Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 6, Decatur, Adams County, 28 April 1893 — Page 4

D’PRICE’S Died in Millions of Homes—4o jts the Standaro

She democrat ». aZAOKBVKir, Proprietor. FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1893. ~ Rate, of Ona Veer, In advance •' jj® Six Monika Four Monttu All aubaorlptiana not paid during tha year f will ba charged at the rate of K.OO. Office in Democrat Building, east side of Second Street— ground floor Clean Ur the Alleys! i Let no Alley escape! Official, where are you? ■ ■ . ~~v* Go and investigate! Thi fellows who do not get political plums look as though they had tried their teeth on persimmons. Taken all in all Canada protects its game better than the United States. Spring hunting is contrary to law up there. The Fort Wayne Humane Society will make war on the gun clubs that use live birds in their shoots. Sportsmen are indignant. The tngid weather may have been superinduced by the state of the feelings of John Gilbert Shanklin toward President Cleveland. If our farmers want a gravel load let them name their price. We have a better offer than the #2,000 a mile, we made mention of last week. The farmers along the proposed gravel road will never get an opportunity to build a gravel road with less expense than at the present time. It was Vanderbilt who said that poverty is the best foundation of wealth. Millions have the foundation laid, but the coveted superstructure is reared by very few. Ex-Gov. 1. P. Gray, Minister to Mexico, was tendered a farewell banquet at the Grand Hotel, Indianapolis, on Monday night, last, by the “Flower of the Indiana Democracy.” The authorities at Chicago must see to it that no one goes fooling about the 124-ton Krupp gun, touches it off, wipes out the southern part of Illinois and then makes the“didn’t-know-it-was-loaded”plea. Professors Hicks and Foster seem to have a corner on the weather here of late that the eldest inhabitant is duty bound to respect. They knock the persimmons at nearly every stroke of their predictions. The Fort Wayne Journal of last Sunday quadrupled its former effort in newspaper enterprise by producing a 16-page newsy edition. The Journal is always a welcome visitor to this office, and the large circulation which it has in our city, shows it to be a favorite above all other dailies circulated here. We are pleased to mention that the amount of money necessary to defray the expenses of the National G. A. K Encampment at Indianapolis,in September, is about all raised. This is complimentary to the citizens of that city, notwithstanding the opposition ot a number of rep»resentatives of the last legislature who voted against an appropriation of 150,000 by the State forth at purpose. Second Street, between Monroe and the old Elm tree, is the most uneven and dilapidated street in the city. It was constructed when our knowledge of stone-crushed or gravel roads were unknown of in the City,—in point of material and machinery—and we should not imagine that they are good enough. This idea should now be dumped into, the waste basket, and supplanted l with one of recent birth, which will, warrant us to have streets as good, as other cities of our size and op-/ portunities.

Mn. Krupp is going to present his big gun to Chicago when the fair is over It costs only J 1,200 to shoot it, but then there are lots of big guns that take that much to get half shot. The young women who went aboard the war vessels at Fortress Monroe recently, tied lead to their skirts so that they could be helped on deck with all proper modesty. Perhaps the gallant sailor men who assisted them aboard never heaved the lead in a more delightful manner. There should be no rest given the owners and lessees of property in our city whose back yards and alleys are made the dumping place for everything they have to throw away. There are several places in the heart of the city of this character, which calls for an immediate cleaning-up. The Naval display yesterday in New York harbor has developed the fact that the big ships of all the Foreign nations that took part in it were mostly unseaworthy. The display, however, was magnificent, and Americans were not ashamed of their own war ships in comparison with those of warlike countries that were represented The article on “Country Roads,” which appeared in the Democrat of last week, should be carefully read and studied by every farmer and road-patron in the County. If the idea of tiling our soil is an auxiliary for carrying off surface water, we don’t see why the tiling of public roads would not prove equally beneficial. Let some of our people experiment therewith. In governmental affairs as in the other affairs of life men applaud virtue until it steps own their on toes, then goes up a mighty howl. There are those who applaud the independence of the administration in seeking the best men for position, but when they are not included ia the list of “best men” they cry aloud against the ingratitude of those who dispense the loaves and fishes of government patronage. Congressman Conn, of the Elkhart District, has had ousted all of the Pension Examining Boards in his District, ditto, Martin, of the Eleventh. If all of our Democratic Congressmen had the perve to act accordingly, there would be better satisfaction given to the Democratic fold. Promises made by them to their constituents before an election and not carried out as near as practicable, often endangers their chances for re-election. • -- The City Council should see to it that a special force of men be put to work in cleaning up the alleys of our City. Property holders should be compelled to keep clean their portion of the street and alley, and all waste matter of restaurants and other businesses, should be carted away as often as three times a week, during the summer. We cannot afford to allow our duty in this respect go unheeded, as every precaution for the healthfulness of our city is necessary. Has Adams County got twelve enterprising people who will take bold and organize a Joint (Stock Company for Agricultural Fair purposes? We are satisfied thpt. that number, and more, are witinn our midst. The only question at stake in the forming of this organization is who will speak up first, and say: “Here ;is oue of that number!” We would suggest, as a starter, that as many of our citizens, farmers and others who have a desire to be enumerated as members of this or- , ganization, to .notify by letter the editor of the 1 Jemocrat, stating the amount of stock '.they will take, &c. , By this means we ought surely be i able to get the expression of the people of Ada ma County who are , interested in a and stock raising pursui ts. WJio will cast his letter into our mail- bag first?

MUST BE OBSERVED. The Local Health Officers have been instructed by the State Board of Health to promulgate and enloroe to the letter the instructions sent out concerning depots and railroad grounds. The Secretary has handed us a copy of the instructions to publish and says that the Board will see that the seven following items are complied with in every sense! 1 Depots must be kept clean, and supplied with a sufficiency ot pure drinking water. Urinals, water-closets and privies must be suitably located, with a sufficient capacity to accommodate the traveling public, and kept free from foul odors. 2 The grounds must be well drained, and tree from all kinds otv filth and stagnant water. 3 The water must be carefully guarded, and if it be a well must not be used if a cesspool or a privy vault is situated within seventy-five feet of it, the contamination being too great. 4 When a privy vault or cesspool is located within the distance mentioned of, it must be abandoned, cleaned and properly disinfected, and new one provided, situated at the proper distance. 5 Freight depots must be kept clean and free from decomposing animal, vegetable and other offensive matter. 6 Cattle pens must be kept clean and free from foul odors by drainage, and the use of disinfectants. 7 Foul and filthy cattle cars must not be allowed to stand on the tracks with ip the corporate limits ot any city or town, or near any habitation. They will enforce the foregoing order, and prosecute any corporation refusing to comply with the same.

When the tariff is reduced to revenue basis, as it will be by the present Congress, American commerce will once more take Its place upon the seas. Under prohibitive tariff laws our shipping interests were so reduced that an American traveling in foreign lands seldom saw the flag of his country waving from the mast of a ship. Other nations would not trade with us because we would not trade with them, and as the sailing of empty vessels is neither profitable nor amusing our ships disappeared almost entirely from the seas. Under a tariff that doesjnot prohibit other lands from sending such commodities as they can produce cheaper than we can to this country in exchange for commodities that we can produce cheaper than they can, our commerce with the world will revive and with it the good feeling that should exist among nations in this age of enlightenment. After a low tariff has been in operation for awhile Americans of all parties will wonder why the prohibitive tariff policy was so long endured.

Carter Harrison took tbe oath of office Monday night and was formally inducted into office as Mayor of Chicago. It is needless to say that the event was the occasion for a jubilee on the part of the gamblers and criminal classes of the city. —Journal. It is also needless to say that one of the very first acts of Harrison, after being “inducted into office as Mayor,” was to order all the gambling houses of Chicago closed. Now, the fact is, our neighbor is very much like the gamblers,—it jubilated too early. The excitement over the Federaj offices has almost subsided. True, there are still quite a number of anxious applicans at Washington, but a large majority of those who were eager for Federal positions during the first da|s of the Administration have wisely concluded that after all, a good deal ot happiness and comfort are to be derived from the private station. We hear of very little bitter feeling among those who have been disappointed. They are as strong in the Democratic faith as ever and will be as loyal to tbe party of their adoption as it they had received the fullest measures of their hopes in tne way of office. The thing that Democrats are now most interested in is tbe redemption of the party’s pledges at the earliest possible moment. They want the tariff reduced to a strictly revenue basis and the currency so arranged as to insure an abundance of money—that is of good money—to Conduct the ever increasing commerce of tbe country without inconveniepce or loss of opportunity. We believe that Congress will not disappoint these reasonable Expectations.

GOOD ROAOS NEEDED. Much has been said by the Sentinel in Ihe past regarding country roads ot Indiana. Much yet remains to be said. It is a subject which can never be exhausted, and the more it is discussed the more there is to discuss. It is fruitless, it sometimes seems, to undertake to educate the people up to a knowledge of their necessities in this direction. Those most interested cannot be made to see their true position, and it sometimes seems as though it would be cheaper to send the entire population to Europe to study the road question there from the point of actual solution than it is to keep them here and try to make the point clear. Centuries ago Europe solved the road problem and solved it so thoroughly that the public ways then constructed have never needed improving. They are as good to-day as they were hundreds of years ago. All that is needed is a few repairs each year. The cost is very slight. Contrast this with tfye condition of the roads in this country. The American who claims to have laid the whole world at his feet has reason to hang his bead iu shame at the exhibition.

The curious thing about the proposition to change the roads by improving them is that the agricultural population—those who would be most directly benefited—are the ones who are most opposed. Cities solved the question for themselves long ago. They have asked no pay from the rural districts, taking that rather, in a natural increase of property values. This same* increase assists the rural tax-payer, because cities assist in paying the State tax, and the more taxable property and the higher it is taxed the less outlying districts are called upon to pay toward running the government affair. Though this is true it is impossible io press it upon the mind of the average inhabitant of the rural regions. Because city men are in favor of improving the roads and because it will call for a few tents in cash out of his pockets he opposes it, and no law can be put through the legislature favoring any radical change from the system of building roads which has been in operation for four hundred years. The objection is apparently based on the first cost, the amount of money which must be raised at first. This disposition always antagonizes any forward movement and prevents an intelligent administration of present laws on the subject. It needs a progressive feeling, a determination to carry forward in spite -of opposition. This is always the battle-cry of obstructionists in anything, and it has been no worse in the matter of road building than it has in all other forward movements. The opposition will be overcome in this case, and the American people will yet cause to be constructed as good roads as ever existed, notwithstanding the assertion is made that this nation cannot be expected to emulate Europe in the matter of road building, it is so much younger. There is no sense in allowing an engineer or anyone else charged with the requisite authority to draw funds from the state treasury in un. limited sums to build unlimited stretches of roads, however good, in some particular locality. What is wanted is the enactment of a law which will permit the levying of a tax for the construction of so many specified miles of macadamized road each year. The state of New Jersey has the best road law that stands on a statute book, and that is substantially the plan provided for in that state. It needs before this, however, such a thorough edu*. cation in the matter that no one will protest against it. It would seem as though this education might be furnished without special effort in the difficulties experienced each spring and after each rain. But the grandfather submitted to the abuse, and so strong is conservatism, that, perforce, because grandfather hauled wheat to mill through the mud his descendants haul wheat to market through the same mud. If that rule were followed to its logical conclusion we should be carrying our grain to the old grist mill, with a single set of slowly revolving stones, instead of grinding it by the thousand bushels id the finest equipped mill in the worldj This grandfather business is altogether too tiresome for the modern man to follow. The only means of education is the constant discussion; keeping the matter ever before the people. That will accomplish the most and is the only way to accomplish anything.

If the agitation is continued the generation growing ap now will understand its own necessities and will construct better highways. Until then it is to be feared that the same old mud holes will remain to take dollars from the pockets of the farmers—lndianapolis Sentinel.

WHAT TOOK OUR GOLD? At the present time, when the attention of the country is so forcibly drawn to the movement of gold, it is interesting to note some of the Republican Legislation which has operated to bring th" gold in the National Treasury to its present standard. The Government’s chief means of obtaining gold has been its tariff oolleetions, for which gold could be demanded at any time, greenbacks not being a legal tender for their payment. The Republican project was to increase protection and decrease revenue. The “surplus” is what they feared. It was a continuous silent protest against the protective system, warning the people that more taxes were being collected from them than were necessary for the support of the Government. They disposed of the surplus very effectually and took what seemed to be certain means for preventing its future appearance. In tariff legislation two principles were prominent: (I) to put on the free list articles which yielded large revenue and little protection and supply the place of that protection by bounties; (2) to increase the duties on articles which were susceptible of protection to a prohibitory point and thereby prevent any revenue from their importation. Both schemes were used, and both haye been effectual in reducing the country’s gold receipts. The prohibitory scheme was justified on tbe ground that the country was importing more than it exported—that the balance of trade was against us. This, it was claimed, would ruin the country, ■ because it would draw away all of our gold. One country that was cited repeatedly as an example of this disastrous course was Barzil, which annually sold us millions of dollars' worth of goods more than she bought in return. The way to reach Brazil was by reciprocity. Give her advantages in our markets and make her give us advantages in hers. Mr. Blaine’s theory was applied. A reciprocity treaty with Brazil was effected, and it was heralded by the Republican press as a most wonderful achievement of statesmanship. How has it resulted? In the first year after it went into effect Brazil increased her purchases from us just #171,267, but she increased her sales to us $35,403,009. on the greater part of which the government received no tariff at all. In 1891 the balance of trade with Brazil was $69,110,349 against us. In 1892 it increased to $104,341,731 against us. If there is anything in the balance of trade theory, and the exportation of gold as a remit of it, it would seem very clear. that this tieaty should be revoked at-the earliest possible opportunity. It is claimed that the result mentioned has been produced very largely by Brazil’s increasing her tariff duties to such an extent that the concessions made to us still leave prices so high that we find better markets elsewhere. This trick has certainly been worked in the Spanish colonies. We were to have an immense benefit by commerce with Cuba, especially in breadstufis, but Spain, which had a monopoly of that trade before, still has it. Ot course there is no tariff on her goods sent into her own colonies, and by increasing her tariff rates the concessions to us were easily counterbalanced. On account of these circumstances Secretary Gresham has bad an investigation of. the actual working of the several' reciprocity treaties, and we shall probably have- some interesting revelations resulting from it.

William ParRT, President of the Cincinnati, Richmond A Ft. Railroad Company was in, our City last Saturday, looking up the taxes on tbeir Railroad property. The Company learned last Spring that County Treasurers like Railroad Companies, kavs no lenity in money matters. Mr. Suburb—l think I’d better go out and see if there are any eggs in the coopMrs. S.-r-No use; none tpere. 1 looked. , . : Looked in tbe coop? ’ No, I looked in tbe paper, and. it says eggs are forty eents a dozen. Tbe papular Elk’s dinner-15c t f

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