Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1893 — Page 4

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©he democrat If. BLA.OKRVRIf, Proprietor. FRIDA r, . 1 U(> IST 4. 1893. Rates of Subscription. One Year, In advance •* J® Six Months ' w Four Montns All subscriptions not paid during the year , will be charged at the rate of SI.OO. Olllcein Democrat Building, east side of Second Street— ground door A boarded dollar is as valuless as dirt. . No matter how hopeless the future may be to other men, the good mathematician al was has something to count on. Lkavh an order for work with a man and tell him that you are in no particular hurry and he will do it that day. Has your pension been cut off yet, is a question now asked by one old soldier of another when they meet. South Carolina has hollow walking sticks. In this case the taking something with a “stick in it ’ is reversed. There should be no delay on the part of our city council to improve Second street from Monroe street to the Old Elm Tree. All legitimate business is prospering throughout the country. It is only the speculators and the plungers that have the suffering. A correspondent—who has since died—,reports that when England asked France if she was going to fight, she replied: “Yes, I am.” The safest thing to do with monyou have no immediate use for is to deposit it in any of our local banks. They are as safe as the Bank of England. Ex-Secretary Charles Foster has pitched into the new Congress. If Mr. Foster were still in office, the nM*Congress would probably pitch into him with impeachment proceedings. An article is going the rounds headed “Polygamists May Vote.” In this respect they differ from many mongamists, when the question at issue is one of domestic economy. Both sides of Court Street will soon be improved by six-foot wide brick sidewalks. We hope then to see our city authorities a little more particular about allowing that street used as a feed yard. Among recent inventions is a device to prevent gas from escaping when it is blown out. The cryi'ng demand, however, is for a contrivance which will prevent money from escaping when blown in. A petrifed whale has been found, in Central America 3,206 above the level of the sea. Since the death of the late Mr Barnum it is nor possible to locate the power behind the finder with any degree of accuracy. Dog-days are looked upon as being very unhealthy to mankind; but dog-nights in the south part of Decatur will also be very unhealthy to the dogs if allowed to run at large to the annoyance of the denizens of that neighborhood. Even the “permanents” of the Court House seats object to Court street being converted into a public feed yard. The stench arising from the guanorial deposits on this street ; prevents them from putting in full I a time these hot nights. —— Let the City of Decatur com mence putting on just a little style ! in the way of brick streets. Because ; some old-time barnacle opposes a . & little healthy enterprise in this direction, it shouldn’t deter those i who are alive to the interests of our j, city from doing so. Let us move!

If Oklahoma is made a state by the Fifty-third Congress, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico will probably insist on her prosecution as a “sooner.” When will our City Council take steps to improve Second street? As representatives of the people of the City of Decatur, it is their duty to iccognize the “wants” of the taxpayers and voters in matters of such great necessity. Street Commissioner Archbold is willing and ready to do his part in overseeing any work of public improvement that the City Council may dictate. The citizens of the great city of Decatur would be pleased to see more of the good work going on before the snow flies! There are plenty of laborers in our city out of employment, who would be too willing to accept of work if it was proffered them. Let the City Council do their part towards relieving this condition of affairs by improving our streets and alleys. Let the City of Decatur undergo the greatest change in the way of public improvements in 1893 that has ever been attempted. Don’t let any selfish motive, on the part of a few barnacles in our midst, retard the wishes of a progressive people. Let those of our citizens who own property along Second street between Monroe and the Old Elm Tree put their shoulders to the wheel of improvement and lay this portion of the above street with brick. It makes a durable thoroughfare and would be just what our City has needed these many years. Adversity’ shows often what stuff a man is made of. Any man can be good if the sun shines and things comes his way. But the poor devil who is on uppers and can keep a stiff upper lip, patiently hammering away when trouble is chasing at his coat tail, he is the hero and the true material in his make-up. In spite of all this it’s nicer to not need to be heroes. > '' " ” We are, of the opinion that if the City Council will only keep on adding improvements to our city, in the way of street building during their present regime, to that which they did during their first induction to office, the voters of the city of Decatur will be loth to hold an election two years hence, to “oust” any of their number, so well pleased are they with the improvement of Second street from Monroe to the Old Elm Tree. Decatur banks are among the solid institutions of the state. The only trouble with the most of our people is that they have not got enough money to put into them. Occasionally a man with a “wheel in his head” thinks they are not as safe as his pocket; therefore draws his money out. This was the case with a young man a few days ago;’’ he drew out his money and then indulged in a jollification at his supposed good luck. One of his neighbors found him lying in the fence corner, too drunk to stand alone. He was minus Home twenty dollars of his hard-earned cash. vacant chaplaincy in the reguhar army has caused the President to be overwhelmed with applications for the position. As compared with the precarious sal.vies paid by struggling churches the regular pay which the government issues to its military parsons is not without its I attractions, even to a spiritual- , "minded clergyman. It is a station "which does not require an uncom- , sortable exercise of religious zeal, • and the emoluments are in excess jof the labor demanded. The yoke ■ is easy and the burden is light, and a preacher has as good a right to . pick u]> a “snap” of that kind when phecan get.it as the representative of any other profession.

IN EFFIGY Hoke Smith Is Burned,—The Secretary Unpopular at Rome, Ohio. Portsmouth, Ohio, July 30'.— Secretary Hoke Smith w’as hanged in effigy by the enraged citizens of Rome, a little town of Adams county, twenty miles from this city. A number of pensions had been suspended. The climax w’as reached when the pension of J. L. Reed, a veteran of the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry, aged 83 years, was dropped Mr. Reed had served four years and five months, and his pension was his sole support. When he received the news of his suspension he became a raving maniac. The enraged citizens, led by John Furnier, a Democrat, proposed to hang Smith in effigy- Saturday night over 1,000 people, irrespective of party affiliations, assembled to participate in the ceremony. It was intended to burn the president iu effigy, also, but wiser councils prevailed. A platform was erected on the public lauding and several speeches were made after a procession had marched through the town headed by a brass bamj/ Tfie effigy was then hung and afterwards burned. Chicago, July 30.—Hoke Smith didn't know that he had been burned in effigy at Rome, Ohio,'until told of it by a reporter for the Enquirer to-night. “Umph!” was his only comment. Then he smiled and said: “What have I done to deserve cremation?” He was shown the story telling hoiv the residents of the Buckeye town had been aroused to anger when J. L. Reed, a soldier 83 year old, was dropped from the pension roll and had vented their wrath by making a straw’ dummy, christening it after the gentleman from Georgia and then giving it the place of honor in a big bonfire. “I know nothing of the case whatever and had no connection, with it,” said the Secretary of the Interior. “If Reed has been dropped it has been done by the Commissioner of Pensions, probably for some good reason. “I have taken no such action in any individual case save that of Bennett and not even a single republican has taken exception to that ruling. The act of 1890 requires production of proof of inability to perform manual labor. As for Bennett, he was only slightdeaf, and could hear the ticking of a watch three inches away, so I made a personal ruling in his case in accordance with the requirements of the act mentioned. “I am just returned from a tour in the Far West, and had not heard anything of Reed, until now, and therefore know nothing about' his having been dropped. It has not been done by my order nor am 1 responsible in the slightest degree.” The above article was taken from the Cincinnati Enquirer, of last Monday, to which we add our saying:— Whoever it is that is causing all this trouble and dissatisfaction in the ranks of the old soldiers by cutting off their pensions, we are at a loss to say. That there is evidently a great wrong being committed by some one or more persons in power is also true. The act of June 27, 1890, seems to be the great eye-sore. If this law was created for the purpose of giving to each and every soldier of the late war who served his country during the dark days of the rebellion for a period of ninety days or more, and received an honorable discharge from the service therefore, a “pension,” then the rulings of his Honor Hoke Smith will receive the condemnation ol every soldier of the war of the rebellion, irrespect.ve of party affiliation. There may be a number of pensioners on the Pension list that ought not to on account of fraud. But that lhe great number tt>at are being dropped every day by the present administration are of that nature, we have our doubts. Business is hurt by talk, because talk likes Io dwell upon rumors and suspicions. When business gets mixed with politics, pessimistic talk is sure to be prevalent. A business which is connected with Governnieht action is always afraid of what the next set of politicians will do. The moral is that business and the state should be as separate as church and state. Left to its own resources business can get -along very well. It will follow its own rules and work upon its own experience. The hand of government seldom helps and always weakens. Judging from the length of its sessions and the bills left on the calendars Congress would have enough to do it the subsidy I practice were dropped. Confine 1 legislative action to proper subjects | and give, the people a chance to ' mind business. Polities and buv- ‘ aeas are a bad niixtqye.

When the money troubles began The Democrat said that there would be no “panic” such as the country used to undergo perionically when it was only just beginning to bo “settled up,” and that “panics” of that kind, practically impossible now. The events of the past two months only strengthen this opinion. This country is so rich and its wealth is so generally distributed that there can never be any protracted period of distrust. There has not been even serious stringency in money here in Deca tur and the situation in the country at large has sensibly improved during the past week. There has never been the least danger to any of our batiks. All have been from the first in the best condition and have demonstrated the prudence and care with which they are managed by keeping their reserve very much larger than the law requires. Business interests will suffer somewhat for perhaps thirty or sixty days longer as prudence will require the restriction of the credit system and more general reliance upon cash sales, but there will be no widespread discomfort from this change in the method of doing business and after it shall be thoroughly established business will be larger and much more satisfactory than ever. . This conclusion is based on the belief that whatever else Congress may do it will pass laws that will increase the volume of the currency very materially and thus make cash transactions the rule in all lines of business. BUT WE CAN! The word “Can’t” may be a good word to use in private conversation, but where the entire city and neighborhood are interested, it is not in keeping with good English. We allude to this word as having been used by the commissioner of streets of the city of Decatur, when asked how soon Second street, from Monroe to the Old Elm Tree would be improved, and his reply was, “we “Can’t” do it this year!” With the great number of unemployed people that our City has today, who are ready and anxious to worn at anything that they are familiar with, we see no reason for using a word so out-of-place as the word “Can’t,” when the majority of the voters and tax payers of our city demand this improvement at once. Mr. Willard Steele, of whom the Democrat spoke of a few weeks’ ago, as having a beautiful tract of land east of the city that would be very suitable for Fair grounds, informs us that several enterprising citizens of Decatur and vicinity have beeu looking over this location with a view of encouraging the organization of a Fair Association in Adams County. The gentlemen Mr. Steele alluded* to as being in advance of this new organization, were Messrs. Alex. R. Bell, Arthur Fisher, Joseph Low’er and William Smith. These gentlemen are all good and substantial business men and citizens of Adams County, and with them as a foundation to this enterprise, we feel as though business in this line had already commenced. During the discussion of the bill in the House of Representatives known as the McKinley tariff bill, it was frequently argued by men who foresaw the effects of such a law’, that it would cause wheat to sell for fifty cents a bushel, while labor would go a begging. It seems as though that the McKinley bill became a law, that we are now reaping the benefit of; that the prophesy of those who foresaw the effect of such vicious legislation is now being fulfilled, so that those who fathered such measures have staggered and fell under the load that it brought on them. While to those who toil for their daily bread, the burden has become so great that some of them became frenzied and threatened to make “might right” instead of the law. Can jtjie law now be said to be a blessing, as many a Republican orator hau said it was? z CITY AND COUNTRY, During the past year the Democrat has devoted a great amount of time and space “talking-up” Gravel Roads. 6 That Adams County is greatly Hi need of improvements of this character, none will gainsay. That the citizens of Decatur, who are engaged in a business of whateyer Jcipd would be the ones mostly

benefited by having Gfiavei Roads leading into our city, on account of an increased amount ot business that they would do thereby, than if the roads were left to remain iu a muddy and impassable state during certain mouths iu the year. The farmer who owns land alongside or near ip where these roads are constructed, would also be benefited thereby, on account of being prepared to haul td market—any produce which he has to dispose of—. When a sudden rise in the market price presented itself. While Gravel Roads are a great benefit to both the farmer an I business man of any community in which they are constructed; there should be a disposition on the part of the business man to first see that his part of the “benefit” was introduced among his own people—before going outside. There are many streets in our City that are fully as bad during certain seasons of the year, as are any of the roads leading into the country, and for the Democrat to ask its farmer friends to construct Gravel Roads and not also urge our townspeople to do likewise, would be an act that only the most unscrupulous person would be guilty of. Therefore, in order to meet this matter half-way, and also to meet it at a time when “forbearance has ceased to [be a virtue,” we would respectfully intimate to our City Council that they leave no time escape them in the commencement of public improvements. A If there is one characteristic of the county which is a source of pride more than any other it is its boundless resources; but it is also a source of danger, assuring the political thief that he can continue to filch from the people what by the laws ot nature and economy belongs in greater share to them. What is the occasion of patriotic felicitation is also the opportunity for political- and financial crime, and it is no longer regarded the part of a morbid pessimist to paint the condition of the many impoverished by the greed of the few. Which is the loftier patriotism—to shout loud cheers to the American eagle, or to make an effort to understand and remedy the wholesale political and industrial injustice that jeopardize the common welfare? A number of the ex-soldiers are howling because the Pension Commissioner is reviewing their cases. This is as it should be! If they are not correct they should be corrected. While we believe that all soldiers with an honorable discharge should be paid so much. A stipulated amount should be the only amount paid and no increase. Let the amount be sufficient to keep an ordinary man. Do away with the Pension Department. About as many men are required to ruu the department as there are soldiers to pension, and they get the money that should be paid to the soldier. Let a roster bejmade of each county; then let the government arrange with a bank to pay anyone who is duly registered and has an honorable discharge, cutting off all the extra charges that is necessary to keep the government running.

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