Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 29 April 1892 — Page 4

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I (The democrat P H 08~ ===r JT. BI AO Kit URN. Propriftor. ’, 1, I .' ' 7:: = ' — FRIDA V, J PHIL 29. *1892. I' ■W.....X. ■■ i Democratic Ticket. - THE STATE. ; For Governor. •Dem.: CLAUDE MATTHEWS, ,>■ ; : of Vermillion. Sr- for Lelutenant-Governor, •Dom : MORTIMER NYE, ;; of Laporte. a For Secretary of State. -Dem' WIJ.IAM R MYERS. of Madison. ; For Auditor of State, :Dem : J. 0. HENDERSON, ; of Howard. I . , For Secretary of State, ;Dem : ALBERT GALL, ; of Marlon. * For Attorney General, ;Dem : A. G. SMITH. E ;• of Jennings. ’■ For Sept, of Public Instruction, • :Dem: 11. n VORIES, &•. . ;; of Johnson. •••• ; ForStatcStatisticlan, •Dem : WILLIAM A. PEELE, -f "rndolph. •: For Ki porter Supremo Court, : Dem : S. IL MOON, e :: of Fulton. e ■ltem: JEI’FHA D NEW, [7, ;: of Jennings. ; . Judge Supreme Court. 3d district, >• :Dem : JAMES MeCABE, . ...: of Warren. ;: Judge Supreme Court. sth district, :Dem : T. E. HOWARD, I' ;; es St. Joe. ;: Judge of Appellate Court. Ist district, :Dem: G. L. REINHARD, :. ; of Spencer. ■••■: Judge of Appelate Co rt. 3d district, I Dem : FRANK GAVIN,, . ;: of Decatur. ; Judge of Appellate Court. 3d district, .Dem THEOJtORE P DAVIS, *;• of Hamilton. ; Judgeot Appellate Court, 4th district, :Dem : O. J. LOTZ. - j •;: of Delaware. : ; Judge of Appellate C urt.Mhdistrict. :Dem : GEORGE F. TOSS, 5 :: Os Ci: . THE COUNTY ■ ; For Representative —Adams. Jay •Dem.' and Blackford. J WILLIAM H. HARKINS. : For Representative—Adams and Jay. ;oem: RICHARD K. ERWIN. • -.; For Prosecuting Atterney-28th •Dem.' Judicial Circuit. ;.... : RICHARD H. HARTFORD. For Treasure’. •Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. •»•••• • / * For Sheriff. •Dem.: SAMUEL DOAK. • a . •; For Surveyor, :Dem.-. JOHN W. TYNDALL. ;Dem,: OLIVER T. Mil'. t For Assessor, ;Dem.: ANDREW J. PORTER. For Commissioner—First District. '.Dem.: HENRY HOLBROKE. .. y or Commissioner— Third District, :Dem.: SAMUEL FETTERS, s » P L ' v The spirit of reform is abroad in the land and the people will permit no intervention between their will and the object sought. _ - The plutocrats who have been ruling this country have their days numbered. The people will again take matters into their own hands'. The attempt of Republican politicians and Republican papers to turn the attention of the people from the more important matter of tariff reform will meet with little encouragement from the masses. Commissioner Kaum says the committee investigating the pension department “was only appointed to make capital for the Democrats.” He must be aware that the committee is in that case succeeding. It is very evident that the Re - publicans will put Vice-President Morton on their ticket again next fall, as he has the money, and that is what it takes to carry on a high tariff campaign, and be success- , luL K The question of taxation is the most important ques ,on that the masses have to conte i with to-dav. They insist upon'an equitable and fair distribution of tins burden and will submit to nothing else. i; . * Our national library contains » 700,000 bound volumes and 200,000 pamhlets. The yearly increase is from'ls,ooo to 20,000 volumes. No wonder Mr. Spoffprd asks wbithei are we drifting? Thu new building which it will take four years more to complete will cover three acres and will hold 4,000,000 volumes. E•' ,» I " g|'.; And now it is Ministcr-to-Italy K Porter who has quite enough of abroad and who concludes 6 he wants to come home and join in the campaign hurrah. Minister-to- |< Russia Smith is also on the “re- - signed list. Air. Porter sails for' Koiiio, but “goes to return” very

soon, “glad,” bo says, “to settle down and spend the rest of his days in his own country.” The postoffice Savings bank, of the Dominion of Canada, with, branches in almost every village in the country, has on deposit over twenty-three million dollars, lhat these accumulations are the savings of the poor is shown by the fact that the average single deposit is only a little over two hundred dollars. The systgm has a quarter of a century of success tp commend it, and the habit of saving has grown upon people who know that their money is safe when the government is responsible for it. The Hbn. Powell Clayton informed a reporter in Minneapolis the other day that the Southern darky is in a bad way. This is the truth. And it would be interesting to know, specifically, whether Mr. Clayton attributes the woes of the Arkansas negroes mainly to the McKinley tariff, which brings the cotton hoers to starvation, or to the new Arkan sas election law, which heads them off from voting three times, whereas the Constitution and the laws made in accordance therewith entitle them to vote only once. The tax duplicate of Adams county for the year 1891, amounts to $ 138,423.46, while for the year past it amounted to $ 109,818.48, making a difference of-$28,604.98, showing the increase m valuation in property or the listing of property that had been withheld from the assessors. While the main’part of the excess over last year came from the corporations, such as the railroads and telegraph companies. The railroad companies pay $6,624.18 more than they did last year, while the telegraph companies pay $11.50 more than last year. It would seem that banquets and elegant gifts of silver and gold to express the gratitude of the Czar to the United States for helping to feed his starving ones, were quite out of character. The price of one enameled vase might save a life. It seems difficult for a Czar to understand that the government and laws which systematically rob the peas* antry are at all to blame for their horrible condition. The United States may, commendably, feed the starving, but its officers needn’t go picnicking with the old despot as if they thought it was all right Our Republican exchanges' are teeming with false statements of the new tax law, none are too big for them, but they fail to say anything about the children of the Republican party, these corporations and trusts that are opposing the law, and some of them are now in court attempting to defeat it, so they can pay any amount of tax they see fit istead of. the amount that will equal the farmer and laborer. The Republican party is always in favor of helping the rich, especially ■ if it is Some railroad corporation or trust that is for the purpose of contributing to the “boodle” that they always have at the elections. ”' —i A dispatch from Seattle says two thousand Chinamen are waiting along the northwestern boundary to cross into the United States upon i the expiration of the law, May 6. | The contract labor law, if there . were no other, is applicable and warrants the exclusion : .of them. Coolies come here in squads and under contract. It is stated the companies who sent them here have legal counsel employed to defend , them in case of arrest when they cross the border. If this attitude of defiance is persisted in with the , colonies of Great Britain to aid and conspire, then an issue that will dwarf the seal question into insig- . nificancy may speedily arise. Senator Edmunds was thought to have done a Very cute thing for 7errumit when he had the maple sugar growers brought in with i others to derive benefit from the i sugar bounty. ? Like many another • bit of class legislation the sugar ■ bounty law is not acting as was au-1 •' tioipated. Vermont produces fifteen ’ million pounds of maple sugar anb

’' . f nu&lly, Canada not less than twenty million pounds. Since the bounty law went into effect Canada has sent twenty car loads of maple sugar product over the border to one oar load sent before. Hence Congressman Powers, of Vermont, at the request of his constituents, has introduced a bill to restore the Old condition of duty tax and no bounty, the same condition which wtis removed for the same constituency by Senator Edmunds.. On last Thursday evening Solomon Moser, one of Hartford township’s most prosperous farmers, dropped in to help us along as is his 'annual custom when over to pay bis taxes. Knowing Mr. Moser to be one of our heavy taxpayers we asked him how much more he paid this year than last year. After a niopient’s reflection he said: “Why, I don’t pay as much this year as last, and have as much or more property as last year. He paid $135.86 of which $15.85 was for ditch tax, leaving $121.01 as taxes on property. While this year, perhaps $116.54 making $3.47 less than last year. Mr. Moser is among that class of people who take no part in politics or who never vote. A correspondent of a London paper, who has just finished a journey through the famine dirstrict of Russia, says the .peasants are never thought of by the government or their condition in any respect considered, until they are unable to pay taxes to support the army, and the government m its royal magnificence. Their lands are exhausted, their forests are cut down, and the present famine is not simply an incident of the year, but the biginning of governmental bankruptcy. Not only are the peasant farmers starving, but their caUle and horses are starving with them. These are being driven out of the stricken provinces before they are too weak to move, to be sold for what they will fetch for bread. Tne seed time finding the farmers in this stripped condition has in it no promise for the future. The most reckless of Republican organs dare not come to Raum’s defense. He has confessed to shameless partisanship in the conduct of his office and to an utter defiance of civil service law. These offenses are easily condoned by .a president who has, himself, broken his civil service pledges all to flinders. But the financial crookedness, the refrigerator business, the Lemon dicker in which public power was used to serve personal and gainful public ehds; the admission that unprecedented pension-claim activity m Indiana was “because that state is a doubtful one politically,” the mean eofispinng to blacken the character of Congressman Cooper; the borrowing of money made easy by virtue of official position, the insulting of women by his officers—it would seem that from this catalogue •of misdemeanors; the details of which are convincing and disgust, ing, that the’Democrats have done the country a service in unearthing the corruption that veins the con duct of this'department through and through. 7 J 7? O TECTION AR G UMENTS. The fallacy of protection arguments are never more conspicuous than when the advocates of tfie measure attempt to enlarge upon the,.theory of the “benefits of protection” to the workingmen. The labor of the workingman is not protected, but be must compete with the laborers of the workTwhen he puts his labor on the market And so sharp is the competition that the ; protected mill owner canrand does | employ American labor at so low a , rate that while he supplies the home demand at protection monopoly ! prices, he is enabled to sell the remainder of his products in foreign markets in direct competition with products cf European pauper labor. Since this is true, why must American mills be protected to enable them to run? The monopoly organs of the country do their employers a great service if they .will furnish the people a satisfactory explanation of this matter before the November election. PATRIOTISM. AND POLI TICS. Cardinal Gibbons, head of the Catholic church iu America, comes to the lore as a powerful public in-, flueloe, ot a mostoppprtune season, ' in a vigorous article on “Patriotism I and Politics,” in the April North American Review. The Cardinal’s ' article strikes home to nearly every

political center in the Union. Afto* defining patriotism and . showing that ft has always been a virtue, he says: “Therefore, next to God, our country should hold the strongest place in our affections. Impressed, as* wo dught to be, with a profound sense of the blessings which the system of government continues to i bestow on us, we shall have a corresponding dread lest these blessings should be withdrawn from us. It is a sacred duty for every American to do all m bis power to perpetuate our civil institutions, and to avert the dangers that threathen them. “Th?. system of government whu h obtains in the United States is tersely described in the well-known sentence: A government, of people, by the people, for the people; which may be paraphrased thus: Ours is. a government in which the people are ruled by the repnsentatives of their own choice, and for the benefit of the people themselves. “The method by which the su-' preme will of the people is registered is the ballot box. This is the oracle that proclaims their choice. The heavier scale determines at once the decision of the majority and the selection of the candidate. “Our Christian civilization gives us no immunity from political corruption and disaster. The oft-re-peated cry of election frauds should not be treated with indifference, though in many instances, no doubt, it is the empty charge of defeated partisans against successful rivals, or the heated language of a party press. But after all reasonable allowances are made, enough remains of a substantial character to be ominous. “The political money-changer pollutes the temple by his iniquitous bargains. The money-changer in Jerusalem’s temple trafficked in doves; the electioneering moneychanger traffics in human beings. Let the Minister of Justice arise, and, clothed with the panoly of authority, let him drive those impious men from the temple. Let the buyers and sellers of votes be declared infamous, for they are trading m our Americas birthright. Lit them be cast forth from the pale of American citizenship and be treated as outlaws.” -» TEE NEW LAW. What about the new tax law of which we hear so much? In whose favor is the law, if in any ones? The law is just and corporations refuse to pay the tax. The railroads are attacking the tax law and are making assessments of corporate property the basis of suits. Six complaints were filed Tuesday, April 19th, m the federal and superior courts. The suits in the federal courts are those of the Pennsylvania company on behalf of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, a leased line, against the treasurers of Allen, Kosciusko, Whitley, Marshall, Laporte, Stark, Porter and Lake counties and the city treasurers of Fort Wayne, Monroeville, Plymouth and Valparaiso, also the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad company against the the treasurers of Wayne, Randolph, Jay, Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Noble and Lagrange counties. We would>sk the question, why is it that these railroad companies refuse to pay the tax that is due the state and counties through which the roads run?* It is because that these corporations have bfeen petted and humored or as we might say that they have been allowed to do as they please. When the state requires them to pay the tax which is levied according to 'their wealth we find that the wealthy are first to be disloyal to the laws ot our country which have protected, fostered and nursed them until they have become strong and powerful. Powerful enough to defy the very government under whose nourishment and careful fostering they have grown to be massive monopolies. One thing the railroad corporations neglected, i e they neglected the State Assembly of Indidianawhen they passed thebeSt tax law ever passed in the state of Indiana. The Republican press all over the' state have been trying to take advantage of the situation by attempting to jnake the people of the state believe that the railroad i coporations handled the State Legislature to suit themselves. Our representative, R. K. Erwin, will not be compelled to explain anything in to h« conduct pertaining to this law* . It id all too ' plain now. The law was passed in behalf of the people and not any i

clique Os favored few. Farmer, laborer <>r tax payer, you must understand that a victory for the Republican party this fall menus oppression to the people and a rich harvest to the wealthy. The Republican party is the friend of the millionaire and with the millionaire opposes all laws that tend to alluviate the sufferings of an oppressed people. All true Democrats will stand by the law, and will remember that a Democratic victory this fall means justice to all. VALLEY DEBT AND SURPLUS. According to the census bulletin of July 29 last the mortgage debt on the farms and homes of the United Slates has reached the enormous sum of twenty-five hundred and sixty-live million dollars ($2,566, 000,000). According to census figures the interest on this debt paid every year by the five states of Alabama, Illinois, lowa, Kansas and Tennessee is $67,505, 629. The bulk of this debt is in the Mississippi Valley, and it is worth the attention of every one in the valley when the Harrison administration through its Bureau of Agriculture tells us that we are “overproducers”—that our products must therefore go lower. But what are we to do about it? We owe this enormous debt and it bears an enormous annual interest The census shows that in two such states as Ohio and Kansas over one-third of our farmers are homeless and landless already. If we do not pay this debt, principal and interest, there will not be 10 per cent, of freeholders among the voters of the Mississippi Valley in the next ten years. We are obliged to pay it or accept eviction for nine-tenths of our farmers, on whose labor national prosperity is based. And to pay it we must raise every bushel of wheat, every barrel of corn, every pound of cotton we can dig out of the ground. The Harrison administration counts as “over-produc-tion” whatever is produced above the demands of the corporation home market for consumption or for shipment to Europein exchange for gold only and elsewhere in exchange only for raw material needed by thqse corporations. But wo can produce more than that; we cannot help producing more than that, for the sheriff is our overseer, driving ns with the certainty of foreclosure if there is a default in our mortgage debt. The Republican plan of limiting our Mississippi Valley surplus to the demands of the protected corporations for food stuff, gold and raw material is the wildest absurdity. It means rum, and that very soon, for the Mississippi Valley. And if our backs break under the burden put on them by the Republican party, the business of the entire country will collapse, for we are carrying it all with our Mississippi Valley surplus. W e are not “Overproducers.” W e mfiSt double and treble'our surplus to get out of debt, and we must be allowed to exchange it untaxed for something else besides gold and raw material for corporations. The protected corporations have absolute free trade in gold and in many articlesxif raw material. It is a good thing as far as it goes, for it is folly to tax any kind of wealth out of the country. But there is not gold enough abroad, nor will the pro tected corporations take raw material enough from abroad to move one-half the surplus we can produce in the Mississippi Valley. We must be allowed to exchange our surplus for the surplus of manufactured goods in Europe. On no other basis can Europe take more than a fourth of the surplus we can easily produce. On no other basis can we realize the exchange value of this surplus. On the Republican basis, it is left on pur hands as “overproduction” when the world is full of badly fed and badly clothed people who are willing to give us their labor to pay our debts if we are only allowed to trade with them—work for work, product, for product, surplus for surplus. » We want the restoration of our right of free co operation with the labor of the world. We want and we must have our right-of-way t/> and from our foreign markets. There is no “overproduction” i» the Mississippi Valley. Our surplus ought to be now three timer what it is, and it must become threi times what it is if we are ever tc pay our debts and win back our in dependence. *— ’ A C Gregory, hoti»e painter and papri hanger, solicit, your patronage. 3 o‘

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