Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 15 April 1909 — Page 4

W— ———www I i? » THE DEMOCRAT samsa i,„ j ,-x.un. il. i 1 BVMYTKnRSDAY MOXKIMB BY LEW «. ELL'NGHAM, Publisher, wi ", ' ' ■ ' = <I.»PM YBAB IN ADVAMOB. ■and at the 9«t office at class mail matter ■■■■■aMaimmßESxasacaamamimmaamßß official paper of adamb co. BREAKING THE PARTY TRACES f Party creeds and discipline are losing force as far as the ’tariff is concerned. On the vote in the house last Friday on the proposition to put lumher on the free list, Democrats from ten southern states were, recorded in the negative. The Mills and the Wilson bills, which provided for free lumber, met with no opposition from southern Democrats on that score. This year thirty-seven voted for protection for lumber and carried the day. In 1894 free lumber had no Republlcan frieiias in congress. This year it has fifty-six in the house, forty-two of them from the group of states made up of Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Forgetful of party lines for the moment, they voted with the majority of the Democrats to overrule the committee bn ways and means. That would have been treason once, but is not now. Their votes will not hurt them with their constituents. Some of these southern Democrats may say that they voted as they did In order to get revenue from lumber. Ail of them were Influenced by the great development of the lumbering business in the south during the last fifteen years. They turned a willing ear to the statements of men engaged in the business that they must have protection or they would perish. They are as .ready to vote it as representatives from northwestern states were before those states had been practically stripped of white pine. The Democrats who refused to follow Champ Clark represented the lumbermen of their states. The Republicans who brake away .from Chairman Payne represented the lumber consumers of their states. Straight party voting on tariff questions Is going out of fashion and tariff legislation is becoming more uncertain than it was in the days when party discipline was strict —Chicago Tribune. o - • J—P— —Bi > BELIEVES ■ l ■ THAT THE TARIFF IS A TAX Replying to a letter from E. C. Atkins & Co., of Indianapolis, concerning the Payne tariff bill, Charles A. Korbly, representative in congress from the Indianapolis district has written a letter of which the following Is a part: “Allow me to say that I am not a protectionist in any sense of the word and that I made my campaign by declaring myself on this question with all the insistence and energy I could use. I note with considerable interest what you say concerning the price of saws and the changes that will be made necessary if the rates in the Payne bill are adopted. * “I am not one of those who believe that wealth flows from legislation or wise administration. I believe that legislaton can, and in truth does, interfere with prosperity, but cannot create prosperiy. I believe that the tariff is a tax. I believe that taxation is a burden, but that it is a necessary evil; that it is never a blessing, no matter what its guise, and that tire measure of the Justice of a tax is the equality of its burden and the needs of the government, economically administered. “I believe, therefore, that the tariff la excusable as a revenue producer, but not otherwise. To levy a tariff for any other purpose is a violation of the rights of property and the natural rights of man, which rights the government cannot give and cannot take away.’’ The parents of Indiana school children are deeply interested in the matter of text books now under consideration by the State Board of Education. An army of 'school book agents has been eamped napolis for weeks. Most of ifce men

composing this army want the books now in use changed and those they represent substituted. During the recent meeting of the two state teachers’ associations these men were strongly in evidence and they lost no opportunity to Impress upon the teachers the very great importance of changing the text books, doubtless hoping that the teachers, if convinced, would in turn Impress the same idea upon the State Board of Education. The Indianapolis Star is happy once more. They are covering much space in illustrating the fact—which is not a fact—that gambling la being permitted at the Taggart French Lick hotels. The gambling unearthed there by a Muncie preacher was confined to the Colonial and Brown hotels, and while the Star should have told the truth, yet that would be asking a good deal of the Star. Some jof the metropolitan newspaper correspondents from Indiana already profess to see signs that lead them to the belief that the Democrats of the state are much better groomed for another political battle than are the Republicans. To add to the nightmares of the Republicans as sponsor of county option, comes the double duplicity of only pretended revision in the Payne tariff bill. While Senator Shively, of Indiana, is new to many of the staid old practices of the senate, yet when it comes to the tariff he is perhaps better posted and better equipped for debate than is many of the oldtime senators. We venture the prediction now that the senate will hate to 'reckon with the Junior senator fore a tariff law is assured. At any rate there will be no jokers not accounted for. Rev. Davidson, the Washington, Indiana, preacher, who made a great pretqnse of preaching the gospeT and at the same time betrayed a crippled 1 girl, has fled. Besides being a base hypocrite he is a libertine, and as such, the cloth should not shield him from the penalties of the law. There is too much high stepping under the sanctity of the shoulder capes, and it is time to pass up the white wash for a. little tar. The newspapers and a few of the country's statesmen have discovered that there is a joker in the Payne tariff bill that passed the lower house of congress, and that instead of having free crude oil it is protected th the extent of a twenty per cent duty. We will be mighty thankful if there are no more jokers. The fact of the matter is the whole Payne bilfis about the greatest joke that ever happened, when considered alongside of the Republican promise of a revision of the tariff—downward. The revision downward is another joker. ■H9KSESEHSSBSJESBHJSP One of the most regrettable features of the present tariff deliberation is the probability of tariff duties on lumber being retained, in one form or another. If there is any one commodity that ought to be placed on the free list it is lumber. We have just entered upon a movement to conserve what is left of American forestry. Wholly inconsistent with this is any duty on lumber, hard or soft, planed or in the rough. There is absolutely no argument in favor of a lumber duty. Every word uttered in Its favor is based upon selfish Interest and greed—as against the general good. —South Bend Times. i The fight over the tariff bill has now i been transferred to the senate. Indiana will likely be conspicuous in the debates, as it is announced that Sena- ’ tor Beveridge is going to be active on , the Republican side and it is known ! that Senator Shively will uphold the t Democratic view with great ability I and enthusiasm. Senator Shively has mastered the tariff question as few > men have. During the last campaign the tariff speeches made by him and John W. Kern were model expositions 1 of the Democratic party’s position. » —m——ps James E. Watson still insists that ■ he ig coming back to Indiana : practice law. He has served long;; faithfully and well and been a pretty i good cookoo to Speaker Cannon, That

is all, though. Just a plain cookoo. Jt will not hurt any in the practice of taw, but if James still has the itch to break into the governor’s office, his record will be a greater nightmare than local option with the county as the designated unit. .... . Managers of newspapers should permit the idea to penetrate their heads that distribution does not mean bona fide circulation; that paid circulation alone is of value to advertisers, and that papers thrust upon persons who to pay fgr the same are in fact handbills, Instead of newspapers. Humbugging the public has its limitations.—South Bend Times. The women of the country are sending "petitions of protest’’ to.congress, signed by tens of thousands of them, against the pending tariff bill. Never has there been such a hopeful sign of ultimate tariff reform as this. When the women fully understand how much they are affected by the tariff something la going to be done. =ass=es=aHai The question has been raised whether the national government should pass an inheritance tax law or leave that source of revenue to the states. Indiana would now have one if the Republican senate had passed the inheritance tax bill passed by the Democratic house at the late session of the legislature. Representative Barnhart another Indiana congressman, held the boards yesterday and suceeded In telling congress and those members who are so selfishly eager to serve their own district with little or no thought of the country a large, that they only represent hydrophobic sentiment and in doing so disgrace the fundamental laws upon which this country rests. Representative Barnhart is right, and we congratulate him upon having the courage to declare his convictions upon the floor of the house. In a signed statement the Logansport Business Men’s Association, that fought so vigorously against prohibition 1 in Cass county, announces that that organization "has already brought about the cancellation of two saloon leases and others will be cncelled as they expire. The county commissioners can be relied upon to heed the recommendations of the association which Will do just what ft has pledged to accomplish. The Logansport Business Men’s Association does not stand for saloons, but ft does more emphatically stand for a bigger and better Logansport, commercial prosperity and an unfailing observance of the law.”—South Bend Times. steBSHSSSKSSESSSt.'. . Governor Marshall is seeing to it that# the tibuds given by architects and contractors for state work amount to something. In the recent peat the state has lost a lot of money through loopholes which were either Intentionally or negligently permitted to exist by Republican offitflaM The present governor is determined -that this sort of thing shall not occur during his administration if he can prevent it The last legsllatnre found ft necessary to appropriate money to repair buildings that had only recently been accepted as “finished.” hereafter when a state building Is finished it will have to be done according to contract in every detail The next general election is eighteen months away, but it should not be forgotten that the Democratic members of the late legislature tried to pass a bill which.would, had ft become a law, have made ft Impossible to commit frauds through the instrumentality of illegal foreign votes like those charged in Lake county last November. The Democratic house did pdas this bill but the Republican senate killed it. Governor Marshall approved Jt—he even was said by the Republicans to have been the author of it-Mhe best citizens of the state wanted it enacted into law, but the Republican politicians had profited by the scandalous laxity of the law as ft Stands and would not allow, ft to be changed. A legislature ought to be elected in 1910 which will put this election reform bill in the statutes.

r ——— INDICTED ALSO AT CLEVELAND ■ James H. Boyle and Wife Indicted for Blackmail. 1 t • Cleveland, Ohio, April 14,—James ' H. Boyle and wife, under arrest at Mercer, Pa., on the charge of kidnaping Willie Whltla, of Sharon, Pa.,were again indicted by the Cuyahoga county grand Jury today on the charge of child stealing and harboring a stole'n child. Following the arrest of the Boyles here March 22, the day after the Whltla boy was returned to his father, the grand Jury Indicted the') couple on he charge of blackmail. Thia step was taken as a precaution against the possible failure of the Pennsylvnaia authorities to obtain a conviction on the kidnaping charge. It was feared that Mrs. Boyle especially might be able to evade /he charge there. Later developments have shown there may be real grounds upon which to base the fear and the local authorities decided further ■to protect themselves against a miscarriage of justice by having the additional indictment found. ■ v o 111 ■ That the Indiana Lighting company intend to furnish gas to this city for fuel and lights is shown by the manner in which they are pushing the project. The following is from the Fort Wayne Sentinel of last evening: The first car load of pipe for the bfg gas line through which artificial gas Is to be supplied from Fort Wayne to Bluffton and Decatur has reached Fbrt Wayne, and today workmen for the Indiana Lighting company began the work ot distributing the pipe southward. The new main Is to be of 4inch pipe. Leaving Fort Wayne the line will be laid bn Hale avenue from the end of the bridge to Brooklyn avenue, and thence south on Brooklyn avenue to the Fort Wayne and Bluffton road. At Kingsland the stem to Decatur will branch off the Bluffton line. The Kerr Murray works in this city has practically completed the construction of two 100,000 feet gas holders to be erected at Bluffton and Decatur. Manager Mulholland will place a big force of men on the work of laying the pipe as soon as the weather will permit, and expects to be serving gas to both Bluffton and Decatur, by July 1. o The base ball season will open in, Decatur next Saturday and the boys have caught the fever in great shape. On that day the Decatur high schooj boys will m«et the Van Wert high school team • contest of the season, ft will be a battle royal and every inning will be a scrappy one. The local lads are preparing for the game and expect to take the scalps of tfielr Buckeye friends with ease. The linup in the batting order Is Smith, second base; Frisinger, third base; Beery, catcher; DeVoss, shortstop; Miller, left , field; Shoemaker, center field; Gast, first base; Babcock, right field; Nelson and Hoffman substitutes. The game will be called’ at 2:30 at Steele park and a good crowd is assured ,if the weather is right Thr local boys are out selling tickets for the day to cover the expenses. The team will play a return engagement at Van Wert in the near future, p. ,#. ■■ 1 ; i' o : HELPING FRANK OUT AGAIN George Cotton, Elkhart, father of Frank Cotton, the Bluffton young man, who has been unable to keep out of trouble, no sooner getting out of Jan until he gets back in again, was In the city yesterday afternoon In consultation with a firm of attorneys here, who he will get to gq -to Huntington to try and get'Ms won out of the la< difficulty which he got Into. The yeiang man Is being held there, charged with fogging , his father’s name to a cheek. Although the father made good the amount at the bank, the Huntington officials do not appear to be satisfied. They have stated that Cotton has been getting off too easy at other places and that they intend seeing that he goes the route to the reformatory.—BJuffton Banner, Jy jrfififfi known m Befit* SfitfMt* Alwsy* IMbMo prams raraes *

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