Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1890 — Page 13

MEN WHO MOST CONTRIBUTED TO GREATNESS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF INDIANA

Sir William Jones, an Englishman of treat learning and experience in state craft, and living during the period when England’s American colonies were struggling for independence, wrote his celebrated ode, entitled. "What Constitutes ( a State?” It has been quoted until it has become * commonplace, but is still reproduced when men want a standard by which to measure those who are called upon to build a state in which liberty, independence and law constitute its great supporting pillars. One stanza of the ode Will suffice for this article: "What Constitutes a State?" "Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Nor cities proud with spires and turrets crowned: Nor bays and broad-armed ports. Where laughing at the storm rich navies ride; Nor starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, men, high-minded men. t With powers as far above dull brutes endured In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude. Men who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing, dai<maintain, '■'* Prevent the long-aimed blow. And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute the state.” Indiana’s Position. Contemplating the position of Indiana in the great republic, a state on the foundations of which the ideas of Sir William Jones first found expression, as the declaration of independence demonstrates, and which have been transmitted to all of the states since the union of the thirteen colonies first made us a nation; the query is, were the founders of the empire state of Indiana In full accord with* . Sir William Jones's exposition of "What ' Constitutes a State?” I think such a I conclusion is warranted by all the facta I of history. Say what l we may, there is an I element of superstition in the mental orI ganisrn of men, however educated and I ’ culturedjthey may he, and it may be that I seeing the wonderful strides the state 1 has made from a wilderness to her presB ent noon-day glory in civilization, wealth, ■ prosperity and influence, tho conjecture Bmay be nursed by some people that the has had a good genius, a tutulary to preside over its destiny, guard Mhs development and shape its course. such reflections, perhaps, are too for this era pf steam and electhis utilitarian, practical, inatage. when the forge, the plow, anvil and engine are working wonwhich seize upon the public mind will not be set aside. Their demand consideration Is imperious. They are with encouragement, and only are tolerated. They Inspire hope;

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they vitalize faith In the coming of things hoped for, giving assurance that the things already accomplished are to be overshadowed by future achievements in every line of high endeavor. They make the old reminiscent; the past passes in review in panoramic grandeur, and to the young furnish dazzling ideals to be revealed as the years go by. The Credit. ) In such mood the inquiry /is forced: “To whom, in the larges-.measure, la Indiana Indebted for her splendid renown?” The facts of history have all the glamor of fiction. But yesterday a winderness; today the center of advanced civilization, with its two hundred thousand farms; its three hundred cities and towns; its thousand factories; its ten thousand school houses; its churches, colleges and universities; its benevolent institutions and splendid charities; its press, and its writers who have won fame in every department of literature; its professional educators; its lawyers, doctors and clergymen; its merchants and manufactures; its more than five thousand miles of railroads—a. state in which art, science, learning and culture find an invigorating atmosphere; in a word, a state where every prospect pleases, where hill and dale and rock and vale suggest contentment, and where the great masses are satisfied with being "obscurely good.” Surely, all this advancement, this development, this moral, Intellectual and material wealth has not come to Indiana by chance, by wizard enchantments, by some Aladdin ring and lamp. History records a different verdict. From the day Indiana was launched as a territory, more than a’ hundred years ago, the men at tho helm were endowed with a large measure of common sense, integrity, conscience, loyalty to duty and love of country. “Who wepe these men? Where stand the monuments to perpetuate their names and their labors in laying the foundations of Indiana’s greatness even before the state was born? Where are their graves? In what sequestered spot of our great domain is their final resting place, to remain until the last trump opens earth’s charnel houses and ' "the Lamb and tho white-vested elders have met” to pass judgment? Four Great Men. There were four of these men— j, Arthur Saint Clair, ■ John Gibson, * William Henry Harrison. Thomas Posey. They were all native Americans except Saint Clair, who was born in Edinburg, Scotland, in 1735. He was a general in the revolutionary war and was appointed governor of Indiana territory in 1757 and remained in office till 1800. He was a gallant and patriotic soldier. He died In 1818 at the age of eighty-three years. His successor by appointment was William Henry Harrison, but for a year John Gibson, who was secretary of the territory, was acting governor. He was a native of Pennsylvania, born In 1740. He served with distinction during the revolutionary war, and was a delegate to the conven-

tion which framed the first constitution of Pennsylvania. He died at Pittsburg in 1822, at sixty-three years of age. It is scarcely required to more than mention the name of William penry Harrison—who served as governor of tho Indiana territory from 1801 to 1812, and during his term of office fought the battle of Tippecanoe, and in 1840 was president of the United States. This reward for his services to his country came late in life, but it came with scripture measure at last. He was made governor of the Indiana territory at the age of He fought the great battle of Tippecanoe at thirty-eight and the still more renowned battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh fell, at forty. He was elected president at sixty-seven years of age, and died in office at the age of sixty-eight. N. I*. Willis, the. poet, wrote of Harrison’s death in the white house: "Death! Death in the white house! Ah, never before Trod his skeleton foot on the president’s floor! • so Put Harrison’s death fills the climax of atorvrHe went with his old stride—from glory to glory. Lay his sword on his breast! There’s no spot on its blade In whose cankering breath his bright laurels will fade; ’Twas the first to lead on at humanity’s call— It was stay’d with sweet mercy when “glory” was all; As calm in the council as gallant in war, He fought for his country, and not its "hurrah.” , In the path of the hero with pity he ’ trod — Let him pass—with his sword —to the presence vt God ” Thomas Posey. Thomas Posey was the last governor of the Indiana territory. Like Saint Clair, and Gen. Gibson, he was a revolutionary soldier and fought for independence. He was with Wayne at the storming and capture of the fort at Stony Point. N. Y.» in 1779, regarded as one of the most brilliant exploits of the revolutionary war. Posey was the first to give the watchword, "The fort’s our own.” After his retirement from the office of territorial governor in 1816, he returned to Illinois, where, two years later, he died. From 1787 to 1816—twenty-nine years—tho four men named were the chief architects in laying the foundations of Indiana in legislation and law and in molding public opinion in matters pertaining to education, religion and morals. They were high-minded men, measuring up splendidly to the standard of Sir William Jones. They knew their duty and the rights of their fellow men. They mapped out the course of events. Indiana has more than fulfilled their ideals, and Indiar.lans may tune their throats and sing with Longfellow: “We know what masters laid thy keel, What workmen wrought thy ribs of steel. Who made each mast, and sail and rope, What anvil rung, what hammers beat, In what a forge and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of our hope.” Yes, all of the present generation know it all, and the grand men who were at the forge and the anvil, who wielded the hamm’ers—St. Clair, Gibson, Harrison and Posey—are entitled to everlasting gratitude for the work they performed. Honors Given. True, the nation rewarded Harrison. It raised him to the most august station known to the nations of the earth, and then, by a decree of fate, he pitched his tent on “Fame’s eternal camping ground.” But what of the other men who were his associates in laying the foundations of Indiana? The state has done something to rescue the names of Gibson and Posey from oblivion (and other states have done the same for St. Clair) by conferring their names upon counties. Indiana has her counties of Gibson and Posey and Harrison; Michigan her river and lake bearing the name of St. Clair. Is that enough? The present is an era of government reservations. There is a patriotic spirit abroad which finds expression in monuments on battlefields where Indiana soldiers fought and fell. The present is a monument building era in the United States, and Indiana Is abreast of the most advanced of all our commonwealths. The ancient custom Is being revived In all its glory. Egypt, Greece, Rome and other' lands and peoples were not more under the influence of the desire to perpetuate the names and deeds of their rulers and heroes. Pyramids were built for tpmbs and temples for gods. Egypt had her pyramids and obelisks, Greece her acropolis and Parthenon, Rome her pantheon and coliseum. Byron wrote the legend of Rome: "While stands the coliseum Rome shall stands When falls the- coliseum Rome shall fall. And when Rome falls—the world.” Rome, Greece, Egypt have fallen, and all their monumental grandeur Is a ruin, sans Cheops in the sand by the Nile. It has stood defying elements since time was young, and is likely to remain intact when forty more centuries are gone. In this regard the old Egyptians have had no rivals. In piling up great rocks, square and ponderous, one upon another, they solved a problem where others failed, and Cheops stands to keep In everlasting remembrance a race of Titans whose infancy defies the researches of' antinu-rinns. In this they taught a lesson t ■> 'aodern monument builders which shoul., .;ot be disregarded. The First Capitol. The builders of the first capltol of Indiana at Corydon, Harrison county, seem to have had the Egyptian idea of architecture. They built the unpretentious state house to resist decay, and there it stands after the lapse of eighty-six years as firmly fixed on its foundations as it was when the first legislature of Indiana met within its massive walls*, elghty-five years ago. It is a relic of Indiana in its dawn. In the morning of the first day of its triumphal march the sun baptized it in auroral light. Standing forty feet square In the walls ofstone two and a half feet thick, Xhere is no reason why it may not stand a thousand years.- Already this old capitol is attracting attention, and people are beginning to reverence it. and as the years go by this feeling of veneration will Increase and become intensified. It is the only memorial of Indiana’s early history as a state, the only souvenir the past has placed in possession of the present to keep fresh and green the remembrance of the birth of the state. Such reflections suggest the propriety of a movement for the acquisition by the state of the old capltol at Corydon and its preservation from decay. The grounds around the building should be improved and art and culture taxed to the utmost to make them beautiful with walks and flowers, shrubs and trees. This done, at the four corners of the park let art do its best in placing statues of St. Clair, Gibson. Harrison and Posey, the illustrious men who for more than a quarter of a century devoted their lives to laying broad and deep the foundation of the state. . . The various rooms of the building could be set apart for a museum where mementoes of the early days could be preserved to delight future generations, and Corydon would become a sort of Mecca. And in time thousands of pilgrims would resort thither to see the only monument of early Indiana preserved by the state to perpetuate memories of its primitive history.

FABMMACBINERY EVOLUTION OF THE CRUDE IMPLEMENTS OF THE PAST. Modern Tools for Forcing Wealth from the Virgin SoilProminent Firms. By T. A. Con lee. As an agricultural state Indiana has within the past ten years taken a place of first magnitude, shaken the ashes of her fields and stumps from her garments and risen to a place of importance as a producer of farm cereals. No one of our states has made more advancement in agricultural products or excelled us in development, and it would not be an unreasonable boast if we claimed that the farmers of Indiana were entitled to more credit for this development than could be justly accorded to any other people, from the fact that this was not a prairie country prepared in advance for the plow, but a vast forest. To no one agency can this advancement be credited so much as the employment of improved l// ~ ufflrlW if W BillßbS-' I W farm machinery and tools. It does not require a very old citizen of Indiana to have a. distinct recollection of clearing and logging bees, as they were called, or when the Indiana farmer, relied on his logs, more than he did on his crops, to furnish both necessaries and luxuries. This primitive condition was too good to last, and In 1890 we find our state denuded of Its forests, and only remaining large fields of stumps. Something must be done. These large clearings must be converted Into fields of golden grain, and the ring of ax and buzzing of saw must be superseded by the harvest song of the reaper and hum of the thresher. How was this to be done? The man with the hoe was a back number and too slow. The means was at hand in improved farm implements and tools. What the world owes to Improved farm machinery cannot bo set .forth more forcibly and clearly than in the proof of what has been done for Indiana, bringing prosperity and thrift to farmers, who would otherwise be floundering in the ashes of their stumps. Agricultural Progress. The stump puller was the advance guard, followed by the chilled cast iron plow, which was quickly Superseded by the high-grade steel plow, and both riding and walking gang and sulky piows. These perfect tools were equipped with a view to good work and light draft, and supplemented with the most useful of all tools, the disc harrow. Next In evolution comes the two-row check-row corn planter, with perfect drop and capacity of twenty acres per day, this tool having relegated to the rear all the primitive methods, from the oldfashioned way of dropping by hand and covering with a hoe, up to the two-row corn planter operated by hand. Next come cultivators, and we reach perfection in the hammock rider, and the farmers who now combine business . and pleasure can look backward over the vast fields of advancement along this line, from the hoe until he, sitting under his sun shade on his riding cultivator. Is thankful that he lives at the parting of the ways between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These tools and Implements are all for the planting and cultivating of corn. For wheat and small grain we have the perfect two-horse drill and broadcast seeders. So rapidly have we advanced along this lin etnat we An easily remember our fathers with bags across tneir shoulders sowing broadcast by hand, weary and footsore. The binder has supplanted the old cradle and sickle. The magnificent thresher of today, with steam power and wind stacker, pours the golden grain, ready for market, Into the farmer’s wagon, and, although we remember with some pleasure the old days ot flail and winnow, we should not want to return to this ancient method. Now the question Is, what has all this done for Indiana and how many years would It have taken to bring our own Hoosier statq up to the present high level of cultivation. If we were without Improved farm machinery? The wealth brought to the Indiana farmer, and incidentally to all our citizens, by the Introduction of the very highest grade of farm implements cannot be overestimated. Vast Improvements. Standing on the threshold of the twentieth century and looking back over the last ten years, we see an advancement and Improvement In farmers and farming that is phenomenal, and this can be attributed to the adoption of the most Improved methods of planting, cultivating and harvesting. The world has been and is now pouring Into our laps the products of our best brain and brawn. What docs it mean for the Hoosier state? This: Taking as a basis 1890. It is estimated ty competent statisticians and compilers that there is 33 -13 per cent, more of the land cultivated than In 1890, and that it Is 50 per cent, better cultivated. o This is all to the credit of Improved farm machinery. The best agricultural implements have been brought to our doors. The capital city of the state has come’ln for its portion of the benefit derived from the advanced condition of farming. With railroads and shipping facilities unequaled it has Invited and secured the headquarters and storehouses of large manufacturers and hundreds of thousands of dollars! worth of the best the world can produce in the way of Improved farm machinery is constantly on hand for shipment to all parts of the state. Prominent Firms. Among those who have become identified with us In a permanent way. their investment being * sure guarantee of permanency, we find first the Johu Deere plow company of Indiana, a, branch of the famous Moline, 111., factory, the largest and best equipped branch house in the state. They carry a full line of implements manufactured by Deere & Co., and Deere & Mansur company of Moline, HL, a large stock of repairs and extras,

the famous White Elephant line of vehicles. the Moline farm wagons, and everything In the line of first-class implements and tools. The shipments niaije from this house alone will approximate closely to the entire sales of implements In the state in 1890. The McCormick harvesting machine company has recently erected a fine building for the transaction of Its business, and carries a large stock of its implements. The building Is at 223-26 B. Capitol-ave., and Is a handsome and mammoth structure, with an Immense area of floor space and nmole switch fa? cllltles, and Is a credit alike to Indianapolis and to the great McCormick company founded by the Inventor of the reaping machine. The Deering harvesting company ot Chicago has a large and commodious building, where it keeps a full line of its goods and makes prompt shipments. The Rumely manufacturing company also owns its own building, and carries a large stock, and can furnish anything In the thresher or engine line on short notice. The Eastern Moline plow company occupies quarters on S. Pennsylvanla-st., and carries a full line. The H. T. Conde implement company, a regular jobbing house and not directly connected with factories, carries a full line of Implements, vehicles and seeds. The Oliver chilled plow company of South; Bend also has a branch of Its business located on S. ,Pennsylvanta-st. In addition to those who own their own buildings we have scores of representatives of factories, wlthf- offices and headquarters, who transfer from tho Union transfer and storage company, and the number of representatives living within the borders of the state is legion, being seven times greater than In 1890, and the addition to our tax duplicates from agricultural Implement houses Is no small affair. sit Is natural that the Introduction of improved farm machinery, having developend, and brought thrift to out state, • Its manufactures should also be entitled to great credit, and equally enjoy with the farmer the prosperity which they have been largely the means of producing. Home Heating and Lighting Company. Probably no enterprise projected during the entire history of the city has attracted. more attention than the proposed erection of Central Station heating and lighting plants by the Home Heating and Lighting Company. \ Many changes have been effected in the century that has just passed that may be summed up in the worl CENTRALIZATION. The “Old Oaken Bucket” Is but a n.»mory, and we are now supplied with water from a Central Station. The candle, as well as tjie whale oil and kerosene lamps have been superseded by artificial gas or electric lights from Central Stations. Natural gas allowed the establishment of a Central Station for the distribution of heat, but with the diminishing supply of gas came the realization that some other and more durable method must be secured. The Home Heating and Lighting Company, having secured a franchise to heat the city by hot water, steam or electricity and to furnish electric light and power, have begun the construction of heating and lighting plants_fpr that purpose. The plant at the corner of Sixteenth and' Alabama-sts. Is now finished and Is a model of mechanical Ingenuity and laborsaving devices. The building Is an Imposing brick structure with stone trimming, and the equipment comprises the most modern apparatus on the market. The company has spared no expense to secure the best consulting engineering talent obtainable. Heating a large number of houses by hot water from a Central Station has proven eminently successful, and we give herewith a brief' explanation of the system and the benefits to be derived therefrom. A plant Is erected near the center of the territory selected and there the water is heated and the electricity generated. The hot water Is forced through pipes, which are laid underground and properly Insulated, and through the radiators In the houses. After passing through the radiators the water Is returned by separate main to the station to be reheated. The patron of the company Is saved the expense and annoyance of looking after a furnace; his house is heated to a comfortable and uniform temperature throughout, safety, economy and comfort being secured without effort on his part. The number of customers already secured exceeds the expectations of the company, and Indications point to continued activity In this line for some time to come. The officers and directors are wellknown citizens of Indianapolis—Mr. S. E. Rauh, the president, being of the firm of E. Rauh & Sons, and president of the Belt railroad and stock yards company. Mr. Edward Hawkins, the secretary, is manager of the Indian school book company, and is connected with several other large business enterprises in this city. These two gentlemen and Messrs. L. J. Hackney, Crawford Fairbanks and John F. Wild, compose the board of directors of the company.

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W. H. DILLMAN, * / . General Agent, Indianapolis, Ind. McCormick Harvesting Machine Co, This Illustration shows the new McCormick building at Capitol-ave. apd Mo-blle-st., Indianapolis, and the general public, as welLas the farmers of Indiana, will be Interested In knowing that the McCormick Company, the leading harvesting ” machine manufacturers of the world,, have provided such commodious quarters for their business in Indiana, and all are ‘cordially invited to visit us when In the city. ' r> The Illustration presented herewith shows the McCormick new right-hand binder for 1902. This machine has many novel and distinct features, representing all that Is newest and best In binder manufacture. It Is easily bandied by the operator, and Is easily drawn by the horses. It is built for clean work, quick work, perfect work. « , Write for “THE WORLD-CENTRE,” A Beautiful Book Profusely Illustrated in Colors. W. H. DILLMAN, General Agent, Indianapolis, Ind. McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. sCSi JOHN DEERE PLOW CO. MOLINEULL. INDIANAPOLIS, IND. MOLINEJII. xxx x x , 5 xxx x x tLOWS C Corn Planters Sulky Plows Am “Bi IK3bi Disc Harrows Gang Plows M hrV ££ pH, Hay Rakes Harrow* fog p-j IKB Hay Loader* Pulverizer* F? Er lEp PF EE Corn Drill* Riding and Walk- |u* x| pL p”i IT - —Corn Hu*ker* *’S2. , ’£X" 216-218-220 SENATE AVE. SOUTH. Largest and Best-Equipped Branch House in the State of Indiana. JOHN DEERE’S NAME Is on every implement we sell, and is a sure GUARANTEE OF SUPERIORITY Our investment in Indianapolis is evidence that xve are in Indiana to stay, and that repairs for John Deere Implements can always be had promptly. FARMERS — When you buy anything in the Plow, Cultivator, Planter or Harrow line see that it has John Deere’s name on it, and you will know you Have the Best. SEND TO US FOR CIRCULARS AND DESCRIPTIONS The Famous No. 9 ■/ DfcERE PLANTER Jf g|||s| i —m—— J Tishimingo

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