Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 4 December 1891 — Page 4

Used in Millions of Homes— 40 Years the Standara

, tfthe -tl emu tun nr. BT.A.OKRTTRN, Proprietor. FRIDAY, DEC. 4. 1891 ® They get m their work, that i the liien h’lio are in our city and representing to our farmers throi gl the county that they are bein' swindled by the merchants of thi and surrounding towns, while t’ facts are they are the ones tl at are selling goods for more than th <7 are worth, or selling an article so) good and genuine when the same i among the baser goods. Geor; Scherly, salesman for Pliney, Wa l son & Co., of Toledo, Ohio, sav the same grade of coffee that they are selling to farmers thhouse sells for eleven (11) cents 3 pound, while the farmers are pay ing them 30c a pound for thq art) cle. The same is true of the tea which they are selling for 50c a pound; the same can be bought < f our merchants for 35c per pound, thus paying more for the goods and getting an inferior quality. W1 < on last Saturday they delivered to the farmers the goods they had s< d up to that date. The goods writ sloped to them by the Wells, Fa’gc &. Co. express company from Engle wood, Illinois, the expressage alone amounting to forty dollars and ovi r. ♦ ' Os (course this has to be paid 1 j some one, and that some one is tl < consumer, for men who do such bus ness always intend to make pl charges and expenses off of the pi - ties they sell to, besides the pr< th they make on the goods. And sue! is the case with all men of this cl: st ■who go around over the count n selling goods, besides they are hc:< when they sell the goods and get the money, but, should the goed p«?ve worhlcss from any cause y< 1 have them on your hands and 11 < parties are some where else. G course they will guarantee them tn if you ask them to deposit money enough in either of our banks t< make their guarantee' good, thxwili refer you to some bouse “am tell you to write them. While 11 dealing with our home people yoi can always return the goods if the; are not what you buy. There i not a merchant in this or any otiit town near here but what will sei you goods for the same amount oi cash that these men do and thei you always know just who you an dealing with, and besides you an getting the worth of your money oi the money refunded. The amour-: of money paid out here last Saturday for goods to the Chicago housas represented, would have bought, alt least, 15 per cent, more good than the parties got for their mone; . Our Republican friends havstolen the whiskey tfifit was hereto bore charged to the Democratic party as one of the prime factors o 1 the party, while they were all the time c.rying Bourbon or Whiskey party at the Democrats, Now the; are, and have been hollowing free trade Democrats while all the time they are busy trying to work ou’. some scheme of free trade by some other name. While for the party to be caught in a lie is not the least perplexing to them, they want to crall around the facts in all cases, when they can get boodle out oi the party interested. Let them alone and but a few years will paee until they will hate ail on what they call the reciprocity list which is but another name for free trade; they will soon be the free trad* party and before many years will be ready to put forward a candidate with such a plank in their plat form. With them it .is anything to deceive the people. — g . £ - I . !" » LS It has develloped that the selec tion of Minneapolis as the Republican convention place is in the interest of Blaine, and it is given out semi-officially that Blaine has authorized the use of his name as a Candidate. Well, why not? The man from Maine has been the administration, since Cleveland relinquished the presidency and Mr. Harrison has only been the cone’il t .tiona! figure-head.

rjfAGINATION AND TJL FACTS. Mr. Blaine claims the removaj o’ the German prohibition aga’mt American pork as a triumph forth Blaine brand of reciprocity. Tlwas a matter of course, and it is al jaost as much a matter of covrst that on the wings of his brilliant imagination be should soar fai away from the facts. “This opt ns to us an entirely new market,” h< <ays, “and $15,000,000 to $20,000,JOO of American pork will be co: ■mined per annum where not f pound has been taken for tti years.” Seeing these figures, the Nev York Evening Post was inquisitive enough to look at the commeiv md navigation reports to see liov nuch pork we sold Germany before che prohibition was imposed. It found that the total value of Amer ican pork, bacon and hams exported uO Germany in 1880 was $1,865,858 and for 1881, $1,778,544. So that if there had been no prohibition at all “we should not have exported to Germany in ten years,” says the Evening Post, “as much as h Biaine says he shall export in o y ;ar hereafter.” So Mr. Blame’s imagination is at i.s old tricks. As a matter of fact die future of our pork trade will Germany and France is very certah . With a duty of over $4 on even 220 pounds in Germany, and of 5 as the Senate Committee of tht French Congress proposes, the ver cheapest grade of American “sov belly” will be a luxury too cost > for the average family in German ind France. Both the countries have caugl.l the contagion of high “Protective' tariff taxes from the Republics) party here, and they are protestin; diat their farmers cannot compel--vith the pauper farmers of lov:■ Ohio, Illinois, Kansas and otl.< Western exporting States of tl country. And when our agrici-.-iiiral producers, attempting <>• change in Europe, find taxes avoaging 55 cents on the dollar i. their return cargoes to pay befeit they can pass our custom house,- it takes a very briliant imagination 1conceive of the possiblity of carijingon a trade with Europe that will give our agricultural exporters 3 chance for living. THE QUESTION AT ISSUE “A foreign person by the name 01 Schoenhof” is the way high-tarif organs allude to the well known, scholarly, studious writer who n familiar with the laws and thei workings of the countries of Europe and in America as well, but who offends the hig.tax advocate) by his exposition of their pet meas ure and its effects, in a series of let tersin educational journals. 'Be cause he has said we cannot bleacl the linens in this country as the) can bleach them in the humid fieldsof north Scotland, is enough to stii their ire to hot denunciation. The organs mistake; no persons of sense says they cannot bleacl linen by artificial means in this country, raise tea under cover ii Maine, or plant oyster beds in Lake Erie by salting the water sufficient!) and making climate favorable, but the question at issue is: will it paj to tax the people to do these things, or is it better judgment to leave the manufacture and the growing of products to natural laws and conditions, without hindrance or forcemeat? And why should one industry be boosted at the expense of another? And can the true ballance ever be maintained? And has not, already, the cupidity of capitalists outwitted the honest toiler and controlled legislation for his own benefit? These are the questions to consider instead of allowing the dm of falsifiers to fill the ears to the contusion of thought, which is the end desired. , No man who opposes the burden of taxation upon the people for the aiding of some particular branch of business does so because he has not the wish to see hi* own country develop the best that is in it, but because he contends for equal rights and equal opportunities tori

*s* J! kj does it " | Jfy that we have wonderful piolucing agencies m certain lines, at d millionaires that astonish the worid with then number and the magni* cude of their individual and aggie gate wealth—what does this signify -f he have also a laboring peuj le •urdeued and debt-bearing, and an agricultural population that ini-st struggle continually against adverse jircumstances, artificially created ? Such a condition or the figures whiqh represent the favorable -Side of it, do not stand for a free nation’s prosperity, These things are ex- 4 peeled in a Monarchy where nobility and caste are acknowledged distinctions aud utter selfishness and autoraey 0:1 oue part and seryilits of the other are established and hereditary conditions. It doesn't mean prosperity for America, the laud of boasted fraternity -and equality. The high tax advocates who buv< r at Mr. Schoenhof because he darts 10 study the question in all its phases and publish the facts aud give conclusions, are nervously anxious to have the campaign oi education draw to a close. To sneer at an honest student “a foreign named So-and-so” is not to refute his argument. And to proclaim that equal rights’ advocates assen bhat such-and-such articles cannot be manufactured, in this country is to knowingly falsify. It is not said that anything and everything known in the world cannot be made and grown here; but it is most strenously denied that it is good judgment to grind the people to the *atth with taxation 1.. accompli it. That is the question at issuind the one which the opponents i-i tariff reform purposly evade. A current item says “Ministei dgan is a small man physically.” Fire use of the word “physically” ii. that sentence is a striking illustw tion of unnecessary and positively. hurtful verbosity.—Chicago Timta. A POPULAR FAMILY. Jennie : “ How la it, Kate, that you always geem to ‘ catch on ’to the last new thing ? Do what I may, you always seenTto get ahead of me." Kate : “ I don’t know: I certainly do not make any exertion in that direction.” Jennie: “ Well, during the last few months, for example, you have taken up painting, raßaplnl without any teacher ; you came to the rescue wuen Miss Lafarge deserted her Delsarte class so id sniy, and certainly we are all improving n. .rice under your instruction; 1 heard you telling Tommy Eames last evening how his club made mistakes in playing baseball; you seem to be up on all the latest 1 fads,’ ana know just what to do under all circumstances; you entertain beautifully; and in the last month you have improved so in health, owing, j you tell me, to your physical culture exercises. Where do you get all of your information from in this little out-of-the way place?—for you never go to the city." Kate: "Why, Jennie, you will make me vain. I have only one source of information, but it is surprising how it meets all wants. 1 very seldom hear of anything new but what the next few days bring me full information on the subject. Magic? No! Magazine! And a great treasure it is to us all, for it really furnishes the reading fop the whole household: father has given up his magazine that he has taken for years, as he says this one gives more and better information on the subjects of the day; and mother says that it is that that makes her such a famous housekeeper. In fact, we all agree that it is the only really family magazine published, us we have sent for samples of all of them, and find that one is all for men, another all for women, and another for children only, while this one suits every one of us; so we only need to take one instead of several, and that is where the economy comes in, for it is only $2.00 a year. Perhaps you think lam too lavish in my praise; but I will let you see ours, or, better still, send 10 cents to the publisher, W. Jennings Demorest, 15 East 14th Street, New York, for a sample popy, and I shall always consider that I have done you a great favor; and may be you will be cutting us out, as you say we have the reputation of being the best informed family in town. If that be so, it is Demorest’s Family Magazine that does it.” CHEATING 2" horse Blankets Nearly every pattern of Horse Blanket is imitated in color and style. JLa most eases the imitation looks just as good as the genuine, but it hasn't the warp threads, and so lacks strength, and while it sells for only a little less than the genuine it isn’t worth one-half as much. The fact that & Horse Blankets are copied is strong evidence that they are THE STANbARD, ' and every buyer should see that the 5 A trade mark is sewed on the inside of the Blanket. M Five Milo /M Bos# H Electrie JRA Extra Test / > WBaker HORSE BLANKETS ARE THE STRONGEST. 100 6/A STYLES at prices to suit everybody. If you can’t get them from your dealer, write us. Ask for the Book. You cai>get it without charge. WM. AYRES & SONS, Philadelphia. - O.P. M. ANDREWS, Phy «dLolan db Surgeon MONBOB. INDIANA. rwddenee 2nd and Brd doora wrntof I M. L. ohmeh. y •

u&JFS.IE -W-’iS Our sales the This season has week was a grand been tbe best Cloak success, and again WBEKtpF plainly proves that season for years and, ours is the we have been preLowest Price pared for as Horae a the City. IMmbl are . oon5 “” tly re ' ceivmg new garmerits. We have plainly proven I<> Our Grand NmM ■Kp our customers that Bargain -:- Sala K] B we have bad the •11 HI finest and best aswill commence wWI this week sortment of any those wishing a aMS house in the city. nwb nil rim uil •« (liUwA UU yourself and get Fur Trimed or P«ces which will Plain should see us prove our assertion and save money. Jflß'wr fMBKI 10 y° u ’ f Plush garments fCTBI'W W A 25 t 0 50 P er cent. 24 Imported «| ® M , w /IB less in price. Don’t worth $4 tosVjg B|Dry Goods in go for $2.50.'] endless varities. JESSE NIBLICK &. SON, The Leading Cloak House in the City BEST GOODS AND LOW PRICES TAKES THE. LEAD. Our stopk will be larger this season thfin-ever before. We areprepainng to offer to you the < eatest assortment ot ‘ ’ YOUTHS and Children’s Clothing And can show you a Greater Variety of Styles than any other house in the city, and at Prices that will astonish you. • - ' ' ' ' J " If there is any virtue in Value, any power in Prices, any benefits tn Bargains call on us for your Clothing, Hats, Caps, and Gent’s Furnishing Goods. Ike Rosenthal, ■Fixe MocSLerix Olotlxlev. . b... : At Ma ß’®y- kee P‘ • >»«• •*?'* 01 L. Ur f llnil II A fl'A Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Shoes KI 111 |AA fg store. Buys all kinds oi Country Produce UU U for tbe highest market price is paid. THE.’. DEMOCRAT g*e>JEL —— FINE JOB PRINTING!.

— 1 ‘ " 1 A SUCESSSFUL MAN • ■ • ■ ■■ ■ Is a man that attends to his own business. I ? •• Our Business is to Bell Clothing and furnishing Goods! I•• ' ■ w And our Study is to Buy Good Goods and Sell them at the Lowest Prices k w; L - We nave for the Season the Best and the Finest Line oi Goods evet Shown in the City. ‘ Come in and see us. Everybody treated alike. One Price to alt . ■ Yours Respectfully, Pete Holthouse, the One-Prim Clothier, THE LEADER THATiI® B. J. TERVEER Leads Them All In the StovE LinE! And as winter is near at hand will close ont hia stock at prices below all competitors, ranging from 19.50 upward, and ot the best manufactured. His mammoth store is filled with stoves from a 'i • x . j- * y Baseburner Coal Stove t . * To the smallest stove that is made. Call and examine his stock and you will be convinced that yon can buy .. Cheaper and Better Goods * '. ».l > , ■ ' Than any other house carries. My HARDWARE STORE '-j ‘ • C I.' - • ■ — . / . ■■ l . ■ ■ ■ ■ ■■ , ■ . ■ , • ■ b Is one of the most complete m Northern Indiana. • • .. ■ . JMLTEBVMR. ■