Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 11 March 1909 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ' MOXNISQ BY LEW G. ELL’NGHAM, Publisher. Ji— ' "• 1 ■ ■ -~~ l| UMPM TUB IM ADVAMOB. Enured at the post office at Becatua as Secan W'-. elau mall matter WFtCIAL PAPER OF ABAMI CO. IT 18 NOW PRESIDENT TAFT ’’ President Taft’s inaugural address appears elsewhere, and really It sounds better already. The words do not burn yet they contain a mild dignity that takes us back to the days of McKinley, perhaps not so classic, yet it will do. He will have time to improve, and likely when he gets Jiis hand in, his public documents will be entitled to a creditable place along side those of at least some of his predecessors. Some of Roosevelt’s should be laid away in asbestos for they fairly crackle yet, with the things he was going to do, but never did. There is nothing startling in the address of the now President Taft. It is an occasion fchen everybody is to receive his little jolly and look pleased, and if we mistake not, every one smiled, unless it was a Democrat who had hoped for better things from an American electorate last fall,when opportunity was offered them. But we will say nothing about what might have been. Simply live in the present, and show to President Taft that dignity and tolerance that! is due to every president of this great and mighty nation. Os course the inaugural address pointed with pride to the past achievements and greatness of our now Only ex-president — the ceremonies would not have been complete without it The “good and bad trusts” got theirs in humorous vein —and they smiled tfecatse they liked it. The revision of the tariff is but a business proposition, the lowering of some of the schedules that are excessively high, and' its revision is easy of accomplishment—in an inaugural address accepting the highest office within the gift of the peo- ‘ When President Taft runs ' counter to these same mighty but “good and bad trusts” then he will realize how easy it is to write an inaugural speech, and how infernal fickle some people are, when you happen to step on their toes. While we do not want to appear in the light of a pessimist, yet we cannot resist the opportunity of venturing the prediction that in a month or two from this day and date, President Taft will be a great deal wiser about tariff tinkering. The Panama canal and the lock system is all right, and for the present we wjll take the word of any one—even Teddy’s would have gone on that questron. The greatest jolly of the whole spectacular affair was given the south. Every one was looking, for it, and it came right on schedule, open and frank, but the play was there showing that the one ambition of the official life of President Taft is to break the political lines of the solid south. On the quiet, the Democrat does not care how soon the president makes good. While the south furnishes the bulk of the Democratic vote, yet they have been a millstone around the neck of the national Democracy for 10, these many years. They have no sympathy with the great Issues to which Democracy is wedded, and we really believe that President Taft would do the Democratic party a kindness, by nailing to his cross, success in tills undertaking. He, like all other presidents, is the only genuine friend that labor ever had —and as labor usually has to be shown and then can never see —there is little use to indulge in any campaign argument now. But the message is all right, and we wish for President Taft a successful administration and k pleasant J life at the white house. BOOSTING FOR fORT WAYNE Although tbe,peop!e of Adam* county voted Wy" by a majority, of over six com* mlsrioaecs at their BtefeW''M<m-“ day lilßllwtFly granted saloon

I licenses to quite a number of ap- I pllcants, thus. setting at naught tfie wishes of their constituents as expressed at the polls. The action wfcß a flagrant breach of trust and a willful perversion of official duty, for these commis- , sionere knew that they were combatting the Implied command of their masters, the people. The granting of these licenses after the election nullifies the issue for half its legal period, the applicants favored being able to i conduct their places for another year. Just how the voters of ( Adams county will view this official dereliction remains to be seen.—Fort Wayne News. Now isn’t that a fine conglomera- ( tion of misstatements, coming too, , from a newspaper that admits Itself, ! that it tells the truth. For the benefit of the News, we will say that the i licenses mentioned are good for ninety days. Under the county local option law, after a county votes dry all saloons i must quit business in ninety days—this is intended as a little legal information given without charge for the benefit of the editorial department of the Fort Wayne News. The commissioners instead of “combatting the command of their masters” served the people—and we might add, they served them well. The News is a high license whiskey newspaper for Allen county, but they are mighty dry for territory adjacent thereto. They want a monopoly on all the drink business and as a consequence they feet deeply grieved at those awful Adams county commissioners. There is no use talking, it is in the air, and the whole government secret srevice could not stop it Even Jay county registers over two thousand against the open saloon. It is time now for those who are blaming a few individuals for all this calamity tc gef in the band wagon and forget < it. 1 — The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette is champing the bit and protesting against this ’ probable colonization of a number of Adams county saloonkeepers along the Allen county line. They even go so far as to threaten the deadly remonstrance. Now fomes the Fort Wayne News and also protests against the Decatur saloonkeep- , ers being given ninety days, the time : allotted by law for the dicing out of this business after being voted out of it Thank goodness they have a few morals for Adams county, if they haven’t any for their own county. The Baltimore Sun calls attention to the fact that with the healthiest occupation in the world, farmers are not on the average longer lived than persons of sedentary habits. The cause is to be found, as the Sun sets forth, in the almost criminal carelessness of the average farmer. The conditions of his life are unsanitary. Pig pens, cow yards and wells or springs are in dangerous proximity. There are no properly arranged slop-drains. He is. reckless of the weather, going with wet clothing and wet feet Often he denies himself proper sleep; and his wife, worn out by hard work, through lack of proper conveniences and possibly ignorant of proper methods of cooking, aids in shortening the days of both. It is to change these conditions that the work of the Roosevelt commission was directed—South T Bend Times. There are some republican papers in this state that are disposed’ to criticise Senator Beveridge for ignoring the temperance question in his address to the republican editors recently at Indianapolis. At the timq the senator spoke the state senate was In the throes of the greatest battle of the session, and the issue was the existence or the repeal of the county option law. The republican platform and party in the state stood for county option. Senator Beveridge could have taken up the matter and spoken a word of encouragement io thp senators of his party without any Impropriety. But he side-stepped. Hd never mentioned the matter? ILest-campalgn many republican papers | that are silent aa to the silence ot

vere in condemning Marshall because he would not repudiate his party plat* form and take a stand on county option—an unreasonable and unfair demand. Senator Beveridge is looking ahead two years.—Columbia City Post The Democrats in the legislature made an honest effort to enact into law their campaign pledges, but an antagonistic senate would not permit them. The repeal of the metropolitan police law run the gauntlet and is now a law. It brings down to the people the government of their municipal affairs, and is a good law. Speaker Honan is one ot the best tlias has graced the speaker’s chair in the Indiana house for many a day. He is so acknowledged by all members of the house, irrespective of party or politics, and has made a record that will be a credit to him as long as he may live. That the Democratic party in Indiana has so few Tom Honans ig the only regret of the Democrat As a means of knocking out the saloons, the remonstrance plan is not in it with the secret ballot That is being demonstrated in every county where an election is held. The remonstrance law is practically relegated to “Innocuous desuetude,” as Grover Cleveland would put it That was what the democrats contended In the last campaign, and their position has been abundantly proven to be .City Post There may be person silly enough to regard circulation and free distribution as being synonymous terms, but such silliness is not lodged in the craniums of intelligent men and women at the desk or behind the counter. That preposterous pretense has lost its force, if it ever had any. Free distribution of a newspaper is one thing; bona fide circulation is quite another. And Barnum is dead.—South Bend Times. , v Now it is said that powerful influences will oppose confirmation .Jjt Charles W. Wilier as United States district attorney, and this brings td< mind the fact that the; Indiana Ret publicans are no nearer an adjustment of their internal dissentions? than they were when James Isii Wat; son was laid on the gubernatorial shelf last November. They have , a few more cat fights to settle accord* ing to Marquis of Queensbury rules; before they will be ready to dwell together in peace and harmony . The Logansport Chronicle says it. is now preffy certain that the big distillers are putting up most of the money for, the Anti-Saloon league, it has always been a mystery where the league got its inexhaustible fund. It has been known for a long time that the distillers were ardent supporters of the local option, for prohibition in Maine and Georgia had taught them “dr” territory was the best for their business, as it made whisky drinkers of beer drinkers. Governor Marshall has the sort of a stiff backbone we like to see, and we, dare say that every other taxpayer in the state likes it He held out to the last that he would veto the ap- : propriatlon bill if it would come to him with appropriations in . excess of what hd thought the current taxes would be. They cannot bluff the governor. Now that the time is here when the demand for spring goods is big, it is deemed appropriate and right that our readers be Informed relative to the opportunities afforded’ by Decatur merchants to those who contemplate purchases. There has pot been a time in years that snch large stocks and excellent assortments of spring shoes, hats, clothing, dry goods, etc., have been placed on the shelves of Decatur business houses, as is the case at the present time. The progressive Decatur merchants have simply outdone themselves in securing goods ot fashion and durability and the prices are right Those Anticipating purchases cannot afford to overlook the announdqments io the [ Democrat of the business men ot every Mae.

> 1 bers in both houses of the legislature -' from one party. The half-and-half • plan is a stupendous failure.—Coj lumbia City Post j The Democrats are to be congrat- ’ ulated for the last scoring they made > in the reduction of the general appro1 ’ priations for the current two. years, L and it means that Democratic major■l • t ' tty in the house saved the state much 1 in taxes. For that and their further > record of economy they deserve to be '' congratulated by the entire people of the state. Had the Democrats been to a majority in both branches a fur- ‘ ther decrease would have been made. 1 .■■.■■ mi ■in .1 THEHATCAMEBACK I >. * ■ '*■' 1 Miss Anna Boesse Secures Unpaid-for Prop- [ erty (WENT TO ROANOKE 1 ' ~.s Yesterday and Found Miss Bertha Nic1 odemus Miss Anna Boesse returned last evening from Roanoke bringing with her the fifteen dollar hat which was bought, but -not paid for, by Miss V Bertha Nicodemus, also the guitar case belonging to Mrs. L. A. Holthouse which the musician forgot to return before her sudden departure from the city Monday evening. Miss Boesse went to Fort Wayne yesterday morning and after satisfying herself that Miss Nicodemus was not there she proceeded to Roanoke, where she found the girl at her home. Miss Nicodemus saw the approach of the milliner and met her at the door. She tried to explain her mysterious departure with the statement that her mother was sick and she was asked , to hasten home, having not time to inform those to whom she was obit- ' gated. However, the mother seemed to be in the best of health when seen by Miss Boesse. Miss Nicodemus volntarily produced the hat and asked ' Mies Boesse if she would not deliver to the owner the guitar case she took with her. The musician wishes to convey the news to her creditore that 1 ,Bhe expects to pay them in the very ; near future, and it is hoped that she ■ Will fulfill her promise. Her board ( bill at the Closs boarding house has not been paid as yet, but she informed . Miss Boesse that she would send the money at once. ' $ I*. NEAR DEATH IN Bld POND* It was a thrilling experience to Mrs. Ida Soper to face death. “Foe years 1 a severe lung trouble gave me intense ; suffering,’ l she writes, “and severaltimes pearly caused my death. All remedies failed and doctors said I ’ was incurable. Then Dr. King's New ' Discovery brought quick relief and a qure so permanent that I have not been troubled in twelve years." Mts. Scper lives in Big Pond, Pa. It works wonders in Coughs and Colds, Sore Lungs, Whooping Cough, Hemorrh-. ages, Lagrippe, Asthma, and all Bronchial affections. 50c- and |I.OO. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by all druggists. e Many of the farmers are hauling tile tO; their farms to be ready to do what pitching may be necessary with the coming of spring. Attorney Frank Cottrell, of Berne, was in the city this morning transacting legal business and returned to his hpme this afternoon. Mts. Elizabeth Swartz and Mrs. J. A. Swartz, of Cralgville, arrived in the city this mprnlng to be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ptereson. Harold Wilcox will arrive in the city this week to remain for a week as the guest of his friends and relatives. Harold is doing well in the newsppaer field at St. Louts, Michigan, “a”most delightful musical entertainment will be given at the Bosse opera house next week unless present plana fall as a famous organization from Fort Wayne will be scheduled here. a\,, John Johns returned today from a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Peter Sbaefer at Willshire.

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