Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 2, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1892 — Page 4

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®he democrat Jf. BLACKB ÜBir, Proprietor. FRIT)AY. APRIL A, 1802. Notice of Primary Election. | To the Democrats of'Adams county, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that here will be a primary election held Saturday, April 2, 1892, for the purpose of selecting candidates for the Democratic ticket for county cilices to be voted for at he gm ralj election this fall. The pri mary election will be held uuder the Australian system This being the first time for it to be held ander the Australian system it .HI give all participants a chance to familiarize themselves in the new way of voting. N. Blackburn, G. Christen, Chairman. Secretary. V- - ' Democratic Conventions. JUDICIAL CONVENTION. The Democrats of Jay and Adams counties are hereby notified that a Democratic convention will beheld tn Portland, Ind., on Tuesday, April sth, 1892, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Prosecutor, for the 26th Jud cial Circuit of the state of Indiana. W. H. Harkins.) r C. J, Lutz, f C REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION. The Democrats of Adams, Blackford and Jay counties are hereby notified that a Democratic convention will be held in Portland, Ind., on. Tuesday, ZApril sth, 1892, for the purpose of nominating a candidattd for Representative for said counties. W: S. Fleming, \ p om William!! arley,j REPRESENTATIVE CONVENTION. The Democrats of Adams and Jay counties are hireby notified that a Demo ciatic convention will be held in P -rtland, Ind., on Tuesday, April sth, 1592, iur tae purpose of nominating a Joint Representative for said counties. U S a HALK ] Com. G. H. Adair,) Democratic Primary Erection, April 2, 1892FOR TREASURER. ;Dem. : Henry V>glewede. 1 Dem. 1 Henry Blakey. ;Dem. ! E. Lewis Fruchte. ;Dem. ! John F. Lachot. ;Dem. ; Daniel P. Bolds. FOR SHERIFF. b ; Dem : Mark McConnell. ; Dem. : Samuel Doak. FOR CORONER. :Dem. ; O. T. May. FOR SURVEYOR. ; Dem. : John W. Tyndall. FOR COUNTY ASSESSOR. :Dem. : Jeese Niblick. O ’ FOR COMMISSIONER— First Dist. :Dem. : Henry D. Fuelling. ; Dem. ; Henry Holebroke. 1 Dem. : William Conrad. for commissioner—Third Ds . ; Dem. : Henry Stacy. ;Dem. : Samuel Fetters. ggjj . - . ; ’Dem. . David Eckrote. FOR «..*.. L • . . . In preparing your ballot to vote stamp the square-opposite the nanu of the party you want to vote for leaving the square opposite th< rest of the names of the candidate! you wish to vote against blank. B< sure and stamp the square oppositi thig name you want to vote for When two or more candidates so the same office are voted for tin ticket will not be counted for an; ’ of the candidates for that particula office, but for the balance of th candidates voted for.

Labor troubles grow worse in Germany, and there, as in free (?) America, protection runs riot. An American girl traveling abroad broke her engagement and sent back her engagement ring to her lover in America, who had to pay s46*duty upon it. Will Major McKinley kindly explain what infant industry was aided by this episode? The logic of the boasted reciprocity of the McKinley bill is summed up in the old saying, “Bite off your nose to spite another’s lace.” And yet this folly which is rejected by common sense has become the corner stone of the temple of Republican statesmanship. '■ » The Saturday Evening Spectator, of Minneapolis, contains notices of forty-nine mortgage sales of lots in that city and.two farms in the county. A single Kansas paper had notices of over fifty farms to be sold under mortgage in one county. These arc the evidences of prosperity which our Republican friends can find all over the country, but to which they fail “to point with pride.” The State census just completed in New York shows conclusively that Robert Protection Porter deliberately falsified the returng from the great Empire state to reduce the power of that Democratic stronghold m the electoral college and House of Representatives. The federal census showed an increase of less than eighteen per cent, which was far below the average, whilst it was well known that the increase in New York City was nearly double that given. A half truth is as contemptible as a lie. When an organ says the Democratic Congress appropriates lefes money far pensions than Commissioner Raum’s estimates call for, if it were honest it would add that the appropriation was based upon figures given in Mr. Raum’s sworn testimony before the investigating commission. He didn’t suppose his first ball was to be scrutinized or he would have made the discover that it was larger than was necessary before* he was put on the witness stand. On the whole, would it not be cheaper to let the Porter census stop where it is than to expend #2,000,000 more to complete it? It is apparently designed only for Republican campaign purposes, and the sum mentioned would be much more effective if expended for votes on the “blocks-of-five” system. This is thrown out to Mr. Harrison as a practical suggestion. By the promotion of Judge Woods he has virtually promised protection to Republican boodlers, and all that is needed now is “the necessary funds. “The infamy of the new tax law is displayed in this illustration: T. W. Mallonee’s tax last jear amounted to S3O 92; but this year, on the same property, it amounts to $74 55 What the Journal calls infamy is easily explained. Last year Mr. T. W. Mallonee, like several other good people, had an idea that he was a very poor man, when the assessor came around. Air. Mallonee, who has a good farm of 160 acres three miles northwest of town, in Root township, worth SSO per acre, was assessed last year only $1,760.00 on the farm, $440.00 on improvements and $465.00 on personal property, making a total of $2,660.00. On this he paid a tax of $30.98. This year Mr. Malionee’s property had increased in value, so bis 160 acres were assessed at $3,675.00, improvements. at $1,465,00 and personal at : $720, making m all $5,855,00. On ; this he pays a tax of $64.84. the in- , crease in the valuation -making the ; difference. Air. Mallonee also has s some property in this city but the > Journal does not say anything about 3 the tax on that. In 1890 his lot < was assessed at -sjoo, and the imr provement on the samejtt $225, 3 making in all $425, on this he paid r a tax of s9.f§. lu’"iß9l the same r property was assessed at /605 and 3 he. paid only $9.68 taxes on the same. This shows conclusively

that it is not the law that is at fault, but that Mr. Malloneo’s appraisement has been astonishingly low heretofore or that his property has not been assessed at the true value as it should have been. Ibis ertnnot bo denied and it Mr. Mallonee will sell his property for what it was appraised at a buyer awaits him. * . The trusts are worrying some of our Republican exchanges. The children frequently become so that the parents are troubled about them. The census bureau returns show that in Kansas the percentage of rented farms has increased from 13 per cent, in 1880 to 33 per cent in 1890. In 1890 also'64 per cent, were under incumbrance. Thus 97 per cent, of the farmers there are either renters or have their homes mortgaged, in which case there is very little prospect of their ever redeeming under our present financial system. A special to the New York World from Providence, R. 1., says that D. Russell Brown, who was recently nominated by the Republicans for Governor, paid fifteen thousand dollars to secure his nomination. The money, which the World’s dispatch alleges was solicited by Charles R. Breyton, the boss of the state and personal representative of Senator Aldrich,‘will go to fill a corruption fund which will be used to elect Aldrich. The dispatch further asserts that the office was hawked about among five or six possible candidates a but that D. Russell Brown was the only one who would pay the price fixed for the nomination. President Harrison seems to have a strong predilection for free traders. His last three Indiana appointments were given to representatives of this class. Mr. Charles H. Aldrich, the new solicitor general, is an advanced free trader. So' is Mr. Stanton J. Peele, the excellint gentleman and Violent partisan who has just been named to the court of claims. So is Mr. John H. Baker, who succeeds Woods on the distret bench. Mr. Baker, when in congress, voted for a resolution, introduced by Mr. Mills, declaring that protection was robbery. Wonder when the president. proposes to give the real, orthodox, McKinley Republicans of Indiana a chance? up. While somewhat late yet it should be done, the city authorities should see that the city is put in order so that it may be healthful. The health, and in some' cases the lives of onr citizens depend on the cleanliness of the town. While our streets and alleys are reaking with filth and the warm weather coming on, the necessity for such action becomes apparent to every one. So let the office?ehe-put in motion and the town put iu shape for any epidemic that may come this way. Heretofore we have been clear of any or about all contagious diseases that our country is subjected to, and the only way to avoid such is to commence in time and prrpare to meet it so that if it does come we wiltbe ready for it. THE PRESIDENTS TAXATION OF COFFEE. We import a large quantity of coffee from Venezuela. On this coffee the president, in the exercise of revolutionary and unconstitutional power conferred upon him by a Republican congress controlled by Mr. Reed, and bent upon centralization and the plunder, has levied a duty of three cents a pound. .” Certainly the prices of the same grades of coffee are not going to differ by three cents according as they come from one county or another. Coffee of the same grade will command a certain price irrespective of the source of supply. If Brazil can readily supply atone the coffee we are now getting from Brazil and Venezuela together, then there will be no Venezuela coffee imported, but the increased demand for coffee from Brazil will increase the price there, and the American consumer will pay all, or a part, of the three cents tax, only instead of paying it to his own government, he will pay it m increased prices to Brazilian planters. f But if Brazil cannot supply all the coffee we have been getting from the two countries, then we shall have to go on importing coffee from Venezuela, on such coffee we shall pay an import duty of three cents a pound which will go into our treasury.' American coffee

1 MB •= drinkers will be permitted to pay more for their ooffee m order to punish Venteeela, and in the meanwhile the Venezulian planters will be get( mg substantially the same for their product that they are now, for in the case supposed we cannot get all the coffee we need elsewhere. But besides asking to punish Venezuela for her Obduranoe by taxing ourselves on our coffee another or more interesting thing will occur. If, as we have assumed, our demand continues, as it will probably, to take pretty much the whole surplus coffee product oftlhe two countries, and prices in our market are the same for a given quality, irrespective of the. country of origin, then the increase of two or three cents a pmind in the price of Venezuelan coffee resulting from the levying of a duty will increase in like ratio the price of Brizilian coffee, but as we levy no duty on the latter the increase will go to the Brazilian producer or to the middlemen. As the amount of coffee we import from Brazil is five or six times as great as that we import from Venezuela, the increased price we shall pay for Brazilian coffee, which will go to foreign planters and dealers, will be five or six times as much as the increased price we shall pay for Venezulian coffee which will go to our own government. This is a typical Republican tax; one of which a small part goes to the government and far the greatest part goes to individuals; in this case even foreign individuals. THE FRAUD OF PRO TECTION. Michael D. Harter in writing the St. Louis Republic .on the above subject has to say that there is no claim made by the protectionists so unworthy of patient consideration, perhaps, as that so often urged, namely, that protection is in the , interest ol the working classes. There are two ways alone,, in which we can help any man who works with his hands to provide for his wants. 4 The first is by protecting him in his labor from competition, and the second is by increasing the purchasing value of his wages. Does protection do either? It does not prevent the foreign workman from coming here and taking employment away from the American, nor does it in any way intervene when he proposes to work here at tower wages than the American workman has been asking. On the contrary, our ports are open to him and his coming is not only unimpeded bnt encouraged. The fact of it is that protection aims to emigrate from his foreign home, for it has been the boast of the McKinley people that through protection they were breaking down European factories and thus forcing European labor to come here. Again the placing of duties upon goods which our workmen consume in order to “protect” the manufacture has the direct result of increasing the living expenses of every American workman, which is only a cunning, ronndabont, but effectual way of reducing the purchasing value of his wages. It has not been very clear to even the casual observer that protection injures the American workingman all the time, and in two distinct ways: First, by increasing the competition here for employment And thus reducing the purchasing value of the wages when earned, by artificially increasing the cost of what he buys with his wages. When we remember, too, that wages vary in amount as much inside of the United States, and even 1 within the same state, as between 1 the United States and Great Britain, the hollow fraud of the cry for ! protection creates an echo in every • indignant citizen’s breast and the ' complete rascality of it is admitted. ■ When we learn from such Repub--1 hcan authority as Mr. Blaine that, ; when hours of work and amount of 3 production are properly considered, I labor in such a great industry as • cotton manufacturing is fully as 1 low-priced here as in Europe, the : time has about arrived when the f American workingman is justified ■ in swearing to his fuU bent when he 1 hears the word “protection” used. I It is not surprising that Raum ; has discharged, or tried to discharge, 1 every clerk in the pension office who ■ has given any information to the ! public about the performance of the Raum family. The commisston1 er’s desire to have everything kept dark is perfectly natural. |

ON THZ iSp •Vertical Slide back Suspenders® N. 8.-If. from any cau.*, th* Vertical Slide should Break or become Damaged, a new pair of Suspender* win be given, Free of Charge, upon return es the broken pair to the Furnisher from whom purchased. Isaac Rosenthal, The Modern Clothier sole agent. NEW IM MARKET, Madison St., Opposite Court House. Schneider & Nichols. Fresh, Smoked and Salt Meats of all kinds. Bologna and Sausages UIAkITCR SALESMEN. Local and TravelnAlllLU. lug. To represent our wellknown house. You peed no capital to represent a firm that warrants nursery stock firstclass and true name. Work all the year. 1100 per month to the right man. Apply quick, stating age. L. la MAY, & CO. Nurserymen, Florists and Seedsmen. 8L Pau). Minn. 1-9 (This house Is responsible.) FARM FOR SALE! A farm of 145 acres in Blue Creek township, Adams county, Ind. Ninety acres cleared, fair buildings, plenty of good water. Would make an excellent STOCK FARM. Will sell for less than SaBFHR ACRE Terms very reasonable. For further particulars call on or address, Schur ger, Reed & Smith, Decatur, Ind. notice to Owners of Real Estate On both sides of the alley, commencing on the south side of Madison street eight feet west of a point immediately north of the center of the alley running north and south between Sixth and Seventh streets; thence to run southeast, and to strike the center of the said alley at the line of lots; thence south along the center of the said alley and to connect with the Jefferson street sewer. You. and each of you are hereby notified that tho Common Council, of the City of .Decatur, Indiana, has by a resolution declared a necessity to exist for the construction of ah alley sewer along the route above specified. And for tho purpose of giving you. and each of you, and all others Interested therein, an opportunity to be heard, and to make any and all objections you may desire, as to the necessity for the making or constructing of said improvement, the Council has ordered that Tuesday evening, April IS, 1893, At 7:30 o’clock, at the Council Chamber, in the City of Decatur, has been fixed as the time and place to hear your objections to the necessity for the making or construction of said improvement, of which you will all take due notice. By order of the Common Council. 141 D. O. Jackson, City Clerk. Notice toJTaxpayers. Notice is hereby given that the first payment upon the street improvement bonds issued upon Monroe, Madison, Mercer, Mud Pike and north Second streets will be due April 1.181)9, and that I will bo at the council room to receive payments due from 7:80 to 8:30 p. m. of each evening of the woek, (except Saturday,) until April Ist next. All payments must be made promptly, or property ownerswill be liable to have the bonds forclosed upon their Francis E. McLian, 51-3 CltxTreasurer. Commissioner's Sale of Laid. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned commissioner appointed by the Adems circuit court, of Adams county, Indland, to make sale of real estate ordered sold by said court, in the case of William H. Niblick, guardian of Fremont Evanson vs. James E. Eyanson et al, will as such commissioner on and after Saturday, the 9th day of April, 1899, At the law offleeof France & Merryman, in the City of Decatur, Indiana, offer for sale at private sale to the higliesrnnd best bidder for not less than the appraised value, the follow,ng described real estate in Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: The northwest quarter, of the northeast quarter, of section eleven (ID, in township twent-six (28) north, range fourteen (14) east. Tf.hms:—One-fourth cash in hand, one-fourth in nine months, one-fourth lb eighteen months, one-iourth In two years from day of sale. Deferred payments to bear six per cent interest and secured By good freehold security. JohnT. Franck, Commissioner. France & Merryman, Atty’s. 52-4 Toiitojfeaciiers. ~ Notice is hereby give that there will be a public examination of teachers at the office of the county superintendent. In Decatur/ Indiana, on tne last Saturday of each month. Applicants for license musv’prosent the proper trustee's certificate or other evidence of good moral character.” and to be successful must pass a gotxl examination in orthography, reading, writing, arithemetto, gnography. English grammar, physiology, history of the United States, science of education and one flanfMnhfie and June, v wuv ‘ " u ExainiiMitlonfl will begin promptly ftt b:BU b-

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