Decatur Democrat, Volume 35, Number 51, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1892 — Page 4

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©he X. BLACKB ÜB.K, Proprietor. FRIDAY. MARCH 11, 1892. Notice of Primary Election. 'l'o the Dunocrats of*Adams county. Indiana. Notice : s hereby given that thcte will be a primary election held Sat urday, April 2, 1892, for the purpose of selecting candidates for the Democratic ticket for county cilices to be voted for at the gcii.-ii.l election this fall. The primary election will be held uuder the Austrail an system This being the first time for it to be held Under the Austrailian system it will give all participants a chance' to familiarize themselves in the new way of voting. N. Blackburn,. G. Christen, "Chairman. Secretary. Democratic Conventions. J V DICIA L C'JN V ENTION. . Xbe... Dcnß-iibU*—ol--Jav anti—Adamrcounties are hereby notitiid that a Demo cratic conyeji ion will be held in Portland, Ind., on Tuesday, April sth, 1892, for the puipose of nominating a candidate for Pro-ecutor, for ti e 26th Jud'cial Circuit of the state of I diana. W. 11. Harkins.) n r r - Com C. J, Litz, ) R E PRESENT A TIVE CONVENT!6 N. The Democrats of Adams, Blackford and Jay reunite are hereby notified that a Democratic convention will be held in Poulard, Ind., on Tuesday, "April sth, 1892, for thejiurpose ol nominating a candidated for Representative for said counties. • W.: S ’ Fleming, ) c ,William Harley,) representative convention. The Democrats of Adams and Jay r< unties are hr reby notified that a Dime c a ic convention will be held in P •tla-' 1 . In ”, cn Tuesday, April sth, 1592, <0 u>< purpose ot lomin.dinga Joint Representative for said counties. W. S. Hale.) n G. H. Adair.) An exchange cruelly suggests '.hat Jay Gould’s gift to a church is in the nature of a fire insurance policy. You can depend upon it that John Sheiman will not resign. He does not belong to the party of resigners. If a man must be a millionaire he cannot atone for it in any better way than Mr. Rockefeller has followed in giving > to the University of Chicago. Mr. Noble got nd of young .Prince Raimi, and his testimony shows he is rather proud fltf it. But there is no ridding the administration of young Prince Russell. Tin! binding-twine trust is pre- , paring to increase the price of its - ... product, and the supreme court says the McKinley bill is constitutional.. , Misfortune never comes single. That proposed fusion of Florida Republicans with third party people on a platform demanding high protection and free silver, would make a truly grosque political spectacle. The editor of the New York .Slants Zeitung r-ays: “I am still old fogy enough to pin my faith to morals rather than expediency.” It is just such old fogies that the world cannot afford to loose. Letters from the Tolstoi family are very despairing as to the fate of the Russian jieaSantry. The famine is the legitimate outcome of injust- i ice and oppression and there are no I prospects of changed conditions. BY the way, Germany is a strongly “protecte.r'. country, not only in military, butm a commercial sense’. gL The people ought to be contented. I Surely a standing army and a high I tariff ought to make a country very peaceful and heavenly. fc- - The established binding-twine E. robbery scheme must not be moles te te<t_lFay ihe.Ulepjrt>lican niinority of ?/•- the Wavs and/ Means Goiumittee, S’ These statesmen were evidently not • listening while the farmers were |U knocking at the door of congress. ■U. It is said ex-Governor Thayer ■ will Sake another contest of Gov gL_, mor-Boyd's seat. Thayer-4s the ideal Republican, lie holds that neither the will of tint people nor the decree of the supreme court should be heeded when it keeps a I Republican out of office. ‘

PHILADELPHIA has at last “got the bulge” on New York. The latter has always sneered at the latter as slow going; but in the matter of aiding the famine-stricken Russians it is miles ahead of its “fast” sister. New York ought to apologize and hurry up its Russian contribution. “There will be but one thing to do and that is to reduce the wages of puddlers,”. say our protected friends of Pittsburg. So puddlers are being discharged by the him dred to make the reduction easier on the rest. And in the meantime the protective tariff is engaged in protecting. Tom Platt is worrying about the prospective gerrymander of the state of New York. Poor Platt, how his virtuous soul must be moved. If Hill’s Democrats can make a meaner job of it than Platts Republicans have, they will command of the world for their skill. The Pan-American scheme is not a flag-flying success. The South American republics would rather fight than treat, and Mexico and Canada, our wealthy trading neighbors, complain they can make no sort of a bargain with us. With Blaine's presidential boom laid to rest, there isn’t much use for the reciprocity rattle." Brother John Waneymakee of the Postoffice Department made a million out of the Reading deal to raise the price of coal. No matter how high the the price goes there is a 'large consumer of anthracite and brimstone who will keep stocked up in the anticipation of a visit from a delegation of distinguished Pennsylvanians. The arraignment of Edward M. Field with a view to testing the question of his sanity, is a sad spec, taele. If the grave charges against this young man are true, it must be the prayer of his family, so widely known and so thoroughly respected, that the affliction of insanity rather than the curse of infamy, will be the outcome of it all. In the light of the record of the past twenty-five years of Indianagent robberies, and government cheating of the red man, it illy becomes the hypocritical organs whose party emptied the United States treasury to snide about the treatment the poor Indian is getting from a Democratic congress. The lamb’s skin is not large enough to cover the hoofs and horns. Private Dalzell proposes to unite the private soldiers of the late war in one body to demand for themselves political offices. He says that the colonels and generals get everything while the privates ‘are ostracised from all offices except those of a menial and degrading character.” Why not begin work with “Private Chase?” He wants the' Republican nomination for Goveruor of Indiana. Our Republican friends are fond of using inverted rule comparisons and calling them tariff arguments. Here is one of the same sort. The year before the-MeK4nlcy bill went ih to effect the gross amount of losses 1 from from .failures’was >148,784,337. xassKaKSS'TdnEEX' ’’tb The year after it was >198,868,638. i SHI AJI due to the McKinley tariff, of course. . ■' -■ Judge Horton, of Chicago; declares that his divorce court is not a varity show, and refuses to‘ let any but parties interested in the suits to be preseqj.. The viilgarly curious certainly merit such a rebute from the court, but Judge Horton shoio,! >..• j.. ire f n } no t to be too sweeping in vfiis reform. It was the privacy of the divorce proceedings that enabled Sheriff Flack of New York, to Secure a divorce from bis wife without letting the woman kffow anything about it. 1 That was worse than making a show' of the divorce-court. A <.oqp deal of editorial levity : is fired at Uncle Jerry SimpsoE because he dashes about the capital

lufjateg* on a bicycle. It is all in the lino ol Jacksonian simplicity and an economical administration of private affairs. His machine is cheaper than horses and carriage and safer than a wild eyed Kansas broncho. Let your Uncle Jerry alone for ho has good libel cases against every paper in the union for announcing that socks are not a part of his wardrobe. He wears socks, rides a bicycle and does his spelling in accordance with the old phonetic system. At last the administration has ' woken up on the trust question and i the federal grand jury of Massa- . chussetts has indicted the members I of the whisky trust. Mr. Harrison . doesn’t propose to have the necessities of life too high priced.! But 1 if Mr. Carnegie’s cask of whisky produced this result, why not pre- ' sent him some samples of other tariff and trust-taxed articles? W Ith the echo of the cry of starva1 tion that conies from the labor dis1 triets of the old world, the Republican Christian philanthropists in •tins country rub their hands gleet J fully and say “the McKinley law did it.” That the extravagance and oppression of royalty, army, and i aristocracy, hereditary monopoly of land treasure and wicked laws for the support of favored classes, have I all to do with their wretched condition and the McKinley law was simply the proverbial last straw, I makes no matter. It is the rejoicing of our good people over the woes of ■ the foreign pauper, heightened by I the belief that the Republican party • did it, that is specially noted. i — —- , South America is coming to , the front with several altitudinous , things beside the claims of American sailors for wounds and damaged feelings. The railroad viadugt recently completed over the river ’. Lea, in Bolivia; is the highest in ’ the world. It is 9,833 feet above the sea level, and is 4,008 feet above the river level. It lacks less than seventy feet of being two miles 1 long; the highest pillar is 3,736 ' feet high, and the entire structure weighs 9,115 tons. There is in construction at present a tunnel on the Parona Oroya railroad, in Peru, , which will cut one of the peaks of the Andes 600 feet above the line of perpetual snow. The tunnel will , be 3,847 feet long, and the object of the work is to reach the town of Galera, which is 15,635 feet above . the sea level,"and is said to be the , highest inhabited point on the globe. It is nearly 1,500 feet above the hotel on Pike’s Peak. Railroads come high, but South America must have them. Poor men are being crowded out of Illinois. The independent farm--1 er is every year finding his pathway • narrower, his hilj more steep, his 1 load more heavy. The renter and 1 the hired man are taking the place 1 of a free population. Thirty families last week left a single neighborhood in McLean county.because I . * B . since 1888 land values have ini creased 10 per cent all about them. Increased taxation follows this rise in valuation, and farming—which yields only a modest profit at best —will not keep pace with the added burden. Those whose farms ’ are unincumbered can do better with their capital in newer states. An inquiry develops that the buyers are investors, not farmers. Home after home have fallen into the I hands of capitalists who require a , cash rental too hopelessly high to admit a margin of profit to the hus- > bandman, and on terms so severe t that -surrender means--loss;-"Cass . county, Livingston, Logan and McLean are alike affected. It is estimated that 3,000 persons will this ■ year leave central Illinois for the cheaper lands of tire West. They . are men who can ill be spared. Reports may make the state seem richer, but tlje man who stands on . the land that he owns is worth more . than a world of money.— Ohifago t Dailey Herald. 1 ; STARVING WORKERS IN AUSTRIA. , Dispatches from Vienna inform ;us that'dbe working yeopie'of Austria have been reduced to such des- ‘ a .... parate straits that petitions for . assistance which _had—heretofore , been forbidden, are now permitted . to be circulated.' It is estimated that 5,000 shoemakers, 3,000 carpen t ters, 1,500 metal workers, 7,000 stone-workers and 2,300 unskilled laborers are out of employment. A ' reporter who accompatiied the relief ■ committee witnessed scenes of abl ject poverty and misety which it

imrri —iim—ruißii —[■mw would be hard to match in the squalid courts of London. This, like Germany, the United States and Great Britain, is a gold standard country. The owners of the gold own the currency, and the effect is the same everywhere. Thosa who would buy have no money, the markets are stagnated, there is no demand for labor, and the people starve. Something must be done, or the world will witness an explosion such as history has no knowlede of. ND. SPIIiNGEN.S HE POUT. Mr. Springer’s report on the Free Wool bill is a strong document. So far as it deals with the raw material of the woolen manufacturers it is a Free Trade measure. The wool interest of the United States has invariably prqsnated under low tariffs and has suffered when high rates of duty prevailed. In 1867, when the wool tariff act was passed, as the report shows, only 19 percent of tlie wool used in the country was imported, while in 1891 62 per cent of the wool used came from abroad. Moreover the increased rate of duty imposed by the McKinley bill was followed by a fall in price. The minority report meets this important fact by the statement that there was a fall in the price of foreign wools. While this is true, the latter fall has not been as great in production as that in the price of domestic wools. There is a meaning in this that has been often explained. The American wool-grower is dependent for his market upon the American woolen manuafeturer, and as the American manufacturer must have foreign wool for a mixture with the domestic product everything that raises the price of his foreign raw material, like an increase of duty, tends to diminish his business and to decrease the price for domestic raw material. This truth was long ago recognized by high Republican authority. In his annual message of 1874 President Grant said: The introduction, free of duty, of such wools as we do not produce, would stimulate the manufacture of goods requiring the use of those we do produce, and there fore would be a benefit to home produc ,tion. And again, speaking of protective duties on imported raw material, the same Republican authority said in another message: These duties not only come from the consumers at home, but act as a protection to foreign manufacturers of the same completed articles in our own and distant markets. Free wool will help the American sheep-breeder and the American manufacturer, and will make good clothes cheaper to everybody. THE THE MACHINE. When such a general local revolt against machine methods as is now from New York occurs it is the most healthy sign of the power of the individual in the government of the republic. The political machinists whose ambition leads him beyond the people is generally soon without a job. Senator Hill was a popular leader so long as his efforts were directed against the bad methods of the Republican managers, but when he attempts to make his own ambition the magnet of ‘Democratic hope and reliance — the only leardership for the national convention Democracy—his own party revolt and assist the party in national convention in setting the man and his methods back in the ranks. The local elections in New York are surprisingly Republican. They indicate trouble which can be overcame only by the wisest and fairest dealing in the coming campaign. One thing the revolt has demonstrated—that Mr. Hill is not strong enough, of himself, to carry New Y'ork. He may also be able, having control of the state delegation, to defeat the nomination of Grover Cleveland. Possibly that is all he desires.. He may alsd be the chosen of the Lord to teach the Democrats that they must some day look to other states for candidates and electoral votes. If so, amen to the row and the revolt. There is good eastern Democratic presidentia! timber—Abbett, Pattison, Russell.and Gorman, and the west is full of first and second growth hard wood presidential stock. The party at large is learning much from the New York brethren, and nothing is more likely to inspire confidence in good politics than the present revolt against bad politics PRINCE AND PEASANT. Chicago has a club composed %f sixty millionaires, named the “Commercial.” They were the leading

spirits in getting up the big congressional picnic from Washington to that city. A New York paper which boasts of a “circulation among the best people” prints a 1 description of the magnificence of 1 these millionaires and then goes on to say: , Ti e granger co' g'esunan tilling in JubtriuUkly in behnh us tne dear people at 1 his post iu the hou»e, writing innumerable ephteia in quettionaole English to multitucinoua plain-living constituents and laboriously eating pie witn his knife in the , nouse ic,tuurant or nibb lug in the coiner ot the cloak-room at sandwiches brought in a handkerchief from his boarding house is one thing. The same statesman’rolling luxuriously westward in a Pullman car with Ills wife I and female descei danis, ceJcately sipping , , I‘onury Sec from Jdnty cut glass, inhaling tlie odor ot 25 cent cigars and (astidil ously nlectmg horn an elaborate menu L the triumphs of Parisan cookery to saiisfy his crit cal pala'e, is a different order ol oeing. Bioujjht under the influence of a [ refining civilization and the social amenities, sui rounded by the good things ol life I and indulging in its creature cornioi ls, the | granger is not a bad sort ot fellow and develops mellowing qualities hitherto un- • suspected. , Nothing remarkable about this > except as it illustrates the rapidly" 1 growing un-American spirit of 1 prince and peasant. The farmer is the butt of amusement and ridicule 1 of these tariff-fed monopolists and millionares who invite him to a pic- ■ me that they may be amused by his antics and enjoy seeing him “mellow, under the influences of a refining civilization.’?;..’ Ther granger, p who may or may not with a knife, is likely to be the superior of the club princes in all btft the species of cunning thaLgoes to make tjje successful money-getter. There should be no reason in this country of alleged freedom why the granger shouldn’t be “surrounded by the creature comforts of life,” as well as the other party, whose wealth depends upon the farmer,s toil and ' thrift. He may not know Pomery Sec from Spanish port, made in California, but there are a few other things be shows signs of finding out in which the merry millionaires are profoundly interested. WIL 1 T GOOD R OADS MEAN. What would good stone roads all the year around mean to the American farmer? asks the American Farmer News. The answer to this question is not necessarily a speculative one. Good roads are to be found in Europe and in certain localities in this country and Canada. It is not to be questioned that the effect on the American farmer as a rule would be about the same as it has been in the favored localities, and judging from the experience of those communities wjjich has been blessed by good public highways, we may mention the following as some of the desirable results which would follow their general , adoption: They would make it possible for the farmer to take advantage promptly of the highest market, no matter at what season of the year. They would save him days and weeks of time which he wastes every year wallowing through the disgusting mire of dirt rrods. They would reduce to a minimum the wear tear on wagons and carriages. They would lessen the expense of keeping horses in working order, knd vastly less horses would be required in a country to perform the farmer’s work. They would require less expense to keep them in repair than do the dirt roads. They would make it easier for a team to pull several tons over the smooth surface than to drag a wagon through the mud. They would afford ready communication with the outside world at all times of the year. -—They-wrrald" spare the farmer many vexations and nervous strains. They would practically shorten the distance to the local market. They increase the demand for country and suburban property. They would be free from dirt in summer, and mud and ruts in fall, winter and spring. They would bring every farming community into closer social relations. They would make an evening’s drive a pleasure instead of vexation as it is now. They would be, in short, the best possible investment to the tax payer. All these they will do unless experience goes for naught. Republican financiers are startled by the fact that our exports of gold for February amounted to nearly $14000,000. Last spring the exports aggregated >78,000,000, and only came back during the year, notwithstanding the balance Os trade m our favor. If our “standard” should go abroad altogether, how would we measure our sevenly-cent dollar.

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