Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 9, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1893 — Page 4

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©he genwcrai K y~ ——- —' — - ~ B, BMOIBVXIf, Proprietor. __ FRIDAY, MAY, 19,1898. B»te» of HuMeription. One Year, In advance 11 “ Six Month* ’ ’ Pour Montns... All subscriptions not pan! during the year will be charged at the rate of KI.OO. Offioe in Democrat Building, oast side of Second Street— ground floor It really begin* to looks as if the Chinese must go. Lynching is the twin brother of white-capping. Both are the parents of murder. A few Indiana lynchers in th& penitentiary would be about the proper thing to inspire respect for the law in this State. Once m a while a “Bear’ nuisance can be tolerated by our people, but when multiplied,—call m the Marshal. The World’s Fair restaurants are charging 20 cents a plate for soup. They will be in it long before the Fair is over. The people who are getting the sugar bounty would like to be let alone, but they won’t be. The bounty must go.

In Japan there is one divorce for •very three marriages. We are not . -quite up to that yet, but South Dakota is getting close to it. Last Wednesday the 105th general assembly of the Presbyterian church of the Upited States was opened in Washington. The Bedford lynchers were more guilty of premeditated murder than the man they murdered, for they deliberated longer before commit t'ng their crimes. There is a good deal less water in Trusts stocks now than there was at this time last week, but there is still a great deal too much. The Sherman act is very bad, but it is not as bad as the policy of bulling gold by paying it out oe certificates of deposit lereed c-s j silver. If abwit a kuM tut ifcy tciar tnats were tiswn su&s Site imnte \ of a receiver ami w incni ip v> {; world have fair sait ketwiK taste a. this eoautrv.

Ma. Hasarrsox -did -<ic ski* aa aeuve part in the .great Etepos-Staa gathering at LoaisTOfe betaaae it would not be considered appropm-ts for the corpse to manifest any risible interest in the post-mortem. There are a number of reason* why France can pay out silver on an equality with gold. One of tnem is that the financial policy of France is not dictated by Boston or Wall street. The cow-boy race from Chadron, Neb., to Chicago, will be quite interesting from a “home-stretch” standpoint. There are twenty-one entries and the start at Chadron June 13th, commences by the disuharge of a pistol shot. The New York Evening Pore says: “The gold standard will be maintained with all the resourwes of the Government.” It will be time enough to make such prophecies after we have a suitable tax levied on all abnormal incomes. Ordinances prohibiting young girls and boys from, being on the streets after 8 o’clock in the evening, unless accompanied by their parents, are b»ing adopted by numerous Town and City Councils throughout the State, and -a very sensible ordinance it is, too. Ninetenths of all the “deviltry” 'learned by young people, of both sexes, is | yarned on the streets after nightfall. Keep the children at home Bights and they will be safe.

So the gates of the World’s Fair were not opened last Sunday after all. This was as it should have been.—Decatur Journal May 12. So the gates of the World’s Fair •ii'fre opened hiss Sunday. This is as it was, and should be. Tub closing of the Chemical Bank of Chicago ought to be thoroughly investigated, and the investigation ought to show, among other things, how it happened that the Bank came to enjoy such extraordinary facilities for getting World's Fair business. For the nine months ending March 31 this year the importation of tin plate increased to ¥11,827,000, as against only .$7,306,000 for the nine months ending March 31, 1892. Yet we were told that with a McKinley tax on tin plate the home market Q mills would supply the demand and shut the foreigner out. The vicinity of our “City Park” is as off-colored as can be alter sunset. No street lamp of any description is visible at any corner or side of the park. Why this has been overlooked when putting up lights we are unable to say, but that it is necessary to have two or more illuminators there, is what the denizens of that neigborhood are shouting for. Rememf.ee that all farm products raised in Adams County this year can be placed on exhibition at our

Fair this Fall. As the corn, potato, turnip, pumpkin, squash and other farm products can yet be cultivated in time to enter for premiums, it is to be hoped that an extra effort will be made by our famers to have this department appear to a good advantage. Where the owner or occupant of a residence or business house capnot be notified in person^ —by reason of temporary absence, —of the unhealthy condition of his premises, the Mafshal should be furnished with the necessary blank notices, and note thereon the immediate performance of whatever work was required, and leave the same for perusal on their return. Since there has been a general cleaning-up announced by the City authorities, they should not overlook the barricaded condition of some of main thoroughfares, where wagiM* and other vehicles are permitled to stand the year round. Let ut cnnespy a front seat in all things ■ uhat pertains to the public good, so toist stangers will Speak of Decatur irf second to none for neatness if sbt in the State.

T&'zuz has been an extraordinary | le.atn record among the State officers in the past three years. Those whose demises have been recorded «r» Judge Mitchell, Judge Berkshire, J. B, Ryan, ex-treasurer, Governor A. P. Hovey, Appellate Judge Jeptha D. New, Appellate Judge M. S. Robinson, Jajnes H. Rice, exanditor, Brace Carr, ex-auditor: W. E, Niblick, ex judge of the Supreme Court. This makes nine that have died within a period ot three years and four months, f ’ive of the gentlemen were in office ararf four were ex-officers. Five were Democrats and four Republicans. Ax anti-weddipg present league, an English paper thinks, should be established. We Lave not noted] the raising of th<- danger signal i • yet in this country, but one may. ' readily conce v<- that there should 1 be a limit in indicated. Ihe fash’on <d gr.-jng wedding presents is a pleasant one and ha* | much to recommend it, yet it fre-i quently reaches undue pro]K>rti7>m-. I The London “Truth” says: “Here i is a correspondent calling my attention now - to a case in conr*ction with a recent W-eddtng in a western ( country in-wh e.-. ifi . the-, donors of e;ft- . j.ubJjshed :s: ti'c local papers carefully arranged ' in alphabetical or<ler. By the axiop- ! tian of this ingenious method, it is I obvious that an cr.--. tr;. i urn can be given to the screw wduch already; squeezes presents oit y.f so many' unwillhig friends and acciuamtances of the “happy p a i f ;>

The Supremo Court of Indiana has decided that Township Trustees have no right to employ teachers when a majority of the school patrons decide against such employment. There can be no better way of satisfying the interested ones in school work than the above. Representatives of the various republican clubs of the epuntry had a convention in Louisyille, Ky., the forepart of the month. The mission of the “convention” seemed to be to ascertain, if possible, what had become of the republican party. After “due search” had been made, the party aforesaid “could nowhere be found.” The City Marshal was out making his official rounds last Tuesday morning, in search of “filth!” It is hardly necessary to relate that his “find” panned out in paying quantities. Let this “prospecting” expedition be kept up until every semblance of impurity is carted away and burned. The Columbia Bank, of Chicago, was right in the center of a great financial avalanche. The only difference between this and other slides, is that the Columbia was onto the neigborhood from which the slide was to come. About forty-five branch Banks in Indiana were compelled to close their doors through its failure.

The Rev. R. Plunkett, of Texas, prophesied a great storm in case the World’s Fair opened on Sunday. The time set for the storm is the afternoon of Sunday, July 16. He was thoughtful enough to inform the reporter that the storm would not come if the gates of the Fair remained unopened, but look out if the contrary was allowed to happen. OUR CITY PARK. The Democrat congratulates our City officials upon their good judgment in having the cow-pound transformed into that which will bye-and-bye have the appearance of a beautiful park. The stumps have all been taken out and removed, so that the place now looks very much changed. Several hundred young trees have been set ( out, and when once in ajjinfty condition, will produce an elegant shade. The State of Mississippi has brought out its militia force to suppress and destroy the organization of White Caps that has been persecuting the negroes of that State. They have been instructed by the Adjutant General to shoot to kill if the White Caps should resist. In Indiana and elsewhere it has been the custom of Governors to issue proclamation informing White Caps that their conduct is very naughty and that they ought to give up their night rides and behave like good citizens. It is only in Mississippi that lawlessness such as characterizes the acts of White Caps is recognized as a state of war to be met by force and arms.

When the Officers and Directors for this Fall’s Fair have been chosen by the people of Adams County, it will require but a short time thereafter for the Democrat to publish, —in pamphlet form—the 'premium list and other information circulars. In order that there may be ample time allowed the Democrat to give this matter a wide advertisement, we earnestly hope that there be no delay on the part ot our business men and farmers in selecting the Officers and Directors. We need your assistance in this matter, —our sei vices you have. Therefore let there be a simultaneous move made in this matter and success is ours. The Demoorat publishes in an other column of this issue the days and dates of County Fails to be held in this State for 1893. This list is incomplete, as Adams County has out yet been enrolled. We assure our readers, however, that by June 2<i our Fair will be on the list as conspicuously and permanently as any in the State. Already we have receiveddorty-«ix names—the choice of that many voters for Director of thi- Fall’s Fair meeting. This number represent* only four townships in the ( ountyvand we hope by another ibsue of the Democrat to have an expression from every body in the- Couaty'Tvbo is interested in this of chosing the different officers. Send in your choice to the “Fair (Jornmitleeof the Democrat” at your earliest opportunity.

PRIVATE BANKS. The attention of the people of Indiana may profitably be given to the following statement of Nationa Bank Examiner Orlando M. Packard in regard to the suspension of the several small -banks that have been reported m our columns at various points in the state. He says: “As I understand them they are all members of the Zimri Dwiggms chain and are nearly all private banks. The scheme of the Columbia was to organise these banks in the smaller places and require half the deposits to be made with the Columbia at Chicago. I do not know that this was a feature of the business that could be indorsed. It created lor the Columbia enormous balances and distributed the discounts too widely.” “Did the state bank examiner have any control over these banks or any authority to examine their affairs?” “No. The state bank examiner nor any other had the authority to examine these private banks.” Is it not a singular thing that such a state of affairs should exist in a state largely interested in commerce? Banks are institutions in which the public has an interest They stand in special relations of confidence and trust to the public. If properly conducted they create habits of economy and thrift in the people. If improperly conducted they are at any time liable to cause serious injury to business interests and to discourage the masses of the people from saving their earnings. Yet the people of Indiana have allowed a class of banks, fortunately few in number, to grow up in their midst that are not subject to any inspection or supervision. This is not the first time that attention has been called to them, though possibly the present warning may be heeded more than past ones have been. On Aug. 27, 1891, in an article in our columns on the taxation of banks, the following suggestions were made;

It would be foreign to the subject to discuss a reform of our state banking laws here. They could be much improved by additional safeguards, such as are provided in the national bank law. I will offer one illustration of the looseness of the present system that has a direct bearing on taxation. The firm of Dwiggins, Starbuck & Co., does business in Chicago. Its stated capital is X 350,000. It operates more than a dozen banks in Indiana. These banks report no capital here. They send all their spare funds to Chicago, or at leaat do not report them for taxation here. Their entire taxable property m some cases is reported as less than 5 per cent of either their deposits or their loans. The reader may draw his own conclusions. This sort of business is unjust both to the tax-payers and to our banks, which, of course, compete at a disadvantage if they return their property for taxation fairly. It is the uniform testimony of tax officials that private banks are more difficult to reach than any other class of tax-payers. Os course there are private banks that are entirely sound and reliable institutions, but there is little question that the public generally recognizes the fact that it is safer to have some supervision and publicity as to all of them. This is so obvious that the firm ot 8. A, Fletcher & Co., which is one of the strongest banking houses in the state, has of re' cent years voluntarily published statements of its condition similar to those required of national banks. Indeed, the sentiment in favor of the highest safety m banking was so strong among the “anarchistic element” in the state that *a very carefully prepared law was submitted to the last legislature in this behalf. It required all banks to inspection of the stale bank examiner. It required semi-annual reports from the banks and provided for the revocation of charter in case of false reports or insolvency. It contained numerous other safeguards, mostly on the line ot the national banking law. In the great pressure of other work, which it did not do, the Senate paid no attention to the bill, but it is to be hoped that it may receive more eonsideration hereafter.

Indiana Disgraced Again. f» - Indiana hung her head m shame again on last Monday morning, and with reuon. A mob of her citizens bad, the night before, stolen a railroad train and followed that up by murdering a fellow human being in cold blood. The mob’s victim, it is true, had committed a cowardly

, — assassination; but it was no more cowardly or cruel than that committed by the mob. There are no palliating circumstances surrounding the act of this band of lynchers. The men who composed it were not stirred to uncontrollable frenzy by witnessing a cold-blooded murder with their own eyes. They were not moved by momentary passion. 'They went about their work calmly and deliberately; they had plenty of time for reflection after they had started on their dastardly errand while they were proceeding to Bedford on the stolen train. There was nothing impulsiye about their entire performance; they west •man hunting with far more coolness and system than they would have persued a sheep-worrying dog. If ever a mob committed cold-blooded murder it was at Bedford Monday morning.

Jackson and Lawrence counties have been disgraced by this lawless act—the former more than the latter, for it was in Jackson that the mob was formed. The law-abiding people of Indiana will now expect the officials of these counties to do their full duly in bringing the lynchers to justice. It ought not to be difficult to identify the guilty parties if proper effort is made, and that effort must be made if the reputation of Lawrence and JackbOn counties as respectable communities is to be restored- ', There must be no delay, no compromise. The courts have been defied and the sovereignty of the people ignored. The courts and the people must assert themselves if respect tor the law is to be maintained. The lynchers have not so much offended against their victim as against the whole people of the state. They must be taught ales son. They must learn that so long as they respect the law they have the support of the whole people of the commonwealth; but that so soon as they yiolate the law, then every man’s hand is against them. It is only in this way that life and property can be made safe in Indiana. We have laws and courts created by ourselves. If they fail we can change them. But they must be upheld by all men. Their authority must not be questioned or defied if anarchy is to be avoided. The man who declares himself superior to the law is a common enemy and must be dealt with accordingly.—lndianapolis Sentinel, May 16. ========== ■ . t The colored people of bouth C'arolina hereafter propose to wright their wrongs at the ballot box, instead of race retaliation. When they learn that their political weight is nothing so long as they blindly follow the leaders of one party,— right or wrong—they will have taken a long stride toward accomplishing their object. So long as they voted one way, regardless of consequences, the whites who controlled them did nothing to ameliorate their condition. If, now, they will throw off their political bondage and go to that party which will best conserve their interest they will accomplish much. Better still would it be for them if they would not act as a body at all, but by reasoning out, each for himself, the principles which appealed most to his sense-of what was right and best for the whole country, and made it as diffi. cult to surmise from the color of«his skin the politics of the black as it is to guess the politics of e white; The sooner the negro quits being a negro the quicker will come his irosperity and happiness.

Another Outrage. ' , ■ • I ■* •' The mob which participated in the lynchihg of John 1 urle//'a ’ Bedford, added another chapter to its bloody history at an early hour Tuesday morning, by executing Lqji-. Trenk, of North Indianapolis, who murdered Henry Feadler in Keymour last Sunday week. The Same leadership planned both, with less secrecy governing the of the second were observed in carrying out the lynching of Turley. » . ' if—m </>. ' . 0) , , t* ;a,. A bbpublican sheet of muatord seed dimensions, whose editor is ml devoid of brains as hades ’lp of,’ saints, makes the charge that the Democratic administration is/extravagant. Were it not for thi "ft" spect we have for the Creator, we might be induced to undertake an impossibility and try to Inject little sense into the craneum or this numb-scull. If the present' ad'm'idQistration has been extravagant Tn the expenditure of money in ppy particular instance, it was where it has paid off some debt of republic can contracting. ‘

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