Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1893 — Page 4

She JT. BLJ.OKBVBB, Proprietor. t BIDAY, NOV. 10. 1899. Ba M o.‘ w <>. ption. One Year, in r 'vui Je ■ M Wl Six Months ' s Four Months W All subecrlptions not pm I during the year will be charged at the rate of *2.00. Office In Democrat Building, earn side of Second Street—ground floor Improve the Roads. It is now a little late for road building this season, but if the farmers of the State will get together in their local clubs and talk the question over they may be able to see their way clear for a county or even State convention in time to let the next legislature know definely their views and wishes. There seems to be a pretty general impression that the farmers should take the initiative, not only because they are to the most highly benefited by a system of road building, but because they know more about what is needed, the resources of their towns and districts for road material, and the cheapness means of procuring labor and supplies than any other portion of the people. That the State is soon to enter upon an extensive system of road building now seems inevitable, and much money will be saved and much bettor work done if the farmers will but give the movement,the benefit ot their intelligence and their experience. NoQsubject can be discussed with more interest or with larger resultant benefit during the long winter evenings now close at hand than this. It is vital to the prosperity, the progress and the honor of the State. The great advantages of a system of good roads have been so thoroughly discussed that there is no occasion to review the arguments. If the coming winter affords a long period of good sleighing the farmers .will do a large amount of their teaming and traveling while it lasts, and this will enable them to draw anew the contrast between good roads and the awful deluge of uni hrough which they must drive when spring oplens

again. It has bt .n argued that the farmer has littl. comparative use for roads, and it is true that he can manage to dodge the worst part of the season by reserving the hauling of his crops to market and his wood to the doOr until there is a dry season in summer or fall or a season of sleighing, but he loses other advantages which would come to him if a proper thoroughfare were maintained from the leading I town or city past his premises. Good roads have doubled the value ; of many a farm, have opened the way for many rural neighborhood < to become a favorite summer resort for people from the cities who spend money liberally, and have enabled many farmers to change their proi ducts for a few staples, like wheat and corn, on which speculators fix the price, to those mor perishable products with which the wise farm- : er drives to town two or three times > a week and sells direct to the conE earner without a sacrifice of a large share of their value to the middlemen. ■ I Tne Evansville Courier says: r The people will some day resume | complete control of their govern- | ment and administer it with a spe-! | cial view .to improving the condi-j i tions of living by making their! | Y Treasury the only money power in ' the country; by destroying the sys- j |J tern that exacts usury from every L l drop of sweat that pn i: ■ li-.m t-. I I brow of the industrial masse.-: by 'Striking out as summarily as sliver |i tvas sticken down, every law on the ■ pttatute books that gives privilege Band advantage to ’Cupidity over ■lt honest toil, to Greed and Cunning Bl over the humane principles oi the ■lmultitude that all vs ho are willing Mito work shall have the oppor.iunity Brand enjoy the full fruits of their without paying a cent -<■! triHRbute to anybody. The money I’.m will be powerless of evil when HHithe people resume all rights ami reserve, t > em by their ■Hponstitution. ■K COBBETJ* and Mi. . ire booked a tight al New Orleans alter BHbling contemporary, the editor of IHthc Journal, any ducats to place on Mtbe result ’■ so here’s a chance.

Olr City Council should create a law disallowing teams to be hitched on our streets for any period in excess of five or ten npnutes at a time. This would avoid serious accidents in cases of runaways, and probably would also be the mnans of introducing these helpless animals to a little provender that they don’t receive while being hitched on our public thoroughfare. The result of the election m thirteen States ot the i nion last Tuesday was -what was anticipated by almost every reading individual in the land. That such States as Ohio, lowa, and Massachusetts should be expected to go other than what they haye almost been counted for, —Republican, would be poor guessing, to say the least. Brother Marsh, of the Portland Commercial, finds himself on. of office and he beats the air and waives the bloody nether garment, saying, “the old soldiers are being robbed by the Democrats.” Well, Brother'Marsh, you are right when you say the Republieankmade all the good laws in the last thirty years. In this he is right, they have made all, but the repeal of the Sherman act, all other good and rotten are Republican.

The people who need more religion, says the Mt. Vernon Democrat, are: “The man who lets his horse stand all day in the rain w ithout a blanket; the man who growls like beast with a sore head when his wife asks for money; the woman who whispers aroumd that some other woman is not just what she ought to be; the preacher who is always looking for an easier place and higher salary; the man who walks the streets with his hands in his pockets while the wife carries the baby; and the man who keeps a dog and says he can’t afford the home newspaper.” The decision of our Supreme Court iu the case of the State ex rel. Beedle vs Schoonover is attracting outside attention to the excellence of the Indiana election laws as preventative® of bribery and corruption. Judge McCabe, of the Supreme Bench, says: “It will not do to say that a person who is induced to vote for any candidate is not injured. He has sold his birthright. temptation to which he was subjected, he hasjbartered his honor, his manhood, his political freedom, his sovereignty. We cannot say judicially he has not been injured. While the body politic has suffered greatly, the loss he has sustained is infinitely more.”

The special work for which President Cleveland convened Congress in extraordinary session has been accomplished. His call was issued earlier than bad been intend ed because of the financial stringency which suddenly checked the business interests of the country and withdrew money from the channels of trade into private depositories, where it was useless, for the time, alike to its owners, to business and to commerce. It was the prevalent opinion that the continued purchase of silver by the government under the provisions of the Sherman law was responsible for the widespread disaster and a repeal of- that obnoxious feature of the act was sought as the one remedy required. The struggle which has at length ended in unconditional repeal was one of the most notable in history of national legislation. It is to the honor .of the House that it bowed Jo he popular will and promptly passed the Wilson it,did'-the_ j Voorhees bill, which i- v’e outcome ' of the bitter an 1 protracted fight in the >.imate. —Rwas iu that august the interested minority declared that the will of the coun-'-try should r.ot prevail, and that the whole nation must, pay tribute to a certain interest and- to a certain ! locality.' The strife out of which j repeal;.as come is familiar to all, I and there is every cau-r; for eon- | gratulation that it i- so happily I ended. President ..'Cleveland, who refused to indorse or to countenance j a surrender to the minority when surrender meant a sacrifice of the | vital principle upon which the stability of our government rests, has . signed the bill and it has become a ! law. Again he has vindicated the ! wisdom of his judgment and'the I courage of his conviction-:. Ualarncity has beep averted, and to him, as I the head, of the-dominant party, must be given full credit for steadi lastly refusing any compromise I with wrong.

The newspaper firmament seems to have been a little “murky" of late from the attack made ou this paper by the Decatur Journal last Friday. Wo have all along been informed that the editor of the Journal was of a religious turn, and would scorn anything of a sportive or irreligious make up. We have been misinformed, however, in this respect, and hereafter will be of the “Thomas of old” kind, and believe only as we see, feel or find people. The sporting editor ot the Journal, Mr. Porter, wants to make a wager of SI,OOO that the circulation of the Democrat is not 300 in excess of that of the Journal. To this “bluff” we relinquinsh our hold—on account of our early training—but will produce a gentleman in Adams County in possession of a fortyacre farm who will wager the same against the editor of the Journal’s last summer’s hat, that the circulation of the Journal does not exceed “SEVEN 111 XiJKED.” The Journal of Friday, Nov. 3, says: * “There is but one reliable source of information in regard to the circulation of any and all papers. And that is the Newspaper Directory, because each publisher reports to the editor ofDirectory the circulation of his own paper under oath. Upon the sworn statement of the editor of the Democrat the Directory rates the circulation of that paper the same as that of the .Journal.”

What nonsence! What cheek! There can be, all the way from one hundred to fourteen hundred and fifty of a difference in the circulation of any two papers, and etill receive the same quoting from the Newspaper Directory which our religious-gam-bling contemporary, the editor of the Journal, basis his authority for saying that the circulation of the Journal and the Democrat are alike. In order that our R-G contemporary may not be compelled to lay off a day a’nd read up this “Newspaper Directory Circulation System,” we will say, “that Newspapers that have a circulation of 800 or more, and not 2250, are placed in the “J” list, and they remain in that list or letter until they can reletter (“II”) higher. So it be will port a circulation of 2250 or more, then they are placed on the next easily understood why our contemporary has taken so much “space” in trying to’place his circulation alongside that of the Democrat’s. The Democrat has the circulation claimed, that of being larger than the Decatur Journal, Geneva Herald and Evening News. Notwithstanding all roundabout switching by the religious-gambling editor of the Journal to the contrary.

When Congress meets in regular session on the first Monday in December the Money Power will resume operations. There will be a strong pressure for the passage of Senator Voorhees’ bill to give National Banks authority to issue notes to the full par value of bonds deposited by them to secure circulation. John Sherman will make “the greatest effort of his life” to nave £206,000,006 of bonds issued and if he should succeed, the great bulk of them will be taken at pat by ourNationl banks, for they alone hold gold with which to purchase them. When they get the bonds they will issue confidence Notes to their full par value and then Congress will be urged to retire ail greenbacks, and other legal tender paper money below the denomination of £lO as a first step towards ■ the ultimate substitution of National Bank notes for all forms of paper money issued by the people’s government and made legal tender in j.the payment, of ail debts. In a I word; * <: people will be asked to Mirremkr ail power over the cur- ' rency UFprivate corporations and to i acc‘ < ; of debt paying rn >ney, i National Ev.-k rar.” based on “con- | fidemm'' on'iy-ar.d which, under such ia d - , urba:.'■ ■ we hav“ had re- ] cently. i:. U: future ‘-panics”' i wool J b«- ab*o; z>-ly irredeemable • wit}.r a . -,g *: e debt paying .quality. T;.=- evtent of business disaster- •hat -zoc.d f<R‘ow is too I va-t to be conceiva.bJe. Is it not . oew:. fi r;t;»|t po,r;,'er a* i the?': r/e ;; ;eo.-.’empiated by a Demo ra‘.; f.oag'sse in both ' hr..', :• <■ i l ano the i pc. i ;.e iJ.'.mocra';; pkrty has m-.h . ..- a quarter of a century? ' What can it mean? » • . IMk ■ r I gave us to . ur.d'; i.-_ ; 'oe other day that sowpe ■thiog might be ezpi .te . regards V/ cstabi lishihg a i >.r We know: o no more editable ground*, than tho:-<; o; Mr. -.teoi'*, a.ud await the a:.no it.-/ .-J great anx Liety. - - 1.- ■

Tub County Commissioners will again soon go into regular session, and we hope that something will be done by them then to emeliorate the present condition of the old Fair Grounds. At present it is made headquarters of the tramp or tramp element. We are told also that several prostitutes are quartered there for the purpose of remaining all winter. If the Commissioners in their good judgment can foresee the propriety of keeputilized, let them have their way ing this tract of ground from being for it; but it is the wish ot the people that some disposition of these grounds may be made at the earliest opportunity. A question of State rights has just been decided by the Surrogate of New’ York in away that will please all the unreconstructed Confederates in the country. New York State is held to bo an independent sovereignty within its sphere, and the court decides that a legacy bequeathed) to the United States in a will made ih pursuance of and depending for its validity upon the laws of New York State is not exempt from taxation. Uncle Sam may erect the building provided for by the will in question, but he must pay State, county and school taxes just as if he were only a private citizen. Uncle Sam himself has not been heard on the matter as yet. . , Our up street neighbor, put on bis war paint last week, jumps up, cracks his heels together, and shouts in reply to our article,—giving the exact circulation of the Journal, (6f>C). You’re a liar! you’re a liar! Our little friend down street cm-' boldened by the courage of the Journal, says: Me to! Me to! Then feeling that people would say to him you ought to be ashamed of yourself, he hollars back to the Jounal man “Youm” a liar too, and then hid untit his wife came after him with a buggy. While our up street brother has made himself scarce down in town ever since? Our brother up street still insists on us gambling, but we fear the fate of the gambler/and do not want to spend eternity in a bottomless pit, so you can’t lead us to vary from “the direct” road. Now brother, we have a proposition to submit to you (and “me to’ 5 down street.) To our brother up street you file an affidavit that your bonifide subscription is seven hundred subscribers. We, on our part, with the assistance of D. E. Smith will see that you are furnished board and clothes for a while. While they have but little use for editors where you will go there may be a chance to follow your other avocation. To “me to” we say we will agree to furnish a good and/ sufficient bond to help you out if you should make an affidavit that your circulation exceeds 150 copies daily. We would not dare make you the offer we make our up street brother, for you have just married a young wife and we could not have it in our heart to wish you the same out fit.

It is pleasant to observe that despite the hard times, the President has issued a proclamation to the effect that on Nov. 30 the people shall meet and engage in thanksgiving services. And why should it not be done despite the hard times? The present stringent condition is due entirely to matter of imagination and unwarranted apprehension. We’havc as much cause' to give thanks as we had a year ago. Nay, more, for Congress has corrected the evil which, financiers thought, menaced our financial weal. We have had no famine nor widespread pestilence. Our international relations are healthy and hopeful. There have been no stupendous strikes dufing the latter months and labor has assumed, as a rule, an attitude of peace and good will toward capital despite the fact the wages of laborers have been reduced- It will be hard for thousands of worthy men and their dependent to lift their voices in thanksgiving this vear but let them take heart and let those that have a mite to spare in the way of syrapethetic effort bear them in nrnjd. * Goj.n is the weapon of .Usury. 1 is the chief curse of the world be-t tau“e it is the Usurers weapon. As a basis of currency it will have to. Every increase in the public debt thus maks it possible to increase the number of millionaires who can hold their accumulations and live without earning from generation to generation. ' ■/

.flbso/afety Pure A cream of tartar baking powder. {Ugliest of all in leavening strength, —Latest United. States Government Food ReportRoyal Baking Powder Co-, 106 Wall St., H, YMoney to Loan —At 6 per cent on long time. Abstracts, insurance and collections. Farm and city property tor sale. Call on Schurger, Reed & Smith. 4 atf. COLORADO TOURIST RATES. Low rate excursion tickets on sale at principal T., St. L. &K. C. Stations. The Clover Leaf Route offers through tickets, via all routes beyond St. Louis Liberal privileges in limit and stop overs, Buffet Vestibuled Sleeping Cars, Buffet Reclining Chairs, seats free. Call on nearest agent or address. C. C. JENKINS, Gen'l Pass Ag t. Toledo, Ohio. BOTTLED GOODS. The justly celebrated Milwaukee and Fort Wayne Beers are exclusively bottled in this city by Mayer AKleinhenz. To secure either of these brands of the famous foaming drought exterminator, you have only to send us a postal card or leave an cider in person and it will be promptly delivered to you in either bottled or kegged packages. 9-ly Mayer & Kleinhknz. Chase’s Barley Malt Whisky is stimulating and nourishing to the consumptive, he old and,feeble. It is absolutely pure. Sold by J. W. Voglewede. j Fanners and all others who desire fruit trees, vines and small fruits should not fai to see James Middleton before selecting their goods for fail setting. He represents the Painesville nursery, one of the oldest and largest in Ohio, and goes direct to the nursery to fill all orders. Goods guaranteed to be first-class. —a— —’ —■■ —— You may profit by the experience of others if you carefully peruse the, advertisements in this issue. Do not forget that important announcements appear upon the inside pages.

A few choice lots yet for sale at an extremely low price in the new addition to the city of Decatur. For price and terms cailon Grant Railing. 43 ’ U- - Health and Happiness. Honey of Figs is the Queen of all cathartics; syrups or pills. One anticipates its taking with pleasure. No other remedy sells so well or gives such satisfaction. It acts gently on inactive bowels or liver, relieves the kidneys, cures constipation, colds, fevers, nervous aches, etc., and restores the beauty of health. Ladies and children prefer it. The Fig Honey Co. of Chicago make it. Try a bottle. Only one cent a dose. Holthouse & Smith. 17y Henry Mayer & Co. are prepared to furnish first-class brick of all kinds. Brick for side walks, brick for wells, brick for cisterns, and brick for building purposes, always on hand. Lstf Call inc Early, Mother Dear, I took a dose of Fassett’s New Remedy to-night, love, and I want to welcome the glad new year. 1 know I am cured now, mother, and I will live to be queen of the May, For sale by llolthouse <fc.Smith, n What a Terrible Fall, But the bruises you received can be quickly healed with Fassett’s Herb Liniment. Price 50 and SI.OO per bottle. For sale by Holthouse & Smith. n The Only Cure for Old Chronic Cases. Health Ti d-Hits infuse youthful vigor, stop unnatural seminal wasting,cureimpotency, bad blood, catarrh, weak eyes, nerves, kidneys, etc. By mall sl, of The Park Drug Co., Nos. 175 & 177 Hycamore Ht., Cincinnati, O.

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