Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 50, Decatur, Adams County, 6 March 1891 — Page 4

IV. nJOsLOKB I 'Rtr, .Proprietor. FRIDAY, MARCH <l. Iv»I. Ox !a<t Friel ?y ‘eve ■. jig our usixsi quiet little civy was thrown into n.i excitement by the-dews iha't -pTv.-’H. rapidly from lio;r<e to, lum>e, ■ fha Judge Bobo had slmt his oldest-sou Rolliu. A visit to? the home of liiv judge, cuitfirmed the report, tirat while sail, ring from the excessive' use o'" alcoholic drinks a-rd other stimulant-, “v> which lie has been ado icte-b lor sometime pust,>. *hn a inojuent .pf anger caused iby some’imaginary wrong of the boy ordered him out qi the. house, and thinking he was not going as fast as he wanted him to, drew hi<* ievolver and comihdneed firing at him. The first shot misted the boy passing by his right side, when he Started for the stairs, the second shot struck him in the right side on the seventh rib and ranged backward until it came near the spinal column when it was deflected from its course and turned downward, where it still ’ remains. "The boy still anxious to get away, commenced to climb the stairs,when the judge fired the third shot and again missed the object of his wrath. After waiting a few moments and being told that he had shot the boy. he started down street and meetiiiglDr. Costello, told aim to go up to the house that there was seprething wrong with Rollin, while he proceeded 'to his offica where he left the revolver he had done the shooting with and took a /seven shooter with'him that he had in the office, and returned home, enquiring how bad the boy was hurt, where we found him suffering from the effects of the stimulants and the excitement produced by-the realization of the facts, that he ’had shot his own boy, and while attempting to get from Ijini the facts in llj'< jase he could scarcely be understop . So incoherent were his words that we stayed but a short time. Upon returning to the house in about a half an hour, we found ‘the judge in . • about the same condition as. before, but ready to. take a walk, which we readily consented to. While walk ing down street. Sheriff McConnell and Marshal Filstoe■ with J.nues Hurst came along, and taking Liin by the arm, led him to the jail where he remained until Saturday afternoon, when he was broughCOut and taken before ’Squire Hill for a preliminary examination on a charge of assault and batten with intent to \ kill, but waiving an examination liis bond was fixed a 85-,0.00, which fail ing to give, lie went back to jail, where he remained until last Tuesday, when a number of went on his bond, and he fs again at liberty. It is to be hoped that this may be the last time he may be found in this condition, and that it may be a h'-so.n to some of our young men to see a man with as bright a mind and as able a jurist as he has been, pass- down the incline until he was found behind the bars. Like a great many other men he felt that he could take adrink&r let it alone. But now finds that to let it alone, after it gets a good hold upon its victim, is one of the things that is almost impossible. Yet his friends feel that he will do" so. The . family have the sympathy of even one who know th/jm. The fifty nfrlTiqir surplus that was in the United .‘States Treasury, when the Republican party took hold of /£he reins of the Government, has “ faded away or seems, to have passed from the treasury to the pockets of some of the Republican schemers, thieves and jobbers, that are always on hand where any money or spoils are in shape can get their hands on it. Not only has the sure■> • • jilus disappeared forever from-view, but a deficit is reported to be shown up in its place, and yet the farmer and the laboring man is no better off °than before. The money has passed into the hands of the monopolies trust and the Bepublican party is the father of. Tint ptpposed new genjmanrier. which is certain become a la w, places Kos ciusko and Whitley counties in the Elev ently Contres:ft,/./J ■ District. Miami county is transferred i’j the Ttich Dis > i<.t and Grant county to the E/yth District. The district is good-fighting g'hourvi and Mr; Martin will not be without rivals evei* for the honor of being the Democratic Herald. Let us see. It seems to us that the Herald was very loud in the last campaign that the old Eleventh was good fighting ground and that' Private Martin would sure y be de? ieated by a large majority. How is j it, Thad. j

Under the new law, if the same-, is u act laey intend it4o be, the u; st of gravel roads will be considerably reduced. And the time of payment extended or made so little at a time that any one can afford to pay the same, and not be oppressed by the omden of taxes, which is always nigh enough anyway. We can fix them, but the demand lor better roads is what every citizen has been making ever since we can recollect anything of the road question. Ami as the county has improved -so has tne road, but not in proportion to the-othcr improvements of the county. As the log cabin hr its time served the purpose, and was replaced a ’ , -J by the hewed log or the frame, aim they'are now giving-'way to-the brick house, and thcasame the barn. Tins county can boast, of some as tine residences, and barns of any part of the state, and the quality of the land and the' eondition that the farms are in, is not surpassed by any county in the state. But the roads has been and are yet the drawback to this county, and While ’ we seem to lack the gravel, we have an abundance of stone along the river, and some of the creeks, which when broken, make the very best of roads. Roads that will last longer and be better than the griivel, and will mot cost as much m the long run as gravel, not needing so much repair, therefore cost less. While to get one started,-we believe there can be a respectable sum raised among the business men of this place. Trust companies are after the Alliance men, especially in Kansas, they are serving notices that all claims and mortgages held by trust companies on loans that belong to members of that order, must be paid when due or they will be collected according to law. That no mortgages will be renewed but that tin immediate foreclosure will follow, and of course but very few will be able to save their homes when the foreclosure comes unless the legislature can pass the bill they have pending estoping the collection of mortgages on real estate held by trust companies for the space of luiir years.. If suclrijTJaw should be passed, it would .give them -some time at least, if it should fail to wnat they want it to do: While our people in this state do not ask for tpe legislature to help them tide over they' lia've been asking for a reduction of the rate of interest,hnd that, seems to be the trouble wiiPi the farmers of Kansas, the interest has been eating .them up, until they.have been feeling that something must be dune to save themselves. An investigation of our entire pension system and the elimination of names not properly upon the rolls, cannot be staved off much longer. When such Republican papers as the New York Tribune join with the Democratic and Independent press in asking for*such an investigation, it is high time forthip small fry Republican sheets to withdraw their opposition. Honest pensioners have nothing to fear from this investigation, which we trust will be undertaken by the next House, but the dishonest ones, who are entirely too numerous, may well feel shaky and feel the just indignation of the people who have been ] and are being robbed of millions for their benefit. A hood many of the papers of the country are givinglheinselves very much unnecessary worry over the question of who shall be the next Democratic candidate for,president. Now, this is all wrong. When the time comes the Democrats will nominate a man who will stand on the Democratic platform, and who will carry” out the wishes of the people. It don’t make so much difference who the man is, just so the principles are correct. “The great party to which I belong,” says Senator Sherman. “It is the curse of this country” that it is governed by” men who belong to parties. No great man ever belonged to a party. Parties belong to great men, who . use them as instruments to accomplish great ends, The man who behmgs to apyfy ceases to belong to the nation and * humanity, to truth, freedom and justice. r> — The Nation. ■ This week closes the session of the General Assembly of this state. While they have done some work that is good, but not what the people expected of them. In the reapportionment for .legislative purposes j j thny left us as before. While not, i what wn wern entitled to, yet we j will have to stand it for the next | six years.

RID OT Il ARDEN IN THE ■- GGiTJL They have been having a little frolic in Oregon. gA itw score Chinamen, who bad been guilty of the crime of try ing io earn a living by hard work, were driven G11 * 01 the towns of Milton, Athena, Adams and Weston bv bands of armed men, and sent off uno the snow to starve and freeze. One* impudent- fellow, who refused to go, was dragged, with a rope round his neck, out of the town where he lived. The editqr of the Freewater Herald, having ventured to expostulate with the mob, and to. criticize its actions as not being up to the level of modern humanity, was -warned m a letter, in the death’s jhead and- cross bone style, not to refer to the subject again, or it would be worse for him. Who was it said that the future home of the. highest civilization was to be ou the Pacific? It will. be said, by those who have Oregon's honor at heart, that the perpetrators of these brutalities were not Oregonians, but Irishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and degraded outcasts of Eastern States, the scum of the vilest population of Eastern cities. That may be so, but the world will not acquit Oregon, until her authorities have done something to punish the leaders of the mob. any prosecutions been instituted, any arrests made, any” police set on the track of the ruffians? If not. and the public have heard nothing of the kind, the people of Oregon stand justly, suspected of being accomplices in the crime. The Oregonian newspaper, as every one who knows it feels sure, will speak out with the right ring when it does speak at all; but how about the other papers? These nevyspapers of ours, not in Oregon only, but in this State as well, are the real instigators of outrages upon the-Chinese. They do not actufilly advise mobs to burn Chinese houses and hunt their inmates into the woods. But they are never tired of poll-parroting about the injury this hard working race is inflicting on the State; whereas, in fact, they’ are the most useful laborers we have, and without them we should have neither a wine nor a fruit crop to export. The language which fills their columns at periodical intervals is directly calculated to stir the ignorant, to deeds of violence. A section hand loses his job; he naturally feels sore; a friend reads him an article in a San Francisco paper falsely stating that the Chinese are the ruin of the laboring man; - what more natural than that he should take the law into his own hand and redress his wrongs by looting the Chinaman’s house and dragging him into the woods, with a rope round his ngek? The poor devil, exasperated by his trouble, and, perhaps, crazed by drink, is not the real criminal in the case.’ The true culprit is the editor, who, knowing better, but striving to curry favor with the working ’“class, augs on the Unemployed laborer to deeds y/oTpiy of an Apache Indian. \' Why does no newspaper comment on this affair in Oregon? If a handful of Southern planters bad raided a negro settlement in the cotton States and driven out its inmates to die iu the woods, every newspaper in San Francisco would have boiled over with indignation at the" outrage and with the sympathy for the poor persecuted freedman. It would have been commented upon as another proof that the chivalry was in the saddle again, and that nothing but Hoar's force bill would save the country. But the Chinese have neither vbtes nor friends, and none of the enlightened and humane gentlemen who conduct daily newspapers think it worth while to make an outrage upon them a topic of rebukes.. Happily for humanity, facts can not be wholly suppressed, and someone will draw the attention. 01 congress to the events of Milton. The Chinese themselves will be apt to put in their little bill for damages, and congress will be asked to pay it as usual. The question then will -arise whether our exclusion act—which does not exclude, but which furnishes a pretext for deeds of violence at periodical intervals- -bad better not be left to expire when its term ends; whether it should not be expurgated front a statute book on which it figures as an example of the meanness to which party aims may lead men otherwise broad mindled and liberal.— &an Francisco Argonaut.: Go to John Mayer tor first-class brick lßtf

SIL '.EH AFT) FATIOXAL i AL4AVYN. Mr. Logan Murray, president of; the United States National Bank of New iork, was at the Capitol Monday, and was asked by” aPost reporter concerning the bill which Senator Carlisle is preparing to intr duce in the Senate: “1 have been since 1386 advocating, the marriage of tiie silver-pro-ducing) industry in -this country with the national bank system,’’ said he. v “ihe bonds of the United States having first reached an exorbitantly high price and the surplus of th’e treasury being applied 111 the purchase and cancellation of the debt, it seemed imperative that some other basis for a circulating medium should be devised to abate the fast declining cierulation. The banks will not buy 4 percent bonds at 120 or 125, upon which to take out 90 percent of circulation. The consequence is hundreds and thousands of banks being started in the newer portions of the country under State charters. “It has occurred to me for several years that our silver should be -utilized as a permanent basis. The fundamental of this bill now to be presented, barring some details, are that the national banks now organized or to be organized, may be permitted to invest half their capital stock in silver bullion, and for ..each 3.71} grains (which is the silver contained in oiir present standard silver dollar) may be purchased by the national banks and sent in its bullion form to the Treasury of the United States in trust for the national bank, and upon it the controller is directed to issue circula ting notes to such national bank, to an amount of its coined or coinage value, to-wit: 100 cents; for example, a bank with a capital of 8100,000, may be permitted to take out 850,000 of national bank notes, it first having deposited silver bu - Lion, which will cost in the market about 80 cents, or 840,000. “It will be observed that if the market value of this is but 840,000 and the bank is to receive 850,000 in circulating notes for it, there is a deficit in value of 810,000; hence the other half ot the capital of the bank, and indeed all the assets of the bank, in case of a failure, would be, by” the provisions of this bill, a first lien to secure this extra 810,000 to the noteholders. This is ample security to the noteholder, to-wit: SO percent in silver and the other 20 percent secured by” the assets of the bank in the case of a failure of the bank. Now, the three or four practical effects of the bill would be, >as the national banks buy silver bullion which might reach as much as 8200,0u0,000 in two or three' years, this would make an excellent market for the silver product. “The national banks would certainly buy the bullion because they nould’get this extra 20 cents of circulation on that bullion, which they could loan out and derive an income from and this would increase the paper money in circulation to aid our farming and commer’ cial interests to an amount of probably 8200,000,000 in that time. Our anti-national bank legislators could not therefore urge that the government was paying interest to national banks on bonds to perpetuate them. Indeed in about four directions it feerves all parties and costs nobody anything, and yet secures absolutely a,circulating medium, and, I believe, in the next twenty-five years there would be 81,000,000 of national bank notes secured on silver bul liuu, thus given aii opportunity to every town, even to Alaska, to have a bank with a note issue as practically well secured as the present national bank note. “I haye yet to find any man who urges any objections to this bill, and I believe the marriage of the silver interest with the national bank interest will be a solution of the difficulty which threatens us both in the declining of note issue and the detestable free which has threatened. “Now, it may be said that with the national banks in the market as buyers bullion would advance rapidly; this, of course, would kill its market to the only at 80 or 90 would there be an inducement to the banks to feuy, but this would regulate itself from time to time by bafiks declining to buy, and stocks of bullion building up. I would not object, if it seemed wise by congress, Jo a tax, say } on the circulation, to be put in a fund in the Treasury to supplement any loss possible to noteholders in ease the assets of a failed bank did no.t perfectly cover the difference between what could be realized on the sale of its and the issued notes. But who can think this would be necessary in any case?”

. 1 GREA T S CIIEME. Topek.\ Kan., March 3.—A new Alliance movement contemplates the formation of a huge live stock combination, including Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and lowa, k rank McGrath, President of the Farmers’ Alliance, says that the project is one of the faihife of the alliance legislatures to pn>s certain bibs Legislation, he says, is too slow a means tor the achievement of the alliance objects. Mr. McGrath says that alliances are being formed m .every congressional district and provisions are being made for building cold storage ami grain depots. The i district atlianees will be made up of I sub-alliances. In this way a con-1 stant communication from individual members ot the alliance is to be * had. He concludes: “We will know how many cattle each member ot the alliance has on hand, and he e in hold them without selling for need of ready cash. A record ot these facts will be kept. No individual member will sell his grain to option men or bankers, but when he is obliged to sell his gram will be taken by the alliance. The same thing will follow with cattle. We will haye agents at Kansas City, Chicago and St. Louis who will keep the district alliance .posted as to the market and the demand. Upon this information the demand will be supplied. No option .will be on the market. There will be no speculating on grain before harvest. The four states in this trust will practically control the wheat and cattle markets of the United States. The commission each day” will wire farmers to send in a certain amount of wheat or cattle, as the ease may be, calling on those who are the hardest pressed lor cash. The amount demanded to supply’ the mirket that day will be apportioned, among the districts equally and in I ini apportioned by the district alliance. No farmer who is a member of the alliance will sell his products till called upon. Ily this plan fluctuations lu prices will be avoided. Other state alliances are expected to join the movement. The hardest thing we have to deal with is fixing the price. We mean to ascertain the exact cost of the product and add a reasonable profit to it. This will give us a standard price that can be easily maintained. The new scheme is modeled in detail after' the whisky trust.. Os course you will say that our principles will not admit of it, blit we have decided that we must fight trusts and combinations with trusts and combinations. While this scheme will reverse matters by putting the stock men and grain men at our mercy, w& do not think any /injury will result. The scheme looks visionary, perhaps, but will surely be followed out.” FARMERS vs. lII'SIX’ESS MEN. Des Moines, la., March 3.—There is likely to be trouble between the State Business Men’s association and the Farmers’ Alliance, growing out of the establishment by the lat ter of co-operative stores. To this the business men object, and have notified jobbers that they must either to the alliance or the State Business Men’s association will boycott them. The alliance threatens to retaliate bv refusing to patronize members of the Business Menis association. There are four hundred building associations in this state, with an aggregate capital 'of three' hundred millions ot dollars. Ninety per cent ot the stbek is held by poor men— home seekers, who find here a means of acquiring the refuge of a home. They pay into them a half million dollars a year. The importance of thesp associations is attract- * • mg the attention of some of our pop-gun legislators, who propose to levy a tax on them which will threaten their existence, and make business for non-rbKident companies, which have already stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars from the poor people of this state. It is apparent that a number of deluded politicians are making an efiort to side-track the tariff ones, tion as a presidential issue and substitute the matter of silver coinage. The tariff is the foundation of all our monetary evils and the people should not suffer themselves to bp confused and divided over minor issues until it is settled and settled right. The Democrats may be able to get some very nUeresting campaign matter out of Huston and Dudley, and especially if Harrison is the nominee of the Republican party in 1892. They have it laid up for Harrison.

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