Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 9 December 1898 — Page 6

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FRIDAY, DECEMHER 9. 18U8.

COLORADO'S gold production this year is estimated at $28,000,000. Not much is left of the theory that a 100c dollar would ruin the mining interest of the state.

CONGRESSMAN STEELE has announced his senatorial candidacy. He was hurried into this by the fact that the Beveridge boom was assuming unlooked for and monopolistic proportions.

THE balance of trade in favor of the United States for ten months is $460,206,803, the importation of gold for the year is $129,596,24G, and the gold in the treasury exceeds $241,000,000.

THE Philippines more than paid their way up to two years ago, in spite of Spanish mismanagement. They will not be a financial burden under the intelligent buisnese regulations of the United States.

THE United States congress is in favor of the Nicaragua canal, and is going to devote many millions to that enterprise but there is going to be a thorough debate of it in the senate, and it is not at all certain that a vote can be had the coming session. There are powerful interests for and against the project, and they are loaded down with arguments, theoretical and practical.

THE United States government went to an enormous expense and fought a thrilling war to drive Spain out of Cuba, and the people of this country do not intend that the government of Cuba shall be like that of Nicaragua, with a revolution overy fail and change of the moon, and that is what "independence" for Cuba means. The American army will remain in Cuba until Cuba has a "stable" government.

WASHINGTON Post (Ind.,): What is to come after, is our affair. We shall hold the Philippines as long as may suit our convenience and harmonize with our scheme of national development. No European power will be permitted to dictate or interfere save at the cost of itB chastisements and humiliation. Wo have won this incalculable victory. We intend to exploit it in our own way. The spook of "European politics" is brandished before fearless eyes. To us it is but a broken doll, borrowed from a mediieval nursery. This nation has its destinies in hand. Our people know their strength.

IN 1887 there was constructed in the United States 12,878 miles of railroads. That was high water mark in the industry, though in 1882 the construction was 11,569 miles. About 1887 Populist statesmen began to dominate legislatures in many states west and south. They created commissions and virtually announced thati railroad building and railroad operation were disreputable nuisances that ought to be abated. The result has been that only 3,000 miles of roads were constructed this year and in 1895 only 1,063 miles were added to the total. Texas haB suffered more than any other state from the agrarian idea of government.

WORDS OF WISDOM.

It is no exaggeration to tby that Booker T. Washington is the leading representative to-day of the American Negro. Indeed he easily ranks among strong men of the nation. Amidst all the bitterness of race wars in the south he maintains his self control, always speaking calmly, with dignity and with keen common 6ense which i6 a mark of wisdom. We quote below with pleasure his latest public utterance: "It wasjunfortunate that my people permitted themselves at the close of the civil war to be led in Buch a wholesale manner into politics. In many cases responsibilities were accepted by UB which we were not equal to because of lack of education and experience I do not believe that it was wise for the government nor just to the people sought to be helped to confer unlimited suffrage upon any ignorant, pover-ty-stricken, inexperienced people. I would.'let the right to vote be interwoven withithe ability to acquire intelligence or property or both. The feeling is very strong in the south that since the negro pays such a small proportion of the tax to support government that he should have little or no control in the government. "The feeling also exit tn in some sections that the negro wants to control the white man. This is not true of the black race as a whole. Unless the ne

gro gets into the hands of bad white men, he does not seek to control any one except himself, and he has a pretty hard task often to do that. "To my mind the way to remedy the present evils is for the negro not to get discouraged. In the pa6t I fear he set too much store by politics. In too many cases he has sought the shadow rather than the substance. The negro all over this country must become a large taxpayer, own property, possess a high degree of industry, skill and substantial character. We must get our young people off the streets, keep them out of bar rooms and dens of crime. The great bulk of our people in the south are still in dense ignorance ignorance leads to idleness and idleness to crime. "The time haB come when, the best white people and the best colored people in the &outh should get together for counsel, advice and sympathy. The negro must not feel that the white man who is his next door neighbor is liis enemy simply because he is a southern white man."

AMERICA'S NEW DEPART URIC St. Louis Olobc Democrat: The annexation of the Philippines marks an epoch in American history. All our acquisitions heretofore have been on the mainland except Hawaii and Porto Rico, for Alaska's thousand islands are only a part of the Russian purchase. All our acquisitions except the Philippines belong to the western hemisphere, for Hawaii may be said to be tributary to the new world, and to form a portion of it. True, the Philippines were not discovered until a quarter of a century after the American continent was found, but geographically, socially and economically they comprise a part of the old world. To use a diplomatic term of recent vogue, they were until a few months ago considered to be far outside the United StateB' sphere of influence. Geographically they are in Asia instead of America. Their acquisition will necessitate the creation for their government of some sort of regime widely different from anything contemplated by this country along until Dewey's great victory started the train of events which have put them in American hands.

In another reBpect this acquisition differs from all other additions which have ever been made to the American domain. The population of the Philippines is many times larger than was that of any of our other annexations. In the vast empire comprised in the territory called Louisiana, there were only about 55,000 inhabitants, exclusive of Indians, at the time of its purchase in 1803. Florida had around 20,000 population iwhen it came into our possession in 1821. About 175,000 people were in Texas in 1S45 when it was annexed. There were less than 75,000 inhabitants in California and New Mexico in 1848 when they came into our possession. Alaska added only a few thousand people to the country's population total in 1867, when it became United States territory. Porto llico has approximately 800,000 inhabitants. Cuba, which will probably come permanently under the stars and stripes some time next year or the year afterward, may contribute about 1,500,000 to our aggregate population. The population of the Philippines is placed at figures ranging all the way from 8,000,000 to 12,000,000. Estimating them at the smallest of these figures the Philippines add several times as many inhabitants to the United States' total aB were furnished by all the country's other territorial acquisitions put together, including Cuba, whose annexation may not be consummated for a year or two yet.

There can be no doubt that economically and socially the acquisition of the Pdilippines will be an important gain to tke United States. "The day is not distant," remarks the Paris correspondent of the London Times, "when the patrimony of America, owing to the prosperity which wil accrue from exploiting the islands, under a good administration, will have been increased four times the sum total of the terrible war indemnity France paid to Germany." This prediction may sound a little extravagant, but it is well to bear in mind that the resources of the islands are as yet practically untouched. Under Spain's barbarous rule the islands have been comparatively barren. Their advantages in soil and climate have been ignored and the immense stores of minerai wealth which prospectors have discovered have been undeveloped. Although the islands have been in Spain's possession for three centuries and three-quarters, she has not made any intelligent attempt to develop their resources, and her laws and customs have deprived foreigners of all incentive for work in this direction. Under United States auspiceB an immediate change in the conditions in the islands is certain to take place. The development of the capabilities of the Philippine Islands will add immediately and immensely to the wealth and resources of the United States, while at the same time the possession of the archipelago will give the country a new and constantly increasing inlluence in the politics of the world,

BOsl»K3rj ClAilUB at JL'HJS JUUBHA.L

A SUGGESTION TO THE REFORMERS. While the whole state is being agitated by the movement of reform in county and township government, which is badly needed no one can deny, suggestions are always in order from all bources. THE JOURNAL would therefore lay before the leaders of the movement for their consideration a plan of inspection of all county and township and perhaps town and city offices by state inspectors appointed by the governor. This would of itself greatly lessen the waste of money caused by the present lack of system and would add much to the efficiency of any new plans that may be adopted. The idea of inspection of public affairs by an independent set of officers is not a new one. We find it in the army, in our national bank system, in the postoilico department and elsewhere, and it is very effective. The postmaster short in his accounts is very rare, and bank officials, considering the great temptations they are under, have almost as good a record. Judging from all accounts, Indiana county and township officials would suffer by comparison. It is a tale of inefficiency and peculation. At present writing we are happy and proud to say that Montgomery county is blessed with an honorable and efficient set of officers, but it was not always so. If an officer knows that at any moment, without a minute's warning, a cold-hearted stranger known as the state inspector, may drop in upon him and examine his books, he is apt to keep them straight. As it is now, the only thing he has to fear is an examination by experts, which is only likely to occur in case of some unusually bold and careless marauder. These experts, as we know, are expensive worth all they cost, of course, if the only result is the exposure of the thief, but state inspection would be comparatively inexpensive. At the outside a half a dozen men could do the work and they would save the people the amount of their salaries one hundred times over. They would not only prevent dishonesty, but would promote efficiency by insisting upon a uniform system of bookkeeping all over the state. A large per cent, of county officers are, to say the least, not expert bookkeepers. The inspectors themselves, of course, should be experts and appointed on their merits, kept in office on their merits and not subject to politi cal pulls.

GEORGE F. BECKER'S valuable "Mem orandum of the Mineral Resources of the Philippine Islands" has just been printed by the department of the interior aB a final chapter of the current volume of the geological survey's "Mineral Resources of the United States," and has been issued in separate form, in advance of the regular volume on account of the great aud immediate interest of the subject.

Mr. Becker was sent to the Philippines by the government with one of the first expeditions to Manila. The manuscript of his report was received at Washington less than a fortnight ago.

The truth about Mr. Becker's report is, says an expansion contemporary, that it confirms previous ideas of the richness of the Philippine Islands in minerals of value. The variety and extent of the mineral resources of the archipelago are manifest from Mr. Becker's table of twenty of the islands, with thoir respective mineral products:

Luzon—Coal, gold, copper, lead. Iron, sulphur, marble, kaolin. Catanduanes—Gold.

Marinduque—Lead, Bllver. Mindoro—Coal, gold, copper. Carraray—Coal. JJatan—Coal. Rapu-Rapu—Goal. Masbale—Coal, Romblom—Marble. Samar—Gold, coal. Slbuyan—Gold. Semirara—Coal. Pauay—Coal, oil, gas, gold, copper, Iron. Blliran—Sulphur. Levte—Coal, oil. Cebu—Coal, oil, gas, gold, lead, silver, iron. Negros—Coal. Bohl—Gold. Panaon—Gold. Mindanao—Coal, gold, copper, platinum. Sulu Archipelago—Pearls.

THE president of the Illinois humane society has declared in favor of a re-establishment of the whippingpost as a punishment for a certain class of criminals.

Filed His Bond.

Coroner T. J. Ball last Saturday filed his official bond for $5,000. It was 6igned by T. J. Ball, A. J. Kleieer, H. M. Perry, J. W. Robertson and J. W. Ball.

Death of Mrs. Maria Klliott Mrs. Maria Elliott, relict of Mac Elliott, died last Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Bert Breaks, north of the city. She suffered from a stroke of paralysis several days ago and never rallied. The funeral took place on Monday afternoon at one o'clock at the home, the services to be conducted by Dr. E. B. Thomson. Interment at Oak Hill.

Mrs. Elliott was the daughter of the late William McClelland and was born in this county over sixty-two years ago. She leaves one child, Mrs. Breaks, one brother, Alfred McClelland, of this county, and one sister, Mrs. Fannie McRich. of Portland, Iowa. Mrs. Elliott was a most estimably lady and her death will be deplored by a large circle of friends.

TO TEMPT MOUNT.

Spoilsmen are Said to Be Dangling a Tempting Bait Under 11 la Nose.

Indianapolis News: The place-hunt-ers are quietly organizing for the coming session of the legislature. If they can have their way the general assembly will open a line of patronage that will make many a political heart glad. It is pointed out by these seekers after spoils that the federal places are 'all taken, and that the "boys in the trenches," who did "such noble work" in the recent'campaign can be rewarded only by opening a patronage store in this state.

The governor is the chief obstacle in tb ... path that has been marked out by some of the spoilsmen. He went into the office believing in the non-partisan management of the state's institutions and his two years' experience has made him a still firmer believer in the system. If he could have his way, there would be no politics in the management of any of the state's institutions. The spoilsmen know the trend of his mind, and they are striving to make the temptation toward their views great.

The word has been paBsed along the line of spoilsmen that the men who want place must be for Mount for senator. "It is the greatest opportunity an Indiana mtkn ever had," said a Republican whose name is used every day in the political talk, and who believes that "to the victor belongs the spoils." The boys want places—they are hungry for them. Now aud then there will be a vacancy in the United States service, but it is pretty well understood that there is nothing to expect from the federal government. Under these circumstances what can Robert S. Taylor, J. Frank Hanly, George W. Steele or Albert J. Beveridgedo for the boys? Nothing. Who can do something for the boys? Governor Mount. He has it within his power to make himself United States senator. Let him pass the word along that the patronage-box is to be opened and the members of the legislature will fiock to him. Three-fourths of the members of the legislature want something for themselves or for their friends. Tneir only hope this time is through the governor

It is evident that plans are making to bring great pressure on the governor and the general assembly. The spoilsmen would like to see every penal, benevolent and reformatory institution in the state placed under partisan control, and thereby have places opened for several hundred "boys from the trenches and the senatorial plum is to be held out to the governor as the temptation.

Everybody in touch with the governor and the state administration, in genera), understands well that the spoilsmen will be disappointed. The governor, in his message, will only commend the present non-partisan management of all the institutions, except, the state prison, at Michigan City, but will recommet-d that that institution be placed in control of a nonpartisan board. From all accounts, the message will be the strongest indorsement of non-partisan management that has ever come from an Indiana governor. The governor and the board of 'State charities, it *s stated, are in entire accord on the subject of non-partisan control. The recommendations of the state board and the governor will be along the same general lines. It is understood that some of the present members of the board of managers for the Indiana prison—the only institution that is not under non-partisan management—have fallen in with the idea that it will be better for the institution if the nonpartisan rule be applied to it.

Governor Mount said to-day when his attention was called to the story that some of the politicians would like to see a raid made on the state's institutions: "I shall say in my message to the general assembly that the only test for place in the state's benevolent and reformatory institutions must be fitness. I would set my face like adamant against any effort to introduce partisan politics into the state benevolent institutions. We are beyond the day in this state when such can be doie. Public sentiment has taken high ground on this question, and it is right. If there should be a vacancy in the superintendency of one of the state institutions, all things being equal, I would appoint a Republican to the place, but no Democrat who is faithfully performing his duties ought to be discharged. The management of the state institutions is now about equally divided politically There is no politics in the management of any of the institutions. I am happy to say that our state institutions were never so free from scandal as they have been in the last two years, and we must attribute thiB splendid condition largely to non-partiBan management. Our aim now ought to be to seek to place the institution on even a higher plane of efficiency in every department, and this can only be done by applying the rule that service and fitness shall control in the selection of employes." "Will you oppose the creation of new offices by the general assembly?" "While I earnestly favor county and

township reform, I have* taken occasion to warn men who have called to see me about the danger of creating new offices. I am impressed with the fact that the great danger in the proposed reform of county and township government will be in the creation of new places. If we are not careful we shall step from a bad to a worse condition. There is danger of creating a lot of new offices, to be filled by men who in a little while will be doing nothing but drawing their salaries. The movement to reform the county and township governments shall have my hearty co-operation, but we must take care that we do not open up many new places to be filled." "Is it true that you will favor any particular candidate for United States senator?" "I shall not take any part in the senatorial contest. I might have my personal preference, but I shall not allow myself to take any part. I feel that it would be beneath the dignity of my office for me to attempt to assist in the election of any man to the senate. The candidates are all my friends, and I wish to assure them that there is no foundation for the report that I shall attempt to exert inilence in favor of any one. Men who have been my warm friends may have their preferences, and may work for their candidates, but that does not signify that I am attempting to exert any influence, directly or indirectly, for I am not."

The News speaking editorially of Gov. Mount says: "We glory in our governor! The raid on him by the spoilsmen has begun. All sorts of inducements are offered for him to stultify his record and debase the state by throwing open the public institutions as plunder for the politicians. He will not do it! He says he will not do it, but we Bhould say he will not do it though he had not Baid so, for his record is the other way. When he became governor he took a firm stand on this question, and no hair's breadth has his course varied therefrom. He stood out against the threats and cajoleries of the politicians. He preserved our public institutions against their raids. He held these trusts—great trusts they are in which the state's unfortunates are the care and service—with the' sacredness that becomes them. "He demanded and obtained in the administration of our public institutions non-partisan conditions. As he well said in the News yesterday there has been no time in many years when these great institutions have been so absolutely free from public scandal. We have only to go back a few years to recall the time when each party made a poaching ground of these trusts when not only extravagance and inefficiency resulted, but when scandal and immorality were rife. After much struggling we came out of that condition, the maintenance of which is due to no one more signally than to James A. Mount. He has kept these institutions free from the degrading touch «of the spoilsmen. He has increased the state's good name. He has won the encomium of all rightminded citizens, and has the blessing of the unfortunates whose interests he has thus protected. "It is needless to refer to the loud protestations of partisans that these institutions should be kept above politics and be administered on business principles. They have long made these protestations and often repeated them. But with each election the victorious party makes a swinish rush, trampling under foot all virtuous boastings, and but for the firm resistance of such men as Governor Mount, would succeed in disgracing our state in the eyes of the country by plunging our administration into extravagance and debauchery. The governor is right! More strength to his arm if need be. No circumstance, no plea, no temptation, no pressure we trust and wholly believe will be sufficient to move him from the clean and admirable position that he occupier. He is carrying out his party's behests. He is preserving his party from its worst passions. He is repulsing its worst elements when ho maintains our state institutions free from political contamination and demands of their administration the same economy, exactness and purity that are demanded in private business. We glory in our governor!"

New State Militia.

Indianapolis News: Governer Mount and Adjutant-General Gore have decided to set about the organization of a new state militia at once. It is their hope to complete the organization before the legislature meets. Thirtyfive thousand dollars will be available January 1 for the equipment of the new organization. At present the governor is looking about for a suitable man for brigadier-general. The new battery recently formed at Attica will be the first organization taken. A good many of the members of the old national guard are signifying a desire to enter the new organization. The governor hopeB to form an organization out of the best material to be found. The exact number of companies to be taken at once has not yet been decided upon.

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HARD WOOD TEMBER

Over One Half Million* ftcrss

of splendid hard wood timber land in Northern Wisconsin and Michigan for sale by the Chicago&Northwestern

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The best land proposition ever made to nettiers. The timber more than pays for the land. For prices, terms, and all details,write ornpplv to

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LECTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given to the stockholders iii Citizens' National Bank of Crawfordsville, Indiana, that an election will be held at their banking- bouse on tho second Tuesday of January, 1899, being the 10th day of said month, between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. in., for the purpose of electing seven directors to serve

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J^j'OTICETO HEIRS, CREDITORS, IsTC.

In the matter of the estate of Jamps A. Berryman, ^deceased. In the Montgomery Gireuit Court, September torm, IHUK.

Notice is hereby given that R. I\ A. Iterry^ man,as administrator of the estate of JamesA Berryman, deceased, has presented and (lied his accounts and vouchers in Dual settlement of said estate.and that the same will cotne up for the examination and action of said Circuit Curt on the 19th day of December, 1898. at which time all heirs, creditors or lejraieesof said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause if any there be, whv Bald accounts and vouchers should not bo approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notified to be in said court at the time aforesaid and make proof of heirship.

Dated this 25th day of November. 18!)8

„0. R. P. A. BERRYMAN Administrator.

J^"OTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS, ETC.

In the matter of the estate of Thomos Taylor, deceased. In the Montgomery circuit court, September term, 1898.

Notice is hereby (riven that Albert D. Thomas as executor of the estate of Thomas Iftylor, deceased, has presented and tiled his accounts and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and that the same will come ui lor the examination and action of aaid circuit court on the 31st day of December, 1898.

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or said estate are required to appear in said court and show cause if any there be. why said accounts and vouchers should not be approved, and the heirs and distributees of said estate are also notified to bo in said court at tiie tim° aforesaid and make uroof of heirship.

Dated this 5th day of December, 189H 12-9'it ALBERT D.

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JN^OriCE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE.

Notice is hereby Riven that 1 Ezra C. Voris administrator of the estate or Mary 1. White' deceased, will seH at public auction at the south door of the court house In the citv of Crawfordsville, Indiana, the following describfd real estate^ situate in Montgomery county, state of Indiana, to-wit: A part of the east half of the northeast quarter of section 35 township 19 north of range 4 west liejlnnlnir at a point In the Noblesviilo road 3- feet west of the southwest cornerof Uenrv Swisher's lot (as ,wned April 7. 1887.) runnint? thence west 13 rods and 97 feet and 4 inches, thence north 60 rods to tlio center of the middle fork of Sugar Creek, thence east up the meandering* of said creek to the northwest corner of the tract of land sold bv Kennedy to Ileury Swisher, thence south along the west line of said Swisher's tract to a point directly east of tho northeast corner west aVfe'pMn

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