Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1892 — Page 5

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©he ©emocrat Jtatei 0/ Subnoription. One Year. In advance $l5O 81 x Months ‘ r> Four Months w All subscriptions not paid during the year will bo charged at the rate of #2.00. Olllce tn Democrat Building, east side of Second Street—ground floor. Continued from lari week Is it not perfectly clear, then, that the proposition with which I started out, that the McKinley act had interfered with and arrested this natural tendency toward a decline in the prices of commodities, was correct, and that by its passage the people of the United * States were deprived of those benefits which the people of all other civilized countries in the world were realizing on account of modern improvements and discoveries and the practical application of them in their industrial and commercial pursuits? But, Mr. President, we also investigated the wholesale prices of the same articles during the same period in several dillerent cities and in various establishments in each city, and my statement would not be complete without giving the result of that Investigation. That investigation shows, what is the common observation of everybody, that wholesale prices respond more promptly to disturbing causes than retail prices. The reasons for this are obvious. In the first place the wholesale trade is located almost exclusively in the great cities, and is in the bauds of comparatively a few men, while the retail trade is seat- I tered all over the country apd is iu the hands of tagreatuutny’meiireTho wholesale dealers ami the manufacturers of the goods they sell look forward to coming events, keep themselves informed of movements in congress and elsewhere, and take advantage of them in advance, while the retail dealer, as a general rule, gives less attention to disturbing influences, because he has hisstock on hand, purchased at the old prices, and he continues to sell it substantially at the old prices until he lays in a new stock at the new prices. (An elaborate table on the fluctuations of wholesale prices was here presented.] This table shows that during the four months preceding Oct. 1, 1880, wholesale prices had never risen above the normal or Initial point, except in August, and then they were only 22-100ths of 1 per cent, higher. In September they were lower than the initial price, and they never receded to that point again until August, 1891, a period of nearly two years, anil then - they were only 7-100ths of I per cent, below it. The group of “cloths and clothing” selected by the committee for the purpose of investigating wholesale prices contains sixty-two articles in general use among the people, and on the Ist of December, 1880, when the Fifty-first congress assembled, the prices of only five of them had advanced since the beginning of the period. Tiie prices of thirteen of them had fallen, and forty-five of them had neither advanced nor declined. The tariff act passed the house of representatives on the filst day of May, 1890, and by the Ist of June following the prices of sixteen of the Articles embraced, in this group had increased, and any one who will examine the report of the committee will see that from the Ist day of August, 1890, the articles embraced in this Important group, taking them all together, never fell to their original or initial price until Sept. 1, 1891, the last day of the investigation, and then they were only 2-100ths of 1 per cent, lower. Increase in Wholesale Prices. Now, Mr. President, by the use of this table, which is a part of the unanimous report of the committee, and assuming as before that the annual expenditure for consumption is $10,000,000,000 and the monthly expenditure $833,333,333, we can ascertain without difficulty the effect which the increase in wholesale prices would have had upon the people of the United States if the whole quantity of commodities consumed during the period covered by the investigation had been sold by the wholesale dealers during that time. That the whole quantity consumed was not actually sold at wholesale during that time is shown by the fact that the aggregate increase in retail prices or in the cost of living did not equal the aggregate Increase in wholesale prices. On the Ist day of October,lßß9, upon the basis just stated, which is less thari the total expenditure for consumption, the increase over the initial price was $5,150,000; on the Ist day of November, 1889, it was $7,833,333, and on the Ist day of December, JBB9, it was $12,583,333. Congress! met on the first Monday in December, tiro committee on ways and means was appointed, and It was soon well known to the country substantially what its policy would be in ref-, erence to t ariff legislation, and on the Ist day of January, 1890, the increase of wholesale prices over the prices prevailing at the beginning of the investigation was $lB,-' 750,000. The next mouth it. was $20,400,000, and then there was a slight decline from that figure until Sept. 1, 1890, when the increase was $24,900,000. The McKinley bill was approved Oct. 1, 1890, and from that date the increase of Wholesale prices continued to grow larger, month by month tin til on the Ist day of April, 1891, it was $35,416,666 But I will not detain the senate by a further statement of these increases in detail, but will insert the following table, which will show that tiro total gross increase from Oct. 1, 1889, to July 1, 1891. amounted to the sum of $445,618,885, but fluring the months of July and August, 1801, there were small decreases, amounting to $3,108,333, which, being deducted, leaves n net Increase of $442,510,552. « IHCBEASE IN WHOLESALE PRICES FKOM OCT. 1, 1889, TO JULY 1, ]B9l. Oct. 1..1889 Nov. 1, 1889 w’niblS! _. u- ..-jK J; 1800... .4 18,7 :>O,tW Feb. 1 1890..... 7.... 19,300,000 May 1, 1890 50,400,050 June 1,1890 17,583, July 1 1890 13,700,000 001.1,Wl 24.21K1.000 NOV, 1, 1890 25,500,000 Deo. 1 1890 27,333.338 Jan 1 1891 .......... 80,150.000 Feb, 1' 1891 80.910. WW March 1, 1891 82,8ltt>,00U. April 1, 1891 85.410.1W6 May- 1,1891.. ...... 83,838,833 June 1 1891..,.. .... N.miWO Total. . $446, Sept. 1,1891- ■ 2,625,000 Total 8.108,331? IMISSS:::::::::;::::::::::::: *tKS nn sin sm mywawy miw imiw >.m m • |,w * w **

j Notwithstanding these undeniable facts, the senator from Rhode Island asserted, if not in express terms, at least by necessary inference, that the prices of commodities and the cost of living declined during the period covered by the investigation. II said, “Tlierb can be no longer any question os to the course of prices for the period covered by the committee’s investigation,” and 1 think every one who heard his speech understood him to maintain that prices and the cost of living were lower during that period than they were before. Protection Did Not Help Wages. But, Mr. President, I must pass on to another subject. The committee also, as 1 have already said, caused an investigation ' to be made as to the rates of wages during this same period in fifteen of what are called general occupations, most of which are almost entirely in the nonprotected industries, ns will be seen when 1 come to state them, and in fifteen special occupations which are highly protected by the tariff law. The result of that investigation is shown by the report. The fiSt-een general occupations selected by the committee as fairly representative of the rate Os wages received in all the general occupations in the country were as folrows, and 1 asks senators to give their attention to them as I state them, in order that they may determine for themselves bow far they are protected: Bakers, blacksmiths, brickl iyersw?! suppose there is »jarcely anybody who will insist that bricks can be ’aid in a wall in a foreign country and imported to this country, and therefore a bricklayer is net much protected 1 by a tariff law; cabinet makers, carpenters—Of whom the same thing may ba said as of bricklayers; common laborers, farm laborers, machinists, masons—who lay stone In a wall which cannot be imported—molders of iron, paintI ers, plumbers, stonecutters, tailors mid tinsmit !is, .:.TLe..-m..are--tin.-- lifteen g em-i'al occupations selected by the committee, and they are the occupations upon which the rates of wages rose 75-100ths of 1 percent, during the-period (revered by tin 1 investigation. and they were tiiflCTTOPh Irivhmt its close than they were nt the beginning. " The senator from Rhede Island stated generally, as will he seen from his printed speech, that the committee had found that while there had been a decline in prices there had been an increase of 75-looths of 1 per cent, in wages, whereas I tjssert now, with the tables before me, that the only instances in'wbfch any increase of wages occurred, taking the whole together, were in those fifteen substantially unprotected industries, and I will show presently that in the fifteen highly protected industries in which the rates of wages bad increased before the McKinley Trill passed there was a decrease after it passed. If any of these fifteen general occupations are or can be protected or in any way assisted by the tariff, it must be- cabinet makers and molders of iron, and yet, although the McKinley tariff net increased the duties on household or cabinet furniture, the wages of cabinet makers fell after its passage, and although it reduced the duties upon all forms of iron castings except hollow ware, coated, glazed or tinned, the wages in that occupation increased after its passage. I do not make this statement for the purpose of showing-that the act itself increased wages in the one case or decreased them in the other. My purpose is simply to show that the tariff. docs not affect wages at all except to diminish their purchasing power, because if it did we could prove two wholly inconsistent propositions' to be true—first, that tariffs raise wages, and secondly that tariffs reduce wages. The man who wants to employ labor does just what is done by every other man who wants to procure anything—he gets it at the very lowest rate at which the law of supply and demand will enable Aim to get it, tariff or no tariff. The employer pursues'the same course, whether he is in a free trade country or in a protective country.-! The general statement made by the senator from Rhode Island that the wages of labor rose 75-100ths of J, percent, during the period of investigation was true only of the fifteen unprotected occupations and should have been qualified accordingly. I have already said that we ascertained the rates of wages in fifteen other iudus? tries, and I will now enumerate them in order that senators may determine for themselves whether they are industries which the tariff is intended to protect; they arc the manufactures of bar iron, boots and shoes, cotton goods, cotton and woolen goods, crucible Steel, flint glass, green glass, lumber, machinery, pig iron, steel ingots, steel blowers, steel rails, window glass and woolen goods. Here are fifteen of the most highly protected industries in the United States, and the wages of the laborers employed in them fell 89lOOths of 1 per cent, after the passage of tiro McKinley act, nothwithsstanding tho rise of 7mlfiQtha-of--l pereeut. iu the wages of laborers' engaged in the nonprotected industries. One of the most significant facts disclosed by the report in relation to this subject is that the nftesof wages in these protected industries had increased (15-lootl>s of 1 pw cent, between the beginning of the investigation and the approval of the tariff act on Oct. 1, 1890, and consequently tho entire decrease of 89-101 lis el’ 1 per cent? occurred after tbft law was passed for the benefit of.thc workingman. Now, Mr. President, on these questions concerning wholesale and retail prices, cost of living and rates of wages. I have presented ths figures made by tho statistician of the committee, based upon tlmnctual returns made to us by the agents who were sentout, not to take anybody's statement or anybody’s testimony or hear anybody’s argument, but to go to tiie books showing the actual transactions in the retail stores in these seventy cities; t o to the pay rollo-iu the-mann facta ringcstTrtTlfchm'ents, and take from them the exact amount of wages paid on the first of each month covered by this investi: ition, and I confidently submit the results to the senate and the country its a conreb't-il x indication of the judgment pronounced by uro people upon the policy of high protection at the election in 1890. There was no attempt at misrepresentation or decept ion except upon the part of thope who had beconie alarmed, at the consequences of their own favorite measure of legislation. The people were not deceived then and they will not bo deceived now by any false deductions made from this report., or by any frantic appeals to save (he country from the imaginary horrors of free trade. A Tax on I'opr People’s Clothes. As I have already said, the articles selected by the committee were, with a fewT Insignificant exceptions, the products of our own country, and the sums’ which I - have given to the senate as the increase in prices and in the cost of • living are based upon them and not upc I any rise which may have taken place in the prices of imported article* on account to utwut

I— SBUITSI I" 'in rsilfw*' < SJ-r'y'SICT TOT’""w»w i'duty contained In tiro tariff’act of 180® Why, Mr. Prcside it, the increased pd< * ■ f the $19,501,650 worth of woolen w hlch were imported Int .itiila country l> i n .Oct. I, 18V0, the d-'.e ift he < 1 • of the ; MxKiulcy l ill, ami t' , :?>th day.f .1 ■»■, | 1891, the cud of th t .isrnl ypar, mnotm'.cd I to many millions o’ dollars. The report of Imp rts d rconsur n for the fiscal yeir l l '*l, f'lrui tn .by the treasury depnrtim-iit, etcbib.i-ps and mingles together all the imp:,.. .it.luna which wore made during that, yc.'ir, fur the purjiose of showing tho ad valorem r:m of tax, whether they were made bi for or after Oct. 1, 1890, mid therefore reduces the average ad valorem rate of J,:ix.it.|ori to a much lower figure than it actually was under tho McKinley act. At tbei r p-i " of a great deal of time and labor I lor. selected from this report those artii of woolen manufacture which wet -1, perti-d after Oct. 1, 1890, and wirfi'h lie.:'. ,u paid the increased rates of duty imp -ed by the'McKinley tariff act. and I find the result to bo that the total importations of woolen manufactures, including yarns, which cost us abroad $19,591,650, paid an ad valorem rate of 92.84 per cent. Ths amount of duty paid on these goods was $18,192,338, so that it cost, without including anything for insurance, commissions, freight or interest or any other charge, $37,785,080 to lay down in New York goods which cost abroad 819,591,650. [Au elaborate table was hero presented, showing the imports of woolen goods from Oct. 1, 1890, to June 80, 1891.] Let us take for illustration a quality of dress goods in most common use among the people. The total vulueatroad of that class of goods imported after tiie passage of the McKinley act was $5,280,841, tiie tax on them was $5,423,422, the nd valorem rate qf taxation upon this $5,280,841 worth of goods purchased and consumed by our people was 102.70 per cent. The cost of these goods abroad wns 22.8 cents per square yard, the tax was 23.42 per square yard, and, adding the tax, it made the total cost to lay them down in New York, without any charge for commissions, freight or insurance, 45.70 per yard, so that the goods which cost abroad $5,280,841 costthp importer at New York, without any of the other usual charges, 810,701,'.'.H. But we are told by the author of the McKinley act to be disturbed Tibout this, because tiro foreigner pays the,tax. If so, here is the most re’markalije instance disinterested benevolence ever witnessed jn a commercial transaction between people of different countries, for tiie fore?,, n r actually gave to the people of the United States between Oct. 1, and Jun-' 1891, $’>,280,841 .won bof - go- ’.s p-,<:-l them more .Rfrfin $112,6«X) in ciouey_to itfiliico themlu. take them. The goi Is of which I am how speaking constitute the class mo.-t largely imported and sold to the mass, s <.f the pi ople of the Jinked Stiites. not to rich people, hut to poor people and people, ia mwa rate circumstances. as senators will see when I give the des.cTiption of tiie goods. I think that anybody who examines this table, which makes, a correct exhibit of tiie importations of these goods after tiie po -s ij v of the McKinley act, and the rates of taxation upoh them, will scarcely ever contend ’ ■■ ■ a.’ter that the foreign producer ; ■ ■■ the duty—he will go back to. the old “delusion” with which my friend from lowa. (Mr. Allison) says he was afflicted in 181'0, that tiie American consumer pays nt least a part of it.. Mr. Allison—l have not gotten over that yet. Mr. Carlisle—The senator says he lias not recovered yet. But" the senator may believe now that tiie foreign producer pays some part of the tax upon articles imported into this country. If he does, he has, either by mistake or otherwise, assisted in making a. gross misappropriation of the public money in the McKinley act, for which he voted. That act provides that when raw materials subject to duty are imported into t iie United States and converted here into manufactured articles which are exported for sale abroad to the citizens of other countries, the domestic manufacturer, producer or exporter shall have a drawback equal to the amount of duty paid less 1? per cent.. If the foreigner pays that duty, why in the name of common- sense and common honesty do we pass a law to pay it back to the Standard Oil ebrapnny, or to somebody else who exports oils, meats’ or cans made from imported tin plate? An honest legislator who believes the foreigner pays the tax would insist upon giving it back to the foreigner who sold us the tin plate out of which the cans were manufactured, and not to the corporations and others who convert that material into cans and then export them and their contents to be sold abroad, to the people of other countries at lower prices than they can be sold to their own fellow citizens. I therefore feel justified in say ing that no gentleman who supported the McKinley act in congress, nor Mr. McKinley himself, although he goes,.about the country proclaiming that the foreigner pays the duty, really believes a word of it. But I tender an apology to the senate for attempting to discuss such an absurd ■proposition. Now, Mr. President,’while speaking of tinplate I ought to refer to a statement made by the senator from Rhode Island, that the peppterof the United States paid to the Welsh manufacturers of that article in the year 1891 seventy-six cents per box more than tiie profits which they were realizing before that time. This is undoubtedly too true. It is certainly true that the McKinley act was a great blessing to the Welsh manufacturers of tin plate, and enabled them to take from the people of the United States, as I shall proceed to show, many millions of dollars over and-abeve- the- profits Wiicb rhey were making before its passage.[Tho senator here presented tables showing the cost of producing l i n plate in Wiilps and tiie advance in privothere in anticipation of the McKinlt-y bill, and continued]; It-.appears therefore that the people of the United States, before the inciv.isj rate of duty on tin pl.-.;-.' took effect under the McKinley e-et, p.-.’d, :i -t. to tiie importers, not to t'.-.e •govcrmmmt, not to the dealefj lit re. but diwctl 1 ■■ , ofthc V.’el.-o i m.piato m.-.i-afactut. rs, ’the <sum of -’I :'e?‘.i,7.';() as a surplus profit on t heir sales, which was considerably more than half tiie value of their plant manufacture of that article. An InjosticA of tlio Tariff, Mr. President, it is a broad statement to make, but the McKinkiy act increased; the duty on every fabric that contains a single thread, or \ of wool, and iu most cases, the inc; > ■ •v. very large. If :m article of silk is founiUto contain a?tlmmd-uf_wuoL ~for ornapientatibn or for any other purpose, it becomes subject to the woolen'goods duty, which, even iu the case of the chc;q>est woolen fabrics used by the poor? is much higher than the duty on the finest silk fabs-jos i i o : o-’ rich, .? I have here imumber of samplesof woofen and worsted goods imported-under tho McKinley .".et, with statements showing their cost abroad iu 1889 and 1899, their cost abroad now, the duty imposed jipon- them in 1889 and 1890, tiro duty imposed upon them now, and the increased cost to lay them down at New Yn k to the-consumer. [Elaborate tables wermpresentefl.] The prices abroad have fallennecessari[y because tho cost of tiro raw material, wooland cotton, has gone down In the market; but the people of the United St mes. by the passage of the tariff act and the imposition ; of n higher rate of duty upon t hese goods have been wholly deprived of the benetits Which they should have received, irtid ought to have received on account of the decreased cost of the materials entering into the manufacture of tiro art icles they consume. The cotton grower and the wool grower alike are compelled to take lower prices for their products and to pay higher

them. : ' The Pruli'ti-J ?!a:oifncturer. Th« necessary :lT<a t of tb'e McKinley aet 'ls to enable I n • , i t.irers ot these articles nt hot: I up the pri-'cs to a . certain figure, n ■ m - u.-i v ,;;t may tie the diminution lot >! their raw mat i rial or in tire v M’ their lai >orers, 1 >- cause the big <1 ity profits them against ' competition sfryd ~o long us they keen prices jm' l.clo-.v the point which would’< 1 :b! : < .'> irt -r to bring them j in and >■:?': -o.’.t after paying tha duty. What i point Is the domestic manufacturer til a ay:. ..nows very well, becauso lie keeps liimsi If informed lu relation to the foreign prices of the articles ho produces, and he therefore permits importations In two ca.vt only; First, when hit cannot produce tlto particular quality of goods nt all,.and secondly, when no cannot produce them in siilliidcnt quantities to ■upply the home demand. Notice * Our line, radical changes in goods and prict s on general line of hardware, sash, doors and blind-,Champi: n reapers, mowers and binder*, hay rakes and ladders, linseed oil, best binder oil on earth, full line ot paints and varnishes, brushes, &c , Milburn wagons, buggies, carts, road wagons, and surreys, all steel gear. New Home sewing machine, best in our land. Blows and cultivators in endless variety, Reed’s original 'pring tooth harrows and corn cultivators, steel truck hay carriers. These goods have been time tried and tested, lack for nothing. Call in and let us show them tp you free of charge. Binder twine, a car load cheap. Read carefully, study closely, look carefully and see that you buy only the Champion harvesting machine. They are made of best steele and mJka! le iron, gards are steel Sec what the cheap cast iron traps have right over their gards, see how they arc out of line, see th: malleable gards on them. Cheapest trap on earth. How would you like a p -.ir of scissors, saw, ax or hntchet-madeo; this sti'iT ? You wou.d condemn. Why buy Micli stuff on binder, rrower and reap r that you know can’t hold edge ? I have h d twenty vears ex- . erit-nce in 'he s.t ■ ot sucht’goods. Callin, wc will impur* to you good solid facts [' ou’em betieve vour eyes can con wince vou. If you make a difference be tween cast iron 'nd steel or steel and soft wo )d v.e »a:e vour nt. n. Everybodv ■n J Cc.i <f good- uur line are cordially invited to-call ar.l <eus. iotf Joh-v S. Bowers & Co. Low Rate Harvest Excursions. The announce™ nt that the NorthWestern Line, comprising over B.coo miles of thoroughly equipped railway, has arranged to run two low rate Harvest excursions during the months ot August and September, will be gladly received by those who are ir.t rested inlhe developement of the great west and northwest, as well as by those who desire to visit this wonderfully productive region at a secson of the year when- exact demonstratipn can be made of t ie merits and advantages it effers to home sre-kers and those in search of safe and | r lit; ble investments. These excursii-i s wi 1 .'cave Chicago on Avgust 30'h and SSpti 27th,-and tickets cm bft purchased att& very low ra*e ot one lare for the round trip to points in lowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming. Colorado, Utah, Idaho and’Montana. They will be strietjy first-class in every particular and will be good fcr return passage at anv time within twenty days from date of pur chase. 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Th. u-ron-’s are justly entitledto ueie. :e. Cali 0.1 o” 'vritv us. 34U' Ilooi-KR A Beatty., J.B. Coverdale, M. l>. Thomas, M. D. jjocroßs Coverdale & Thomas

Ahorse BuKKr,rs' Nearly every pattern of 5 /a Horse Blanket is imitated in color jind style. JI most cases 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 arc copied is strong evidence that they arc THE STANDARD, and every buyer should see that the trade mark is sewed on the inside of the Blanket. T j. Five Milo M Boss M / jg; Electric I Extra Te»t / B M Baker HORSE BLANKETS ARE THE STRONGEST. 100 5 A STYLES at prices to suit evcrylicdy. If you can’t get them from your dealer, write us. Ask so: the Ya Book. You can get it without charge. WM. AYRES & SONS, Philadelphia. Notice to Those who are Afflicted. Those afflicted with Chronic or lingering disease. Dr. D. B. Snodgrass, for 23 years a constant practitioner of of medicine in Grant county, Ind<: founder of the Curtis Physiomedical Institute and Sanitarium, of Marion, Ind.; having filled the chair of chroir i diseases in three medical colleges: ; author of a new and unprecedent. system of treating chroajji disease assisted by Dr. Joseph Duefee, lu-• permantUy establisht'd a-branch otover Stone's lj,ardv. are store, Deca; Ind., for the treatment of all form chronic disease. Drs. Snodgrass and Dunfee v ■ treat with great success all .forms c , i chronic disease. Dr. Dunfee will be in the office 1 ! every Friday and Dr. Snodgrass each second Friday. Dr. Snodgrass’ next visit will be on July 22. Remember the dates and call early. Examination free and terms reasonable. D. B. SNODGRASS, M. D. JOSEPH DUNFEE. M. D. NEW BT ‘ MARKET, Madison St., Opposite Cdurt House. « Schneider & Nichols. Fresh,. Smoked and Salt Meats of all kinds. Bologna and Sausages BUTTS WANTED I The Briant & Berne Mahufwturing Company .wijkpay the highest cash price for the following class of timber delivered at their- factories at Rfiant and Berne : Gray ash heading butts Bl.wk ash “ *‘ Svcamore “ “ . Maple IJnn?. •* “ ” Cottonwood “ “ Hackberry " ' Elm “ '* .r R d Oak Stave Bolts Whiteash .“ E-ni - “ Al-m ini, svea 'i ore. eo'tarw'o.’. red pnml pie bog-from S l ., to ny l ., feet, ■■All 1 > ab 'o tiinlie: be free fr ■ kr. 'ts and - other imp.-rtcc ions. Call the tac'ories; :or lull particulars. Briant & feme M’f’g Co. Wffl fail Middlepoint, Van Wert County, Ohio. Literary, Commercial, Pen Art ami. Musical. Write for Catalogue. Firt Fall term begins Aug. 9, Second fall term; TO weeks, begins! Oct. 13, Winter , term, 10 weeks,j begins Jan. S,' 1893; /Spring term, 10 weeks, begins March 10, Sum mer term, 10 weeks, begins May '23. Address Rev. L. M. McCreery, President, or A. A.dvtrhl, Principal, Middleppint, Ohio. H. F. COSTELLO, r’toyoioioxx & Surgeon, Office oyprTerveer's hardware store. Kesidenoe west side ot Fourth street, three doors north of Monroe street All calls promptly to in olty or country, day or Ul*iit

lapids X Indiana Railroad 91-00 — ONLY FOR A ”t h« n*’olumtiuH or former time. DECKER BROTHERS . O0 1TO Nou.!.. GRAND PIANO N. I No. a K..1 Sa 7 mira/rismacnirrin •'•* TO THE == WEEKLY ENQUIRER I 5.. 215.. 2116 . w iiti". so#'.', mol. a Decker Bro. Grand Upright Piano. $050.00 401. 931’1 A Gladiator Watch and Caso 30.00 I U in’ " A Lemaire 24line Field Gloss. ... . 20.00 (XT. i? 97 ... .X. woe” A Holman Parallel Bible. .'.... 13.00 • • 536:: 4M:: n S:: a Venice Parlor Clock 12.00 < 6ik> 12 01.. a High Grade Safety Bicycle 12.».00 L , 8 w : a®:: 1 ! 1 #" 0 An Elgin Watch and Boss Case. .. . 25.00 ???:: i®:: AH ‘v doCk £X&}- • •• 2WM Ut i'io . 841.. 314.. Handy lop Huggy) *0 |9£> 3W.. A Railway Watch in 14 Karat Case. 75.00 ■'W 6 7 11307 sis7. a Life Scholarship in Watters’) AA 5.. 1140.. 5 20.. Commercial College i q k.'. iw pm . 8 . M ." a Six Octave Champion Organ .... 200.00 - • J** a Double Barrel Shot Gnn. ..... 30.00 _— l A gi i Tercne Case 7 jewel Watch. . . 10.00 '! r-: AHigh Arm Improved Sewing Machine.ss.oo « No. 4 No. a Al 5 jewel Watch, Boss Case 35.00 A Octave Parlor Organ 150 00 m A Gladiator Watch, Dneber Case. . . 30.00 —vi 7 esoam A John C. Dneber Watch A Case. . . , a ift siu 1 And 82 other val uable premiums will V JfIJM • be presented to yearly subeenbere of thc ’Weekly Enquirer in April, 1892. !}m ” . Enclose one dollar for a year’s _ ■ ■■■—=ioo P m I g cription to the Weekly Enquirer, and GUESS ■ 1 7 what will be the number of subscribers 9 in the five largest lists received from Not - !- ’ 9l > to slarch 31 > ’ 92 - For same term last winter it was 2999, and the winter before was 1405. The premiums, are to be presented > those whose guesses are correct or ATT arest correct. For full list see -ekly Enquirer, now the largest 12 3 dollar a year paper in the United A jTQUIRER COMPANY, &S jA. CINCINNATI, O. WRsbBI Best Carps! i¥arp for 18 and Day A A’7re ! < ; re7re 7, OHIO, A il< y I': 7 Jed FJann* )AND( —~ ijSt. Louis, Mo. A = -?..! ..,1 Opa-lueREECHAUR CARS XI NIGHT TRAINS? Now do rot forget before buying to seeVmo en route, any hour. Mi money on any tiling in our line as we have t lv5 fflt * co,t ? -lock in the county. 40, St Loui» 4 fanu»CitjH . call on noM. * a nu re. \ Goods Delivered in all Parts of the City. - g advertise your farm and town property. sell your property dr loan money at 6 per cent. write life and accident insurance. Several Pieces of Property to Exchange. OXXESSUkdCjaLIV MOTT, Real Estate, Lonn. and Collection. Agent. Office with G. W. Peterson, Attorney at Law, Decatur, Ind. A PERFECT MACHINE! /yWx SwJj Ma fncsess." p \ ’j " " -'A TOE "WFISELL" WASH P- IS A SUCCESS. V. 'v. .. _ >■ .jj WHY? -t - iu !• ia found a ' -’i.| *vur•• .1 iniproven: i W•• mr Machines, • c -i • • . t.l the priuz • - J - ... : -va- *• .-<‘o. namely* rub* • / a; lire . : / -.iw- a ' ' * it consists of a f * - - • - ! . • hiiltom near . t ' • -7 -1 ' • ‘'itward on -> E \ ' -it - • !.:h is rotated j ac .<j ri ..t ■ : - iitable spring • 3 pre»b .r •. v :l < \ vof clothes. \ 7 Va ItM-r. • c.o.r, : 1< L ner. is light1 V\ er. sj.u ..-r ..dr ra d r r. . any other / mac] • ’ nor ten> tha VX • ; / 9 e ; . •! -Wur-eir IN :!:e BE>T Wa-HF.H, . \ »>.<> .. x. wo can prove. A trial will cont T •* Ti - ■ o.i. .> I Ark r dealer for it, If he does not sell U, write for descriptive circulars, testimonials, V d «Jldp:jc»sto 7..... . Q;ETikß&BA7»FiO'»VS.ftWayne»lnd. c -t Magley, keeps a large stdek of Dry ft ft ft Goods, Notions, Groceries, Boots, Shoes 111 jj c and in fact everything kept Tn~a general - • Buys all kinds of Country Procfuee >1 1 ? 'or which the highest maiket pt ice is paid. HOFF GOTTSCHALk = Keep atill line of Drugs, Patent Medicines/ Paints, Oils, G>. c : ■ -s, Lamps, Tobaccos, Cigars, and a general stock of MtTciiatidise. Prescriptions carefully compounded. GROVE, IND. THE.’. DEMOCRAT ’ IFOH FINE JOB ■ PRINTING