Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 8 April 1892 — Page 4

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(the democrat X. BI.dOKB VRN, Proprietor. JFBJDJF. APRILS, 1592. g Democratic Ticket. ; For Representative—Adams. Jay :Dem.: and Blackford. WILLIAM H. HARKINS. : For Representative—Adams and Jay. .(tom.: RICHARD K. ERWIN. : For Prosecuting Attorney—Bßth :Dem : 'udfcia) Circuit. : RICHARD H. HARTFORD. ; For Treasure’. ;Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ;: For Sheriff. :Dom.: SAMUEL DOAK. ; : For Surveyor, :Dem.: JOHN W. TYNDALL. For Coroner, :Dem.: OLB ER T. MAY. ; : For Assessor. :I)cm.: ANDREW J. PORTER. :: For Commissioner—First District. :Dem.: HENRY HOLBROKE. if :: For Commissioner— Th Ird District, :Dem.: SAMUEL FB ITERS, Andrew Carnegie says he is worth from 130,000,000 to $35,000,OuO and proposes to spend it all before be dies in works of charityHis largest contributions to “charit. able” purposes heretofore have gone keep alive the decrepit * grand old party” elephant. Gov. McKinley was made the recipient of a pair of wool blankets from a factory in the northwest, with the information that they were the first ever made in the country sc.d that the McKinley bill did it. Now comes a manufacturer from St. Mary’s, Ohio, who spoils the pretty story by saying that he has made hundreds of such blankets every week in the ye;r for twenty years. Too bad this high-tax law cannot be made retroactive. If the presidential nomination is to fall to any western man, we fee that' it will fall upon no man with greater favor and more grace than upon the Hon. Isaac P. Gray, of Indiana. The tariff question will be the battle cry, and the Democracy of Indiana will Xolldw any man to victory who will stand firmly for tariff-reform and will oppose class legislation. The intelligent voters of our State are no lot ger bothering their heads over the loolish claims of the advocates cf protection, that increased tariff taxes do not make increased selling prices. It requires but a small amount of business sense to decide this question against the claims of the high tarff apologists. And the people of our state certainly possess enough of ordinary busintra sense to keep from being duped by any such rubbish that protection bosses compel Republican ed itors to print in their paper. There isn’t a Democrat m the United States that does not rejoice in the elevation of Roger Q. Mills to the Senate of me United States His undue display of temper oyer the loss of the speakership is forgotten in the good fortune which accompanies him to the place of lirger usefulness. Very likely the defeat for speaker made him tor, and in this instance the loss 'which at first seemed great, resulted in greater gain. Roger Q. is a stalwart among stalwarts in the campaign of tariff-reform, and he will be a power for good where he now is. . “ There are twentv w >l« in the United Stales which are either ui.king or are prepared to4nake tin pl»n-« nr terne plates, and reports show ten <l<'i tonal tin plate wr»rk» in the course of unction—Organ. These are the same works that ■ were “preparing to make tin or terue plates,” and- were in “course of erection” a year and a half ago. and yet these fellows mean somebody else when they talk about “tin plate liars.” It’s ridiculous nonsense. No tariff relormer ever pro fessed to believe that tin plate could Botbemadc-hrthiscountry.“Witfi governmental aid, almost any in- - dustry can ba made to overtop other industries that must suffer in conse-

quence. We could grow tea under glass, with the necessary conditions paid for out of the public treasury. The question at issue is the old one and the only: Is it the prerogative of a professedly free government to . boom on or a score of industries, at the expense of hundreds of others? The announcement that the Standard Oil Trust had dissolved of its own will still comes in the coun- . try press. The fact that it was immediately reorganized with a new name aud on a plan more satisfactory to the larger holders of its certificates follows very haltingly in the journalistic round. Hon. Geo. Burson, of Winnemac, Ind., candidate for Supreme Judge of the sth district, and Hon. J. D. McLarin, of Plymouth, candidate for Appelate Judge of the sth district were in the city last Friday looking after their interests in this viciniiy. The gentlemen are both Democrats to the core, and thoroughly capable of filling the position to which they aspire. The Boston Transcript (Rep.) says, commending upon the fact that Venezuela coffee has already risen four cents on a pound as a result of the announcement that the president will soon issue a proclamation putting a duty upon it: “That is the beauty of the reciprocity section of the present tariff. If a country refuses to make a reciprocal arrangement with our government, it turns round and virtually compels our citizens to pay more for articles the price of which had been kept down by free trade. The Indiana Supreme Court in a recent decison held that a railroad company may make a rule that persons can ride upon freight trains only upon freight tram tickets. That a person who desires to ride upon, a freight tram ticket must inform himself as to what the rule of the company is. That if he neg lects to do so before getting on the train and presents for payment of his fare a ticket different from that prescribed by the company, the conductor may refuse to take it, and may also refuse to accept money for his fare and may put him off the train, although he got on ignorant of the rule. The fact that it is a freight train is notice enongh that the railroad company has presumptively some rule upon the subject The tax howlers, tax dodgers 1 railroads, banks and corporations are on their last pegs. Lying poii- • ticians have about run their race. The opposition to the new tax law ■ is for political purposes only. Every tax-payer knows that the law is both necessary and commendable. The state debt must be paid and there is no other way to collect a revenue for that purpose except by taxation. The great burden of taxation for the purpose of paying this debt is levied on corporations and i capitalist*, where it rightfully be- ! longs, and if the Republican press i sees fit to condemn the Ikw for coni tributing to so worthy an object let ' it do so and assume the responsibility for such an act of injustice. The YEilroad corporations alone have been “raised” by the Democratic State Board from $60,000,000 to $160,000,000. That is, the Demo- , cratic State Board raised the railroads about one hundred and sixtyfive per cent. The corporations under the new tax law have been made to pungle up. What is it that controls the market price of the products of our farms? “Supply and demand” surely does when capital is left out of the question. When the potato crop is poor, potatoes sell at a high price. When the crop is good the market is supplied at a lower rate per bushel, During the spring of 1891, potatoes retailed at one dollar per bushel and toward the latter part of spring potatoes could not be procured at that price. This spring forty cents will buy potatoes than three times forty cents would - 'iMm-W-i —'W—T-- 11 buy last spring. Last spring the tariff oti potatoes was twenty-five cents per bushel, this spring it is the same. The twenty-five cents

tariff does’nt effect the price of potatoes in the leaatuiiless a farmer wants io procure a different variety of seed. He must procure this variety by paying twenty-five cents per bushel or be satisfied with what he t has. Wbat is there to encourage a farmer to raise potatoes? Farming is not placed by the McKinley bill'on an equality with other industries. A millionaire may invest Ins money in the manufacture of sugar, expecting a bounty on every pound of sugar manufactured. A farmer may invest his time, hard work aud all the energy that he has, expecting to get what other people are willing to pay and yet the pn • tectionists say that the bill is for his good. Down with class legislation. Another presidential term of office is about to close, and while it is closing another campaign is com ing on. During the next few months, the people of our country, which are numbered by the millions, will indulge in politics which by a great number of the people is understood to mean fraud, intrigue, prejudice, hatred, hyprocity, revenge and in fact everything that is mean and low. These people who look at the question in this light are in the extreme, just as the man is in the extreme who allows prejudice and like passions to accompany his political views. A polititician in the true sense of the word is a blessing to our country. Political bosses and “blocks-of-five” will be things of the past when people lay aside prejudice and listen to the teach ings of reason. We believe in all that freedom mease m the true sense of the word, but when people, or at least a portion of the people, continue to cast their votes according to the instructions of political bosses, they are aiding to bind themselves to a fate they know not. The coming campaign should be purely intelectual. The politician who attempts to hold the confidence of the people through their prejudice should be considered a demogogue of the deepest dye. Our government rests upon the intelligence and manhood of the voters. Some may say that onr government is more stable to-day than ever before. It is true that we are among the first nations on the globe, but there are great wrongs to be righted. Not long since we endured the session of a “Billion Dollar Congress.” From whence does this money come? We are compelled by reason and all that is consistent with intelligence to say that it comes from the pockets of the people. Is it any wonder that the Democratic convention of 1890 used the following language: “We denounce the tariff monopolists for their efforts to perpetuate themselves in power by measures inconsistent with free institutions and contrary to good morals. We find in the Force election bill, the bills creating rotton burough states and the McKinley tariff bill, the open manifestations of a gigantic conspiracy of the minority to oppress a groaning people with additional burdens of taxation for private benefits and to fasten on the country in such away that the people cannot free themselves from the galling load.” lEZZO SHALL IT BE? The all-absorbing question now is, since the silver question has been in a measure settled for the pnsnt. “Who will be the Democratic candidate for president?” This question is on the lips of every one, the business man, the laborer and the professional man as well as the politician, even Republicans, prohibitionists and alliance manifest much interest in the issue. The Republican choice is virtually made, since the bosses of that party more than in any other, settle that matter for the people. Ihe People’s aud Prohibition parties can have but a faint hope, at most, of elect ing their man and as from the very nature of things, these parties are antagonastic to the party in power, they look with much concern on the choice the Democratic party may make for its standard bearer in the coming campaign. Never since the nomination of Samuel J„ Tildeu have the people so generally paused to discuss the choice of a candidate for any political party. N ever before have the masses of their people been sq, effective in expressing this preference in the selection of a oandidate, \ - That the bosses and old time machine men have lost their grip on the masses is quite evident from the trend of public opinion in the 1

L..J party within the last' fortnight, The enpghtenmont of the people, thMtltrfoss attitude of the press; the wide dissemination of wholesale political and economic literature has done much toward emancipating the people from the denomination of designing and selfish politicians. It is perhaps enough to say that the Democratic party through a spirit born of tb< masses will wisely choose the man who will lead the hosts to victory. SOME RESULTS OF PROTECTION. Mr. Otis, of Kansas, presented a table to the House of Representatives last week, made up from the census reports of 1880 aud 1890, which contains some facts tha should be known to all the people of the country. He made a group of the nine ’‘manufacturing” states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and another of twenty-one “producing” states, Indiana, Illinois, lowa, Nebraska, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisaina, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, Kansas, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware. He gave in each group the population in 1880 and 1890, and the gain, and the assessed value at each period and the gain. The population of the nine manufacturing states in 1880 was 14,507,407; in 1890 it was 17,401,505, a gain of 3,894,138, or within a small fraction of 20 per cent. The assessed value of property in these states m 1880£was #7,559,638,915; in 1890 it was $10,614,591,637, a gain of $3,064,763,723, or 41 per cent. The per capita wealth, according to these figures, was $528 in 1880, and in 1890 it was $6lO, a gain of SB2 to each person. In the twenty-one agricultural states the population in 1880 was 28,242,922, nearly double that of the nine manufacturing states. In 1890, the population of the agricultural states was 34,071,221, a gain of 5,828,991, or slightly over 20 per cent. The assessed value m these states in 1880 was $6,839,554,628; in 1890, it was $8,537,750,285, a gain of $1,698,195,657, or 25 per cent. The per, capita wealth in these states in 1890 was $243, and in 1890, the per capita of wealth was $251, a gain of nine dollars to each persons in the agricultural states as against a gain of eighty-two dollars to eetch person in the manufacturing states. These facta and figures, given from official records, show what the effect of the protection tariff is. It builds up the manufacturing states at the expense of the agricultural states. There is one man in Ohio who expresses himself “satisfied that the tariff of 1890 will win its own way.” His name is William McKinley, his present residence is Columbus, Ohio, and he is the father of the child he considers so full of promise- In a brief interview he manages to use the word American five times m two sentences, in glorifying the measure. We are a great people, but it must be'acknowledged the McKinley section of us has a very narrow policy. One of the benefits of a Democratic administration to the financial advantages of the tax-payers, can be seen in the bill that exacts of all corporations filing articles with the Secretary of State, the payment of a certain percentage upon the actual capital stock. The amount is fifty cents per #I,OOO, not a large sum, yet the fees that will oome into the treasury will pay the salaries of all the state officers and their deputies, and the expenses of the supreme court. Jingo Jim has overshadowed the little man under his grandaddy’s hat until outspoken rebellion has burst forth, and in the last reach for twisting the tail of the British lion. Mr. Assistant Secretary Wharton is put forth as holding the tail instead of the great premier, with his windard-cast anchor. Foor Blaine! Disconsolate little Ben! “Anything for another term.” The Bland Silver bill will soon be-«4hing of the pafitlt will not be a political issue this presidential campaign. Tariff-reform will be the battle cry, The McKinley bill must go. In considering presidential and" gubernatorial candidates the Democracy should not overlook one very essential qualification—availability. Ihe men who can make a winning fight should be selected. ,J.

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NEW MEAT MARKET, Madison St., Opposite Court House. Schneider & Nichols. Fresh, Smoked and Salt Meats of all kinds. Bologna and Sausages WANTCn SALESMEN. Local and Travelling I LU. ing- To represent our wellknown bouse. You need no capital to represent a flrm that warrants nursery stock first class and true name. Work all the year. HOC per month to tbe right man. Apply quick, stating age. L. L. MAY. St, CO. Nurserymen, Florists and Seedsmen. Bt. Paul, Minn. 1-9 (This house is responsible.) FARM FOR SALE! A farm of 145 acres in Blue Creek town ] ship, Adams county, Ind. Ninety acres cleared, fair buildings, plenty of good water. Would make an excellent STOCK FARM. Will sell for less than 523 PER ACRE Terms very reasonable. For further particulars call on or address, Schur ger, Red <t> Smith, Decatur, Ind. Notice to Owners of Real Estate On both sides of tbe alley, commencing on tbe south side of Madison street eight feet west of a point Immediately north of the oenter of the alley running north and south between Sixth and. Seventh streets; thenoe to run southeast, and to strike tbe oenter of the said I alley at the line of lots; thenoe south along I the center of the said alley and to connect I with the Jefferson street sewer. You. and each of yeu are hereby notified that the Common Council, of the City of Deca-I tur, Indiana, has by a resolution declared a necessity to exist for the construction of an alley sewer along the route above specified. And for the purpose of giving you. and each of you, and all others Interested therein, an I opportunity to be heard, and to make any and I ail objections you may desire, as to tbe neces-1 slty for the making or constructing of said improvement, tbe Council has ordered that Tuesday evening, Afrit 19,1898, At 7:80 o’clock, at the Council Chamber, in the I City cf Decatur, has been fixed as the time and place to hear yqqr objections to the necessity for tho making or construction of said improvement, of which you win all take due notice. By order of the Common Council. 1-3 D. O. Jackson, City Clerk. Notice toJTaxpayers. Notice is hereby given that the first payment upon the street improvement bonds Issued I upon Monroe, Madison, Mercer, Mud Pike and north Second streets wilt be due April 1,189?, I and that I will be at the council room to re-1 celve payments due from 7:80 to 8:80 p. m. of I each evening of the week, (except Saturday,) I until April Ist next All payments must be made promptly, or property owners will be liable to have the bonds forclosed upon their 1 realty. Francis E. McLban, 51-3 J City Treasurer. Commissioner’! sue of land. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned commissioner appointed by the Adams circuit I court, of Adams county, Indiana, to make sale of real estate ordered sold by said court in I the case of william H. Niblick, guardian of Fremont Eyanson vs. James E. Eyanson et al, will as such commissioner on and after Saturday, the 9th day of Afrit, 1898, At the law office of France & Merryman, in tbe | City of Decatur, Indiana, offer for sale at I private salp to the highest and best bidder for not less than the appraised value, tbe following described real estate In Adams county, Indiana, to-wit: The northwest quarter, of the northeast quarter, of section eleven (11), in township twent-slx (2H) north, range fourteen (14) east. TitiiMs:—One-fourth cash tn hand, one-fourth in nine months, one-fourth in eighteen months, I one-iourth in two years from day of sale. Deferred payments to bear six per cent interest and secured by good freehold security. John T. France, Commissioner. I France & Merryman, Atty's. KIM NoilcetoTeacners. Notice Is hereby give that there will be a public examination of teachers at the office of he county superintendent, in Decatur, Indiana, on the last Saturday of each month. Applicants for license musf’present the proper trustee’s certificate or other evidence of good moral character," and to be successful must pass argood examination in orthography, reading, wilting, arlthemetlo, geography. I Bnglish gremmar, physiology, history of the OnTted Statei v aol£nDe of oduoaUon aM one oftlie following named books: David Copperfield,” for the months of February. Maron, April and May, 1892, and Holme’s “Autocrat of the Breakfast Table" for tbe months of f June, July. August, September, October and November, 1893. I ■ Examinations will begin promptly at 8:89 a- ■ m. No license will be granted to applicants 1 under seventeen yea; s of age. J K Snow .Co. Bupt. ’

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