Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 11, Number 292, Decatur, Adams County, 11 December 1913 — Page 4

* r Practical Fashion Hints ' **y Alii>e Gibson ■ » . - - .1 N .1— — ■■ >.»... ■■ II Illi - Z ~ irsiii: i "“ l Il,e f ' illl l ,le1 ’ afternoon func- ■ ■-> J JR tion.-, there is nothing moro attractive than tun 55 I figured silks or erepons which were so popular V X thirhrjj the summer mid are still very fashionable. C--j k qbe simpler designs lire suited to these fabrics as !,ll ‘ '" l:lk ' , ' i " l l’*'' ll ' is suilicient trimming. /•' ! /"'/ /\ 1... aml three tiered skirts are smart and heroinW ~l f ! iiig. ami the surplice blouse is one of the most graceu 7 • b .1 lid things that can be worn. \W>i. T'ijo - lows ti three piece skirt slightly gathered nt • I G-i- k 'l' : ' ,l *‘ laii't is tucked to give the apjiear/rrvrlFl «.C a triple skirt. A skirt on this order is much ca-sjer for the amateur than one in which the sections / have tn be joined. A line of tucks I ■ • -q—tv trims tile blouse mid finishes tbo » * ‘ , leevc. A‘ iV'IdV A •jSL V J I The dre— Hoses in back and there I \ ’m 1 t is nu inset 1 !lelllisc,te which may be / i JI I made of net or lace. This design can | l! J 1“ made in size 3d with 5% yards of I I 7 t ' rC j ■'*’ * u * l ' material and '.j yard of all-1 I '**■' . over lace or net. The pattern is cut ll* I ln flve sizes, 34 to 42. 1 *'•' I This Is a Perfect I Pattern I ’it-- Be sure to state right size, measnr- ■ ' L’"' -Jh I'*” over ,lie fl,llest l M, rt of the bust i .i-r for dimensions. V It may be obtained by tijling out V\ I ! the coupon nnd enclosing J 5 cents in Vj. ’’c» stamps or coin to the Pattern DepartV t Jar L- nieiit of tills patter. > r ~=’- -■■■■-..:■ ■ —PATTER N * COUPON C . A'. • Xiii • ! ".{W* ? 11 I No J • j •“«? . .................................«... ; | • Pattern No. 7820. Si«a i

We Sell Eastern Oklahoma Land IMHMiMMfMMi What was known as the Indian Reserve, in Muskogee, t Okmulgee and Mclntosh Counties. We have 40 inches rain fall, our lands are level, fertile and close to railroads, plenty of oil and gas. We have just come back from there, we stand ready and willing to back up any and all statements we make on our Oklahoma land because we know what we are talking about We raise corn, oats, wheat, alfalfa, milo. maze, kafer corn, cotton cow-peas, peanuts and all kinds and varities of fruits. • • ' ‘ .hcug’: t 1 s was an off year, com made from 25 to 69 bu shels to the acre. oats from 45 to 75 bushels to acre wh i. :*•) to 50 bu. and cotton from $45. to $75. per acre. 5 w ■■ ask is for you to make a trip with us and investiga • yourself and you will be more than phased. if interested come and see us at Decacur, or write us and we will see you. Excursion rates every day in the week. We also have a large list of local lands for sale? D. FL Leonard Decatur, Ind. Office Opposite Interurban Station C83.G0 $5-oo ST. LOUIS AND RETURN V I A CLOVER LEAF ROUTE SATURDAYS, DECEMBER 6th. AND 20th. Tickets good on trains leaving Decatur at 10:25 a. m. and 10:38 p. m. See Agent for Particulars.

Don’t it beat all! Everybody wants y' GmUu*. , r srii-i liiing I Fountain .m' v.. Jr jtf j - W h kSanta t a Headquarters for Christmas Gifts I Come in and look’over our stock of Christmas, uagoods—the largest and most beautiful we have ever ; had. Among the gifts of. character .and 'distinction 4 ( .thatjye are showing is Ll* Scn ” \s7 Fountain Pen . / TMsJ» the nationally ftrtowa fountain p*n that fills itotlf in 4 »r<-oM< •’’ |l y om «mple thumb prc*.«ute l cleans itaelf, never Iraki, and writes ,< b» ••>■ and case. P-t npin bcauuiul GhriMnias boiu« • W cas>«3geaWC it point doesn’t amt. ». » . THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. ••■• i fi 4 * ! % .»•'> I'

GOVERNOR RALSTON'S SPEECH. ..y.sga, delivered at Dedication o* Soldiers' Monument, Otober 31 1913. A soldiers’ monument is always pregnant with meaning. But when erected in a republic it has a higher meaning than in a monarchy or ai. empire. When erected to sotdierwho fought to free a people from a foreign yoke it means much. When bullded to soldiers who fought to free a people from a yoke imposed by themselves, as the lesser of the two . vile, it means more. But when raised aloft fifty years after such a struggle. after passions have cooled and prejudices have been neutralised bv time; when thus rean'd and dedicated by a people in the alm 'irlJ of his lory and with approval of reason and philosophy, then indeed it has a meaning and a value all its own. And this is the kind of a soldiers' i monument the people of Adams county have builded in this beautiful city jof Decatur. This memorial repre ' -cuts the verdict of history upon that great struggle to preserve the I nion and to give the name liberty a truer meaning; and as such a verdict it has hogher. broader and deeper signirianee. than If erected when sectional t. m and party spirit ran high. It represents more than this. It is an t xpression of a free people s appreciation of the services of all tiieir sol diers for the uplift of humanity in whatsoever war rendered. It has been truthfully •"'id 'hat it it had not been for the agitation of the I slavery question by the radicals oi i both the north and south, the war might have been avoided and the ! slaves have been purchased by the u< vernment and given their freedom. That would have been a cheap price to pay for emancipation compared to the awful price we did pay. Butsucii an argument is no argument. The facts were that these radicals were

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— . . - — 1 here —in the north and in the south. The country was confronted with a condition, not a theory; and under that condition under the ciretine ttances us they actually existed, there was no power on earth that could j have prevented me civil war. Sla- . i very, the contradiction of the constitution, the anomaly of stelf-goverv rtent, the poison in the blood oi bodv politic, could not be cured except by ■ ■, the pouring out of the best nnjl purest ■I of the aonos of the republic ; except, > the blood of brave patriots should i neutralize and purify the* poison that ' vVas eating out the vitals of the gov cninient. it was, indeed, an inevitable. an irrepressible conflict. Theraj I could be no retulssion of the national sin of slavery except by the shedding of blood. So history has analyzed so history has justified, that awful war between fellow corntrymen, between men of the same race, heirs of the- same traditions, defenders of the ' same faith—the doctrine of liberty regulated by law. The tar seeing statesmanship of | : Thomas Jefferson foretold the blight ' human slavery would be to his country and countrymen. He new r lost an opportunity to point ot> the dangers that would innevitably spring from it. It was his pen that drafted the humori tai Declaration of American Independence to which Buckle, the great his- , tohian. refers as "that noble declara i, tion which ought to be hung in the nursery of every king and blazcmed ten 'he porch of every pa'acc. In the • frat draft of his declaration Jes f < rsun arraigned the king w severely ■ for permitting trufliclng in slaves by ■ American colonists that it was ■ thought best not to allow tl.i: patio- . ular charge to become a part of the > document in its permanent f -m. > Hut while Jefferson and those who i .‘■hared Ills views were- not permitted to have their- opposition to human ■ -livery inc<>rporated in the. Iteclara-

Hon of Independence he never ceas- ’ cd to oppose it, curl t< warn b!s coun ' trynien of its direful ctmseqtiences., We are all familiar with his untiring efforts to prevent its m ing recognized as one* of the institution: of his conn ■ try, and how, failing in this slight to have it limited in Its territorial boundaries, and finally with what ter vency he cried out from the depths I of his soul: > “What a stupendous, what an in ! comprehensibh' macliiui* Is man’ > Who call enduro, toil,.famine. stri|ie-. imprison inent . and death itself, in vin-l I dictation of his own libertv, nnd the next moment be rtwif to all Id’ tin - and inflict on his tellowmeu a bondage one hour of which is fraught with more misery' than ages of that which : he rose in rebellion to oppose.” Lincoln was not unlike Jefferson in the view he took of human slavery and his abhorrance of it- The passion of liis life pnt him on *he side c'f human liberty. He believed that every man should be free and that the ! surest way in the end to achieve l:berty for all men in this country was to save the American republic. When ho was criticized by those who thought he was not moving fas' enough on the slavery question, he made his position clear when be said: “What 1 do about slaves and the colored race. I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what. l forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save 'he Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts tin cause, and ? shall do more whenever I shall believe doing mor - will help the cause. 1 shall try to correc t errors and I shall adopt nbw views so fast as they shall appear to be true views. Such is my purpose according • to my view of official duty. I intend no modification of my oft-repeated personal wish that all nwm everywhere'might be free." ■ ■ i-nrßAiv"' sir - -‘♦ir-

The part Indiana soldiers took in aiding Lincoln to secure Union and Liberty is the most brilliant page in , the history of our state, and imperfect ■ indeed wuold be any review of their record that omits u reference to one; of its most faithful men, who threw! the force'of his life and position on' the side of the Union --Governor Oliv-| I er I’. Morton. The (iriug u|M)ii l-'ort- ‘-’njnpter made, <>i him a-ilaiiUng sword and every ■ t.recze ttuit unfurled the beauties of; Did Glory added to his patriotic for J vor. He never waited for directions.; ||. took Hie initiative in ra.sing mon | cy and providing other means for the, prosecution of the war. lie wns toe; tar seeing to wait lor congress and the legislature to authdrixe him to act, but he acted and put it up to con-gr--ss and the legislature to ratify hir deeds. Under the stress of military neces sity itt- was a law; unto himself ami recent biographer dtsettsscs him tin tier the head, "I ant the State.” I'he record of the soldiers of Indiana is a glorious one. It links the world in obligation to them. When I'resideut Lincoln on April IK, IS6I ask'd fewer than five thousand of them lo come to the front, more I han twelve thousand sprang forward ready to offer up their lives upoff the sac rifichtl altar. And when the second end third calls were juade by the pres ideal they were the first to shout in , the language of old Isaiah, “Here 11 II am. Send me.” Patriotic and couragoot’-.-, Indiana 'soldiers were always found in the; qtnickest of tin- tight. No u<mder,| • I therefore, that Indiana's pe~ cent of, • ’ of tho-< .-ent to the front was; gr- .ter Gian that of any other state. 1 Her los> was necessarily groat, be can »■ her sold''“■.■ fousht >l rtlntosl t' every battl-li Id of the • »yut -they fought ill every iHate that oHempt'-d ' o fwvak «ssh pr’he Union, except FlorALE - IE4LC” JEOLt ■.’<

ida, and were ready to the Confederates wanted , f - ’** northern soil. ' History records that the , ion soldier killed upon the f|J?* C: tie was an Indiana soldiw ° fbt her of Company G Nillth imettl. The last Union s,,i ( || ’ , in the war was an lndlani au “' il ' soldiers fought in the *•* the war; they were the first /. U1 '’ walls of Fort Wagner, they < ’ r “ first lo ascend Mission | (i ',i„.’ were the first to march in J 1 ’ of New Orleans, and th«y - *** last to bivouac upon the tie in the great war. All hull the maichk-s r ,. diana's citizen-soldiery, tlu „ ‘ 0 ude and endurance; th..f- ~l (" and patriotism. When ti» oUri sketches it upon canvas--, hii’ will'not trace in it a Biilß j e s picture will be a work of , n ' ln ’ true to history -calculated t- J* >entiments of gratitude p, (!j ,. heart and’inspire patri-stj.-. ir general tons. Standing fifty year- th' qj. the great conflict .and < on f. o ' tci) we are with the marv,in t: r . cili mi nts made in the indus'ri.M. tual and institutional hi,. iiUr tion, we should not hav. to i nqi why-the Union soldier-, w. n, (S| upon to endure the hard-ipps . make the saeriltces the. A ' T q -,wor should be familiar to this, eration, but I suggest t!-. , ucs! Iteeuuse this and subseqm-ri tlons must not forget ti ( y Weßt war to maintain a government itional in its eouceptiou; founded, : the consent of the governed an( | , queatbed to the otwweepin: m : ies through the blood -: , i( - They went to the froi • that a ( eminent of the people, by •], and for the people niigh: P( ,t p,! from the earth. To make it? tuily certain the doctrin- .( na ili; (Continued on Page g) '♦if?'.