Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 30 May 1907 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT BVXBYTHURBDAYMOB.MING BY .<W G ELLINGHAM, PUBLISHED K.OOPBB YRAB IN ADVANCE. Eat wed at the poetofflce at Decatur, ladlana aa ■eoond-claee mall matter. OFFICIAL HKR OF ADAMS CIIIIY "WMHBHHRE!SE9MHSEBSBSBEE9SESESE9SB EDITORIALS FROM COMMONER. Senator Platt says he is sorry he ever boosted Roosevelt. If the senator Is sorry for all the things he has to be sorry for he has got a big job of sorrowing on hand. The Pennsylvania legislature has defeated the child labor bill,which was to be expected of a state that quietly submits to a $7,000,000 graft on a $6,000,000 building. Mr. Harriman has just manufactured $136,000,000 more of securities to sell to the public. This ought to be good for a pretty fair sized assessessment when Mr. Cortelyou starts ardund again. A Texas man is telling about a bass that seized and swallowed a rabbit that was trying to swim, across a Texas stream. Texas is a big state and produces big things. This has no reference to the size of either the bass or the rabbit. Perhaps that Indiana protest against the approval of Oklahoma’s constitution is based upon the fact that the constitution makes it rather difficult to use the Indiana method of campaigning with two-dollar bills and working them in “blocWof five.” The Lincoln Daily Star, republican, defends President Roosevelt’s letter to Honore Jaxon on the ground that the president, in referring to Moyer and Haywood as “undesirable citizens” t - referred only to men “whose innocence has not been established.” This seems to be another one of the fruits of the new dispensation. In the old days when the constitution and the flag went side by side, and this was a representative government instead of a colonial government, the rule was that men charged with crime should be deemed innocent until proved guilty. In other words it was up to the prosecution to prove guilt. Now, according to this Lincoln newspaper, a man must prove his innocence or go to the cell or the noose. Henry Watterson says that all the Democrats need for a platform is “Back to the Constitution.” Well, at any rate, that is good as far as it goes. The steel trust sells steel rails to the Japanese $lO a ton cheaper than it sells them in America. The steel trust made $160,000,000 net profit last This is the tax the Dingley tariff allows it to collect from the American people.

Not only does the steel trust sell 1 its rails $lO a ton cheaper to foreign- 1 ers than it sells them at home, but it gives the foreigners good fails. The rails sold in this country are defective in construction, break readily when used and kill American citizens. But then, the steel trust is a special pet of the Republican party, whose policies created it.» - - ’T I ' . * i ’-1 "98R59898HK98888 * A poll of the 5,000 members of the National Association of Manufactures showed that 55 per cent of them favored immediate revision of the tariff, 20 per cent expressed a “hands off” sentiment, 17 per cent were indifferent and 8 per cent believed that the time for revision had not arrived. On the strength of this poll the association at its convention in New York adopted a resolution for immediate tariff revision. But it won’t get it if its members vote for Republican congressmen, as most of them have. ; done Tor many years. - F- M. Cottrell, Fred Gerber, Joel Winteregg and Moritz Ehrsam were at Deeatur, Saturday, where the Gfeiler saloon, w.-ts sc Id at sheriff’s sale to Fred Gerber, who held a mortgage against the property. Mr. Ehrsam holds a leass on the saloon, however, for another year.—Berne n< ”’- > ..A, £. ... A. 1 ’

SOME MORE TARIFF ARGUMENT. It requires no very great political sagacity to enable one to see that the present tariff must be revised at an early day. In his declaration in favor of revision, Secretary Taft speaks not singularly, nor as a pioneer in the tariff. The majority of the American people, and the majority, as we firmly believe, of the Republican party, has long the time for revision has come. Republican New England is so strongly for a reduction of duties that here is actually reason to fear that some of the New England states will be lost to the Republican party unless the demand for revision is heeded. The same thing is true of the middle West and of the northwest. All over the country the people who are chiefly consumers, and who have felt the burden of high prices, are determined that duties shall be reduced. The manufacturers, who are handicapped, by the taxes raw materials, hold precisely the same views, as was proved by the declarations of the Manufacturers’ Association, that met last week. The railroad people, who are paying the steel trust several dollars more a ton for railg than the foreign consumer pays, can see no reason for continuing the present exorbitant tax on rails. The lumber trust, which is even now under investigation, is another beneficiary of our present system which deserves no consideration. The people are quite unable to understand why the steel trust, the copper syndicate, the lumber trust and the Standard Oil company should be protected any longer at their expense.— Indianapolis News. NO ACTION COULD BE TAKEN The Adams County Board May Be Mandated—Allen County Also Objects to a Joint Road. A joint session of the boards of commisioners of Wells and Alen counties was held today to take steps in the construction of pike road on the county lines. The meeting was brought about by petitions for the construction, under the new law, to gravel roads twelve miles long on the WellsAdams county line and thirteen and one-half miles long on the Wells-Al-len county line. Commissioners from both the adjoining counties came here decidedly opposed to the roads, but on the Allen county line road viewers were appointed, the time set for them to meet and the time set for their reporting, so some advance was made in this matter. But when the time for remonstration comes there will be a big remonstrance from the tax payers on the Allen county side, and the commissioners from that county only acted in conjunction with the Wells county board because the law specified they should. The viewers appointed were Elijah Huffman of this county, and ex-senator G. V. Kell, of Allen county. They meet June l and report June 22.

When the Wells-Adams line roads ' came up the commissioners of the vis- ’ iting county refused to act with the 1 Wells county board, on their attor- ’ ney’s advice, he stating that two or * possibly three of the Adams county 1 townships affected were already above ’ the taxing limit and the law forbade their issuing any more bonds. Local 1 attorneys appearing for Wells county people who want the roads, insisted that the present was hot the proper 1 time for determining the legality of the future bond issue, but that all that 1 was before the board today was the 1 appointment of viewers. 1 When the proper ’time comes, both 1 Allen and Adams give promise of 1 fighting the roads to a finish. 1 When the Adams county cottuiiqsioners refused to go into session with the Wells county commissioners there was nothing further to be done, and the next step on the part of the Wells county people who want the roads may be to ask for mandate against ' the Adams county board.—Stuff ton News. ——o— The public schools were practically closed today, the children being permitted to take their books home. They will be required to report, however tomorrow to take part in the G. A. R. parade, after which they will not be expected to return until Friday afternoon, then only to receive their reports. NOTICE TO OUR CUSTOMERS. pleased to “ounce that nnia ?? ney and Tar for coughs, b? d th<^N a H nS J r 2 18 not affected law m it Pure Food and Drug no opiates or other no r^ Ul drug8 ' and we recommend It ' Sults remedy tor and I THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

ALL ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE Oklahoma Democrats Defending in Public Print Their New Constitution. Washington, May 27. —The Washington Herald, speaking of the president’s visit to Indianapolis Thursday, says: “The president will deliver what is expected to be his most important and significant speech of the year. It is given out tentatively that he will utilize the opportunity to announce his matured attitude toward the growing anti-corporation movement While reiterating firmly his .well-known position on the phases of the subject with which he has dealt in his message to congress and in other ways, it is said that he will specialize to the extent of defining more accurately than he has thus far done the difference between himself and certain Republican governors and others on the question of legislation affecting public utilities. It is believed that he will particularize as to the Lafollette proposition for a valuation of railroad property, and also as to some of the more radical features of Governor Hughes” public utilities bill in New York. Washington, May 27. —Senator Hemenway was among the president’s callers. He went over with the chief executive the details of the arrangements for the visit to Indianapolis next Thursday. The senator expressed the hope that the Brownsville investigating committee would adjourn this evening until fall, and if it did he said he would leave immediately for Indianapolis. The senator will attend the Lawton monument dedication. Brig-Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the insular bureau, left today for Indianapolis. He will stop enroute at his old home in Cleveland for a day or two. General Edwards was Lawton’s chief of staff in the Philippines. Washington, May •27.- j -Charles J. Thompson, of the Democratic state committee, of Oklahoma, has prepared a statement defending the work of the constitutional convention. He was led to give out thia statement, after the committee from the new state, of which he is a member, failed to get any assurance from either the president or the attorney-general that they will approve the new constitution. o— ——— l. j FIVE PERIODS FORECASTED ■ —— ->! ' First One Opens June Second and the Others Come Every Few Days Thereafter. If Rev. Hicks knows about, the weather the menu for June is as follows: A regular storm period extends from the 2nd to the 7th. It will be accompanied by hail, wind, thunder and lightning with possible cyclones. A reactionary storm period is central on the 9th, 10th and 11th. This period will bring excessive warmth, very low barometer, abnormal humid-

ity and violent thunder, , aqd wind storms. June thunder clouds will break in hail storms and cloudbursts in many localities during this period. Third regular storm period will prove one of the most decided times of turmoil in June. It la cent*al on the 15th and will come to its culminating stage during Sunday the IGth, to Tuesday the 18th. Let* no one, under tny circumstances, take shelter under green trees during these vicious thunder storms in June. Look for an excess of lightning, some of which will be dangerous. A reactionary storm period falls centrally on the 20th, 21st and 22nd. Look for sudden and very decided rise of temperature, with ing fall of the barometer —beginning, of course, in western sections —followed quickly .by phenomenal lightning and thunder, with violent wind. in many localities. The fifth regular. storm period haff Its center on the 27th, reaching fronii the 25th to the 29th. Storm conditions will appear at the very beginning of this period, and solstice storms, of rain, wind and thunder will continue dally through the greater j?hrt of the same, especially over central to eastern parts of the country}. The probabilities are that the heaviest and most general rains in J uni Will fall during this closing period, of the/mon th. • o - CARD OF THANKS. • We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to the friends and neighbors of both Muncie and the home neighborhood of their kind assistance during the illness and death of our father. We also want to extend our thanks to the nurseq of the Portland hospital for their kind treatment to my father while in their care. Also for the kindness, shewn the famllya Also for the floral, offerings. C. C. Shepherd and family, • ■

THAT OKLAHOMA CONSTITUTION Change in Sentiment Toward it—President to be Guarded on His Indianapolis Trip. Washington, May 25.—Some of the Taft boomers here are disconcerted over the apparent willingness of the president since he returned from his outing 4n the woods of Virginia to smile on the various favorite son booms for the presidency. State Senator Flinn and Representative Barchfleld, of Pennsylvania, who called on the yesterday afternoon to tell him that the Pennsylvania state Republican convention will surely im * dorse the candidacy of Senator Knox, say the chief executive said to them that it would please him very much to see Knox become president The two men hurried back to Pennsylvania to spread the news. Today, however, word came from authentic sources that the White House attitude is that it is all right for Pennsylvania to stand f° r Knox, but that the administration will be disposed to interfere if the Pennsylvania Senator’s friends attempt to invade other states. Washington, May 25. —The Democratic members of the Oklahoma constitutional convention who have been here several days conferring with the attorney-general over the provisions of the new state’s constitution, have failed to get any assurances from the administration that a good word for the constitution will be spoken by either the president or the attorneygeneral, but they are preparing to return home feeling certain that the president will not in any way interfere with a free will expression on the constitution by the voters of the two territorities that are to form the new state. It is noteworthy that since officials of the administration have carefully studied the certified copies of the constitution which arrived here a few days ago, there has been a marked change in sentiment toward the document Washington, May 25.—The government secret service will take the usual precautions to guard the president during his trip to Indianapolis the middle of next week. Two men from the secret service will arrive in Indianapolis the first of the week and two men will accompany the chief executive throughout the trip as bodyguards. Two or three months ago the force of secret service men on duty about the president was cut down to one man, James Sloan, of Danville, 111., but additional men are always detailed for service when a long trip is to be taken or where large crowds are to be met. ’ o SAYS HIS PRIVATE SECRETARY Thinks He is the Right Man for the Democrats—St. Paul Wants the Convention. Spokane, Wash., May 25.—Frank A. Day, of St. Paul, private secretary to John A. Johnson, governor of Minnesota, and chairman of the state Democratic committee, announces in Spokane that his excellency would be a candidate for the presidency on the Democratic ticket if the nomln atlcn were tendered to him. He also said that St. Paul is in the race for the national Democratic convention. “Governor Johhson te measured for the presidency,” hd added, “and is a man Os force and actidn; he is one of the best campaigners the country has ever knoWn, and wherever there a Scandinavian’ lie <would be sure Os a' vote, no matter to what office he aspired dr what the poUtics of the' voter. He was re-elected’ by a of 73,000 last fall, when the’rest of the tftate ticket’ went Republican by 90,- - ' ■ : -S-- ■ Kj.,; -J ■■ .

Spokane, Wash,, May 25.—Thomas ( E. Brown and A. E. Johnson, of Spokane,' who fought with Gen. Robert E. Lqe during the civil war, will be decorated with the cross of hqnor by: Mildred E. Lee chapter of the’Daughters of the Confederacy, at a gathering of members of the 4,rmy of the liepublic and the United, Confederate Veterans in Spokane June 3. The presentation w,ill be made by Mrs. N. F. Brooks, president of the chapter. The chapter and the confederate veterans will also assist at the unveiling of a monument in memory of Union soldiers in Greenwood Cemetery on i Memorial Day, when the graves of those who wore the blue and the gray will b,e decorated with flowers. — o Kidney complaint kills more people than any other disease. This is due to the disease being so insidious that It gets a good hold on the system before it Is recognized. Foley’s Kidney pure Will prevent the development of fatal disease If taken in time. THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

DECATUR PEOPLE INTERESTED In Many of the Industries—the Paragould & Memphis Railroad is Being Extended. Charles Merryman sends us a copy of the Daily Soliphone, published at Paragould, Arkansas, which gives a column to the progressive little town of Cardwell, Mo. Several industries in which Decatur people are interested are mentioned, saying in part: Cardwell, Mo., our little neighbor across the St. Francis, seems to.be taking on new life and several new enterprises have opened up there lately that give evidence of doing much to develop that section of the country. The Cardwell Lumber Co., has just completed a fine new band mill which has a capacity of 50,000 feet per day, and the mill is said to be one of the best band saw mills in the souths The material is all of the most modern type, and its labor saving devices are of the very latest patterns. The mill employes a large number of people. The Cardwell Box Co., which manufactures egg, cases, is one of the largest concerns in this part of the country and employes about seventy-five men. Cardwell also has two large slack barrel factories, two cotton gins, and another saw mill besides the ones above mentioned, and It also has an up to date shingle mill. . The Paragould & Memphis railroad has just completed an eight mile spur which is headed towards Paragould. It has about all the work that three engines can do. The above mills use from 30 to 50 car loads of logs a day and keep the railroad busy getting the raw material ready for them. There is a great demand for labor at Cardwell and no excuse for any one being idle who wants to work. Wages are good. The P. & M. seems now to have money sufficient for the extension of its lines, and it is to be hoped that at no far distant day it will carry out its original intention of building into Paragould. Some three years ago Paragould donated a valuable site in the southern part of the city for this road, but as the time lapsed for the building of the road into Paragould, the donation was withdrawn. It takes a vast sum of money to construct a railroad and the promoters of this line were for a time hampered by a lack of means to prosecute the work of construction. The gentlemen at the head of the railroad are progressive and wideawake, and were sincere in their desire to build their line into Paragould at the time they solicited the donation, but failing to secure sufficient capital to prosecute the work, it had to be temporally abandoned. There is no doubt that the P. & M. will, within the next year or two, have a Paragould connection, and when such is the case, it will be a valuable adjunct to the prosperity of this town. The P. & M. is penetrating one of the finest timber and agricultural sections of this country, and when it reaches Paragould, it will open up a very fine trade for this town. Our citizens should keep an eye on the P. & M., and when it is ready to enter Paragould we are sure that the liberal spirit which has always characterized this town will be shown in a generous way to the company at the proper’ time. o THE COST OF HOUSE CLEANING Backache, Headache and Other Features Go With It. It costs a pretty sum to clean house now a days. The professional cleaner comes around at eight o’clock a. m., slowly moves the carpet,’ wanders out into the backyard with a fqperal-like stride and gently beats a tattoo on the dusty floor covering while he softly sings, “Swing low, sweet chaiot.” In the meantime, the good wife flies around and washes the breakfast dishes, cleans the windows, mops the floor, wipes off the .walls, puts polish on the furniture, then gets dinner. The afternoon is spent ip' slowly “replacing the’ carpet. The price is thirty to’forty cents an hour tor the cleaner; the wife gets the backache, the headache and .finally a doctor. You bow your anatomy over the desk or counter for • ten hours at so much per, get to pay the bills, eat on the sunny side of a ! back porch, and wish you were a Hottentot who never heard tell of house cleaning season.—Logansport Pharos.

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BENEVOLENT ORDER OF ELKS Which Meets at Lafayette on June sth and 6th—3,000 Visitors Are Expected. The Elks of Indiana will hold their state convention in this city on Jun* 5 and 6. The last convention was held at Peru and was a big affair. > This is the first time that Lafayette has had the honor of this order at a state convention, and. an effort will be made to make the visitors feel so much at home that they will be glad that this city was selected as the place of meeting. Purple and white, the colors of the order, will be conspicuous during theflrst week in June. It is expected that between 2,000 and 3,000 people will be in the city on the last day of the convention, and will either!| take part in the parade or will joist i the crowd from the city in watchingthe demonstration. It will be one of the largest state gatherings ever held in Lafayette. The folowing program has been announced: Wedhesday, June 5. —10:00 a .m. to 3 p. m.—Delegates present credentials and receive badges and tickets. 3:00 to 5:00 p. m.—Convention. 8:00 i p. m. —Exemplification of ritual. / Thursday, June 6.—9:30 a. m. to 12 \ m.—Convention finish work. 1:30 to 3:00 p. m. —Parade. 4:00 to 6:00 p. m. —Baseball game. 7:30 p. m.—Band contest. 9:30 p. m.—Dance. Prizes will be awarded as fololws: Parade. —The Hon. Wm. E. English, past grand exalted ruler, will act as grand marshal. Lodge having largest number of members in line—sso.oo. Lodge having the largest per cent of membership in line —$50.00. Lodge having handsomest uniform. — $50.00. Lodge having the most unique uni- | form —$50.00. No lodge can qualify for more than one prize. t Band contests—First prize (band to take part in parade, SIOO.OO. Second prize (band to take part in parade), $50.00. Baseball Game —Indianapolis Elks vs. South Bend Elks, prize, $50.00. Exemplification of Ritual —The state association offers prizes as follows: First prize—State banner. Second prize—$50.00. All visiting Elks and ladies will be ' required to register, when they will be' furnished with badges and tickets of admission to different attractions arranged for them. At 10 a. m. Thursday, street cars will be in waiting at the public square to convey all visiting ladies, who have registered and are in possession of badges and titekets, to the different / points of interest on the line of the Lafayette street railway. A committee composed of<4he wives of the members of No. 143 has been appointed to take charge of this part of the program. The headquarters of the ladies’ 1 committee and headquarters for all ’ visiting ladies will be the Progress club room, corner of Fourth and ' t Columbia streets. —Lafayette Mom-jf ing Journal. W o— - B ' DON’T DELAY •; 1 f I Taking th® First Step to Happi- ' nees. “I have personally known of scores of men in the East, where I have spent nineteen years in the pastorate, who have been fully cured and reformed by the wonderful Keeley sysREV. STEPHEN A. NORTHROP, tern.” D. D., Pastor First Baptist Church. If you are a victim of morphine or whisky, don’t delay taking the first step toward happiness. We cure you. Write to Dr. W. V. Daniels, manager the Marion Keeley Institute, Marion, <* Indiana. 7 ■ The Decatur Fertlzer company are sporting a n*# wagon to carry ta-the dead animal*-‘&at>they<qiße in their business. . Tfcs* Company ''was forced to put on this new wagon owing to the extra amount of business that has accumulated during the past several months the one wagon being unable to answer all the calls. This firm is doing an enormous bu and are finding a ready market for their . j produce. They are now in 3 position to answer all calls and if y OU h ave any dead animals, call tttia up by phone.