Decatur Democrat, Volume 34, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1891 — Page 4

©lie JJjßuunxat V. SHCl'Bl'By, Proprietor. FRIDAY, MARCH 13,1891, The road questiap is one that some of our farmers have under consideration, and one that they are most directly interested in, as upon the road depends somewhat the price they can command for their produce. While this year there has been but very Httlb to market, but a portion of the time it-has been almost impossible for them to come to town on account of the gitiddx roads, with which this county is among the worst of any in the state. The black loam of which this count} is made up is of that nature that it takes but very little rain to make mud, and then the-travel soon mixes it up so that the roads soon become impassible, at times so bad that but few farmers venture out, unless they have to go mill .or some special matter which they are compelleed to attend to at once, and then we frequently see them come to town on the hind wheels of' a wagon with a few bushels of wheat on. and then have a load. And of course about the time the roads are the worst that is the very time they can get the very best price'for their grain arid hay, when the roads are so that they cannot haul it to town to sell: while if had good gravel roads they could haul all winter or at any time that suits them best, thereby saving time by hauling when they cannot do any farm work, and by getting the better price for wheat they have to sell. Then in a few years they can pay the expense of building a pike passing their farms and have the benefit from some of the luxuries of good roads. The only thing that this county lacks of being one among the best in the state and we feel confident that but a few’ years will pass until the roads will be stoned, as some of the farmers are ready to take hold this season. The only thing that they hold back on is the fear of the failure oi the crops again this year, but it is to be hoped that such will not be the case, and the roads can be built of stone and not cost but little more than if built of gravel, and the 1 difference in the wear and the improvements afterward soon makes up for the additional expense in the construction of the roads. We have an abundance of stone to make all the roads in the county and have plenty to spare. Who will bti the first to start the ball a rolling? The fee and salary bill as passed by the legislature will become a law without the signature of Governor Hoycy. He having submitted to deliver to the legislators a short, speech on the bill before he returned it to then/with his objections attached thereto. Know ing this would be his last chalice to get a whack at the legislature until the next campaign. In his veto he says: “Itshows that the legislature is 4nder the influence ol the county office lobby, it ■■ is a shames a disgrace, a delusion and a snare.’’ That he would like to sign one if they would make it to suit his notion and none other. The house promptly passed the same over the veto of the governor by almost a strict party vote, the senate followed suit, thus leaving the governor to nurse his wrath. The war ainoiig the republican newspapers over the tariff question is still raging fiercely. The eastern papers are generally in favor of maintaining the McKinley bill and trying to throw’ dust into the people’s eyes with “reciprocity.” Some , of the Western papers- -especially the presidents ' home organ- take the same position. But most of the Western republican papers are denouncing the McKinley law quite rigorously and demanding that it be repelled or thoroughly revised. There is-no limit to the develop ment of trusts and combinations to maintain prices. One of the latest causes reported is that of the manufacturers and dealers in corks, who recently adopted a uniform price fist for all corks. Tin? McKinley duty cm ail manufactured is equivalent m a large increase oA ttje: more common grades. Listen to this: .Marshal Field, the big dry goods man of Chicago, eays: are importing just as many fine good* from abroad as before this tariff went into operation; the only effect is that the public has to pay a higher price.” Wonder if anybody wants Mr. Field “spotted.”

The effort of of some our citizens toraise the moral standard of our city is meeting with fair success, but must be joined in by the parents of young men as we have a large num b jr of young men who frequent the saloons and gambling houses spending all their income in that way. While each ot our churches have a society for the the young people’s benefit, w’here they are taught the principles that it takes to make a man. Yet we find them going from bad to w’orse until they are past re demption. The fault is at home, W’here they should be taught what they should by the parents, and when cut at night the parents al ways should know’ where they a - e and in whose company they are if they would have them grow up to be good and useful men. The present spasmodic action of some of our citizens to correct- a growing evil is not the kind that will make a boy a good and useful man, he must have the right mental training at home if you want to see him a useful member in society. The influence that is brought to bear upon him then is what will mould his future character, will make him what his life is to be, but without that moral training at home you will find him drifting along with the tide that is almost sure to carry him beyond the tide of redemption. Seconii street needs cleaning up, and on the south end about two or three hundred loads of stone. Also Winchester street is in the same condition. These streets cost the property owners along them large sums of money, and should betaken care of by the city. But if let run another year may necessitate the re-stoning the entire length. Thus causing a large outlay of money, which cau be saved if taken in time. Then the north end and that part of Monroe street that has lately been stoned, need a hand on them about half the time to keep them up in *shape, so that when they are completely settled they will be good for all time to come. So let the good work be commenced at once.

Congress has granted the widow of Admiral Porter a pension of $2,500 per year. When we remember that Admiral Porter received a salary of $13,000 per year from the government for over twenty- years and whose children now in the government’s employ receive an aggre gate of $12,000 salary, it looks as though the family ought to be able to take care of themselvrs. This wholesale distribution of private pensions by congress, aggregating many thousands of dollars yearly, 1 for tins benefit of a federal office holding ?nd payable out of the public fuutis, j.£ becoming quite a burden upon the people and they are thinking it time to call a halt. As spring is coming and the time is here for improvements, let the council give us some good and wholesome ordinances for the improvement of our city. Let the work be such that it will not need to be done over in a few years, make all of it so that when once done it will beforever. In the past we have had too much work that was not of the kind to last more than a year or two, and then had to be done over, or as we now hud too many of our streets. When the weather is so bad that a team can scarcely get along them without any load. Let the work be got ready now, so that it can be crowded when the weather permits. A. ter May Ist dealers will not be required to take out an internal revenue license to sell tobacco and cigars, as the McKinley bill abolish, es the special tax now maintained on dealers in manufactured tobacco on piat date. The tax is abolished on wholesale and retail dealers in leaf tobacco, manufacturers and peddlers of tobacco and cigars. The change knocks millions of dollars out of th# treasury which will have to fcp supplied by taxes upon the necessarie® of life? The legislature has adjourned for this session. As to the gener?J laws enacted by it the future will show of what importance to the commonwealth they will be. While tbz'if’ always is a certain amount of legislate*)# * 8 of no general use to anyone, tenuis always a fair share fqr special localities, js to be hoped that the laws will be of benefit to all, that the people may say they have done well. A reduction in wages has been made at Fisher’s Pipe Foundry, Allentown, Pa. The McKinley tariff is working.

HARRISON TO PA Y WO ODS. A correspondent from Washington to the Indianapolis Sentinel from his Washington bureau says: It is stated on the very best possible authority that Harrison has at last found a reward for his good friend, Judge William S. Woods, who saved the president’s other good friend, Dudley, and the latter’s following minor vote corrupts from the penitentiary, and incidentally spared the president the humiliation of an exposure of the foul means by which Indiana was carried for the grandson rnf his grandfather in 1888. Judge Woods will be made one of the new circuit judges under the law agreed upon in conference Saturday. This is official. There may be said to be but one question in the presidential mind as to the advisability of making the nomination. That is the danger that it will not be confirmed by the senate. Woods demanded and Harrison was willing to grant him the seat on the supreme bench of the United States made vacant by the death of Judge Miller. Just at that time, however, Harrison was m especially bad odor with the senate, and a canvas of the republicans in that body showed pretty clearly that enough of them would stand with the democrats to reject the nomination. So Woods was forced to await a more propitious time for securing the reward for his remarkable double back action rulings in the Dudley case. Now, however, the situation is somewhat different. After the 4th off. March Senator Farwell, one of the bitterest of the president’s foes and Ingalls, another anti-Woods senator, will be out of the way and the death of Senator Hearst makes room for another republican who can be concilated by a promise of patronage. In addition crumbs from the presidential have fallen in pretty large chunks to the senators from the new state and they can be relied upon to carry Woods through, and if nothing arises to disabuse his mind he will nominate Woods for circuit judge. O — - — . . — As Congress died on the 4th of this month for the fifty-first time, since the Declaration of In depend--nee, and with it one of the most outrageous measures that was ever attempted to be forced upon the American people, and one which would have been, had it not been for the watchfulness of the Democrats that were there in .the interest of those who earn their “bread by the sweat of their brow.” While being unable to prevent their stealing the treasury empty, they were successful in preventing the fraud and force bill from being fostered ! upon this country. While some may,think and honestly too, that it was only intended for the South and only there where the Republican party felt that the colored man was imposed on, but in politics there is no such a thing as being upright between two political parties* and the rule that would make Republican votes in the South would have been applied in the state of Indiana, or any other state the Republican party would need to carry the election with all the machinery in their hands. Who could say or do anything to prevent a wrong, or keep them from committing any wrong that they might see fit to practice on the people, but it is forever dead. The American people will never elect a congress that will attempt to enact it.

During the few days of good roads by the little freeze, our millers and merchants have taken in over 5,000 bushels of wheat for which they paid on an average ot ninety five cents a bushel, and during the same time they received more corn that wheat. Now if we had good roads the farmer would not be compelled to bring in their grain at the time when the prices are the lowest. The only way to do is to make gravel or stone roads as all other counties around us are doing. With the fair prospects of crops and the probability of good prices, it is best to commence the work at an early day. .. . 1.1 ■■ . The Cincinnati Enquiry interviewed twenty-seven prominent republicans of Ohio upon their choice of candidate for governor, and nineteen were strongly in favor of Major McKinley, and three noncommittal, but would gladly support the man of high tariff ideas. There seems to be no doubt but Mr. McKinley will be nominated by his party for governor, and a strong belief is prevalent among democrats that he will be a badly beaten man.

ENCOURAGEMENT of agriculture. When we see the functions of government used to enrich a favored few at the expense of the many, and see also its inevitable result in the pinching privation of the poor and the profuse extravagance of the rich: and when we see in operation an unjust tariff which banishes from many humble homes, the comforts of life in order that in the palaces of wealth, luxury may more abound, we turn to our creed and find that it enjoins “equal and exact justice to all men.” Then if we dr,e well grounded in our political taith, we will not be deceived nor will we permit others to be deceived by any plausible pretext or smooth sophistry excusing the situation. For our answer to them all, we will point the words which condemn such inequality and injustice as we prepare for the encounter with wrong, armed with the weapons of the Democracy. When we see our farmers in distress and know that they are not paying the penalty of slothliness and mismanagement; when we see their long hours of toil so poorly rcquit ed that the money-lender eats out their substance, while for everything they need they pay a tribute to the favorite of the governmental care, we know that all this is far removed from the ‘‘encouragement of agriculture” which our creed commands. We will not violate our political duty by forgetting how well entitled our farmers are to our best efforts for their restoration to the independence of a former time and to the reward ot better days. When we see the extravagance of public expenditure far reaching the point of reckless waste, and the undeserved distribution of public money debauching its recipients, and by pernicious example threatening the the love ot frugality among our people, we will remember that “economy in the public expense” is an important article in the free Democratic faith.— Grocer Cleveland.

EaSter falls on March 29, an unusually early date. The earliest date on which easter can fall is March 22, and this only in case the moon is full March 21, when this date happens to fall on Saturday. .This combination of circumstances is. extremely rare; it occurred in 1093, 1761 and 1817 and will happen again in 1990, 2076 and 2144, while during the three following centuries it is not once “on the books” at this early date. On the other hand, Easter never falls later than April 25; this was the case in 1666, 1734 and 1886, and will only happen once in the next century—namely in 1943. There are a good many people in this country land poor. They own too much land to make farming anything like what it should be in the way of profit. There is too much of the capital tied up in, land that cahnot be farmed as it should be. One acre w<tell tilled is worth more than three half Cultivated. With proper care in the way of keeping the land up to a high standard ot fertility a farm of sixty acres is worth more than one three times the number of acres only half cared for. Smaller farms and better tillage would be a good motto tor more than half the farmers m Indiana. The prominence which the far west has taken in national politics may tend to arouse envy in some states. Os course, it will not affect Indiana, and Ohio is still the birth place ot political genius. When ever an unknown man is elected senator out west you usually expect to see his biography start out with the words: He was born in Ohio. While with the approach of spring comes the time for improvements, and the council are preparing for the wants of the city in that direction, it is necessaay that they do not overlook the work that has been done toward improving the streets. The National Democrat, Washington, says Speaker Reed went out as he came in. Arbitrary, partial, violent, insulting, a master of “back talk 7 ’ and running debate, instead of presiding officer. He wan sych $ speaker as we neyer had before and never shall have again. E. G. Sturgis, for several years, past the able editor of the Bluffton Panner, has sold his newspaper plant to Johp Ormsby and Prof. Allen, of Bluffton. The PwopBAT wishes the out and incoming men unbounded success.

TARIFF TIPS. New York Press: We had to pay for English steel rails in 1867, in gold, _____ ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ * i SISO. Last year American steel rails sold at _______ $25. The above, says the LaPorte Argus, is intended to convey the idea that a protective tariff has resulted in bringing the price ot steel rails down to $25 a ton. It is a fair specimen of high tariff logic, but let us put it this way and see how it works in England under free trade: We had to. pay for English steel rails in 1867, in gold, $l5O, Last year English steel rails sold at s2l. If the tariff reduced the price in protected America, what was it that reduced the price still lower in free trade England? Such “tariff tips” as that can all be answered in the same way, and it shows that protection had nothing to do with the reduction in this country. Some of the boys need the attention of the marshal while on the street; being in the habit of acting in a manner that should call for prosecution, but frequently of such a nature that the one so insulted does not feel like having the notoriety that an affidavit against the offender will bring. Then there is another’xdass that is in the habit of cursing and swearing at any and all times, regardless of any one and in direct violation of our statutes. A few prosecutions for such flagrant violations will have a wholesome effect, and will be one step toward correcting some of the vicious habits that a large number of our young man have fallen into. And still a class of young boys who are in the habit of crowding and pushing young girls off of the side walks and other rude and mean ways that need some attention. The tariff on paints is very excessive. For instance the tax on vermillion red dry or ground in oil or water, is twelve cents per pound, or sl2 per hundred pounds. The tax on chrome yellow, chrome green, and other cheap paints, is $4.50 per hundred pounds. White lead is taxed $3.00 per hundred pounds. It costs something to paint a house or barn. A Present For Every Bride. For twenty-three years “ The Household" has been a welcome visitor in hundreds of thousands of American homes, and has been, during these years, the companion and help of the American housewife. In order that the brides of the country may have the benefit ot the visits of this, the oldest household publication in the country, the publishers offer to send “ The Household" to all brides of six months or 4ess, who will, themselves, or their friends, send ten two-cent stamps with printed notice of their marriage in . the same letter. This is a very tempting offer, and they call it their “Wedding Present,” which they offer to every bride in the United States on the above terms. "The Household" has just made three very striking offers to the three subscribers who shall obtain the three largest lists ot new subscribers between March first and August first. These presents are nothing less than a S7OO Horse and Goddard Buggy, a Miller Upright Piano, in either Mahogany, Oak, Walnut or Ebonized case, and a Columbia Bicycle for either lady or gentleman’s use. The March number of “ The Household" contains illustrations and descriptions of these elegant presents, and can be found at the news stands, or will be sent by the publishers, on receipt of ten cents by The Household Company, 50 Bromfield St., Boston. Ladies Wearing Apparel. No other subject is given one-half the thought and study as that represented in the caption of this article. Thousands of men and women are puzzling their brains night and day, year in and year out, to in • vent some means by which the female form can be beautified, and in this the ladies of Decatur are not behind their neighbors. New and fine fabrics are being planned and manufactured each succeeding season. The world is being scoured for new plumage and furs, every conceivable article is being fashioned into some kind of An ornament to grace the human form divine. But with all these efforts many rich costumes look horrid when promenading the streets, all of which is caused from a lack of knowledge of the art pf fitting. There is no one thing that gives a lady of refinement more annoj? ance than an ill fitting garment. No matter how fine the material or how elegant the trimming, if the dress does not fit well the effect ts annoying to the wearer. Dr. Kell and family, of Delphos, Ohio, have removed from that city to Spokane Fajls, Wfish-i where (he doctor will engage in his profession in partnership with his father-in law, Dr. B, R. Freeman.

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