Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1894 — Page 4

©he gemoerat JT. BLAOKBURIf, Proprietor. fK/DAf, ISU4. Rate* ot SabecripHoa, One Year, in advance *1 W Six Month* »••••.• 76 Four Montns 5u All subscription* not paid durlnir the year will be charged at the rate of K.OO. Ottlcein Democrat Building, east aided Pec ond Street—gr< tind Poor JUDICIAL TICKET. Judge—26th Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. Prosecuting Attorney—2Bth Judicial Circuit. RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. • ; For Auditor. :Dem.: W. H. H. FRANCE. ;Dem.: JOHN H. LENHART. ; For Treasurer. •Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. : ; For Recorder. Dem.; HARVEY HARRUFF ; ; For Sheriff. :I»em.: PETER P. ASHBACCHER For Coroner. ' Dem.: S.C. CLARK. r • For Surveyor. :Dem.'. W. E. FULK. ; ; For Commissioner—2nd Dist. •Dem.: CONRAD BRAKE. . . For Commissioner—3rd Dist. :Dem.' DAVID ECKROTE. The Senate still holds on to the tariff bill and Republicans still howl. Thirty years of legislation for the benefit of the rich has brought America to its present condition. Yet some people cry out it is not enough, rob the people more and , -.they will like it better. A purse should be raispd for gravel road building. Our business men should show their hand in this undertaking and help the farmer build gravel roads. The work can be done so cheaply, that a move in that direction ought to be started at once. The load the Democratic party took upon itself when it agreed to correct the wrongs that had been forced upon the people. It i® so great that the party has been staggered under the weight, but is bracing up manfully and will before long come out from under the load. The income tax and the wool schedule are about all that is left of the Wilson bill. Now, if Senator Hill can strike out the income tax and Senator Brice can restore wool to the dutiable list they will complete the farce which they began when they commenced to kill the bill by amendments. The truth seems to make our es teemed contemporary sick at the stomach, and well the thirty years of misrule of the thieves, robbers 1 and murderers should make all hon- ; est men sick. Thirty years of the worst legislation that any country , ever endured. Vomit again Frank, and you may feel better. i Our Republican friends are claiming that the rule which Zar Reed counted a quorum was originated with the Zar. They forget that the rule was one that the secession Congress adopted when in session at Richmond. Reed may have< had some understanding with them at the time that he could have the use of the rule, if he ever was in a —.position to use the same. For thirty years the laborers of this country bore the burdens of his country, when they got tired and rebelled, the masters that they had served have attempted to coerca them by shutting down the place where their servants labored for them. A large number of factories • have been closed for the purpose of compelling the men to do the bidding of their masters, knowing well that the mpst of them will suffer to be wronged rather than see their families suffer.

tIF trusts and combines are able to hang out <IIOO,OOO for a Senatorial = -vote they can generally get a few takers. Here appears the moral - side of a great tariff for protection. A nation cannot afford to subject - its public men to such temptations. There should be in public life no 0 opportunities for amassjng fortunes „ in exchange for votes.- Clean out r the tariff robbery by making revenue the rule of all tax laws. Councilman Patjerson, of the great and noble First Ward was in favor of making a respectable showing in the reduction of salaries, or • none at all at (he meeting of the Council last night. To which Councilman Coverdale also of the First Ward replied that he would see that they were cut when the Republicans get into power. To which Patterson got in his woik amt said: Very well, I am one who will serve without any salary if others will do likewise. The Republicans ot Indiana are not so confident as they were a few weeks ago that they were going to have a walk-over in this State. The election in the Third District of Ohio and in the city of St Paul demonstrated that the people are all as firmly determined to effect a reduction of the tariff to a revenue basis as thsy were in and 1892. ’1 he very treason of the six Democratic Senators will make the Democrats of the country more earnest and determined than ever that their will shall be obeyedThe tariff bill will almost certainly be passed and become a law before the 15th day of June. It is not even an approach to what was expected of a Democratic Congress. But it is very much better than MeKinleyism and the beneficial effects of free wool alone will be so universally recognized that the next Congress will have no difficulty in passing a tariff for revenue only. One thing the people understand very well and that is that the Demorcatic party alone can be relied upon to remove the unjust and unequal burdens of tariff taxation. Should the Democratic Presidential ticket in 1896 be defeated, ii would be the first time in the history of the Democratic party that an empty treasury was turned over to its successor in office. Had the Democratic treasury of 1888 turned over to its Republican successor the, same depleted treasury that it received in 1892, the hard time® of the country of to-day would then have taken place instead of now, and would have been credited to Republicans where the present hard times justly belongs. It has been a case of Tit all along, on the Republican side, and should the old-time play of Tit-for-Tat be put in use it would only even-up on matters and place conditions of affairs where they justly belong. Thomas G. Shermam, the wellknown tariff reformer, has written a long letter to the New York Evening Post reviewing and condemning the Senate Tariff bill, which he speaks as “the Gorman atrocity.” The following extract will be cordially approved by tariff! reformers everywhere: The new Gorman bill is worse than nothing, except possibly in the woolen schedule. Its pretended reductions of duties in the metal, cotton, flax and silk schedules leave most of them as prohibitory as the McKinley tariff itself. Some duties are actually increased, and always in favor of some manufacturing combination. Sometimes this increase of taxation for private gain is open, as in the case of the lithographic trust, which is given spaci tic rates, equal to about three times the McKinley rates, and such as it never was able to obtain from Reed and McKinley. But in* most cases it is done by means of a trick, in the way of new classification, such as none but the initiated can understand. Some of these tricks have already been exposed, but there are many more. The metal schedule is full of them, especially in cutlerytiles and saws. The monopoly secured to the steel-rail and steel*, beam combinations is so glaring that it cannot be called a trick. It is open and almost avowed robbery.

> POVEHTI BREEDERS. I 1 A tariff is a tariff. Imposed by a r Congress or Municipal Council, it 1 is an insult to the trading ocoupa * * tion, an obstacle to progress and an 1 impoverishment of the people. Some State tariffs have been—- * and are still—teaching a class of ’ particularly quick minds what a L tariff does against thq true interests ’ ot humanity. When a drummer finds a legal contrivance to keep his house out of a territory which wants his goods he sees through the millstone of protection. It the United States refused to deal with Europe, if St. Louis re fused to deal with New York, if Missouri, Tennessee. Arkansas and Texas towns refused to deal with St. Louis, it the country stores refused to deal with these towns and if the farmers refused to deal with the country stores, we would have a perfect protective system all along the line. And in 10 years we would have poverty and squalor all along the line. Under that perfect protective system the trader would be squeezed out. 'Every man would give up the advantages of discovery and improvement. There would not even be a book in circulation. . What point in that protective system would be ’worse or better than any other? If one is justifiable or useful the others are. Every bigoted protective law is a sale of public right to a sordid special interest and one such sale is as good as another. Sell one right and there is a check to civilization. Sell all and the sordid interests are destroyed. We then reach the barren level of the universal grubbing of roots and picking of wild berries. Laws to prevent New York from selling in St. Louis or St. Louis from selling in Nashville are affronts to the mercantile class. So are laws to prevent trading with Europe. All laws of that kind are reaction toward the Dark Agee of prejudice and slavery.—St. Louis Republic, 21st. Our Republican friends talk loud and long about the hard times, the tariff and the Senate, but never say one word about what they done with the one hundred million dollars they got when the party went into power, and then further, they might tell about the tariff tliey collected during the four years they were in power; then follows up the deficit they left in the treasury when they turned it over to the Democrats. When the matter is considered by intelligent people, can there be any que,stion why money is scarce? Think of $100,000,000 being squandered in four years, besides the amount they collected each year —all spent arid the treasury left empty; yet they attempt to make the people believe it is the work of the Democratic party. The complacency with which a few bankers and commercial men assume to themselves all of the wisdom upon the coinage question would be amusing if its consequences were not so injurious to the general welfare. We suppose any man who reflects and thinks will see at once that the interest of the bankers is to have just as little competition in the business of selling money or metal used as money as possible. We might as well expect to receive wise counsels from the stockholders of the Sugar Trust on the tariff question as to expect wise counsels from bankers on the money question. Both are monopolists of the most offensive kind. It is impossible for either to consider any question except from the point of view “of their pocket interests. Therefore any fiscal policy advocated by the bankers should be looked upon by all rational people with suspicion. They will no more abandon their power over the currency until they are forced to do so by the votes of the people than the Sugar, Trust will abandon its system of robbery made possible by the tariff laws. Bargains! Bargains 11 Bottom Price at the Bargain Counter at Henry Winnes’ Shoe Store. dlßw6tf

j Maryland Democrats are getting a ' very impatient with their two Sent ators Messrs. Gorman and Gibson. At a meeting held in Baltimore a ( ' tew days ago resoulutions were unanimously adopted demanding of ' both Senators that they vote for the C Wilson bill and use all honorable t means to push the consideration of the bill to a final decision. They r should have added that the resignas tion of Senators Gorman and Gibs son would not only give satisfaction co Maryland Democrats but to the entire nation. They are both hum- } bugs and obstructionists and it is to be feared that Senator Gorman is j. even worse. 1 The State of New York has ' passed a libel law which has a seaI r 1 ture in it to protect newspaper pub- ’ lisbers against fakes of a malicidusi ! nature. It makes it a misdemeanor ’ with a penalty of a year in the pen- • itentiary and a line of 1500 to de- ■ oeive a newspaper with a false and ' libelous information. This is a just law, but no libel law will do full justice to newspaper publishers that does not also include a clause ' entitling them to recover attorney fees and costs, at least, from a plaintiff who fails to establish a libel before a jury. It may be said with absolute truth that no class of peopleln the world are so careful to be accurate in all statements affecting the character or standing of individuals as newspaper publishers. It is not because they are morally any stronger or more virtuous than their fellows but for the reason that the success of the business of a newspaper depends almost- exclusively on the accuracy of all ot its statements whether of news or of\ personal nature. COUNCIL PHOCEEDIN6S. The City Council met In regular session last Monday evening, Mayor Reed In the chair. Councilmen Niblick, Pattersofi, Coverdale,Vail, Teeple and Buhler present. The following business was transacted: J. J. Bowers was given the contract to furnish 500 yards of crushed stone for city at 90 cents per yard. The 30 days allowed bv law after the election to fix the amount of salary each official is to receive per year for services, having expired, the following resolution was presented by the Republican branch of the City Council: That the following amounts be and are hereby fixed as salaries for the several city officers for the ensuing year to-wit: Mayor.. ..............1225 Marshal 405 Street*Commissioner 450 Clerk 315 City Attorney... 112 Secretary Board of Health 75 Chief Fire Department.. 50 City Treasurer...... 135 Each Councilman 00 City Engineer, s:’> perday for each day actually employed. The following resolution was presented by the Democratic branch of the City Coui*il: Mayor .... SIOO Marshal s 450 Street Commissioner.. 500 Clerk 200 City Attorney 100 Treasurer .....*. , 100 Secretary Board of Health 50 Chief, Fire Department 50 Each Councilman.... 50 City Engineer, $3 per day for each day actually employed.. After considerable see-sawing on the Republican branch of the council, a compromise was affected, by which the salaries were left to remain the same as previously fixed by the Democratic Council: Mayor 250 Marshal 450 Street Commissioner 500 Clerk 350 City Attorney 125 Treasurer 150 Secretary Board of Health 100 Chief, Fire Department 50 Each Councilman 100 City Engineer, $3 per day for each day actually employed. EPWORTH LEAGIE. Friday evening the Epworth League gave an old time “spellin’ skule.” Miss Trotwood and M rs. Samantha Allen, of Jonesville were present, and also the teacher, an old-fashioned young man of years ago. A good time was had by all present. Don’t forget that one week from today the League will give an exchange. The League members are getting ready to go to the district convention at Huntington on June 19 and 20. NOTICE. slio tfie citizens of the city of Decatur and surrounding country: I, M. 8. Elzey, wish to announce that 1 I intend to return to Decatur, where I ) at one time did business in the Jewelry line As I intend to carry on a Jewelry ’ Business with a different basis from i that of any there,.! hope to interest all my old friends. My business shall 1 consist of selling Watches and Diaj monds on the installment plan and at cut rate prices. Also to clean ' watches and place in main springs at the low price of 65 cents. A.ll goods and repair work to be guaranteed sat- . isfactory. Lookout for the Cut Rate Store, it is coming without fail. ■ Yours Respectfully, z f 10-4 w M. S. Elzey. asw&ii 1,1 uwnmmbmb . .u

BUY k Os course you have only to see how much "money I YOU I ■ Can save, what a nice assortment we carry, all the Leading; Makes, Styles and qualities. I AN Other thing we wish to call your attention to is the I fa*ct that we guarantee all our best 1 f UMBRELLA 1 To wear. Ask to see our Belvadere Climax and Eureka.] Better brands are not made. Be have them I AT All prices from 50 cents to SSOO. Don’t fail to call] and see them at BOSTON Store. I. O. O. F. Block. I I V KUEBLER & MOLTZ. I

HKHOHIAL PROGRAM. Com it tee on Memorial Day are as follows: D. K. Shackley, Pres , Rob’t Blackburn, Sec’y., David Laman, Tress. BUHORDINATE COMMITTEE. Committee on Speaker—Rob’t Blackburn. Committee on Vocal Music—J. D. Hale. Committee on Instrumental Music—H. Hart, M. Wertsberger. Committee on Evergreens—H. Hart, D. Laman. Committee on Finance—S. B. Fordyce, J, Delavan. PROGRAM FOR THE DAY. Post and Veterans go to the Old Cemetery and Catholic Cemetery at 9:00 a. m.and decorate graves. Return to the Hall aud adjourn for refreshments. Form at the G. A. R. Hall 1:00 p. in. and mareh to tne Court House, where Ritual Service will be held, followed by an ad ‘dress by Rev. A. E. Mahin, of Richmond, Ind. After the service at the Court House the line of march will be formed and go to the New Cemetery to complete the day’s exercises. i, LINE OF MARCH. Form on Second Street left in front on Monroe street, namely:— Kern’s Drum Corps Ladies Relief Corps Grand Army apd Veterans Public Schools. Juvenile or Boys Drum Corps Catholic Schools Catholic Knights and C. B. L. Odd Fellows City Band Knights of Pythias Militia, extreme right. Returning from cemetery,Militia tomarch right in front, headed by City Band. Norval Blackburn. Marshal of the day. Listen!—We will test your eyes cor reetly the errors of refraction and give you a glass which exactly suits your eyes for the same price you will pay for glasses where your eyes are not examined, The correction and examination is free. Glasses you pay opticians that travel $6 to $lO for, we sell at $3 to $6. Call and see us, at D. M. Hensley’s jewelry store. Silts Now is the time tosubscribe for the Democrat.

SLAUGHTER SALM / r VA'- -A'AAvAA A ■’¥, ’ • 'v|| ll 'lllarttl st*fe onb ftidH Sold regardless of price—Commencing ||M SAWRJW- JBAT 12,18 M and continuing until our stock is reduced $5,000. We will sell Foot-wear at less than 'MH cost. We have, without exception, the S MH large strand best line of Ladies, Gents’ aafl CWlim’s Foo™ Ever shown in Adams county. * MB|| What we want is Money. What we must have is our large stock reduced. |M| Stop and see us whether you want shoes or not. MM We will do you good. . tflM KERN &

For Sale—By the barrel or gall I lon, pure cider vinegar made at th| I Decatnr Cider Mill. Retail 15c pel I gallon. A discount by the barrel. Caj S on Peter Kirsch. d3Bw!ott 1 I Bath Rooms.—Persons wishing I I first-class bath, can be accommodate! I by calling on “Man” Woods; coual house basement. Entrance on Madiso] B street. Sldtf 11 □ Secure a bargain in Tan Foot Wea ■ at Henry Winnes’ w6tf | ■ Prices DOWN, DOWN, DOWN, !■ the Bargain Counter at Henry WinH lies’. — w6tf ' H When in need of smoking or chewii ■ tobacco call on Milt Byers, Second 8 H sign of “Big Injun,” 3tf B Crist. Bjcknecht has added to 1 B already fine establishment a No. 1 Pc B Table. Lovers of this game will fli H everything first-class at Crist's I’la-IB] For Sale—Bicycle, good as nei paid 1137.50, will take $55 for it. Ci] B] on D. M. Hensley. gB You can save 20 per cent on every] B| worth of Hour bought of Hart & Bro.|B| the City Mills. d 22 2in For Rent—A good business rolM| with upstairs suitable for a family H| live in. For information call on JilHg Martin. |H For Sale—Sixty-six feet of i|B| fence. Will sell at less than one lIBS price. Call on D. M. Hensley. ]HB Jacob Martin, of the Star Bakerylßß exhibiting at bis place of business jHH the varieties of fruits and vegetalßH that are in season d 6 w For Sale— Brick aud Tile. If you to purchase, call and see our tile. WillMg| glad to give prices. Sizes from 3 inches. Willtake 500 cords of wood|BM| tile. Kkick, Meyers &