Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 6, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 29 July 1908 — Page 2

The Daily Democrat. Published Every Evening, Except Sunday, by LEW G. ELLINGHAM. Subscription Rates: Per week, by carrier ...10 cents Per year, by carrier $5 t»0 Per month, by mail 25 cents Per year, by mail $2.50 Single copies ......2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, Indiana as second class mail matter. J. H. HELLER, Manager. William H. Taft, who advised the people of Oklahoma not to adopt the 1 prohibition platform, and pronounced • prohibition the rankest sort of folly, ' is feeling of th e might.v prohibition wave sweeping over the * country and bgins to crawfish ( —Berne Witness. c t By tying itself up with the Repub- 1 Mean politicians the Anti-Saloon Leagu e has taken on a purely partisan ]( character. The willingness of the b league’s managers to help th e Repub- 11 a lican state machine n its frantic es- 0 fort to cover up the great issues of the c campaign shows that they have abandoned the theory on which the league f was founded and became a mere Re- ' 1 publican adjunct. When wool sells for 26 cents that c is the beneficent effects of Republican 1 domination. When wool sells for 12 ' to 16 cents then the naughty law of f supply and demand gets in its work. t When Grover Cleveland issued bonds' t to fill a depleted public treasury, that ( was criminal. When Theodore Roose- ' velt issued bonds to loan money, with- , out interest, to Wall street specula- , tors, that was patriotism. Well, let us w-ait and see what the great_ public 11 thinks of this hypocrisy and humbug. 1 —Sullivan Democrat. i THE END CAME (Continued from Page One) ing at 6:30 o'clock. A large circle of friends share with the bereaved relatives in their hour of sorrow. Beside the aged 'mother, there are sarviving two brothers. James and Osmond and four sisters. Mesdames Joseph Dentner. Louis Mills, John Miller and Hahnert. The funeral services ! will be held from the Monroe M. E. church tomorrow aftrenocn at 2:30 o'clock. Rev. E. L. Jones as clergyman. Interment will be made at the j Ray cemetery’. ■ o ’ MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS We have a number of first mortgages for sale, cn choice property ranging in sums from SIOO to SI,OOO, from one to five years time, netting the investor 6 per cent All the protected by fire insurance, and guaranteed title. The Decatur Abstract and Loan Company, Rooms 3 and 4 Traction Building. Decatur. Indiana. 177-12 t

I FOR IO DAYS | ONLY I I at $20.00 I |g We will make you a Coat and Pants to H your Measure 15 choice patterns to select from. A H great saving to you. S Former prices being $25.00 to $28.00 I ■ COMB EARLY AND GET FIRST CHOICE n See Patterns in our South Show Window I HOLTHOUSE SCHULTE I AND COMPANY g MERCHANT TAILORS

• NO USE FOR TARIFF Ex-Governor W. L. Douglas of Massachusetts, Scores Protection SAYS IT CAUSED PANIC He Tells How Tariff Injures the Shoe Industry of the Country I am asked to write under one of the two heads. “How the Tariff Affects My Business” or “Why I Favor Tariff Reduction.” As I am not selfish enough to ask for lower tariff duties solely on my own account or foolish enough to imagine thiat the tariff law will ibe changed for*my- especial benefit, I will write a few words under both heads. My business is injuriously affected by the tariff. The duties on hides, leather, thread, machinery, coal and building materials increase the cost of making shoes in this country an average of something like 10 cents a pair or $30,000,000 a year for the entire country. Os course we manufacturers do not finally pay all of this tariff tax on footwear. We collect fully nine-ter.ihs of it from those who wear shoes. But we cannot collect the tax on shoes sold for export. This comes ou' of our own pockets. This tax. by forcing us to pay 10 per cent more for leather than is paid by our foreign competitors, increases the cost of making shoes in this country about 5 per cent and thus greatly handicaps us in foreign markets. With free leather and other materials and supplies we would perhaps soon be exporting $100,000,000 worth of shoes a year instead of the $7,000,000 or $8,000,000 worth now exported. It is. then, mainly in the export busi--1 ness that the tariff shoe pipches us manufacturers. It pinches us very much also because of the fewer pairs of shoes worn by an overtaxed people. If, as I believe, tariff trust taxes increase the cost of living by 10 per cent, it is probable that these taxes diminish the number of shoes worn about 10 per cent. I favor tariff reduction, then, both for selfish and for humanitarian reasons. By stopping the tariff graft of the protected trusts —the greatest of all graft—l would increase the purchasing power of the wage and salary j earners’ dollar and thus virtually increase wages 10 per cent. I am not

certain that, had th e trusts been curbed by the removal of unnecessary tariff duties in 1904 or 1905, we would have had the severe industrial depression through which we are now passing. I have never been a believer in the now exploded theory that a nation could tax itself into prosperity. Protection and prosperity are not, in my vocabulary, synonymous words. To me “protection” as we know it means unnecessary and uajun taxation, and this means ficcuent per ods of business deprc; sion, reduced wages, idle workingmen adversity, disease and crime, sc-ch as we are now experiencing I have no faith jn the Republican tai iff expert committee plan of revis-

1 1 ing the tariff. In my opinion it is a po- | litical manuver to hoodwink the people and tide the Republicans over the presidential election. It is partly a scheme to have the tariff experts in the various departments provide campaign material for the high tariff party. These experts are now compiling statistics of cost of production in different countries and of export taxes and bounties levied by foreign countries ou goods going abroad. We may be certain that if any material is found that will aid the protectionists and stand patters it will be put into the hands of all Republicans speakers next fall. Other material will be kept under cover. The New York Journal of Commerce of May 20 made an even more serious charge against the tariff revision plans of the senate and house committees. It said that these plans were “merely intended as a basis for political capital” and that “the whole tariff investigation now pending has a direct relation to campaign funds.” That the Republicans do not seriously intend to revise the tariff downward where such revision would hurt their friends, the trusts, is evident from the preliminary report of the special committee which has been investigating the tariff on paper and wood pulp. After taking “2,000 pages of printed testimony" the majority report gravely informs us that the “entire removal of the present tariff would not hav e any great immediate effect" on the prices of paper. Thus has the Republican mountain labored and brought forth a ridiculous tariff mouse. This is al Ithe satisfaction given to the thousands of newspaper publishers who asked congress to free them from the paper trusts by the removal of the duties on paper and pulp. The tariff plank in th e Republican platform just adopted at Chicago is as shifty as expert political jugglers could make it. It gives a stone to those who asked for bread. Instead of promising plainly to reduce oppressive tariff duties it discusses maximum and minimum rates and favors “such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of pro(Continued on page 4.)

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THE SOCIAL DOINGS The Misses Hackman Entertain With an Evening Party ST. VINCENT DE PAUL Other Doings Among Gay Society, is Here Chronicled The meeting of the St. Vincent de Paul society was largely attended this afternoon and an enjoyable tim e was had by all present. The meeting took place at the home of Mrs. W. H. Niblick. and after the business of the society was attended, delicious (refreshments were served by the hostess. which was very appetizing. A social hour followed. The German Reformed church will have a Sunday school picnic at Maple Grove Park on Wednesday, August sth. This picnic is always an enjoyable event amf'this years will be no exception. Everybody is invited to come and have a good time. Misses Catherine and Nettie Hackman entertained at a party last evening to a number of friends in honor of their cousin, Miss Emma Pio, of Payne, Ohio. During the evening’s enjoyment, which consisted of music, games, etc., light refershments consisting of ice cream and cake were served. Those included in the party were Misses Viola Phnan, Bertha Brown, Adaline Snyder, Loretta Bosse. Miller, Eva McGath, Emma Pin. Catharine, Nettie and Loretta Hackman and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tester and baby Harold, and Messrs. Martin Schlickman. Frank Hurst, Wm. Lose, Claude Gay, Charles Baxter, Joseph Gase. Roy Miller, Frank Baker, Wm.

Bogner and Al Fritsinger. They all i report a most enjoyable time. The Modern Woodmen ledge will have a special meeting this evening at their hall and it is important that every member be present. The committees are especially urged to be present as matters pertaining to the initiation work will be taken up. The lodge has quite a number of candidates for their initiation work and will soon have a large number. The many committee are busy preparing For •the great event whitaj will occur Saturday, August Bth. Th Helping Hand society of the German Reformed church will meet Thursday afternoon with Miss Emma Strickland on Fourth street. I The Afternoon Thimble club will < meet tomorrow afternoon with Miss 1 Midge Smith and an enjoyable time I is assured. A good attendance is re- I quested. | The ladies of the Missionary Society I of the Presbyterian church will have 1 an August meeting at the home of Mirs. Shrock. It 5s important that | every member be present Thursday 1 aftrnoon at two o'clock. I 1

E. C. GIRL IS HERE Is Distributing One Dollar Bills to People Who Have the Flake IN THEIR HOUSE She is Garbed in the National Colors—A Great Scheme The E. C. corn flake girl has arrived in Decatur, and today she was busy distributing one dollar bills to the houses she visited wherein she found a package of the corn flake. This is th e most unique way to advertise that has ever come before the eyes of Decatur people. The girl is garbed in the national colors of red. white and blue and she visits the various grocery men as the initial stunt when arriving in a town. She gave several bills away this morning but she informs Us that tomorrow will -he the banner day. She will drive to various parts of the city and visit homes, whereupon if the lady of the house has purchased E. C. corn flakes she will immediately recognize who the girl is as announcements of her arrival have accompanied each package. It is a great scheme and is costing the firm which is represented many thousands of dollars.

IT IS A HOT FIGHT Boys City Election for Mayor at Winona is On. Winona Lake. Ind., July 28.—Joseph W. Clark, of Portland. Ind., and Merrill H. Farr, of Chicago are candidates for mayor of Boys City, running on the Liberal and Conservative platforms respectively. The election will he held Saturday. Today there was a rush for the registry office, candidates and boy politicians of both parties lining up their men with as much zest as is displayed by their fathers at election time. Telephone wires were busy with calls from boy politicians to the less interested citizens. Merrill Farr, in his platform, says he will not permit party lines to interfere with his administration, the fundamental principle of which is the “square deal.” The Indiana boy seems to be in the lead and is well known to many of the boys as he made the race last year for mayor but was defeated by Frank Abbott, of Goshen. Clark, too, heciares for a '‘square deal,” and he say s that, like Roosevelt, he will b e “delighted” to meet in the Portland camp the boys who are for a liberal government. A voting machine will be used at the election. o~ Miss Anna Hess went to Fort Wayne today for a short visit with friends, N. A. Loch Fort Wayne this afternoon on an important business trip. An unusually good •attraction (g being offered at the Pictorium tonight and you are assured of a fine show for the same price of five cents. Miss Irene Schirmeyer is recovering (from |ier serious illness with typhoid fever, and the good news will be more than gratifying to her friends. That an organized gang of desperate horse thieves exists in this section is an assured fact. While a larg e number have been stolen, but very few thieves have been captared.

STRAW HATS summer” suits / \ ■ ■ i—/xlw \ At I so-i L* Reduction ; of ' IFaMr 20 to 40 [mH./ / Per Cent \ I I S / — IVs V If you need a straw or panama hat we are ready and willing to sell it to you at cost. Summer Suits for Men We still have a few two piece summer suits that we are closing eut at a induction of 20 to 40 per cent off. If you need a cool Summer Suite you can’t afford to miss seeing these suits. Three Piece Suits We also have 40 or 50 three piece suits, one or two of a kind that we are selling regardless of profit. Shirts and Neckwear We have a new and ellegant assortment of summer shirts and neckwear in all the newest shades. Corn Shirts with or without collars 50c to $1.50 Elzey & Vance Corner East of Court House

THE REMEDY THAT DOES. “Dr. King's New Discovery Is the remedy that does the healing others promise but fail to perform,” says Mrs. E. R. Pierson, of Auburn Centre, Pa. It is curing me of throat and lung trouble of long standing, that other treatments relieved only temporarily. New Discovery is doing me so much good that I feel confident its continued use for a reasonable time will restore me to perfect health.” This renowned cough and cold and throat and lung healer is sold at all dealers. oOc and SI.OO. Trial bottle free.

1 TEN DAY SALE ! I enamelware I X^ a Z, 6 ? US V eeeived one of the largest V •• r j of ?“ a melware ewer brought I I wiii giv? v 10r the uext 10 days we i ,i. wiii give you some rare bargains I 200200 200200 ( sqt Kettles Mt. Pud- sqt. Stew Very large I j only ding Pans pans only Wash Pans f i He 10c 10c He { | All Sized '2 Foot 2400 CANDY I RULES worth 15c I I only only Matches &20 clb, i : I lc 10c 10c 10c } | o T««ee Buck M 0omb« •• I thing nTtheVine the city and need any_ ' Goods hardiX * Dishe *’ Tinware, Dry | | carried in a”nAr nuUonß and in fact everything ••• I money * OuXvt Bt °, Pe ’ We will Bave you I J. money and our for two Btor ® B saves us i I y an q our customers get the benefit. | RACKET STORE t - STEELE & WEAVER, 1

Any church, aid society or Sunday school that care to, will be paid twen-ty-five cents each for disposing of ten or more family tickets to the Great Northern Indiana fair. Those wishing tickets should call on Albert A. Butjvr. i77-4t • o ■- —- - Smith Bros.’ Wagon Shop now conducted by F. B. Robison. All work neatly done and your work solicited. Cal land see. T. B. ROBISON.