Decatur Democrat, Volume 45, Number 7, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1901 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVKRY THURSDAY MORNING BY LEW 0. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. |l,oo PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, APRIL 25. In our list of postoffice candidates as published last week, the name of the Hon. Judson W. Teeple was tin intentionally omitted. The mid-summer meeting of the Democratic Editorial Association will tie held at Logansport July 11 and 12. Among the noteworthy events that will take place at that time will bean address by the Hon. Henry Watter-s-on, editor of the Louisville Courier Journal. The mortgage exemption law releives mortgaged real estate of §7OO worth of taxation, but a statement describing such mortgage must be filed with the auditor not later than April 30. The time is growing short ■and those wishing to seek this relief '■‘tare no time io wasfe. It is a little early to begin the work of making the next republican candidate for president, lint notice has already lieen publicly served upon the anti-Hanna republicans that the votes in the South in the next republican national convention would be given to the candidate favored by Mr. McKinley. The notice was served by Judge J. W. Dimick. a federal officeholder and national committeeman from Alabama. The Plymouth Independent thinks neither Richard Olney, Arthur P. Gorman nor David B. Hill can lie the democratic presidential nominee in 1904, on account of the hostility of the Bryan following. The man upon whom the party, in the Independent’s opinion can unite in the next presidential contest is Carter H. Harrison, mayor of Chicago. There is plentv of time to think the matter over, and to arrive at a conclusion three years hence. South Bend Times. The cablegrams given out at the war department as coming from Gen. MacArthur, concerning the stealing from the commissary department in Manila, do not square with either press nows or private advices. According to the former, there have only been a few cases of petty larceny, while the latter agree in insisting that there has been a wholesale campaign of looting, and hint that more effort is lieing made to protect the looters than to uncover the stealing and punish the thieves.

Mr. McKinley, after talking tbe matter over fully with General Wood, received the committee from the Cuban constitutional convention.but it was a cut-it-short-this-is-my-busy-day manner, which showed them at once that he is more intent upon his coming pleasure trip than upon hearing their requests for impossibilities. He cannot change an act of congress and he bluntly told the Cubans so, and that is about all he did tell them, unless his intentions have been misrep resented by those who ought to kn ow them.

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The steel trust paid Mr. Knox the princely sum of $50,000 a year, to deal them out legal advice as their attorney. As attorney general of the United States bis salary is SB,OOO a year. At first glance it would appear that the honor of holding public office comes high, but the concensus of opinion is that the trusts will see that our new attorney-general is not deprived of this littles42,ooo shortage.

That Congressman Cromer has troubles of his own is slightly verified by the following dipping from one of our exchanges: Congressman Cromer has again stirred up a warm nest at Elwood by recommending Will Finch for the postoffiee at that place. Mr. Finch has not lieen a prominent worker among the Elwood republicans for the past four or five years, consequently his name being mentioned by Cromer has ired the faithfuls. E. E. Fornshell, editor of the Call-Leader, says: “Now, if Congressman Cromer wishes to pay any more of his personal preferences and promises at the expense of the republican party, he should give the Anderson postoffiee to bis brother, and then hand in his own working card.” Congresssman Cromer will have the fight of his life to retain control of his party organiza tion in the district, Sih William Van Horne, once pres ident of the Canadian Pacific railroad and still largely interested therein, who is now at the head of a syndicate which is building a Cuban railroad two hundred miles long,between Santiago and Santa Clara, has been visiting in Washington and incidentally telling how easily he got around the Foraker amendment prohibiting the granting of public franchises in Cuba while the island was under American military control. He found out that there was a special enactment perhaps he know why it happened to lie made permitting owners of land to build railroads on their own propertv without government permission, and, as most of the land owners along the route of the railroad were anxious to have it constructed, he did not find it difficult to purchase at a nominal price the ground upon which his railroad will run. Making laws that head off tbe general public while permitting millionaires to do about as they please is an old time republican specialty, but favors to Canadian millionaires is a new wrinkle. M adison county will have a surplus of candidates iu the next republican congressional convention, if the fever over there continues to rage. It all grows out of their postoffice fight which ended in the recommendation of Robert G. Grimes. It has come to light that the brother of Congressman Cromer who was a candidate, will be deputy postmaster and a cousin will lie given a berth at a goal fat salarv. The correspondent to the Indianapolis News, sent his paper the following: "The county committee, having expressed a wish for the reappointment of Mr. Small, is now angry toward Mr. Cromer. Today Mayor Dunlap announced that he would lie a candidate for congress, and Edgar E. Hendee corrected a report that he would not be a candidate. There will be at least three local candidates against Mr. Cromer, and it is said he can’t count on Madison county next congressional convention. He is severely criticised because h«- delayed the appointment as alleged and left the final decision to Governor Durbin. The governor is about to score again, it is said, by having the postoffice removed back to his business block.”

Mr. Alva H. Graham comes promptly to the chalk line and gives out the information that at present writing he is in no sense a candidate for postmaster in this city. He supplements this information that his present insurance business is paying him handsomely, and he could ill afford to give it up, simply for the distinction of helping Uncle Sam run this end of the postal government. All this is true as gospel, and Mr. Graham is to be congratulated for promptly displaying such good common sense. No man with a paying business can afford to abandon it for office. In the light of the past there is much to support this proposition, besides the offce of postmaster holds little inducement to those who haven’t the patience of Job himself. One sentence of Aguinaldo’s recently published manifesto, acknowledging American sovereignty of the Philippines and calling upon the Filipinos to cease tesistence to American authority, has aroused more or less speculation and curiosity. It is that to which he refers to the yearnings of the Filipino people “to see their dear ones enjoying the liberty and promised generosity of the great American nation.” Many think that the “promised generosity” relates to promises made to Aguinaldo personally and that the wily Filipino put it in his manifesto so as to make it a matter of official record. Whether that surmise be correct or not the language of the manifesto indicates that promises have been made of which the American public know nothing, and naturally there is curiosity to know what those promises are. W. B. Campbell, editor of the Herald, made a sensational attack on Governor W. T. Durbin in Saturday’s paper. The Herald is the republican organ of the county, and has always been the ardent supporter of Mr. Durbin. The occasion for the attack was the turning down of Campbell for postmaster. Mr. Campbell cites a letter wherein Mr. Durbin said he would keep out of the postoffice fight, and then shows he named the candidate. In a long arraignment he says: The Herald was willing to take him at his word, but that he did not keep his word was shown by his favoring an increase in the governor’s salary until the bill was killed. Then he came to the Herald with a false statement that he did not favor the measure. He used the Herald as he has used his Anderson friends to further his own selfish ambition. Mr. Durbin is undeserving of further political recognition and deserves to have the machine he is attempting to build up in the state destroved. Mr. Durbin’s ambition would not stop at injuring the republican party in Madison county if he could advance his own interests thereby. The above taken from the Anderson Herald, oneof the most prominent republican newspapers in the state, has created a sensational furor among the politicians of the state. The Herald has ever and always been a staunch supporter of Governor Durbin, but that friendship has now ceased, perhaps never to be resurrected. Not only that, but before that g. o. p. machine gets fairly established, you will hear many dull, sickning thuds from the rank and file, championed bv such leaders as Mr. Campbell.

PROTECTIVE TARIFFS. For fortv years, through the enactment of protective tariffs, we have lieen corrupting our public men. Christ, with a profound knowledge of human nature, taught His diciples to pray that they should not be let! into temptation. Though professing His teachings, we have given our legislators the power of transferring millions of dollars from the hands of the peo ■ pie to the pockets of the few - hundred “Napoleons of finance” by a single] congressional enactment. A more stupendous instrument of corruption was never concieved tiy the perverse ingenuity of man than this power con ferred upon congress. Place three or four hundred republicans or demo crats of approved honesty in congress, continue them there for a few years, and a considerable proportion of their number will surely yield to the temptation to make money out of tariff legislation. So successful have combinations of wealth and avarice been in controlling national legislation that today few men think of attaining wealth in great business adventures without national or state aid in the form of special legislation. Young men, in fact all classes of men, placing less confidence than in the olden times in industry and economy, turn their oyos to legislation as the sure source of wealth, and therefrom springs the feverish, speculative, unscrupulous spirit of the day which is sapping and destroying our fine young American manhood. We might feel more hopeful that there was a favorable outlook for better conditions were it not for the ■fact that the receivers ot the immense profits of the trusts do not hesitate to devote millions of dollars for the cam- | paign disbursements of political parties, and for the purpose of misinforming yes, even corrupting the citizens through their paid official newspaper organs. Let us observe for a moment some of the results of these unholy practices. The last century, in its early and middle course, witnessed agloriousyoung enthusiasm for the freedom and independence of the individual man, justly ascribing to his independence and liberty the sure foundation of free government. In those days the leaders in political parties had convictions about the origin and province of government over which they fought each other vigorously. All this is changed now. Paternalism, with its weaklings and moral slaves, is upon us. Just in proportion as organized wealth has seized upon the government for its own purposes, so has individual character ana independence fallen away from its former noble estate. Convictions upon public questions, at least among the politicians, no longer exist. Go into your republican and democratic clubs and listen to the talk of the leaders, and you will find that they have no higher thought than to quarrel over “which set of maggots shall eat the cheese.” Now turn to the voters themselves, and you will find that they are inoculated with those pernicuous doctrines that good times and bad times are the immediate sole result of party action: that a trust magnate atones for his unjust enrichment by liberal disbursement of his plunder; and that those who profess to believe that a public office is a publie trust are necessarily hypocrites, doctrinaires or fools. Public eptravagance is one of the most effectual means of destroying public virtue: ami public extravagance in national matters has resulted, in a large measure, from the fact that the surplus income must lie disposed of by one means or another in order to

You Buy Shoes. We Sell Them, | .IF YOU are a buyer, you are looking f Or 5 Igood values not merely your money's worth as the phrase is generally understood. ‘ You are 1 not satisfie d with that. You want “a little mon ” something special in quality or price. And the t N man whom you think gives that "little more" ig ; the man you deal with. That’s human nature t For the past few months we have lieen reorganizing our various departments, planning to give 5 ’ better values values in qualities, style and detail of manufacture that will appeal to every practical shoe buyer... The satisfactory condition of our * business proves that the people appreciate our efforts. Our trade grows liecause we satisfy, and j ■ we satisfy because our goods are right, our prices are right" and our methods are right. We will * occupy this space for the coming year, and it will pay you to "keep your eye on us” during that time. We will save you money and at the same time sell l you the best shoe values in the market. This is no fairy tale, but business straight and to the point. Watch this space anti keep posted. ■ J. H. VOGLEWEDE

remove its existence as an objection to high tariffs. Does any intelligent man believe for a moment that our annual pension list would ever have been as high as $;>0,(M)0.000 instead of $160,000,900; had it been necessary to raise the money devoted to that pur *. purse by direct taxation ? Would our I representatives in congress dare to multiply offices, approve hundreds of unmeritorious private claims, enact wasteful river and harbor bills, and squander the public domain if the national expenses had to be defrayed by an overt, irritating tax, taking the money directly from the citizen’ pocket? Every muniment of English lib erty is consecrated by the blood of men who fought against the imposi tion of an open, unjust tax; while tyranny has ever thriven under the secrecy and mystery of income for government expenses raised by excises and duties. The fact that a great proportion of the trusts are a direct outgrowth of protective tariffs is too well known among intelligent men to require argument; but I wish to urge, with all the earnestness of my being, the danger to the liberty and the independence of the individual man from “these domestic spoilers that make us slaves and tell us ’tis our charter.” Industrial slavery is only a step removed from political slavery. There is not a man in any humble home in all this land but who ought to feel aggrieved by the extortions of the trusts. "They sip in his cup. they sit at his fire,” they follow him in every step of bis life and rob him. Dick Turpin was a modest highwayman. He relieved the traveler upon Hounslow Heath of his pocketbook and his watch: but our modern highwaymen put Dick Turpin to the blush, for they steal the very highway itself, put upon their steam and electric railways, and not satisfied with this, they still follow the wav farer to his home, and there, year in and year out, extort from him tribute upon every piece of coal or iron or steel or wire or tinplate that he uses. Clamoring for aid at home as infant industries, and appealing to the peo pie’s patriotism for support, they sell their goods in every foreign mart cf trade at lower prices than to our own domestic consumers. Every true American ought to resent this. The storekeeper who obeys the command of the trust, the glass jobber who dares not buy plate glass abroad because of an intimation that his business will be ruined, each may trace his lineage back to a revolutionary sire, but it is not of such cowards that liberty is born and perpetuated. Louis Napoleon did not strangle the liberties of France in a night time. Ere he came, the French people had relinquished their rights of citizenship. Those who live under a representative form of government must rise morally or they will sink politically. We cannot measure justice by expediency, we cannot sell our souls to materialism, we cannot fold our arms to sleep and surrender to the greed of unscrupulous wealth and still pre sene free government in its integrity. We may give credent ear to the flattery of demagogues, we may console ourselves with tbe hope that things are not as l>ad as they really seem, we may deceive ourselves with the forms of free government long after the spirit of liberty has fled, but if we are to preserve free government and to act worthily of those who laid the foundations in prayers and in blood, we must emulate them in their hatred of injustice and extortion. .. , Fbanklin Pierce. New York, April 15, 1901. The virtuous Pettigrew has lieen fooling with the t ipe. His earnings are said to be $1,000,000 in days. Simultaneously with the report of this good fortune comes the rumor that he will again run for the senate. No doubt, after his speculative experiences he feeU biiuseif to be lietter able to cope withgoverument affairs. Sena torships and stock jobbing seem to g<f hand in hand. Indianapolis Sun. Bluffton papers are giving their most prominent citizen, Chau Suev considerable space, in honor of his ad vent in pants, which takes place next Sunday. Bluffton is slow, but never theless loyal to all the big events of the season.

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