Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1899 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. JI.M PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 10. COSTS YOU NOTHING The Democrat believes in being progressive. Mr. W. B. Westlake, one of the business managers of the Indianapolis Sentinel, was in the city ' yesterday and closed a contract with , this office that means much to the readers of the Democrat. By the provisions of that contract we agree i and will send free of charge to every ! year-in-advance subscriber to the, Democrat, the Weekly Indianapolis Sentinel. These subscriptions for the I Sentinel date for one year, thus giving I' our subscribers not only the Demo- | ; crat, which contains all the legal, local and county news, but it also gives vou the Weekly Sentinel —an i eight paged paper that will give you | all the correct events and news of the i state and of the nation. There are few if any state papers that beat the

Weekly Sentinel, not only for the amount of news thev give every week, but for the kind. There is much in it that treats of subjects that is of , vital importance to the farmer, as well ' t as the farmer’s wife. All it takes to get this paper is to be an advance subscriber to the Democrat. We never , before have taken any stock in giving i away premiums or taking subscriptions for inferior periodicals. But < this is something that is too good to keep. It is worth to every one their ■ regular subscription price. Pay your subscription one year in advance to the Democrat and get it free of cost. The time is limited so do not delav. Do you advertise? It is the secret to business success. Try it. Pay your subscription to the Democrat and get the Weekly Sentinel free one year. Kentucky politics is still slightly , mixed, with Henry Watterson whoop- . ing ’er up for Goebel. The organization of the county council Monday,marked the beginning , of the county reform laws. Bryan was greeted by a large assemblage at Winona Lake yesterday, and his address on imperialism was well received.

Beverage turns up safe in the i Philippines, having been quaranteed ; for a week owing to an outbreak of < bubonic plague. t i A cotton mill trust is now forming I with a capital of $200,000,000. A trust i is no longer considered worth speak- < ing about unless its capita! stock runs 1 up into the hundreds of millions. — Anderson Democrat. Governor Stone who is at the ! head of the democratic national committee during the absence of Chair- i man Jones, is not much given to fusion and uses some mighty cocvincing argument in upholding such a position. Chairman Jones of the democratic national committee, who is sojourning in Europe in search of better health, writes to Governor Stone of Missouri, that he is again threatened with ill health, and may not reach home until late this fall. The safety and preservation of the life of our people demand flagmen at the dangerous railroad crossings in our city, and they number three or four. There have been several accidents but none more lamentable than the one of last Saturday. Our people should not be suffered to go longer without protection from the dangers inflicted along these places of travel. Ocr combination offer of sending

♦he Indianapolis Weekly Sentinel to every yearly paid-up subscriber to the Democrat, is somewhat out of the ordinary. It means two papers—and two of the best at that- for the price of one. We give the Weekly Sentinel to every Democrat subscriber — new or old —who advances his subscription one year. This offer will be good for only a short time. It has been but a few years since the republicans put a high duty on tin plate for the benefit of a so-called infant industry. Now that infant has developed into a lusty trust with a capital of ten million dollars and prices have advanced from $2.30 to $3.80 per box and the consumer pays the advance. Verily protection is the mother of trusts and the republican party is the father.—Plymouth Democrat.

The statement comes from Washington that Senator James K. Jones has fully decided to resign the chairmanship of the democratic national committee. His health is reported to be somewhat better, but he feels nevertheless that he ought to free himself from all burdens that may have a tendency to retard complete recovery. It is time the republican party was giving us some real anti-trust laws and fewer promises. They have congress. the president and every legisla,tive power any government or any party could have. More trusts, corporations and combinations of capital have organized and been capitalized under the McKinley administration than were in existence before. Still there has been no special session of congress, called with a view of putting down the trusts, although the president saw fit in his wisdom to call congress into special session to make a ' t iriff law that protected them. The Chicago Tribune speaks with much truth as well as force when it says that an anti-trust plank in the next republican national platform will not satisfy the public demand. In this connection the Tribune says that congress will meet in December and will have ample time to enact and put into full force and effect a strong anti-trust law, long before the next republican national convention is held. This is well said. The republicans control both branches of congress and the president. In view of this fact the people will have no patience with promises, and will be satisfied with nothing short of decisive action. The Drevfus trial is now taking up

considerabl space m the newspapers. Owing to constitutional provisions governing such things in France, the sessions are private. All questions are propounded by the judge of the court, and while the defendant has counsel, yet it is seldom he ventures a question or says anything in behalf of his client. This differs greatly from America and American ideas of justice—thanks to our forefathers whose spirit of independence was more fully governed by the equality, that all men are born equal before the law. In France a supposed offender of law is considered guilty until proven innocent, while in this country where free speech rules the heart of men, the cloak of innocence surrounds a prisoner and his rights are so protected, until the fact of guilt is clearly established, and that beyond all reasonable doubt. Congressman Griffith of the fourth Indiana district, says of democracy: "Indiana will send to the democratic national convention a solid Bryan delegation. The men who were for Bryan and the Chicago platform in 1896 have not weakened in their faith regarding either. lam one of those who believe m the indestructibility of the principle of democracy, and, though the party may suffer temporary defeat, it is sure to gain ascendancy for it represents better than any other political organization the true interests of the people. The predominant issue in 1900 is very apt to be war upon the trusts, and upon this the democrats will be in far better position than their opponents. The voters of the country cannot be de hided by anti-trust declarations of the republican convention; they understand that there is no real antagonism

— ; — — n between the leading men of that party and the trusts, but on the contray the closest sympathy exists, seeing that most of the influential republicans are thorougnly identified with combines and monopolies. I see noftiing in the siuation that is discouraging to democrats, but on the contrary much that betokens a winning campaign.” David Davies.special correspondent of the London Times and other English publications, was recently in the United States inspecting the tin-plate industry. Previous to the establishment of the industry in this country Wales supplied the United States markets. The new American industry is, therefore, of special interest to Britishers. In speaking of the new industry he said it was undoubtedly most creditable; that it controlled the American markets absolutely and had now reached such a point that it would continue to command the American markets without the high tariff, which, he said, was being salted away by manufacturers and was simply tribute money. Continuing he showed how the high tariff was not only being turned into a levy, but it was having disastrous effect upon the farmers’ markets. “The English merchant marine,” he said, “As all will agree, controls the markets of the world. You have barred Welsh tinplate from your shores by prohibitory tariff. You have barred us effectually. You closed down our manufacturing concerns, it is true. But that was

some time ago. Wales has been at work. She has built up another market for her tin-plate in Russia. Siberia, Asia Minor and Japan, which is now almost as great in volume as was the trade of the United States. What of this? Why, simply this: Our merchant marine carries our tinplate to these countries. All are raising wheat and lots of it. The vessels land their cargoes. They are empty. They load up with wheat, corn, rye and other products and bring them home. They formerly did this in United States ports. What is the effect? Is it necessay to ask? I make the prediction that your high tariff will l>egin to kick like an army musket. The point has been reached. Your manufacturers will combine and the consumer will pay 2 cents a pound tribute to concentrated capital." This prediction was ma e April 1,1898.

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Annual reports of Trustees Nidlinger of Union, Lewton of Root, Steele of Washington, Wechter of Blue Creek, Stuckey of French, and Buckmaster of Jefferson, appear in this issue, to which the attention of our readers is directed. The reports are very comprehensive and snow a business administration of affairs in the townships stated. This will be the last report the trustees will make to the board of commissioners they making same to their township advis ory boards instead. What is a review of the past three years at Washington save a review of money? McKinley in the white house—by money. Hanna with a seat in the senate, the power behind, before, under, over, and all about the throne —by money. Twenty millions paid to Spain—for money; and to profit Spanish bondholders. Three million paid to Cuba —for money; and to be subsequently sopped up by invading American corporations who suggested and urged its payment. A war in the Orient; a war all blood and un-American, waged for money, and to make a fat list of contractors. A plot to disgrace an admiral —for money. A conspiracy to degrade a general—for money. There isn’t one act of government that fails to find its last foot on money. Manhood is nothing; dollars go for all. Whether it be Abner McKinley as a spectacle diving into contracts; or Oberlin Carter, convicted, sentenced and dismissed from the army for the embezzlement of $2,000,000 and still wearing his uniform and still drawing his pay, it’s —for money. As late as a century ago died Washington. He was worth $550,000; the richest man in the land. As a century closes we have such as Rockefeller, of a fortune to equal $300,000,000. Also we have half million of tramps. And wherefore no, when money doesn’t leave these tramps a destiny worth working out? Coalminers, S2OO a year: lake sailors, $25 a month for eight months! Why; man! it’s a premium on mendacity; your beggar would find as much in his palm at the end of a twelvemonth. He would be a lax, poor tramp, indeed, who. on henroost and hillside, with crops and harvests all about, couldn’t match S2OO a year! He’d find as much in the road. But for that great body of us it is unpleasant; we, who are neither trusts nor tramps. And we should go about its remedy, even though it engaged an ax. Abe Lincoln saw this reign of money coming, and here’s what in 1861 he said: “Monarchy itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people. In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning depotism. It is not needed or fitting here that a general argument should lie made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point with its connection not so hackneyed as most others to which I ask a brief attention. It is to the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor lis available only in connection with i capital, but nobody labors unless ! somebody else owning capital somehow, by the uses of it, induces him to labor. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only, the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” That’s what Lincoln told the people. Were he here today he would see that his fear was realized.—The Verdict.

An Expensive Lesson. “My wife has away of jogging my memory that I am hardly in sympathy with,” said Smith, with a sorry smile, as he filed away his last month’s gas bill. "About a month ago, as 1 was preparing to come down town, she handed me a letter with the injunction to be sure arid mail it at the first mail box that 1 came to. 1 promised and put the letter away in my pocket. “ ’Now. don’t forget.’ she called after me, ’as the letter is very important.’ “ 'I won't.' 1 answered and straightway proceeded to forget all about it. “The other day 1 chanced to be going through my pockets when I was surprised by coming across the letter that my wife had given me to mail four weeks before. Remembering that she Lad said it was very important, 1 glanced at it to see to whom it was addressed. “I was thunderstruck to find that it was addressed to me. Thinking that my wife must have taken leave of her senses. 1 tore it open and found a note that read thus: “ ‘The gas is leaking in the basement. Please send a man up to fix it.’ “I don't remember what I said when 1 charged home and found that the gas was still leaking, but all the satisfaction 1 got out of my wife was that she thought I would remember to post the next letter she gave me. and I believe 1 will.”—Detroit Free Press. Monkey Venucanct. Gibraltar is noted for the monkeys which live there. Visitors watch for them by the hour, and they may not appear, yet occasionally in full daylight they will cross the walls and roof surrounding the old cemetery from the Alameda gardens, where they go to drink at the fountain. A subaltern tells an amusing story concerning- this colony of animals. About two years ago some officers managed to detach a small monkey from its fellows at the drinking trough and kept it for a fortnight in captivity. Then, for reasons of their own. they thought well to restore it. So they took the little beast back to the drinking trough early one morning before the others had arrived and watched it in ambush.

Presently the monkey colony came, reconnoitered and. observing the truant—as they evidently considered him —held a consultation. After much chattering two of the largest apes approached the returned wanderer, who appeared petrified with fear, seized him by his arms and, after apparently strangling him. threw him over the precipice beneath the signal station, evidently in revenge as a deserter. It Wai In Hie Head. Balzac once promised Lirieux. the manager of the Odeon theater in Paris, a five act drama, "The Springs of Quinola.” He was so busy with other work, however, that not till be had been long and urgently importuned did be promise to read bis piece to the company the next week. The company gathered about him on the day appointed, and he read his five act play fluently through to the end. Lirieux was enthusiastic, ran up to shake hatids with the great writer and turned over the pages of the manuscript whose contents had pleased him mightily. But what was this? There were only four acts. The last pages of the manuscript were blank. la surprise the manager asked what it all meant Balzac smiled and admitted that he had not yet written out the fifth act but declared that he had it as clearly in bis head as if it already stood on paper. “And.” continued the poet merrily, “I have in the same bead two

more outcomes of the plot in case the | one 1 just read don’t please you.”—San . Francisco Argonaut. Not So Very Old After All. In a little village churchyard at I Bickenhill. in Warwickshire, is a | tombstone upon which is inscribed the ! age of a dear old maiden lady who de- I parted this life in the year 1701. Iler age. as testified by the engraver’s art. was 708. Born before the Conquest and dying under Queen Anne. Again at Chave Priory, Worcestershire, the j age of a “rude forefather” is similarly j Inscribed as 309. Not toharrowthereader, we may say that these portentous figures are strictly the product of the : engraver’s art. The monumental mason of those days was nothing if not ignorant, and his idea of writing 78 or | 30 was to write 70 or 30 first and 8 or i 9 afterward, meaning 70 plus 8 or 30 plus 9, etc., as the case might be. Quaint Dr. Coties. Dr. Colles, an eminent surgeon of Dublin, who died in 1843. was remarkable for his plain dealing with himself. In his fee book he had many such candid entries as the following: “For giving ineffectual advice for deafness. 1 guinea.” “For attempting to draw out the stump of a tooth. 1 guinea.” “For telling him that be was no more ill than 1 was. 1 guinea.” “For nothing that I know of, except that he probably thought be did not ■ pay me enough last time, 1 guinea.” Japanese Dentists. The Japanese dentists perform all their operations in tooth drawing with the thumb and the forefinger of one ; hand. The skill necessary to do this [ is acquired only after long practice, i but when once it is obtained the opera- j tor is able to extract half a dozen teeth in about 30 seconds without once removing his fingers from the patient’s mouth. No Disturbance. Mrs. Gofrequent — Your busband goes out a good deal, doesn’t be? Mrs. Seldom Home—Yes. but we always have seats next to the central aisle, and it never disturbs anybody.— Chicago Tribune. He Couldn’t Reach It. The following anecdote concerning the famous lecture on “The Holy Land," which, it is said, ex-Governor Oglesby never succeeded in delivering as he prepared it, is related in Franc B. Wilkie’s pamphlet on the life of the governor: He had been invited to deliver this lecture at a country’ town in Illinois and accepted. A large crowd gathered to hear him. and he was greeted with loud applause as he stepped forward to lecture. He was only to speak for one hour aud said in beginning be would preface his lecture with a few remarks on his experience in Europe. At the end of 2% hours he was still talking about Europe, and because the people seemed so delighted he announced that be would deliver the lecture the next evening. The same people came back, re-en-forced by many more, and at the end of another two hours he stopped without having said anything about the Holy Land, except to announce that as his subject. The third night there was a monster gathering, and Governor Oglesby, after finishing up Europe, started to say a few words about Egypt and the Nile before beginning his lecture. At last be looked at his watch and, with a look of astonishment, turned to one of his friends on the platform and said: “Well, here it Is 11 o’clock, and I’ll be hanged if I’ve got to the Holy Land yet.”—Chicago Tribune.

Senator Elkina’ Great Scheme, During the presidential campaign of 1592 Senator Quay and Senator Elkins, who were managing the Republican interests, and ex-Senator Brice and Henry Watterson, who were in charge of the Democratic headquarters, used to live at the same hotel and frequently dined together. One evening, as they were sitting at the same table, Mr. Brice looked over to Senator Quay and asked: “How are you folks off for money?” “We are very hard up,” replied the Republican chairman. “How are you getting along?” “Well,” said Brice, “whenever we want money I go down into my own pocket for It I have not been able to get much anywhere else.” “You are lucky to have a pocket to go into.” said Senator Quay. “If I had money of my own, I would not grumble.” “But,” said Brice, “I have to borrow ft” “Gentlemen.” said Senator Elkins, “I have a suggestion to make. Suppose we four go down town tomorrow and borrow $1,000,000 upon our joint indorsement and divide it between the two parties and then let whichever one wins pay the notes?”—Chicago Record. Gladstone's Peculiar Eyes. There is an anecdote in Blackwood s of Gladstone and Professor Blackie which confirms the story of the statesman's eaglelike eyes. At a dinner the two men were opposite, and when Gladstone gave in a forcible way his idea that Homer was no longer recited but chanted, the professor cried out, “Mr. Gladstone, I don’t believe a word of it!” Then he rose to argue the mat- ‘ ter and said one sentence, but got no further. He had met Gladstone's gaze and seen his outer eyelids widened to their fullness In a steady glare, and bls tongue stumbled and he sank back into his chair in confusion. The writer concludes: “Go to the zoo for it Take your I umbrella. Make your way to the place where the eagles, vultures, falcons and such like creatures blink on their perches. Select a bird. Stare at him ; with insult, and you will see the outei lids expand as Mr. Gladstone’s did. Poke at him with your umbrella. The filmy vertical lids through which he looks at the sun and opens to paralyze his prey will part, and then you will see what Blackie saw and understand his feelings.” Not the Advice Expected. After spending more than a quarter of a century in active business life in the city a certain merchant purcbasei a ranch which he considers to be a mirably adapted for dairy farmingI Having had no practical training 111 agricultural pursuits, he is dependeu for his knowledge of the art upon those books which purport to tell the urban bred howto do the trick. He to learn all he can concerning dairy and for advice betook himself to u s friend and pastor. Rev. Dr. Stebbins, in whose omniscience and wide rea ing he has absolute confidence. “Do you know anything good 0 milk, doctor?” he asked the venera ' man of God. The jovial pulpiteer, who k no more of the “sincere milk of the woo than of any other lacteal fluid, a swered solemnly: “Yes, my dear sir, 1 believe 1 • ■ familiar with the best thing on r that can be found anywhere. “What Is it, doctor?” eagerly a unsuspectingly asked the but <- rancher, “Cream,” ejaculated the preaclxr he hurried round the corner. Francisco News Letter. _