Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1894 — Page 4

She democrat JV. BLACKBURN, Proprietor. FRIDA F. A UG. 24, 1894. j Katun of Hubucriptton, One Year, tn advance U w Star Months L 76 fc'our Montna All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of 42.00. Office in Democrat Building, east aidcof Sec ond Street—ground floor CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. For Congress, 11th District. HON. A. N. MARTIN. JI DICIAL TICKET. Judge—2oth Judicial Circuit, DANIEL D. HELLER. frosecuting Attorney—26th Judicial Circuit. RICHARD H. HARTFORD. COUNTY TICKET. ; ; For Auditor. :Dem.: W. H. H. FRANCE. j For Clerk. 4 pent ; JOHN H. LENHART. . For Treasurer. ;Dem.: DANIEL P. BOLDS. * JU ;••••••; For Recorder. •Dem.: HARVEY HARRVFF For Sheriff. tbem.: PETER P. ASHBAUCHEK. • •• ■; For Coroner Dem.: S.C. CLARK. ; • For Surveyor. :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. The Prohibition Convention oi the 11th Congressional District was held at Marion last Thursday. Thev placed in nomination as their stand ard bearer for this district William Chambers, of Huntington county. When United States Senators are elected by the popular vote tht Senate chamber will cease to be the arena for sucbscenes as have been witnessed there during the I; st year. The four Populist Senators having gone into the John Sherman camp we should like to know how the Populists can have the assurancetryisk any Democrat to vote for We cannot signs -of discouragement anywhere in the ranks of the Indiana Democracy but the Republicans are a good deal torn up in many localities. They ough' to join the People’s party—that is unless they can see the error of their ways completely as to enable ihem to come right over to the Democracy. As a supplement to the list of the measures for the benefit of labor which Democratic Legislatures in Indiana have passed the Courier respectfully mentions the repeal of the Intimidation Act. The repeal bill made more votes for. the Democratic party perhaps than any other ever adopted by the Legisla-, ture. 1 he Democratic papers thoughout the State will see to it that this very important measure is given its due prominence during the campaign.— Evansville Courier. The railroad corporations of the State are before the Board of Tax Commissioners demanding a reduction ot their respective assessments. They are pleading poverty although not one of ihe more important roads has even intimated that it proposes to economize by reducing the princely salaries of its army of officials. It is to be hoped that Governor Matthews will add to his already distinguished administration the virtue of refusing to cut down railroad assessments in the aggregate one dollar.

, INDECENCY OF PROTECTION. - Tom Reed says that the Republicans will have nothing to do in - the next campaign but read the testimony ot Mr. Cleveland’s letter ; upon the tariff bill. There is something more. Reed ) will find that the very foundation ’ ot protection has been shaken bj r the contest just concluded. Forth£ first time the voters have learned bj direct observation that protection is synonymous with corruption ‘ and fraud. Before this time the majority believed that there bad been fraud and corruption in tariff laws. They are at last convinced that when taxation depart? from a revenue purpose and begins to b» used for the benefit of private corporations, inevitably corruption is the beginning of the departure and fraud the constant accompaniment Millions of Amercans have rea<’ da ly how Senators demanded and received concessions to the Sugar Trust, to the iron interest, to the cotton mills, to the glass and pot tery makers. And yet by its title the bill professes to be “for reducing taxation and providing revenm for the Government.” None of these Senators argued for the pub lie welfare. The argument was in each casefor the“ interest.” Mr. Reed can give in his speeche a few extracts from Cleveland’, letter. Then some American citizen will ask him why, if manufac ture is the great end of nations effort, free choice to raw materialfor staple industries is denied t< our manufacturers. And unless hi elects to be a willful public liar, h< must reply that protection is a poo of interests in which not Amencai industry, but American “pull,’ creates the scale according t which legislative favors aie granted The people have witnessed th presence of a Sugar Trust official u Washington and have seen that m ■egislation could be ordered excep after consultation with him. Th< business of the country has beei held up Until collars and cuffs coni' be taxed to the satisfaction of Troy. All the Senate amendments havi [been made after this fashion wit) little attempt at concealment, be cause it had to be done tnrough ; dew professed Democrats and coulc not be covered up by the organizes corruption of a Republican caucus It is true that a few Democrat! have been traitors to their party But the people have seen in that perfidity the working of the Repub lican system of h’gh protection. Ii their treason these men have beer Republicans and protectionists What they have done has. been ii the usual Republican and p rotec tionist way. True of one, true ol all protectionists. Protection goe i to Washington to get favors .not t< honestly govern honest freemen Every favor it gets is a lever wit) which to get another. Protectioi always favors higher protection ami will spend money to buy and advance. Protection is against any thing short of prohibition and a monopoly of the market. It i> against extending manufactures. Its plan is, always a limit produc tion and to secure scarcity prices for monopoly. That it does not succeed is due to the opposition of the Democratic party and the Amer iC’an spirit of competition. Another obstacle will arise before Reed. The business world, whose indisposition to approve changes has done more to intrench tariff robbery than anything except the lobby’s manipulation, has perceived that constant and feverish uncertainty is as inseparable as corruption from the protective system. There can be no ] ermanent tariff schedule w ien it is designed for , protection, because new conditions of production are continually arising. There can be no perpetuity in a protective system while it embraces four or five thousand articles which a few wish to sell at abnor- ' mal prices and the many wish to buy at natural prices. The only system of reasonable certainty is a revenue system, and the plain bus iness men have grown sick of tariff ’ tinkering. ! Protection is inseparable from f

fraud. It is inseparable from tariff tinkering and uncertainty. When Reed takes out Cleveland’s letter he will read it to a public opinion which has been educated to ihe folly of protection by'the cir cumstances which called forth that document. In 1883 tariff reform seemed radical to scores ot business men in Reed’s New England, to whose ears free trade has now rather a pleasing sound. Tariff re form has had its day in the Wes' and South. Free trade and 'taxation for revenue only will be the Western and Southern platform henceforth, and on it will be found crowds of business men who havi been calling themselves moderat* protectionists. It is coming to b< tinderswiod that Christian honesty ind a protective tariff are inconi patible- St. Louis Republic. HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. The men who believe in using language to cover up things or t< • ell the people “how to do it,” should learn a lesson from the proceeding>f the Democratic State Cotiven don. Governor Matthews touched he heart of the assemblage and iroused it to the wildest enthusiasm by his honest and well-phrasec leclaration in favor of free coinagi >f silver without waiting for Eng. land’s permission to adopt such a policy. Everybody underst<> • 1 exictly what he meant, and as he ex jressed the conviction practically >f the entire body of delagates, his itterances will be accepted as ex •athedra by the Indiana Democracy nstead of the formal declaration of he platform, which really means he same thing but is expressed ii meh heavy and involved l&nguagt is to make a muddle of what should lave been as plain as the nose on a nan’s face. The tremenduous en husiasm with which Governoi Matthews’ statement of the Demoratic position on silver was received md the very Hat applause followng the reading of that plank n he platform, which fizzled out com >letely as it closed,, ought to teach certain wiseacres who. always bob ip at State Conventions with pockets full of manuscript, over which they have been delving and sweat ■ngperhaps for weeks, that popular intelligence has iidw reached a point a here ideas and not the verbiage .o cover up ideas are what is wanted in a platform. The battle before us will be waged upon Governor Matthews’ statement of the question because Ins meaning was not obscured by my attempt at diplomatic language. In discussing the measure before he people the task of a newspaper writer or public speaker is much mlightened when the text is ex pressed in language that can be understood without a diagram. Happily Governor Matthews has furnished the text in language that requires no explanation, He is for free .silver coinage without England’s permission.. So is the Indiana Democray. Populist ‘‘Principles.” Jerry Simpson has declared tha' the Alabama Populists have de served their defeat because in the effort to secure the State offices they abandoned doctrine and made an unholy alliiyice with the Republicans on a plank as strongly protectionist as ever appeared in a Republican platform in any part of the country. The Kansas Populist Congressman is clearly right, but the Alabama Populists do not appear to be exceptional in their readiness to fuse with anything or anybody or for anything or anybody which holds out the promise or prospect of a small temporary financial advantage. Tariff reform is as much a Populist principle as anything can be but in the Senate we find the Populist Senators from Kansas and Nebraska ready to vote against any tariff reform measure which will not include a bounty to their beet and sorghum constituents. Alabama Populists have been guilty of harlotry. Now let the Populists of Kansas or any other State who are not in an equal state of sin cast the first stone at Alabama.

f WATER WORKS COMMITTEE ON A PROBPECTINCI TOUR. 1 - . - - T H . . Qouncilmen Coverdale and Teeple ( took a trip to Goshen, Ind , this afternoon for the purpose of look t ing over the water works system of that city. They go iu the interes 1 ' of the City of Decatur, and on theii s return we will probably know mon about the costs of water works than wo do now. Councilman Buhler, ol the same committee is at Plymouth. Ind., looking over the plant in tha’ city. Councilman Vail, who b also one of the committee on thb work could not go. He has sent h proxy however, in the person of Harvey Segur, who is at Kendallville, Ind. , It is expected that a final rep<£< of this work will be made at a called meeting to be held next Fri day night, and if the opinion of one of the committee goes for aught we will have water works, in tin very near future. SENATE AND PEOPLE. By a decisivexote the Senate has informed the country that there will be no more tariff legislatioi this summer. The Senators thin! that people should thank their lucky stars that they got as much as they did. For many years every tariff bil that has gone to the Senate hat come out with greater concession! to private interests. Every appropriation bill has been increate I The Senate always stands ready ti take more money from the peoph and to give more to parasites. A Senator costs the taxpayers mon than a Representative and does less. He insists in getting more for him self and for his friends. It is in accordance with the established order of things that th< Senators Should plume themselves on their condescension in passing any tariff reform bill and on then moderation in adding $9,000,000 to the appropriations bill as prepared by the House. The people will not express then sid»r-of the .case with tears andlamentations. They will take charge of Senatorial election. An amendment for electing Senators by direc 1 vote wijl be submitted and will bi adopted not only by three-fourth! but by all the States. If the present crop of Senators chooses t< ignore the bill which has already passed the House, the hew lot whic) will be choseu after nomination ii party convention, if not former!) elected by the people, will join ii submitting the amendment. MERCHANTS OF DECATUR WHERE ARE YOU! Vince Beil and Adam Pease, of Adams county, fyauled a wagon load of water melons and thirty gallon! of ice cream out to Henpeck to day. The delicacies are intended for ? big union Sunday School picnic to morrow In the vicinity of Henpebk - Bluffton News, 17th. “Straws show which way the wind blows.” These people go there when the roads are bad and then continue do so when they are ■ good. What we want to call in trade, is good roads. There is not a City of our size anywhere bgt . what has them; and bur merchants • can’t afford to let this matter of gravel roads, go unnoticed much longer. Let’s get a move on us! Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, i told Senator Hill to his face in the i cloak room of the Senate on last • Friday that he was a “dirty dog and i contemptible whelp.” Blackburn ; is a member of the Finance committee and found that Hill had l|een setting up a majority in favor of Blanchard, of Louisiana instead of White of Calafornia for the vacancy on the Finance Committee. I Hill had been pursuing what are • galled “shrewd” methods, that is he 1 had been lying and cheating, and ; when Blackburn found him out he not only defeated his game but used “language” charactenzihg his ’ conduct. Mr. Hill is said to have i blushed and shoWn that he was very i angry but swallowed his medicine and retreated.

—■■■ » - I . coming wa’Y I ( l • In Boxps, Bales and Bundles ■••A/ew Fa" Gooc/ s.. Our Buyer is now East securing; all the new and nobby things in the DRY GOODS LINE I ” . , ■ I U/aijt... You to call and see them, No trouble to show them at L_o.o. ivßiock. KUEBLER & MOLTZ.

The new tariff bill, if signed by the-President as expected, provides i definite basis for business. No supplemental legislation is thought possible until next year at least. Large improvement has been expected from any settlement, the more because of a vast amount of business deferred from week to week in the hope of more definite conditions. The rush of such business, or even a part of it, mjght easily double transactions for a time. It is not to be overlooked that the effect of new duties upon many branches of indusrty and trade is problematical, and may be determined only after some months of experience, and meanwhile the' serious injury to corn and some >ther conditions exercise a restraining influence. While it is not wise co look for a great “boom,” there is -<■> warrant for a reasonable and pru-r lent hopefulness. It is too early to look for effects of the new situation in the great industries, but the graduated recov?ry which has appeared for some ime is seen in a better demand tor products.—Dun’s Review, Aug. 18. All four of the populists in the Senate have voted and to urolong the miserable tyranny of McKinleyism.

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LABOR DAY. September 3rd is Labor Day. A number of our towns and cities are making extensive preparations io observe the day as befitting to tbe name. Decatur should not be found silent on this occasion. INDIANA STATE FAIH. The women ot Indiana should all attend the State Fair at Indianapolis, September 17 to 22. The display in the Woman’s department of the great Fair promises to be more than interesting. From all parts of the State assurances have already been received of large displays in all of the classes, and tlie ladles are showing remarkable in terest in the work. The Woman’s building will be the center of attraction to thousands and the display will be well worth the trip to the city. The m usical features of the State Fair for 1894 will interest all of the ladies. A fine orchestra has been engaged for -thus Woman’s building, and the big band concerts will be given at such a point as to be an interesting feature of tliat part of the grounds The best bands in the country will doubtless be attracted to the Fair by the liberal prizes offered by thd management. The great spectacular production, “Last Days of Pompeii,” will be among the in terestlng features fbr the evening entertainment. This wonderful spectacle will be reproduced on a grand scale better than ever before seen in this part of the world. No expense will be spared to make it attractive, interesting and instructive. No one can afford to miss a visit to Indianapolis during Fair week. The railroads will all run excursions, and the rates will be exceptionally low. Remember the dates and make your arrangements to attend. wl