Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 27, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1898 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY' MORNING BY LEW a. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. *1,50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the Postofflceat Decatur, Indiana as Second-Class Mall Matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, SEPT. 15. OUR TICKET. For Congress. ORLANDO J. LOTZ. For Representative HENRY KRICK. For Prosecuting Attorney DAVID E. SMITH. For Clerk Adams Circuit Court ELMER JOHNSON. For Treasurer JONAS NEUENSCH WANDER. For Sheriff DANIEL N. ERWIN. For Recorder THOMAS M. GALLOGLY. For Surveyor WILLIAM E. FULK. For Commissioner —First District JOSEPH E. MANN. For Commissioner —Second District. FREDERICK REPPERT. For Coroner DR. CHARLES S. CLARK. Attention Democrats of Washington Township and City of Decatur. There will be a mass convention held at the Democratic Headquarters in Meibers hall in the City of Decatur on Saturday October 1. 1898, from two until eight o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating three Justices of the Peace and three constables in and for said township and city to be voted for at the November election. Clark J. Lutz, Chairman. Lew G. Ellingham, Secy. Next Saturday is the date set by the republicans for the opening of the campaign in this state. The state fair at Indianapolis this week is not much of a drawing card for Adams county people. It is no doubt the same old chestnut that has worn whiskers since Rube was a boy. The business man who pins his faith in advertising to board fences, let ter circulars and the like can never establish a trade. The everlasting newspaper advertisement is the one that draws the trade and holds it. Os course Mr. Alger has his newspaper defenders. Mr. Quay has, too. And so would the devil if he needed them. Republican stump speakers are convicting their own party. Let the good work continue. The Patriot. Two years ago the democrats in Vermont secured but eleven representatives in congress. At the election last week they secured thirtythree, and the issue was that of silver. It is now in order for the president to order an investigation. The democrats of this city and township will nominate justices of the peace and constables on Saturday, October 1. This was so decided at a meeting of the committee last Saturday, and the appearance now indicate a clever array of candidates. The appearance in the city Saturday of George W. Cromer failed to create any unusual flutter among the rank and file of the g. o. p. The moral standing of that party's candidate for congress is such a dirty and bitter pill, that it gags them on sight. The elections held in Maine and Vermont show an increase for the democrats of ten per cent, and a decrease for the republicans of twentyfive per cent. This is the way the issue of silver dies, and slightly shows the way the wind will blow in Indiana this year. Cromer, through his party newspaper, the Morning News, can call democrats and laboring men a “ragged host," but the votes of that “ragged host” will count just as much in the ballot box as do the votes of those clothed in purple and fine linen. — Muncie Herald. The business men of Decatur should begin to organize their forces in favor of the gravel roads to lie voted for at the fall elections. Good roads the year round is a blessing that should be much sought after by the merchant, whose stock in trade Lies upon tha counter. Judson W. Teeple is now chairman of the republican central committee of Adams county. The selection will not cause all the party managers to swell up with pricle. This being the first newspaper announcement of this important fact, it will again demonstrate that the Democrat prints all the news all the time. There will be an investigation when congress meets, and the country will lie stunned by the disclosures which will be made of the wholesale corruption that has lieen carried on in the name of patriotism by the confederates of Marcus A. Hanna, who have been placed in the highest offices in the gift of the American people.

The War and the Philippines. In an article published some weeks ago the writer took occasion to say in substance that the problem* of the Uhilipines was for settlement, that we would hear much of it and think much of it for some time to come, and in particular, that it would be time enough to determine what we would or should do with them, when the war was over and the islands were in our power completely and we came to decide the question of which would be the best course to pursue. Since that time the Spanish fleet in Santiago came out and was destroyed. The east end of the island of Cuba was surrendered to the occupancy of the United States and the harbor and city of Santiago, and the army and arms of nearly twenty-five thousand soldiers and marines surrendered ami also the city of Manilla and its harbor, the great bay aud all the Spanish forces there surrendered. This completely broke the military power of Spain both on the sea and land outside the peninsula of Spain, and I probably of the ruling power, the present governing power of Spain j herself. It is probable that a new power | must arise and take the reins of gov- ' eminent in Spain to keep the peninI sula without the colonies. In all the history of Spain her military power ! went first. Her armies on land and ! her squadrons at sea went first, proceeded her civilization. The banners, the lances, the sword and the cannon, lead and her civilization followed. Her conquests were like those of Cteser; she could well say, “I came, I saw. I conquered," but there her power always ended; her civilization did not follow up her conquests and she could not and did not hold them, or it it did follow it did not harmonize with the home government and all the people conquered were always enemies of the home government. “They broke away from time to time and formed governments for themselves, and in every case formed governments republican in form. Spain herself is republican at heart, though despotic in fact.” There are three ways in which a nation acquires new territory, first by conquest, and that is first because it is the most common; second by colonization, which is in itself the most natural; and third by purchase, which is, in relation to time, the most modern, and one in which the United States government has furnished the most conspicuous acts of modern times. There is of course another form of acquisition in which the right to govern comes purely from the consent of the governed by voluntary submission. There can be little doubt but that Porto Rico has consented and will continue to consent to the government of the United States and that such title of this government to be exercised there may safely rest upon both the consent of the government and of conquest. In the Philippines the case is somewhat different. The island of Luzon, in which is the bay and harbor and city of Manilla, contains there the centre of civilization which will naturally control the whole group. The capture of the bay and city of Manilla was a military necessity. This centre of the East Indias fell into the power of America as an incident of war, not as a world wide and sought for conquest, but now after the fall of the city of Manilla we are confronted with the question of what to do with it. In American civilization, commerce, law, education, rights of person and property a reasonable degree of freedom of speech and of the press go before, these forces lead: and it is to protect them and their enjoyment that the military power is invoked. It would be an empty boast to say, “I am an American citizen,” if there was no power to support the claim of an honest man and yet this power would do but little good if invoked and exercised in liehalf of a people who had no power of progress, who had come to a stop in development. The expansive force of civilization does not require a great military force to protect it. It is a dynamic force itself, a moral force in one sense, and in another sense an overpowering natural force, like electricity, which conquers nearly everything it touches. It’s forces must move on and humanity and barbarism have no barriers; there are no walls between men or races or nations which can resist the all coni quering powder of civility, education , and liberty. It must expound until it has exhausted all its natural forces, if that lie possible, or rather until all its natural forces for good have been used for the benefit of mankind and have been utilized to their utmost extent, stops and checks upon it are only I temporary expedients and will only : answer for temporary purposes. The I army and the navy are the exponents, | they show the power of the real factors. They are necessary, absolutely necessary to protect the grand march of civilization and liberty, but they are not the factors. They have taken the bay and the city of Manilla and by all reasonable forces of influence the island of Luzon and it may with some reason be urged the whole body of the East Indias which Spain held. Is it necessary to hold the island of Luzon to protect and open the way for civilization ? Whether it is or not I there can be no question but that it is ■ necessary to hold it in the best interest of this government. The bay and the city, inside of a line surrounding them, and outside that a foreign power having control, would not give to America such standing in the Indias as she as a nation is entitled to have. The island of Luzon and all its approaches by which access to it and egress from it can be threatened or protected is the least measure of what our people ought to demand and re-

ceive. The victories at Manilla are far reaching. They undoubtedly should control the islands, all of them and if our government shall be satisfied to establish some form of government in Luzon alone and leave the others islands as they are it will not be for lack of power and what ot.ier good reason can lie given under the circumstances? The people of the islands have had some centuries of Spanish rule and trial of Spanish ways, and have learned from that that thev want something better. Every nation on earth seems to be willing to give them a chance and’would lie glad to reach out a hand if it could be done without a conflict. We have had a conflict and now it seems that the onlv question left is. shall the conflict be renewed? Spain will not yield the Philippines at the present stage of war except by purchase. It is probable that she will claim that we have not acquired the islands by conquest and therefore must either make a conquest or buy them. It is not unlikely that she will say that we have no right to acquire any interests in the eastern hemisphere, that the islands are so far away from our people that they will be a great injury to us. But why should we not now as a great country give those people a better form of” government than thev have had if we can and if they wish it. It is difficult to force a government, good or bad. upon any people against their own will, and if this is done bv military power alone it always fails, but it is easy for a great and established power to reach out a helping hand to a struggling people and aid them to form a better government if they do wish it and that act brings with it gratitude and friendship, not the gratitude and friendship of an individual, but of a nation, of a whole people, it grows with the years, it strengthens with time, it is a part of humanity, it passes into history, it impresses itself upon all future generations, i becomes to all men a part of eternity. If it be said that Americans must not extend their institutions, their liberty into the eastern hemisphere, that would be only to sav that our civilization must stop. It will only stop when its forces are spent. The steam ship, the telegraph and telephone and developments of science have brought the world together. Distance is almost annihilated and time is so short between places that men are understanding each other and moving in the same direction mentally and morally all over the world. There are clashes here and there but they are short, sharp and decisive and that which is best will surely be strongest. America can no longer keep European influences out of America nor can Europe keep American influences out of Europe, but this contest is not one of geography nor is it one of pure physical power; it is one of moral, mental and intellectual force which can no longer be avoided and in which the strongest will surely win and that which makes most for the good of mankind at large ought to wear the crown of victory. The Spanish-American war is not over. The protocol was signed recently which suspended the war for the time being but is not in any sense a treaty of peace. Peace should follow it upon such terms as may be dictated bv t tie victor, who should "temper justice with mercy” but that Spain or any Spanish statesman for her will sign a treaty by which territory over which Spain held the soverignty shall lie ceded or made over by a session to any other power may be accepted and acted upon as a most doubtful proposition. If the future events of this war shall correspond with the past history of Spain, America, if she gets anything, must just keep what she has got and if any more is due her and she wants it, she will be compelled to take it even if it is at the risk of a renewal of hostilities and in this view to disarm before the peace is declared is not a good policy but is one which if adopted will cause great regret in the end. It should be remembered that peace is not yet made. The protocol was only a record of what was done at the time and agreed to by the military powers with the consent of the two governments, and it does not make, and is not a final agreement of peace. That will be done by the commissioners of the governments at Paris if they agree, and the agreement be approved by the United States Senate and the Spanish Cortes, and if they do not agree, then by the victorious party, afterward by force of arms. The probability of further conflict is great. McOwen. Though the administration will, and should, lie blamed, during the coining campaign, for its conduct of the late war, the main issue of the campaign will be the currency question, as was the case two years ago. The vast majority of the democrats of the country want to try the effect of free silver coinage, and experience has proved that tfie bolters acted unwisely when they prevented them from having that trial provided for in 1886. Under a republican form of government the will of a majority should be as potential in a party, as it is in the whole body of the people.- Alexandria Gazette. After a silence of several minutes, Grandma Grosvenor, McKinley’s wind machine, has again got his jaw in working order, and declares that he never saw soldiers better fed than are those of the United States army. Grosvenor now expects the soldier skeletons that are making their appearance in all parts of the country, to promptly come down and admit that no one was ever better cared for and that all the stories of neglect are lies. —Wood County Democrat.

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Horrors of Incompetency. The Journal is one of the few news- ! papers that prates some about yellow iournalism and democracy s ingratitude to patriotism. We kindly refer them to the following extracts which are only a sample copy of what is' dailv being said by both press and public: "For the direful misery, pain and death which the bravest and best of the country’s youth have been compelled to suffer by reason of the unprecedented incompetency and the criminal indifference of the war department, there must surely come a j reckoning day."—Philadelphia Ledger (rep-) “The hospital horrors of Camp Thomas at Chickamauga have not been overdrawn by the press. As a matter of fact, I do not believe, in what I have learned here, that any newspaper writer has been able to tully describe the sufferings and misery of sicksoldiers who became helpless victims of a combination of incompetency, brutality and heartless indifference. The evidence of official incompetency and heartlessness which confronts one who searches here for the truth concerning the management is so overwhelming that he can hardly know where to begin in presenting the results of honest inquiry." Brooklyn Eagle (Ind.) The camp at Chickamauga park was a perfect hell on earth. War itself would have been a paradise compared with the “peace” of this camp. I saw many awful sights there men dying under the trees for want of a glass of water. I found there men who had been sick with typhoid fever for days and who had not received medical attendance. No one had even taken their temperature. It was awful. For five hundred men in the hospital there were only a dozen attendants. The water from the creek was simply mud, and yet the boys had to bathe in it and drink it. Everything about the camp was badly managed. As for the food, there is only one word that describes it—it was rotton. Father Dooley. Chaplain Eighth New York Regiment. A worm has been eating the life out Camp Wikoff and that worm is red tape. It has made a hell out of one of the finest camps the American army ever saw. Shameful, disgraceful, infernal, damnable —there is no word or term too strong to use, not only against the official neglect and blundering, but also against that railroad. Death lies at its door as much as on the heads of the officials of the war department. Some one has blundered. Yes, it is well to say that now, when it is too late. “This is the crime of the century, the tragedy of the nation. Our soldiers have not poured out their heart's blood on the altar of their country, but have been crucified by blundering and plundering officialdom. Our heads are bowed in deepest woe; we must bow them lower with very shame. Ido not criticise the arm itself. Officers and men have behaved and fought as Americans. Their gallantry is the one theme that we can go back with pleasure. But I do condemn the commissary departments and the medical departments with all my strength and power, and I hope very soon to see a thorough and proper investigation of the horrors lay the blame where it belongs.”— Senator Mason, republican of Illinois. It is for those who conducted the campaign of “magnificent promises” two years ago to burnish up their shelfworn stock and put it on the bargain counter. But, inasmuch as the promises of full time and higher wages which they unloaded on the laboring men two years ago were redeemed in strikes and lockouts and the single ray of prosperity which has illuminated the pathway of the fanner came from Joe Leiter’s beacon, the managers of this monumental emporium for the gullible cannot expect to do a very brisk business this season.

THE DECATUR NATIONAL BANK, . DECATUR INDIANA. July 14, 1898. RESOURCES. | LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, - 5202.938.89 Capital, - - - 5100.000.00 Overdrafts, - - 3,490.40 Surplus, - - 7.500.00 U. S. Bonds and premiums 27,500.00 J Undivided profits, - 871.93 Real estate and furniture, 6,588.79 Circulation, - . 22.500.00 Cash and Exchange, - 76,171.06 Deposits, - - 185,817.21 5316,689.14 , 5316.689.14 DIRECTORS. OFFICERS. P. W. Smith, J. B. Holthouse, P. W. Smith, J. B. Holthohse, J. D. Hale. J. H. Hobrock, President, Vice-President. D. Sprang, C. A. Dugan, C. A. Dugan, EX. Ehinger. II R. Moltz, Cashier Ass’t Cashier. A general banking business transacted. Foreign drafts sold. Interest paid on certiticates left six or twelve months.

THE SCHOOL BOOK LAW. A Monument Commemorative of Democratic Wisdom and Fealty to the Best Interests of the People of Indiana And In Its Operation Saving Millions of Money to the Laboring Men of Indiana In the Cost of School Hooka For Their Children. It is a well known fact that prior to 1889. the state of Indiana was in the grasp of a schoolbook trust which was as devoid of conscience as a hungry wolf operating in the midst of a flock of sheep. In writing of this aggregation of insatiable men, who for years had men uessly robbed the people of Indiana, it is designed to briefly point out to what extent these robberies were perpetrated upon Working Men seeking to educate their children in the common schools of the state, and which, without let or hinderance, had gone on for years. This schoolbook trust, having ample means at its command, was able to debauch not only a portion of the press, but a large per cent of the school officials of the state, and bring into active operation whenever demanded, a thoroughly equipped army of henchmen to do its bidding and aid it in perpetrating its piracies. At this supreme juncture the Democratic Legislature resolved to put an end to this schoolbook spoliation and lift the intolerable burden from parents who had been compelled to purchase its books; and there is not in the legislative history of the state a law more in consonance with justice and righteousness than that enacted by the Democratic legislature of 1889, which emancipated the people from the domination of the schoolbook trust. And here it is worth while to say that the Republican Party, as in the case of the Australian ballot law and the revenue law, took a position in favor of the schoolbook trust, and in flagrant opposition to the welfare of the people of the state. But as intimated, the purpose is to show to what extent the workingmen of Indiana are interested in the financial problem which the Democratic law of 1889 solved for the state. Enrollment of Schoolchildren. Officially stated, the number of schoolchildren enrolled in Indiana for the year 1888, the year preceding the enactment of the antischoolbook trust law, was 514,463. A set of schoolbooks as supplied by the trust cost $9.40, hence it appear* that to supply each of the schoolchildren in the state for the year 1888 with a set of books would require the sum of $4,835,952.20. It is stated by officials connected with the state department of education, that a set of schoolbooks on an average, ha* to be renewed every four years, and assuming that on an average children are in school 12 years, the cost of renewing schoolbooks under the rale of the trait.

would be $14,50* ,856.60. It is fair to assume that one-half of the schoolchildren enrolled in the stats in 1888 (257,931) were the children of citizens, laborers, mechanics and men working on farms, who were required to pay in 1888, under trust rule, 19.40 for every set of books purchased for their children—amounting to $2,417,976.10. Under the operation of the Democratic schoolbook law passed in 1889,, the cost of schoolbooks was reduced one-half, or 50 per cent. This resulted in a saving to the parents of the schoolchildren of the state, as stated, $2,417,976.10 in the purchase of schoolbooki. And if. as is assumed, one-half, of the children enrolled in the common schools of the state in 1888 were the children of parents who work for a living, the saving to them amounted to $1,208,988.05. And here, again, assuming that daring the school age of these children, these sets of books have to be renewed every four years, the saving to wageworkers would amount to the sum of $3,626,964.15 during the 13 years. Under circumstances, as pointed out, and considering the immense benefits accruing to our fellow citizens whew incomes are derived from their labor the Democratic party has a right, predicated upon its fealty to the interests a labor, to expect that workinsmen ww not overlook its labors iu their behalf. Plant your xdv’ts. in the Deshke' t where they grow into custom. It is about time Mary Anu Curious came steaming down the pikewitnan other grist of airy reformations that look well and would even appear w ter than they look. Come. Mary, • take off your garters and air yourse • According to the Muncie Time’ 3 period of prosperity now atoun »• is well they mention it as the farmer and the laboring men will not app ciate such bounteous plent). u properly coached. This is the announcemeht for some time 0 arrival of that prosperity wagonThe physk-af condition of Governor Mount is such that at times it apj critical. He was subjected to an a aident while alighting from, d L car some time ago, which is t 1 _ ary cause for his illness no - physician says that anv unu> ' j v ertion or excitement might - end his earthly career. In 1878 that much honored G. Blaine is quoted as saying believe the struggle now going■ s this country and in other jf for a single gold standard < • g . successful, produce widesj ffO rldaster in the end throughoi The destruction of sl *'' er ‘''l e sole land establishing g°‘i 1 . uS es- [ unit of value must have <1 feet on all forms of P rO F a fixed those investments which return in money. * ue a nd ■ enormously enhanced in junwould gain a dispropor 1 rS peeies ' fair advantage over every 0 ' of property.”