Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1909 — Page 4

| ■VBHYTErURSDAT MOXMING BY LEW G. ELUNGHAM, Publisher. | M | --•< -- ~ j.’-' . SUMPBB YBAR IM ADVABOB. ■ ■. ■. _____ —— Bird at the pst strict at class mail matter * r -* .-.-w bfvjcial paper of adam» co. GOOD THING FOR MORGAN / A press dispatch from Washington says: IB ■ Free art, the dream of American collectors of foreign masterpieces in paintings and sculpture, practically Is assured by the adoption In the senate committee on finance of an amendment to the tariff bill, which will admit these treasures without restriction of any kind. The same dispatch says that this amendment is a .personal victory for - Senators Aldrich and Lodge. Aldrich la not only the Republican leader in the senate, but he is the special representative of Standard Oil, the steel trust and other special interests. But the dispatch goes on and tells the reason for admitting “art treasures” Into this country “without restriction of any kind. It says: The passage of such a provision as is proposed would bring to this country the art treasures owned by Americans and exhibited abroad, such as the unequaled collection in London of J. Pierpont Morgan. Os course it would be somethingawful to make Pierpont Morgan pay something toward the support of the government which he has used so long for his own purposes. But the fact remains that the people of this country cannot eat or wear “art treasures,’ 'and that, tor the benefit of such men as Morgan they are forced to pay big taxes on what they do eat and wear and use. That is the principle on which the Republican tariff is built. The New York address of Governor Marshall seems to have struck a most popular chord everywhere and the flattering press notices and editorials given him by the great newspapers of the east as well as the west, signify that his utterances find a ready response with the people. Governor Marshall takes us back to the good old Democracy when the individual rights of man was a sacred tenet of the party. In recent years people ir- / respective of party have thought of attaining great things in a commercial way, giving little heed to the man-' ner or method of such'attainment We have lived fast and Just that fast’ have quickly but surely drifted into a commercialized nation. Governor Marshall hikes us back to the good old days when the government meant for us a government of liberty loving people, and when individual rights counted for something, even in the mad rush for the almighty dollar. It is high time to harken back, and especially Is this true of those who claim allegiance with and support the principles of Democracy.

Two New York state editors are under arrest on charges of using the mails to circulate advertisements of a lottery. This offense consisted In publishing announcements of a drawing for prizes conducted, in their local church. It looks a little tough if an editor cannot publish what a church can do; but the fact is that both were violating law—one the law of the state, the other the law of the United States; and Uncle Sam is not as lenient with law-breakers as are some of the states. Had the two editors refused to publish'the announceI . ments they would have been severely criticised by their home people, but reasonable persons should not ask a newspaper to do that which violates law or endangers public morals.— South Bend Times. The Indiana Lighting Company, the some corporation that serves Decatur, has reduced the price of illuminating gas to one, dollar, a cut of fifteen cents. nit was brought about after a conference between the Decatur city council and representatives of the corporation. It might be worth while for Lebanon’s council to suggest to

gas. The present rate is Lebanano Pioneer. GNBMMwMMBaBaHMmnBmaaaBnMSB Tom Taggart is Again running for mayor of Indianapolis—that is the hot air artists on the Indlanhpolls newspapers have him running. They know better, of course, but good news is scarce. < - At least a part of the Bluffton suit case brigade were in Decatur yesterday, and the package they took home for future consumption was, as the boys say, a beaut. Bluffton bakeries have raised the price o fthe staff of life, Heretofore they sold six loaves for a quarter, and now they are five cents straight It is even thought that they will pinch the loaves a little. Portland newspapers are boosting the old town, and trying like all good newspapers do, to inject a little life in the old thing. If decay has not already set in, the newspapers will succeed in bringing back the bloom of youth, health and activity. The citizenship of Portland should waken up and appreciate the merit and benefit of the Portland press. The Sunday base ball law is to be attacked in the Indianapolis courts. The constitutionality of the law is questioned, has been questioned for 10, these many years, and it will be a relief to know where we are at on Sunday ball. The Union City Times says that William L. Taylor ot Indianapolis, is

a temperance man. We have never heard it before. They’ll be saying after while that Tom Taggart is a temperance man.—Winchester Herald.

Now comes old Jim Bingham with a boom for the Republican nomination for governor. At least he threatens to twist Jim Watson’s tail for that honor. Both Jims are good advertisers, but it will take a real good man to succeed in such an enterprise, and we doubt whether either of these advance agents have the goods. And now Senator Shively is being talked about as the leader of the senate minority in the tariff fight that is on the eve of.being waged in that highest lawm&kl&g body. Senator Shively is equal to the test He is an expert in tariff schedules and he is a statesman that will soon outshine the best of them. —ww—■ And now the Muncie Star which In the last campaign, stood up and talked county local option better even than some Methodist preacher, is now stated to be rather inclined to wabble when the issue is to be settled in the Star’s own baliwick. The Star is a good wabbler, however, and is never more at home than when bending Its backbone in every which way over some public question. When a merchant of Berne buys goods from a Chicago mail order house, as was recently the case, it makes the farmers and town people hs well, don’t always practice what they preach. The merchant who did this is not cutting off his own nose, but is displaying mighty poor business judgment.—Berne Witness. - How "jokers" may affect the tariff is demonstrated by the correction which was made by the house of representatives when it recalled the Payne bill from the senate. The clerk had left out of the petroleum schedule the words, “and its products,” and this omission, if uncorrected, would have been worth to the Standard Oil company annually more than the salaries of both houses of congress.—South Bend Times. Talk of an income tax has been revived in Washington, The proposition is to tax all incomes of more than $5,000. Such a tax would not affect the vast majority of the people, but the chances are it would be declared unconstitutional. A better plan would be to pass a revenue tariff bill,

iuue mtn, wuuiq a iuir r ßuure vi I individual, according to his purchases. That is what ought to be done, but probably not what will be done. Voo many special favors are being asked for, and in fact, demanded.—Columbia City Post, Walter Wellman, in writing of the means and methods in framing the present tariff law, says that while we as Americans, pride ourselves on our representative form of government, yet things are being done in Washington that would not be tolerated in any monarchical form of goverment on the face of the earth. In a country where free speech abounds, and where one man is the equal of every other man, yet the tariff rates in the proposed new law is being written by one man* Senator Aldrich, of Little Rhoddy. His word is supreme, and it is hardly necessary to add that the “interests*' are being carefully taken care of and then, if there is anything left, the people get all that. ’ The operation Ipf "Wheat King’’ Patten are on a par with the majority of deals in other commodities. It is simply an exemplification of the pernicious effects of creating artflcial prices. Wall street does this sort of business moet of the time; byway of stock gambling. Congress does a large part of putting “jokers” into tariff bills. Contractors in the larger cities play at it by paying tribute to labor agitators llkq “Sknny" Madden in Chicago. Every interference with the laws of trade—with supply and demand—contributes to the evils of the day. It’s this abomination of artificial prices that hurts in everyday life, and yet there are thousands upon thousands of persons who in one way or another foster, encourage and vitalize this very abomination — South Bend Times.

It is rather tame Not a court injunction was issued nor a complaint for divorce filed. While some people take this as an evidence of hard times, but it is not.. We are at peace with mankind, that is all. The local option election in Delaware county is getting to be a warm member. Today the drys have a twopaged advertisement, while the wets only took a quarter section. The sports are betting cm the result and in all that old county is having .excitement to burn. Decatur is going some. A new city building is to be erected during the the Knights of Pythias lodge will erect a ten thousand dollar lodge home, two or three residences costIng five thousand dollars per, besides many others of lesser value. There are no files on Decatur, and we can prove it ? The recent arrest of William D. Owen in connection with a land and developmen swindle in Mexico simply adds another chaptq- to the story of “fools and their money are soon parted.” The number of gullible people sector never to decrease, of fools are fleeced, other standi ready to yield up 4eir GB*. thu ß ls lt that men Ske (jjren always find plenty of victims.—South Bend Times. The Huntington county board of commissioners is now wrestling with the voting machine problem. The vot|ng ,machine is w fraud and a deluiicdi. We have tried them at two elections in Peru and they have failed to delivfhVi e fl"* 5 V- -■ er the goods represented by their agents. At the last election on the*P loon question 75 votes were not count ed because the indicator did not tell how the voter wanted to cast his ballot. In the second ward alone there were 32 votes cast than the machine registered. The machines can be easily manipulated and are a Useless expense. Huntington county will save money and trouble by not pur--’".‘a chasing.—Peru Chronicle. 3HHI e==BS-=— —» M Mann ft Christen, the contractors, have ben awarded the contract for the erection of a 112, 000. 5ch00l building at Churubusco, the jdb Mgjp awarded at Fort Wayne yesterday. There were a large number of bidders.

I " I : ’ ■- > Miss Marie Patterson Will Entertain the Thimble Club ——X I . ■ OTHER SOCIETY NEWS . ... ... ls ‘f" Mr. and Mrs. Loch to En- , tertain at Six O’Clock i ] Dinner < Mr. and Mirs., Charles Loch will 1 f ] entertain at six o’clock dinner this ( evening in honor of Mr. and Mrs. j Albert Laughnit, the Misses Mary , and Madge Hite and Zoa Miller. ( « ■■■■■■ll ——l . the company of Pythian Sisters ( left yesterday for Montpelier to ] attend he second annual convention 1 of the Sixth district Pythian Sis- I ters. On arriving in that'place they 1 will be met by Teona order of that « city, and will meet at oastle hall at I one p. m. when a good program, open < to the public will be given. Mem- 1 bers from all the counties of the dis- < tricU Adams, Wells, Jay and Black- ■ ford, will take part in this session. 1 With the design to ascertain the 1 exact condition of each lodge, financially, a secret session will follow, i and the roll of officers and committees will be called. Reports will be given by each member. Officers of the Decatur lodge who will respond , are Mrs. Norah Linn, D. D. G. C. and • Mrs. Lydia Shamp, M. of T. Mrs. Lydia Elzey was placed on the resolution committee by the. committee, and will aid in drawing up the declaration for the coming year. The Rebekahs held their regular - meeting last night. Arrangments were made for the anniversary celebration on the twenty-sixth. Mrs. Eli Christ ] 1s chairman ot the banquet committee. Miss Marie Patterson will entertain the Thimble Club tomorrow evening at her home on Second street. A very important meeting of the ' Ladies* Mite Society of the M. E. i church will occur on Friday afternoon , April 23rd, at the home of Mrs. Henry 1 Krick -on Adams street The annual election of officers will be held and 1 all members are earnestly requested J to attend. < * ] — ■ | rMr .and Mrs. W. E. Kintz were de- ( lightfully but" thoroughly surprised i Sunday afternoon at their home west of Decatur about 2:30 o’clock. Forty- J five of their friends stole stealthily j upon tiiqm and reminded them that it was their twenty-second wedding ( anniversary. To say that the victims j were surprised is putting it mildly, ( for Mr. Klnt’s hair stood on edge in spite of his efforts to keep it smooth. , Mr. and Mrs. Kinta received many ( beautiful presents from their friends. . After spending the afternoon in social chatting, the guests emptied the well filled baskets which they brought with them, and departing wished Mr. and Mrs. Kinta many more such happy events. '.Miss Gretle Shoemaker will entertain a company of friends, sixteen boys and girls, at an evening party at her home, north Fifth street this evening In honor of Miss Claudine Smttly, of Fort Wayne. The Young Matrons will be enterri jreKirt'el Mrs. Gedrgfi 1 r ' j WmK ROBE DEAD AT AUBURN Attorney wish Known -Here Passau Away. Attorn. Ind., Ajwp Ml.—Judge James E. Rose, one of the most prominent and best known members of the bar of northern Indiana, died at his homs a long illness at the age of 'Seventyseven years. His death had been expected l imd the members ot his family were at his bedside when the end came. Although he never was elected or 1 appointed to office in his long life as a member of the bar he had oc-, cupied benches in the various counties so ofteK that he became gener————l I

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VancT °RoBe which had 'been to exTence .luce 1381. James E. Rose was born la Trumbull county, Ohio, December 22, 1832, and four years later Ihia family moved to what Is n6w Stafford township, in DeKalb county, where he was raised on a farm and educated in the country schools. He sc«, cured a position as teacher when he was sixteen years of age and took up the study of law at the same time and 1n\1«62 he opened a law office in Auburn with James B. Morrison as a law partner. A year later he moved to Butler, Ind., where he was associated with Hon. E. W. Fosdick to the law practice until 1873, when he {returned to Auburn and formed a partnership with E. D. Hartman. In 1881 this was dissolved and his son became his partner. Genial in his' personality, a practitioner of the most rigid integrity and a man of marked ability Judge Rose became prominent to the state on account of his earnest devotion to his profession and his unswerving fealty to his clients. He was active tn all the affairs of Auburn and had long beep recognized as one of its substantial citizens. Surviving him are his widow and the following sons and daughters: James H., Miss Laura and Ella Rose and Mrs. George Beugnot, of Auburn, Mrs. Edward Atchison, of Auburn, and Frank E. Rose, of Hastings, Colo. Funeral Friday afternoon at 2 d’clock. WERE CAPTURED Friends of Mr. and Mrs. Horace Snow Pursued Them Faithfully AND WITH SUCCESS Happy Couple Return from Chicago and Were Given a Belling Mr .and Mrs. Horace Snow arrived - h Tuesday evening from Chicago, where they have been enjoying a honeymoon of ten days. They were mairied in that city Monday of last week, the bride being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mylott. A crowd ,of Mr. Snow’s friends tried to locate him last night that they might serenade he and his bride and they finally saw them enter the Grand theater. They went on guard, but the couple failed to reappear. Mr. Miller, the proprietor, of’the show, came out and locked up his room and went home, but still the pursuing friends were confident that the young couple were to that room, so carefully had been their watch. At last they secured a ladder and entered the building through a second story window, and after reaching the main room found the happy couple cosily located in seat two, row three, of the parquet circle. They were taken out the front door, placed upon the decorated wagon and conyeyed home, receiving enroute the congratulations of their enthusiastic friends. They will reside for the present at the J. F. Snow home on north Second street. .. .4, i o ■ »■ - THEY MADE MVERAL ARRESTS Anderson, Ind., April 20.—Despite the strenuous efforts of the Law and Order League to compel the saloon kMffem o< this city to obey the closla# on Sunday several arrests [tor illegal selling were made yesterHay, and George Thomas, a Main street saloon man, was fined in police court this morning. Quite an array of whisky bottles decorated the police sergeant’s desk this morning and 4 market basket of laser bottles was introduced in evidence- — ? o COSTUMER TO DEALER. Costumer: My chickens are dying while apparently to good health. They are fat and have red combs. Rapid Remedy Co.: Feed the Rapid Cholera Remedy and Egg Producer in chop feed for awhile and nothing else and your chickens will be all right. For sale at Smith, Yager A Falk, the druggists, in 25c. and 50c. packages ( and >2.50 pails. — ’L.. ; o Democrat Want Ads. Pay

I .—. *? . I I Governor Marshall Back I I to His Duties at 4’' Home — ■■■■■■ I HAVE NO CHANCE Aldrich Tariff Bill fbr the • Interests and Not the ' People — Indianapolis, April 21.—Just returned from the seat of the tariff ' war, in Washington, Governor Marshall yesterday summed up the sit- • / uation there as he saw it, thus: “It. impressed me as would a lot of fellows caught outside when a rainstorm threatens, with only one umbrella to the bunch. As long as the ■ whole number can find shelter beneath 7 it, they are in perfect barmony, but when the crowd gets too < ? thick and some of them are crowded ' outside, then they begin to fight among themselves. The tariff fight is nothing more or less than a fight among the protected interests to maintain the proection they have and * to get more protection. I talked with a number of representatives of ' special Interests who were to Washington to see that they lost none of thblr protection, and almost all of \ ' them agreed that the tariff bill is a special interests measure. One bright . young Indianlan who is-there looking • after the interests of a business with which he is connected, told me he - was disgusted with the whole affair and was actually ashamed of his own business. There 18 v no indication, . anywhere in Washington, that the interests of he consumer, or the com- - < mon citizen, are being looked after,.. J For instance, they are 'determined.’ that pineapples shall be protected,. Some time ago some capitalists digcovered that land to southern Florida, bypusing about 4,000 pounds of * fertilizer to the acre, might be made to produce fine pineapples and they - invested their money there. They • are producing pineapples, but to fertilize their land and make their pineapple orchards pay, they must sell' ■ their fruit at a very high price. They ’ ;j; are after protection and it looks as If they will get it As a consequence the neople of Indianapolis who buy - plneapples will be compelled to pay * from 15 cents to 20 cents apiece for * V s them while, with the duty removed, they could be sent in from Cuba and delivered to Indianapolis so that any child could buy ane for a 5-oent piece. That is merely an exampleof numerous phases of the fight for a high tariff. The Aldrich bill will bepassed, in my opinion, and I do not believe that it can be altered, and’ passed, In such away as to provideany benefit for the consumer.” ( • n i ii.iili.n.. ■ ii 11..1i. Mother Grey’s Sweet Powders for CMMretk Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse In the Children’s Home to NewYork, Cure FeverishnesA B*d Stomach, Teething Dtoorders, move an« regulate the bowete and Destroy Wonns. Over . 10,000 testimonials. " < & Olmsted, U Roy, N. T. —..W Q I • THE BEUiON OF PREOBYTERY Rev. Manter, of Fort Wayne, Chosen ae the New Moderetor. s-y' Warsaw, Ind. April 20.-The Rev. ? H. B. Master, of the First Presbyterian church of Fort Wayne, is the new moderator of the Fort Wayne presbytery, which closed its session in this city this evening. The presbytery includes the eight most northeasterly counties ot Indiana. Rs sessions were begun last night with a . sermon by the retiring moderator, the Rev. M. J. Clayton, of Nappanee. Thia morning the business session waa opened. Reports showed that the churches of the presbytery are prosperous. The number of churches remains the same, but there have been .j increases in membership and in the amount of funds. This afternoon commissioners to the general gur* I sembly at Denver to May were chosen. These commissioners are Dr. I E. A. Van Nuys, of Goshen, with Dr. ■ | F. L. Palmer, of Winona Lake, as I alternate, and J. D. Chambers, of Fort I Wayne, and G. W. Craig, of Nap- I panee, as alternate. T