Decatur Democrat, Volume 44, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1900 — Page 7

* ROY ARCHBOLD, dentist. I. 0. o. F. BLOCK. (Office. 164Phone Residence. 153. henry b. heller, ATTORNEY at law. .X rooms 1 and 2. Stone Block, opposite Otnce. ■ courthouse. Collections. Notary Publl °- AMOS P. BEATTY, ATTORNEY at law . d Votary Public. Pension claims prosec A u"ed Fellows building. 1 ' ~ JAMES T. MERRYMAN, attorney at law, DECATUR, IND. 1 2 3, over Adams Co. Bank, prefer, by permission to Adams Co. Bank. ERWIN & ERWIN, ATTORNEYS at law. , K -Corner Monroe and Second streets General practitioner, No.charge for consul, ration. jobn Schurger. Dave E. Smith SCHURGER & SMITH, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. .. ». TO LOAN at lowest rates of Interest Abstracts of tit le. real estate and collections «»nd 3 Weltleg block. 35 Capital *120,000. Established 1872 The Adams County Bank Decatur, Indiana. noes a general baftktng business, makes colKons In all parts of the country Buys X township and county cyders. Foreign Ind domes! ic exchange bought and sold. In-tOfHrers--w'jV.Ndblkd<?l>tresldent;D. Studebaker Wee President; R. K. Allison. Cashier, and d 8. Niblick. Assistant Cashier. J. D. HALE, DEALER IN Gi'aiq, Seeds, Wool, Oil, Salt, Goal, Lime, Fertilizers. Elev tors on the Chicago * Erie and Clove I eat railroads. Office and retail store southeast corner of Second and Jefferson Streets jyYour patronage solicited. I Mortgage Loans. Afoney Loaned on favorable terms. Low Rate of Interest. Privelege of partial payments, Abstracts of I itle carefully prepared. F. M. SGHIRMEYER, Go/'. Sncoqd aqd Madison »to. Ddcatur, Iqdiaqa. Baker & Christen, ARCHITECTS Have opened an office over Archbold & Haugh’s Book Store, and are prepared to do any kind of work in their line. Persons contemplating building can save time, trouble and money by consulting them. Baker <& Christen, Architects. Where to Locate? Whv, in the territory traversed by the Louisville a n d Nashville Railroad, THE teat Central Southern Trunkline IN Kentucky, T ennesse Blabarna, Mississippi, Florida, WHERE Winers, Fruit Growers, Stock Raisers, Manufacturers, Investors, Speulators anti Money Lenders chances in the United ■ «n< Paraje, Tlrqb.e a n d stoqe, •foq Coat, Cabor—t^varything! fi 'i'umh*. nn, ‘ nc| al assistance and freedom >»n l» , J l ' f,,r ’h" manufacturer. Km.,7"' »»««• «' HOU per acre and ttp•n be B< ’ rp * 1,1 West Florula that 11 8 homastedi laws ■»!«'‘'oil' <>•*•' district will ■inrr^l"""" protlts. ■rsrh n" n 7h“ r '' l " n " ,he * lr "> *"<• third Torsdsjs ■u'wiu. r l< ,, n "'* l '?’ h, ‘* vou want, and we will tell ■< h<- OOlimr, u lui. t 0 don't del1 ”’’ V>' Atldxe,' or' 0r ' Inup * 1 ' R. J. WEMYBB, ■' n *' r * l '“migration and Industrial agent. LOUISVILLE. KY.

the Philippines. private miller tells of actual con. DITIONS THERE. While Always a Republican He will Vote tor Bryan and Against the Imperial Policy. Editor Democrat: I have been requested to give the real condition of ♦h p °- f Luzo “' or that portion of the 1 hilippmes which'l have seen I will not at this time relateanvthing of I the natives, or the conditions which govern them. J.®!* 1 , 8 tW i l at r Ft ' Wa y ne ' I“d-, Sept. 20, 1899, placed in 39th reg't Co. D. Arrived at Manila Dec. 8, 1899 Went aboard transport Aug. 1,1900, arrived id San r rancisco, Cal., Sept. 28, 1900 When I arrived in Manila I really expected to see surrounding the city a fertile, tillable country. Such I pictured in my mind as we have in Adams county; but lo! to my disappointment, I found a mountainous, hilly undulated country instead of my fancy of a good farming district. Along the Capaccie river you will see here and there a rice paddie, fields where grow some what we term eight row corn, and sweet potatoes. The latter the variety has run out, thev are very stringy and pethy. The ‘facility for farming is very little, not near so large as you would expect by the intelligence you receive in the states. There are eighty miles of what they term Jailroad. Capac ic river is not crossed by a bridge as far as I could ascertain, the current is so swift that it would be impossible to place stone abuttinents for bridges. Railroad is an impossibility. Our western states are no comparison to the island without comparing the Bad Islands. The estimate I think would be near fourfifths of the island as mountains and hills, and is in fact worthless. No metals have been discovered by the natives or Spaniards as to the soldier boys’ knowledge and I guess we catch on to the procession alright. The timber is mostly a dense growth of small brush, bamboo and other timber which I would judge is worthless. There are places I thought I would like very much to live, at first the climate seemed good, but if the government would say “Miller, you can have ten thousand acres of the test land on the island, go and live there,” I would say "Nit.” I will stay in the states. This government will (if we keep those islands), in a few years give transportation free to people to go there and Americanize the island, and those who go will stay there too, for they either will be too poor to get back or their bones will te bleaching in the sands of the island. Six months on the island will put the hatchet-face on the healthiest American. I have seen it so hot at eight o’clock in the morning, that the blue coats on the backs of the boys would be smoking, smoke ascending from the roofs as if on fire. Talk about a healthy country. Why. how is it possible for a white man to live ttiere with poison evaporating from swamps, rice paddies, rainy seasons, hot climate and purely vegetable dirt. There never can possibly te any condition whatever brought about to make it partially healthy enough for a White man to live there. If you see a soldier l>oy who has served on the island ask him what he is home for? Why is he not with his regiment? And he will tell you he did not come from the regiment but from the hospital. I weighed 187 pounds when I left the states, the day I started home I weighed 127 pounds. Why not the men who follow the regiment become acclimated? You will find following the array,men who sell articles that will catch the soldier boys’eye, such as whiskey, l»eer. tobacco, combs, and trinkets of all kinds, and he makes a big thing out of this business. These men have good quarters and rations; But six months will find them in the hospital, mayte on the transport home. If he cannot stand the conditions there and making big money, how about _ the poor private (cheap people 815.50. The people of the states cannot give me pointers on health in the islands for I have bumped up against the real thing. But of course, there are other boys who did as I did, and all are of the same opinion on healthy condition of the islands. I remember one time our company undertook to line up. and only nine could stand up. All the chin music a campaign orator would have me to believe, he could not make me telieve something the contrary, when I saw it with my own eyes. I would not exchange the city of Decatur for all the island that I saw, and I saw some of it. Think of the city of Manila with eighttsm-ineh walks, standing on either walk you could touch the would be street ear with your hand extended. No nianufacturies, mills or other enterprises. The city would have to te razed to the ground and rebuilt to place it in the list of an American city. lam of the opinion that the man who is at the head of this government is an able man, but I cannot think how it was possible for him to dictate the Paris treaty, paying S2O.(XX),(XX) for those islands without first investigating the purchase (if that was the deal). It is a “pig in the sack case. ’ Those islands are worthless so far as we are concerned, not mentioning the ten times of cost of the purchasing pnee. But some people are having a "pud out of the transaction, not the privates but those who are with the administration. Mum is the word for the private. What do you think of a "ar that is conducted on orders that come from the top of the ladder to the company commanders "not to tire until you are fired upon?” What do these orders mean ? Did they give such orders when conducting the late civil war? Ditl they give such on hrs going up San Juan hill? Why don t they

terminate this war as thev did the Spanish American war? Spain had more and better equipped soldiers, better res,narces for warfare, yet within ninety days it was over. Why is it not over in the Philippines? Ah. my friends, it is money. If you was over there you would soon see why, and that very soon, you would not receive thecommand more than once, "not to lire until you was fired upon” when something would enter your mind, that will in the future prove to be the greatest fraud that ever was enacted by a christianized nation. Ninety nine out of a hundred of the privates are of the same opinion. For what are they there for? Only to have our dusky brethren to fire first and then vamoose; or are they there for the pecuniary interest of the great sons of nobody ?. The manner of subjugation that is going on now will never subjugate them. Taking towns and then vacating them. Taking prisoners and ' then allowing them to go free. Filipinos selling our troops goods and getting our money to buy their arms and ammunition.' I have no thought of telling anything that is not true. It would do me no good to do so. The future will reveal what I have written, only more comprehensible. I am not a politician, therefore know no politics. If I had I would throw it aside this time. For with what I have seen and with the advantage of attaining the conditions by my unfortunate voluntary actions, has enabled me to decide without partisan feeling. Ihe administration of this war is not what I could deem right. I am and have Ijeen what is termed a republican. My father who was a veteran of the civil war, is also a republican, all my relatives are republicans. But call me as you may, 1 am-going to vote against that wrong that I know is existing. If I knew anything concerning the money question I would put it aside for this time, but I do not, and lam correct in saying that it would be a “God-send” if other re publicans would not pay so much attention to the financial question (only to know where it goes to). I only see one way, (speaking as individual) of stopping this fraud which is smothered up and that is to cast my ballot for Mr. Bryan, on no other reason than his statement at Indianapolis that he would endeavor to stop the war, which ought to be done soon, as there are more lives sacrificed than we in the states imagine, not considering the cost and boys that are bleaching in that worthless death trap. Yours, M. V. Miller, Pleasant Mills, Ind., Oct. 5. 1900. Sweat will not discolor goods dyed with Putnam Fadeless Dyes. These dyes are guaranteed to te absolutely fast to sweating and washing. 10c per package. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk. 30-2 Church Benefit Sale.—Receipts until now, 501.63, which was distributed among the churches mentioned to date. Friday, Oct. 12th goes to the Christian church, Linn Grove; Friday. Oct. 19th goes to the United Brethrens church at Pleasant Grove. Respectfully, Gus. Rosenthall. John W. McKean, sr.. will have a public sale on Wednesday, October 17th. 1900. He will sell 5 head of horses, 5 head of short horn cattle. 15 head of sheep. 28 head of shouts, 1 sows and pigs. 1 fine Poland-China boar. 1 wagon. 1 surrey, 1 buggy, 1 set of heavy work harness, 1 set of light hrtiniss, 1 mower, 1 hay rake, 1 double corn plow. 1 harrow, breaking plows and shovel plows, 100 bushels of wheat, oats, corn and barley. 25 tons of hay, and many other articles not here mentioned. A credit of one year will te given on all sums over 55. with approved security. Auctioneer, C. M. France. 27-t4 Public Sale of Registered Poland-China Hogs Joshua Bright A Son will hold their ninth annual sale on the farm of J. Bright. 2.J miles south of Peterson. October 25. 1900, consisting of fall, spring and summer pigs, brood sows with pigs by their side, four grand sires used in this herd as well bred as there is in this state. One large, fine yearling Belgian colt, sired by an imported horse; one short horn bull calf, a fine lot of breeding ewes, one extra good two-year-old Shropshire buck, 30 Plymouth Rock hens. This will te one of the largest sales of the season. A credit will be given as usual. Free lunch at 11 a. tn. Sale to commence i at 12 o’clock noon. Come to this sale. Joshua Bright A: Sons. 30-t3 I will offer for sale at public auction at my residence. 3 miles northeast of Decatur on the Philip Kern farm on Monday, Oct. 15. 1900, the following property, to-wit: Three head of horses, consisting of 1 brood mare, 1 draft horse, 1 driving horse; 25 head of hogs, consisting of 2 brood sows, 13 shoats weighing 150 lbs., 10 shoats weighing about 75 lbs.; I heifer, 1 Champion binder, 1 Buckeye mower, hay rake, cultivator, spring tooth harrow, spring tooth cultivator, 2 breaking plows, grindstone, shovel plows, cutting box, oats in bin. 11 acres of corn in shock, top buggy, 1 set work harness, buggv harness. 1 farm wagon, hay ladders and other articles. Terms All sums of 55.00 and under cash in hand; over $5.00 a credit of 12 months will be given, purchaser giving note with approved security. Free lunch will te served on grounds. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock a. tn. B. Frank Korn. Fred Repport, auctioneer. •••••••• ; Linen SAMPLES, Size about : : 13x27 Inches makes nice nap- : • kins, tea towels, etc. These ; i are samples of table linen from : ; 25c to $ 1.60 per vard; price 5c ; ; and 8c apiece. Be sure and ; : pet some of them. True’s Cash : ; Store.

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