Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 31 March 1899 — Page 10

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FRIDAY, MARCH 31. 1809.

THERE are people who say that Thomas Jefferson in Mb lifetime did not know his own principles, cbut he was & miracle of consistency compared witih the different policies that are now advocated his name.

THAT coroner's jury in Arkansaw that brought in a verdict of "frozen to death" in the case of the nine negroes who were lynched there Wednesday evidently went on the principle that it had been a cold day for the victims,

COL. BRYAN said at Nashville: "I am as much opposed to a war of conquest as was the President fifteen years ago, but if the people of America decree it I will go with them." And as they sa^down Boston way, "Thanks aw--•Ally."

AMERICAN tourists are buying in Cuba as relics and at extravagant prices machettes that were made in the United States and shipped since the close of the war. There is a good deal of sslid truth in the Spanish saying that "the ass which goes abroad doesn't come back a horse."

SINCE the mining trust promises to raise the price of silver and thus accomplish what Col. Bryan seemingly considers the thing most to te desired in this wicked world, can't the colonel be counted on to conclude that trusts are not such bad things after all?

THOSE Filipinos who are using poisonous brass bullets to Bhoot our soldierB with are the same fellows that some people here in Crawfordsville would like to establish as the governmental heads of a land where large I .numbers of civilized Europeans and 'Americans reside and have large property interests.

THE simple suffragiBt who is too busy making both ends meet to master the labarynthine mysteries of the money question doesn't have to take a day off to make up

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trusts when he reads that since December the American steel and wire company has advanced the price of nails from 833 to $46 a ton.

GEORGIA'S entertainment of President McKinley lacks spontaneity and local color. Steamboat trips and tallyho rides smack too much of the north, Let Georgia's southern hospi1 tality, long celebrated in song and ^"Sstory, manifest itself in arranging for the President's honor either a coon hunt or a lynching party. These magnificent moonlight nights should be turned to some account.

THE story of a deep, dark, diabolical plot of the negroes to massacre the whites iB good enough to send out from Arkansas in extenuation of the wholesale lynching now in progress,

bat the real reason is probably the superabundant spring time animal Inspirits which can only be worked off by "the gentle pastime of killing a r^few niggers." ThiB delightful rec--u reation not only works off surplus -?u.energy and tones up the system like sassafras tea, but it also reduces the

Republican vote in the state.

EVEN about that most Jeffersonian 1. of all-policies, expansion, the Democratic party cannot get together an opinion for itself. It was that same

Thomas Jefferson who went beyond •T the constitution, as he admitted, in his S methods of contriving the Louisiana I purchase, adding to the Union a vast territory compared with which the

Philippines area fleabite. Wbo could think of devoting the energies of Democratic 810 or 81 dinners to denouncing Jefferson's greatest achievement? Even the smallest Americans of the blue light federal variety bave got beyond the idea that Jefferson did wrong a century ago, though some from Uaine and Massachusetts think ii it wicked to do 6uch things now. But they are not Democrats, and the Democratic party has been utterly unable to muster any thought or purpose of its J1!own on that question. It has been 5™ waiting for popular expressions, but finds that more than ninety-nine out

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of a hundred of the plain people feel that the richest gems of the far east are covered by the stars and stripes. Longheaded Democrats know that a partisan row against an exttniio" of territory which was forced upon the United 8tates by necessity would mean nothing but defeat for many yean.

TRUSTS AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. St. Louis OLobc-Denwerat: At least three rather important things are forgotten by the ill-informed persons who are saying that the recent increase in trusts is going to injure the Republican party in some way or other. The Republican party came out in opposition to trusts in the first national platform, which it framed after the trusts made their appearance. The Republican party has been fighting the trusts ever since that time. Trusts are known all over the world, under absolute monarchies, limited monarchies and republics, and under all sorts of custom house enactments, from free trade or tariff for revenue only to the highest sort of protective tariffs.

The first of the regularly organized trusts 'to make its appearance, the sugar truBt, was formed in 1887. In the Republican national convention a year later, the one which nominated Harrison the first time, the party, through its representatives there gathered, proclaimed that "we declare our opposition to all combinations of capital organized in trusts or otherwise, to control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens, and we recommend to congress and the state legislatures, in their respective jurisdictions, such legislation as will prevent the execution of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of their products to market." The congress which was elected in that year passed a law, called the Sherman act, to curb the trusts, and the President chosen at that time, Gen. HarriEon, signed it. From that hour to this all the intelligent practical work which has been done by any party to restrict the injurious effects of the trusts has, been done by the Republicans.

In England at this time the question of the trusts is a much more serious issue than it is in the United States. Papers belonging to both of the great British parties charge that the Standard oil company has bought up the house of commons. No newspapers in the United States of equal standing1 have ever made any such accusation against congress. The yellow press in this country

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of this sort for several years, but nobody takes their utterances on anything with any sort ot seriousness. There are trusts in Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia, as well as every other country which has great industries or natural resources valuable enough to attract large sums of capital in their development. The trusts are doing more damage in some of these countries than they are doing here. Nevertheless the Republican party will keep up its warfare on the trusts. It has been fighting them from the day they first made their appearance. It is the only party which hes had either the courage or the ihtelligence to strike a blow at the illegitimate practices of the combines and to restrict them in their operations. It is a satisfaction, therefore, fortthe country to know that as th'e Republican party is going to remain in control of the nation for years to come its vigorous and practical work in maintaining the people's interests in this as in all other fields will be kept up.

THE predictions that the Dingley tariff would produce sufficient revenue while it-protected manufactures are fully justified by the recent record of that act. The average daily receipts from custom's during the month of March have been 8700,000 per day, an astonishing sum{when compared with the receipts of the last six years under three tariff laws. The average annual expenditure during the five years preceding the beginning of the war with Spain was one million dollars per day. The general plans of the framers of revenue legislation have been to make the customs law pay one-half of the running expenses, and this was all that was expected of the Dinirley act. This plan would require from it only 8500,000 per day, while as above indicated it has produced during March an average of about 8700,000 per day in customs receipts alone. While about ten per cent, of this is from the duty on tea, which was levied as a war measure, and was not a part of the Dingley law, all the remainder is the normal production of that law and shows that the prophecy of its framers that it would, with the internal revenue law then upon the statute books, supply ample revenues for the ordinary expenses of the government was fully justified.

A MEETING of labor agitators, social reformers, silver men and delegates from several bodies organized for the advancement of various kinds of social conditions, is considering in New York the need of still another national political party. Surely everybody is aware that the aching need of this big and expanding country is more political parties. Seven participated in the last political campain, and there Bhould be at least a dozen in the next one.

CALIFORNIA, following Delaware's lead, elects to peg along for a while on one senatorial leg, with Pennsylvania yet to be heard from.

INTERESTING FIGURES. A report of the government bureau of statistics says: "Our annual importations of the claBBes of articles produced in the is-

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of Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines have for years averaged 8250,000,000. Of coffee, our annual importations amount to nearly 8100.000,000 a year of sugar, nearly another hundred millions, and of tropical fruits, tobacco, hemp and other articles of thiB character, fully fifty millionB more. All of these are produced readily in these islands, and in most cases their production can be greatly increased. With the introduction of American capital, energy and ingenuity, it seems not unreasonable to assume that they may supply practically all of the 8250,000,000 worth of these productions, which we have been compelled to buy abroad, and, instead of spending that money annualy among the people of other nations, we shall be enabled to distribute it among those having interests identical with our own, and representing American capital and American enterprise. It is worthy of note that a large share of the coffee which we annually import pays an export tax of 12 per cent, before leaving the country of production, thus giving a marked advantage to those entering upon its production in localities where export duties are not collected. "The following table shows the value of coffae, sugar and other tropical productions imported into the United States in 189G, that year being selected as more nearly normal than those of later date, in which changes in tariff rates affected the year's record: "Value of principal articles of tropical production imported into the United States during the year ending June 30, 18%: Coffee.... $84,793,124 Sugar- 89,21.9,773 Fruits and nuts 16,957,807 Tobacco 18,703,942 Hemp, jute, etc 11,846,247 Miscellaneous articles (estimated) 30,000,000

Total 1251,320.393 THE DIRECT MARKET.

"The direct market offered by the islands brought into closer relationship with us by the events of the year amounts to fully 8100,000,000. The annual importations into Porto Rico under normal conditions amount to about 810,000,000 those into Cuba about 805,000.000 those into the Philippines about 822,000,000 and Hawaii 87,000,000, making a total of about 8110,000,000, which seems likely greatly to be augmented with increased production and business activity. A very large share of the articles imported fur these markets is of the classes produced in the United States, and the disposition to purchase these largely from the United States was apparent even under former adverse conditions, and especially so during the period in which reciprocity agreements so rapidly increased our expor tations to them. Much greater than these, however, is the market offered by the countries commercially adjacent to the Philippines, whose importations amount to 81,200,000,000 annually, and whose chief points of distribution lie, many of them, as near to Manila as does Havana to the city of New York."

SENATOR FAIRBANKS says: "I can see nothing at the present time but the re-nomication and election of President McKinley by an overwhelming plurality. I have never beard anyone else discussed or mentioned, and no faction has arisen in congress opposed to his re-nomination, nor have I seen any evidence in congress of any attempt or disposition to bring anyone else out or to name any other person. It seems to me that the re-nomination of President MoKinley will be unanimous and his election almost the same

A Wedding Anniversary*

On March 24, 1857, forty-two years ago last Friday, Zack Mahorney and Florence Hathaway were married in this city by Rev. A. A. Gee. Sixtyfive guests were present, nearly all of whom lived in Crawfordsville. Out of this large number of witnesses of this marriage, only three, who lived in Crawfordsville at that time, are now living, viz: D. N. Morgan, Jere Townsley and David Harter. Mr. and Mrs. Mahorney have always lived in this city and Mr. Mahorney's long, active and honorable business career and Mrs. Mahorney's prominence in social life and church work, make them among the be6t known niid highly respected people of the place.

A Branch Gallery.

Parker Willis is establishing a branch of the Willis picture gallery at Veedersburg.

EAST END NOTES-

Jacob Dooley has moved to the country. Mort Chapman spent Sunday at Hillsboro with his brother Jap- who is very low with lung trouble.

Miss Effiie Reynolds, of Waveland, spent the latter part of the week with Mrs. John Britton and Mrs. Mort Chapman.

Mr. Grimes, of Waveland, has located on east College street. He has a position with the Dovetail body works as painter.

HOW TO PLANT TREES-

The Indiana Forestry Association Gives the Farmers Instructions as to How to Take Advantge of the New Law.

The Indiana Forestry Association has issued an address to the farmers of the state giving information as to how to best take advantage of the new for# estry law. 'We quote from the

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as follows: "Farmers who contemplate planting a grove should first consider

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tion. Rough hill lands, gravelly knolls, ravines, places liable to be washed by heavy rains and such tracts as are unprofitable for ordinary crops, are of greater value in timber than in annual crops. ''In planting the land should be as well prepared as for a crop of corn, and planting should be very close. Four by four feet is recommended, in order to secure upright trunks and prevent the formation of side branches, which makes knots. Some years hence the trees should be thinned to sixteen by sixteen feet. "The kind of trees to plant will depend upon the object to be obtained, and what will succeed best in that particular locality. If poBts are required, black locust, larch, mulberry, chestnut, osage orange or catalpa are best. If railway cross-ties are wanted, catalpa will be moBt profitable, and black walnut ranking next. Nuts of the latter will have to be planted. For commercial lumber, ash, walnut, tulip tree, maple, basswood, chestnut and white pine where it thrives "The time required for trees to grow into merchantable timber ought to be considered. Unfortunately the oak

been taken as the standard. A

century is required for its develO[ment. Oa

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other hand, many trees

mature quickly. In from sixteen to twdnty years red maple, sugar maple, white pina and hickory make fourteen inches in diamater ash, basswood, chestnui, Kentucky coffee and larch, eighteen inches elm, black walnut and catalpa, twenty inches mulberry, twenty-four inches bur oak, sixteen inches white maple, twenty-four to thirty-inches. "It iB advised that but one kind of tree be planted in a block. In mixed woods some outgrow and iiijureothefo. Commercial woods possess a higher value, if attainably in large quantities "It is believed that a quicker return and greater value may be obtained from catalpa than most woods because of its durability,hardness and early maturity. The variety speciose is a native to the Wabath valley where it is a large foieat tree. It should not be judged by the single specimens planted for sbade, as it does not develop in such situations. This, as well as all trees, requires close planting1, good cultivation for several years and careful trimming after five or' seven years. A sod is fatal to any forest tree, except perhaps the locust. In sixteen years the catalpa becomes fifteen to sixteen inches in diameter, and attains a height of forty feet, and has a high valuation. "Every farmer should at once plant at least an acre of timber. Young plants may be obtained from almost any nurseryman at about 83 a thousand.

Have Stufl'to Sell.

Notice of the contemplated erection of a hotel building here by C. M. Crawford was published recently in a construction magizine and now Mr. Crawford receives enough mail to warrant the employment of a secretary. He is hearing from all sorts of people in all sortB of business and all of them have something to sell that is absolutely indispensible about a hotel

THE TALK OF THE CITY.

It is of Interest to Our Readers Be cause It Refers to Crawfords ville People.

It's astonishing how good news wiJl spread. From every ward and street, we hear our people talking about the workings of tne utiio ejequeror. Merit and honorable methods receive their just re ward. So many cases are cropping up that it is next to impossible to investigate them all, but we have taken a few in hands and give them publicly for the benefit of our readers. Our representative obtained the following statement of factB in personal interview. They are true in everv particular, and no stronger evidence can be obtained than home endorsement.

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