Decatur Democrat, Volume 50, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1906 — Page 7

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DEMOCRATIC Ll! PAYS STITS DEBT If a political party could be prosecuted criminally for trying to obtain votea under false pretenses, the Republican party of Indiana would be indictable for the following plank in its platform of April 12, 1906: “A Republican administration means a reduction of the public debt. The present administration has reduced the debt $407,000, and during the last twelve years of Republican control of state affairs the state debt has been reduced from $7,512,165.12 to $1,289,615.12. The foreign debt of the state is now only SBOO,OOO. The option to pay this debt does not accrue until 1910, and the debt does not become due until 1915. By reason of Republican business management we will be able to pay and cancel all of the bonded indebtedness of the state that can ever be paid the date the option to pay matures, and five years before it is due, without adding a mill to the state tax levy.” And also for this statement in the Republican Handbook fcr 1906: “When the Republican party succeeded to the control of the state finance board and of both branches of the legislature in 1895, a control which it has maintained continuously to this day, the state debt was $7,520,615.12. During the period of eleven years which has succeeded, not only have the interest charges been promptly met and provision made for normal state expenditures, but the state debt has been reduced $6,715,615.12, or to $805,615.12.” This is misleading in all its statements and flatly false in all its propositions, for “by reason of Republican business management” the debt-paying has been advanced, as well as in its conclusion that “the state debt has been reduced $6,715,615.12, or to $805,615.12.” The state debt has not been reduced to that extent, and it now amounts to $1,289,615.12 as stated in the first part of the plank above. The first start toward the payment of the state debt was made by the Democratic legislature in 1889. At that time the state debt had reached the amount of $8,540,615.12, and owing to high interest and small revenues, the state was borrowing money to pay interest. At that time the state was custodian of the public school fund, amounting to $3,904,783, and was paying 6 per cent interest, or $234,289.99 annually on this debt. In his message to the legislature of January 11, 1889, Governor Gray recommended that this debt be funded at 3 per cent and the money distributed to the several counties pro rata, to be loaned at 6 per cent interest. He said. “This would not reduce the revenues to the school fund, and would furnish a large amount of money to be loaned to the people at a fair rate of interest. The borrower would then pay the ipterest on the school fund instead of the taxpayers of the state, and the state save on account of interest $117,143.50 each year, a sum greater than the entire expenses of a regular session of the general assembly. For the final extinguishment of the state debt, a tax of two cents on each one hundred dollars should be levied and collected, which tax when collected should constitute a public debt sinking fund to be applied In payment of the public debt under such directions as may be prescribed by law.** In his inaugural address of January 14, 1889, Governor Hovey did not mention state finances, but the legislature adopted Governor Gray’s recommendation, and by the act of March 8, 1889, provided for the issue of $3,905,000 of 3 per cent bonds, and the distribution of the fund to the counties, as recommended. It did not act on the recommendation for a sinking fund tax, because it was felt that the tax law should be first revised, and that the subject should be carefully studied before action was taken. In his message to the Democratic legislature of 1891, Governor Hovey gave a statement of the state’s financial condition and the need of some remedy, closing with the words, “Gentlemen, the problem is in your hands, and I trust you may find away to solve it by just legislation.” The legislature responded by passing the tax law of 1891, which was opposed by Republican members and bitterly assailed by the Republican party in the next campaign. The Republican state convention held June 28, 1892, was presided over by Charles W. Fairbanks. Mr. Fairbanks was then a private citizen, but he was a corporation man, a railroad lawyer, and was planning to break into the United States senate at the first opportunity. He was indignant about the new tax law, and in his speech to the convention said: “The people of Indiana expect us to relieve them from the cruel and unjust burefons imposed upon them by the Democratic tax law. » * • The present odloua tax law i» a Democratic measure, passed to rescue the financial credit of the state. • • • 1 misinterpret the eigna of the times if the people do not repudiate the f«w and the Democratic party at about one and the same time In November next. • • • How long will the patient people endure these things? How long will they elect Democratic members of the legislature who do not possess the discriminating ability to place the financial affaire of the state on a broad and conservative basis and who will not mere carefully legislate in the Interest of the people? • • * There Is one way to cure the tax law, and that is to radically revise It. The Inequalities can be effectually removed In that way. The platform adopted at the same convention said: “We arraign the Democratic party for enacting an unequal and unjust tax law. V/e demand Its radical revision.” But it was made plain to the people that the new‘law made a great advance toward equality in taxation; that it Increased the taxes actually paid by the great corporations more thah $1,000,000 a year; and that Republican local officials, in an effort to make the law odious, had unnecessarily .increased local taxes. The people indorsed the law in the election, and it stood the test of assault by the corporations in the Supreme Court of the United States. It has been ■widely followed in other states. v ’ Under the new tax law there was but one increase of the debt, ,lt being necessary to borrow $300,000 because no tax could be collected under the new law for more than a year aftefi its passaga But that was not reducing the debt, and in his first report, ol December X 1892, Slate Atifitor Henderson saidi “The aggregate public debt of the state is sß,Bßo,fiiatt, on which the annual interest is $286,025. We should now begin seriously and earnestly the arduous work of debt paying, before the credit of the state becomes Impaired through failure to promptly meet our obligations upon' maturity. I am thoroughly convinced that the only certain plan for the extinguishment of the public debt lies in a sinking fund. A tax of four cents on the hundred dollars would yield $500,000 per annum, and fit tM» rate the public debt could be entirely wiped out in seventeen years. I altfO suggest, in this connection, that the state finance board be authorized to apply such balances as may exist in the general fund of the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, to assist in the liquidation of the bonded indebtedness as it shall become due.” Governor Matthews indorsed this proposal in his inaugural address of January 9, 1898, saying: “K is not indispensable that the public debt should be paid immediately. It was created largely for public buildings and necessities, of which other generations as well as the present will have the benefit, and can justly afford, in part at least, to pay. The debt is drawing but 3 per cent interact, it ■would cost the people 7 or 8 per cent to borrow ..the money to p)r theiaxes necessary to its immediate extinguishment. It is not a large debt for ruch a state, and its payment is not being pressed. Provision for its gradual reduction and ultimate payment would be quite sufficient. But steps toward this end should not be overlooked and neglected. The surest way to accomplish a reduction year by year in such a debt would be the creation of a winking fund to be used solely for that purpose, and to be applied as rapidly as accumulated.” These recommendations were adopted, and by the act of March 1, 1893, a sinking fund tax of 3 cents was imposed; and it was provided that unappropriated balances in the general fund might be applied to the payment of the state debt. The effect of this legislation is best seen in the figures from the annual reporta of the state auditors, for the state debt, the annual interest j .■; ' - I.

■•■ ■ — OUT of THE SHADOW'S By Fannie Heaslip Lea ; Copyrtpht, by Rvlru Douglas • ■ ■ » »*■ •»■•* *« —8 In the gentle current of Miss Sarah’s life by far the wildest eddies were Paola’s love affairs. Miss Sarah had never had a lover herself—she had always been too busy taking care of Paola, who was the younger sister, a slim, pale creature, with vivid eyes and a bead that habitually drooped a little as though weighted by its own gold hair and a sense of languorous melancholy. Beside Miss Sarah’s old time courtesies Paola was as an orchid to a pansy, but underneath the melancholy was a certain irresponsible deviltry, a certain intangible witchery, that brought the most eligible youths of the neighborhood in suppliance to her feet and filled Miss Sarah with unceasing wonder and amazement. Whenever a new victim appeared upon the scene Miss Sarah thrilled with apprehension. As he was friendly, she approved of him; as he was more conspicuously attentive, she watched for him; then in gentle perplexity that never vanished with added experience she saw him hover, advance, retreat, hover again and plunge. When the little comedy was played out she took up her knitting with a sigh of relief, opened her volume of Felicia Hernans at the purple bookmark and prepared to rest before another siege. Paola herself slipped from one emotional cataclysm to another, as the slender moou from cloud to cloud. They veiled her vivid calm for a moment. but she always emerged unfettered on tile other side. She had been wearing Francis Lockwood’s roses for a month, when Miss Sarah one night, after three gentle calls unanswered, stepped through the long French window on to the moonlit veranda with a crimson scarf in her hand. The June night called for no such guard against its close, sweet warmth, but on the subject of damp and dew .Miss Sarah was inflexible. “Paola,” she said anxiously, then, since there was no Paola in ail the ■ D, SARAH DREW BACK INTO THE SHADE OV THE GREAT OAK. shadow dappled length of the veranda, raised her voice a little and called again, "Paola, dear!” A mocking bird In the cedar by the gate gurgled a liquid impertinence that ended In’.a .low call to his mate, but the rest was silence, Miss Sarah looked across the lawn, then down at her feet. "Paola must have this scarf,” she Jtfiid ,to herself sternly, “and I suppose she is sitting on the bench by the Black Prince—the most imprudent child!” That the Black Prince was a beloved rosebush saved Miss Sarah’s remarks from their apparent impropriety, and, mindful of her steps, she hurried into the path that led to the Black Prince’s domains across the lawn. The moon burned white above her in a cloudless sky, and Miss Sarah responded delicately to the influence of the hour. A faint fragrant dream, with boyish eyes, called to her as she went slowly down the path, and young faces swam mistily in her memory as if they had drifted there with the smell of the box in the hedge. She thought of the night her mother died, another June; of a flowered gown She bad worn the day she was sixteen, of a poem, something about daffodils, or was it roses? “Tthe love that came with the daffodils and went away with the roses’— tfeAt was It,” said Miss Sarah, with a Ifttle sigh of satisfaction, “only the daffodils come back with the spring and every summer there are roses, so I really don’t see the sense of that. Those love. songs are nearly ; always rathet silly.” She stopped to thrust back the daring sweetness of a yellow banksia. “The garden is very sweet tonight,” said Miss Sarah to herself, “and God walked in the cool of the garden. I wonder was it like this.” She paused on the edge of the Black Prince kingdom, where It lay half in shadow, and lifted her eyes to the moon. “Oh, dear!” said Miss Sarah, almost aloud, “what a beautiful night it is,” which was Miss Sarah’s way of satiny

I that the world was very good and she was happy. Then she lifted her skirts a little higher and sped into the heart of the rose garden. Paola was sitting on the bench by the Black Prince—Miss Sarah saw that at once—and beside her was young Lock wood, as Miss Sarah had also foreseen, and Paola’s head was thrown back, and one of Paola’s slim white arms lay like a shimmer of moonlight along the back of the bench. “Positively inviting rheumatism,” murmured Miss Sarah miserably. She was within a few feet of them and a call trembled on her lips, when Paola’s own voice stopped her. "Go on,” said Paola in a soft, hurried whisper, and Miss Sarah by some queer Instinct drew back into the shade of the great oak behind the bench, fearful lest an incautious movement would betray her, fearful almost of her own breathing, for Miss Sarah was learned in the ways of Paola’s suitors, and it was one of her best learned lessons never to interrupt them. So she drew back and waited, Innocent of any desire to eavesdrop. “Go on,” said Paola again, and young Lockwood’s voice came out of the deeper shadow, low and vibrant and rhythmic. Miss Sarah leaned closer instinctively to hear the words; they escaped her at first, then echoed clearer: "Remember how when first we met we stood, Stung with immortal recollections, O fact, immured beside a fiery sea That leaned down at dead midnight to bo kissed 1 O beauty folded up in forests old, Thou wast the lovely quest of Arthur's knights; Thy armour glimmered in a gloom of green. Did I not sing to thee in Babylon? Or did we set a sail in Carthage bay? Were thine eyes strange? Did I not know thy voice? AU ghostly grew the sun, unreal the air Then when we kissed.” The last word quivered sentient on the air, and Miss Sarah trembled with a strange fear of it. Her fingers found the rough bark of the tree and ciuhg; she waited, hungered, for the rest, but young Lockwood’s voice broke from the beat of verse into uneven words: "Paola, my beautiful, it is our story.” "It Is the story of Paola and Francesca,” said the girl dreamily. “Paola and Francesca — Paola and Francis —what does it matter? ‘Were thine eyes strange? Did I not know thy voice?’ ” Miss Sarah, dizzied and enwrapt by she knew not what roseate mist, saw. the white grace of Paola waver and lean to the shadow and heard a few moments of magical silence, the whisper, tender, exultant: \ "And In the book they read no. more that day.” Miss Sarah felt her way back to the path with unnecessary care. If her light footsteps had been the crash of brasses they would not have reached the two by the Black Prince, but Miss Sarah did not know it. She hurried along between the roses, catching her breatfr in little gasps as She went, and the wraiths of lost years swarmed around her, stinging her to wild, indefinite regret. She passed through the moonlight and up the steps, through the open window, and caught up her neglected knitting with a pathetic de* sire for things tangible and commonplace. SJie opened the volume of Felicia Homaps at the purple bookmark, but without knowledge of a line. “I never knew what It was like!” she said pitifully td’hqraelf. "I wish I had known.” The magic of the moonlit gar. den swept over her again, and the music of the lover’s vetse murmured in her ears. Miss Sarah trembled with a vague, unhappy longing for the things that she had never known—the things that yrere the inheritance of Paola, her sister, yet had never been hers. Beyond |he wflpdow the garden lay vast find wondqrful beneath the moon, to het a land,whert> life ran in strange currents between banks of enchanted blossoms. Suddenly and without warning a tear slipped down Miss Sarah’s cheek and Splashed upon the purple bookmark. Another followed it and yet another! then Miss Sarah drew herself together and shut between the leaves of Felicia - Hernans poems her one belated vision of romance. “And in the book they ; read no more that day,” she said to herself; with a sad little sigh. Then she took up her knitting again to wait for Paola. j — 1 A Roland For Hla Oliver. He was very practical, and in order to have everything fair and square beforehand he said: < "You know, darling, I promised my ; mother that my wife should be a good • housekeeper and a domestic woman. ' Can you make good bread? That is , the fundamental principle of all housekeeping.” i "Yes; I went into a bakery and learn- j ed how to make all kinds of bread.”; She adijed under her breath, “Maybe.” > "And can you do your own dressmak- j Ing? I am comparatively a poor man, i lore, and dressmakers’ bills would soon j bankrupt me.” “ “Yes,” she said frankly, “I can make everything I wear, especially bonnets.” “You are a jeyrel!” b e cried, with enthusiasm. “Como to. pay arms”— “Wait a minute; there’s no hurry,” she said coolly. % turn to ask a few questions. Cqn you carry up coal and light the fire of a morning?” "Why, my love, the servant would do that” "Can you make your, coat, trousers and other wearing apparel?” “But that isn’t to the purpose.” “Can .you bpjld a hquse, scrub floors, beat carpets, sweep chimneys”-— “I am rot a professional.” "Neither am I. It has taken most of my life to acquire the education and accomplishments that attach you to me. But as soon as I have learned all the professions you speak of I will send yo“ my card. Au revoir!” And ■he swept away.—London Tit-Bits.