Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1891 — Page 5

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democrat Bates of Subscription, Ono Year, in advance $1 50 'Six Months.* 75 F >ur Months 50 AU subscriptions not paid during tho year Will be charged at the rate of $2.00. Oilice in Democrat Building, east side of Second Street—ground floor. e.-- ■ ■ o Improve the Highways. Tiie following article we clip from the Fort Wayne Journal, of May 16. It s< ems as though they realize the importance of improving the roads: Mayor Zollinger brought from the South a copy of the Atlanta Constitution. It seems that the question ot improving public roads is being agitated in Georgia with a good deal of vigor. On the question of macadamizing the country highways a correspondent favors ti e movement and says: ** Os course any step forward will be opposed by a certain class of men, the fellows who do nl>t propose to do anj-thing for prosperity bees, use prosperity hasn’t done anything for them. But there are enough live men in Putnum county to sit on and ’‘squash” out such o. position, and when it is shown to them that , ? it will pay to invest in a plan which will give them good roads, they will take stock in it and give it hearty support. The art of road making in Indiana is fifty years behind present progress. As a matter of fact, the present system of working the roads is no system at all. It is the outcome of carelessness and infl .Terence, and consists of digging gullies on each side of the road and obstructing tl e driveways bj heaping upon it the mud, stones and debris scooped out of the ditches. The roads would fare a great d< al better if the present system were a' olished altogether, for such money as is spent under its operations is worse than v asted. We are inclined to believe that there has been a great change in public opinion in regard to the necessity of better and free public roads, but it is idle to expect it , to take shape readily. Great reforms are n >t organized and carried* out in a day. *1 lie improvements or purchase of public roads involves the expendituue of a good * deal of money, and this money' must -be raised by taxation in some shape or other —a fact that touches the public on a tend r spot. Nevertheless, the more the p op’e—especially the farmers—can be ii duced to study and reflect on this subject, the clearer will be their knowledge that this expenditure of money in the nature of the most profitable investment that any civilized community can make. This fact is capable’of demonstration in a manner so simple that a Child can understand it. For instance, there is not a iarmer but knows that in one week one t< am and driver can haul more produce to market on a gravel read during bad a weather than two teams and two drivers on the roads as they exist in Indiana during the “winter months. And another point. It has been and can aigan be demonstrate d to the minds ot farmers residing along lice toll roads that their annual charges fir travel, if applied to the purchase of t ese roads, would free them in a very t w yt ars. The money they pay to the gate keeper s Jo-day brings no value nor does it promise future relief. It simply arms and equips a relic of imperialism and perpetuates a system that is growing more and more intolerable each year. Some of the roads in this county haye survived their charters and it only refjnains for the legislature to free them to the people. This is the time to discuss the gravel Toad question, for people are likely to consider it fairly. It is a good time to discuss the necessity of a competitive grain market in this city. An investment that would pay the merchants of Fort Wayne better than an exposition, or a race track, is a commission elevator, where the highest market price for produce and cereals can be had the year around. Such an institution in the hands of all the merchants would not Only sustain itself, but it would pay a rich dividend in the way of increased patronage trcin the agricultural community. This idea, crude as it is, will proye a fruitful top:c and improve with age.

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Salary Grabbers, - / Thejournil min is a great with his little lead pencil ar d would make his few Republican re..de.s believe that every Democrat who has ever held office in De catur. or Adams county, is a thief and salary grabber. It is wonder.ul how he learned so much about the secret session of the council. It is wonderful how he catches on so quick that no Republican had a hand in tiie salary grab. It was a shame that Councilman Peterson made the motion that the Council go in secret session to raise the salaries. Here is what the Journal man has to say: J udge Peterson, of the first ward of this city is considered us a gentleman who is capable ot giving reason for the faith that is in him; but lie probably couldn’t find courage enough to buck the democratic tide which headed itself toward voting one hundred dollars for as many hours work, although he did vote in opposition to raising the saloon licenses. The trutn of the thing is, when an increased salary is toret d on a councilman, it is best to profit by the experience of one Adam SmiA who was alone in opposing the salary-grab of two years ago, but who was subsequently forced to rake the increase. Since the increase of salaries was done in a secret session, no councilman, of course, will ever expiaiu the attitude 01 any other member on the question; and in the absence of such, explanation the public will be forced into the belief that Mr. Peterson raised his voice to the act in vain, and then submitted to the inevitable and fell in with the tide.

Sb much for so much. Mr. Ashcraft being noted for his truthfullness, it would be mere folly for anyone to contradict any one of the above statements. He has made so many true statements in his paper during his short career among us that the people rise up (?) in their might and yell Amen, amen—in a horn. In point of telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, he is the “only.” He can tell the truth without hurting his conscience at any and all times. While Judge Peterson is a personal friend of ours, and is known to be a conservative and one of the very best posted men in the city, he should not allow his party organ to put him in a false position before the people. The Journal man says: “but he couldn’t find courage to buck the Democratic tide which headed itself toward voting one hundred dollars tor as many hours work.” “Couldn’t find courage to buck it.” That’s good. Judge Peterson during the secret session made a motion something like this: “I move you that the councilmen receive a salary of one hundred dollars per year.” The motion was put and carried. Could he buck against it when he put the motion himself. Judge Peterson has said upon several occasions that if his salary as councilman was not raised he would resign. He made the motion to have it raised. Again this very truthful man says that “in the absence of such explanation the public will be forced into the belief that Mr. Peterson raised his voice against the act in vain* and then submitted to the inevitable and fell in with the tide.” Os course Mr. Peterson raised his voice, but it was in a motion to raise the salary of each councilman from fifty to one hundred dollars per year. Again he says that they, the council, receive a dollar for every hour’s work per formed. We will venture the assertion that Judge Peterson during the last year did not receive two cents per hour for services rendered, nor did any other councilman. , Now, as to the rest of the salaries raised by the Council. Os course the Republican member of that body had nothing to do with increasing the salaries, but his name seems to have got mixed'up with the motions in some manner unknown to us. Mr. Peterson moved that the salary of the mayor be fixed at $250. Carried. The salary was increased SIOO. Mr. Peterson moved that the salary of the city clerk be fixed at $350. Carried. The salary was increased SIOO. Mr. Peterson moved that the salary of the marshal be made $35 per month—s42o per year. The question was debated by several members and on W. H. Niblick’s motion the salary was made at $450. Car ried. The salary was increased SIOO. Mr. Peterson moved that the street commissioner receive S4BO rper year. Carried. No raise. Mr. Peterson moved that the city treasurer receive a salary of $125 per year. Carried. The salary was increased SSO. Mr. Peterson moved that the salary of the city attorney be $125 per year. Carried. The salary was increased SSO. Mr. Peterson moved that the secretary of the board of health* receive a salary qf $25 per year. No increase, Mr. Peterson moved that each councilman receive a salary of SIOO yer year. Carried. The salary of each councilman was increased SSO per year. Os course the above looks as if “Mr. Peterson raise* his voice against the act in vain, and then submitted to the inevitable and fell ip with the tide.” This is the language of Billie Elec Ashcraft. Tills salary grab business seems to have been hi§ greatest theme of last week, aqd in his hurry and through great excitement ii ssers that he has forgotten thp teach ings of his mother, that is to tel| the truth and not prevaricate. The Journal man should try and place Mr. Peterson right before his fellow men. He has made A 1 councilman; is in favor of public improvements, wants a reason* able compensation for his time and trouble, and should receive it. In the words of that illustrious and grand young man, Billie Elec Ashcn-ft, “He couldn’t find courage tq buck?.’ 1 • ' ■ Consumption Surely Cured. To Ths Edttob:—Pluto inform your read are that I have a positive remedy for the above-named disease. By Its timely ure thousands of hWMM esses have been permanently eured. lahallbeglad to send two bottles of my remedy RtKE to any of your readers who have consumption if they wIU send me their Express and P.O. addresa. Msepsaft -,. . •

GRAVEL ROADS. ■ - \ The Democrat’s Trophecy of Several Years Ago Coming True. „ The Ball Commenced Bolling Last Saturday and the First Shot Fired Monday. The Democrat for years has been hammering away at the people week after week to commence to build gravel roads At times it has been the only champ o 1 cf that reform in this part of the county. It has at last enlisted a number of people to its forces until now nearly every prominent farmer is a gravel road enthusiast. People haye had petititions in their hands for signatures but have been too timid to present them to their neighbors for their signatures. Last week we noted the fact that a number of the citizens across the river were wanting what is known as the Rice Lane graveled as an experiment. The township trustee, Mr. Isaac Brown, and John S. Bowers were out with a petition last Saturday and by evening they had secured upwards of a thousand dollars Tn cash and work to help build the mile of road asked for. The people responded nobly when the subject was broached to them that money or labor was wanted to build the road. The road had been graded last week and put in good shape for travel, But the trustee and others had another thing in mind when the work was being done, and that was of graveling it. The first gun was fired Monday morning when coming up north Second street was seen a long line of men with wheelbarrows and flags and a number of men pulling a scraper and then came a number of teams drawing large loads of crushed stone. The people were all on the jump, wondering what had broke loose, or was it an impfomtu Fourth of July celebration. As the procession came nearer it was found that Rice & Bowers, the quarry men, and Trustee Brown, of Root towntownship, and Joseph Lower, of the same . township, were at the head of the procession, and that it was the first lot of stone that was to be placed on the Rice Lane. They made a parade around on the principal streets and the procession then headed.for the proposed improvement. 'This is the first of a series of road improvements which will be made within the next year. There will be at two petitions, and maybe three, presented to the board of commissioners at their next session, commencing one week from next Monday f6r gravel roads. It is now no longer the question have we the gravel or crushed stone with which to build roads. Any of our readers, who have any doubt as to whether we have the material or have not should take time to visit the quarries of Bowers & Rice and Robison & Gillig. They have stone, gravel and sand in any quantity desired, enough probably to complete all roads that could be built within the next ten years to come. The Democrat is well pleased with the turn its gravel road boom has taken, and will always be found at the head of the procession in the way of public improvements. During the many years it has been advocating this question it has made some enemies, but a great many more friends. A few have come in and stopped their paper thinking that we were leading a warfare against them for the benefit of the business men of the city. But we are happy to say that these same par ties are now numbered among the staunchest of gravel road enthusiasts. They see the benefits that are to be derived from having good roads. a The people should never lag in this matter until every main thoroughfare and every byway in Adams county is put in first-class shape tor travel. Good roads adds value to your farms, and will amply repay any farmer for the small amount ofmoney which they cost. Now is the accepted time. Talk it up and keep the ball a moving.

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