Decatur Democrat, Volume 46, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 1 January 1903 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT IVBRV THURSDAY MORNING BY LBW a. ELLINOHAM. Publisher. 11,00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Entered st the postofllce at Decatur. Indiana as second-class mall matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS COUNTY. THURSDAY, JAN. 1. THE DAILY DEMOCRAT. On Monday, January 12, this office will begin the publication of a daily newspaper which will be known as The Daily Democrat. The new daily will not come into existence so much to fill a long felt want as it does to meet the existing demands which time and progress have made. With scarcely no solicitation on the part of the office, nearly 400 rural subscribers have added their names to the list of The Daily Democrat, so the new born will start in life with every prospect of success. It will follow in the footsteps of the Weekly Democrat, and contain every feature of home news that is of interest to the public and fit to print. Subscriptions taken at the office. Governor Durbin has been playing some interesting politics in the appointment of deputy oil inspectors. The selections which he has made give additional color to the rumor that the governor would like to be a candidate to the United States senate. The Monroe doctrine has made the president of that name more famous than any act he ever committed during his official career. Nevertheless the doctrine had its inception in the mind of the greatest of American financiers and statesmen, Alexander Hamilton. President Monroe simplv announced it. Press noticesand other eulogies are pouring in by every mail upon the party wisdom of complimenting the Hon. J. A. M. Adair as the minority's choice for speaker. He is by long odds the best fitted, the most solid and can be depended upon in any emergency.. There is much wisdom in the choice besides there is merit to burn.

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Next wesk the solons will liegin to gather »t Indianapolis for the opening of the legislative session which begins one week from today. The republi can majority is so immense that it will take considerable coaching to line them all up every time a party measure is being considered. It now seems probable that the Hon. J. A. M. Adair will be given the complimentary vote for speaker. “There will be no currency bill passed by congress at the coming session,” said Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, Friday. The secretary bases this prediction upon interviews he has bad with senators and repro sentatives as to the possibility of financial legislation this winter. The leaders in both houses have assurer! him that nW measure changing the banking statutes can become a law this season. Though the European powers endeavored to induce President Roosevelt to assume the duty of arbitrator in the Venezuelan controversy, they have expressed a willingness to submit the dispute to the Hague Tribunal. Venezuela agrees to this arrangement but makes as a condition precedent, the return of the vessels captured by the allies. Farther embarrassment to Germany who so gallantly sunk two or three of the ships she has captured in time of peace. Curtis, the special newspaper correspondent, has lieen looking into the sugar beet industry; that is, he has looked into the sugar beet factories. He finds that there are sixteen factories in Michigan and all of them are paying dividends to stock holders, ranging from twenty-five to forty per cent, the profit depending largely upon the amount of beets they are able to secure. With such profits it would seem that the companies could afford to pay better prices for beets. Farmers near here who have tried beet raising are for the most part convinced that there is nothing in the business at $4 per ton. The reciprocity treatice which are to come before the senate shortly after the Christmas holidays, are li key to meet with opposition. Conferences are being held by senators whose district produce the articles affected by the proposed tariff concessions. They are formulating a plan whereby the particular cause of complaint of each individual senator will be removed. If this plan is carried out it will virtually mean the rejection of all the treatise and with the others goes the Cuban. It looks at present as though the president’s determination to grant reciprocity to that benighted island is doomed to failure. Senator Aldrich is quoted as remarking, “bet ter let them all fail.”

Tns Winchester Daily Herald subpended publication because the busi ness was unprofitable. The citizens there should be ashamed for permitting a daily paper to simply eke out an existence, let alone suspend. \ chester possesses enough .people to handsomely support a daily paper, and they are derelict in their duty when they permit one to suspend for want of support If the politicians among the next legislative minority have their way the Hon. Thomas Taggart will be complimented with the minority vote for United States senator. The plea already being made by the friends of Taggart is that it will aid in making this favorite the next chairman of the democratic national committee. Asa matter of politics this game is probably being played all right, but as a proper recognition of such a high honor, where brains and lots of it is the first requisite, something besides politics should count. Mr. Taggart is a genius in his way and should be the next chairman of the national committee. The complimentary vote for Uniter! States senator will not count for him or against him. Senator Morgan of Alabama believes that the trusts is of surpassing importance to the American people. “My belief is also,” said he in an an interview, that out of the demand for a solution of this question will be wrought a political revolution. The power of the American people is greater than that of corporate wealth. It is slow in arousing, but once aroused, no wrong can stand before it. > The leaven is already at work the j people are beginning to think. It does not seem today that the crisis I will be reached in two years, but no | man can tell. It is a time of uncertainty, and changes may come so quickly upon us that the existing order of things will be upturned before the presidential election of 1904. Governor Durbin has rendered his | decision against the Sullivan county ■ sheriff who he removed some time ago for permitting a mob to take a prisoner from the sheriff and lynch him. Under the provisions of the anti lynching law passed by the last legislature the office of any sheriff in the state at once becomes legally va-, cant without process if a prisoner is ( taken from him and lynched. His only recourse is an appeal to the governor, who may reinstate him if it appears that he was in no way remiss in his duty. In accordance with the law Governor Durbin declared that Sheriff Dudley had forfeited his office and directed the coroner of Sullivan county to take possession. The sheriff has decided to give up the position but came before the governor with a petition. Evidence was taken and the decision was given to the public Monday.

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danders to tonroe doctrine Princeton, N. J.. Dec. 28 The following interview, given by ex Presi dent Cleveland to a representative of the New York World, is the only au- i thorized statement by him on the I present situation is Venezuela. Mr. Cleveland said: “To us the Monroe doctrine under any circumstances as a shield for debtor nations which happens to be on the hemisphere would lie a use of it never intended nor forseen by Presi dent Monroe. “To make the Monroe doctrine cover the latter as well as the former would be to make it indefensible and absurd. •‘During my second prsidentialterm there were two instances of forcible collections of debts inSoutli America by England, on in Venezula and one in Corinto, Nicaragua, but no action was taken by the American govern ment, save that of watching the tran sactions, and tendering our good offices in the direction of avertin? any warlike collision, “At the present time the Monroe doctrine is endangered from two opposite directions on the one hand by those who do not appreciate the vital importance of its proper interpretation as a principal of ouruational policy; and on the other by those who would wilfully extend its scope. “It most be protected from those who would make a foolish iosistauce upon its application to matters within as purview, and at the same time care must be taken that it is not endanger ous by a failure to observe the effect of any action, though seemingly remote, which might result in an infrac tion of its provisiuns. “But my position in this matter is sufficiently embodied in the acts and declarations made by mo while preaident, at a time when the Monroe doc trine was a burning question. v ‘‘ A " 1 in * ec ‘ ure upon the enezuelan boundary dispute in 1N96 ‘m’ 1 '!"*. I’nnceton university in inH h r l9 ? l,ant aftPrw ’ a rii published in the C entury magazine: "The Mon roe doctrine may be abandonee’- we may forfeit it by taking our lot with nations that expand by following unAmencan ways; we may outgrow it as we seem to I* outgrowing othlr things we once valued; or it may for ever stand as a guaranty of tion and safety in our enjoyment of ree institutions; but in noeX ’wS th s American principle ever lie letter dehned, better defended or X brave v asserted than was done y Mr Ohieym his dispatch to the Brit ish government in IH9& ‘ n ,“ My I , ffle ’ in S °n this subject is f tl , I." °l OU, Mb" “ ,tao

history. It has established the Mon roe doctrine on lasting foundations before the eyes of the world; it has given us a better place in the respect ■ and consideration of the people of all nations, and especially of Great Brit 1 ain; it has again confirmed our confi I dence in the everlasting prevalence among our citizens of disinterested devotion to American honor: and last, but by no means least, it has taught us where to look in the ranks of our countrymen for the liest patriotism." The advocates of the government. irrigation policy in congress have already introduced several bills look-' ing to the repeal of several of certain 1 .nd laws which it is claimed are interfering with the irrigation of the western lands. The desert land law in particular is held up as an act under which gross frauds against the government are perpetrated daily. I he secretary of the interior shows in his annual report that under this law millions of acres are fraudulently ac-1 quirod by big stock companies and to I the detriment of the prospective settlor in the western states. These companies by making fraudulent entries through their paid employes are acquiring the best of the remaining public lands and particularly those which it is proposed to irrigate under the recently passed national irrigation The investigations of the coal arbi- > traters has developed the fact that the mg coal roads have virtually limited 1 ‘he output of what are known as the independent operators. By not furnishingcars or engines to move the product any faster than they think fit ’ >e mine-owing roads possess a virtual monopoly permitting the smaller producers to supply- only he demand which they themselves cannot meet. Because of the recent strike which exhausted all reserves ’ roa< fl are now hauling all coal i that they can handle to relieve the famine existing in the east. It is noted however, that the wholesale F nee ofcoal has been advanced fifty i )**r cent per ton, which will, in less than a year, recoupe the losses of the . compames by reason of the labor des. So it is, the consumer pays 1 expenses for the stubbornness of , t a V ta ° r abor whichever happens to I evi.7 the other hand the • shnw.°»k** eomnussion , th.'. hat the industrious miner, at t( 1*7 a r r“n y P ai< i. earns from three to five dollars per day. It is true afxi i rtiXT ,nerß av ** rf «K*» “ month vest L‘ y l IDety < ’ enl ’’ a dav ‘ In ;of »h' ° n °t w °rk over two days out around preferring to laying anr»»l smoking. It ‘ Burners" I l .'*' the P u bl* e the cooI plaint h a 'e the real cause of com

The Demo, rm wishes;#.* 1 scribers and MOO weekly* prosperous and happy )* To those who fail pe.-o’j these inscribed provision without extra charge. The Decatur Democrat w. 4 complimentary vote of ike % members of the Indiana 10 SI to lie given t< SsinuelM Ec Lebanon, whom it calls Sth - Roman of them all Tte -* I Pioneer names in this «®R| V. Menzies. Thomas TuS Hugh Dougherty. And '■■■ 1 bia City Post thinks the:‘- ! be worthily lx>stowed iF 1 Shively. J One of the most impa® l - | . fore congress, which | i sideration immediately iwI days, is that which |is known as check cunwT ■ ; purpose of the bill is tc«-‘ ■ j eral demand felt in ah **• country, for a current’ >• ‘ ■ nominations that can ' mitted by mail. Almost ' son who has had | 1 ing small sums by man « preened with the incoc' f - • ■ ! present system. ' so ’ lo .cost of the money order ® bother of filling out l - r . j blanks which often My 1| with a wait of ten or j longer "in line at ■ ! window, or. if a silverm lin an envelope it w . | through and I sides, it is almost ■ I . w close a coin in such 8 j not be detectedl throni I thus exciting the 1 'V. I sities of The effort to oud Winchester from hi -J] general at \ era - n>?■ | the place P av« and the average ma» it a dirt there, inasmuch as with diseases and d that an American u . # J .Mr. Canada likes tbelj ■ putting up a wan : | believed tU '. {engaged iu ,h '’‘auadat !liC ‘ , « although Mr. an 1 the two have Ip l for years. Mr. l |0 here recently try lß ? hold on his pos>t' ' time heexhtbHda J bick « i mysterious <har» l * tfl! »g I poeed to put 1 an uupleasauU’ diJ dO i gressmati him* w , u attention to it. “ • -yl grossman <1 has been that be will soon off the fuse-