Decatur Democrat, Volume 40, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1896 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT PUKI> WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC HtESS . PUBLISHING CO. LE'Xi' G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR. 11.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the I'osiollloent Decatur, Indiana as secund Class Mail Matter. . THURSDAY, NOV. 26. Bryan is still the biggest man in the country. And still Bynum hasn’t been awarded the expected plum. What if i| should slip? Union Th inksgiving services today. Attend ami be thankful for the privilege of being thankful'. Jo Thomas is now deliriously happy over the stacks of “confidence” that come rolling b’s way since McKinley’s election. Happy man. You can get “confidence” at the same old price. Hustle for it, and take your chances with seventyeleven other hustlers all locking for the same snap. It has been given out that Bynum is to be appointed to a jtidgship in the court of claims. It is little justice he could give, if he knew it. Why not Sterling Holt; he is the biggist rebel in the country. ataMNnrMMHraraNMß ctr ** Tur bricking of Court Street is now finished, and the improvement is both noticeable and provident. Decatur is getting many streets that are both beautiful, ornamental and useful. Let the good work go on.

The first requisite step towards restoring prosperity is obviously to restore bimetalisin and take away the bounty on exports to gold using countries noW enjoyed by tbe peopit of silver using countries to our infinite detriment. Gerhart Behling, the envious shipper of poultry and monopolist of the business here, is now sending out Thanksgiving turkeys b\ th'p car load. He has money in his sock when other people go huug-y, and is mere independent than. Belmont of gold bond fame. ‘."Confidence” is the. guiding star Passing over the practical impossibility of higji tariff legislation in the event of McKiuley’s election, a protective tariff, so long as "we adhere to the gold standard means a continuance of the appreciation of gold and a still further seperation k in the relative values of gold and silver. The diverg* nee in the val- ... ues of gold and silver, a divergence due a'most solely to the appreciation of gold, is now equal to one hundred percent. In other words, it takes twice as much silver to buy an ounce of gold today as it did in 1873, and, as we have said, if we adhere to the gold standard, an adherence which must result in a stillfurther enhancement in the value of gold, this divergence bids fair to become even more markrd. The medical fraternity in Adams county have reason to feel the imposition of butchery, even in this enlightened age of medical science and knowledge. Tbe deplorable death of Mrs. Brown and the rank imitation of surgery that was there displayed, is enough to sicken a heart of stone. Imagine a person dying from the poisonous effects of

a bladder that wasn’t even cut, but torn, and a poor job at that. The profession in this county should strongly rebel against such malpractice and horrible attempts to treat people to the turmoil of all the pain and misery that humanity is heir to. This' thing of purchasing a diploma that is as bigas a house and framed hi gilt, for any money, let alone , the few paltry dollars asked, is a sin against God, and a disgrace to civilization Amend the laws and weed out the sprinters. ,

For the benefit of the Journal’s daft mind we wish to state that*-in-timidation and Coercion and the expression of one’s personal political views aie two separate and distinct propositions. We are ferninct the former with both feet, be the in timidators democrats, republicans or mugwumps. We insist that Jo Thonas tried k> intimidate the emplOye&aat Vairs factory. Your denials of that plain matter of fact assertion have been weak and as mute a bump on a cow’s rump. It you haven’t any better argument than a peanut insinuation about “no man employing others or with influence has a right to hold or ex. press political views without first submitting them to the Democrat for approval,” take a fool’s’" advice and saw wood. You really admit his guilt, and shield him because it was all for your presidential candidate.

■ « HANKS. Don’t close the shutters mid lock the door to your lordly mansion, and perch your slippered feet before the cheerful blaze that blossoms forth from the gem set grate aud then contemptuously frown at every cleat tinl>ue of the silver bell 1 for fear that intrusion bears a messenger of charity. How sieriligions unkind and inhuman. Don’t serve the Lord (me 'lay and the devil six. Be generous, loving aud kind. Open the shutters of y our cottage and welcome the glad sunshine. Put on your cat and go forth where want and squallor rage. Be kind to your neifhbors; help the poor, the sick, the needy. It not with literal gold, then with a crust ot bread or a kind word. Don't be a pessimist. Life is too short and the world top large to listen to the wagging of a dog’s tail or the woeful brazions of the what might have beeu’s. Be men and women 365 days in the year, and thank God for the opportunity. Just at this time permit your feelings of charity to expand and develop. While you are pleasantly contemplating the sweet perfumes of roast turkey and cranberry sauce turn back to the pages of ancient and biblical history, and read again those well known, but forgotten scriptures, “Remember the poor.’ There are those in Decatur who will have to thank the Lord for l past goodness and future preservation, and do it too, with an empty’ stomach. You all know how easy if is to do rigjit when everything is at command for our p'bace, com fort/iand happiness. How different though when hunger, want and the devil are pulling at our heart strings. Be charitable and remem ber the poor on thiscoming Thanksgiving day. Make happy every home in Decatur. It wiil taken little time and a crumb of your riches, but what is that iij comparison with the joy aud happy hearts that wjlf cry out in wild delight at the privilege of thanking the Lord with a full stomach. The charity loving people should remember that the best and surest way of answering their prayers is to hustle —originally speaking—and put into circulation their often repeated for an opportunity to help mankind. The free and un limited coinage of your duty at this time will make happy many homes in Decatur, and do each individual 'more spiritual good then' a season of selfish deVotion shut up in your prayer closet at home. Yonr duties are plain and the road is clear. Our number is 142 North Second.

By all means have confidence, it is the cheapest article on the market. Official tig ares show that Bryan carried twenty-two states, M< Kinley twenty-two and one divided. Pretty good for a land-slide. President Cleveland is not “-at. home” to callers just now, being somewhat mixed up with his last annua’ message to congress, which meets next month. The public may expect some very sensational public declarations in that message. He will no donbt vent) to feelings of pleasure and pride at McKinley’s election to the presidency, and other matters politic which are now fresh in the minds of our people. It is estimated that over a million idle men have resumed work since the election “Confidence” is a good thing. —Journal. It is also estimated that a million men were-reduypd to idlenesss’ in order to coerce their vote for MdKinley. It. is also estimated that nearly t vezp advance in wages promised workingmen has either failed to materialize or a reduction given them instead of an advance Strikes aud lockouts have been numerous. “Coii-fidence is a good thing.” ■ -.» From detailed: tables of prices, we find lhat of commodities in general that SIOO will buy as mtich in the United States today assl6ef in gold m 1873. In other words gold has appeciated by 68 percent. If we take agricultur-d products alone we find that gold has appereciated by full 100 per cent-f that is to say’ that prices have more'than cut in half since 1873, and if we then turn to silver using China and Japan we find the ounce of silver will purchase close to as much as it would at aoy titne during *be past quarter of a century. StY finding that the purchasing power of gold has increased by 08 per cent, in gold using America and well nigh doubled in silver using countries, and finding that the purchasing power of silver in the United States,'has declined by but 15 per cent, since 1873, while it has not declined at all in silvei; using countries, we are warrented in the conclusioil that it is the appreciation of go jd that is in large part responsible for the divergence in the value of gold and ■ silver since 1873. Indeed there is no other conclusion possible.

ONLV A DiIKAIL Jo Thomas to Vail’s workingmen: McKinley’s election has re stored confidence to us capitalists and manufacturers, and we will now repay you fur helping to bring the advance agent ot prosperity to this big country. I have fifteen cents buried under Vic Reed’s wuo<l shed, which I will proceed to dig no and float upon the money mar kets of Wall street. You see u< peo pie what has lots of money and can corner gold, didn’t propose to sec you dollar a day workingmen suffer. You don’t know how bad it made us teel to think that perhaps you would have to take your pay in fifty cent dollars. Our hearts fairly bled. We coerced and intimidated even our humblest employee, and were successful in saving the country. Us fellows will now put out our money on gold securities and its circulation will give employment to you workingmen the rest of yonr natural lives. We are great people. Lincoln, Grant and the rest of those great war generals are not “in it” with us You see 1 bad great weight in this camgaign. I worked off that old chestnut about once being a democrat, bnt couldn’t stomach Bryan. This public declaration of patriotism reached Mark Hanna, and now he thinks some of putting me into his cabinet. Paul Hooper and his manager, P. L. Andrews, are legging in my behalf. If I succeed in getting in and have to, go down to Washington to live, I’ll often think of you poor devils. I’ll have Mark Hanna pass a law compelling us capitalists and politicians to employ you whenever it is to our advantage and when we can make more money by running our factories than by closing them down “on account of the stringency of the money markets.” The law will also comain a clause requiring every man employed, to vote as his boss dictates. If I ain’t here to boss, I’ll send a trusted man. Washington officials make a few comparisons' on the Wilson and McKinley traiff laws. It was asserted by republican campaign speakers and managers that the present, or Wilson, tariff law is a free trade law and that the loss in revenue is due to its free trade features. The figures of the revenue. derived under the McKinley law and the WiL son law are as follows: 1894— McKinley imports, $636.641,420.86; duty pant, $128,881,868, equal to 20.25 per dent. 1895— Wilson imports, $731,162, 090; duty paid, $147,901,218, equal to 20.23* per cent. 1896 — Wilson imports, $759,69 4,084 ; duty paid, $156,104,598, or 21 per cent. It will be seen that the duty paid on imports has increased under the Wilson law to 21 per cent. — : ———7 ——

The revenue under the Wilson bill increased from $128,000,Q00 .to $147,000,000 and in 1895 to $156, 000,000. The increase in the first year was more than $19,0007000, and in the second year $28,000,000. The increase in the first fiscal year under the Wilion tariff was 15 per cent, over the McKinley tariff, but it increased in the second year to 25 per cent., as compared with the McKinley tariff. The Dingley bill calls *for 15 per cent, increase on the present syseem. THE LATEST FIGURES. So far as heard from the electoral college gives McKinley 272 votes and Bryan 175, a majority favoring McKinley of 97. This doesn’t indicate the greatest landslide on earth, but it’s emphatic enough to leave no room for doubt hbout the result. STATES M'KINLEY. California '■» New Hampshire.... 4 Connecticut 6 New Jersey 10 Delaware 3 New York <« Illinois ~24 North Dakota 4 Indiana 15 Ohio lowa 13 Oregon 4 Kentucky 12 Pannsylvanfa 42 Maine . « Rhode island 4 'Maryland..... Vermont ..rr.'s 4 Massaehusess 15 West Virginia <> Michigan ...14 Wisconsin 14 Vinnesota .. 9 ’ "Total 272 STATES FOR BRYAN Alabama 11 Montana 3 Arkansas ...... 8 Nebraska.... Colorado 4 North Carolina 11 Florida 4 South Carolina » Georgia . 13 South Dakota 4 Idaho./: -.. 3 Tennessee...:. 12 Kansas : 14 Texas Kentucky 1 Utah " Louisiana S Virginia »2 Mississippi » Washington • 4 Missouri: J,....« KWyomihg. ._8 Total ....... . , 1 McKinleys majority 9 ‘ . , ...'-yr Congressman Henry’s recent decision to allow no election for the selection of pbstmasterk has turned a few Decatur applicants “sour.” When it comes to appointment there will be only one person’s application considered and we know who that one man is. He stands near and dear to the official pie counter and can have it for the asking. This is too bad for the other applicants, but we can’t help it. The silver agitation will be kept up and m 1900 the election will be unanimous. The Corporations and trusis can’t defy the will of the whole people. It is too big a job.z ■ - '«<i aj >• . . ** c .■. 2./Jtt, . 'A,

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