Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1909 — Page 4

gg TH to DEMOCRAT ■ in Mwm I! LJ.J lauiLMiegaegei-MageMß BVMTtoWVBMAT HOKKUS BY MW G. ELI3NIHAM, Fublleher. '.I. »'- ‘■- 1 * MJSriM TKA* IM AMYAMOB. Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, lad., as second class mail matter."' —riwirnvnif w'i nab—l——aasa? OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO.

GREATLY r DISCOURAGED The New York Sun, a Republicau paper, is greatly discouraged over the outlook for its party. In a recent issue it has this topay: “To no political party has fate presented an opportunity more fitted with possibilities of success than 'that which today the Democrats ot the United States. An issue peculiarly their own commands and receives the support of an overwhelming majority of the electorate, divides the councils of their opponents, sets the Republican chief executive against the most powerful Republican managers In the senate, disrupts the majority organization in the senate and breeds insubordination in the dominant machine of the house.” It would be difficult to % picture the hopelessness of the Rpublican situa-tion-more accurately than this. The Democrats are now and have been in I*' the past exactly right on the tariff queßtion, and their position is, as the New YOrkSun says, supported by “an overwhelming majority of the electorate.” On the other hand the Republicdn party finds Itself hot only wrong but disrupted. The Democratic opportunity could not be mote favorable, and the party in this state is ? ready-tor the test the Way THAT IT WORKS Senator Aldrich declared the other day that the duties on cotton goods as fixed in the new tariff bill would not be higher than the Dingley rates. The New York Times however furnishes #.V: J: ■ ■ ■ proof to the .contrary. It shows that the general committee of the wholesale dry goods merchants of New York has analyzed’the Aldrich duties, with astonishing results. Take, for exn '•* a & • 1 •* ‘ ample, plhjn white cotton goods, mercerized such as are used for women's and children’s wear. The. analysts shows that the Aldrich bill almost double the Dingley duty the increase being! oii this clals of goods, 93% per I? ' t . f,.- - . • I . cent The duty c on the. same goods of a somewhat higher quality has been Increased 121%-per cent ’ Updh simple colored cotton dress goods, used by persons of means, valued at 15.10 cents a square yard, the Pingley duty Is thirty-five per cent, ad valorem equal to 5.53 cents*'a- yard. The Aldrich bill increases this duty to seven cents a square yard, or to eight cents if mercerized, an increase of 2.71 cents a yard or 51% per cent, over the Dingley lite.'; On ordinary white goods used for women’s and children’s wear the duty has been increased 48% per cent t Cotton cloth valued at 15.75 a square yard dyed in plain colors, now coming - in under a'Dingley duty of forty per cent ad Valorem, gets an increase of twenty-seven per cent under the revising manipulations of the Aldrich committee. Colored sateen a common article used for women’s skirts and whists and for linings, valued at 20.96 a square yard now dutiable av forty per cent, goes up 46%. 18 NO REDEMPTION OF PARTY PLATFORM PLEDGE With the adoption of the conference repott Thursday by the senate, by a vote of 47 to 31, and its signature by the president the tariff bill that has y ■ 'Vj’ '.I- ; ■. <• process, of construction for a yearthte become a law. The country owena debt of gratitude to Senators Beveridge, Bristow, Clapp, Cummins, Dolliver, La Follette • and Nelson for their votes against the bill. These men hiave, throughout the whole 6ontrovewy, besAW ‘their convictioni, cQnvlctiops which are, we beHeve, shared by the Republicans of the wwL As we have shown, the bill is not a redemption of the pledge of the narty, and cannot be made to appear so. It Is about as has been

fj,.. foreshadowed In recent proceedings. On the most important articles of general consumption—especially those used by the poorer people-duties are heavily increased. Even i when this is not so, that Is, in those- eases where the rates have not been changed, the amount of the tax to be col- ' lected from the 1 people will be greatly increased. In the first plate the system of valuation of imports was changed in such away as to make certain the placing of higher values on imported commodities. in. the second place, it is believed that-the Influence of the new customs court will operate in the samfi direction. And, in the third place, the maximum and minimum scheme will have the effect of adding 25 per cent to ail the duties established by Jhe bill. Though the free list has btefen slightly enlarged and though some duties have been lowered, we believe that this bill will, at last as far as it bears on articles of general consumption, be more highly protective than the law which it Will displace. Cotton duties have, as Senator Dolliver showed Thursday, been advanced all along the line, in some cases as much as 100 per cent “And yet” said the lowa senator, “the statement has been made here that only minor and insignificant changes had been made in that schedule. The American people,” he< added, “are being duped, with that kind of humbug and misrepresentation. Majorities,’’ he declared, “are obtained by a system of reciprocity arranged in the citadel of protection.” Such words as these, coming from a stanch and loyal Republican, representing one of the greatest and most intelligent of the Republican states, will have much weight with the people. Compared with them, the “assurances” of Aldrich will count for exactly nothing. The idea that this bill is in any way a redemption of the platform pledge of the Republican party is utterly preposperous. Even the free raw material provisions will, as a rule, operate only to give added protection to the manufacturer. There is no pretense that the Republican doctr|pe, on which Mr. Taft dwelt so impressively a year ago, that protection ahould equalize the cost of production here with that abroad, has been observed—it has been contemptuously flouted. There is probably nut one duty in the bill ‘ that lb - not in excess of what is needed to covet the difference between the two’*costs ! of production, and thus we have in every case an excess which, as Mr, Taft said, serves no useful purpose,’ but tempts to monopoly and extortion.. —lndianapolis News. , < - OPPOSES AN INCOME TAX' John D. Rockefeller is opposed to an income tax. Naturally, he dislikes parting with >150,000 or >200,000 a year, which it is estimated, would be 2 per cent, of his annual income, I Os from >15,000,000 to >20,000,000. He ■ is quoted as saying: “When a man has accumulated a sum of money within the law; that is s to say, in a legally honest way, the' ; people no longer have any right to • share in the earnings resulting from ! that accumulation. The man has re- ■ spected the law in accumulating the i money.” ? - Waiving the question whether ! Standard Oil methods have respected, : evaded or violated the law, Mr. Rockt efeller’s reasoning would debar the government from collecting any property tax whatever;, for a tax on property involves a share in accumulations and their earnings. Mr. Rocks efller’s logic would lead to a poll tax in which the day laborer would pay r equally with the millionaire. It may } easily be assumed that such a system t of taxation would commend itself very ■ much to Mr. Rockefeller’s judgment.— , South Bend Times. ' fu . * * JOHN E. LAhlB . ON OUR NEW TARIFF .•M -t-- • Complete disgust describes John E. , Lamb’s feelings whenever he thinks of . the new tariff bill. He considers it a f most outrageous affair and he has no I hesitation about saying so. ; ! '“Never in the, history of tariff legisl lation” said Mr. Lamb Saturday “has t any tariff bill met with such unani-’-4. i • r. ft!l Jbfe 'c?

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mous criticism from press and public I as the bill which was passed by congress on Thursday last and signed by the president of the United States, and it Is my deliberate judgment that the result of the congressional elections to be held next year throughout the country will demonstrate that the authors of this hypocritical and iniquitous measure have been' repudiated by the voters at the ballot box. “Under the pretext, as announced In the republican national platform of last year, that if successful they would revise the tariff downward, Mr. Taft was elected president and a republican majority was elected to the house of representatives. The republican party being already in control of the senate they had the votes'and the power (to redeem their promise, and yet President Taft, after he had signed this so-called Payne-Aldrich biU, was compelled in his own defense to say in a public statement: “ “This is not a perfect tariff bill or a complete complaince with the promise made.’ ' ... “if not, why not? This is the question the press and the country are now asking and to which the peop'e will demand an answer at the ballot box at the first opportunity. 'Tn enacting this legislation, due care has been taken to protect every monopoly in the country, whilst upon the necessaries of life there have not only been no reductions, but,, upon many of them, increases in the rates of taxation, especially in the woolen and cotton goods schedules, which articles compose the great bulk of the clothing worn by the poor. A New York dispatch in the business column of a Cincinnati paper says: Ndw York, Aug. s.—An advance in a dry goods commodity which is the direct outgrowth of. the rew tariff legfetiqi Is one of 10 per cent, on foreign hosiery. Most agents have joined in naming higher figures and .others are making ready to announce advances. It is figured out that bh 'h stocking how retailing at ISc ifi the large department Stores tfie rise will be about 6c a pair. The imp6rters handling these goods have beehforced to add 20 cents a down to the old prices, so that merchants ..hitherto bought for >1.85 per dozen willj the jobber >2.05. ’ \ ’<• ’ “This to but one illustration of what the people may expect when the i»w tariff law has. full sway, The pfetext tor* ratojpg. ihtee schedules as tained by Aldrich, Cannon, et,,j& i* that there to a deficit in the national-! treasury and they need the moneyc it was suggested by the democratic minority and a few patriotic republican senators that a graduated income tax would supply the iency, the gentlemen to eharge J>f at? r fairs at Washington threw up their hands in holy horror and said that this kind of legislation should hot be permitted, and when the Bailey-Cum-mins income tax provision, Which would have taken enough money from the millionaires and billionaires of the country to supply the treasury deficit, was voted upon in the senate on the 18th day of June, every republfcah in the senate voted to postpone action upon it, except Borah, Bourne, Bristow, Clapp, Cummins and Lafollette. In this list of progressive republicans it is to be regretted that, the name of the distinguished senator' from Indiana Mr. Beveridge, is not tpund. Upon this roll call he deserted his progressive associates and voted with Aldrich, Smoot, Hale et ai, in favor of exempting the wealth of the country from its fair shfire of. taxation. The defeat of the Income tax provision furnished those in charge of the tariff measure what they considered a fair argument in favor of the increase of taxes upon the necessaries of life to replete the treabnry, which was already bankrupted by the extravagant appropriations of conWhile the senator from Indi-, Beveridge—voted against Wil upon its . final passage, thus ad‘ mitting the iniquity of tbe legislation of his party, he kheW that his vote would cut no figure and that the bIH would jaw without Jt; he, however also knew that the people of Indiana, irrespective es partju would repudiate this measure "at the ballot box, and was hunting for cover.’ I seal 'thst he will discover when it is too late that he will meet tbe fate bf the raw

to * M p stop to music of■ two bands at the same timed not -to to acoompUdi tM. dijßcult task, fell and broke his neck.’’ -Terre Haute Tribune. : y * ? THE w.. OF RIbcDNINQ WEAR The United States senate on Thursday ratified the conference report on the tariff bill which had previously been adopted by the house. Within a few minutes of its final passage the, b'ill was signed by President Taft Thus the Dingley tariff is succeedd by the Payne-Aldrich-Taft tariff. The new law wenjt into effect on Friday, August 6th. The Associated Press dispatches tell us that President Taft was in high spirits as he awaited the presentation of the bill to him for his signature, and that he Joked merrily with Senator Aldrjch and others who were present He, perhaps, can afford to joke. But the masses, who will find the cost of the necessities of life increased instead of reduced as a result of the new law, toay not find the situation so humorous. That the preseident has e premonition bf the people’s shocking lack of appreciation of -the joke perpetrated upon them is .shown t»y the fact that he* deemed it necessary to go into a lengthy but lame defense or apology for his action in signing the bill. (He,admits that the measure is “not a complete compliance with, the promises made” but declares “there have, been very for? increases- (to rates" and doubtless hopes the people will -forget and forgive. Will they? The indications do not point in that direction. With the coSt of living soaring and no proportionate increase of the means of the average family, it cannot be expected that the treachery of Mr. Taft’s party and the complaisant acquiesence of the smiling executive in the repudiation of party pledges will go unrebuked. The day of reckoning is near. At any rate labor remains on the free list in the new tariff bill. Alabama, the first of the states in alphabetical Order, has set a good example tor her sister commonwealths by speedily ratifying the amendment to the cQMtitution paying the tor ian income tax She 4s the 'flrat .state to take action on the amendment The legislature being conveniently Jn session grasped the opportunity and headed the procession. -t -. " Republicans of Indiana should bear in mind that the Pfcyne-Alflr;,.h tariff law was considered too much of ius imposition upon the people of thia country by Senator Beveridge to ’get; his vote and the senator claims to 'be a good ‘ republican, too. The “interests” hqd no trouble, however, in pursuading Taft to swallow the dose although an effort has been made to make it appear that Taft was tor downward revision.—Columbia City Post. It seems to be accepted generally in the state that if the Prohibitionists and anti-saloonlsts can, either by partisan or “non-partisan” action, secure a suitable foothold in the next-leglsla-ture the Hmi. J. Frank Hanly Is to be hurled lnto the breach as their candidate for the United States senate. There is also talk to the effect that if Mr. Hanly does not Succeed in his senatorial aspirations he will again be a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1912. Some of the influential Republican papers of the state are speaking favorably of Robert G. Tucker of Indianapolis as a possible Republican candidate secretary of state next year. Jiir. Tucker, who is a toeWspap er‘man, has been tor several years the tedlanapoHs correspcmdent, f pf the Cincinnati Enquirer. In that capacity he has come in contact with all of the party leaden and many of them are bls friends. Carl Riddick, secretary of the Republican state committee, is undentood to have elated hlmself for the same nomination. Why wither of these men, of anybody else, Should want to be op the nSlt lican state ticket is beyond unde»standing. Perhaps, reaUy. thsy don't. The national convention Os the -

stratkm of the growth of Christian temperance sentiment and practice. The large attendance from all parts Os the 'country, the magnificent parade, and the enthusiastic crowds witnessing It, bear convincing testimony to the A earnest widespread interest In total abstinence, While the stirring words of the speakers recall the apostolic exhortations on “righteot/s---ness, soberness and Judgment to come,” which made the old Roman governor trembla. Indeed, as was set forth, Americans have reason to tremble in contemplation of the evils this society Is combating.—South Bend Times. SOSe9E9BBSSB9SB9S What a boon it is to have a “calm and judicial mind’’ in the president’s chair. What a tremendous advantage the country possesses iu having as chief executive a man of legal training, who can scrutinize every line of legislation with the eye of an eagle and guarantee his handiwork free from flaws.? The celebrated message to congress in which this president declared there was an income tax on the statute books, when as a matter of fact it bad.long since expired by limitation, nor his famous appointment to ✓ I his cabinet of one Philander C. Knox, when Mr. Knox was legally Ineligible and had to be especially legislated into the: Job, must not be allowed (to cloud the great issue. Neither should carping critics cavil because the great mind pronounced a tariff schedule of perfect purity and' free from jokers which turned out 'to have a large sized ethiopian, concealed therein. These things are but incidents. Notwithstanding them, we repeat it is fine to have a president whose Judgment IS infallible. - Alt accounts held by Mrs. E. H. Cowan, administratrix of the EL H. Cowan estate; must be settled by the first day of August, or will be left for collection. . Please call and settle before that time to save costa. Mrs. E. H. Cowan, Admx., Bobo, Ind. .... . 172-6t-Iw —— - o — here next week The Guy Stock Company Will Play a Week’s En- • gagement in this City , ’” i ' v* ■ * 3, ' ♦,■« "’v? • v -’ Ti> BE UNDER TENT ‘'f L-k’’ Sr -• ' i *-•;’? 7? r;- . -I. Utley Are Well Liked Here and Are Now Assured of Good Crowds k Th’e GuY Stock Company will play a week’s engagement in this city beginning next Monday. They have been coming here so long, and have so many friends and admirers here tha|» they are already assured of a warm and hearty greeting on next Monday evening, the time Os their first show. They are this Week playing to large audiences in Bluffton, and have An exceptionally good performance, with which to amuse and interest the show going peopld. Many of those connected with the show, and especially those managing it, are well liked and this fact adds to their popularity and will help pack the tent all during the coming week. Their advance man is in the city today, and from this time until they come, you Win hear much of the Guy Stock Company, and their doings during the coming week. They report an exceptional successful Season and that Is rraier uncommon this year, when so many like companies have been hitting the rocks, and those who have escaped, bitterly complain of the financial end of the show business this Decatur people will see a good Show all of. next week at the corner of Fourth and Monroe streets, as that is ,tiie place the Guy Stock will hold forth during tbpir atay In tan City. .' CURED HAY FEVER AND SUMMER •’ I COLD ’ . i. S. Nusbaum. Batesvtlle, Indiana, writes: “.“LasUyear I.sufferod for throe, months with a summer , cold t sp r distressing that It interferred with my business. I had many of the symptoms of hay fever, and a doctors proseription did not reach my case, and I took several medicines which seemed only to aggravate it. Fortunately wife has since used Foley’s Honey and Tar with the same succros?’ THE HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO. w - - '- ■ '

The 89th Indiana Regiment and 9th Battery to Have a Reunion - '■ - HELD IN DECATUR ( ’’ ■ The Date is Septerhber 29 4 and 30—Arranging for a Great Time 3 Sam Henry Post are getting reaoy for the reunion which will be held in this city on September 29 and 30. It is the twenty-fourth reunion of the eighty-ninth regiment and the ninth Indiana battery and the, com- v rades are fixing up for a gala time when they get together and tell the ' tales of the rebellion. Members of this regiment and battery are now ~ scattered all over the country, but there is still quite a number living in this part of Indiana, and they are all expected to come, as well as many of j those from a distance, and the two ! days in Decatur is bound to be the happiest two days they have enjoyed ; t for many a moon. Postal cards are now being sent the surviving mem- ' bers of this regiment and battery and. 1 as soon as replies are received | number of visiting vets will be known, i M i The members living here and the Sam Henry Post intend to show tSe|||| visitors a great time and it is A safe ( bet that they will succeed, and that : September 29 and 30, will long be-( m 3 held to’remembrance by them. Camp- .. , fires and stories of the war will be told and retold on thia occasion, ev?ry one will have a happy time. - ,; iro.’■- » i ■ ■■■■■■ <>■ i - ■ I •’ '•«. - 1 VETS AT SALT LAKE ——— ■ A Hot Campaign Being . . Waged for Commander- ; J-in-Chief . ’ • " '■ ■ ■>■ ~ - — MANY ATTEND ‘ ? l . ' ' ' " '■ » •’■■'•’•t C Citizens' UnbHt M itt Elaborate Enter- ■ tainmpnt j ,"i .. ui?W ’,<3 Salt Lake City, (Utah. Aug. 11.- J Sentiment at the national encampment.,",, J of the Grand . Army of the t was regarded by a strong element a»» favorable to. Samuel R. Van Sant fo>> :/ v .J commander-ln-cbief. Atlantic City | also seemed in the toad as the place* 1 ■ for bolding the |l9lO encampment I Nevertheless ’the - friends wf Judge William A. Ketcham and the advo- - cates of St. Louis will not concede' defeat The flection will : be iteld Thursday. The convention and supporters of candidates; worked har<il r but the thousands of old i dlers in the city had more important I matters to attend to. “If amusement interferes with our business, cut -I , out: the business,” .16 the nxOtto of ■ the veterans, and they are living up « ; toil The encampment is, first of all, : a holiday, and its visitors do not al- . low their dignity as Warriors to spoil I their splashing in the lake, their ramb- I Ung amid historic scenes and their ■ ' postcard service to distant friends. ** 11 ! The Association of Union Ex-Prison- ■ I era of War held its business sesblon /■ with National Commander Harry I ; White of Pennsylvania presiding. Ex- * ■ ’ eciitive councils of the Women’s Re- ■ lief Corps and other auxiliary bodies ■ also devoid & part <rf the day to rou- I tine.labor. Under the vast dome of ■ > the Mormon tabernacle the Grand ■ Army and all the auxiliary organlzai tlons were welcomed to Utah by Gov- ■ ■ emor William Spry, and to Salt Lake ■ by Mayor John S. Bransford. Com- ■ mander in Chief Henry Nevius replied. ■ Camp fires were held at the assembly i ball and the armory. These were fol- ‘ ■ . lowed by a gorgeous dtoplay of fire- * ■ works on Eflsigh Peak, the mountain B rising 1,200 feet- at the northern edge- ■ of the city, upon Which the Monhbn ' >■« pioneers planted thdMag ht the firrt >■ settlement of Utah. ' ■ TAKE NOTICE. * ’ I . All persons are recommended to-take ■ 1 Foley’s Kidney f pUls tor hMtafat rheumatism, and kidpey and bladder S trouble, as they are healing and anti-' septic and correct Urinary irregular* ■ (ties which, if neglected, may develop ■ into a serious illness. They restore health and strength. Do not nqglect , ■ signs of kidney or bladder trouble ■ and risk disease or diabetes. ■ THE HOLTHOUBE DRUG CO, ■ , — — —_—.. ■ ■ Democrat Want Ads. Pav ■