Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 22, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1906 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT . - ' ■■ -A ■VERY THURSDAY MORNING BY ?LCW G. ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHER (1.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. taMred •* the poetoffice at Decatur, Indiana as aeoond-class mall matter. IfHClll PAPtB OF ADAMS COUHtF THE ISSUE.

The Democratic state platform contains the following among other planks: 44 The growth of the trusts and other inordinate and dangerous combinations of capital .the tremendous and rapidly increasing absorption and centralization of the wealth of the country in the bands of a chosen few, all due to premeditated and systematic legislation in behalf of the special interests by the Republican party, demand a change in the policies imposed upon the country by that party and make the passage of restrictive law an imperative necessity.” The Republican campaign managers have determined to “stand pat” for the policies which are impoverishing the mAsses and putting the wealth of the country in the hands of a favored few. In view of the strikingly antagdnistic positions taken by the Democrats and Republicans, the sober sense of the country will uphold the ’Democrats. Nothing shows this more strongly than the following from an editorial in the Bankers’ Magazine: 44 No thoughtful person would question that the accumulation of inordinately great fortunes is a menace to American ideals and institutions. It means the creation of a parasitic class of endowed idlers, the concen-

tration of social and political power, the growth of demoralizing, luxury, i the passing of true Democracy and < the incitement social revolu- < tion. • * • { “The logical path of reform lies 1 in the direction of preventive rather I than curative remedies. The thing < to aim at is to prevent the accumula- < tion of large fortunes by extortionate . and corrupt methods, to make it im- < possible for any mail to amass great j wealth except by rendering propor- i tionately great service to society. This calls for the abolition of special ' privileges of all sorts which enable individuals and corporations to ex- i Pjloit the public. The props of mo- i riopoly must be knocked away, whethet be tariff favors, railway 1 re- < "bates, franchise grants or exclusive : control of coal fields, oil fields and other natural resources. Monopoly must be destroyed wherever it is not economically necessary and desirable, and controlled, where it is, as in the case of railways. When the available preventive remedies shall have been given a fair trial, then, if they be found ineffective, it will be time to consider plans to compel the dispersion of excessive accumulations by limiting the permissible amount of inheritances. “Meanwhile the development of the inheritance tax may well be left to the states, which are already moving rapidly in the extension of this form of taxation.” A SIMPLE TARIFF LESSON. The Republican party stands for a high protective tariff. In that party’s platform it is usually called a ‘sacred principle’ or something to that effect. But what is a protective tariff as put in operation by the Republican party ? It is merely a legal wall which ?. Republican congress has built around the United States to keep foreign goods from being brought into this country in competition with the trusts. This enables the trusts to fix their own prices on the products which they sell to the American people and which the American people must have. The wall shelters the trusts and gives them control of the home market It does not protect the American consumers, but it puts them at the mercy of the trusts. The McKinley wall was very high, but it was not high enough to suit the trusts which wanted to get more of the. people’s money and get it faster. So a Republican congress put the Dingky wall on the top of the Mc-

Kinley wall and made it so high that only a balloon ean get over it. Most American consumers don’t own balloons. Since the Dingley wall was built the trusts have grown enormously rich because they could make their prices almost as high as the wall. And the trusts did make the prices high and the cost of living has increased so much that the wage-earner and the salaried man can hardly make ends meet, although he work hard and long. He cannot save money and has to deny his family many things. The trusts keep on selling their goods to the American people inside the Dingley wall at the high prices, but in the pride of their great wealth they go abroad. The wall does not keep them from taking their goods with them, And so they take their goods and sell them to foreigners much cheaper than they sell them to their own countrymen and still make enormous profits. - ’ The Democratic party is making an attack on this wall which allows the trusts to do these things. The Republican party is defending it. Which party will the thinking man help! VERY SLIPPERY. Whether in 4 4 standing pat ’ ’ or 4 4 standing on their record,” or “standing by Roosevelt,” or standing for anything else for which congress is resp>rsible, he Republican, in this campaign will find very slippery footing. Perhaps no more omeageous and shameful firing was ever dole by a trust-ridden congress than the passage a few months ago of a bill to rob the Filipinos for the benefit of the American cotton goods manufacturers. The bill is infamous. It bears upon millions of the poorer Filipinos. It compels them to pay a tax 100 per cent on the cheap grade of cotton goods called 44 splits,” which they use for clothing and which has heretofore been supplied by English manufacturers. The purpose is, of course, to drive the English 44 splits” which American manufacturers do not make out of the market and compel the Filipinos, to buy American imports at such prices as the manufacturers fix. Charles H. Brent, bishop of the Episcopal church in the Philippines, writes in the Outlook that if the Filipinos had the spirit of the American colonists of 1776 they “would rise in revolt and cast every shred of American cotton into Manila bay. ’ ’ Further along in the article Bishop Brent jjays: “America’s profits on cotton textiles in the home market are so great that she can afford to carry her surplus to England and undersell her coffipetitors there. Not satisfied with this', she is now thrusting by fdree a fragment of this surplus on the poor Filipinos, after having tried to get control of the market by fair means and failed. ’ ’ This is a part of the 44 record” for which the Republicans will “stand pat.” The Filipinos are helpless, and robbing them in the manner shown is like stealing from a blind man. It is as brutal as clubbing a paralytic.

STARTLING TARIFF FIGURES. President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft made a pretty big bluff about buying supplies for the construction of the Panama canal in the cheapest market, basing their right to do so on the fact that the canal zone is outside of our tariff wall. Then the trusts got busy, at Washington and the Republican majority in both branches of congress forced upon the country a law compelling the canal commission to purchase its supplies- from American manufacturers whenever Khe prices of the latter were not unreasonable or extortionate. Within a 'week after the time that law received the president’s signature the Marylanc Steel Company was awarded the contact for two dredges at $362,000 each. A foreign concern offered to build them for $70,000 less, or over 10 per cent. At that rate in $10,000,000 worth of supplies, which would be purchased next year, American trusts will overcharge us $1,000,000, which, according to the majority in congress, will not be extortionate or unreasonable. The sale of American products in the canal zone next year will represent $1,000,000 of plunder.

But this is not all. Indeed, it is only a very small part according to the figures of Congressman Sullivan of Massachusetts. With the price paid by the government for the dredges in his mind, Mr. Sullivan says “The sales of American manufacturers to the people of the United States next year will surely be sixteen thousand millions, and will therefore at the same rate represent sixteen hundred millions of plunder.” Such figures as these are enormous, but it must be remembered that there are eighty millions of people in this country and that it takes a stupendous quantity of manufactured products to supply them. It is not any wonder that at such a rate the wealth of the country is rapidly being drawn into the hands of a few. We wonder if the standpat program for this campaign means that the Republican party is going to stand pat on the tax imposed by Congress on the cheap cotton goods used by the FiliA pinos. Will it slpnd pat on its failure to lower the duties on Philippine products! Is it to continue to oppose all efforts to get reciprocity treaties with other nations, and to antagonize the maximum and minimum tariff scheme? Seriously, we think it will it difficult to make the people see why the Standard Oil company, the steel trust, the lumber trust, the packers’ trust, and other great corporations and combinations should be allowed to levy taxes on the consumer. It will be difficult to convince men why the interest of the Gloucester fishermen should be permitted to stand in the way of reciprocity with. Canada and Newfoundland. The failure of our government to make any concessions to Germany—a country that is ready and willing to deal with us in entire fairness—may prove embarrassing.—lndianapolis News, Rep.

After speaking of the passage of the rate bill, the pure food bill and the meat inspection bill, the Philadelphia Record says: “Against the few good laws wrung from the fears of the majority in congress stands the record of their denial of freedom of trade to the Philippines; their refusal to put legal restraints upon political corruption and blackmail, and the extravagance with which they have swollen every budget of national apporpriation. But above all in this register of' delinquencies is the thralldom to the trusts that have not permitted a voice or a hand in congress or in the White House in response to the demands-for relief from the intolerable extortions by these. monopolies upon the masses of the people. Under the banner of tariff revision are united all Democrats and all who oppose government favoritism -to the few at the expense of the many; and under this sign alone will the Democrats of the nation and their allies overcome the party of the trusts in the coming election for congress. ”

It is announced from Washington i that Mr. Roosevelt’s postmaster gen- 1 eral,, George B. Cortelyou, has left i Washington for a two-months’ vaca- 1 tion. Mr. Cortelyou is not only postmaster general, but he is also Mr. Roosevelt’s chairman of the Republican national committee. It was as ■ chairman that he received and Used in the 1904 campaign contributions < from three New York insurance comi panies amounting to about $150,000. ( This money was stolen from the policy , holders of those companies ? by the men vrho were then managing them. There have been many demands for the return of this money, but Mr. Cortelyou went on his vacation with- ' out paying it back. Apparently he, does not mean to pay it back, though ' it rightfaly belongs to the widows and orphans of the mean who entrusted it to the insurance companies. _____ I When Farmer Matthews was governor of the state he received $5,000; per year and nothing for house rent, i Hanly gets SB,OOO and .SI,BOO for i house rent. Matthews’ secretary got ; SI,BOO per year; Hanly’s gets $2,400. ( Matthews’ clerk got $1,000; Hanly’s ' $1,200. Matthews’ messenger got $720; i Hanly’s SI,OOO. Matthews got along I

with $3,800 for a contingent fugd, while Hanly asked for $40,000 and got it. Matthews was a fie?ty fair kind of a man and went out of office respected by the people irrespective of party.—Columbia City Post. A man writes’to a New York paper denouncing the coffin trust as 4 4 the meanest, most contemptible and cowardly of all trusts.” He declares that he called President Roosevelt’s attentionto the iniquities of the coffin combine, but received “not a word or sign of recognition” from him. But there are many other trusts that the president has not noticed. He has made attacks —mostly verbal—upon a half dozen or so, but they are still doing business. While the tariff sugarplum is about, they will buzz around it. Congressman Cromer has done more real work since congress adjourned than he has done in the house in eight years. Facts are Cromer is “skeered” of Adair. He knows he has not represented the district as it should have been represnted and he fears to trust the popple. His main efforts : iiow are to get the big machine in the Eighth district in operation, but in November the silent ballots will proclaim the fact that the people of the Eighth district; are tired of a political boss.—Portland Sun. The Berne Witness proposes to issue a souvenir edition on September 4, that will embrace a complete and authentic history of Berne and its business enterprises—and they are many. Two hundred illustrated views are promised, and in all the Witness will do itself proud. It might -not be out bf place to add that the Witness has ever and always been several laps ahead, in the mad rush of progress.

A private letter printed in the Indianapolis, News - the other day : said that William J. Bryan has received in Europe such a reception as would be accorded to no other American except a President of the United States. Well, that ’s all right. They know over there, as w,e do here, that he is going to be President of the United States. Besides, they know that today, in the eyes of his own countrymen, Mr. Bryan is the greatest living American citizen, ...... • , ■ ’ w * ’■ * < ‘ Congressman Watson has been in Missouri making speeches for some of the “lame ducks” who want to return to congress. Mr- Watson realizes that he is a “lame duck” himself and will expect the favor to be returned. And since ex-State Republican Chairman Hernly blazed away at him with a charge of buckshot, he is lamer than before. The workingman who goes into politics will find that the principles ‘ti£ the Democratic party are what he is looking for. Too many workingmen have been voting the Republican ticket and therefore against their own interests. If the present movement leads to a change in this respect much good should result to the country. Surely it will not be forgotten that Mormon Apostle Smoot was still holding his seat in the senate when congress adjourned and will continue to draw his salary. The Mormon vote is more important to the Republicans than is the constitution of the United States, which Smoot holds subordinate to his ‘ ‘ apostolic ’ ’ oath. Candidate Shaw in his capacity as secretary of the treasury says that there are not enough $5 bills in cir- ' culation. A former illustrious Republican, Dorsey by name, once thought the same way about $2 bills, but, unlike Shaw, he supplied them himself by the trunkful. i A Republican paper at the end of a eulogy of Senator Hemenway, says that he “led the fight for the annual appropriation of $25,00Q to meet the traveling expenses of the president. ’ ’ i Well, that didn’t hurt the railroads. It is ohly the people who have to pay the bill. I

There -never' wag the least doubt that Speaker Cannon would stand pat. He is said to be worth $2,000,000, and you cannot convince a Republican politician who has accumulated that much money on a salary of $5,000 a year that anything is wrong. '■ '''‘■’•'l EAST AND WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY Ft Wayne A Springfield Line Busy, and in a Few Weeks More Laying of Steel Will be Finished. Those connected with the Fort Wayne & Springfield Railway Company are working overtime in pushing the line to completion. Steel has been laid beyond the county line, and the work in every way is progressing at a pace that indicates a railroad at no distant day. The machinery in the power house has been placed, and the work train is running, with due regularity. Those in charge scarcely take time to sleep the sleep of the just, and things in general are what you might say pushing. The Decktur promoters of the east and west line are still hard at work, but the right-of-way through Adams C’m iy is about This shows thorough and system-nlc labor upon the part of the Adams county promoters. When this line is completed it will traverse a territory that will greatly benefit Decatur. The Democrat is surprised that the business men of this city are apparently dead in their shells and are showing no spirit of interest in this electric line. It is worthy of better consideration.

The McCullough-Stilwell line from Muncie to Portland is to be extended to Celina, and right-of-way is now being taken. This will add greatly to the earning ability of the Fort Wayne & Springfield line, when they, too, reach Portland. The growth of electric lines is a wonder of the age, and will so continue for many years to come. Their feasibility and practicability are now recognized, beyond even the shadow of a doubt. Cars are now running on the Marion and Bluffton line between Marion and Van Buren, and in a few short weeks service will be established as far as Wprren. The travel though this section is heavy and the road will be a money maker from the start. This is decidedly a Bluffton enterprise, it having been both built and financed by Bluffton people. It is such an enterprise that shows what a small city - can -do - when they j get together. Every stockholder is bound to realize a handsome profit from his investment. THE PRICE OF OIL GOES DOWN Rockefller Must Pay for His Trip Abroad. ’’ ’ I John D. Rockefeller is hard up. He has just returned from a trip abroad. This accounts for the drop in the price of Standard oil market Saturday afternoon. Eastern oils, get the knife three cents a barrel while-Indiana oil fared a little better and was cut but two cents. Indiana oil is now quoted at ninety-one cents. Laying jokes aside the oil men figure that the necessity for the big pipe line from the Illinois fields to the Indana fields is the cause of the reduction. There is an over production in Illinois that was bound to make a reduction. The following schedule shows the prices prevailing in the various fields throughout the country : Tiona, $1.71; Pennsylvania, $1.61; Second Sand, $1.61; Corning, $1.13; Newcastle, $1.38; South Lima, 9.1 cents; North Lima, 96 cents; Indiana, ,91 cents; Cabel, $1.21; Somerset, 86 cents; Ragland, 60 cents. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Studabaker went to Decatur on the early train this morning, called there by the report of the serious condition of their grandson, Chester Baumgartner. He died half an hour before they arrived at his bedside.—Bluffton News. , Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the ' state board of health, declares that ’ much of the coffee, extracts and other food stuffs sold by some mail or--1 der houses to Indiana patrons is below the standard. Dr. Hurty examined a quantity of coffee and found it to be but one-half coffee, the remain- ■ der of the bulk being made up of ' chickory. and other ingredients, which ! although not injurious, are not coffee, I and are being represented as such.

HUNTING LAWS TO REMEMBER When * License is Necessary—Two ScMons Quoted. Numerous inquiries have been made about, the-time and conditions under which squirrel and wild doves can be shot. For the benefit of those who have been unable to obtain the information it is here set forth. To hunt outside your own township you must get a license which will cost sl. Application blanks for thesS licenses can be had for the asking. Squirrel can be shot after August 1. Wild doves can be shot between August 15 and October 1 and from November 10 to January 1. These birds are reported plentiful in all parts of the state. The squirrel law follows: Section 601. Whoever shoots or destroys, or pursues for the purpose of’ shooting or destroying, or has in his possession any wild squirrel from the first day of January of any year tothe first day of August of .the sameyear, shall, on conviction, be fined $lO for each squirrel so destroyed, pursued or had in his possession. , This regulation covers the shootingof wild doves: Section 600. Whoever shoots or destroyr. or pursues for the purpose, of shootuig or destroying, or has in his possession any wild dove at ary time ’r.:ii the first d < of J..;< -ary • f any y«a: to the fifte-a.i, dav of Aug-tsr. of the same year, and from thedfirst day of October of any year tothe tenth day of November of the same year, and who hunts, Shoots or destroys, or has in his possession, any rabbit from the first day of October* of any year to thd tenth day of November of the same year, shall, on conviction, be fined $lO for each wild dove'so shot or destroyed,,pursued or had in his possession; provided-that owners of nurseries shall have the right to give permission to others l to hunt with ferrets and kill rabbits at any time during the year on the premises used for nursery purposes. SEN. TILLMAN AT PENNVILLE ....... . '’J', He and Other Statesmen to be There August 27th. The people of Pennville are arranging to hold a. Mid-Summer. Farmers ’ Chautauqua, in the interest of the

People’s College, beginning Saturday, August 25, and lasting ten days, closing on the night of Sunday, September 2. During this time, a number of speakers of national tion will be presented to tire people. Among them is Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina, fork” fame, who will speak ontiSfenday, August 27. On the sahae day, Jesse M. LaFollette, of Indianapolis, will also-speak’ to the people. The executive committe, in charge of the arrangements for the affair, are now in. correspondence with a number of other leading men of the lecture platform; and additional engagements will be announced from time to time. Senator Hemenway off Indiana, will be present on one day of the Chautauqua, but the exact date has not yet been set. ARE HERE ON WEDDING TRIP Otis J. Dorwin the Groom, Now Holda Responsible Position in New York City. Otis J. Dorwin and s wife werelthe guests of C. J. Lutz and family, ing enroute to New York, their home. Mr. Dorwin formerly lived here, he being the eldest son of C. T. Dorwin, the photographer. For some time Otis has held the very responsible position of supervising engineer for the New York Telephone Company, of New York City, lie was married at Jackson, Tennesse,. last Thursday evening to' Miss Celeste Bray, of that city. Speaking of her, the Jackson Sun said: “Richly endowed with intellect and a musician, both vocal and instrumental, by her removal, Jackson loses one of her most attractive girls.” Mr. and Mrs.. Dorwin left Jackson the saute, evening for Lafayette, Ind., where : a reception was held in their honor.. They arrived here last evening and go to Delphos tonight. After .& short visit there, they will go to New York, where they will be at home..; after August 20th. A marriage license was issued toWilliam Ar Mosser, aged nineteen and Bessie M. Blaekamore, aged tweatwenty,. both of Geneva.