Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERT THURSDAY HORSING BY LEW 0. ELLtNGHA.M, Publisher. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY. JULY 27. The commissioners of Jay county have awarded the contract for their new jail. It will cost §29,000. Now comes John M. Thurston who ( declares that if the g. o. p. declare for ; the gold standard they are doomed. The price of tin plate has advanced fifty cents a box, which it is said is j being done for the purpose of "cheap- ( ening the product to the consumer." - Hon. W. J. Bryan will speak at

Greenfield today. He arrived in Indianapolis yesterday and last night an informal reception was given this very distinguished democratic leader. Democrats from all sections of the state were present at the reception. Governor Mount has reached one of his helpless periods. He does not see why he should be criticised because armed bands of negroes are marched through the streets of Evansville, and yet, if we remember aright, he said he would send troops to prevent a prize fight.—Sentinel. One bv one the truly great men of our country pass away. Mr. James Bradt of Mendon, the champion pie eater of Michigan, passed away a few days ago and Capt. Nichols of Kentucky. who prouctly boasts that he has been drunk for forty years.is reported to be in extremis. The creditors of the J. F. Schell Investment Company have been given dividends to the startling amount of

ten per cent. What makes it still worse is the accompanying announcement that another dividend is improbable. It is such investments as these that destroys business and makes impossible the extending of credit to. deserving and meritorious enterprises. An American clergyman who has spent some time with the army in tan Fernando, north of Manilla, writes home that “These are very beautiful islands, more pleasant to me than either Porto Rico or Cuba. Up in the j hills the air is delicious: it never gets cold enough to give one a chill. I have found it very good for catarrh and neuralgia, both of which I have cured by coming out here.” Col. Robert G. Ingersoll died \ very suddenly last Friday, and since . then the press has had much to say regarding this truly wonderful type of man. His eloquence and gift of speech will long live to tell of the ; ' accomplishments of this gifted orator. It can also be said that with all his ' power and other attainments he ac complished but little that is worthy ofi his greatness, although he lived to be sixtv-six years old.

Another corporation lawyer has; been taken under the protecting wings of the McKinley administration. Elihu Root of New York, has been named as the successor of Alger, in the president’s cabinet. The principal recommendation of the new head of the war portfolio, is that he is a corporation lawyer, with a yearly income of $50.000 or more. The republican papers are praising him for the sacrifice being made upon the cross of McKinley. Great man. this Root. It is a mistake to suppose that advertising has gjt to -e- disguised :-r covered up in any way. The plainer and franker and more business-like it is the better people like it. If a worn- „ ~ * , _ ~k -

an wants ribbons, or shoes, or a tailormade gown, or a piece of furniture, or if she is likely to want it, or is in any position where she will probably want it before long, then thedescripti n and price of that particular piece of goods. is the most attractive form of advertising to her. The trusts will name and control a majority of delegates to the to the nex republican convention. The convention will put a plank in its platform condemning trusts. The trusts will contribute millions to the republican campaign fund and do all in their power to carry the election and the republicans who are opposed to trusts, from sheer force of habit, vote the ticket. It would be just as consistent for prohibitionists to support the candidates of the Liquor Dealers' Association as for any man opposed to trusts to vote for the republican candidates. —Frankfort Crescent. The metropolitan press is authority for the statement that laid away in the savings banks of New York state are 51.500,000 in dormant accounts. Some are nearly 70 years old. None are less than 22 years old. and during all that time the owners have never added a cent to them or taken a penny away. John H. Rhoades of the New York Savings Bank association, says these accounts have been a conundrum to the savings banks ever since they were first organized in 1828. Only a few years ago a law was passed fixing 22 vears as the life of an account and after that banks are privileged to allow no interest. The banks keep the amounts secret in order to protect themselves from the attacks of shyster lawyers.

Ingersoll died a poor man, the metropolitan papers tel) us. He earned annually from §50,000 to 800.000, but saved nothing except what he invested in life insurance, of which he earned policies amounting to about §IOO,OOO. He never owned any real estate. A great deal of his income was given to charity. Huntington is raising funds with i which to establish and maintain a, park. In this connection it is proper j to say that beautiful Steele's park in ; this city, will one day be the garden j spot of all creation. Already its | beauty is becoming audible, and any ■ one with half a mind can puncture . the future far enough to see that' beauty beyond expression, will one dav rule that part of the universe with an iron hand. The Chicago conference of demo--crats passed off without a particle of bad blood being spilled, all to the dismay of the Chicago newspapers, i The refusal of Mayor Harrison to deliver the address of welcome was | somewhat out of the ordinarv. but he

is not much given to diplomacy. The - 1 reasons assigned were good enough i 3 and were so accepted by the demo- ■ crats at large. Give the democrats a - new and better national chairman. I and much will be done toward democratic success next vear. ' t j Trusts and The Tariff. The efforts being made by the party of strong centralized government to . throw upon the state legislatures the i • responsibility for the trust evil are j very diverting. The republican partv 1 has always stood for federal authority f as against state rights and yet at this • time its most prominent leaders are - making emphatic declarations that ■ congress is helpless in regard to industrial combinations and that if ; these combinations are to be regulated 1 it will require legislative action by each of the forty-five states. Senators Hanna, Chandler. Platt. Elkins and [ all the other shining lights of the i trust-ridden federal government are f trving their best to make the country . 1 *!• .1 * .1 • • *1 «. _•

believe that this is their sincere conviction. But the people will be slow to put faith in the hypocritical denunciations of monopoly voiced by these gentlemen and they will be inclined to question the remedies they propose. It is not to be denied that the states can. by a wholesome application of the taxing power and the adoption of such penal enactments as can be enforced. do much in harassing and breaking up the trusts. But the way I to correct an evil is to go straight to ; its heart, and the heart of the trust | evil is beyond the reach of the states. I The industral feudalism of the present is springing from the iniquitous and I infamous system of granting special privileges as embodied in the Me-; Kinley and Dingley tariff laws. Aud | this system is a federal institution re-1 quiring congressional action to destroy • it. If it were not for the tariff there would be few trusts. But if the tariff is to remain and continue to propa- ■ gate these great evils then of course i there is nothing left for the states to j do but to assume the task of mitigat- i i ing the wrongs inflicted upon the peo- . pie by a corrupt federal government. If the federal government gives the 1 trusts the right to tax the consumers of the country then the state can tax ;

the trusts and make them disgorge ; their illegitimate profits. But when the emissaries of the trusts invoke the power of the states to regulate these combinations they are simply working a deceit upon the people. They are acting on the theory that opposition to trusts is popular, and that their support of remedies looking to state . action, wnich they do not believe will. lie effectual, will lead the public thought away from the true cause of trust combination. Senator Hanna and other republicans are quoted as saying that the tariff must not be touched. They have resolved to protect it at all hazards. Their endeavor to keep a discussion of the tariff out of the political arena is in itself good evidence that the vulnerable spot of

the trust evil has been touched. The argument that there are trusts in free trade as well as in protectionist countries is not Ixorne out by the facts. In England there are slid to be a bedstead trust and one or two others, and I recently the republican papers have harped considerably on the report of a linseed oil trust about to be formed over there. But whether there ar> \ any trusts in free trade countries is not of great importance. The ques- , lion which the share-holders of trusts in this country must answer is. can these combinations exist if the tariff props are taken down? If the protective duty, for instance, of S3O a ton on tin plate were removed could the tin plate combination maintain its present prices against the consumer? It could not. and if the consumers of this country are to be protected from 1 robbery by this trust, and all other ! industrial combinations with hardly an exception, the most effective method is to take from them the privilege of taxation given them by the tariff. The function of taxing the people belongs to the government and should never have been relinquished to a priviledged class. If the government voted large bonuses to trusts out of the public funds the people would quickly understand why the trusts were formed. But a system of ■ bonuses would have cost the consumi ers of this country many millions less ■ than what the trusts now filch from their pockets through the subtle oper1 ation of the tariff law. Can it be wondered at then that the emissaries of trusts are anxious to turn the pop- ■ ular tide against trusts to the enact- : ment of abortive state laws while the ■ tariff remains intact and unassailable? Sentinel.

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TRUSTEES HAVE .MONEY. They .Make their Semi-Annual Draw —An Abstract of the Adams County Assessment. The trustees draw money upon the following funds and to the amounts as stated below. They are now working under the township council, although that council will not meet until September: Union- No. of children 350, congressional $53.60, common school $488.09, liquor license $114.04. township tax $316.64, special school $461.79. road $58.63, bridge $624.02, tuition $100.60, total $2,217.41. Root No. children 437. congressional $158.86, common school $517.48. liquor license $142.38, poor $40.14, township $1047.64. special school $444.24. road $140.70. bridge $823.73, tuition $296.67. total 53.611.84. Preble —No. children 425, congres sional $63.93, common school $593.84, liquor license $138.46, township $503.12. special school 5352.23, road $72.57, bridge $653.69. total $2,377.84 Kirkland —No. children 423, congressional $34.36, common school $620.31. liquor license $137.81. township $273,95, special school $421.75, road $113.38, bridge $530.52, tuition $276.67, total $2,408.75. Washington— No. children 520, congressional $73.56, common school $731.24. liquor license $169.46, poor 5381.93. township $1,923.90, special school $447.48. road $344.07, bridge 16.

St. Marys—No. children 374, congressional $69.09, common school $509.74, liquor license $121.85, poor $65.01, township $267.56, special school $665.05, road $>7.37, bridge $97 > >2. tuiti'Jn $676.72, dog $4.69, total $3,445.90. Blue Creek—No. children 383, con-gre-sional S4B. common school $544.76, liquor license $124.78, poor $20.55 tship $222.42. special sch I2E 36. roadsll4.2>. bridge s426.B2,tuition $214.66, total $2,041.63. Monroe —No. children >45, eongressi mal $37.20. common school $1270.60, liquor license, $275.27, ■ r $64.18, township $3>3.87, special school $665.42. road >169.99. bridge $690.03, tuiti n $1,955, dogs>.32. total >3.5>3.93. ; Franch —No. children 432. congres- ' sional >50.24. common school $618.38, j liquor license $140.84. poor $25.12. township $263.34, special school $267.3>. road $64.06, township $244.04, tuition $134.22. total $1,807.60. Hartford No. children 494, congressional $25.35, common school $739.21. liquor license $160.94, poor $231.50, township $523.62, special school $12112.59. road 152.60. township $9.42. tuition $350.25, dog SI.BB, 'total $3,048.36. Wabash —No; children 628, congressional $53.96. common school $917.99, liquor license $204.37, poor $102.01. township $421.31, special school $999.42, road $257.81. bridge $417.83, tuition $230.91. total $3,605.61. Jefferson —No. children 430. congressional $81.50, common school $584. liquor license $140.07. poor $59.76, township $338.99. special school $917.32. road $71.90, bridge $402.03, tuition $113.85, dog $2.81, total 82.712.23. Decatur—No. children 1325, common school $2,050.69, liquor license $431.64. special school $2,857.93, tuition $2,626.1>, corporation $10,261.85, library $240.43. dog $138.86, total school $8,206.86, total corporation $10,400.71. Geneva—No. children 313, common school $484.42, liquor license $101.97, ‘ special school 8552.22. tuition $767.05,

corporation $1 .>29.51. dog $11.46. total school $1,905.66, total corporation $1,840.97. Berne —No. children 295, common school $456.57, liquor license $96.12, special school $383.12. tuition $630.74. corporation $2,347.01. dog $54.86, total school $1,566.55, total corporation $2.401.>7. Total- No. children 7674. congressional $749.65. common school sll,127.30, liquor license $2,500, poor 990.20, township $6,485.86, special school $10,973.30, road $1,647.36. bridge $6,896.91. tuition $6,981.62. corporation $14,438.37. library $240,43, dog $222.88. total $63,253.88. The board of review finished their labors last Monday night, and the following abstract tells the tale of their deliberations. The total assessments are about the same as last year, with personal property slightly increased, and lands reduced. It is by townships as follows: Union No. acres 15824. true value of land $295,180, true value of improvements $49,620, true value of lands and improvements $344,800, average value of lands $18.65. average value of lands and improvements $21.78, true value of personal property $93,310. No. of polls 193, total value of taxable property $438,100, deduction claimed on account of mortgage indebtedness $21,000. Root —No. acres 22,108. true value of lands $426,690, true value of improvementss67.29o, true value of lands and improvements $498,780, true average v alueof lands $19.30, true average value of lands and improvements $22.56, value of improvements $2,335, No. of town lots 72. value of lots $595, value of improvements $2,335, value of lots and improvements $2,930, average value of lots $8.26, value of lots and improvements $40.69, true value of personal property $144,105. No. of polls 206. total value of taxable propertv $645,815, mortgage exemption $25,070.

Preble- Acres 15,069, true value of; lands 5303.625, true value of improvements 5187.540, true value of lands and improvements 8491,165, average’ value of lands 820.16, true value of lands and improvements 832.61, town ■ lots 25, value of lots 8675; true value of improvements 8550, value of lots j and improvements 86.195, average value of lots 827, average value of lots and improvements $247.80, true value of personal property 81,007.65, No. i polls 194, total value of taxable prop- 1 erty 8598,125, mortgage indebtedness 86,985. Kirkland -Acres 15,185, true value of lands $288,750. true value of im- 1 provements $68,835, true value of; lands and improvements $357,585. average value of lands $19.01, average value of lands and improvements $23.64, town lots 26, value of lots $255, value of improvements 81,880. value of lots and improvements 82,135, average value of lots $9.80, average value of lots and improvements 882.11, true value of personal property $102,885, polls 185, total value of taxable propertv $462,605, mortgage indebtedness $18,960. Washington—Acres 22,036, true value of lands $488,420, true value of improvements $95,545. true value of lands and improvements $583,965, average value of lands $22.16, average value of lands and improvements $26.50, town lots 5, value of lots S6OO. value of improvements S6OO, total value of lots and improvementssl,2oo, average value of lots $l2O. average value of improvements, $240, average value of lots and improvements $36000, value of personal property $128,460, polls 202, total valu“ of taxable

property $713,625. mortgage indebtedness $38,640. St. Marys—Acres 15.201, value of lands $281,730, valueof improvements $68,155. value of lands and improvements $349,885. average valueof lands $18.52, average value of lands and improvements $23.01, lots 140, value of lots $2,310, value of improvements $8,290. value of lots and improvements $10,600. average value of lots $16.50, average value of lots and improvements $75.71, value of personal property $92,600, polls 186. total value of taxable property $454,085, mortgage indebtedness SIB,OOO. Blue Creek Acres 15.151, valueof lands $283,300, value of improvements $77,765, value of lands and improvements $361,065. average value of lands $1.07, average value of lands and improvements $23.87, lots 15, value of lots $295, value of improvements S4OO. value of lotsand improvements $692. average value of lots $18.59, average value of lots and improvements $46.33. value of personal property $66,995, polls 161. total value taxable property $428,755. mortgage indebtedness $20,325. Monroe —Acres 22,580, value of lands $452,810, valueof improvements $105,110, value of lands and improvements $557,920. average value of lands $20.05, average value of lands and improvements $24.70, lots 90, value of lots $2,940. value of improvements $9,250, valueof lots and improvements $12,190, average value of lots $22.66. average value of lots and improvements $136.44. value of personaljproperty $209,015. polls 379, total value of taxable property $779,125, mortgage indebtness $65,795. French- Acres 15.245, valueof lands $276,235, value of improvements $83,330. value of lands and improvements $359,565, average valueof lands $18.12, average value of lands and improvements $23.58, value of personal property $135,040. polls 173, total value of taxable property $494,605, mortgage indebtedness .$31.530.

Hartford —Acres 152271, value of lands $297,645, value of improvements $81,870. value of lands and improvements $397,515, average value of lands $19.49. average value of lands and improvements $24.84 lots 45, value of lots $3,245. value of improvements $12,040, value of lots and improvements $15,285. average value of lots $72.11. average value of lots and improvements $;J39.66. value of personal , property $312,125, polls 274, total value of taxable property $706,925, , mortgage indebtedness $15,875. Wabash—Acres 22.223, value of ' lands $399,245, value of improvements . $78,665, value of lands and improve- | ments $477,910, average value of lands $17.96, average value of lands and improvements $21,05, lots 120, value of lots $1,065, value of improvements $3,030, value of lots and improvements ■ $4,095, average value of lots $8.87, ( average value of lots and improvej ments $34.12, value of personal prop- • erts $161,165. polls 284, total value of taxable propertv $643,170, mortgage indebtedness $39,425. Jefferson- Acres 15.277, value of lands $575.2'0.va1ue of improvements $55,980. value of lands and improvements $331,260, average valued lands $lB.Ol, average value of lands and I improvements $28.29. value of personal property $79,335, polls 171. total value of taxable propertv $410,595, mortgage indebtedness $26,465. j Decatur—Acres 490, value of lands ; $23,500. value of improvements $lO.455. value of lands and improvements i $33,955, average value of lands $17.88, average value of lands and improvements $69.19. lots 1,500, value of lots /d 5 value of lots and improvements

$823,600, average value of lots 5284.56, average value of lots and improvements $549.06, value of personal property .$604,190, polls 716,t0tal valueof taxable property $1,461, 745, mortgaged indebtedness $35,660. Geneva Acres 110, value of lands $3,565. value of improvements $3,770, value of lands and improvements $7.335, average value of lands $32.40, average value of lands and improvements $66.68, lots 445, value of lots $32,225, value of improvements $92,295. value of lots and improvements $124,520, average value of lots $72.41, average value of lots and improvements $279.82, valueof personal property $107,890, polls 217, total value of taxable property $239,745, mortgage indebtedness $10,375. Berne —Acres 315, value of lands $14,300, value of improvements $".- 675. valueof lands and improvements $21,975, average value of lands $45.39. average value of lands and improvements $67.76, lots 375, value of lets $48,025, value of improvements $105.415, value of lots and improvements $154,440. average value of lots $125.40, average value of lots and improvements $411.84, value of personal property $238,810. polls 200, total value of taxable property $415225. mortgage indebtedness $4,595. Totals Acres 2,121,051. value of lands $4,110,275, value of improvements $1,046,405, value of lands and improvements $5,156,680. average value of lands $19.34. average value of lands and improvements $24.26. lots 2853, value of lots $519,075. value of improvements $638,810. value of lots and improvements $1,157,885, average value of lots $181.94, average value o, lots and improvements va *'‘ e of personal propertv $2,576,690, p •• 5 3740. total value of taxable property $8,881,255. deductions claimed '; !l _ ' count of mortgage indebtedness >3<9.300.

On the subject of trusts Hon. W JBrvan says: Why, the trust is so and so indefensible, that even in <Uo in a state convention controlled by .if. Hanna, they had to adopt a resolution declaring trusts to be bad. and vhen that convention condemns the tni'A who in all the world will dare the trusts? The trust is bad because of the monopoly feature. W hen a.e ■ people control a product necessary human existence, then those fen _cor trol to a large extent the lives ;U - > happiness of all who produce tno: articles, all who work in produeioand all who furnish the raw mater used in its manufacture. And can «_ i afford to build up in this uatl °\ system by which a few shall trans-> wealth from generation to ganera ■~ • I where the masses can only hope R I clerkship under some trust. aD , they sav there is no way to stop trust, that the republicans are aoiD= all they can, remember tha within the power of the pre ßll . e appoint an attorney-general " 10 fl enforce the law against 0” , if he has to go out of the repu >* * party to get the attornev-genera. - if the law upon the statute b insufficient, it is within the po the attorney-general to propose ■ which are sufficient, and if the ,j n tution stands in the way it is the power of the attorney-gene recommend an amendment to <institution, which will g» ve ,*° plenty of power to deal "it h t * - jeet. But the republican P - tsSO powerless to annihilate the - long as the trusts furnish the mJto keep the republican partv l - t5 so that the administration has power to ext the trust desires.