrid on the 20th But Woodford was peremptorily dismissed bafore ho could hand Sherman's dispatch to the Spanish government. This was accepted as a declaration of war on Spain'* part, and it changed the whole situation, We were now compelled to turn froui contemplating a peaceful settlement of the Cuban question to the arbitrament of war. If Spain had withdrawn peacefully from Cuba, causing us no expanse of life and treasure, no disturbance of national quiet, we should have had no course save to abide by our congressional resolution, which clearly contemplated what we were to do in case Spain acceded to the terms it presented. But Bhe did not accede she forced war upon us, forced us to wrench Cuba from her by conquest. On the 85th of April we formally declared war, uncondition­

CRAWFORDSYILLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 0, 1898-TWELVE PAGES.

al war, war without any reference whatever to the resolution passed in time of peace. That resolution was repealed by implication, annulled by the refusal of the Spanish government to permit it even to bo presented to them. This presented the new condition upon which we have ever since acted. We did not make a 'solemn promise.' We merely defined the intention of the government at the time the resolution was passed, an intention based upon facts very different from thobe that soon afterwards arose. When facts changed, intention necessarily changed with them. Every consideration of statesmanship and patr!otism demanded the change, and it came. A joint resolution of congress is no more 'sacred' than any other law. It can be repealed by implication or directly by act, just as any other law. It has been repealed by the failure of the terms, conditions and relations upon which it was based. It is not now binding upon Spain, upon Cuba or upon us. It rests upon no consideration it is more worthless than the ordinary nudum pactum, for the whole group of facts and the whole atmosphere that gave It potential virtue is gone never to return. This is the historical outline of the facts, and facts are better than editorials. "The only real question in the whole Cuban matter is simply this: Is it best for us and for Cuba that we shall have our flag over the island? We owe Cuba nothing she owes us everything. The war has shown that the Cubans could not have conquered a peace with Spain in any number of years. We have conquered that peace. We have more rights to be considered than the Cubans have, and we have a better right to set the terms of the island's future. All this talk about the^'sacred rights of liberty' is ill applied in the the case of Cuba. Every healthy, honest, intelligent mind in America knows that if the Cubans are given the same liberty that the people of every other part of the United States enj^y they will be lacking in wholesome political freedom. Our freedom is good enough for the Cubans or anybody else.

A glance at the map ought to satisfy any unprejudiced mind that Cuba needs us and we need Cuba The island is too small for successful independence. The people are too ignorant and untrained to be able to govern themselves. Twenty per cent, of the population owns practically all of the property. These few are chie tly Spaniards and Spanish sympathizers. The rest are what we know as 'the Cubans They are mostly negroes and of mixed breed. I am sure that few intelligent Americans think that these Cubans are capable of independent self-gov-ernment. Scarcely one person in this country who knows anything at first hand about Cubans believes that Cuba would be peaceful and prosperous under their control. We need Cuba as a fortification guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Mexico and the canal that we must build between the oceans. Under our rme Cuba will become rich, prosperous and happy, just as all other territories aud states under our flag have become rich, pros psrous and happy. Under Cuban rule she would become revolutionary, torn with internal troubles and pitifully unhappy, just as all other American countries governed by L*tin civilization have done. These fire facts ind cated by history, and facts sre better than editorials." "The Cubsu question is going to enter polities "ioung men may as well begin to prepare for the btruggle. In a recent article Carl iSchurz mitlo the prophecy that upon this Usio the two t'reat parties will face each other, and that the Aruericau people will 1 arc to dee'da it He sass that tho IV.-publi-can party' is jrri-'g meiUii l.&tloral control of the c.icqusred islands its battle cry in the next notional csu.piigti, and he intimites that if it do it will b» defeated. The history of American politics suggests a iiie different resuH. The Whi party is s, tradition, the Democratic party htill lives notwithstanding the "imperialii ra' that followed tho Mexican war. A tremendous change in constitutional interpretation and two amend'i cnts to the constitution in order lo make that interpretation doubly fauro did not weaken the Republican party. You may call .*igbteousnesB 'imperialism' or any other hard name but it is very apt to 6how itseif impregnable to that sort of miBsilet. And if American political history is proof of anything it proves in advance that if the Democratic party shall attempt to Eetup the worn cry of free silver and free trade against the glorious shout of national destiny and national adequacy to fill every demand of that destiny, there will be about as much probability of

Democratic success as there was in

4

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1868. Tho conquering hero is more admirable and more available than thoherowho doubts his country's moral character and sees only calamity in every great national undertaking. Let tho Republican party plant itself-squarely on tho natriotic, optimistic point of view and nominate a man who believes that his country is able to take care of itself with colonies or without them, and that man will easily defeat any Democrat, or any party candidate whatever, whoso battle cry shall be: 'My country is too weak or too corrupt to bo trusted with colonial poesesBionF. The American people are not to be won by traducing their character, or by tolling them how they would become corrupt and fall to pieces under circumstances and conditions that have made the English nation the most powerful and the richest on tho globe. Facts are better than editorials. "Recent indicationsrpoint unmistakably to the fact that the managers of the Democratic party in Indiana are shaping the campaign in this state with a view to electing a United States senator committed to the doctrine that our government is not good enough for Cuba, that our freedom would bo iniquitous when applied to Cubans, and that Cubans formulate and erect a better government than ours. "It is the part of wisdom to look ahead and do now what will make for the glory of our country in the future. Now is the time for young mau to think and act. Young men have done the fighting, they have borne the heaviest hardships of the war. Young men have borne our flag to the heightB of Cuba and Santiago and have stood behind the terrible guns of our victorious ships they have tho right to a large voice and a powerful influence in determining what shall be the result of the victory. Young men, you fought for your country—you did not all go, but you all fought in spirit and were ready to die if necessary. Shall it be for nothing? Sous results of patriotism turned oyer

them when we could uso it, so glorious-

Porto Rico aud Americanize ihem. "M AUI1ICE TlIO.MI'tjOJf. "Indianapolis, Iud Sept. 3

Kntorhdn vil.

On Sept. 1 at bis beautiful homo near Indian Ford, Walter Brewer charminglv eutertained the clas-s of 'OS at their first reunion. The class went out as a

b"dy and spent the afternoon climbing

straw stacks and rambling through

the woods. Tho absence of sevoral

members w&3 regretted by all, Mary I").-ivis, who has moved to Iowa Harley Gill, who is in Al&bam t, and Paul Cox, who is with tho army at Kuoxville. Ciarenco Stroh return( from Michigan during the evening nnd delightfu ly turprised tho cla*n by his presence After a sumptuous fea&t and a mtrry evening the p*r»y returned in the moonlight, making the night hideous with their

Hippi y-hon nh-r.'iteT Wli ii'sllm mnttur wii.li '98! Nothing at all, nuthlng

at

all!

fcbe'a the c'h-h beat# thou all.

An Iii Kiiih Kmit.

here nothing

in

the popular in

p-:s!,ion that to raise fine fruit one mu6t hie himself to the lar.d along the irrigatinu ditches of the Pacific slope. Nor indeed is ho bound to go to the country to achieve Lhis desirable end. Doctor and Mia Jcnes have accomplished the feat within two blocks of the Crawfordsville court house. About three years ago they set out a number of peach and paar trees and a few err.p vines, giving them proper attention each season. As a result they are this year rewarded by a crop of as fine fruit as has been 6een in the county.

The peaches are of the most rosy color and as large as Duchess pears are usually, while the Duchess pears not to be outdone areas large as cantaloupes, both varieties having a flavor unsurpassed.

Barn Burned.

Monday morning the hay barn on the farm of J. N. Davidson, south of the city, was struck by lightning and destroyed. The barn was a new building and in it was Rtored fifteen tons of hay. There was no insurance.

WBDDINS invitations at ine JOUBNA.1.

PART tjEOOND

HITS HIM HARD.

Mrs. Kirri Thompson Hncn Tor Divorce and ASUM tho Court »o Award Her Substantial Alimony.

•The Thompson shooting tragedy of last fall was recalled last week by the filing of a divorce suit in the circuit court. Mrs. Bird Thompson brought suit against William Thompson for divorce and alimony. her complaint she simply alleges that she was married to the defendant in 1892, and that they separated early in October, 18117 that a few daya later ho maliciously shot her with tho intention of killing her, and that he is now serving time in the state prison. She states that no children have been born to them and asks that her maiden name of Birgia Kashner be restored. She states that the defendant Is a man of some means and asks that tho court award her alimony in the sum of S5,000. As she has two causes for divorce, either sulliciently strong, it is certain that no defense will be made unless tho defendant's attorneys obto the amount of alimony

ject as asked.

Are we to see the glor-

p&lriotism turned oyer

to a population unfit for self-govern-'

ment and our country left just where

it was before we went to war? We con-

Quarterly Convention.

The first quarterly convention of the Montgomery county Sunday school association was held last Friday at New Richmond in the M. E. church. The attendance was good considering the extremely warm weather.

The convention began promptly at 10 o'clock instead of 9:30 as per printed programme. The subject, "How to Increase the Spiritual Power of the Sunday School," being an important practical one, much time was spent in its discussion. Rev. A. E. Tinkham handled the subject in a splendid manner. After his speech enthusiastic talks were made by Rev. Jakes and Chas. W. Ross. The discussion of the home department by W. Banks was particularly interesting and many facts were presented showing the great good

a(

of

eomplished through thatdepartment

of

Sunday school work. J. c. Steven-

B0U

being absent Prof G. F. Kenaston,

Crawfordsville, kindly consented to

talt0 his

orpH Snaiiri' fha I discufiRinn nf Sunday school a quered Spain the Cubans never could have done it. They could not even help us to any appreciable extent. They showed their utter inefficiency and unfitness for independence at every turn of events, What folly to turn that magnificent island over to

Berved

ly for the uplifting of the Cuban?, tho After a short song service tho afterstrengthening of our own land and

D00n

the rapid advance of Christian civiliza-' conducted by Mrs. J. C. Wingate. Iration. Statesmanship, patriotism and

place on the programme, the

discussion of "The Factor of Success," being postponed until the afternoon session The noon recess

waB

Iue|3iately

tho higho3t demands of c:vil/.ition Konaston made a stirring and eloquent make it our duty to hold Cuba and

8

P°ech

especially enjoyed by all

all present. The tables were spread under a tent in front of tho church and a more excellent dinner was neve*

at a Sunday Fchool convention,

session began by praise service

following this service Prof,

on "The Sunday School a Fac­

tor of Success." Mrs. Mattie D. Britts followed his speech with an interesting and practical speech on "Don't Neglect the Boys." "The Spiritual Application of the Sunday School Lesson" was discussed by J. D, Thomas in a short and pointed speech. One of the most lengthy and stirring speeches

of the convention

T,

ns dellv

er

was delivered by Newtunity

vellrns

Preston, of

0

Church's Opport

in the Sunday School."

day School.".

Under tho bead of miscellaneous business it was found" necessary to elect a president, the ofiico being rendered vacant by L. A. Clark's refusal toterva in that capacity to which ho as elected at the annual convention held in Crawfordsville last May. J. s. Henry wbs elected president and William II. Nicholson, of Kirkpatrick, vicepresident. 10. T. Mimrnv, __ County Secretary.

Had For Bill,

Sunday afternoon Bill Long, of Lidoga, came to town and naturally ^'^ed arcund to make a Mcial call on

bis 0,d

neighbor, Cora Mullen, who rcntly came here from

centiy came bere from tho capital of Clark township and.set up in a fashoab!e flit on north Green street. Bill and Cora were powerful glad to seo each other and evidently fel.l on each other's neck for joy for after Bill bad gone Cora misled htr watch and strangely enough conceded that it had stuck to Biii's clothes when ha went away. She told tho police and the police lost no time in tjoing after the young man. They foui him eating a sandwich in iteimami'n place and the ruthless way in which they dragged him away from his lunch was pitiful to behold. Bill bucked like a broncho but he slept in jail just the same. Next morning Cora found her watch in her stocking and this is what led to Bill's release. He was thoroughly disgusted and the next time he calls on female friends in Crawfordsville he will ask to be searched before going away.

Will Attend Scbool.

Rev Claude Travis will not hold a charge in thu ministry next year. He will attend the theological school of Northwestern University.