Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 19, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1891 — Page 4

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ginnocrai X. HtHJCKBVSJf, Proprietor. r I i. JULY 31. js»J. Ou : farmer* are now v< mmemiug to talk gravel roads, and some ot the n at least iealiz»* the necessity so- better reals. With the large wheat crop and the good prsopect of corn, they feel as though we should have better roads. A num her of them have expressed their willingness to take hold of the matter and crowd it through on some line for a few miles at least as an experiment. Our county is among the most fertile in northern Indiana, we can raise any kind of grain is grown in any county in the state, since we have got it drained and what we now want is better roads, and no county in the state can excel ours, and as the farmers have an institute at Monroe in the near future, let the road question have a full and fair share of the discussion. The cry has been that we had not the material, but now the material is at hand, so cheap that it will not cost any more than gravel, and to those who prefer gravel that can be had for about the same money that the crushed stone costs. Let the arrangements be made this fall so that the work can be commenced early in the sping, it is only a question of time, and that but a few years, until the roads leading into town will be macadamized. The only question is, whictvone first. The report of Revenue Officer W. O. Butler for May has been submitted, and it shows a decrease in the amount of taxes collected about one-halt under the corresponding month last year. Agent Keel has the following figures for May: Beer, $4,938.72; cigars, $2,660.75; tobacco, $128; special, $1,612.92. The grand total for the May receipts is $9,540.78. The receipts for the same month last year was $20,438. The decrease is owing to the abolition of taxes on tobacco. The question may be asked if the people of this district who buy cigars and tobacco have saved anything during the month of May on their purchases. It doesn’t appear that the nickel cigar has dropped in price to three cents, or a dime Havana to a nickel, and a dime’s worth of tobacco is no bigger or better than it was in April or last December. In Germany they have a tari ft' they call prohibitory tariff, that is they prohibit Americon wheat from being . shipped in at any of their ports, un^ - less it pays them a tariff so high that it can’t be shipped without loss to the dealer. With our large wheat crop this season, if it could be put into the markets of the world on “Blaine’s reciprocity plan” the farmers, could realize a fair price for their wheat, such as they deserve after waiting several years for a crop that they could realize something out of, but as we deal with others we find them dealing with us. Thx reports are that Senator Quay,of Pennsylvania, will not only resign the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, but that he will also resign the States Senatorship at their meeting in December next. This seems to be a matter that he has made up A his mind to do for the benefit ot his health as the northern climate does not agree with him. Should he resign his senatorship,• his successor will be a Democrat, ss his party will do all in their power to hold him in. Germany and France are still holding our pork out and will continue to do so. While they feel that our tariff laws are Oppressive to them, while they may assign some other reason for so doing, they will be ready to enter into an Mgreemennt at any time for an exexchange of pioducts, bnt while we have a wall built around us by the I protective tariff, so they protect themselves in the same manner to the disadvantage of the American Xtrmer. •-. if

THEIR PRI 111 TEH UM NESS The Pensylvania Steel Company 1 banked its tires Tuesday night and J closed its works, throwing over 4, OJO men out of employment. Then is noth'ifg‘-i'her novel or surprising about the pro<-.< filing. It is the o’d plan ot meetinn the threatened strike with a peremptory lockout. In the political campaign or when a new tariff law is pending the employs of protected capialists are as Siired that the business is conducted for their benefit and that taxes levied on articles competing with its products have no other object than to insure them higher wages. This is politics. Business is another thing altogether. When, after the campaign is over or the bill passed, the men ask for their share of what has been gained in politics, they are told that it is the private affair of their employers. “These works are ours,” the employer replies in effect and often in so many words, “and you can’t run them. Whenever we find we cannot run them to suit ourselves we will shut them down.” And rather than yield, the works are shut down and the men locked out until they are starved into submission. The protected capitalist is not generally a loser by these lockouts. Under the trust system he is directly a gainer by them, for they are a means of limiting production and keeping up prices. When one establishment in a combine of capitalists shuts down the combine goes on, and the managers of the idle works arc guaranteed against loss. Contract labor can be brought to the United States now by the pretended manufacturers of tinplate, so long as they let on that they are for the purpose of laboring Jn a tin-plate factory. That seems to be one of the pet schemes of the parties who are making pretentions to manufacture tin-plate in this country. While they fill up the places of American laborers with the scabs and bums of England, thus depriving the laborers of America of what belongs to them, not only do they rob them of their positions, but by such importations they cause strikes which lead to privations of all kinds, and frequently to riots and murder, but to those who make money out of the laborers they ship in the more that are killed of starved out the better it is for them. For like the negro in the South before the war, they were sold not from the block at public auction, but by the contract with some of the monied institutions who deal in labor as men deal in grain and stock. Thus our country is filled up with such an element as they have in Chicago’s “Anarchists” or the “Dagos” of New Orleans, ana such will be the condition of the laborers of this country until the importation of foreign labor is prohibited. Under the circumstances such a pretext as that of being allowed to ship them in as manufacturers of tin and then flood the councountry with them is a fraud, but the Republican party says, that they must come here for the purpose of working in our great tin industries so that they can get a start. Would it not be as cheap to send some of our laborers to England and let them learn how to make tin instead of bringing bums to this country to. crowd out our home laborers. The American laborer is equal to any that England produces or any other country, and they are as a general rule better skilled and more intelligent than the foreigner, always ready to do any work that there is a demand for at anything like a fair compensation, but that does not suit the party that has a lot of sharks to keep up, so they passed a bill allowing the “great tin industry to traffic in contract labor.” While the high protection is building up monopolies, for the Republican party to “fry the fat out of ’ for Campaign purposes, the farmers and laborers are paying it for the same purpose, but not so willingly as the barons pay the campaign assessments. ■ . ... ''

IOWA AND OHIO. In the November election last year the country surprised itself. l'he result was so unprecedented that its bearings on the immediate future of politics cannot be comprehended wit i any degree of cer. tainty until it is interpieted by succeeding elections. Under such circumstances extraordinary interest attaches to the elections in Ohio and lowa this fall. Both being valley states with very decided characteristics, their action will give a tangible hint of the present farme of mind of the Central West. Consider the Central West as a block of state* • ounded on the west by Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, on the south by Indian Territory, Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, on the east by Pennsylvania and West Virginia and on the north by the lakes and Canada, and we have a territory overwhelmingly Democratic on the congressional returns of last November. The twelve states included returned Democratic, Republican and Independent Congressmen as follows: Dem. Ind. Rep. Ohio 14 0 7 Indiana ............11 0 2 Illinois 15 0 5 Michigan 8 0 3 Wisconsin 8 . 0 1 Minnesota J. 3' 11 lowa 6 0 5 Missouri..., : 14 0 0 Kansas 0 5 2 Nebraska... 12 0 South Dakota 0 2 0 North Dakota 0 0 0 Total Central West.... 80 10 27 For this territory comprising all the states of the Mississippi Valley north of the Ohio River and the south line of Kansas, the total representation of congress is 117, and of this number of congressmen the Democrats have 80, outnumbering the Republicans threes to one. In the whole valley, adding in the states south of the Ohio, the Democratic congressmen outnumber the Republicans still more strikingly. If the Democrats hold the valley they will hold the Union. To hold the valley, they must not be driven from the position they have gained in it north of the Ohio River. In this situation, both lowa and Ohio demand consideration for something more than their voting weight in the Union. lowa is one of the central states of the Central West; Ohio is one of the border states. Their geographical position makes the results of their November elections more than ordinarily significant. We may expect to see Ohio largely influenced by the East, but lowa will speak the mind of the Central W est, and will show how far, if at all, this great block of states has changed the mind it expressed so forcible at the polls last Noyember.— St. louis Republic. The census bulletin giving the population of Nevada in detail strikingly exhibits the blunder, if not something worse than a blunder, of enacting that section of the Comstock lode into the state of the American Union co-equal, m the senate, with New York, and, in the contingency of a presidential election falling to the House, having the same weight as the Empire State. In 1880 Nevada had a population of 62,266. This was insignificant enough, one would think, when placed alongside the 5,981,934 of New York. It was not equal to onehalf the congressional ratio, 151,000. But it has been growing smaller ever since 1880, and in 1890 it was only 45,761 —a loss of 26 percent in the decade. There are fifteen counties in the state, and all but two have lost population, the loss ranging from 1 percent in Humbolt to 54 percent in Eureka. All the cities and towns having a population of 1,000 and over have participated m the general decay, except the single one of W mnemucca, Virginia City declining from 10,917 in 1880 to 8,511 in 1890; Carson City, from 4,229 to 3,950, and Eureka from 4,207 to 1,709. Nevada was admitted into the Union in 1864, when it had only 40,000 inhabitants, the presumption being that it would grow like other new states. Besides the Republican party was supposed to be in need of additional votes in the senate, and the diminutive state was allowed to come in on condition that it would supply two of them, but the Comstock lode bjgan to fail twelve years ago, and the state commenced a course of decline with 'it, and kept going down, until now it has a population smaller than that of our sister county of Allen to rest its two United States Senators . and one representative upon. If the state tax commissioners do their duty, the majority of the taxpayers will feel that the new tax law is what this state needs, only more ot the same kind. * ■' >•: | . -Lh, Li ii

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