Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1891 — Page 4

§£ino£Vdt X. BLACKB CBS', proprietor. FRIDAY, JAN. 23,1891. Again has gas been foufid in this state in a new held, this time at Princeton. We sitll believe there is apocketfull here if we can unly find it. Since the McKinley high tariff perfection bill went into effect the country is experiencing about eighty failures a day. Where are the promised good times? Govenor Boies, of lowa, in an interview published in the Chicago Times, says: “There, is no doubt that (trover Cleveland is the popular choice today for president in 1892, and Tbelieve he will be nom united and elected.'’

Tax the wealthy corporations fairly and squarely and there, will be no need of increasing the state tax levy. In oilier states with no more miles of railway than Indiana, the railroads alone pay nearly the: expense of the state government. (iHXEKAi. Glbson, one of Ohio’s greatest political workers, has been appointed postmaster at Tiffin, Ohio. While the office has a fair salary, and the appointment looks like treating the General shabbily, yet it is one case in which the President did recognize an old soldier. The next presidential candidate will be the people’s choice. If chosen now his name would be Grover Cleveland. That is apparent to every candid observing person. The politicians may as well make up their minds to submit to this decree in 1892, unless something very Strange transpires in the political world between now and then to change it. Georue W, I >ifi. am a ter, late Republican candidye for governor ol Pennsylvania, has been arrested on the charge of embezzlement in the management of their late bank. Jt may be that he will be quartered on the people ol Pennsylvania, yet regardless in the manner in which , they sat down Oh him at the last election. They have institutions thyre for such men. * The legislature has passed a resolution asking Ohio, Kentucky, Illi nois, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kansas and lowa to co-oper-ate with Indiana in a measure that w4iX,ascertain the amount of capital loaned in these states with a view of taxing the »;ame. There can be no doubt if such a measure can be brought about, but that a very large amount of property that is not now assessed, will foe, listed for taxation and help to lessen the burden on other taxables. The anarchist who attempted to force the pasi-tige of the Force eh»ctuai bill and thus thwart the will ot the American people Judd an all night session fast Friday night with the hope'that they would find the Democrats napping, but every tune to the interests of the people they were equal to the emergency and when the morning came the faithful sentinels were found* at their poston guard watching least they who choose the lime of night when all honest people should be asleep, - might surprise them. WirAT is tlie -matter with our I weather prophets therq has been about all kinds of it here this winter, but down in Florida where it his never been known to snow it has been covering the ground this winter to the depth of three or four inches, and ip Europe it, seems they have colder weather than they ever had in that country, while in Paris, France, where they never knew what it was to have the harbors frozen over, they are so completely covered with ice j that it is almost imposible for them to do anything The John Shiletto Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio, have commenced a suit in thcMisthct court of the United States, to declare the law known as t le AlcKinlvy bill unconstitutional, on which their attorneys say there is no doubt of the fact. For the first reason ihat the bill passed by congresw is not the one, signed by the president, and for a second reaHon that the clause relating to the bounty on sugar is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, therefore cannot be enforced. If such is the case, what will our Republican friends do for protection.

-i x extra sessiox. The talk at Washington regarding a possible extra session has become rather more definite within the week, and it looks as if there were some of the Republican managers who really irnafiine that such an outcome of the Fifty first Congress would be politically an advantage to the party. We do not, we confess, quite see how they can figure that out. After having been in session longer than any other Congress since the war, after having passed only one bill of any importance during all the ten months of that session, after having been overwhelmingly beaten, rebuked, and condemned at the polls for that bill, tl\ majority comes back and fritters away the remainder of the life of the Congress, so that it is

not able to pass even the regular appropriation brils, and an extraor- j dinary session is made Accessary. I I It is understood that the subtle] leaders of the majority have some sort of notion that if the Democratic majority in the House can be got together in the spring and com- ■ peiled to leg slate upon questions in- i wived in the appropriation bills, they will show their incompetence I in away to be of some advantage to the opposition. We should like to know what the Democratic majority is likely to do_or leave undone that will show any greater or monr obvious incolnpetence than haerijcen shown by the Republicans •in the Fifty-first Congress. The real motive and the only intelligible one that the Republican j leaders can have, for even broach- , ing the subject of an extra session i at the present time is to see if public opinion will tolerate it sufficiently to make it safe. Then, it-it be found that the people are relatively indifferent on the subject, the managers will deliberately put off action on the appropriations bills and devote the remainder of the session» to their purely partisan scherties, foremost of' which is the ] force bill. It is evident, indeed, that for this scheme everything is to be done that can be done, and nothing would please the special friends of the administration more than to get the chance to concentrate the entire energies of the raaI jority upon its passage. They seem 1 absolutely blind to the general contempt and irritation with which their policy is regarded, not merely by the great majority of the people, but by very many of the most shrewd and intelligent men of their own party. It the present majority, wholly out of sympathy, as they have shown themselves, with sensible public opinion and. blind to the real interests of the country, as they plainly are, were left to themselves, we are convinced that they would be incapable of such arrant folly as compelling an extra session. They cannot help seeing that it would be one more convincing and striking proof of the utter incapacity 1 Republican party as now managed to perform the simplest tasks ol government. It is only in the mind of the President that such an extraordinary piece of political stupidity could be conceiv'd. As for the Democrats, they may well look upon this*proposition as in no wise concerning them. lithe Republicans choose to enter a confession of judgment on the charge of the unfitness to do the common work of a short session, it is not for the opposition to present them. It is not likely that the new majority in the House would have any difficulty in dealing with the business abandoned by the Republicans. It is relatively simple and easy, and most of the committee work in connection with it will have been performed. All that the extraordinary session would require would be a decent and orderly disposition of the appropriation bills. There would be no occasion for general legislation and none would tie unedertake: 1 . The House could organize, the committees could be appointed, the specific business of the session could be transacted, some of the work ol the regular session could be prepared and the cou-se of thecommittees mapped out, and that would be all. At the same time, while there need be no tear ol the| consequenos of an extra session, there is no rea son to desire one. It is, in the slang of the day, purely a Republican “funeral,” and may with propriety be left to the curiously befuddled leaders of the present Republican rn tjority to arrange as they may think best.—At io *I o/7c Times.' The oat meal mills fihve formed] a trust. What next?

It is with pleasure that-we find that our farmers are beginning to feel that their meetings are doing them good byway of interchanging thoughts and ideas in their business, and discussing the best way of taking hold of their work to arrive at what they need. While in the last two years the crops have been short and made it seem as though they have a hard lot, and those who have debts to pay, especially those who bought farms and expected to make payments out of the crops, it has been hard for them to meet their obligations and support their families as they feel they should do. But in their meetings, and talking over the best way to do such work they will find in a short time that it does not all depend on the large amount ot acreage that they put out, but that the condition of the soil is the first thing to be considered and then the amount that they can put the soil m the highest state of cultivation to receive at the proper time to plant the seed, and be sure they have the best seed that is to be had, well adapted to the soil they have to plant it in, then the amount that is required to the acre, and what they can properly attend during the season so that none goes to wasttj, tor they are beginning to find that it is not in the large of acreage that they put out but the manner in which it is done, and cared for afterwards is w’hat makes the farm profitable. Governor Hovey, in a special message to the legislature, charges Warden Murdock, ot the Indiana State’s Prison North, with not properly accounting for the money that has come into his hands as such warden, and asks that a non-partisan committee be appointed for the purpose of investigating the matter. The legislature will see that .the matter is promptly attended to, and that the matter have the fullest consideration that it is entitled to. But Governor, why not investigate the late Attorney-General Michffer, and see how he came by those large fees he has been taking from the school funds. Let the message go forth at once for a non-partisan committee to make the investigation. You will find the Democratic legislature ready to do their duty.

The lion. B. M. Hench, of Allen county, has introduced a bill to im crease the salary of circuit judges in circuits of sixty thousand and over, the salary to be $3,000 per annum, while now they receive $2,500. While the county the honorable gentleman represents is a large one and the circuit judge a man that is eminently qualified for the trusted I position, yet we feel that it is the judge who has the different coun ties in his circuit who should have his salary increased if any, being compelled to go away from home, pay board and traveling expenses, while the one that has but one county is at home all the time, thus saving the annoyance and expense. The American National Bank of Kansas City, Mo-, one of the biggest institutions in the west has failed, while the officers have made no statement of the liabilities thev ■ t •* have been estimated to be $2,500,000 with ass ts of $3,000,000 thus we see the times improve under the McKinley bill, while bank failures occur about every week since the Republican party went into power, and Dunn & Co’s Commercial Reports show that business failures in 1890 amount to $11,000,009 more than in 1889, yet there are people who still cry for higher protection, that all foreign competition may be shut out, and the wall that is now around us may be built higher. - ' - ' ' ■■ In some counties the county As> sembly of the F. M. B. A. adopted resolutions to present to the legist lature setting forth the amount of fees that county officers should have as a salary. The most of them being all that any county officer will ask, the basis being a salary for the first twelve tbousaaid and then a fixed amount for each additional thousand. Most of them are better than the officers expected and all are very fair excepting the sheriff and county superintendent which they seem to look upon as though we could get along without. In half a dozen states where the Republicans were repudiated by the people last fall their leaders are now through force and fraud endeavoring to hold on to the power of which they have been divested. SouthCaroHna’s revolutionary secession in 1861 was not a whit more treasonable.

UXSUCCESSFUL FARMERS. The cry about the depressed condition of the farmer seems to be general throughout the country. There never was nor never will be a time when many of them will Hot be depressed. If men fail a.t farming, where they were born and raised, where else would they be likely to do any better? Men must not expect the results of ability unless they have it. Neither must they expect the benefits of industry, economy and temperance, unless they practice them. Farming has always been, and must be carried cm forever. It is a pleasant and profitable calling. If the farmer does not pay too much tor his land, and has farming and trading capacity, and gives his attention the entire year as the"successlul merchant or lawyer does his store or office, he will also find that he is successful. If he tires of the farm there is no law that prevents him from selling it and becoming anything that his capacity and inclinations prompt him to be. It seems to be fashionable among the farmers just now to belong to the Alliance, and to declare that the laws are responsible for their failure at farming. We cannot help noticing that the farmer that gives a new movement the warmest greeting and expects most from it, is the one whose barnyard is the only fertile spot on his farm. And whose fields are covered with yellow spots which expand each year, and around which is a decaying fence overgrown with bushes ana briers through which the sun never shines. This man has destroyed the native forest, exhausted the fertility of his fields and raised a large family which are now needy. He sees all this and imagines that our laws are responsible for it. As a ruler over a small farm and a family he has not been successful, yet he wants to make laws to govern sixty million people. Disappointed or unscrupulous leaders join these movements for the sole purpose of getting the farmer’s vote, knowing at the same time that the only way to improve the farmer’s condition, is to teach him to produce larger crops of every variety that his soil will produce, and at the same time hold up or in crease the fertility of his soil, buy sand sell his stock at the proper time, and always keep a good article, and steadily improve it.— American Rural Home.

Governor Hill, of New York, has been selected as the Democratic candidate for United States Senator for New York, his nomination being by acclamation. The Republicans nominated Senator Evarts for the empty honors. In this state Senator Voorhees is the Democratic candidate for United States Senator, while Governor Hovey stole a march on the Greshamites and carried off the empty honors, thus showing the kickers of the administration that they are still in the soup or their boodle is the main stay of the Republican party, and as Bush, of Crawfordsville, puts it, they can carry the state if tljey can only find the way to distribute the boodle, and the man to handle it, for Dorsey, Dudley and Michner have all left the state. Negroes in the South seem to have lost all interest in the elections of late, and especially since the carpet-baggers have been run out of the southern states where they flourished like mushrooms in a warm sun after a night’s warm rain. But the time has, passed and the niggers well remembering their promise of forty acres of land and a mule it they would vote the Republican ticket do not see anything in it. Since they found out that they were only working them to further their own end, that they might perpetuate their own lease of office, and continue the Republican party in power, as they are attempting to do by the passage of the infamous force bill. Governor Hill being the Sena-tor-elect from the Empire State leaves Ex-President Cleveland the only candidate for 1892, from New York for president on the Democratic ticket, and with Gray, of Indiana, Black or Palmer, of Illinois, there can be no doubt of the ticket being a winner. One.that will restore confidence in business circles so that there will be less failures in mercantile bouses, and a better chance for a few more of our National banks to weather the storm so that people that have a little money will know where to find rt when they want it, if deposited m a bank. |

THE C. & E. TIED UP. On last Sunday the thirty days suspension oi 1 rain Dispatcher Scott, of the Chicago & Erie, expired and on Monday, when he expected to be reinstated as did all the other operators on the road, the company concluded that they did not need his service any longer so* discharged him. All the dispatchers on the road took up his case and on last Wednesday the only trains moving on the road was the mail trains. The dispatchers claim that at the time Scott was suspended it was agreed to by the officials and the train dispatchers that Scott should be re-in-stated and in the discharge of him the company ' had violated their agreement with the men. The members of tliE brotherhood of engineers, conductors and firemen have joined th.e strike, so that from Chicago, 111-, to Marion, Ohio, the tie-up is complete. The engineers will either run in the round-house or on the side-track and the tires pulled so that all except those that pull the mail trains are dead, not even carrying passengers on that train sb that all trafic is at a stand still so far as the C. & E. is concerned. While it is to be hoped that it will be of short duration the end no one can tell, for the number of men that is out of employment is six hundred and over and then if they are joined by the employes ol other roads as is likely to be the case it is hard to tell when it will end. As is the case generally it is backed by the entire organization of the different brotherhoods all over the country, and in this case will involve the New York, Lake Erie Western. The C. &'E. company have put their property at Huntington, Ind., in charge of the Pinkerton men, while the employes of the company are not disposed to destroy property, the company ought not force such men on any community. The Secretary of the Interior is outspoken in favor of abolishing the pension department of the government, and placing the same under the charge of the w r ar department, thus cutting off all expense of that branch of the government, making a saving of several hundred thousand dollars in way of expense, and then pay the pensions every month instead of quarterly as now is done. The monthly payment will be of great benefit to a number of pensioners who depend on that for a living, and will help get the money in circulation better than the present way of paying. But w’hy not make-the county treasurer or some paying office in each county where they can pay without the trouble that is now in vogue.

The time has come when our legislature should pass a stringent law in regard to the bringing of the Pinkerton thugs in this State whenever anything like the strike on the C. <&. E. occurs. It is not tight that good people should be subjected to abuse because a railroad company and its employes fall out. Give us a good and wholesome criminal statute one that will make }t a penal offence toy any corporation to hire them for the purpose of using them in this state and then make them liable when found in the state. Let it not be less than two years in the pen and they will be careful not to come into the state, or if they do come, they will behaveHhemselves, SENATORTpRiuEdid himself proud in his recent speech favoring the free coinage of silver.. The U. S. Senate contains no brighter intellect than that possessed by Mr. Turpie and few it any members of that body are able to use as brilliant and concise language as he does. When he goes after the now thoroughly demoralized hosts of monopoly, they hear something unpleasant to contemplate. ■ « Bill Chandler headed the gang that reversed the will of the people in New Hampshire. William is an earnest advocate of the force bill in the interest of a free ballot and a fair cornt. He has also done service before his chief and most valuable work being the theft of Louis, lana in 1876. “As a state stealer and advocate of pure elections, Chandler has no parallel in this country. The Republican thieves in New Hampshire, who stole the state government and the senatorship from the people, have at least one claim upon the consideration of the country. They have retired the pestiferous old crank, Mr. Henry W. Blajrrand alter the fourth day of nexk March the U. S. Senate will hear his monotonous cackle no more forever.

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