Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 8 December 1893 — Page 4

®he tr. BLJ.OKBVSN, Proprietor. 1! RID AY, DEC. 8. 1898. Kate, o/ Svheeription. Ono Veer, tn advance tl Six Month. Four Months AU subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 12.00. Office in Democrat Building, easi sole of Second Street—ground floor “Ci.iiTiNo” horses may improve their appearance, but it's a mighty cool way of treating them in winter time. It will be but a short time until our factories will be running, then Decatur will be in better shape than ever. Money is plenty in New I ork. Cannot the people bring produce, game, and thuber to the Decatur market, and get some of the money that New York wants to dispose of? W L_ The tariff on eggs has again raised the price so that only those with a good bank account can afford them, j Next summer the tariff will be off again. The improvement of highways is being discussed in general all over the United States where they have good roads they are discussing plans whereby to make them better, while the same is true where they are bad. The latter is what catches us in this county. The weather prognosticator (Hicks) may hit it some times, but we think he occasionally misses his calling. On test Tuesday we had good sleighing while he predicted rain. We think the best regulator is the controller of the atmospherical current. The new Board of Commissioners, since the accession of Hon. J. H. Hobrokeas a member thereof should, from gpoeral appearance, both as to the capacity of brain element and physical powers be ( a „ powerful power and do the people much mental good in the management of our county business. Congress is again at work. Let there be no delay in the repeal of the McKinley law, and the passage of one that will give the desired relief. Let the same be in accordance with the Chicago platform, then let the calamity shriekers howl, but be sure that the work is well done, that the future benfits may be realized. ■j ■— l ~~ The attention of Congress is called to the report that a tribe in Central Africa has a law that all speakers shall stand on one leg while delivering their addresses and speak only as long as they can remain thus standing. This should be made a rule of Congress before the discussion of the tariff question commences. It will be money in the pockets of the people. Before Senator Voorhees left Terre Haute lor Washington he predicted that before ninety days passed the financial depression that now is hovering over this country will be a thing of the past. That industries will be in good shape, the country prosperous and the people correspondingly happy. The Senator is generally right in his predictions, and it is to be hoped that this may be true.

Last Tuesday found our streets almost filled with teams. The day resembled Saturday in point of the hustling business appearance of the , people, that moved to and fro on our streets. The cause of the busy day was easily accounted for. Access to market was easy. By the proper improvements our city wouldpresent this appearance every day in the week and business men would be the baiter for it. A little more push and energy in the way of public improvements, Congkbss convened last Monday and it has heard the President’s message read. The duty of Congress is clear. The tariff question will be paramount. The Democratic Congress will legislate for the masses and not the classes. < Hence, a revision of the tariff is inevitable. Congress must act during this session instead of talking /o much. Prompt action in the direction of tariff reform will prove a balm to the country's financial wpunds.

A si uA.vi.E Apcctacle to seo is our Republican editors as they pose before the people claiming to be the friends of the soldier, even our esteemed contemporary up street last week attempted to ridicule the Hon. D. W. Voorhees for speaking of the Secretary of the Interior. He goes so far as to say the Senior Senator tittered treasonable language in a speech al Greencastle during the war, and now befriends tiie soldiers, which make our contemporary hold up his hands in holy horror, but he forgets to say anything about the Guirrillas the Republican party took under their wing, and placed in positions over the old soldiers. Say, neighbor, how would it be to give the soldiers a rest until the next election. Both Houses of Congress are Democratic. They were elected on the pledge that they would reform the tariff on revenue lines. The great |ariff reformer ami leader, Grover Cleveland, is in the White House. The Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee have prepared a bill that takes a long stride towards a strict revenue tariff. The Democratic press dt the country is practically a unit in favor of this bill without a single amendment except it may be in the direction of a still more distinctively’ revenue measure. With all these favorable conditions pressing upon the two Democratic Houses it would be a reproach to Democratic fidelity to the pledges if the bill should not become a law on- the first day of March. Industries everywhere are resuming and thousands of idle artisans will soon find employment. Word comes that the Tennessee Iron Company has refused to sei 100,000 tons of iron at the present prices for six months delivery to London bankers. Now it the calamitous results to the iron markets on account of the Wilson tariff bill, were such as our Republican friends represent th6m to be, this company would snap up such an opportunity without delay. The offer, however, is rejected, because prices are advancing. The resumption of other rolling mills all over the country will give employment to several thousand men. The fact is the industrial world is already beginning to feel the stimulating effect of tariff reform as promised by the Democracy. The farmer sometime? makes misfttkcs as well as other business men. Their mistakes may be made in varjous ways, some by not taking proper care of their stock, some by not properly cultivating their farms; or by not doing it at the proper time; But one of the greatest mistakes the farmers are making m this country is by not raising clover. In this country .where we have a clay subsoil the clover is one of the best fertilizers that the farmer can use. It is also one of the most productive grasses the farmer can have on his farm, yielding the best of hay for sheep and milk cows, and with a fair mixture of timothy, well cured makes the best of hay lor farm stock. The careful farmer can add greatly to the improvement of his stock as well as his farm by raising plenty of clover. The money question seems to be settled for the present at least. Mr. Cleveland’s stand for unconditional repeal was very consistent in the eyes of the greftt majority of our people. Mr. Carlisle, Secretary of

Siate, expressed himself in a forcible manner in an after dinner speech before the Chamber of Commerce when be said: ( ■ “The country has recently heard a great deal about bi metalism and a double standard. For my part, I have never been able to understand w hat is meant by a double standard, or double measure* of value To iu y mi rid Jl.ge.ems that 1 liere jdm u!4be two different standards or measures of value as it w„ould be to insist upon having two yardsticks of differnt k'nghts or two gallons of different dimensions. If there were two standards, or measures, not equal in value, it is evident that one of them must bka false measure. If the silver dollXr and the gold dollar were of/precisely the same value and corild be so kept at all times, there would be in fact, but of valuet/one.standard, one Unit for r / , , . ‘ . • | -1 nele >im is quite a builder. At the present time seventy-one public i buildings are under process of construction in the United State's, and . i plans are being drawn lor forty-nine I others, for which appropriations have been made.

r The Honorable Board of Com- . mi«sioncrs of the county convened j in regular session December 4, . 1893, it being the first of the Decernt ber term of Commissioners Court. I’resent Conrad Brake, President, [ H. D. Keulling and Samuel Fetters, Commissioners. The Board was then duly organized, and 11. D. j Feulling retired, his term of office , having expired, and John 11. Ho- . broke Commissioner-elect came for- , ward and presented his credentials, which were duly accepted and he , was then fully installed in office as County Commissioner from the first [ district for three years. The Board then proceeded to elect one of their i number President of the Board for . one year. Conrad Brake was elected President. A Few of our manufacturers threaten to be divorced from this Government if they can’t control he same. They want to say how much they can have of other people’s money or they say they wont ; do business in this country. They have dictated to the Republican party so long that they are rich and now say that they will not do business unless they can say what amount of money they can rob the people of each year, so that they can become rich in a few years from the money they obtain in high tariffs. They must be able to rob the people or they threaten to control matters by the money they have at their command. Surely they must think the people of this country are their servants and must obey their commands, or they will put their foot upon them. The present time seems to be their most opportune moment. W. Morton and the Farmers, Whatever may be thought of the wisdom displayed by President Cleveland in the selection of other members of his cabinet, there is probably but one opinion as to the eminent fitness of J. Sterling Morton for the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Morton was one of the pioneers of Nebraska. He took up a homestead and devoted himself to making of it an ideal farmer’s home. He has ever since been a practical and successlul farmer. Allhogh a life-long Democrat, politics has been with him an incident, not a pursuit, and especially has he always shown himself opposed to mere “farmers politics.” He believes in and has always encouraged the individual development of the farmer in the line of his calling—the organization and maintenance of farmers’ associations and institutes, not for political action, not secret nor oath-bound, but open to all, for intelligent conference, comparison of methods and results, and suggestions based uporu experience Secretary Morton naturally has had no sympathy and can have none with populist parties and kindred associations formed to farm politics primarily and raise wheat and , corn incidentally. While in Chicago recently Mr. Morton ex pressed hismself emphatically relative to “journeymen farmers who promote granges for the purpose of farming the farmers,” to which the Farmers’ Benefit and kindred associations took exceptions. On being shown the resolution Secretary Morton declined to either modify or retract anything he had said about “professional ruralists.” He added: “Each one of these fellows . uses only one plow, and that is his ' tongue, and he does not hold that 1 very well nor turn up anything very rich: and all his tillage is to get a crop of votes in the fall, and as the result of his efforts, garner an office. But farmers’ institutions and, in fact, all other agricultural associations which bring their members together for the purpose of comparing experience and discussing the manageinent, economies and general . 1 domestic affairs of farms and homes I approve.” These are words of wisdom which farmers should heed as coming from one of their oxn class. Mr. Morton ; ■ has no sympathy with “calamity . howlers” who represent American ' farmers as oppressed above all I classes of American citizens, for he t knows His life has always r been in touch with them: he has seen what they, going to the western states as poor as be, have achieved t by their independent toil; he knows <• the farmers’ lot is infinitely better i- than that of many classes in crowded 1 cities, and he urges them to be e thankful for and proud of their s honorable calling and their success. Chicago .Herald, Dec. 2, 1803.

SUSPEND HOSTILITIES. I Our New England friends arc most amendable to reason at the Thanksgiveu season. Just after their turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie we take to be a favorable opportunity for addressing good advice for their patriotism and reason. We therefore say to them now: Don’t put too muoh reliance m a kick. Thd tariff has gone higher and higher. Hereafter it is going lower and lower. When the Republican party got its first foothold in Washington its majority in the House of Representatives passed cheerfully the tariff of 1857, and that tariff was the nearest approach to free tarde 1 we have ever had since the tariff 1 became an issue. In iB6O tbe Republican platform had nothing to say about the tariff, though if the low tariff of 1857 brought evils the obvious duty of that party Was to ardently agitate a revival of high duties. Gradually the Republican leaders were drawn under the influence of special manufacturers. They found the war and the bloody shirt sufficient for holding voters, even in the West, contrary to their first expectations. Duties went up, not in re sponse to any demands of trade, but as a reward for cash payments made by millionaires like Dobson and Disston. The McKinley doctrine of incidental revenue and the McKinley bill of swindles, shams and iniquities was the culmination. The Republicans of 1856 and 1860 would have stood aghast before such a doctrine and such a measure. Manufacturers themselves would have dreaded the concentration of markets and tbe merchant class would have risen in revolt. Tariff duties are to be reduced toward the level of 1857 and as much lower as revenue needs will permit. That is logic and destiny. New England and Pennsylvania can have the reduction made carefully and liberally, or they can provoke a smash which will put woolens, cottons and iron on a revenue basis of 10 and 15 per cent or less. Raising the revenue ought to be business question in government; never a business question in the markets. New England and Pennsylvania manufacturers ought to be as far from dependence on the tax laws of the nation as are cattle raisers and doctors of medicine. It will not be long before they are schooled to enjoy that happy frame of mind. The more they kick, fight and bribe against a moderate measure like the Wilson bill the more they keep the tariff in politics and foment hostilities that may ruthlessly tear down the old fabric to its foundations, without giving a chance for the building of the new. We advise New England to accept the benefits of raw material gratefully and let the tariff go peacefully out of politics by the advantageous path indicated by the Wilson bill. At the same time we advise all tariff reformers to accept the Wilson bill as a long stride in the right direction. No reformer is so near the godlike that he can tell all abqut the effect of a tariff law upon revenues, upon business and upon public opinion, lhe Wilson committee has worked patiently, without selfish regard for the importunities of its members constituents. Its report is as near the best as any outsider is likely to suggest, he is the bravest sword and tbe oldest veteran in all the ranks of reform. The best advice to both extremes is to let Congress get sdire footedly back to the tariff peace of 1857, when all parties and all trades agreed that low taxes were a public blessing.—St. Louis Republic. The Republicans complain because Cleveland insists on communicating with Congress instead of dishing out his policy to them at different times. They should remember that the Constitution does not make it necessary for the President to communicate with the petty Republican press. The people are represented in Congress and Cleve land in has now communicated to their representatives his Hawanan advices. Congress will now have an opportunity to act. Our Republican friends need not fear. i The truth will be known soon ■ enough for them. They are Uneasy about their own welfare and not that of the American flag.

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