Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 23, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1908 — Page 4

THEDEMOCRAT KVEKYTHUUSDATMORXINS BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. K.OurBH YKA.B IN ADVANCE fourse »t tiw pofcWffi.'e M Dw-atur.lndlios M •eooaa-clana s»»ii natter. <■B="'.’ :n=r- vasTg OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. 1 TWO BAD BILLS If the emergency currency bill becomes a law, it will only do so through the votes of members of congress who believe it is a measure of political advantage. All our Indiana men in the lower house voted’ for it. We are given to understand that they have little or no confidence in its merits; but they do believe, no one can doubt, that it means votes for them at the November elections. On its merits, the final draft is a combination of two bad bills —Aldrich’s in the senate and Vreeland’s in the house. It has the support of no Democrats, sound though some of them are on currency reform, and is opposed on its passage by representative statesmen like Fowler of New Jersey and Hill of Connecticut. Much of its original plan has been amended out of it. It is patchwork and honeycomb. The principle of clearing house associations has been all shot to pieces, the reserve and interest features are entirely different from the original plan, and the securities requirement has been completely transformed. If there is any feature of the final bill that belonged with the original proposal, it is the idea that a so-called emergency currency, issued under the stress of impending panic, will allay the fear which it is unavoidably certain to suggest and to promote. What would be the effect upon Indianapolis, for example, if it were known that the banks had held an all-day Sunday conference and had decided to put out >1,000,000 of emergency notes? How many would by that action be reassured? How many, on the other hand, would by that action be scared into hoarding of funds? Does congress actually believe that the pouring of this special and unusual cur-

Tency into the circulation, confidence would be instilled into a people already alarmed or a people that had as yet no Indication of coming trouble? No, congress does not profess to believe anything of the sort. It frankly pronounces the measure a resort to “faith cure.’’ That is to say, congress believes that a thing that has no economic value will have a political value because the people will accept this emergency currency as a preventive and cure of panic. We would fain believe that our congressmen have done injustice to the popular intelligence. But our Indiana congressmen are not tyros in politics. Humiliating as the confession is, the conclusion is inescapable that congress offers a humbug measure to the people in full conviction that they will acclaim it as genuine and manifest a due and proportionate gratitude. And perhaps congress is right. Could it be truthfully said that econmic heresy or extravagant appropriations will mark a candidate for re-election or defeat? Is it the honest and fearless public servant who can count positively on re-election over a shifty and trimming office seeker, oily with the arts of popularity? The question is one not easily answered, but it may profitably from the occasion for heart searching on the part of voters who yield to impulses of “good fellowship” and specious appeals of demagogy Instead of acting upon solid convictions as to character of candidates and actual merits of humbug or pernicious legislation.—lndianapolis Star. AGAINST | PUBLICITY A Republican congress refuses to pass a bill requiring campaign contributions to be made public, but the people already know enough to understand how the Repuoiican party has been getting its big boodle funds in recent years. In 1836 millions were given by corporations to "beat Bryan.” The same things was true in 1900.

In the latter year, as Thomas F. Ryan has testified under oath, one corporation—the Metropolitan Street Railway company of New York—gave the Republicans >500,000. On the subject the | New York Evening Post (independent) > says: i “Since the last presidential election, i however, the damning evidence has i poured upon us in a torrent The i echoes of Mr. Roosevelt’s eloquent denial of Judge Parker’s charge as to campaign contributions from the cor'porations had hardly died away when the flood-gates were opened. First jcame the admission that each of the .three large life insurance companies had paid >50,000 to help elect Mr. I Roosevelt. Then the letters . between E .H. Harriman and President Roosevelt were published—‘we are (practical men’ —showing that the president had persuaded Mr. Ha •.Iman t > raise >260,000 late in Octo >er, 1904, for the obvious purpose of buying me votes in this state. And now comes this last addition to the list, ♦he Metropolitan street railway.” AS TO CAMPAIGN METHODS The Richmond Item, a Rep'ib’ican daily newspaper printed in the d.s trict which James E. Watson has represented in congress for several terms, severely criticises Mr. Watson’s campaign methods. It accuses him of unworthily using or attempting to use the fraternal and religion- octettes for his own personal benefit while at the same time seeking the aid of the liquor interests. The Item, among other things, says: “In his race for governor he used his church affiliations as a political asset, and at tie s.-.-ne time h" did n.u hesitate to naw terms with the liquor interests >f Evansclle. Terre I lane, Anderson -tn I Muncie whe-t hy he secured the de. :r t> j is from those localities.” Speaking of Mr. Marshall’s wellknown purpose to make a straightfor- « ward, open campaign on principles

the same paper says: “The attitude of Marshall who will not stoop to these means will immediately commend him to thousands of voters.” COMMENT ON CONGRESS Congress is greatly to be blamed for failing to pass the bill providing for publicity in the matter of campaign contributions. There should have been no question about this. The only explanation possible is that the Republican leaders wanted another chance to “fry the fat.” The record of congress on this subject is most discreditable. So, too, it is to be censured for failing to give the country any tariff legislation. Especially should it have repealed the duties on wood pulp and print paper. But with a campaign impending possibly this was toe much to expect. The failure to attack the paper trust through the tariff, and the failure to pass the publicity bill must be taken together as a proof that the friendship and support of the trusts and corporations are desired in the campaign. The failure to pass the bill creating a bureau of mines is another defeat tor the president. We think that whatever can be done by the general government to make mining more safe ought to be done. That congress was most extravagant every one knows. The appropriations for next year amount to more than a billion dollars, and this in face of an assured deficit this year of at least $60,000,000 and one for next year of probably $150,000,090. Possibly it is fair to say that the session was no worse than the average session that meets in a presidential year. There is little in it in which the Republican party can take pride. As we have said, its soundest action was wholly of a negative character. We doubt whether it has anything affirmative to its credit of any considerable value. —lndianapolis News. MARSHALL'S KEYNOTE SPEECH It has been charged against the Democratic party tn Indiana that its present candidate for governor was chosen by brewers in order to defeat

another candidate desired by the temperance forces. With this charge we have nothing now to do (for those who made it are accountable to the party and its candidate, not to us-, except to say that Mr. Marshall’s "keynote” address at Richmond last night stamps him as a man of ideals so pure and thought so elevated that such a charge against him should chiefly discredit those who gave >t utterance. If the brewers were and are for Marshall, they are for a good man. Mr. Marshall’s address must delight the judicious, if for no other reason than that is so far removed from the conventional compound of bombast, fury and abuse from which the typical political speech is assembled together. There is a modesty of spirit about it, a devotion to the finest things of life, and especially a clear and charming style which captivates the fancy and enchains the sympathy even when it fails to persuade the intellect. He is too absorbed with the historical imagination not to bring before us for fond recollection and useful admonition the grandeur of old Greece and the glory of old Rome; not to recall the great names and high principles that have adorned our own republic’s splendid history; not to urge upon us ail renewed consecration to those ideals of liberty and equality without which popular government must perish from the earth. It seems to us that if Mr. Marshall should be elected governor, there is not a right thinking or right principled citizen of Indiana but would rejoice that a man of such fiber and grace of character would sit for four years in the executive office of the state. —Indianapolis Star, Rep. It is but a short time since the death of Galusha A. Grow, who was speaker of the house of representatives from 1861 to 1863. There are now but two surviving ex-speakers of the lower house, J. Warren Keifer and John G; Carlisle. In all there have been 34 speakers since the establishment of the republic, including Jonathan Trumbull, Henry Clay, John Bell, James K. Polk, Robert C. Winthrop, Howard Cobb, Nathaniel P. Banks, Wan. Penninfeton, Schuyler Colfax, James G. Blaine, Michael C. Kerr, Samuel J. Randall, Charles F. Crisp, and Thomas B. Reed. Mr. Keifer was born in 1836 and was speaker from 1881 to 1883; Mr. Carlisle was born in 1835, and occupied the office from 1883 to 1889. Mr. Reed died in 1902. Mr. Crisp in 1896 and Mr. Henderson in 1906: There are three living ex-vice-presidents— Levi P. Morton, Theodore Roosevelt and Adiai E. Stevenson.

Good for Geneva! Now how long will Decatur remain a back number! —Berne Witness. Wonder what he means? A five-thousand-dollar touring car with a one-horse engine will make better time than a twenty-thousand-dollar business with a one-horse advertising policy. An advertisement in the Daily Democrat is as certain to produce results as the dropping of a lighted match in a powder barrel is to cause an explosion. Geneva, following in the footsteps of Portland, Hartford City. Montpelier, and other towns, to catch the antifever, has started after the saloons with an earnestness that means success in the undertaking. From all reports they made a new record in the work, securing a sufficient number of signatures to the remonstrance cards in one day. Nine European countries are represented in an international congress of the opponents of pornography—one word for licentious literature. The United States was not invited because its laws are already far in advance of those of Europe in prohibiting this soul-poisoning, debauching, suggestiveness to vice. The European movement is a healthy indication of the progress of reform in the world. North Caroiian was carried for prohibition Wednesday by a majority estimated at from 40,000 to 42,000. The

Prohibition ticket has carried seventy ' eight out of the mnety-eignt counties .by majorities approximating 48,500. 'The anti Prohibition ticket has twenty i counties by majorities approximating ■ 5,600. This calculation is partly based on estimates and the Prohibition leaders say it will reach 50,000. The elec- = tion passed off very quietly, no dis turbance of any moment being report- , ed. The total vote cast in the state . was about 175,000. There is a strong probability that the great railroad corporations of this country will undertake to make large bond issues for the purpose of refunding their outstanding obligations, constructing additional tracks, and otherwise enlarging and improving their respective lines. There is ; wisdom in this policy, provided the , water is squeezed out of their oid bonds. Thus refunded, the bonds of these corporations will not be subject to such fluctuations as have occurred in the past. When railroad bonds are based upon real value, they ought to be fully as good as national bank stock. Senator LaFollette certainly hasn't add“d to his reputation as a statesman by engaging in the herculean task of talking to 'death a measure that the majority of the sante is bent upon making a law. Whether the measure be “good, bad or indifferent” is not ths question in considering the Wisconsin senator's filibustering performance. The members of both houses of congress are intensely anxious to adjourn—but not until the emergency currency bill shall have been passed. For a sick man to stand in the way of all this may be heroic but it is very far from showing good judgment. —South Bend Times. It is unnecessary to discuss in detail the majority report of the house committee appointed to investigate the petition of the American Newspaper Publishers’ association to remove the tariff on wood pulp and print paper. The committee was named by Speaker Cannon to find

some sort of an excuse for not granting the petition, and did its work well enough to block any legislative interference with the paper trust’s protective schedules. The paper trust won easily, and the high price remains. It is asserted by men who know, that the paper trust clears sixty millions annually. A corporation that does that could put up a stiff fight against any change in tariff schedules. —Anderson Bulletin. EASY TO CURE CATARRH. Just Breathe in Hyomei, the Dry Air That Kills the Germs. You can do exactly what G. J. Sterers did by using Hyomei. Read this: “After having suffered from chronic catarrah for years, for which I tried va. rious remedies without success, I became almost discouraged. After reading about Hyomei, I decided to make one more effort to rid myself of the dread disease, and to my great delight I found the use of two bottles of the Inhalent sufficient to produce a complete cure. I now take pleasure in recommending this remedy to all sufferers from catarrh.”—G. J. Sterers, Crown City, Ohio. We don’t simply say Hyomei will cure catarrh, but we say that Holthouse Drug Co., the druggist guarantees it to cure catarrh, or money back. He doeg more, he guarantees it to cure asthma, bronchitis, hay fever, coughs and colds. A complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, costs only SI.OO and extra bottles if you afterwards need one, will ocst but 50 cents. Hyomei is a pleasant dry air treatment. You just breathe it in, and as it passes over the inflamed membrane, it kills the germs of catarrh, and allays all inflammation. o OPENS OSTEOPATH OFFICE HERE Dr. Homer E. Sowers Will Remain Here this Summer. Homer E. Sowers, who has been studying Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., has returned and will practice his profession with Dr. W. H. Johnston, asteopath of Fort Wayne, Ind., who has opened up an office in this city. Dr. Sowers will be here part of the time and in Fort Wayne the balance. Their office will be room 40, Murray Hotel. Dr. Johnston is a graduate of the American School of Osteopathy, where Dr. Sowers hag been in school for the last three years.

board met today □.—— Art Hall Will Be SealedOther Business Was Attended to In enthusiastic meeting of the board of directors of the Great Northern Indiana fair association was heid at Secretary A. A. Butler's office this morning and plans for a bigger and, better fair than ever in history were made. Nearly all of the sixteen members of the board were present and each took an active interest in the affairs. One of the principal things decided upon was an additional grandstand and George Brewster was appointed to secure plans for such an improvement and ijeport when the stand will be ordered constructed. This will join the present big grandstand on the north and will probably be 150 feet long. It was also decided to seal the Art Hall thus assuring protection for the merchants who exhibit their stock there. Several bills were allowed, and a general discussion as to just how to improve the entire fair program, including the races, free attractions and every other department and various committees were appointed. Secretary Butler left at noon for Fort Wayne, where he will attend a meeting of the secretaries from Paulding, Van Wert, Mercer and Adams county fairs to decide upon matters pertaining to the race circuit and of which the Great Northern are nowmembers. This years fair is to be a hummer all right. —o BOARD OF REVIEW Three Hundred Pages of Record Will Result from Business Done J. A. Fleming was appointed superintendent of construction of the Ahr macadam road, which was ordered constructed in Union township. His bond was approved and contract entered into.

Concrete floors were ordered in the coal room in the basement of the court house, and also a similar floor at the jail. An issue of bonds was ordered for the West Pleasant Mills extension one, the same to be in twenty semiannual payments. The contractor of the Monioe Township extension two road, is ordered to proceed with construction of the road, or the contract would be forfeited. A corrected report by the school board of Decatur was approved. Before adjourning the board signed bonds for the Ahr, Elzey, Bloomberg, and East Jefferson macadam roads. Bonds were also ordered issued for the West Pleasant Mills and J. F. Lachot roads. The board of review began their thirty days’ session in earnest this morning, and have turned the commissioners’ room into a place where the taxpayers of the county may appear and discuss the great subject of taxation. o THE BEST PILLS EVER SOLD. ■ After doctoring 15 years for chronic indigestion, and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as much good as Dr. King's New L.fe Pills. I consider them the best pills ever sold." writes B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside, N. C. Sold under guarantee at all dealers. 25c. —o— DeWitt's Little Early Risers, the famous little liver pills, are sold by B. Doolittle. o DeWitt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills are prompt and thorough and will in a very short time strengthen the weakened kidneys and allay troubles arising from inflammation of the bladder. They are recommended everywhere. Sold by B. Doolittle. o—— J Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup is the one that children like so well to take as it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. It is different from the others as it does not constipate, but on the other hand it acts gently yet freely on the bowels and thereby it drives the cold out of the system It is sold by B. Doolittle

Rickets. V Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones A are not forming rapidly enough. Q A Lack of nourishment is the cause. ❖ i Scoffs Emulsion nourishes baby’s « entire system- Stimulates and make* bone. Q Exactly what baby needs. J Q AU druggists, Ste. AMD SIAS jVI I

i! When year Watch Stops I I ;[ Ym auk* kt by thakiag it. 1 <» W ben the bowel* are ' | ! I constipated you can ' • < > V 3 / disturb them with ’ ’ < I I W cathartics but, ilk. ! | ' > the watch, they will 1 • ] ’ /<X.' V 4:7 DOt able to do ' ’ " ' 111 4\ theif a!loUed w °rk I I I ! V) VvT ) Until are Put 1 ' ~Vi J/I i ! * B, ° P ro Per condi- ' * ' 1 V» LA I I t ’ on to d° ft- ' > ! ! One . can »«t mend 1 » ' » til IN a do ‘ ivate prece of [ II /1 il' '' mechanism by vio- i I 1 [ ’" lent methods, and 11 I , no machine made by man is as fine ’ i > as the human body. J [ ' • The use of phis, salts, castor-oil 11 , , and strong cathartic medicines is ! | < > the violent method. The use of < > ' [ the herb tonic laxative, < ► Lane’s Family Medicine I ; is the method adopted by intelli- | [ < > gent people. i > • ■ Headache, backache, indigestion, ' ‘ ( ! constipation, skin diseases—all are | | < ’ benefited immediately by the use ' • ] ' of this medicine. 1 > , , Druggists sell it at 25c. and 50c. 11

BONDS ORDERED Road and Ditches Constituted Principal Business of Term Bonds were ordered issued and Jerry Archbold was appointed superinte. dent of construction of the J. F. Lacbot macadam road in Root townshiu. The petition for the John Berning drain was round correct and was approved. William Grote and 'William Ellerding were appointed viewers on the Butcher macadam road in Kirkland township, and they were ordered to meet at the auditor’s office June 5, to qualify. The William H. Laughrey ditch viewers report filed. Cause continued for hearing. The viewers report on the Washing-ton-Kirkland township line road, was approved add the same ordered sold July 6. The board ordered Clerk Haefling to collect fees due the officers of this county by the counties surrounding. The report including assessments on the William Randenbush petition for drain was approved, and the drain ordered constructed. The board instructed the auditor to advertise for eight cars of coal, specifications giving detail of this purchase being on file at the auditor's office. Plans and specifications fpr two iron bridges, one located on township line between Monroe and Jefferson townships, the other in Blue Creek township, and also a sewer in Root township were approved by the board. o There is one fish in the 'Wabash which Dr. Phillip Monroe would like especially well to catch, particularly if the fish is still in possession of a fine gold tooth which it purloined from the dentist. Dr. Monroe was here from Markle Sunday and told the story of the fish with the gold tooth. Some time ago Frank Chalfant was visiting at Markle with Dr. Monroe and as they needed an extra sinker on one of the lines and nothing else was convenient Dr. Monroe took a gold tooth from his pocket and fastened it onto the line. The tackle proved so attractive that a big fish took hold soon, in fact he was so large that when an effort was made to land him the line snapped and the fish got away carrying wtih him the hook and a section of the line on which was the gold tooth. The doctor has not much hope of recovering the toe ’1 which is worth >5.90. —Bluffton News. Q Mother Gray’s Sweet Powders for for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in th e Children’s Home in New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 10,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all Druggists. 25c. Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leßoy, N. Y.