Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1899 — Page 4

y| | £ Qg- and iu order to take advantage of it, - subscribers should be prompt in maktvERY thvbsday Molise by ing settlement for all subscriptions lew o. ELLiNttHA.M, Publisher. due and to pay the one dollar in adz. —'■ ■ — vance. For a limited time you can Si.so PER year IN advance. get the the Democrat and Indiana Entered at the postnffiee at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. State Sentinel for one dollar a year. — ■■ — ‘ OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. Tue Indiana State Sentinel will be i given to all advance Democrat sukTHURSDAY, AUGUST 17. scribers whoapplyearly. The Democrat for one dollar a year I the de.iocrat for one dollar a year, is a better investment than buying. Following our announcement of last gold dollars at ninety cents. week wherein we agreed to send- free Advertising in the Democrat gets of cost- the Indiana State Sentinel more valuable to the advertiser every • dav. The best values is a vearlv eonone year to every year-in-advance subscriber to the Democrat, we this .2! week make .no.ker sweeping KM bv tion and will mail the Democrat to I Governor Mount. even' vear-in-advance subscriber, for ,• • -r, 7 n . ■ ‘ . . Rural mail delivery in Dekalbcounty one dollar. This reducteon in the ; g improving quite satisfactory to the subscription price of the Democrat farmer patrons who receive daily mail , , ~ , t-, under the system now in vogue, has long been contemplated, the • Democart is past fort v-three vears old This is an age of progression as andduripgall the present management took charge processions and gives its advance subhad been owned, published and man- scriters the Democrat one year for one dollar. aged by H. L. Phillips, W.G. Spencer. .. ■■■ A. J. Hill, C. Schinnever. Mr. McGon- The attention of Congressman Cromer is called to the fact that many egle, Roth & Cummins, S. hay \\ u- j p Or fj ORS o f Indiana is being provided liams and Xorval Blackburn. These with rural mail delivery. In this con- , . ~ , t. • , nection Adams count v should not be gentlemen during their long editorial forgottelJ , charge always maintained a strict subscription price of one dollar and wiuoua Lake re p r e Sen ting demofifty cents a year. After a proprietor- 1 eratic day there. The crowd was ship of three vears it now becomes the i never larger or the enthusiasm greater. H - ! republican day. Congresspleasant duty of the present editor to man Dolliver being the speaker. But meet its readers on popular grounds, “ full of peeple greeted the speak- • 1 er. This fact is significant. It shows

and to furnish them the Democrat for one dollar a year. While our list of subscribers far exceeds the 2,000 mark, yet we are ambitious and have a desire for it to reach 3.000 at least. We believe by putting the price down and by faithful and energetic work upon our part, that before the snow flies, the Democrat family of readers will reach the gratifying number indicated above. The decreased price does not mean a curtailment of news, but will continue, as it has in the past, in giving its readers all the news, concisely written. In this regard the Democrat has always maintained an advance step, printing each week from twenty to thirty columns of well written local and county news. Tais will be continued, no effort or expense being spared to make the paper what it is and should be—the best county paper published. The one dollar rate is strictly for ad vance payments, and will date from the 20th of this month. All subscriptions due up to that time are payable at the rate of $1.50 a year. From that date cn when paid in advance, it will lie but one dollar. If not paid in advance, settle-

ments will be made at the one dollar and fifty cent rate. Th us you see, if you want the Democrat fcr one dollar a year, pay one year in advance from August 20. In making this fifty cent reduction we feel that we have met our subscribers more than half way. During the three years proprietorship of the present management, the paper has been prosperous in the extreme. Without any degree of flattery it has advanced more in that time than it had in any ten years of its previous history. Part of this credit is due its many gallant friends and prompt paying subscribers, and it is with them the Democrat will share its prosperity by reducing the price. Promptness on your part in making renewals will insure you of the one dollar rate, and it will also be appreciated by us. In addition to the above and in accordance with our agreement made in our last issue, we will also send the Weekly Indiana State Sentinel to every paid-in-advance subscriber of the Democrat. Here is certainly a combination never before equaled by any newspaper published in the county. Two weekly papers —one giving you all the county and local news, and the other covering the state and national field —ail for one dollar a year. Who can afford io turn aside such an offer. This is an age of lots of reading matter for a little money, but of all the offers tnat may be maue you, none will equal this one. The Sentinel off »r is one that will not last long,

r | whom the people adore and in f what issues they are interested. 1 Col. Bryan’s endorsement of Goe- > tel of Kentucky is right and proper. He is the nominee oftheregulardemo- ' cracv nominated at a regular party i convention called for that purpose. For that reason and for the additional reason that he is a man well fitted for ‘ the office, should be sufficient tor ■ every democrat in Kentucky to endorse him. The Columbia City Post tells some square toed truths in saying that the i women of this country will have something to say quietly to their husbands on the subject of politics in 1900. they have been getting a good manypractical lessons at the stores during the past year. They have not failed to notice the increase in the cost of domestics and groceries and sugars. I They know these things just as well as the greatest statesman in the land and all the arguments and eloquent that may be made next year will not explain away the advance in prices of such goods. The lesson has has been impressed upon their minds through their pocket books and they’ll not forget it. Mayor Beatty comes forward again and emphatically declares himself. This time the mayor says the town shall be rid of plain drunks and to that end. when necessary, will put on extra police protection. He says he does not propose to have people traveling the streets while under the influence of liquor. He will go even

farther and get at the root of the evil by laying the heavv hand of the law upon those who sell the liquor to persons when already intoxicated. This will surely be appreciated by the public. The person who becomes intoxicated commits a punishable offense against the law, and those who sell it to persons when intoxicated not only abuse their rights and privileges but they commit a still graver offense against the law. Mayor Beatty solve d the preplexing tramp problem and we predict that he will be equally successful in disposing of and diminishing the number of plain drunks. Senator Mason of Illinois, and a staunch and active republican senator at that, vigorously opposes the Philippine war. In so publicly declaring himself, he says: "That class of dangerous citizens who feel above serving their country have not yet heard of the unnecessary and unconstitutional war now being waged by us to make slaves in the Philippine islands. Congress, the only war-making potver under our constitution, has not declared. They say we bought the right to govern from Spain. Then we bought what we had no right to buv and what Spain had no right to sell. We purchased goods from a thief—we knew it and told the work! what she was long before we purchased. To get the technical right to kill, we call ' them rebels against a government to which they have never sworn allegiance we must make them subjects tefore they can be made reteds. They ’ say they can't govern themselves. Why not try them awhile tefore killing I them. They tell us they would kill ’ each other. It isn't true, but if it [ was. it would be tetter than killing our teys. Lincoln said no man is good enough to govern another man without his consent: it was true then, and it is true now. Taxation without 1 1 representation is as as much tyranny - iin Luzon as it was in Boston harbor. , at the time of our tea party. We have no more right to govern in the Philip- . pines without consent of the governed than King George had to govern us in 1776, without our consent. If this . is treason make the most of it.

OUTING AND WARM WEATHER In order to make room for fall CLOTHES Clothing, we will sell for the I If you are going to need a golf or NEXT 30 DAYS i wheel sui l a li g ht ™ight, half lined qUF entire lot M for warm weather, a thin coat of fonC y Summe r serge or alpaca, a fancy wash vest or a pair of stylish trousers, remember SllitS fOl CaSll our store * s h ea dq uarters AT 1 5 PER CENT (RWWWm novelties and specialties in men’s WMHCT , ~ L i □ discount. dress, as well as the regular and staple styles. Our prices on Hart, This is a Saving f/ Schaffner & Marx guaranteed clothing of frOHl 50C tO make it easy for you to have the best. ' $3.00 on the suit, til ® Remember this sale lidLoV VSHB HART, SCHAFFNER 4 MARX W M will last only this B month. X.- mwwimssb p, Holthouse & Co. Bt Hart, Schaflner & Marx GUARANTEED CLO .'HING Mi;

The managers of the republican party are making desperate efforts to get away from the propositions to discuss trusts during the campaign next year. They realize that the republican party through the operations of a high protective tariff, is responsible for the great brood of trusts that have been hatched recently. The trusts to date aggregate in capitalization of some eight billion dollars. For the sake of seeing the figures suppose it is called $7,500,000,000. a sum so vast that the human mind can not grasp its magnitude. It is a sum of money large enough to run the government of the I nited States for fifteen years. The interest on it. at the rate earned by many of the trusts, would run the government forever. It is a hundred dollars for every man , woman and child in the country—five hundred for every family. It is over seven times the bonded debt of the United States, and more than any other national debt in the world. But this enormaus capitalization does not tell the whole story. The sugar trust pays regularly 12 per cent on its common stock. The last dividend of the Bell Telephone Company was 15 per cent. The Standard Oil Company paid 30 per cent. Muncie Herald.

In this issue will lie found the estimates of expenses for the calendar year, 1900. In the list will be seen j? 15,000 for new buildings at the county farm and $2,500 for an orphan’s home. While these items will likely be cut out when the county council meets, yet there is some merit in them. At the county farm nothing but a frame building and a poor one at that—affords shelter and a home to the inmates. It is necessary to lock most of them in their rooms at night, and should a fire break out there, it would be next to impossible to rescue any of them. The building is old, dry and could easily burn up before assistance reached any one from the home. This kind of a situation appeals to the demands of tetter buildings and tetter protection to the poor. The law compels a county to keep its orphans and now the county is paying for it, having fifteen, which we understand are kept at the Berne Orphan’s Home. Many of the estimates are higher than the former allowances on these funds. For instance the estimate on the gravel road repair fund is $16,255. This is §IO,OOO ■ more than has ever been expended I before in any one year. But now I there are 108 miles of gravel roads in ■ the county, many of them in sad need of repair and it will necessarily take more mbney to put them in a proper condition. Richard Croker has been heard from. Upon his return from a somewhat lengthy absence in Europe, he makes a public statement changing his former public utterences regarding the Philippines, thus correcting himself: "I was wrong in the statements I made before I went away concerning the Philippine islands. I based my teliefjhat we should not give up I a foot of soil our soldiers have won on information that was not complete. I ; would not give two cents for a man who, when found that he had teen wrong, would not at the very first : chance, set himself right. Such a man would not be fit for either politics or | private life. Publicly I made the i statement that I did not believe we I should give up the Philippines which ■ had cost us so many lives. lam not ashamed now to say to the public that I was wrong. I am not playing a i political game through that interview, iNo one man was responsible for my

change of mind. While I was in Europe I talked with some of thebest informed men there or anywhere else on the subject of colonial conquest. I made investigation for myself. I reached the conclusion that we have no right at all to keep the Philippines. We were wrong in the first place to pay $20,000,060 for them. On a question like this there should be no dividing line between democrats or republicans. Humanity is involved and I am convinced that humanity, as represented to the votes of American citizens at the next presidental election, will record its horror and execration of men and the party who are for private gain putting bloody pages into history. Believing these things now. I go straight to the public and frankly say that I was wrong. I said I believed William J. Bryan was one of the greatest men America has produced. I believe that very thing now. But that does not mean that I shall work for the nomination of Mr. Bryan, or that I think he is the only man fitted for the nomination. He is as good a man and leader as could be found. But I have no candidate. It is for the convention to name the man and the convention will not meet for at least ten months. It would be a travesty on popular suffrage to pick the candidate before the people’s delegatee meet, and I shall have no part in making such a selection. I shall not even try to influence the New York state delegation for anybody.”

President Dnight’t Pon. President Dwigbt and President Elect Hadley were returning home from the annual alumni dinner when they were caught in the rain. President Elect Hadley had an umbrella with him, and President Dwight did not. Professor Hadley, of course, wished the retiring president of Yale to protect himself from the rain by the use of the umbrella, but President Dwight declined to rob Professor Hadley of his umbrella in order that he himself might ward off the rain. Professor Hadley, however, insisted that President Dwight accept the courtesy, and his arguments became so energetic that finally President Dwight turned and said; “See here, Hadley, this is my reign still. Your reign doesn’t commence until tomorrow.” President Elect Hadley allowed the president of Yale to have his own way on the last day of bis administration.—New Haven Register. The Mask. A peculiar nature Is that which combines impulsive frankness with the reserve acquired by a thoughtful mind accustomed to depend upon itself. Such a person hates to reveal a trait of character. In early times men made their houses of tree branches covered with mud. There is still much of the savage in us. and we enjoy hiding in such an aboriginal habitation. We cover our true sea with cynicism or conceal it under reserve. Occasionally a passerby knocks off a bit of the outer crust and catches a glimpse of the interior, and then we feel annoyed at the mental Paul Pry. Followed Inst ruction*. Senator Clark of Montana recently laid an asphalt walk before his western home and, the composition being not yet dry. causeJt a temporary board walk to be erected with the sign,' “Take the Boardwalk.” Some local wags noted this and the day after its appearance carried off the walk aud wrote under the sign the words. “We Have.”

- —W'U •*t r A “1456.25 From LaOtto, Ind. Every pteF man. woman and child sheuld I C have an outing at least once /''"/T Ml a year. Niagara Falls is the J I z Jr i i . !’ greatest natural wonder of |’ ! . • the world. If you wish to V * ‘ , vi >it this exhilarating and recreative spot, you will never have a tetter opportunity than on August 24th When the Wabash railroad will sell tickets at the above rate. Arrange for your vacation to commence on that date Take the whole familv. It will give you a new lease on life and will be an education for the children (half the above rate if under 12; if under 4 free.) A Good, Long Limit Os 15 days will give you plenty of time to see all the sights at Niagara and to take advsntage of some of the many Attractive Side Trips Which will be offered at greatly reduced rates. The Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence, famed the world over for their picturesque beauty, can te visited at an additional cost of $6.50. A visit to Toronto, the queen citv of \ ictoria's “American Domain.” a grand trip across lake Ontario. will cost but SI.OO additional. Canada's great industrial fair at Toronto opens August 28th. The Special Train. Lunch car—A car stocked with delicacies and substantiate, sold at very low figures, not to make money, but simply as a convenience to patrons, will te part of the equipment. Sleepers and freechair cars will make up the balance of the train. Sleeper fare $2.50 each way. Our Niagara Fails Excursion Leaflet , Gives time of the special train, list of attractive side Xv unni. trips, bill of fare of the lunch car. railroad and s eepwlk|v| i ing car rate?, tells how to see all the wonders'tM\uS®J*A\agara to the beet advantage, list of hotel’and their * V—rates and an estimate of necessory expense’ while at \ the Falls. Ask nearest Wabash agent for one, or write to C. S. CRANE, G. P. & T. A. 23t2 St. Uouiß. Mo-

Senator Bikini* Great Scheme. During the presidential campaign of 1892 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?" “XX ell.” 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.” * 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

"Gentlemen.” said Senator E _ “I have a suggestion to make. *- l![i " - , we four go down town tomorrow borrow $1,000,000 upon our J OlDt dorsement and divide it between two parties and then one wins pay the notes, t Record. Bean Brummel Reprimanded Beau Bruminel once insolently plied to an invitation to take 1 remarking that lie never too thing but physic. "Yes. you do.” frowned ms “you take liberties.” Thlnsi He Doe.«t Ko""' s0I) Farmer Medders—\\ hat s • - its Hiram goin ter do when 1L i through college? jn te ; Farmer Corntossel—He s >- ; stay right here on the sorter begins ter realize t 1 3 ■ one or two things be don t kno