Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1894 — Page 4

She democrat jr. BLACKBURN, Proprietor. f RID AY. AUG. 3, IW4. Bate» o/ Subeoription. One Year, In advancell 50 Bfcx Month* 75 Foor Montan 50 All aubecriptiona not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 13.00. ______________________________ - - U—■ Office in Democrat Building, east eideof Sec ond Street—ground floor OONVHKNNIONAL TICKET. fw For Congress,—llth District. HON. A. N. MARTIN. Ji niriiL TICKET. Judge—2flth Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. Prosecuting Attorney—2oth Judicial Circuit, RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. ;; For Auditor. .Dem.: W. H. H. FRANCE. .; For Clerk. • Dem < JOHN H. LENHART. ; For Treasurer. :Dem.l DANIEL P. BOLDS. ;: For Recorder. Dem.: HARVEY’' HARRUFF :; For Sheriff. ! Lem.: PETER P. ASHBAUCHER. • • ■; For Coroner Dem.: 8. C. CLARK. For Surveyor. : Dem -: W. E. FULK. :: For Commissioner—2nd Diet. Dem.' CONRAD BRAKE. 2’ • ”: For Commissioner—3rd Dist. :Dem.' DAVID ECKROTE. HERE IS YOUR CHANCE FROM NOW ON TO THE IST OF JANUARY. IS»S, YOU GAN HAVE THE DEMOCRAT FOR FIFTY CENTS. REMEMBER THIS IS THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC PAPER PUBLISHED IN ADAMS COUNTY. . “The Democracy of the land , plead most earnestly for the speedy , ■completion of the tariff legislation which representatives have undertaken but they demand not less earnestly that no stress of necessity shall tempt these they trust to the abandonment of Democratic principles. Grovfr Clii/eland.” Fourth Street property owners are talking very- favorable to putting down brick streets. This street is the most beautiful resident street in the city, and all the propertyowners on this street are well able to put down a material of this kind. We believe that the work could easily be completed this year yet, and hope that the commencement may not be fat off. The differance between the,,Republican ranks and those which have occurred in the Democratic ranks.is that the Republicans are ■quarreling over a division of the spoils while the Democrats are in’ dispute over principles. •A man that- regulates his politics by his ambition for office is at all times a fit subject to join the Popu-r lists. The party is a haven for all broken-down demagogues of the old parties, a collection principally of disappointed office seekers. The City Council at their meeting last evening failed to take up any part of the waterworks project so much talked of by our people. It would not be an out-of-order move on the part of the Council to hold a special session for the disposition of this important work. That portion of Second Street between Monroe and Jefferson winch has undergone improvement with vitrified brick, will not appear completed until the sidewalks thereto are also impoved. As a number of the property owners along this improved street contemplate putting down flag-stone or some other material superior to brick, it would not be out of place for the County Commissioners to set the example in this undertaking. The President has not lost his • power of discerning the proper time 'to put in his oar. And what a tremendous stroke it was!

NO SURRENDER. If Congressmen are, in fact, talking of compromise on the terms suggested in the press dispatches, they must have little conception of the temper of the country. The firm stand of the House and the courageous intervention of the President have received universal commendation from the Democratic and independent press, and the people are as unanimous and emphatic as r.he press. The Senate conspirators are denounced on all sides, and it is unquestionably the strong sentiment on all sides that it would be better to pass no bill at all than to let the Senate traitors run the party and make it the servant of the impudent trusts that are attempting to dictate legislation. A stand must be made somewhere agains' the government by money that has grown up during thirty years of re publican rule, and that stand ought to be made before the Democratic party has submitted to the dishonoi of accepting such rule. If it sub mits now it will not soon be trusted again to defend the people from such government. The establishment of a duty of 45 per cent, advalorum on all sugaris more than equivalent to the amount of bounty granted the suga' trust by the McKinley bill. Th« duty alone is a full equivalent, and. added to this, the trust will have the opportunity to undervalue im ported raw sugar, which it could not profit by under the McKinles bill. The only possible duty tba' can put a stop to the piratical plunder of this lawless organization is an uniform specific duty on all sugars. In the fight of the damaging disclosures that have been made concerning the sugar trust and its methods, any concession to it will be regarded by the country as ? fruit of corruption and will leavt an indelible smirch on the party The concessions to the whisky trust and the whisky pool are almost equally obnoxious to a very large class of people. They are not called for by any industry and are purely for the benefit of speculators. The duties on coal and iron are a tax on sll manufacturing and industrial occupations that will ultimately be paid by the whole people. It would be an awful blunder to retain such duties in a bill passed by Demoocratic Congress, and the only safe course is to force a vote for tbeii removal in the Senate. If the Senate persists in adhering to them let the House appeal to the country on the issue thus made. The parti will support the House and the peo pie will support the party in such a glorious revolt against the money power.—lndianapolis Sentinel.

We visited the City Park this morning and were surprised to see so many of the young trees planted there a few years ago for shade producing purposes dying off for want of water. No less than two hundred of these trees, —which but a few months since had every prospect of becoming beautiful shade trees, having already branched and leafed out, —now present a dead or dying appearance, the leaves thereon all having seared and yellowed for the want of water. There should no time be lost by the city authorities in look ing after the remaining live trees in this park, for if water is not soon supplied them they too will be numbered among the dead. A few tanks of water will go a long ways in keeping moist the earth that surrounds these trees; but before this is done the earth should be loosened up and left in a position so that all the water will reach the roots and body of the tree. There should some action be taken to-night by the City Council whereby the citizens of Decatur may know if Water Works aye oi are not to be built this year. That a majority of the tax-payers of the City of Decatur would like to see this work commenced and completed this year, a person has only to ask for an opinion on the subject, and it will be Yea, from nine, out of every ten you

DELAYS ARE DANGEROUS. Scott Hughes had a very close call last Saturday evening. As he was about to drive on the 0. & E. krphs ing near the Catholic cemetry south of town, Dr. Trout noticed a passenger train coming from the east without warning and running at the rate of about thirty miles an hour. Trout called out to Hughes who immediately took in the situanon and jerked his horse back as the engine dashed by missing the horse only about six feet. Os course no one was hurt, but this is another demonstration that our railroad crossings are dangerous places. Hair-breadth escapes are common at the crossings and a watchman placed at these places alter a few bad accidents have occurred will not atone for lives lost. Why lock the door of stable after the hoist is stolen. Lives lost cannot be reieemed Therefore those whost place it is to act should take thi necessary steps at once and thereby guard against accidents at our dan gerous railroad crossings. THE TIMES H AVE (H ANGED. Popular respect for the United States Senate has-been waning for years but recent events havt brought the body to the verge oi universal contempt. Those wh< remember when Clay and Webster, Calhoun, Benton, Cass and Doug as were among the great spirits that made legislative history cannot Sup press their indignation when they contrast the scenes of the last feu months with those witnessed when these patriots and philosopher! were deliberating upon important public measurers. Who would havt thought in those days that the tirai would ever come that men who had been chosen by confiding constitu encies would conduct themselves m such away as to create suspiaions igainst their integrity? Who w>uld have believed that a half dizen Senators would ever be so lostlto a sense of duty and honor as to per mit private or local interests to outweigh the public good?. What is the matter anyway? Is our system of education responsible tor the lack of public morals manifesting itself in high places? What wondef is it that the country isafflicted with strikes and riot socia disorders involving the safety ol property and human life when the great law- givers of the land -to whom the people naturally look as examples in good citizenship and good morals deliberately use then official positions as the means for advancing their personal fortunes or of betraying their constituencies which have trusted them?

This is the way people are talkalj over the land. The Senate which was once the goal of every American youth’s noblest ambition has been poluted by the presence of wnembers who have willingly turned into a business mart by making their votes mere objects of commerce. But there is going to be a general casting out of devils in the near future. Certain Senators will discover before long that they cannot openly violate pledges or use their power to advance private interests and retain the respect and support of decent men.—Evansville Courier. WE’RE IN THE SWIM, LET S KEEP ON SWIMMING. Within the past year Decatur has taken up and completed quite a stretch of stone and brick streets. These improvements are noticable in every, locality in the city, and few cities of our size anywhere can boast z of better streets than Decatur. This work of street building in Decatur is of but recent practice. Only a few years since to talk of building brick streets in Decatur was hooted down by the average resident as one of the impossibilities. To-day we have a.small stretch of this kind of street in our city with a fair prospect of another before the season closes. - . . /' ’ ~ -* ““

Senator Gorman is like, the leaders of the Republican party. He says he redeemed his promise, to the ones that elected him. He is for class legislation; the samp as the party that is known as the Republican party, always ready to build up a few at the expense of the many. Gorman’s few friends may be well pleased with his actions, but a United States Senator like another officer should regard his oath and do what is the best for the public in general instead of a favored few. The result of class legislation is what we are now go ing through. The full effects of the McKinley laws is what we are now reaping and what we have been reaping ever since the same went into effect. While the longer ii lasts the more severely are the es sects of it felt. Truly the McKinley law is a great one for the favored few, but for those who earn their living by hard labor the grinding down is so severe that life at times seem to them a burden Senator Gorman seems to be like the McKinleyites, ready to do anything that will favor a few at the expense of the whole people of this great country. “TURN BACKWARD, TURN BACKWARD, OH TIME!’' The spirit of public improvement in Decatur this season, has outstripped all our neighboring towns of larger population. Our town is universally lighted by electricity Our street improvements are the pride of every citizen. No town can boast of better walks; before the close of the present year we are to have a fine water works plant, also a perfect system of telephone exchange. Now as the town of two years ago has moved along the line of progress in the above improve ments and is assuming (justly) the airs of a city, why don’t the proper authorities grasps this spirit and change the “backwoods” Time as kept on the Court House to “Standard” Time, —the time that we all are compelled to adopt when w< t,A.vol. strangfte* coming Into oui midst to attend entertainments an greatly annoyed by m their time and ours. Let’s have this done at once, the expense will be nothing and sis appreciated by an. “Progress.”

The Republicans of Illinois had an animated time at their Staft Convention but the mossbacks had been so industriously herded that Senator Cullum’s supremacy was proclaimed with accompanying blasts of fog horns and cornets much out of tune. Senator Cullom is a respectable person no doubt but he belongs to that class of men who have learned nothing during the last forty years. He is a fossil and as such would become a shelf in some museum of antiquities more than a seat in the United Senate. Williard Steele is pushing the Speed Track on his farm to an early completion. Several extra teams have been put to work thereon this morning, and by the last of next month (August) it will be fully completed. Horsemen throughout the county are fitting up their “speeders” and will give lovers of this sort of sport an opportunity of attending a FAIR sometime in September or early October. The following from the Posyville news shows that the Democrats are onto Hill’s motives: Says the News: “Os course everyone realizes that Senator Hill was far from being sincere in his endorsement of the Cleveland letter, but his speech will be an excellent docn ment to draw on him when he takesone of his Democratic ‘fits.’” ; » The relaying of brick on the north side of the Court House was commenced this morning. We are not able to say whether the front part will receive the same kind of material or not, .but if the people’s wishes are to be recognized in this matter, brick will not be used. We will see! ’ AL AYERS Painter and Paper flanger. All work wanented. Prices reasonable. - 52 t£

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CAUSE OF LOW I‘KICES. The Chicago Evening Post says: “The market is in a condition with which experience has io parallel. The terms high and low which once -xisted are no longer applicable and he trade feels restive and rebellious under the new of affairs. There are dozens of thirones advanced to account for thp continued and apparently interminable decline, ■lome of them crude and improbable and others ingenious and far fetched, and yet the true cause is not deeply hidden, it is to the <ame old principle of supply and lemand, which has been the gov erning factor in commercial affairs ever since barter and trade became necessary, that is at present domina ting the wheat market; there is more of the article than there is any present need for, and that fact is being brought home day by day with more telling emphasis; that ind nothing more is needed to account for the low and still lower prices which have of late been the lady experience. The phenominally low price as compared with the value of the cereal in former times is due to a variety of causes. The first of these is the abundant crops with which this country has been favored for a series of years, begin mg with the pheiiominal crip of 1-891. The next is that the production has been cheapened by labor saving agricultural implements, one phase of the application ol which is not fully appreciated i® this country, for it is not generally known that improved farm machinery of American and English manufacture has come largely into use even in such supposedly serai barbarous countries as Russia, Rou mania, Servia, Bulgaria and other less prominent competitors of this country. Another and no less im. portant cause for a lower level of prices than the world has been accustomed to is the ever-cheapening cost of transportation. This has a double effect, inasmuch as the low rates of both land and water carriage are both supplemented by their greater speed. Importing countries no longer require to carry heavy reserves with such facilities for getting immediate supplies as now exist, and therefore, the overproducing nations are compelled to hold their surplus at their own cost until it is wanted. Here is where the ligitimate function of speculators commences, and the farmers should begin to be acquainted with the fact now, if they are still ignor-

ant of it, that but for those speculators who have been maligned by them and their ..representatives—those men who make Chicago the scene of their speculative ventures —there would at the present time be no market for wheat. Chicago speculators are paying from 2c to 5c per bu. more for contract wheat than it is worth anywhere else. They have no further encouragement in doing so than the knowledge that they are getting the goods, even at the premium they are paying for it,-below the 7 price it cost the grower. Commercially they are giving for it more than it is at present worth.

I 1 , THE TARIFF OUTLOOK. The beginning of the end. That is what we can now decern in a survey of the tariff situation. What the end will be is less plain. There is every present indication that the House will surrender to the higbmen of the Senate. There may be changes and modifications, but they will be minor and unimportant. The tribute' exacted by the “conservatives,” who corralled the Democratic Senators and held them until they consented to pay ransom, will have to be delivered, and the indignant majority of the House are evidently going to pocket their indignation and make the best of a bad bargain. It is apparent to them as to every indignant person that the corralled Senators cannot be rescued without ransom. They are in the power of the hiwhwaymen, who are resolved to hold on to a part even if they must disgorge some of the booty gathered under the McKinley law. In this situation the country turns expectantly to Mr. Cleveland. Upon him depends the final decision. He will shortly have the Willson bill, frescoed with Senate mutilations, at his mercy. He will have to say whether or not .t shall becojne a law. No one can question that it will require strong moral courage to bring him to the point of signing a measure which does such grievous violence to all his expressed convictions. Yet, bad as it is, it will be a serious disappointment to the great majority of sincere revenue reformers if this bill is vetoed. From the moment the bill goes to the White House until the message returns to Congress conveying notification of the President’s action the business interests of the country will remain oppressed by the damaging suspense which has afflicted them for nearly a year past. This Mr. Cleveland can end viith a stroke of his pen. Confidence can be restored, business activity be renewed and a new era of abound - ing prosperity be begun if the bill is made a law. If, however, it is vetoed the shadow of uncertainty and unrest will remain to perlex and hamper commercial enterprise. These are facts Mr. Cleveland fully ( understands and they are the facts which will move him to the ( approval of the measure if that is the course he shall conclude in the end to adopt. —St. Louis Republic.

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