Decatur Democrat, Volume 48, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1904 — Page 7

Railroad Notes. Wawassee Like Ind. tickets on mle until September 30. Return limit October 31st 1904. $3.10 for nd trip- Rome City ind - Season ticket’ good until October 31st $2.30 15 day ticket $1.95. qu the first and third Tuesday of ever y month the Erie railroad will one way and ronud trip excurgon tickets to the west, northwest an d southwest at very low rates, further information, call upon Erie agents or write, C. L. Enos, T p a., Marion Ohio. Special Homeseekers’ Excursions to the West and Southwest via the Cover Leaf Route, August 23, Sept. 13 and 27, 1904. Lowest rates ever offered. See agents Clover Leaf route- N. B —Don't forget the regular Homeseekers’ excursions to the West and Southwest Sept. 1 and 21, 1904. Northern Michigan has never been so beautiful as it is this summer. Your vacation is due an d when looking over the map for a nice cool place to rest would be pleased to have you decide that some one of the many resorts suit VOU then ’’look up and talk it lover” regarding rates, time of trains, etc. You know the G. R &I. is the way to get to Northern Michigan real quick. J. Bryson Agent. A beautiful map, valuable for reference, printed on heavy paper 142x64 inches mounted on rollers; edged bound in clcth, showing our new island po- sessions. The Trans-Siberian Railway, Pacific Ocean cables, railway lines and other features of Japan, China Munchuria, Koorea and the Fai East. Sent in receipt of 25 cents in stamps by W. B. Kntskern, P. T M., Chicago & North Western R'y, Chicago, 111. $27.50 Hot Springs, S.D . 30.70 Deadwood and Lead and return from Chicago daily, via the Chica go & North Western Ry. Correspondingly low rates from other points. The Black Hills region th. great natural sanitarium of- the west, is one of the most pictur | esque spots in the world and well worth a visit. Information and tickets can be secured from your home agent. Illustrated Black Hills booklet with valuable map mailed on receipt of 4 cent in stamps by TV .B . Kniskern, Chicago. Cheap rates tor vacation trips from Chicago, round trip rates via Chicago Great Westren railway $18,.00 to St Paul or Minneapolis $22.00 to Duluth or Superior $30.00 to Denver, Colorado Springs or Pueblo Col $43.00 to Salt Lak. City. These rates are good any diy up to September 30th and on any train including the“ Great Wes torn Limited” finest train in the West. For rates to other western points for any other information write J. P. Elmer GP. A. Ch oago. 111. Homeseekers' excursions via South ern railroad in connection with the Queen & Cresent route to certain points in Alabama, Georgia, Florida North and South Carolina, Kentucky Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia on the first and third Tuesdays in each month—May to November, 1904 nclusive, at the very low rate of out fare for the round trip, plus $2 Tickets are good going 15 days, and for stop-overs south of the Ohio Rivei with final limit for return of 21 days from date of sale. Ou 'he same datet one way settlers’tickets will be sold to points in the same territory at onehalf first-class rates, pins $2 frem Ohio River gate wavs. For rates, schedules and full information, call on your nearest ticket agent, or write J-S. McCullough, N. W. P. A., 225 Dearborn street. Chicago, 111.

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IDEAL IMPERIALISM. '*V tn his open letter to President Roosevelt, Josepn Pulitzer, owner and editor ot the New York World, thus depicts the imperialistic policy which the president would saddle upon the country: “'To see imperialism full blown one must go to England. At home English institutions are free. The cabinet is a committee of parliament. The king has not a thousandth part of your power and patronage. He could not jump a doctor, even a very skillful and agreeable one, not even Treves, who saved his life—into a major general ship or even a lieutenancy. He cannot appoint a fourth-class postmaster. He has none of the enormous powers over corporations which enables you first to make an inquisition into the secrets of every combination of capital; sec ond, to smash one such combination as an example, and, third, to send that grand inquisitor Cortelyou, who was your own private secretary and later cabinet member for commerce and corporations, armed with all his deadly secrets, to pass the contribution box among the others. “But the United Kingdom, with 43,000,090 inhabitants, rules over 330’000,000 people in non-self-governing crown colonies and dependencies. The welfare of one-quarter of the popula tion of the globe is absolutely at the mercy of the governing classes of Great Britain. Three hundred million people in India, um. r the compulsion of 250,000 soldiers, live and work to furnish official berths to English younger sons and profit for English capitalists.” AN HONORABLE RECORD Henry G. Davis Answers Effectively Some of the Early Campaign Slanders. When a man has come up through all the trials that beset the poor to a commanding position in the industrial world and no stigma has been cast upon his private or public record till he becomes a candidate for office, his record itself should be a sufficient answer to any slander that might emanate from the campaign. But in the case of Hon. Henry G. Davis, Democratic nominee for the vice presidency, we have a circumstantial denial from his own pen and one, too, that is a complete refutation of all that has been charged against him. The denial of Republican charges is made in a letter to a friend, and Mr. Davis not only shows that the charges are false, but demonstrates beyond doubt that they could not possibly be true. The letter says: “I am glad to have your letter calling my attention to the publication placing me in an attitude of hostility to the laboring class. No one who knows me personally or is at all acquainted with the circumstances of my life, will put any credence in the statement to which you refer. I think I can well claim that I belong to the laboring class. For many years I worked in the ranks as a wage earner, and I know what it is to earn my living by the sweat ot my brow. On the other hand, I have been a large employer of labor in railroads, coal mines, lumber mills, etc., and have never had any serious trouble with our men. I can recall but two instances in which there were strikes, and chese were of short duration and peaceably settled. No man has ever been discharged from our service because he was a union man or been evicted from a company’s house for any reason. I think you will find that the conditions of the railroad man and the miner in connection with the enterprise I have directed will compare most favorably with those in other localities of the country. “I have always believed, and my conviction comes from the hard school of experience, that, measured by the character of the work he does and the cost of living a man is entitled to full compensation for his services. “I am charged with having instituted proceedings which led to an injunction against strikers by Judge Jackson of this state. The fact is, I had nothing to do with the case and knew nothing about the matter until I read of it in the newspapers. The injunction did not apply to the men in our employ or pertain to them in any way. Very truly yours. H. G. DAVIS.” Fair wek Fat gains on pianos and organs at Langle’s music st< re.

A DEMOCRATIC LAW Claiming Credit For Benefits Accruing From a Law Which They Denounced. The chief claim that the Republicans make to credit is the fact that they have steadily reduced the state debt since they came into power in 1894. It is notorious that the ability to do this came through the tax law oi 1891, which was enacted by a Demo cratic legislature in the face of Republican opposition. The Republicans carried their opposition into the cam paign of 1892, and at the state con ven tion, which met at Fort Wayne, they adopted this resolution: “We arraign the Democratic party of Indiana for enacting an unequal and unjust tax law. It imposes upon the farmer, laborer and householder an excessive and unequal share of public burdens. It creates a great number of unnecessary officeholders hitherto unknown to the law. To the burden of taxation, already too heavy, it adds more than SIOO,OOO for the fees, salaries and expenses of these officers and offices. We demand its radical revision. We pledge ourselves to enact such amendments to the present law as shall relieve the farm and the home from the unjust taxation now borne by them; which shall place a just share of the public burdens on capital and incorporate property, and provide a more simple and less expensive method of assessment.” Mr. i airbanks, then a candidate for the United States senate, was the permanent chairman of the convention and denounced the law in the following language: “The present odious tax law is a Democratic measure, passed to rescue the financial credit of the state. I misinterpret the signs of the times if the people do not repudiate the law and the Democratic party at about one and the same time. “There is one way to cure the tax law, and that is to radically revise it.” At the time the convention denounced the new law as imposing “upon the farmer, laborer and householder an excessive and unequal share of public burdens,” agents of the railroads were gathering data along the several lines to show that the railroad companies were being assessed out of proportion to the farming lands through which they ran. John T. Dye. general counsel for the Big Four railroad, presented the data to the State Tax Board and asked that the assessments of the year before be reduced. On the same grounds the railroads appealed to the courts. This law has put the money in the state treasury to pay the state debt, and it is the same law that the Republican party joined hands with the railroads to overthrow. Self-Government for Filipinos. In a letter to Hon. John G. Milburn regarding the use of the term “selfgovernment” in his response to the notification speech. Judge Parker makes himself plain in respect to the policy he would pursue toward the Filipinos if elected president. Here is his letter: “Esopus, N. Y.. Aug. 22, 1904. “My Dear Milburn—You are entirely right in assuming that as I employed the phrase ‘self-government,’ it was intended to be identical with independence. political and territorial. After noting the criticism referred to by you I am still unable to understand how it can be said that a people enjoy self-government while another nation may in any degree whatever control their action, but to take away all possible opportunity for conjecture, you shall be made clear in the letter of acceptance that I am In hearty accord with that plank in the Democratic platform which advocates treating the Filipinos precisely as we did the Cubans; and I also favor making the promise to them now to take such action as soon as it can be prudently done. “Thanking you for your letter, and with best wishes for you always, I am, “Very sincerely yours, “ALTON B. PARKER. “John G. Milburn, Esq.” Parker Satisfactory; Roosevelt Obnoxious. Smiley N. Chambers, United States district attorney for Indiana under the Harrison administration, has a very high opinion of Judge Parker, and it is evident from a recent interview that he is strongly Inclined to support him He does not say he is for Parker, but when he declares that Parker’s personality is satisfactory to all the people and that Roosevelt is obnoxious to many of the business interests of the country, he virtually says that the president is obnoxious to him, because he is intimately associated with business Interests. Here is the deliverance of Mr. Chambers on this point. “The personality of Mr. Parker is satisfactory to the entire people of this country. No one, Republican or Democrat, can object to him. The personality of President Roosevelt Is obnoxious to many of the business interests of this country. The personality of the two candidates will cut a large figure in this campaign "The Republicans are confronted ny the same conditions as in the Blaine campaign of 1884-a very popular candidate with many classes of people who failed to command the confidence of certain conservative and influential elements.” Senator Fairbanks continues to hold to his 1.5,000 Job.

Russia-Japan war altas 10 cents Three fine colored maps, each 14x20; bound in convenient form for reference. The Estern situation shown in detail, issued by The Chicago & Northwestern R’y, J mailed upon receipt of ten cents in stamps by A. H. Waggoner, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago Ills. Fifteen dollars round trip to Texas and Southwest. On August 23, September 13 and 27, the Missouri Pacific railway and Iron Mountain route will sell round trip Homeseekers' tickets from St. Louis, Cairo and Memphis also form Kansas* Leavenworth, Atchison and intermediate points to Amarillo, Colorado City, Ft' Worth, Brady, San Angelo, Corpus Christi, San Antonia and Galveston and points east there of in Texas. To New Iberia, Cheneyville, Alexandria and Monroe and points west thereof in Louisiana. To points in Arkansas, all points in Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Final limit of ticket 21 days. Stop overs allowed after reaching first Homeseekers’ point en route. For full information address any repre sentative of these companies. G. A. Deane, Jr., Indianapolis, Ind. $9 and Thirty Days. Yes, nine dollars will take you to Northern Michigan Sept. 3, 8,10 or 13 for thirty davs pleasure at Petoskey, Traverse City and various other points. 810 to Mackinaw Island, same dates and limits. Jeff Bryson, Agent. World’s Fair Route To St. Louis via Toledo, St. Louis & Western railroad, Clover Leaf route. Low round trip fares from Decatur as follows: $16.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit December If. $13.35 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 60 days from date of sale. $12.00 round trip. Going any day. Return limit 15 days from date of sale. $7.30 round trip. Good only in coaches. Going any Tuesday or Thursday. Seven days’ limit. Commencing May 17. Pullman palace sleeping care, case and free reclining chair care and through day coaches on all night traine. Buffet and free reclining chair care and through day coachee on all through day traine. Meale eerved ala carte on through traine. See T L. Miller, agent Clover Leaf route a Decatur, or addreee George H. Robb General Traffic Mgr, Toledo, Ohio.

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THE GREAT SOUTHWEST. MANY SEEKING HOMES WHERE LANDS ARE CHEAP AND CLIMATE IS MILD. Low Rates for Homeseekers and Colonists Twice a Month. Many farmere in the Northern and Eastern states are selling their high priced lands and locating in the Southwest —in Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas. Manv who have been unable to own theii homes in the older country are buying land at the low prices prevailing in the new country—ss, $lO, sls per acre and up. These lands are mostly cut-over timber lauds, some of them possessing a deep rich soil producing corn, wheat, oats, clover, cotton, fruit and vegetables. Well improved farms are scattered throughout this country. Many places with small clearings and some improvements can be bought very cheap. Our descriptive literature gives a fairly good idea of this country. It tells about the soil, crops, climate, people, schools, churches, water and health. It contains maps showing locations oi counties, towns, railways and streams, and gives names and addresses of real estate dealers in the towns. Reduced rates for homeseekers and colonists are in effect first and third Tuesdays of each month, byway of St. Louis, Cairo or Memphis and the Cotton Belt Route. Let us send you our literature and quote you rates. Address E. W. Laßeatime, Gen. Pass, and Ticket Agent, Cotton Belt Route, ' St. Louis, Mo. I THE THING TO DO If you are in a hurry to leave this heat and flurry. To find a nice, cool spot on mother earth Just take No. 5, and as sure as you’re alive’ She willj landj you in a nice, cool berth at Traverse City, Michs 9.74 Petoskey “ 11.12 Bay Niew, “ ' 11.15 Roaring Brook, “ 1129 Harbor Springs, “ 11.36 Oden. “ 11.35 Mackinaw City “ 12.18 Tickets sold at above price will be limited to 15 days for return. Season tickets to these points good until Oct. 31st. at one and one-third fare. J. Bryson.

Special Low Excursion Rates Via the Clover Leaf Route Season 1904. j Homeseekers to west and southwest, Ist and 3rd Tuesday in each month. Triennial Conclave Knights Templar, San Francisco, Cal., Sept. sth to 9th. Sovereign Grand Lodge I. O. O. FSan Francisco, Cal., Sept. 19th to 25th. Louisiana Purchase Exposition (World’s JFair) St. Louis, Mo., April 30th to Nov. 30th. Stop-over Privileges at St. Louie on all tickets to and from the west. Write for rates and particulars to GEO. H. ROSS. Gen’l Traffic Manager, Toledo, Ohio. T. L. Miller, Agt.

’ From Chicago daily, June 1 to September 30. Correspondingly low rates from ail other points. „ Two fast trains per day. The Colorado Special, solid through train, over the only double-track railway between Chicago and the Missouri River. Only one night from Chicago; two nights en route from the Atlantic Seaboard via the Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line Send two-cent stamp for folders and booklets, with list of hotels and boarding houses, rates and much valuable information concerning railway fares, scenery, climate, etc. . All agents sell tickets via this line. A. H. WAGGENER. Traveling Agent, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, 111. if NWS6S M j|