Decatur Democrat, Volume 42, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 13 October 1898 — Page 6

Catarrh is Not Incurable But it can not be cured by sprays, washes and inhaling mixtures which reach only the surface. The disease is in the blood, and can only be reached through the blood. S. S. S. is the only remedy which can have any effect upon Catarrh; it cures the disease permanently and forever rids the system of every trace of the vile complaint. Miss Josie Owen, of Montpelier, Ohio, writes: “I was afflicted from infancy with Catarrh, and no -4T one can know the ffi&ZaT ® suffering it produces 4 JS3 better than I. The sprays and washes prescribed by the doc--4 tore re l ieve d me only temporarily, and '• AFWI though I used them constantly for ten years, the disease had a frmer hold than ever. I tried a number of blood remedies, but their mineral ingredients settled in my bones and gave me rheumatism. I was in a lamentable condition, and after exhausting all treatment, was declared incurable. Seeing S. S. S. advertised us a cure for blood diseases, I decided to try it. As soon as my system was under the effect of the medicine. I began to improve, and after taking it for two months I was cured completely, the dreadful disease was eradicated from my system. and I have bad no return of it.” Many have been taking local treatment for years, and find themselves worse now than ever. A trial of S. Blood will prove it to be the right remedy for Catarrh It will cure the most obstinate case. Books mailed free to any address by Swift Specific Co , Atlanta, Ga. W. C. T. U. Annual Convention at Lafayette—President McWhirter’s Address. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 7. —The W. O. T. U’s. annual convention opened here this morning. Workers in the temperance cause here are doing everything to make their guests feel at home and the convention a success. Mrs. Lnella F. McWhirter, president of the society, read her address at the morning session and it was favorably com mented upon by delegates. John G. Wooley, Good I Citizens league organizer, will dfehver . an address tonight. Officer* Elected For the Ensuing Year. Lafayette, Ind., Oct. 10.—Representatives of the W. C. T. U. conducted both morning and evening services in churches of this city yesterday. Satur- I day the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. L. F. McWhirter of | Indianapolis; vice president, Miss Mary ; Hadley of Bloomingdale; corresponding secretary, Mrs. M. E. Balch of Indianapolis; recording secretary, Rev. M. O. Commack of Marion; treasurer, Mrs. A. T. Whitson of Indianapolis. STATE HOV-E WELL. Dr. Hurty’ Pronoancea the Water Unfit to Drink. Indianapolis, Oct. 11. — Secretary Hurty of the state board cf health has given to the governor a sanitary analy- ■ sis of the water from the driven well in the state house. It is as follows: “This water contains four times the amount or normal chlorin for deep waters. It also carries the full limit of albuminoid ammonia and nitrates,' and in addition contains suspicious bacteria. , It at times possesses a distinct taste and smell. The amount of mineral matter is about twice that which is allowable for a wuolsome drinking water. These i facts warrant the statement that this water is not wholesome and, therefore, should not be used for drinking purposes. ” REALIZED 8300 AS ACRE. Ediubnrg (Ind.) Farmer Making Money Raising Coffee. Edinburg, Ind., Oct. B.—Frank T. Wright, a farmer living three miles south of here, has a variety of coffeebean that matures perfectly and yields abundantly in this latitude. He has been cultivating it for three years. He realized S3OO an acre from his last year's crop. Rural Mail Delivery. Richmond, Ind., Oct. B.—The two routes of rural mall delivery from this city have become very popular. Last mouth 8,000 pieces of mail were handled. Struck by a Train. Turner, Ind., Oct. B.—Mrs. Benjamin Tipton, a prominent woman of this place, was struck by a Vandalia train yesterday and fatally injured. Wabash County Veterans. Wabash, Ind., Oct. B.—Wabash county veterans will hold a reunion at Miller’s grove Oct. 17. Stat. Note*. Terre Haute, Ind., will have a golf club. Terre Haute, lud., is indulging in a street fair. Whiteland (Ind.) postoffice was plundered by burglars. The Eastern Indiana Insane hospital at Richmond is reported as overcrowded. D. K. H. Reap, a student of Hanover (Ind.) college, and Miss May Wills of Elizabethtowi have eloped. Rev. J. W. Russell of Kalamazoo, Mich., has been called to the pastorate of the Christian church at Rushville, Ind. Harry Mitchell, a private in Company M, One Hundred and Fifty-eighth, of Crawfordsville, Ind., died at Amp Mount yesterday. Samuel Williams of Yeoman, Ind., released a year ago from the Central Indiana Insane hospital as cured, has attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Profeasor Bert Lewis, artilleryman and aeronaunt at Santiago, has been again arrested in Howard county Ind., charged with burglary, and Mayor Armstrong ot Kokom i b:.s committed him tor trial.

DEMOCRATS AND THE WAR They Vied With the Republicans In Giving the Administration Financial Support. McKinley’* Lack of Diplomacy and Vigor In Dealing With Spain Wat Roundly Critir««ed by the Republicans—Chairman tieruly Would Make a Nonpartisan War a State Isaue to Bolster Up His Party. It ought to be remembered, because it is true, that the Democratic party was the real war party of the nation. It was in favor of the war with Spain for humanitarian considerations. It believed that Spain’s rule in Cuba was brutal, savage, horrible, and it believed that the Cabans ought to enjoy liberty and independence. So persistent were Democrats in demanding a declaration of war against Spain that the remark was often made: “This is a Democratic war.” It is a matter of record that when it became apparent that war with Spain was inevitable and the administration wanted the means for war purposes, Democrats in congress vied with Republicans in giving to the administration all the money it demanded and $50,000,000 was voted and placed in the hands of the president to be expended as he might deem proper. If Democrats doubted the policy of issuing interest bearing bonds to supply war revenue, it was not because of any hostility to the war, or for the purpose of embarrassing the administration. but, rather because they believed the time had not arrived making it necessary to burden the people with an additional bonded debt and taxation. They believed that the war would be of short duration, that tne reserves of the treasury were ample to carry- on the war, even if it should continue to December, when, if Bonds were required, the facts would be before the country, and a bond loan could speedily be made to meet all emergencies. In a word, the Democrats, in and out of congress, with patriotic unanimity have sought in every possible way to uphold the hands of the administration in conducting the war. If there were criticisms of Mr. McKinley’s diplomacy and of his lack of vigor in. dealing with Spain, it should be stated that Republicans were even more pronounced in their complaints than were Democrats. And it will be remembered that it required heroic efforts on the part of Republican whips to restrain Republican members of congress from breaking through all restraints aud openly condemning Mr. McKinley’s dilatory policy. The Democratic party studiously decliued to drag the war into politics. It was no*', in its origin, a party war. If Mr. McKinley was obnoxious to criticism, it was because he “detested” war, and exhibited the greatest reluctance in beginning hostilities. In his own language he desired to be satisfied that a war with Spain would be a “righteous war,” and even the sinking of the battleship Maine did not arouse him from his lethargy. And the facts show that Republicans were more censorious than Democrats over such exhibitions of supineness. Aud iu this connection it is worthy of mention that the Democracy of Indiana, iu state convention assembled, in putting forth their platform, ignored the war as a political issue. There was not one word in the platform arraigning Mr. McKinley's administration for anything done or omitted in conducting the war. On the contrary, the platform gave only expression of patriotic sentiments. The war plauk of the platform was in tne highest degree eulogistic of the war, army and navy. Indeed, iu such regards its indorsement of the war was even more pronounced than the declarations of the Republican platform. To still further demonstrate that the Democratic party was opposed to dragging the war into politics, on Aug. 17 Hon. Parks M. Martin, chairman of the state Democratic central committee, gave expression to his views in an interview in the Indianapolis Sentinel on the war as a political issue, and is reported as follows: “As I said, I don’t believe that the war should be made an issue in this state campaign. It was not a political war. It was waged in the interest of humanity to succor the down-trodden, starving people of Cuba. The Democrats are not disposed to bring the war into the state campaign, not that they’re afraid to, for if the Republicans show a disposition to make it a campaign matter we are going to take care of ourselves ali right. If they are going to make this a war campaign it is not putting it too strong to say that we will handle them without gloves. We might be able to show, for instance, that the war was brought about by the Democrats in congress, assisted by a few Republicans, and that if it had been left to President McKinley and his advisers we would probably never have had a war. Ido not say this iu the way of criticism aud I am opposed to trying to make campaign material out ot a war that was supported loyally by all parties aud all sections.” This completely disposes all the shallow talk of the Republican press regarding the position of the Democratic party on the war as a political issue iu the campaign iu Indiana. But, Mr. Hernly, chairman of the Republican state central committee, iu an interview published in the Indianapolis Sentinel on Aug. 18. the day following the appearance of Mr. Martin’s interview, took occasion to insist that war should be and ought to be an issue in the campaign in Indiana. Evidently. Mr. Hernly believed the war issue would be highly conducive to Republican success. and is reported as saying: “I read The Sentinel’s interview with Parks Martin in which he said that the war should not be made an issue in this campaign, but that the Democrats are ready to meet it if the Renublicans

spring it. Ido not agree with Mr. Martin that we who happen to be in positions of party responsibility can make the issues of this or of any campaign. The people make the issues. They know what they are vitally interested [ in, and unless the stump speaker talks of these things he will find himself without audiences. Just now the people want to have the story of the war told them. It is a story in which they are vitally interested. They want it l told from the stump by the stump speak- ' ers. They are interested iu the question of territorial expansion and the i thousand-and-one questions growing | out of the war, and they want to know what our public men think about them. The people of Indiana have decreed that the war shall be an issue in the campaign. . “While we Republicans do not claim the sole credit for having brought on this war, we are all proud of the masterly wav in which tiie war was conducted I by President McKinley, and we see no i harm iu saying so from from the stump. “The Republicans are forced to make the war question an issue, even though they were not inclined. The Republican party was the party in power during this war crisis. It has many things to explain to the people. It has to explain why it was necessary to issue bonds; why it was necessary to establish a war revenue, and it has to answer to the people for all the steps of the campaign. It wiil try t< answer to the people of Indiana this fall. ” It will be observed that Mr. Hernly, speaking for his party, declared in favor of making the war a campaign issue, besides, it will be observed that Mr. Hernly declares that "the Repu ■- licaiis are forced to make the war question au issue even though they were not inclined,” and that the Republicans “have many things to explain.” Let it be understood that the war by itself considered —that is to say the declaration of war and the battles of the war on the land and on the sea—is not and cannot be made a partisan political issue, since all parties and all sections favored the war. Mr. Hernly sounded a keynote when he said. “The Republican party has many things to explain,” and it i~ doubtless true that the people, it they have made the issue, it is with the understanding that Republicans shall "explain many things”—not about "bonds” nor any of the land or naval battles, since they have been explained by officers in command. What, then? The question is answered by the appointment of a commission by the president aud his instructions to that commission, in which he said: "There has been, iu many quarters, severe criticism of the conduct of the war with Spain. Charges of criminal neglect of the soldiers in camp audtieldaud hospital and in transports, have been so persistent, that, whether true or false, they have made a deep impression upon the country.” Who made these charges which Republicans must explain? Mr. Hernly says "the Republican party was the party in power during tin* war crisis.” And the Republican party must explain. Certainly, Democrats did not make the charges. The Democratic j party was not in power “during tnis war crisis.” No part of tne intamy charged, and which, as Mr. McKinley says, has “madea deep impression ui-on j the country,” attaches to the Demo- I cratic party. These charges have been made by soldiers, by officers weiring the insignia of generals, by correspondents ot j mrnals of the highest character for prudent statements, by army chap.ains. ' and, to the extent they dared to talk, uy i private soldiers. This pelting storm of charges, growing more tierce as the days went by, horrified the people. Nor was it required lor the private soldiers, who returned alive from pestilential camps, to talk. To see them, as Colonel Studebaker said of his splendid regiment —the One Hundred aud Fi tyseveuth Indiana —“with fever in their i very boues,” weak, wasted and but a | shadow of their former selves, was a speech more terribly eloquent than Mark Anthony made over the dead body of Caesar. True, they were not in the battle at Santiago nor Manila—.hey were not in war at all. Their battles were for life in the camps assigned them by the administration, by McKinley’s war secretary. They were m American camps within a lew hours’ travel by rail of Washington, thev were within reach of telegraph and telephone, aud yet they suffered and many died for want of medicines, food aud care. Suffered by j criminal neglect and criminal incompetency, the result of the lowest degree of partisan politics in making appointments. Mr. McKinley, in his instructions to the investigating commission, among other things, said: "I cannot impress upon you too strongly my wish that your investigation shall be so thorough aud complete that your report when made will fix the responsibility for any failure or fault by reason of neglect, incompetency or maladministration upon the officers and bureaus responsible therefor —if it be found that the evils complained of have existed. "The people of the country are entitled to know whether or not the citizens who so promptly responded to the call of duty have been neglected or misused or maltreated by the government to which they so willingly gave their services. If there have been wrongs committed, the wrongdoers must not escape conviction and punishment.” These are brave words, and, peradventure, like stray chickens, he may find them coming home to roost. The war department has had charge of the army, and at the head of this department is Secretary Alger, for whose appointment President McKinley is solely responsible. Hence, the tracks of the criminal blunders of that department point to the white house as certainly as the hoofprints of Phil Armour’s cattle point to the slaughterhouse. The nation believes that the first criminal blunder was the appointment of Alger as secretary of war. If the people are right in this, the multiplied wrongs of which the people complain, the investigating commission may hold William McKinley, president of the United States, responsible. In the relentless search for wrong doers it may be in order to track them | to their hiding places, but it is in conI sonauce with the eternal fitness of i things to find, if possible, the one man, the higher his position the more important the investigation, whois responsible, and when found stand him up before the pitiless gaze of the world and say to him, as Nathan said to David, "Thou ait the man.”

REPUBLICAN CURRENCY REFORM. In my last communication I undertook to show jnst what the Republican platform means by "comprehensive aud enlightened monetary legislation. This j legislation is not a matter for the Republican leaders to settle in the future. Even if it were not fully determined on, the people ought to be taken into their confidence more than this vague, smooth sounding platform declaration does. But they have fully decided on this “currency reform” and it is embodied in house bill No. 10,289. This is the bill which was favorably reported by the house committee at the last session, and in this letter I want to briefly discuss that feature of the measure that makes our coined silver dollars redeemable in I gold. (See Sec. 6, H. R. No. 10,289.) As the law stands today, there is no provision for free or even limited coinage of silver dollars (except the provision in the Bond bill for coining the seignorage, which lias been absolutely ignored by the treasury officials), but there is an amount of silver coined already that is full legal tender standard money. There is no statute that permits their redemption in gold and there has been no policy adopted or attempt made by the treasury officials to redeem them in gold. They have the equal exchange or money value of gold, simply because they pay as much debts and taxes in I this country. In any event, the $425,-1 000,000 of coined silver dollars enlarge I the volume of our standard money that! much and in a certain way have the . effect of that much gold coined. But if j the law is to be changed so that this silver is legally redeemable in gold, at j least two vicious results follow: 1. The volume of standard money is contracted, for instead of being part of | our standard, legal tender money, our i silver dollars will become mere currency. Our coined gold w. .be Isft the I sole standard money: it will bo the sole | money of redemption and the money in which government bonds must be paid. A large part of this funded national debt was created c-u a paper basis when greenbacks were legal tender aud would have paid it. It has been refunded on a coin basis, when under the law aud under the terms of the contract, it could be paid in either geld or silver dollars. Now they propose to make the public debt payable I only iu gold. This purpose was fore-! shadowed in the defeat ol the Teller ! resolution in the last house, and in the declaration of President McKinley in his speech to the American Manufacturers' association, Jan. 27, 1898, that "no matter what the language ot the contract, the United States would pay its obligations in the money recognized as the best at the time of payment.'’ And, as this purpose cannot well be carried out by refunding our debt and issuing gold bonds iu the place of coin bonds, it is to be done by making silver mere currency and gold the sole money of payment. If there ever was danger in making our public debt payable in gtild, that danger has increased in recent years. The injustice aud unwisdom ot gold payment has grown since McKinley voted for the Matthews resolution in 1878, which declared that onr coin bonds could be paid in either gold or silver dollars. Tlie increased demand for gold as standard money, here and elsewhere in the world, has caused its value to rise aud has correspondingly caused property and prices to fall. A wise economist would not increase that demand. Besides, our debt has grown in the last few years, $460,000,000 (largely due to the attempt to maintain gold redemption), making gold payment not only more difficult but more unjust than ever. Again, if we take away the money function from $425,000,000 of silver, we not only reduce the volume of standard money that much, but by making this silver redeemable in gold we add that new burden to gold. This is an experiment we need not try. 2. The hypocrisy of the proposition can be seen on a moment’s reflection. If silver is to be mere currency, redeemable in gold, it amounts to mere promises to pay the gold back of it. It stands just as the redeemable paper dollar does, and if this be true, why not have all paper currency or paper promises to pay gold? It is a sheer waste of good material to use silver to stamp these promises on when we can use paper to print them on. Why not dispense with silver? It is because they do not care to alarm the people by such a proposal. Even in the bill the plan of gold redemption is veiled in the sentence: "Pay out gold coin in exchange for silver dollars.” They are seeking to do by indirection what they may not propose directly. They are seeking to surreptitiously fasten this legislation on us. H. H. Hanna says his poll of the house shows that all the "sound money” memb rs favor it and yet they come back to their constituents and talk of "honest dollars” and "comprehensive monetary legislation.” Not one word to say in defense or explanation of a bill to which, if Mr. Hanna speaks the truth, they have committed themselves. These speakers and papers are silent, but the work is ready for the next congress if it be Republican. And Mr. Hanna says, in his open letter of some weeks ago, that they were encouraged to believe that the war would enable them to carry the elections and control the next congress, and then their proI posed legislation would become a law. Heaven forbid that under the guise and in the name of patriotism they shall seI cure our congress for such' uefariov purposes. Henry Warrum. With wheat at 69 cents a bushel tl farmers who have hogs might profitably dispose of it as feed, while waiting for the McKinley wave of prosperity. Buffalo Bill may find it more difficult than he anticipates to close a contract i with McKinley’s cabinet to make it a ! | uart of his show. -

Northern Indiana Odd Fellow*. Michigan City, lud., Oct. B.—The Odd Fellows of northern Indiana held a meeting here yesterday. Cantons were present from South Bend, Mishawaka, Valparaiso, Laporte, Union Mills, Westville. Logansport, Hammond and other towns. Grand Cmef Patriarch McCoy was in attendance. All the cantons took part in the parade. Twin* Galore. Anderson, lud., Oct. 8. —The fifth pair of twins was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Fish, living near here. The lather is 42 aud the mother 88years old. Altogether there have been 13 children, but one is dead, not a twin. Friends had a flagraisiug at the house yesterday. Fatally Kicked. Bedford, Ind., Oct. 10.—Eli Barrow, a prominent farmer living north of this city, was fatally kicked by a horse in this city Saturday afternoon. He is a brother-in-law ot City Clerk Denniston, of this city, and father-in-law ot Rev. E. L. Butler. 8400 Robbery at Mitchell. Mitchell, Ind., Oct. 10.—The men’s furnishing store owned by W. T. Moore & Co., ot this place, was broken into and about S4OO worth of clothing and shoes taken. A wagon was used to hauL the plunder. A reward of $l5O was offered. Captain Ojjborn. Newcastle, Ind., Oct. 10 —Word has been received that Captain Ogborn, Company, G. One Hundred and Sixtyfirst regiment, at Jacksonville, Fla., has started for home in care ot his physician. Captain Ogborn has been seriously ill with typhoid fever. Pittsburg Company Iu Loudon. Loudon, Oct. 11.—The representative of a Pittsburg company is negotiating for 20 acres of land on the banks of the Manchester ship canal, where it is proposed to erect a manufactory of noncorrosive metal which will employ 5,000 BECOMING A MOTHER. A Sure Way to Avoid Danger. Every true woman wants to be a mother. A baby is the dream of her life —the crowning glory of womanhood—true happiness can never be known without the blessings a child brings. Yet the ordeal through which all mothers must pass is so full of pain, anxiety and fear, that many a young life is sacrificed because of the inability to undergo the struggle of childbirth. It is not necessary to suffer in bringing new life into the world. By the use of “Mother’s Friend,” the suffering and danger can be avoided, and the hour robbed of its dread and pain. This remedy is praised by thousands who have tested it. Every woman is anxious to learn how to avoid the pain and suffering which may be in' store for her. The little book, ‘‘Before Baby is Born,” will be sent free to any address upon application to the Bradfield Regulator Co., Atlanta, Georgia.

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Uncle Josh, with his two bauds i will give a grand parade ou the street: next Thursday. Services at the Baptist church ner . Sunday as follows: Preaching bj i Rev. G. W. Pearee!atJlo:3o. Subject i “The poor widow’s, barrel of meal, i' Evening at 7. Subject. “The Devi i still robs man, but Christ still save man." At 2:30 p. m. Rev. Pearce wil ’ conduct a short service and deliver ai address to “men only."