Decatur Democrat, Volume 37, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1894 — Page 4

®he gemorrai JT. HIOIBUM, Proprfrtor. f BIDAY,'FEB. 23. 1894. K»te» of SubnorlpUon. One Tear, tn advance.*loo Six Months» 76 Four Montoa 6,1 All zubzoriptlonz not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of *B.OO. Office In Democrat Building, east aldeof Sec ond Street—ground floor The Democratic Senate would better plant itself squarely on tbe tariff platform of the National Democratic party. The views of localities on the tariff question could never have won a National victory for the party. Mr. Cleveland in attempting to have Messrs. Ilornblower Peckham confirmed as Justice of the Supreme Bench, found it an up-Hill business. However, as he got a show for his White alley, all jack-pots will hereafter cease. There is but one National Democratic party, and that is as far as possible from being an anti-admin-istration party. It made the administration, and Democrats in any community who are fighting their own administration are doing nothing but mischief to their party. Several farmers in our county have organized a company of “Rangers” whose object is to look after horse thieves and horse insurance. J. C. Meyers, Charles Meyers, Paul Trier and Charles Stellhorn, all of this county have been commissioned as detectives. Protection does not make the wages of labor uniform in this country because it is not laid at all with reference to wages. For instance, although the McKinley law still in force, “protects” coal 75 cents per ton, the wages of miners vary according to locality. In Ohio, the wages are seventy cents per ton as a rule. In Pennsylvania and West Virginia, they are 40 to 60 cents per ton for mining the same class of coal. If protection does not make wages uniform what does it profit labor? Now that it is all over with but the hallowing (we allude to the Primary election) and that will be done in May and November by . Democrats, let us take up the street and alley improvement subject of the City of Decatur. “Time, like the tide, waits for no one,” and by the time that the new City Council take their seats, the work of Street improvement should be commenced. In order that there be no delay in this very important undertaking, it would be prudent and businesslike on the part of the City Council to prepare themselves for the work and be ready when the opportune moment arrives. ELECTION LAWS. Tbe election to be held in November next, is a very important one to us all. In addition to our county offices, there will be a Judge and Prosecutor for Adams and Jay counties to be elected. Also two Joint Representatives and one Joint Senator for the counties of Adams, Jay and Blackford. The time of holding the election of Township Trusttees, Justices of the Peace, Assessors, Constables, Road Super visors, and such other offices of Township as may be provided for by law, shall be changed from the April election, and all such Township officers shall be elected at the general election to be held on theFirst Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1894, and every four years thereafter, and which shall be conducted by the provisions of the law governing said gen,; eral elections.

The names of the different candidates for said township offices shall be printed on separate ballots of a . yellow color and deposited in separate ballot-boxes from that of the State and county ballots; said bal-lot-boxes shall be painted yellow and said ballots also to be yellow. The law in regard to the City elections is somewhat different from the old law. The election is held on the first Tuesday in May, and the City officers proper will hold their respective places, which includes the Mayor, Clerk, Treasurer and Marshal, who do not quality until the September’following their election. The Councilmen from the different Wards are required to qualify within ten days after having been elected. All city officers serve four years.

FAIR LROIM) TALK. In conversation with Mr. WilSteele the other day, our topic drifted to Fair grounds. The readers of the Democrat will recall to mind how assiduouslj we labored last year endeavoring to organize a Fair Association for Adams County. We not only gave space in our valuable columns to tbe undertaking, but we also expended money and devoted much time thereto. We had one object in view. That object was to place our farmers, mechanics and merchants on equal footing—in a progressive sense—with our neighbors. A County Fair, as everyone knows, is a very attractive and also a very appropriate place at which to exhibit any article of produce, or mechanism that tbe farmer or the mechanic has to exhibit. It is “the place” where the best classes of people in the county and surrounding neighborhood will congregate “td see and be seen.” It is at the County Fair where the people of the county who live in opposite directions from the county seat and who have not mingled with each other for years, will have an opportunity of facing each other and renew old-time acquaintanceship and pleasures. In fact, it is what Ad ams County has been in need of these many years. Other counties in the State hold their yeaily County Fairs with profitable and satisfactory. results. Adams County with its vast acres of rich and fertile soil; with its thrifty and wealtny farmers, merchants and mechanics can illy afford to stand alone and unrecognized in an enterprise of this nature. Mr. Steele has a beautiful tract of land of sufficient acres for Fair Ground purposes. It is situated conveniently enough to the city to make it accessable within a five minutes walk from the main portion of Decatur. The amount of money necessary for the erection of suitable buildings and enclosures for that purpose would not be very considerable. The will of the people in our city and county is all that now remains undone for the successful holding of a County Fair some time during the Fall of 1894. is Mr. Steele is willing to join hands with seyeral of our citizens in this enterprise and we firmly believe that enough “back-bone” can be produced by our citizens to safely land the undertaking. By all means let our merchants, farmers and mechanics look to tbeir interests, and make hay while the sun shines. CLEIRTIIE SIDEWALKS. The snow-packed sidewalks of our city has been the talk of many of our people since the last snow fell. We don’t know whether there is an ordinance compelling proper-ty-owners to clear the snow from in front of their property away soon after it falls, or not, but if there isn’t there should be one created at the earliest session of that Honorable budy, and thereby have our sidewalks in a passable condition for our school cnildren, if for np other reason. Some of the candidates for county offices expressed themselves as being glad that the contest is over with, and that the time for electioneering should be changed from spring to early fall, when the roads would be more passable, and when tbe farmers would have more leisure time to listen to their pleadings.

It is gratifying to note that Democratic Congressmen who voted against the Wilson bill are hearing from their constituents. Democratic clubs of New York and 0 Brooklyn have passed resolutions censuring Sickles and Hendrix for their negative votes, and Mr. Cadmus of New Jersey has been served likewise. The rank and file of the party mean business.—lndianapolis Sentinel, Feb. 20. The prompt confirmation of Senator White will be good news for Indiana tax-payers for the reason that the Supreme Court has refused to hear the Indiana railroad taxes cases until the vacancy was filled. Thousands of dollars are due the State, the counties cities, and townships of Indiana by the railroads who have refused to pay taxes. The matter has been before the Supreme Court here for a y<ar. Now that the bench is full the question will soon be decided. Attorney-General Smith will present the ease for the State.

THE O. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. The Department Encampment will be held at Lafayette April 4 and 5. Among the more prominent names mentioned m connection with the position of Department Commander are those of 11. M. Caylor, Noblesville; A. O. Marsh, Win cheater; \V. S. Haggard, Lafayette; and Judge S. M. llench, Ft. Wayne. Mrs. Julia S. Conkling, Department President of the Women’s Relief Corps, has issued her general order calling attention to the an nual meeting of the Corps at tbe same time and place. Among the more prominent candidates for Department President of the Woman’s Relief Corps are Mrs. Eliza J. Crisler, Greensburg; Mrs. Nettie Hansford, and Mrs. Ella D. Zinn, of Indinapolis. In company with the many prominent candidates for Department President of the Woman’s Relief Corps of Indiana, the Democrat takes pleasure in presenting the name of Mrs. M. L. Holloway, of our city. Mrs. 11. is thoroughly familiar in Parliamentary tactics to preside over anyi organization to which she would be called, and it would afford us and her many friends in Decatur great pleasure to have the delegates from our corps to the Encampment use all honorable influence in her behalf and election. t*N— Let there be no dilly-dallying on the part of our City Council in the matter of improving Second street. That this street (in part) needs improving, no language in the book can be introduced to the contrary. The only question in chancery or undecided is the kind of material most suitable. Brick has been suggested by many as the most serviceable and appropriate, and we believe that tbe property owners and the City of Decatur (City Council) will acquiesce in the suggestion. By all means let our City Council be prepared for the occasion when suitable weather presents itself for the undertaking. Since the above was compiled, the Council last Tuesday night favored the above suggestion of the Democrat, and there is no disputing the fact that Second street for a short distance will be laid down with -brick. Property-owners on Third street are becoming a little jealous at the enterprise Second street has manifested in this matter and desire to be similarly recognized by the City Council as early as possible. Let the good work continue is the wish of the Democrat. Before and up to the election of last Tuesday, reports were put in circulation by some unscrupulous persons, derogatory to the good name and character of several candidates for office. This is all wrong and uncalled for and is denounced by all respectable classes. However. such animals are to be found in almost every community. The organization of a Vigilante committee for the “suspension” of such individuals, and which would not be investigated in any court west of the Missouri river. The Decatur Evening World proposes to read Mr. Harry Miesse a lecture because he objects to one of the Democratic candidates for Councilman. Mr. Miesse is one of the most popular young men in northern Indiana and his Democracy is too good to waver.—Fort Wayne Journal of the 16th inst. Tbe Journal is right. When the fight comes, Miesse is always found in the front rank, ready to assist the party in any way that he is asked to do. You can always find him on the side of right. A CROWING TENDENCY. The City of Philadelphia owns its gas plant and thinks it a great property as well it may when city ownership results in cheap.gas. The Philadelphia Record says: Gas making at 111 per thousand cubic feet is still an excessively profitable business for the city of Philadelphia. The city -should never part with the franchise, and .should make haste to provide itself with its own plant for electrical lighting. There is no excuse for leaving the community at the mercy of private monopoly in furnishing a supply of gas or electricity for whatever purpose those agencies may be usefully and profitably employed. The whole tendency of public economics is towards municipal ownership of every kind of business that can only be carried on by the 1 use of public property. Gas, elect- ! nc lighting, water supply, etc., can 1 not be carried on except by a grant ■ from the people and everywhere the : people are beginning to see f-hat it is to their advantage to monopolize ! j such enterprises to the profit of the I community.

i How It Would Affect New 1 York Millionaires. Princely (fortune. That Would Yield To Hie Government it Vu.t Hevenuo Under lhe Propound Law—What the Itoeket'cllera, Aatore. Gould. and Other Money lilngi Would Have toContribute. The far-reaching effects of an 1 income tax upon the fortunes of some of New York’s richest men among whom it is a most unpopular measure. A more exhaustive canvass has now been made with interesting results. There are according to a careful compilation, 1319 individuals and estates in New York City and Brooklyn that could each be taxed on a basis of $1,000,000. Many of them, of course, are wprth much more. The computation’ of the amount of taxes they would pay on the basis of 2 per cent on every dollar of yearly revenue in excess of $4,000, shows that New York alone would furnish a large percentage of the revenue derived by the Government from the proposed tax. The earning capacities of the five most conspicuous fortunes coming under this head are as follows: John D. Rockefeller’s 6 percent; Wm. Waldorf Astor’s 7 percent; Jay Gould’s estate, which being wrapped up in corporations is still practically undivided, fl 4 percent; Cornelius Vanderbilt, 5 percent, and Wm. K. Vanderbilt 5 per cent. Calculating at the foregoing rates, and compounding the interest semiannually to allow for reinvestment, the yearly and daily incomes of the four individuals and of the estates named are as follows: Yearly Daily Name. Income, income. John D. Rockefeller *7,311,250 $20,853 Wm. Waldorf Astor 8.900.000 23.277 Jay Gould's estatei . ...4,040,000 11.068 Cornelius Vanderbilt:.. 4.048,000 11,090 Wm. K. Vanderbilt 3,795.000 10,397 The average rate of interest is 5.) percent. -The incomes of the millionaires in the list here have been calculated at the rate of 5 per cent. The amount of income tax has been calculated without deducting $4,000 from the incomes. This is the way some of the millionaires would be taxed. Those named are worth over $10,000,000. John D. Rockefeller, worth $125,000,000, invested in “gilt edged” securities, and in furthering various enterprises. Incom?, 7,511,250; income tax, at 2 percent, $152,225. William Waldorf Astor, worth $120,000,000, inherited through immediate generations. Income B‘900,000;.income tax, $178,000. Russell Sage, worth $90,000,000. Mr. Sage can, it is said, lay his hand on more ready money than any other man in America. Income $4,500,000; income tax, $90,000. Jay Gould estate, $100,000,000, now practically under the management of his sons, the eldest of whom is George J. Gould. Income, $4,040,000; income tax, $90,000. Cornelius Vanderbilt, $80,000,000. Inherited his wealth from Wm. H. Vanderbilt, his father. Income, $8,048,000; income tax, SBO,960. .. 1 Wm. K. Vanderbilt has a fortune of $75,000,0000. Income, $3,795,000; income tax, $79,900. Henry M- Flagler, wortn $60,000,000, made in the production of petroleum and in refining the oil and transporting it. Annual income, $3,000,000: daily income, SB,319; income tax, $60,000. Frederick W. Vanderbilt, worth $35,000,000. Annual income, sl,750,000; daily income, $4,794; income tax, SBO,BOO. John Jacob Astor, worth $50,000,000. Nearly all this fortune is invested and is being constantly reinvested in real estate. Annual income, $2,500,000; daily income, $6,894; income tax, $50,000. Louis C. Tiffany, worth $35,000,- , 000, made by the manufacture and sale of jewelry. Annual income, $1,750,000; daily income, $4,794; I income tax, $35,000. I Collis P. Huntinton, worth $20,I 000,000, made in building and man- . aging the Central Pacific railroads. Annual income, $1,000,000; daily i income, $2,739; income tax, twentythousand. ’ Wm. Rockefeller, worth sixty millions, made in petroleum. Annual income, three million; daily [ income, eight thousand two hun- , dred and nineteen income , tax sixty thousand dollars. There are 116 other millionaires • £ r , in the list who are worth from one t million to seven million five hundred > thousand dollars. The aggregate of their holdings represents two j hundred and fifty-eight million, , upon which the Government would levy a tax of 2 per cent "

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