Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1893 — Page 4

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©he democrat JT. BLAOKBVRft, Proprietor. FRIDAY, JUNE, l<i, 1893. Ratm of Subtcriptlon. Ono Yoar, In advance *' Six Month* ‘. Four Months All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of #2.00. Office in Democrat Building, east side of Second Street— ground floor An income-tax is talked ot for the payment of the pensions. Whbat was lower last week than it has been for the last forty years. A legend of the republican party is the price of wheat and wool, at this time. Gold and silver money is what the people want —that is, if they cannot get greenbacks. The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother is now being tried at Bedford, Mass. Chicago is beginning to realize that there is a very intimate connection between white cities and white elephants. >■, ■ 1 'r Mb. Bissell ought to come west and grow up with the country until he gets rid of some of his Buffalo ideas. If the Republican policies are turned out we will not mind it so much that Republican office-holders are kept in. Treasure, worth $2,000,000, and secreted in the City of Mexico, by Emperor Maximillian, is being unearthed. Auditor Ackerman’s report shows the World’s Fair receipts to May 31 were 820,309,545, and the expenditures 819,142,981. The only hope for the World’s Fair lies in railroad rates that will virtually bribe the people to submit to the inconvenience of visiting Chicago. There are indications that the national Department of Agriculture needs fumigating, and Secretary Morton may have a little investigation to look after. The reduction of the Bank of England’s discount rate to 3 per cent will play havoc with the republican theory that our loss of gold is due to an unfavorable balance of trade. If our Missionaries are driven out of China, it is some comfort to reflect that they can come home and go right on trying to convert the heathen. The Indiana Supreme court will have a five days’ session this week, and then adjourn for the summer vacation of ten weeks. The Appellate court will meet next week, for five days, wheri it will also adjourn until after the heated term. Ex-Gov. Chase, under indictment for embezzlement in connection with the Greentown bank, has surrendered to the authorities, and gave a bond, pending the suit, for his appearance to answer. He asks for an immediate trial.

gi In reply to a telegram sent to Rmembers of both houses of congress B as to their attitude in regard to the | Sherman law, 122 have been heard | from— lß senators and 104 ropoe waentntives. Os this number 88 ar e |in favor of the repeal, 25 are agarni t fthe repeal, and 8 are still umWrdle 1. Rcpihlican organs, with, their wanted fairness, are denouncing • t|, e Mpreaident because he has not sett ted p;he silver question, wiped the £yust«,and reduced the latiS.. ‘1 his but a fair sample of their polst ical Methods. It insults the iuteliig* nee I P‘' o 1 ,!, ‘ b . v •'assuming that I hev IHrII l * n posse .sod lHßlil.o poU'ers vested exclusive] y j n IT*- -

The World’s Fair is playing in hard luck, so far as the weather is concerned. It does not stay dear long enough for a man to know whether ho is going to need bis umbrella or not. Mr. Foster of Fostoria was a great financier, and in his treasury policy of building gold and producing stringency, he was directly descended from the celebrated Foster who went to Gloster. In establishing commercial relations with other lands the great consuming countries of Europe ought to receive frvorable consideration. At least this is the way it looks to the farmers and planters of the west and south. The indications are that before the Kaiser is much older he will learn a little of the lesson he taught Bismarck—the lesson that be lacks a great deal of being the entire Empire and people of Germany. -•Y The Chicago Inter Ocean agrees to “furnish a hundred democratic liars for every fraudulent pensioner found.” Good enough. That will be killing two birds with one stone. Let the good work begin. The country is having a little stringency as the result of bad politics, but we will have better politics as soon as the Democratic party can get down to the work of reform. The stringency will be over in a little while, and business will be better than ever. 11 ■ The “ninety percents” in Indiana are the men who worked for President Cleveland’s nomination, and the appetite they are showing makes it accessary to let the rest of the country go hungry or else to shorten the rations of the voracious Hoosiers. A number of Republican sheets are trying to place the low price of wool and wheat to the effect of Democratic rule, as they term this administration. They forget that the laws are the ones enacted by Republican law-makers, and that there has been no change yet since the Democrats came into power. One Chinaman has been found who is anxious to be deported. Ah Wing, being located in the Montona state prison on a life sentence, neglected to register, under the provisions of the Geary law. He has employed a lawyer to prosecute him under that law and have him banished, claiming that the national statute is the paramount law in his case. He ought to go. He is too smart lor this country.

During the present month all the companies of Indiana militia will be inspected by a regular army officer, detailed for that purpose by Secretary Lamont. Under this inspection all companies falling under a percentage of 65 will be immediately mustered out of service. Those showing less than 70 and more than 65, will be re-inspected, and should they be able on the second inspection, to raise their record above 70, they will be permitted to attend the annual encampment, To be held the last we»ik in July a* Cliiaago. Mb. ’Cleveland’s announcement th.- it he will call an extra session of Congress not later than Sept. 15, to r epeal the Sherman act, was received "with general satisfaction, i is well,” Jo- says, “for the people to take up the consideration of the subject for tliemselics and form their pwii conclusions as to the merits of a financial policy which forces us to purchase idle -st’ver bullion with gold taken from our reserves.” This very plainly indicates that Mr. Cleveland now sees the danger. When Cingress meets, its first duty will be to stop the use of gold in buying silver, and then to coin the silver now held idle, as well as all other silver that may bo presented. This will relieve ..the stringency created by Mr. Foster’s policy of using gold ind refusing to use silver as “coin” m lhe purchase of silver bullion winch, under the Foster policy, usestorea instead of coined.

The result of the trial of Dr. Briggs is discouraging in more ways than one. It shows that the Presbyterian church is not in full sympathy with the age—at least that a largo number of its leading divines are not. It also threatens a disruption of a church that has a grand history, and as a house divided against itself cannot stand, the future of the denomination is made uncertain, while its usefulness will be Impaired in any event. To believers in Christianity who are not connected with any church organization, the dccission of the court is incomprehensible. Dr. Briggs has shown in every precept he has uttered that he is a believer in the Gospel and in the divinity of Christ. There are certain interpretations which men have placed on the scrip tures to which he cannot conscientiously subscribe. But Dr. Briggs' is himself a scholar. His learning is probably equal to that of the men who translatedj.be Bible in common use. He has as good a right to translate the original text for himself as the Council, instituted by King James, had to translate it. It may be that his translation is more nearly accurate than theiw But in any event such differences upon any other subject or before any other tribunal than a Presbyterian general assembly, would hardly be considered vital translators of the ancient languages, often differ as to the meaning of words and idioms, and as there is no absolute authority to decide which is right, such difference must be left to conscience. For any man or set of men, however learned, to sei up their own translation as infallible, is a dogmatic assumption, which borders upon bigotry. It has been hoped by that large body of people, the world over, whose sympathies arc with the Presbyterian church, because they were born and raised in its teachings, that Dr. Briggs would not be pronounced a heretic, because he does not believe in infant damnation and foreordination. These are doctrines that have always seemed to them inconsistent with the precepts and practices of the Savior. There may have been a time when such tenets of faith were pardonable before the world was enlightened as it is now, but they seem awful anachronisms in this century of intelligence and broad philosophy. Dr. Briggs was not intimidated by the extreme sentence of the ecclesiastical court before which he was tried. He will pursue the course which his own conscience and great learning have found right, and will have the sympathy and approval of thousands of the Christian people throughout the world. Harriet Beecher Stowe is living in a pitiable state of mental weakness, and it is proposed to issue an authorized edition of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for her benefit. The copyright has expired on the book, but it still has some sale as a curiosity. Those who read it now without understanding the passions of the time which produced it, find it hard to understand how anything so crude could have become so celeb-ated.

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Whatever may be urged against the liberal and costly system of pensions by whioh old soldiers are bene* fitted, it possesses the merit of keeping many millions of dollars in circulation every month. The effects of the recent Indiana bank failures would have been the more keenly felt in parts of the state where they ocoured had not a large share of the seven hundred thousand dollars and more paid at the same time from the pension agency here gone into immediate circulation. The week before 81,700,000 was paid to Indiana pensioners, and agent Ensley says that by the end of the month the payments will reach 83,000,000. This is more than is involved in the failures ot the small banks, added to the larger failure, that'of the Capital National. Had this vast sum in pensions been kept from circulation there would now be tight times in the towns and villages in which there were bank failures. Why should this money cost so much to put it in circulation? Why pay over one-half ot the whole amount to officers? The laws should bh so framed that every soldier should have one dollar per day, and no more, except some of the extreme cases, where a man is so that he cannot perform any labor. Give every one to understand that the one dollar per day is all; then pay every month through the county treasurers, and apply the amount now paid to officers, to ex-soldiers. The same amount of money that is now paid for pensions and for the officers of the Pension Department, will pay this amount and have a small surplus. /Prominent educators of the country are just at present considering whether our school system does not take all originality out of a child. From the general indications it does. The child is so hampered by ridgid regulations that any original ideas which he may possess are forgotten in his attempts to conform with the nonsensical rules. He is directed to compose something, and is given to understand that he must write a certain number of pages, no matter what he may think upon the subject. And again, he has to watch his margins, and be yery particular about other little things which have nothing to do with the thought, hut a violation of which may keep m nim the same grade for years. As a result the essays and compositions, written by the model school children, are stinted and sei in form, without a pleasing expression or a bright idea in them. The readable material that comes from schools, as a general rule, is written by children not considered good scholars. A child should be taught to think for himself, and not have his mind burdened with the rules of teachers, confining his writing to stereotyped expressions. The Comptroller of the Currency has made a statement wherein he reports the failure of twenty-one Banks since January 1; aggregating over $6,150,000 of a loss, of which creditors were but small losers. One Cheap-John capitalist does more to retard the moral and physical development of a community than a dozen saloons, and Decatur has more of the former than she has of the latter. t I -

Penalties and Deterrents. The death-penalty docs not operate as a deterrent, say the sentimentalists, because there are some murders even in the states, where the penalty is still on the statute books. It this be so then no penalty acts as a deterrent. There are murders committed in the states where there is no death penalty; and robberies and burglaries are common even where the laws tortheir punishment are very severe and passably well enforced. But thia is not all If the doctrine the sentimentalists I ’■ down is sound, all our “preventive legislation,” so called, is a mistake. Our laws for the prevention of firea are useless, because in spite of them firea occur. Our sanitary regulations fall under the same condemnation. In spite of all our laws concerning drainage and cleanliness, we still have typhoid, diptheria, and scarlet fever. Therefore, the lawa are useless. Let us bo consistent in this matter. If we arc to have no law on the statute book which is not deterrent, and if the deAth penalty is not deterrent, because in spite of it murders are committed, let us abandon all penal laws, because in spite of them crimes are committed. Let us repeal all laws for the prevention of fires or contagious diseases, because in spite of such laws we have both fires and contagious diseases. If the logic of the sentimentalists is sound, this is the true policy of the state.

The biggest idol in the world is Dia Buten, the Japanese god, which is 60 feet high. The image is made of copper, tin, mercury and gold and has been worshiped for more than twelve centuries. The treasury gold is now reduced to 890,000,000, but there would be nothing remarkable about the reduction if it did not indicate persistence in Mr. Foster’s attempt to run a broad-gauge country on a narrowgauge track. With nothing but a jackknife, Adolph Sjohrim, a Marquette Swede, has constructed the frame of a clock representing an ancient castle. lie used various kinds of wood and worked on the, job for two years. It is manifest that the charge of Pickett’s men at Gettysburg and that of the six hundred at Balaklava will pale into insignificance before the charge of the restaurant concessionaries at the World’s Fair. “Oh the wild charge they make! 81 tor one beefsteak!” Mrs. Mary E. Orb, matron at the Home for Feeble Minded, at Fort Wayne, recently received official notice from the board ot trustees of her reappointment as matron of the institution. This is a compliment to Mrs. Orr and completely vindicates her of the charges made against her before the investigation. Don’t suffer with Insomanla, it is easily cured with Anidone. For sale by Ilolthouse, Blackburn & Co. j Elzey's Cholera Balm cures. Cholera, Cholera Morbus, Diarrhoea, all pains in the bowels, bad colds, etc. Sold by TP. Harris, one square north of the M. E. church, Decatur, Ind. 1 ts

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