Decatur Democrat, Volume 38, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 7 December 1894 — Page 4

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democrat Jt. BL AOK BURN, Proprietor. FRIDAY, DEC. 7. 1894. Rates of Subscription. One Year, in advance 11 50 Six Months 15 Four Montns 56 All subscriptions not paid during the year will be charged at the rate of fci.oo. Office in Democrat Building, east sideof Sec ond Street—ground floor A Western man for 1896, CLAUDE MATTHEWS. Senatob Hill is said to be confident that he can secure the repeal of the income tax law. He was just as confident that he would be elected Governor of New York by 40,000 plurality/ .--r ■ «■■■,<■! "IW Business men of Decatur get ready to attend the Farmer’s Institute this month. Be prepared to say a good word that will encourage the farmer and thus improve your own financial interest. Will the committee complete the arrangements to entertain the attendants at the Farmer’s Institute ( |he 10th and 11th of this month. Have our business men been thinking and talking the matter over so as to be ready? Foot ball is all the rage now-a days, the town without a team of this kind can never be a city. The.craze has reaphed so far that the girls are organizing teams in ■different places. J)f course they will wear bloomer suits that they can roll over in without any trouble. What next?/" Secretary Carlisle’s scheme for the “reform ot the currency’, is 1 very able and will prove eminently satisfactory—to the banks. It would give them a perpetual corner on the gold of the country and absolute control of its commerce. Hit should be adopted all power at Washington, except to enforce their decrees, would be surrendered to the banks. They would like this arrangement well enough, but would the people like it? .The Decatur Trenton Rock Mining Company when first starting to find gas for this city sunk a well on the farm of Henry Krick but found no sign of oil or gas. Henry has now utilized-the well for draining purposes. He tiles bis farm to the well running all surplus water into the eight inch hole dropping it into the rock below. This he says is the best and cheapest way for any farmer to drain his farm. He says a two inch hole dowh into the gravel or rock will drain any ordinary farm and will not cost half that surface draifis cost.

John Blakeslee the absconding insuarnce agent, seems to have done business in that line and not receiving any money lor the premiums, but in a great many cases he took merchandise of different kinds for the premium. His bondsmen will be asked to make the amount of such premium good. The question tfaat presents itself to them is, the bond says, “he shall turn over all money that shall come into his hands as their agent.” Is such goods money, if not, then is his bondsmen liable foa money when he did not receive money? The question may be raised in case the bondsmen are called on to make good the deficiency. ' ■■■ f Eveey merchant in our city shdnl4 attend the meeting of the farmers to be held December 10th and 11 th 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 16 take his trade where he can go on good roads, and this is the fact with Decatur at the present time. Sume of 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. We must have banks as long as the present system of exchanges prevails throughout the world. But there is no necessity in the United States for banks of issue. This has been thoroughly and satisfactorily demonstrated. Nor is it necessary to have “redeemable” paper money. The United States has alo demonstrated- that “receivable” paper money, legal tender for all debts, public and private, is the safest, soundest and most serviceable that the ingenuity of man has yet devised. CoNGRessMAN Dingly, of Maine, says substantially that the Republicans will never restore the McKinley law, but will retain the good features of the present law, and improve the bad. He doesn’t expect this to be done, though, even in the next Conpress. It the next Congress cuckoos to the sugar trust, the iron ore syndicates, the coal and railroad monopolies, as some members of the Senate did, then they could not to accomplish any good for the masses of the people. Through the courtesy of Prof. Moffet we are presented with volumn one, number three of the Terre Haute Tribun?, a neat, newsy, daily paper launched upon the newspaper world by Messrs. Woodring & Lockwood, of Peru. They start out with a seven column folio full of news and a good fair share of advertising. May their lot be better than the most of newspapermen.

NORTHEREN PRISON STATISTICS. The Rochester Sentinel, whose editor is one of the directors of the Northern Indiana prison, gives the following interesting information in regard to the personel ot the 908 inmates of that institution: 745 can read and write; 37 can read only; 126 can neither read flor write; 567 are intemperate and 251 are temperate. 614 are single, 262 are married and 32 widowers. Evidently marrnage is not a failure when it comes to keeping out of the penitentiary. , Os ages there are 4 over 70 years, 7 over 65 years, 18 over 60 years, .127 between 30 and 35 years, 160 between 25 and 30 years, 255 be, 20 and 25 years, and 161 between 15 and 20 years. The average age of the inmate is under 30 years. Among the many occupations are 518 common laborers, 70 farmers, 32 painters, 19 barbers, 22 engineers, 3 lawyers, while of bankers, musicians, chirpodists and undertakers there are 1 each. Os. the many crimes, 143 are in <3 -a for grand larceny, 136 for petit larceny, 140 for burglary, 51 for forgery, 44 for robbery, 80 for assault tor various purposes, while the murderers number 51. Among other things, the clerks report shows that of the 908 convicts, Marion county, has 320, Allen 46, Madison 35, Delaware, 4 Elkhart 20, while Fulton must be content with 1. As to tbe length of sentences, 40 are in for life, 14 for 21 years, 298 for 2 years, 145 for 1 year and 80 for 5 years. Os place ot birth 439 are Hoosiers, 63 Suckers, 57 Buckeyes, 44 Corn-crackers, 30 come from Germany, 18 from "’lreland, 9 from Canada, and 1 from the eternal snows of Finland. There are 151 gentlemen of color. - SMITH JOINS THE CUCKOOS. „ Senator Arthur Pue Gorman, of Maryland, Chairman of the Democratic Senate Steering Committee, returned to town yesterday. Soon after his arrival at the Fifth Avenue Hotel he was joined by Senator James Smith, of New Jersey, and Senaator Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio and New York. Senatpr Smith had not participated in the conferences held the previous week, and it was presumed that be was made acquainted with what happened at them. It was stated last night with apparent authority that the New Jersey Senator cordially acquiesced in the programme hitherto outlined, which contemplates the smothering of all tariff legislation, especially the free coal, free iron and free sugar bills, which now rest in pigeon holes in the Senate. With Senator Smith the anti-cuckoos will

have, they claim, at least five Democratic Senators pledged to allow little else to be done by the upper 'branch of Congess at its coming session besides the passage of appropriation bills. It is the general opinion of the meat niass of the Democratic party that the cuckoos, James Smith, of Mew Jersey, Calvin S. Brice, of New York and Ohio, D. B. Hill, of New York, Gorman, of Maryland, be politely asked to resign their seats in the United States Senate and leave then seats vacant as their room is of far u greater benefit to the people than their presence. Such representatives as those are a great damage to the law-mak ing power of the country and a disgrace to any party they may pretend to represent, and the quicker they are rid of such cukoos the better they will be off. INCOME TAX IN DANGER. There will be an eflfort on the part of the opponents of the income tax to defeat that measure. The attack will not be leveled at it directly, but will be made in an effort to strangle it by cutting off any appropriation to carry it into effect. The appropriation was overlooked in the last days of the long session, as were many other points that are sought to be corrected by minor bills. On account of lack of funds the Treasury Department has been unable to place the law in operation and the enemies of it see in this condition an opportunity to take the taxes off the shoulders of those best able to Day them and to return to the old system of allowing the poor man to bear the brunt of the expense account of a very expensive government.

However, the item tor the necessary funds will be incorporated in the general appropriation bill, and the only way to kill it will be to talk down the bill itself, as the appropriation committee is very strongly in favor of the income tax and in both Houses of Congress there is .a strong majority that would successfully resist any effort to make the law of no effect. It would be foolhardy on the part of the opposition to defeat the appropriation bill to accomplish their purpose and such action need hard ly be expected from them. They are likely to register a very empathic protest and then acquiesce in the condition as gracefully as they are able. It is probable that the leaders in the effort to take the 10 per cent, tax off the issues of the State Banks will renew the effort this season to accomplish their task, but without great chance of being successful. The proposition receives support on both sides, > ut the populists are against it and with tlrtftn there are enough members of the Senate to bring defeat, even if the bill should run the gauntlet in the House. However, the State Bank men will not allow the matter to go by default. DUN’S REPORT FOR THE WEEK, DEC. 1, ’94. The complete success of the g6vernment loan and the replenishment of the gold reserve have not perceptibly affected business, nor prevented an advance of foreign exchange near the exporting point. As January interest has soon to be met. and the operations of the syndicate are thought likely to prevent much selling of the bonds to foreigners, some exports of gold are not improbable. Meanwhile domestic trade and industry have’not been little influenced by the heavy defalcation in one bank and minor disorders in two others, nor by the failure of the Erie Railway to meet interest on its bonds. The closing of sugar refineriesiwill diminish the industrial force more than it is increased by the resumption of the Bethlehem Steel works and a few other concerns. The controlling fact is that, although in two instan. oes wages have been encreased, the earnings of the working force and its purchasing power are not on the whole enlarging at present, and prices of the chief farm products do not materially improve.

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AS TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS. The case of the State vs. Seth Lineday, charged with selling intoxicating liquors on a legal holiday, namely, Labor day, pending in ibl'Circuit Court, has been decided in advance of opinion by the Circuit Court. The Supreme court yesterday declared that the 30th day of May, commonly known as Memorial Day, is not a legal hoh day in the sense that prohibits the sale of intoxicating liquors on that Jay. The opinion was written by Judge McCabe. The case was presented on appeal from Jay county in the indictment of William Atkinson, who was charged with selling liquor on Memorial Day. The indictment was quashed by the trial on the ground that the law making May 30th a legal holiday contem plated that the designation was merely for commercial and banking purposes. The law said to have been voilated is Section 2089 R. S. 1881. The defense held that the law designating May 30th -as a legal holiday is unconstitutional because it was an attempt to amend a statute which been merged into a former amendment. The court denied the pertinency of this defense and refused to discuss or decide the constitutionality of it, but held the claim good that the law does not constitute the, day one during which the sale of liquor is prohibited. The judgment quashing the indictment was affirmed. Labor Day and Washington,s Birthday were included in- the amendment mentioned, and it is held' that the decision applied .to all three of these days. HOW IT STANDS. Deputy Secretary of State Ellis has completed the official footings of the candidates for the legislature. He has made an official classification of the-the two Houses. The Democrats elected four Senators and Lithe Republicans twenty-one. E. Volney Bingham, in St. Joseph county resigned his posittion as a hold-over Senator and run for judge and was defeated tor the office. The Democrats have fourteen holdover Senators and the RepublicSfreeleven. This gives the Democrats eighteen and the Republicans thir-ty-two. The House of Representative‘will have eighteen Democrats and eighty one Republicans. The vote in Tipton county tor Representative was a tie. The Republicans have on joint ballot 413 votes and the Democrats thirty-six. The Republicans thus have a majority on joint ballot of seveny-seven. A good reading room is what our city needs, one where our young men can drop in and spend an hour or two reading some good book or periodical thereby improving -his mind and morals and the society in which he moves. A step in this direction will be met by the churches of our city and all good people.

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