Decatur Democrat, Volume 41, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1897 — Page 4

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 12. Turn on the lights. The city needs street lights and the council owes it to the people to give it to them. Turn on the light and give the taxpayers something tor the high taxes paid. Electric light would surely be a slight recompense. The council should now give us a little light on the subject of city finances. They owe it to the people and taxpayers and should produce. The Journal again acknowledges the success of the democrats at next spring’s city election, I rank is beginning early to take it to heart, and if care is not taken a physician will be necessary to heal a broken spirit. Too bad. Our city dads should furnish light on the streets. If a brilliant arch light on every street corner will be such a good thing after a new plant is completed, a little of that illuminacy wouldn’t be amiss now. Turn on the lights. One Baney has now made a confession which may release Rev Hinshaw from prison. The confession in question is said to explain in detail the murder and bow it was committed. In a few’ days the story will be corroberated or refuted. Another prosperity supplement used by the republican campaign committee, has been circulated. This time they open the doors to prosperity by the Dingley tariff route. If protecting the interests of the trusts will bring prosperity, we will have bushels of it. The Journal says that every cent of indebtedness the city has accrued the last four years is represented by a permanent improvement. Please state what amount that indebtedness represents and what the improve ments are to represent it, including all stock companies. Give us 1 ght. The people still need it, want it and ought to have it. The city council could not do a better act than to annul their former silly act, by resolution, that shut off the liszbt and left our people and property to the damaging mercies of darkness. Give us light. The Journal has not yet proven that any county officer is guilty of misappropriating one cent of public monev, notwithstanding their long winded effort to do so. We therefore again deny the insiuations of the Journal that any C’Unty officer is guilty of misappropriating the funds of the county. With the purchase of new stocks every shoe merchant must charge f>om twenty-five to fifty cents more for each pair of shoes he sells This must be paid by the consumers for the sole benefit of the beef trust, composed of Chicago millionaires. O, how people will enjoy it!—Marion Leader. Governor Atkinson of Georgia, has offered rewards for the arrest and conviction of lynchers m that state. Governor Mount has not opened his head concerning the Monroe county white-caps, and the republican officials of that county are making no effoat to bring them to justice. We would like to swap governors with our sister commonwealth of “the lawless South.” What does the $22,000 old city debt represent says the Journal. What does the #70J)00 or SBO,OOO additional indebtedness represent together with an increased tax levy and other burdensome extras too tedious to mention. The old debt represents improvements that were necessary, and it would have been paid off had a democratic administration been continued in power. The indebtedness has reached a point now where it can’t be paid within the next half century. Quite a business administration —in a horn.

THE PKICE OF SILVER. Mr. R. E. Preston, the director of the mint, is entering upon the work of the political campaign with considerable vigor. He is “standing” interviews for the papers and writing special articles on the gold supply and the decline in the price of silver bullion. Mr. Preston has made the discovery that he is surcharged with information rather suddenlv. He blossoms out in print at a moment when the managers of the Hanna campaign are straining every nerve to make it appear that there is a general boom; that the poor are getting rich; that gold is | falling from the clouds in such i quantities that it hardly pays to pick it up; and that silver is not valuable enough to make hay rakes of. Mr. Pnston goes so far in these things as anybody could ask him to. | He says there is going to be an enormous production of gold,and: lays special stress on a decline on the price of silver bullion, which he obligingly attributes to the fact, as he calls it. that there no demand for silver. He attempts to show that on account of this the siver cause has gone to pieces, and that nothing remains tor any honest, sensible man to do but to embrace the gold monometallic idea. It is only lately, as we have already noted, that Mr. Preston has discovered that he baa a call to do missionery work for the gold and bond speculators, and the affluent gentlemen who want to turn a few millions of dollars more through the retirment of greenbacks and the substitution therefor of an interest-1 bearing currency. The director of the mint is a ministerial officer. He performs I under direction. The man who is hired to hoe corn is not expected to | write a brilliant esaay on agriculture, or to estimate the probable crop, or to decide on the adaptation of the ground to any particular plant. Mr. Preston has not devel-1 oped any special qualification for j striking out beyond the routine duty ■ scheduled for him by the law. He ; is not employed to teach the people. If teaching had been the object of his office, probably some body who knew more than he appears to know would have been put in it. Os course Mr. Preston has the right of every other American citizen to talk and write whenever he can get listeners and readers on any subject that may come up in his mind. It is not in good taste, though, to say the least, for him to use the prestige of his office to give circulation to sophistries for party effect. One thing alone in Mr. Preston’s interviews and articles settles the director. That is his attempt to show that the price of silver has gone down because the people do not want silver. Every tyro in political discussion knows that the bullion price of silver is far below the coinage value because silver has been excluded from the mints; and the price of silver must continue to go down in proportion to the remoteness of the restoration of bimetallism, under in administration whose financial and foreign policies are dictated by a few bankers and brokers, and bucket-shop operators on a large scale. It is the ABC of finance to know that gold, excluded from coinage as silver has been, would inevitable fall in price —perhaps to a lower figure proportionately than silver now touches. The Enquirer is not afraid that Mr. Preston’s campaign documents ; will hurt the silver cause materially. A great deal of education on the money question has been imparted in the last two or three years, and even those who are unfamiliar with the more abstruse propositions in discussion of the question of money know enough to reject Mr. Preston. It is the principle of the thing we are discussing. Mr. Preston might write and talk as a private citizen till his hand was palsied and his tongue paralyzed without even get- ; ting into print. He is on doubtful j ground when he uses his official ; position to influence what unsophiss ticated people there may be left with a false proposition. He ought \ to have more regard for the estimation in which be will be held by intelligent people.—Enquirer. I Hannaism was knocked out of shape in the fourth district congressional election Tuesday. Francis Marion Griffith, the democratic I nominee, was elected by the hand- : seme majority of 1,000, defeating a - republican and populist candidate in a district that is normally republican by about 300. Last year Congressman Holman was elected by 825 majority, but populists all supported Holman, having no candi date of tbeir own. Silver was the issue in the campaign just closed, so the champions of the white metal may feel proud of the victory achieved and reassured in their battle for a larger volume of money. It was a grand and glorious victory. lOn with the march, let joy be uniconfined

Give uh light on the streets. The people want them and the council have no right to turn out the light in order to form stock «ompanies, issue bond* and pile up debts iindt-r the mockerv of economy. The Democrat is merely a phonograph repeating the command of its masters—the men who control and distribute the official pie of the county.— Journal. For the sake argument suppose the above to be true. The Journal was waited upon by the pie dis- ■ tributors of the council and hy them told to dance to their music, he ha--1 been dancing verv effectively ever since. Great ginger in those coun|cilmen. Turn cn the lights. In closing his speech in favor of agreeing to the conferencs report on the tariff bill, Mr. Dingley predicted that the final passage of the bill would raise prices and restore prosperity. it has already raised the price of sugar both on the stock board and the breakfast table; but that is not what we desire to advert to. Last fall during the campaign, the McKinley orators declared that free coinage would “raise the prices and thus greatly injure the poor roan.” Now the new tariff is to “raise prices and bring prosperity.” Think of that for a moment. The free coinage of silver would enlarge the money supply and raise prices in that way, at the same time furnishing the money with which to pay the higher prices. Still it was to bring ruin. The new tariff Mr. Dingley tells us, will raise prices. How much new money will it create? If the people are to be provided with no more money how can they pay higher prices, when they are unable to pay the low prices which now prevail? But they tell us the I new tariff will set more men at work and thus create prosperity. How does this agree with the claim which has rung in our ears for a decade that the great tall of prices and consequent depression has been caused by “over-production?” How can more men be set at work without increasing the dreadful “over-pro duction” and adding to our misery? We do not ask these questions m a spirit of captiousness, but because j we 1 aut to know how “this can be I thus” and “thus can be this.”—The; National Bimetallist.

•MH.I I IONI 1 LOCALS. E. Woods of this city, was the 1 lowest bidder for bricking part of 1 Washington street at Bluffton- * E Franklin, of the Fail, was ( transacting business at Ft. Wayne this week. Misses Rose Christen and Lizzie Jackson are enjoying an outing at Eagle Lake, Ind. Rev. Vitz attended a meeting of , the board of directors of the orphan’s home at Fort Wayne this week. The first through train on the G. R. & I. since the wreck passed through the city yesterday afternoon. Traffic will now continue as usual. Mrs George Flanders entertained a number of lady friends at her home this afternoon. Supper was served to the guests at the Park Hotel. Miss Goldie Gav entertained a i number of her little lady friends in honor of Miss Nellie Tiedeman, of Goshen. The little Misses all report a lovely time. The ice cream social given by the St. Agnes society of the Catholic church Tuesday evening, was a decided success in point of pleas antry and financially. Tomorrow night the Clover Leaf will re instate a night office at this place. For some time the night office has been abandoned owing to ; the light run of business. When you want ice cream packed ; in ice and deliveied to your home, I order from the dealers: they all handle Place’s. Special prices i ' made to socials and picnics. 21t2 ■ Clint Fisher wants to thank all I those who rendered him financial and other assistance in repairing I his house, which was one of the I ' few struck by lightning last week.' It is reported that James N. ■ ; Fristoe has purchased the ice; ; cream factory of Syphers & Buhler lat Warsaw, Ind., and «ill soon rei move from our midst to take charge ■ of his new investment. Henry Halley an aged citizen of I Root township died Saturday after I a short illness with ailments in cident to old age. The funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Fuelling church. Notice—l will sell at private sale, in parcels or as a whole the Lawson Linhard farm in Root townsnip, two miles north of De catur. For further information inquire of the undersigned or at the county clerk’s office. Lois Linhard, Adm'x. May 13, 1897. 9tf

Something Entirely New! We have just received a shipment of the new Ultra fashionable Howard Stiff and Flange Brim Hats in all the new colors of Green. Brown, Black and a new shade of Blue. If you see them you will surely BUY ONE. We still have a good assortment of Summer Clothing and Straw Hats which wc are selling at Reduced prices. We must have room for our fall goods. These are bargains for you, at P. H-olthoUse Go.

H. O. Breekweg, traveling Auditor of the Logansport and Wabash Valley Gas Co, was in the city yesterday checking up the business' of the local office. Everything was found in apple pie order as usual. A number of the young people of the Reformed church met at the home of their pastor, Rev. Vitz Tuesday evening, and had a social time. They enjoyed themselves thoroughly and want to return some other day. Bluffton asphalt costs them $1.87 per square yard, being the cheapest contract of this kind ever known. It will make a very pretty street if it only retains durabil ity. The company will keep them repaired for ten years. Wanted—White Ash Heading Bolts, cut fifty-five inches long, from seven inches upward >n size, delivered at my factory for which I will pay $3 a cord. Also all the other cusiomary timber bought. 9-6 m J. W. Vail. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Keubler left last night for New York. The former to buy dry goods for the fall and winter trade and the latter on a sightseeing expedition. They were accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schafer and son, Chai - mer, who will spend their vacation in the principal cities of the east. Co. “B” I. N. G. has made application for new uniforms. The measurements of the boys have been forwarded to the quartt-r---master-general at Indianapolis, and in a shoit time the boys will turn out resplendant in gaudy uniforms. Ihe boys have needed uniforms for a long time, and can ; now show their military maneuvers to a better advantage. On account of the centennial and international exposition, the G. R. & I. will sell round trip tickets to Nashville, Tenn. Round trip season good to return Nov. 7th at rate of $17.25, Round trip limited to 20 days from date of sale $12.65. Round trip limited to 10 days from date of sale #9.00. Tickets to be sold on Tuesdays and Thursdays of each week after April 29th. J. Bryson, Agent. Councilmen Coverdale and Rice | were not able to join the first junketing trip to Fort Wayne which took place last week, but special days were occupied by these gentle- ; men this week in accepting the hospitality of the Fort Wayne Elec- ! trie corporation. And thus it is . that two or threespecial expeditions ■ have journeyed to Fort Wayne to view the beauties of that city by ' electric light. Meanwhile the citi- : zensof Decatur are groping around : in the darkness wondering where j they are at and why the lights are not turned on. Turn ’em on. A gang of hoboes boarded a Clover Leaf freight in ihis city yes terday afternoon and we<e ordered off by the conductor. One of the num er promptly took a shot at the conductor, but the bullet flew wide of its mark and the gang then ; beat a hasty re.treat. The conductor telephoned to the city for officers, but when they arrived on the scene the culprits had flown. Come officers, do your duty by ordering these people out of the citv as soon as they arrive, before some unsuspecting citizen is injured at their hands. II it requires extra officers, put them on and protect life and property.

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