Decatur Democrat, Volume 52, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1909 — Page 4

THEBEMOCK AT ■IIIIH | J 111 "7 ■vmtvhvmmV Momma by LEW Q. ILL'MQHA*, FliMteMr. < MtePBBYBAB IN ABVAMOB. H. m.T. ■■ - ' .. x_ .. . ..... Entered at the postoffice at Decatur, r lad., aa second class mall matter. EPFICIAL PAPER OF ABAMB CO. NOT A WORD OF COMFORT OR PRAIBE KST • • ' * ■. ■ - * ■ •• • .■ i It Is perfectly clear that President Taft is out of touch with American public sentiment on the tariff question. Not in the Philippines/ 1 nor on the Isthmus of Panama, nor in the sordid politcal atmosphere of Ohio, least of all in the isolated precincts of official Washington, can our national opinion be Imbibed. There is no justification in the party but what it stands for; there is no merit in it but what it does. Very illuminative on this score is his refernce to the wool schedule. This he admits is bad and should, have been changed. The reason for its perpetuation, he calmly informs us, was that the woolen manufacturer- ers and the woolgrowers had combined their forces on the floor of congress in such wise that if theft pet schedules had ben in terf erred with they would have beaten the bill. Now it is the most impresisve thing in all the president’s Winona address j that he finds it possible to speak of this dastardly conspiracy against the people without a - show of feeling. In all his speech there is not a nptq of disapproval of any of Mr. Aldrich’s bargains.' He treats, the tariff as dispassionately; and, critically as if it were a problem in. geometry or a formula for making orange marmalade. This is not the way the American people feel about it They do not care so much about the comparative, cost of production at home and abroad, or the court decisions or the cotton schedules, *or the beautiful tables so industriously end ingeniously com- I piled by Chairman Payne, as, they do about the apparent control' of the house and senate organizations in the interests of gigantic protected corporations which demand continued protectiOTL not because they need it, but becaiM they seek inordinate profits at the expense of the masses. - The president is a man of wide and warm sympathies. His heart goes out to the poor Filipinos, the union laborer, the persecuted “scab” the disfranchised negro, the criticised south, the hapless litigant, the endangered trainmen. But he has no word of sympathy for the millions who asked and expected relief from tariff burdens, but upon an imperious moral conviction that their welfare is entitled to some consideration in congress besides the sneers of Aldrich and the oaths of Cannon, . It is unfortunate that the president’s bowels of compassion yearn to Aldrich, Cannon, Payne and Tawney and the powerful manufacturers they represent, but manifest no response to the great unorganized public or to the men in both houses of congress , , who tried to these exorbitant i; duties down. The country has .acclaimed the president as the one force that was able to wrest concessions from the conference committee. If he knew he was doing anything meritorious then, or'it he had.any feeling of sympathy at the time with, the pop- . filar demand for tariff .reform, he has most effectually concealed it from the public gaze. If the Winona speech truly denotes his attitude toward the tariff his sympathy has been with Aldrich and not with the people. On this sort of tariff doctrine the president could not have carried Indiana if the Democrats had had a candidate who commanded the confidence of intelligent men. It is doubtful whether he could haye carried iteven

as against Bryan/ if he had talked c the wisdom and patriotism of Aldrich i instead of encouraging the people, as < he did, to expect downward revision. < The president may not know, but the < people do, that whatever downward i reVision wgs secured is attributable net to Aldrich and fcannon, whither his admriation goes out, but to the progressive Repub'icans.ifor whom he has no word of comfort or praise. —lndianapolis Star, ep. . ■ L ' '■ ■ •'«* ->•

THE TARIFF * FRAMED TO SKIN YOU A writer In the Review of Reviews shows how the .new tariff law was formed to skin the buying public. He calls attention to the fact that through changes in classification the duties on coton goods will be raised "as much as 100 pqr cent., and in some' bases more, above the rates of the Dingley tariff.” One of the devices by which this Increase is effected is thus described: “Under th<e Dingley tariff cotton cloth was subject to the same duty whether mercerized or not. The new tariff provides (in par. 323) for an additional duty of 1 cent a square yard on cotton cloth mercerized or subjected to any similar process. In paragraph 320 the definition of mercerized cloth is given as one which has any .. mercerized .. threads in or upon any part of the fabric.’ This will make any cloth having two or more glossy threads in the fabric subject to the additional rate as ‘cloth mercerized or subject to any similar process.’ ” ; Further, by changing classifications and substituting specific for ad valorem duties, the rates on cotton cloth, r while they may appear to be the same have actually been increased “from as little as five per cent for the finest cloth to 100 per cent, and more for the poorer grades.” | As for the duties on hosiery the same writer says: ! JTThe Conferees modified the advances passed by the house by leaving the following increases erf duty on the lower priced hosiery in the act as it finally passed: Hosiery valued wholesale not at more than SI.OO per dozen pairs, eighty-eight per cent ad valorem, as against sixty-seven per cent under the Dingley tariff; valued at 11.00 to $1.50, 77 per cent, as against the Dingley rate of fifty-eight per cent; valued at $1.50 to $2.00, sixty- . two per cent, as against fifty-one per 'cent. uisder the Dingley law. The 'duty on the highest-priced hosiery, valued at more than $5.00 per dozen, remains unchanged at fifty-five per cent, ad valorem.” , About woolen goods he says: ‘Criticism of the wool and woolen schedules is based mainly on the fact that there has been practically no change of the old rates, which, It is charged, have‘been instrumental in building up a woolen trust by “discrimination against the carded woolen industry, which produces the poor man’s cloth, in favor of the worsted manufacturers, due to the’imposition of a uniform duty of eleven cents a pound on raw unwashed wool, which taxes the cheaper wools as high as 500 per cent and more, while frequently amounting to less than twen-ty-five per cent on the finer grades used for the more expensive cloths ” HAS A PESSIMISTIC TONE The address at the bankers’, convention of James J. Hill, railroad magnate,, to which we nave already made reference, was full of suggestions. It i ' strikes us as much too pessimistic in tone, yet it will set the country to thinking. It was all in the nature of a warning, against Impending dangers which Mr. Hill thinks he sees in the decreasing productiveness of farm lands. in the United States and the disproportionate increase of population to production. He thinks this condition is hastening the time when this country will have to import instead of export breadstuffs. “The idea that we feed the world,*' said Mr. Hill, “is being corrected, and unless we can increase the agricultural population and their product, the question of a source of food supply at home will soon supersede the question of a market for our own products : abroad.” It is true that some farms I have run down and the productiveness i of the soil in some portions of the '<- ■ . ' J o j

' r ' _ ° country has decreased, but remedies, which Mr. Hill did not sufficiently credit, are being,applied in the shape of better farming methods; exhausted farms are being revived and vast areas of land are being brought into market and under cultivation. Mr. Hill did not present figures to show that population is outrunning production. He dwelt upon the constent drift of population from the country to citlee and regarded it as aa alarmc ‘ i*,if iff'- y;

Ing symptom. That Condition has been pronounced in recent years and It is not altogether a healthy sign, but it will regulate Itself. There are already indications of a turn of the tide and a checking of the movement from country to city. Farm life is becoming more attractive than it was formerly and the inducements for young men to remain on farihs are stronger. Mr. Hill himself was born on a farm and left it for a business life, a step which, considering his success, he probably does not regret. He is past seventy years of age now and does not see the rosy side of life any ■ more, but that is no reason why he should grow pessimistic. Cheer up, Mr. Hill!—lndianapolis News. .. I .U!.W!!JJJ!,IP. JHg? It does not look good to see the council expending money concreting the face of the earth,—P. L. It was a dirty trick. Even a man who was cutting a figure in the industrial and business' affairs of this country to the extent Harriman was, can drop into his grave and the world will move on as usual. So it is foolish for fellows who fill a very much in life to imagine that thd' welfare of an entire community rests upon them.—Columbia City Post. Senator Beveridge’s well known predilection for Roosevelt and Taft prior to the last Republican national convention “queered” him with the old Indiana guard that stood true to Mr. Fairbanks. And now comes President Taft and reads Beveridge • out of the party because he voted against the Payne-Aldrich-Cannon tariff bill. If this is not ingratitude, what is it? The public schools of the five boroughs of greater New York opened Monday with sixty thousand children unable to gain admittance for the full courses, and they will be compelled to attend half sessions.- A little more money applied to schools apd lesß t 0 salaries and fees of political adventurers in that locality would mean a brighter promise for hitdlih generations.—Fort Wayne , ■- -•' ' In a discussion of nAnlcipal affairs the people want facts not fun.—P. L. Now you have said something. This thing of getting gay is not. what it is Cracked up to be. And facts too. Now that was another happy suggestion. Every one must talk facte and be extremely serious. This will eliminate the most of your own argument, P. L., but the rule is a good one, and we move that it be adopted. So recorded. Another weighty public question solved. I SSSSSSBSSSSBBSIBB The death of Governor Johnson fills the American heart with sadness and sorrow. He has been one public man who has never cultivated popularity only by the performing of hta official duties in a simple and unostentatious way. During sojne of the many spectacular campaigns bis early life became public and that has added the sympathies of the American people, and made him standi out even more prominent. But he if one of the country’s great men, And We deplore his death., J The awakening of the Democracy of New York state to the Importance of restoring the party to the position it occupied during the seventies te the most gratifying indication of a wholesome political revival that has been apparent for years. It goes to show that the men who understand what Democracy really means are tired of seeing the party ; used M a toy in the hands of designing, selfseeking political jobbers. The men who participated in the Saratoga conference are men of conviction, of judgment, and of political discernment Principles count for something with them. Sopils are not their atvha and omega. They stand for something higher, greater ahi more in • consonance with American citizenship. —South Bend Times. Abe Boegley can congratulate himself just at this time that he'is not . living tn certain quarters of thjs country where some people are prone to take the law into their own hands.

-taking a dear wife and mother awa'y from her husband and children—if Mr Boegley had kept within a reasonable speed limit, if he had kept his machine under contitol (provided his brain and nerves were in a condition to do so), in all probability Mrs. Kindle Would still be alive. It is to be hoped that the case will be properly Investigated and the guilty made' an example. For there are othens who need just such an example. There Is too much senseless racing going on, even within the limits of our town. — Berne Witness. A large number of the street lights are old and almost useless and many of them fall to give light most of the time. The wires are in many places also badly worn ' and will soon have to be replaced with new ones—P. L. Here is another righteous condemnation by a worthy but unpretentious critic. The council have been derelict in their duty in not keeping the wires oiled and when the weather was bad they should have taken them inside and not left them exposed to all kinds of unseasonable weather conditions. We presume that they thought that being purchased several years ago by a Republican council at an exorbitant price, they could stand Any old thing, but the best will wear out—hence the present council are entitled to nothing short of the wrath of a long suffering people. We are not maintaining or attempting to do so that the plant to not worth the sum of $125,000.—P. L. Barney Kalver has just furnished us his latest quotation on “junk” and the list does not embrace municipal plants at that price. He says that he cduld not begin to get first cost out of those worn out wires and useless street lights, to say nothing of that expensive “concreting on the face of the earth.” While we hate awfully to dispute or disagree with one so well qualified to speak upon this important public question as-you are P. L., and knowing too, how sincere and honest your motives—not even a blush of partisan zeal or personal rancor— yet we believe your figures a little high. Just as a friendly tip, we suggest that ; you never again admit that “junk” might be Worth more than the market price. ' >"■ mb., We do not want to be understood as accusing Mr. Archbold of anything officially wrong. We still maintain that we have the utmost confidence in his . official integrity but we fear that in his intense zeal for party success he is forgetful of the real history of conditions or is looking at them through glasses darkened by prejudice.—P. L. . How magnanimous, and how grateful we are that the; official stamp of honesty is thus placed upon the brow of one Decatur official. While the rest of shem are all rascals, and are jingling the coin of illgotten gain, ttßVg no knowledge of business or regard for the rights of property, thank God, we have Bill. And since we think of it, we stin tremble for his safety. Think if you can, of being passed upon by such hn eminent authority, and then‘given a clean and honorable rdfcord. Heretofore, we have been led to believe that # there was. but/one in our midst, but noW we have P.iL.and Bill. Thank God again. In his article he endeavors to make it plain that he is neither . defending or faulting but reading between the lines, it to evident that an effort is being made to fix responsibility for present conditions several years back and by that meatfs relieve the present administration ffom fault of every kind and description for present troubles.— -P. L. Tut, tut, P. L. How dare you? WJiy some erf those administrations weA Republican business administrations, plucked because of their great statesmanship, supreme knowledge of municipal affairs and other reasons too numerous to mention. While they'perhaps failed, yet let’s draw-tMemantle of , wvar these black periods and allude out loud ■ ■ ' ' . .',7. . 9

municipal ownership was first inspired by them, and that the city debt is largely of their origin, yet let's keep it dark, P. L. However, do not think us unmindful of our privilege in having Bill. ' ‘■■■■BSBSnßi-l It will probably not be necessary for President Taft to make a tariff speech at Danville.-—Chicago Record-Herald. Ex-Senator Homenway, in an interview at Washington, said that “there 1s not a schedule in the (tariff) bill which the Republicans will not be able to defend. He also said that President Taft’s western trip fpaid for out of the public treasury) “is going to add much to strengthen the Republicanparty.” All of this is a left-handed way of making it interesting for one Albert J. Beveridge. It will be remembered that Beveridge denounced and’ voted against the bill, whi’e Taft signed it and is now not only trying to defend it, but to read Beveridge and other insurgents out of the party. These Republicans are getting worse mixed up all the time. Up in which is famous for several different, kinds, President Taft last week made this statement: “We are loqking forward, I hope with confidence,to a readjustment of our whole financial system and banking system; certainly it needs.it.” And yet, a dozen years ago, the Republican party asked to be returned to power because it was the only party that knew how to manage the nation's finances, give us a sound banking system and “honest money.” The conditions which then existed 4ere created by the Republican party and the Democrats shared none of the responsibility by reason of any act of theirs. But the Republican party was returned to power and has had absolute control of all branches of the national government ever since. Has it done’ anything toward giving the country sounder financial systems? Not at all, thougn President Taft declares that “it certainly needs it ’ We have behind us twelve..years of Republican brag, bluff and false pretense on the money question as well as on the tariff trusts and all other Important matters. DEFENDS THE STANDPATTER® In his speech last week defending with all his might the Payne-Aldrich-Cannon tariff, President Taft scored the “insurgent*' Republican senators ({ndudhg Senator Beveridge) who voted against the bill. Mr. Taft said: “In matters of it is a question with the party representative whether he shall help maintain the party solidarity for accomplishing its chief purpose or Whether the department from principle in the bill, as he regarded it, to so extreme that he must in conscience abandon the party.” After saying this, however, he declared he was “glad to see that those (BevCridge a\id others) who voted against the bill still Insist toat they pre Republicans. The week before Mr. Taft made these remarkable statements one of the Indiana Republican newspapers asserted that there was no inconsistency in the action of Bov- ) eridge voting against the bill and of Taft in approving and signing it, and that if their positions had been , reversed each would have done what the other did. If that to so, Mr. Beveridge would now be declaring that Mr. Taft "abandoned the party/’ although he would try to let him down easy by giving him credit for "insisting" that he to “still a Republican." All in all it to a pretty nasty fight that the Re?, publican party has Oft its hands. In a pinch, use ALLEN’® FOOT-EABE 1 A powder to shake into your shoes. It cures hot, tired, aching, swollen, sweating feet and makes walking easy. Takes the sting out of corns and bunibns. All druggists 25 cts. Don’t accept any substitute. o - CARD OF THANKS In this manner we wish to thank our many friends and neighbors who so kindly assisted us during the re*, cent illness and death of our father, and ateo for the beautiful fioral ■offerings.^"’r 'v ' Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Richards. ...

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