Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 30 November 1894 — Page 4

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©he democrat IT. BL AO KB ÜBJf, Proprietor. FRIDAY. NOV. 30. 1894. Rates of Subscription. One Year, in advance... 11 50 Six Months 75 Four Montns 5u Ail subscriptions not paid during the year ▼ill be charged at the rate of 52.00. Office in Ob Trier at Building, east sldeof Sec ond Street—ground floor r A Western man for 1866, V \ CLAUDE MATTHEWS/ The proper course for'Congress on the tariff question is to finish the good work.'* Can any of the delivery boys tell us how many beau« there are in a bushel. It is a good problem. A single session of a Republican Congress is all that is needed to get the Democrats together for a sweep in 1896. God help the secret ballot law when the Republican Legislature reform it, for they will tinker it out of existence. Gold redemption beats all forms of swindling that the ingenuity of fakirs and usurers have yet developoed. Since the Republican land-slide railway train robberies have averaged two a day. This is reviving an old industry with a vengeance. The Republican party may find itself deceived if it arrogates its temporary success as a permanent lease of power and proceeds to act upon it in an unbridled manner. The corruption of the Repubican party so great in the western part of Ohio that it has turned the waters of the St. Mary’s nver black and the poison from their tilth is killing the fish. The eyes of all Hoosierdom are again turned imploringly toward Governor Matthews, in the hope that he will once more crush the Roby outrage out of the possibility of success. Many a man who voted against the democrats at the la’te election expected to have his wages raised as soon as the result of the election was announced,if the .Republicans were successful, and only yesterday so expresse dthemselves. As the Republicans have complete control of the law making power of this State, they ought to have no difficulty in demonstrating the sincerity of their claims that they are opposed to all night saloons, etc. They can make a law that cannot be evaded if they will. But will they?

Democrats don’t take very kind ly to the frequent issue of bonds by the Government. They would rather see several thousands of the useless barnacles fired out of their ornamental position and thus cut down unnecessary expenses. There are thousands on the government pay roll who do little or nothing outside of drawing their p*»y. There is a wide difference of opinion as to what the income tax will yield. The Treasury Department’s estimate is $30,000,000. The experts of the Internal Revenue Bureau’now estimate that the corpor atifcns alone will pay from $40,000,honestly enforced, the tax will come nearer to $60,000,000 than $30,000,000. That great national hippodrome, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, now declares that he desires only to do good with his money, and leave none behind him. He might begin by paying the government the amont of which his firm robbed it by the defective armor plate and giving his men decent wages. After that, if he will have his firm conducted on a reasonably honorble basis no one will care what he does with his money. It cost John W. Goff only 75 cents to be elected Recorder of the City of New York, an office to which a yearly salary of $,2,000 is attached. His election expenses amounted to $v00.75, but the S9OO was contributed by bis friends. A cheap office that. It costs the officers much more than that to be elected to office in Adams county, and don’t get one-fourth of the salary. • A good many Republican who have been elected to office this year are disqualified if the law was faithfully and rigidly enforced. In Tipton county some of the defeated candidates Will contest, and the Democrats propose- to repay the attempt by proving that the ones who were elected are disqualified because they corruptly used money and vast quantities of whisky. There is a certain gentleman in this county sho boasts of having obtained four gallons of whisky from a certain Republican candidate. Once when Kate Field was at a banquet and feeling unusually sarcastic, she rose and proposed the toast, “The Men; God bless them.” The Hon. 11. Augusta Kimball, M. D., is not far behind the pugnacious Kate in wit, for noting Dr. Parkhurst’s labor in reform. She suggests that as a lover of fair play she is penned by the constant attention lavished upon one particular part of a social class to the exclusion of the other. She therefore moves that “we shall wipe out our sin of omission and build a home * for the fallen men.”

The Portland failure mentioned in yesterday’s Democrat is worst than first reported. The liabilities will amount fiom SIOO,OOO to $l5O, 000 without any assets. Then seems to be a premeditated arrange ment by which they were to bu} the grain they could on credit, shij the same, get the pay and let tfa< parties from whom they bough hold the sack. Two members o' the firm have been arrested charged with embezzlement, and if the reports are true, there should be s< many charges of the same that th< life of a court would be too shor to try them. No form of paper money can *b devised that will have the confi dence of the people that does no rest on the guaranty of the govern ment. The so-called “Baltimor* plan” is simply a project to give t< banks the sole right to issue monei endorsed by the Treasury. It com prehends the issue of flat money bj private corporations that have beei the loudest and most persistent i> opposition to the issue of paper money based on the credit of th< government. But its authors understand that such bank notes would not be received anywhere unless pledged by the government and so they make the Treasury responsible for their private paper. Dun, for the week j fist closed says? There are some changes for the better. The grain is slow and in some directions not very distinct, but the signs of it are a little more definite than last week. The most important of them is larger employment of labor, answering a better demand on the whole for manu factored products, Much of this is due to the unnatural delay of orderk for the winter, but it means actual increase in earnings and purchasing power of the millions, and so gives promise of a larger demand in the future. Prices of farm products in the aggregate do not improve, but the prevailing hopefulness is felt in somewhat larger transactions. Our financial system is both the puzzle and dispair of many of our people. It is difficult to understand while our gold continues going abroad. It is equally difficult to gra«p why a rich nation of 70,000,000 people should allow England to control her financial system. England holds $2,500,000,000 of United States securities, while France and Germany together hold about $500,000,000. We are paying Europe $180,000,000 per annum in gold for interest. When is this going to stop? Is there no remedy? Are we to be forever at the mercy of European bankers? Good financiers say no. Business is booming right along under tariff reform.

WHAT NOW 1 The first Monday in December Congress will meet for the so called short session. It will be the last session of the present Congress, and will close March 4, 1895. Congress can of course not do very much in this short space of time; much time will have to be taken up by the bills of allowance and experience has shown that a great many bills are brought in to be acted upon in the last two or three weeks, or they will not be acted upon at all, and to this we may add the lethargy of those Congressmen who have not been re-elected again. This of course should not be so this short term should be well hue banded by the retiring members. But the inactivity has always been found and will likely remain. The Democratic House of the present Congress, the Fifty-third, has always done its duty and we should honor them for doing their duty. It has acted upon the two principal bills—the Sherman and tariff bill, with all the expediency at their command. “It was different with the Senate (by some called a public nuisance) at the other end >f the Capitol. Ibis branch dallied along for months and was thus the cause of the late election going as it did. The tariff reform lid not extend far enough. Con. gress did not keep its promises given to the people. According to the new law the tariff is yet forty per eent. on an average on all goods. It is a modified McKinley bill, which was created, but no energetic tariff reform bill which would en huse the masses. Some of the more noticeable mistakes, like the chapter on sugar and coal had done positive harm. The income tax beginning at 14,000 is also a meager beginning, it could not produce enough revenue nor could much political capital be made out of it or the Democratic party. To go over the whole of the tariff aw in the short session is impossible. But Congress could and should do one thing. They should how their constituennts that it is heir intent and purpose to do whatever they can, to carry out the promises of their leader and their >arty. After the tariff bill was >assed as it now stands (made so by he the traitors in Congress), the Mouse being forced to agee, they passed four so-called “pop-gun bills” according to which sugar, iron ore, coal and barbed wire was *o go on the free list. Every one can see these bills were aimed at the mightiest bloodsucking trusts, this being the case the Republicans done all they could to keep them on the high protection list. These bills are not as yet acte(l upon. They have gone to the Senate and there they are still. If the Senate does not act upon these bills and pass them, the House should make it their duty to pass them, to show their party that the Democrats have done their duty. Then let the people wreak their vengeance on those who have betrayed them. The saying is, “Do your duty and let the consequences take care of themselves. u The House should now go to work in earnest, so as to deaden the common belief that they have only worked for their own pocket like some of the so-called Democrats in the Senate.

Hill has ’ een shown up what he is,” as far as he is concerned, the people have spoken at the polls. Cameron is wearing the face of an innocent. Brice, the Senator of Ohio, and living in New York, who bought his seat in Congress, does not care a continental what his constituents want him to do, as long as he can speculate in railroad stocks and bonds. The illustrious careers of McPherson and Camden will expire March 4, 1895, it cannot be expected that these honorable men can change tor the better, nothing but a leopard can change its spots. It may be possible that these honorable members will not take an open stand against the bills spoken of above but they will undoubtedly try in every other way to kill these bills. Nevertheless the House must moye on in the line once begun by them.

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Every merchant in our city should attend the meeting of the farmers to be held December 10th and 11th in this city. Such Institutes are as much of a benefit to the merchant as to the farmer. The road question is one that our friends in the city have as much interest in as the farmer. While not traveled as much by the merchant as by the farmer, the farmer is sure to take his trade where he can go on good roads, and this is the fact with Decatur at the present time. Some ol the trade that we should have leaves us because we have no gravel road for the farmer to come to town on when the mud is deep. Let our business men talk the road question over and be on hand. The Hon. W. Burke Cockran, of New York, denounces the income tax measure as populistic, and as an “assault on property.” He thinks it is class legislation and that its passage by the Fifty-thin} Congress was the cause of the Republican victory in New York City and state. In the same sense, all taxes amount to an “assault on property.” In the case of the income tax, it is an ■‘assault” on superfluous property, and hence is more just and less burdensome than any other tax. Let us have done with the drivel that an income tax is a tax on thrift. Under it when a man's income is $4,000 or less, it is not taxed. He is only asked to pay a pitiful per cent, on any amount over $4,000. The Amercan who growls against such a tax doesn’t deserve an income that would bring him within the terms of the income tax law.

Our coming Legislature will have a happy time with the W. C. T. U. on the one hand asking that all places where liquor is sold shall be closed at 8 o’clock p. ih. and remain closed until 7 o’clock a. m., making the regular business hours of the most business, while another petition will be presented by them in case the first fails, making the regular business hours of a city the opening and closing time of places where liquors are sold, to which will be attached a rider in the form of an increase in the license from the present rate SSOO per annum, with the privilege ot allowing cities to increase Jhe city licence to the same amount. While on the other hand the saloon men are ready to present their claims asking for a lower license and for a law allowing them to keep open until 12 o’clock p. m. with all the privileges due to any business done in this country. Verily, verily, the Republican legislator will have a hard struggle to keep from being a subject for the insw e as y lura - The y will have the kind words es the the smiles of the fair sex on the one hand, and the good“ old Rye” sweetened on the ’other side with an occasional nod* orj wink from an outsider to help'- along in their embarrassment. ‘ ,

FEES OF 'MfflfflS. Salary Law Unconstitutional as It Relates to Them. BASIS OF SUCH DECISION. Supreme Coart Also Decides That Recorders Are Entitled to bat •! For Recording a Deed—Girls In J»ll\ as Barglan. Test pf Iron Hall Allowances — Cigarettes Kill a Vouug Girl—State Notes. Indianapolis, Nov. 28.—Judge Hackney, in an opinion as to the constitutionality of the fee and salary law passed in 1891, held that it was void so far as it related to the fees of county treasurers. The decision was in a case from Benton county, in which Treasurer Abram Boice had claimed certain fees and had -been sustained in the claim by the lower court, whose decision is as«. firmed. '’The overthrow of the law hinged on the error in the act which omitted Shelby county from its provisions. , DEADLY CORN HUSKER. Farmer’s Arm Cut Off to the Shoulder In Two-Inch Bits. Kokomo, Ind., Nov. 28. —A. E. Curlee, a prominent farmer, got his left arm caught in a cornhusking machine yesterday, the member being drawn into the stalk cutter set to cut short sections. His arm was sliced off to the shoulder in two inch bits and he was pinioned in the machine an hour before he could be released. He will probably die. Glrla Arrested u Burglars. Wabash, Ind., Nov. 28.—Miss Daisy Riner, aged 20, and Miss Alice Ballinger, aged 15, are in the county jail, charged with burglary. The girls were arrested for complicity in the robbery of the general store of George Bender, at Laketon, Friday night, Nov. 1«. “Fatty” Ballinger, a notorious tough and a distant relative of the Ballinger woman, and George Mote were taken into custody for the crime, and they “gave away” the women. The latter protest their innocence. Iron Hall Allowance*. Indianapolis, Nov. 28.—D. W. Howe, attorney for the defendants in the Iron Hall case, has filed two petitions before Judge McMaster of the superior court asking the reconsideration of the allowance made to Receiver Failey and Attorneys Hawkins & Smith by Judge Winters. Judge McMaster fixed _ the hearing of the argument for Friday morning. Recorder** Fee. Indianapolis, Ndv. 28.—1 n the case of the state ex rel. Thomas McKay vs. John F. Krost, recorder of Lake county, on appeal from the Lake circuit court, concerning a fee for filing a mortgage, Judge Hackney of the supreme court decides that under the law the fee should be but sl, instead of a $1.25, as was sought to be charged. Hair Burned From Her Head. *” Indianapolis, Nov. 28.—1 n returning home from a neighboring grocery yesterday afternoon Mrs. Anna Lewis found her parlor curtains On fire. In trying to put out the blaze her hair took fire and was burned from her head. Her anus were scorched and her eyebrows Sad face were burned. School Girl Fatally Hurt. Logansport, Ind., Nov. 28.—Little Grace Lumsden will lose her life as a result of an accident while attending school near Flora. A 200-pound bundle of slate, with which the schoolhouse roof is being repaired, fell from the building, striking her upon the head. Made Her Own Burial Clothes. Eokerty, Ind., Nov. 28.—Mrs. Amelia Donan, 61 years old, is dead after more than 20 years an invalid, during which time she was confined to her bed. She was an expert needlewoman and made every piece of her bnrW clothes with her own fingers.