Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1894 — Page 4

She democrat ju' r, . ...l =r= — jr. HL AOKB VBH, PrnpHotor. 9 BIDAY, JULY 13, 1894. Kate* of Subscription. 1 One Year, In advance • ' W Blx Month* ’® Four Montns.... **" All subacrtptlona not paid during the s*ar will be charged at the rate of 62.00. Ufltoein Democrat Building, east sldeof Sec ond Street—ground Ucor ~.:.. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. For Congress,—llth District. • HON. A. N. MARTIN. JUDICIAL TICKET. Judge—26th Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. Prosecuting Attorney—26th Judicial Circuit. ' RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. ; ; For Auditor. :Dem.: w . H . H. FRANCE. _ ; For Clerk. ;Dem. /oiIN H. LENHART. _ ; For Treasurer. •Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. ; ; For Recorder. •Dem.: HARVEY HARRVFF ; For Sheriff. :bem.: PETER P. • • ; For Coroner I Dem.: S.C. CLARK. For Surveyor. A :Dem.-. w. E . FULK. - ; For Commissioner—2nd Dist. •Dem.. CONRAD BRAKE. .. . ... For Commissioner—3rd Dist. ;Dem. DAVID ECKROTE. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE FROM NOW ON TO THE IST OF JANUARY, 1895, YOU CAN HAVE THE DEMOCRAT FOR FIFTY CENTS. REMEMBER THIS IS THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED IN ADAMS COUNTY. “Where Ignorance l« Bird? 1 The “little dem,” hs the Journal ' man delights in calling the Evening Democrat seems io be quite an auxiliary from day to day for that astute journalist in procuring locals for his weekly. . No less than a dozen decoys—mythical locals, —have been put in the Evening Dem ocrat during the past six weeks, all of which have been transferred to the weekly Journal and given to its readers as bona fide local happenings. Still the editor of the “little demmy” is taken to task for not being able to write a two line local. THE PULLMAN MONOPOLY. One effect of the Pullman sympathy strike may be to stimulate the legislators of the country to put sleeping cars under public regulation. Perhaps gratitude is due to the Pullman Company for making night travel comfortable. We think not, as sleeping cars would be abundant if not a Pullman had ever been built. Without dwelling uppn that—gratitude being easy enough if called for—we can be sure that the sleeping car is now a necessity and needs regulation. The business is a close monopoly and does not reg ulate itself. The public pays what it paid when cars cost twice as much as now. A traveler has no privileges except so far as they are allowed in order to induce him to travel in sleepers. He gets only z what accommodations the corporationregards as to its advantage. The railroads and the public must obey the dictation of the Pullman Company. Nothing in the common carrier business needs regulation more than the sleeping car service.

The Journal man must have a grudge against Miss Cora Shackley by alluding to her as being the lady spoken of in Thursday’s Evening Democrat who rode her wheel on the sidewalk on Third street. For the information of the as - tute journalist of that sheet we will say the article in question bad no allusion whatever to the above lady.

ITS 80(111. CONWEQVEYCES. It will be conceded by all who have known Mr. Debs for who have observed his splendid generalship in the contest now raging between the Pullman company, the railroad companies and the American railway union that he is by far the ablest and wisest leader that, organized labor has yet developed. It is especially gratifying to the Courier and other papers that have invariably advised against violence in all strikes to read the interview with Mr. Debs in which he comments upon the injunction decreed against him and others by the United States circuit court, reference to which was made in these colums yesterday. Mr. Debs says that.the injunction sweeping as it is forbids precisely What the offi - cials of the American railway union have forbidden in all their instructions to the members of the union. He says that he hopes all persons who obstructor prevent the running or interfere with the work of new men or destroy the property of railroads or the Pullman company or who in any way violate the laws recognizing the rights of property will be punished to the extremity pf the law. He explains that the American railway union does not depend upon violence for the triumph of its cause. It is ah organization which embraces the various branches of railway employes and it expects to succeed because when the entire force of a railroad company quits work it will be impossible for that road tor months to come to drill new crews for the operation of their trains. He also relies upon the sympathy of organized labor generally and upon the volunteer tender of their services whenever he calls upon them. It is undoubtedly the truth that it is within the power of Mr. Debs today if he should conclude that there was no other recourse to win his flight, to call out every branch of organfzed labor in the United States. It is equally true that, he will employ this power if necessary for as he stated in the outset the struggle is one which must strate to the people that notwithstanding the power of combined capital, dishonestly acquired, the power of labor which produces all wealth is infinitely greater when it acts in unison. It is the struggle that the world has been expecting for a half a century and for which preparation has been making on both sides. It is the 19th century way of making way. The world is to be convinced by object lessons. It is to be Shown that if the moneyed interests of the world can combine to impair the opportunities for exchanging the fruits of libor, labor itself can combine to demonstrate that there can be no fruits to exchange without their consent and co-operation. This strike may fail, but he is blind indeed who does not see that if it fails it will be because of the lack of self-restraint upon the part of the strikers and that whenever labor as a unit can simply lay down its tools and peacefully await the consequences, the end of the present unjust, unequal and oppressive organization of society shall surely come without the shedding of a drop of blood and the minds of the people be prepared to accept the reorganization of society on the humane principles taught by Jesus in the gospel of peace and fraternity which has been the social ideal for nineteen centuries and that shall surely be realized in the century upon whose threshold the world now stands anxious and apprehensive yet hopeful.—Evansville Courier. Railroad Companies and (lie Law. The railroad companies, their attorneys and cringing apologists are suddenly enamored of the majesty of the law. Anathemas are hurled in every direction at those who do. not hasten to obey its mandates, whether made by the representatives people or coined for the occasion, by judges ajnd corporation counsel. This is well. But is it tq.be wondered at that men,

long in the service of these corporations and thoroughly indoctnned with the ideas of their matters, should fall into the long-practiced notions and methods of their superiors? What evidence has hitherto been given by the railroad corporations of their regard for law ? In Indiana, within the pAftt ten years, the representatives of the people have enacted various laws concerning railroads—laws intended to secure the safety of the citizen-—and to make railroad property bear its just share of the public burdens. As soon as the statutes were enacted they were either openly violated, covertly pvaded or viciously contested. One of these provided for signals at road crossings and another for blackboard announcements as to trains. Although both were enacted by a practically unanimous vote and received the approval of the governor, these law-abiding corporations treated them v itb contempt, and, in the case of the latter statute, never complied with it until practically compelled to do so by the enforcement of penalties. The former law is to all intents and purposes % dead letter.

The ordinances of this city, duly passed and ordained, forbid railroad trains to pass through the populous part of the city at a greateV rate of speed than six miles per hour. This law was enacted for the protection of human life. And yet, in defiance of its provisions and in reckless disregard of human life, trains on every road are sent thundering across our thoroughfares at the rate of speed thrice that prescribed. The new tax law is in point. It was enacted by the general assembly of the state, signed by the chief executive and went into force in the spring of 1891 as to every taxpayer, e'xcept the railroad companies. All good citizens bowed to its mandates and obeyed its provisions. The railroad companies either ignored or defied it, and now, in 1894 are paying taxes that other taxpayers were compelled to pay three years ago. But why multiply instances? Does anyone know of a single statute ever enacted by the legislature of Indiana in any way affecting railroad interests which was not violated openly and flagitiously by the railroad corporations? In their dealings with the people, whose lands they have appropriated and whose stock they have unlawfully killed, their conduct has been so litigious and dishonest as to make them utterly and entirely obnoxious to those with whom they have dealt. It has been openly charged that in their lawsuits their employes are compelled to bear false witness, if necessary, under penalty of dismissal. It is notorious amongst lawyers, that in a lawsuit in which a railroad company is a party, its employes dare not give testimony injuriously affecting it, no matter what the truth may be. Every legislature a railroad lobby to prevent, by fair means or foul, the enactment of laws which do not suit them. Their motto, in short, seems to be to prevent the will of the people being carried out in the legislature by means of their paid lobby, but if the legislators are proof against them and enact laws to their detriment and then strike down the laws.

And yet these corporations, through their organs, are now posing as great lovers of the law. W ith what unction do they yield to it their unfaltering allegiance! The people, have had too many dealings with them to be deceived for a moment by their hypocrisy/ Chronic lawbreakers are seldom listened to when they essay to preach upoh the majesty of the law. —lndianapolis Sentinel. ■ Governor Altgeld, of Illinois, may not have a very exalted opin ion of Grover Cleveland lor placing Cook County under Martial Law, but the major portion of the people of the United States will be on the side of Grover in the action he has taken in the matter, and if necessary will take up arms to snppport their judgement.

NOME SERIOUS QL’fcSTIONS FOR AMERICANS TO ANSWER. ' Four days prior to writing this article, the New York daily papers reported the arrest in Washington of a member of Coxey’s army tor using profane language on the street. Who imagines that it it had been President Cleveland or Secretary Carlisle who bad used oaths on the street, an arrest would have followed. , On the same day the dispatches reported the arrest of a member of Coxej’s army for begging on the streets of Washihgton; and yet, during the past thirty years the present deplorable condition among the industrial millions of America has been largely brought about by permitting bands of wealthy beggars to influence Congress in the passage of laws, by which a few havebeen enabled toacquire immense wealth, while millions have suffered in consequence of the same. 'J. S. Coxey, Carl Brown and Columbus Jones have been iflrested and convicted for carrying peace banners without the permission of the authorities in Washington. One of their number also was arrested tor treading on the grass in the capitol grounds;,yet at the same time adulter Breckenridge, who confessed less than a month before in the same city to having committed a grave prison offense repeatedly during ten years, is allowed to retain his seat in the House of Representatives and help make laws. In the State of Massachusetts, three weeks ago. a man and woman were sent to reformatories, for a year and a half each, because evidence against them indicated that they had been guilty of adultry. Congressman Breckenridge, on th other hand, insists on running again for office, thus trying to force his district to disgrace him, after askthe Presbyterian church to take him back. And let it be Aaid to the everlasting disgrace of the Presby terian curch, that when this man came before them to be taken back f instead of requesting him in the name of public decendy and of common morality to show his repentance by retiring to private life, they received him without any such re gard for decency and morality. In the light of these things, one is natufally led to inquire, for whom are our laws enacted,.and for what does the church at the present time stand?—The Arena.

The Strike Situation. The strike which has been in operation for the past few weeks, and which threatened great calamity to the entire people of the United States, has almost reached a normal attitude. While the difierences between the strikers and employer have not been amicably adjusted, there is a prevailing opinion among the knowing ones that an early compromise will be reached. The Fair meeting. To-morrow afternoon at the hour of two o’clock at the Court House will assemble the Board of Managers and others interested in the AdamF County Fair Association. At this meeting the officers of the association will be elected who will act in their respective places for the period of one year. It is therefore earnestly requested that all interesbe&will be present.

AT.IIEST. .William Henry Lemar was bdrn in Cumberland county. Pennsylvania in tbe year 1812, he moved to Wayne county, Ohio, where on March 23, 1843 he was united in marriage to Miss Rebecca Yocum. To this union there was born eight children, seven of whom are living Fatbelr Demar was deprived of the joy and comforts of bis wife, October 23, 1860, she having proceeded him to that world beyond, leaving him the family to care fdr, which he did in a fatherly way, the youngest being a mere babe when the mother passed away. He moved to Adams county in April 1860 and died in Decatur, July 10,1894, at the ripe old age of eighty-two years, ten months and nineteen days. He was a member of tbe M. E. church from which his funeral took place, July 12 at 10 o'clock a m. The interment was in Maplewood cemetery. Those who knew him best loted him most. When not at bis daily avocation he could always be found with bls children; so that home to him was the place on earth he most enjoyed, and when the message came he was ready to depart from this world in tbe same peaceful way that be bad lived in this world. ■Cv-ft- -5 • -i > »7'- 7 - iV&jK j' ■

WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU BEFORE WE INVOICE. OUR STOCK MUST BE REDUCED \ IN JULY. BARGAINS THIS WEEK: ' Ladies’Vests v .. 5 c Bleached Muslin.... 67-9 Ladies’Vests id c Uubleached Muslin,. 56-7 Ladies’ Vests is|c Few Shirt Waists... 25c Ladies’Vests. 15 c Velours 10c Ladies’Vests 20 c Chenelle Covers $1 00 SHEET AND PILLOW CASES READY-MADE v AT THE SAME PRICE AS THE MUSLIN. FOUND ONLY AT THE I, 0.0. F. Block. : KUFBLER & HOLTZ. ROYAL DUKE. W) ~ xmOOKXJ 2:29 !-■* Bay horse, foaled 1832. 16 hands high. Bred by C. M. Bothel, pf Chicago. ■lll. Sired by FLORIDA 482. Sire erf twelve in the 2; 30 list. Ist dam Gentle Jeanie, daughter Night Hawk, 614; 2nd dam Musnieh daughter of Black Hawk. No,3rd dam Sossac, daughterof Young Eclipse. Florida by Hambletontan, No. 10. 1' Irst dam by Volunteer, 50. bon of Ham blet N"ght Hawk sired-Red Cross. 2:2rt>*; and Minnie Warren. 2:27*4; also sired three producing sons and seven daughters that have produced 2:30 performers. nrl.es KOVAL DIiKF. is a grand Individual and impressive sire. Has taken nomerons prizes in the show ring. His colts are all young, but his breeding Is st r°ng and runs in the best and most approved trotting lines, Mated with trotting bred mares he should sire extreem DUKE will make the season of 1804 at the Red Barn Livery and Feed Stable of Peoples Brothers. Unt Terma-T?o Insure a man- with foal 610. due when the mare Is known to be with foal. Any person parting with mare before known to be with foul forfeits the insurance, vare will be taken to prevent accidents, but responsible for none. Coine and Bee this tine Stallion. J. B. & J. MJKICE. Owners.

For thirty years this country has lived under a high protective tariff and its whole teaching has beeh that the government should do someihiug to help the citizens make a living or to get neb. In all that time the rich have been growing richer and tbe poor poorer, and the employer and the employed have been growing further and furthe apart. This is a matter of /common observation and it is so plain that it is admitted by everybody. All this time, too, there has been a growing discontent among the working masses, and all sorts of wild theories havh been propagated and received with more or less public favor. The mqst crazy socialistic or anarchistic find lodgment in the minds of the dissatisfied, and each one has some special claim on tHe government. All these things have grown directly from preaching the doctrine that the government should use the taxing power, under the name of protection, to assist in tbe development of some business scheme. If it is right for government to help its Carnegies and Wanamakers there is_ every reason why it should help the Coxeys and all the beggars’' of low degree. No man wiio favors a paternalistic government has any right to find fault with any of the schemes of the Coxyites or the wildest of the socialists. THE MARKETS TO-DAY. (Corrected daily for. The Democrat.) Wheat No. 2 • 50 Corn No. 2 ~ , 45 Oats No. 2 new 25 4t)ats No. 2, old 35 Rye Clover... 400 Timothy 135 Flax -••••• 90 Butler 10 Eggs x 11 Lard :.. ••• 9 Potatoes.. •• 99 Hams ••• 10 Shoulders 8 Bacon Wool 9to Cattle 00 to 8 50 Hogs .4 00 to 5 00 Sheep. 3 00 to 4 00 Limbs ..■....■■•■3 00 to 4 00 Now is tbe time to subscribe for tbe Democrat. z ... J , ,

It I" Here, Have You Seen It? Our readers will recall to mind an advertisement which appeared in the Daily Democrat a few weeks since which read, ‘‘Watch!” Wait For It. *The Wagon is Coming, It Will Be Here Soon. Eyeryone who read this advertisement from day to day was anxious to know what it meant, and many were the patrons of the Democrat who enquired of us what it stood for. Os course our knowledge of the advertise-'' ment and the motive of the advertiser could not be revealed to any one, and was not,—even to the compositors in the office. .It must here'be stated in justice to the advertiser that his intentions to surprise his many patrons and the community in general, were greatly handicapped by being disappointed in getting here on time the article of surprise. \ But as time and patience are oftentimes necessary to the accomplishment of affairs in the life of a successful business man, our patron abided his timp until yesterday when the article in question “arrove.” In making the above announcement, the Democrat takes pleasure in alluding to the handsome delivery wagon of the City Steam Laundry, Fred C. Miller, Proprietor. In point of finish and general workmanship this vehicle tis / equal to any we have ever seen; and Mr Miller deserves great praise for the enterprise manifested in this directio n. Work will be collected from any part of the -city and delivered on short notice, atxprices the same as at the Laundry, corner Front and Monroe Streets. PASSED AWAY. lUary'E. Stacy—Maloney—was born March 9. 1846, and died July 8, 1894, aged forty-eight years, four months and twenty-nine days. She was a daughter of Ex-Commissioner Henry Stacy of Blue Creek township. She was married to Henry M. Ileadingion in August 16,1866, and to them was born three children, one son-and two daughters when she was bereft of her husband. January 29, 1882, she was again united in marriage; this time to Robert N. Maloney, and to them was born a sou and daughter. The three daughters live to mourn the loss of a devoted mother. Ibat terrible disease, consumption confined her to her bed for more than a year, under alljof which she bore up with that Christian fortitude that those can who feel their peace with God is made. The funeral was from the residence, conducted by Rev. Gregg, of the M E church, of which she was a (insistent, member. Interment took place in Maplewood cemetery.