Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 19 May 1910 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT S • 1 1 Iffife " mmmcwkv MoaimreaY H ' 11'" *■ *>•''■' «jnm yba* tk "•■*■' - ■■ - ■■■■- ■ ™.a.i. 1 .. ..... ■fettered at the postofficeat Decatur, , tad., aa second Clam mall matter. ' ■' " n: - •RHCIAL PAPER OF ABAMS CO. > , ~ , — ■■ • '.u “i i"" '■•■-■Jfe HE IS STILL *■’■■■•'■•■« *•' -■ A BOLD BAD The prohibition republican press still insist that John W. Kern is unfit to represent the Bute of Indiana in. the United States senate. They say that he had the nerve to defy the brewers and that the brewers are for .him. Do you see any truth about a. statement that bears the earmarks of such direct contradiction, and is it hard to discerri Wether It‘matters any which side, of the brewery fence Mr. Kern is on, so far as this prohibition republican press are concerned. It is evident that .politics is at the bottom of the game, and if they have their way Mr. Kern will be placed in the attitude of being six in a bed with the brewers and at the same time he will be ; defying them with red hot coals of wrath. Isn’t it ridiculous and haven’t the prohibition republican press .shown the . true color, of their political hair. They expect this sort of illcoriceived rant to cloud the mind of the voter and cause him to fail to inquire whether or not the foreigner still pays the tariff tax. Even the partisan voter is forming a nasty habit of enquiring as to .how much of the tariff loot goes into the channels of good government and how much into the close fists of the special interests. The laborer, whise wages has failed to keep pace with the rising prices of everything Consumed, is beginning to ask pointed questions as to where he comes in on the game, and he has good ground for suspicion at least, that the dice &re loaded and that he will get his, where he has been getting it—in the neck. The merchant who is compelled to add from twenty-five to one hun- . dred per cent to the selling price of his merchandise, is compelled to protect himself and his business by truthfully stating that the added increase in price is but a Christmas , .. >»s a. present to the trusts and special Interests. Fearful, lest the people get too wise, the republican press in Indiana have become great •moralists, and many of them can already give the - average preacher cards find' spadfea and beat him at.his own game, while-} the staid and sturdy deacon is. simply not in it at all- They can scent moral disorder at half range. They see in John W. Kertia bold and bad man. The only place their vision seems clouded is In viewing '■ the object of their charity—Alpert J/Reveridge. He has hob worked at'ft> tear and he has not worked at it hard; but he is the real thing'they say. But even the temperance people of Indiana are onto Albert J. Beveridge with both feet. He handed them out the, double cross ones, but nay, nay, Pauline, never again. The tempbre ance people of Indiana are wise in this campaign, and it is *, safe bet, that tiie prohibition republican press, will be wiser olection returns are all in. . . in** ■■■■baZSnßHl • THE . ' • people’s opportunity It is admi|tel that the people =arq ht last thoroughly' disgusted to'the iniquities of ' thw legisia/ tion. They know* bow/ udftfer fctrtJb ’*‘•l’.' '■ ' legislation, for have paid into the public treasury -- un nn—-; —* —rr I*- 1 *-- * **■” for public purposes they have paid ■** i‘-*r ■ I*," *V~ v’-' ' five to private individuals for Pilvate purposes. Under the.-Jiign-“protecting” the country’s industries, tariff laws have been enacted to swell the enormous gams of trails ahd monopolies that not only needed no. protection, but that were shi > ' ping Lheir products abroad" and scll- «■ ing them at prices far below those exacted from the American people, 'me democratic party has called the attention ot the people to these and other things time and again and begged the voters of the country to..assist a in righting the worst wrong of the age. Will they do h£v,

Wlh large numbers of them throw away the opportune by ..i hi?Bbrtihg r pJW«r.republican regulars or "insutffltetaT . both of *whom,*re v still, committed to the policy of ’’pVotec--5 tion,” which is the foundation stone , of legalized larceny, monopoly and Almost prohibitory prices of the necessaries bl llfe? "■>> . 'Ju spite.pt the fact that WadeH. •Bills was given a leave M, absence from his duties as official trust-buster of the Taft administration in order ’ that he could give all of his time to “saving Ohio,” it apepars that the republicans of that state have engaged ip * throat-slitting contest which blds fair to finish them after the fas .- ion of’.their Indiana brethren. SO SAYS CONOR MORRIS SHEPPARD OF TEXAS With the enactment of the Payne tariff bill the lash of the tax gatherer . falls more mercilessly upon the tired shoulders. of the American people, it would be difficult to imagine a more signal instance of political treachery than this republican tariff law of 1909. Summoned by a majority of a. million in a voting total of fourteen millions to correct the oppressfbhs>of its Own tariff law, the Dingley law of 1897, the republican party, deyised measure that gave oppression wider sway. Called to reform the tariff the republican party deformed it beyond all Conscience. Its response to the people’s cry for lower taxes was a statute imposing higher taxes. Like the Ethiopian, it could not alter its skin; like the leopard, it could not change its spots. In returning the republican party to power in 1908 the American people evidently forgot the history of this faithless organization. From its first accession to control it has multiplied the burdens and obstructed the advancement of the republic. From 1860 to 1909 it has erected a veritable, stairway' of increasing tariffs each more oppressive than the last Beginning with , the colossal emergency tariffs of the American Civil was, tariffs tolerated only because of a crisis involving the nation’s life, enacted with the solemn understanding that they would be reduced when the struggle %nded, it has kept succeeding tariffs at and above the martial level throughout nearly all the forty-, five succeeding years pt peace. In .the . Dingley law of 1897 it established the' highest tariff duties the United States had ever known, levying so heartiest a tribute on the people that within a Jew years the demand for tariff revision became almost universal The spectacular performances Ot MV t Roosevelt diverted popular attention' to other measures during the seven . lurid years of his asceudency. But the tide pf thje < could ’ not permanehtly' bh Stayed. Unable ■\ longer to ignore the deihsmf the republican party in its .natlodar platform of 1998 covenanted to modify, the tyrannies of the tariff. It wouldi : seem that with so plain : a mandate ’i >from the people, so 'plain a prtimlsh ’ th its platform, so generous gn la; dorsemeht at the polls the .republi-, party have made serious - jeffort to remedy its own abuses of the tariffs But What ’ With' a pferfidy unapproached in ai( ti&p ' the’’ republican party enacted tariff.] >'■; ■. !. 'f S 'lu. >:■» ' ' ' •• a higher average ofi rates’ s -than that law it pretemfeff to The-.new 'republicah thritt law ! ’!.i < ■ to .SJT ;’be excused on We p^un^of bagj&.pr ; ’■.i^Sd^^or' fear; For twelve.ynars < .ihe t rappblteanS had possessed fidi op-’ ' -portutilty to study the ■■ 'W'i,'*' ■ k ;; ■ '^'P 1 ‘j, ' '■ l . -i®' z Dingley .rates. For twelYwyekih they had heard'on. every, [ side the appeal of a sane and sclentitle reformation of the customs taws. . They were men skilled in every phase , of politics and legislation. They selecti ed for the task of revision a-time , removed as far as possibly from the I succeeding general elections. It may well be said .therefore, that the Payne ■ tariff law is a deliberate and charac- ■ teristic republican product, that it , represents the best tariff legislation i of which the republican party is capable. It is evidence, therefore, of the most conclusive character that the republican party is essentially unable to i make a genuine and honest reduction : of the tariff.. It is evidence, further*

more, of the corrupting influence of high protection. Holding tenaciously to toil* theory, it is imppesible tpr the n adequate readjustment bf the 'tariff i rates. It has tteVer done so And It neYer wfil, The practical eitect dff to? •» Republican theory of protection ia the taxation’ Os the entire people to ' guarantee the profits of certain industrldii. 1'...' '"‘i THE DANGER SIGNAL. You can’t fool to,e spn ML the‘time —not even that republican organ of sweetness and light* the New York;. Sun. “If the prevalence fn all parts of the country,’’ says that paper, .“of purely local causes regularly defeating republican candidates for congress, for county and town offices and delivering republican strongholds to the 'democratic party has no .particular significance, we confess that we, are unable to conceive of any political danger signal that would be Worthy of seripus attention.” Commenting on the above, the, Orleans State says that the New York paper “la not so foolish as to shut Its eyes to the fact that the Roches ter revolt and other recent republi- .■ ■ ■.■ ... - ■■ t .i ■ ■.. f-m j can defeats, show the voters are manifesting toeir dissatlsfactioa with republican policies and ptacticesj hence ft is absurd to attribute’the partydisasters to local causes When the whole country is in a ferment of tariff agitation because of , the prices the people have to pay for everything they eat and wear.” And this ferment of tariff agitation has really only just begun. It will not end until toe tariff question is settled and settled right • s. After eliminating from the campaign contribution publicity bill thp provisions requiring the publication in advance of cOgressional elections of. the names of contributors and the amounts given; by them, the senate committee on privileges and elections ordered a favorable, report oh . that measure. If the senate idea is carried out not be published until fifteen daya after such elections. The reason given for not favoring publication before election was that the attention <jf. the vo&rs might tie “diverted” Issues in such away as,,to-hg, “prejudicial to tod public interests?’ -.WWcfy pjL course, is pqpycock. It wouMPOiflJ* be prejudicial to the candidates whb Would be shown to be backed byseifseeking petaffla or '’ l Two Democratic congressmen- from Indiana, namgly, (fox’of the Third district, and Adajr Qf the Eighth, have.| started awar'on the mileage graft allowed congressmen. Under the Igw as it stands niile- is aflowed to ctordr traveling expenses ’to rates are approximately onl> two cefitß a mile, toe twenty cents’ aHpwance should 4e abdHflliedr* hf 'their’ flght Adair and Cox haVef the kiipport es every other pemocratic congress; then "from Indiana, and even Barnard pnd Crunitfackifer, the two republicans, a -change. Martin; $p, t "funny .wan ..on 'the iiididndpoijs. News, says tiers are lour kinds '<rff republicans at this |yritlng:“3*e out and out, toe Tn j saabbut, -tee in-bad; ,fsd the '^Owp/and s >-•>■. -m..-. X. • 1° ’Cv tariff commlskiop , proposition 4 ddr f Ihg toe <tottitag ?I «w«walgn. > if .and people as a rule gre ape to takd qp wish the new prop- , isitions. But what is there to this -t-‘.., 'j- . i . ' ’ tariff commission? It is a’proposition to appoint ft number of men to revise certain schedules, when, in toeir opin-, ions ,the needs of the times demand such revision. It is a well known fact that tarl ffrevlsion is carried on by a comparatively few members of congress. It Is likewise well known that parties interested in maintaining a high tariff on any line of goods make, it a point to keep in, touch with the men in-congress who wield influence. Were a commission provided for, the members of it would be subject to the same influences that congressmen are, and the chances are MmW the special interests would be better

S ij -a fj they‘can dmndle 'the ways and means ; committed In congress Or ebngress- . men and senators after a bill corned k njl fqr deihfte.afid , this power ,in the hands of a few mqn . would certainly ;not be any improvement over present methods an Itwbuld vouchsafe, to the gteat majority ; of the people nothing more than they i likye .In i|ie way of rights, • >tae Other hand, it would seem to-riSie, . the interests a special advantaf*PJ Columbia City Post. 5 r / -■ ■ 'I ML".'lll I iwft-' V . Election expenses in the state of Pennsylvania cqme high. The electlons held in that commonwealth last I ■. C f ; :. . . year cost the taxpayers ho less than z six million dollars. Much of this expense ia deeiped wholly unnecessary and useless. The registration of voters alone cost two million dollar*, While it is admitted that registration in the larger cities does some good, the contention is inaiide that tion- in the smaller cites is g mere waste; of moneyi .-y,— ( ' ' '-.gg ' SETTLE IT RIGHT. . 1 !. : .i The Indiana democratic platform demands that tariff taxes shall. be collected for revenute only. The, republican platform reaffirms, the proposi-tion-that toe tariff shall be imposed tor protection'. The effort to kill the tariff as a public question by the creation of a commission to handle the subject and distribute the protection will not work. To paraphrase a stated ment made by an influential paper, the “tariff for revenue only" doctrine will never be dead while men demand that which is their own, and protection will never be dead while men dematid that which belongs to their neighbors. The nompratectionlst demands his right to do as he wishes with his own—to make and use, to buy and sell. The protectionist demands that the public be obstructed in’ pttbcblse-. that he ? may levy pr|c,es , on them td which he is not in equity entitled. Mr. and Mrs. Coat.£qi>k went to Mhrion to be in attendance at toe missionary convention being held i' A handsome wedding cake of Whiteness, .handsomely garnished* the masterpiece of tiie baker at the ParVito adorned (he bakery windowyestordey, Wete it was much a<£ mired, thq same to grace tiie bridal table at ~ to® ’ lCobhe4Jifle breakfast today. J ri ' 1 Idrs. lid liewton apd daughter, JSdithr, of Monmouth were shopping Mrs. Lewfo» received' message that her aunt, Mrs. Sabina Bohren, of Fort Waynp* age<i H kC6wn hete*h*vifig spent several months last summer with her niece, Mrs. Lewtog. z,» ' £ City,‘ Ind., May* 17—The M. Hadkleman, pastor of the church at Mofctpelier, Sunday ,pigh]t took for file Subject "No Baccataurmite sermon. Why?” and took casion to repiy to membefs of the League, who, he charges, Mw ridiculed and persecuted him for .tM tyo 'yeato tltafl people Hafoned attentively to hiffi. ■ aWlusibh addrdte, which Washta first Wifi'tepiy teiithe stories abotiV hfifi' era pf the- "di-y*’ ffroiamW in Hi!rb ford City; gad Montpelier; ; toVhufaded By members qf { tlrf a l*fe|M" atfdtifolyWieus to shake ififrs hkiid- staf tatoMmk ;j: H taser mon Was oneof the most 6 dT rent accueatlans df fraud' and(. ■wot delivered* pit ‘ and jjwny.j tlrnlta^ toe speaker interrupted by laugMef froth ence, which wW unable threbtrahi itself at the sorry 1 picture presented By the Montpelier reformers, 1 'at by the Rev. Mr. Hackleman during his remarks. -? . ’fo,-,;” The itev. Mr. Hackleman replied td the attacks plainly and accused L. fi. iKelley, superintendent of the Montpelier schools, and W. S. Bull, Df. F. M. Reynolds and William Page, the three school board members, with being grafters, hypocrites and character assdssins, insincere and unworthy of places ip the public school system of Montpelier. Six members of the high school graduating class who, it is said, had been forbidden to attend the services by the school authorities, braved the Wrath a ßf “Officials and heart the sei-' delfft- JO awr.‘!‘f ?

illebedctoerapetold value for the relief /as All IrMnxkV’/ttVtfl VlfrA A AT *. J Y *H(I vare oi an Kiuuey anu Diauuer ai* i menu. HolthOuse Drag Oo.' ! ‘ Foley Kidney; tratisepttei tbnife i afid'’rtßtohtive'aftd •/ prompt Wredttve of tall urfhhry irregulafltiek. tadOrtftutes. Holthbuso u 9 ' •• ' <> i .Hu i,*,. i 'iii | nigfei I* i ■)!»>** • ■ FUNERAL OH FATHER RQCHff*. . t e A ’• . .. 1 MAhy from th|s City lyfij the funeral of tire Rev. Fhtaex F "F. Roche *t Fort ’ Wayne Wednesday morning. I Cathedral Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock,- witore tfte remains will He in state until Wednesday mornipg, The removal of the body will be accompanied by an escort of priests. Bishop Alerdlng will read the high mass of requiem, ' i tr, it>ui. . .I . I—7 ( SOUTHERN LYRICS ~ . , v \ < : THAT, RING TRUE. ' Grace, facility and; pathos are the salient characters of toe introspective, melodious“Verses and Sonnets" by Julia Stockton Dinsmore, which Doubleday, Page A Company have tog sphered .topdems come ffom the proud heftr of an ’ aristocratic* Kentuckian who has lived ft long life ift ’flteest' totibh* wjlfh' nature add book* —and the wishful note of memory prevail*' throughout. All the poems lire not said;. hpweVer, but many reflect 'the joy 6fJ livfhg as seen ini' the songs of the Birds and beauties of the flowers. Spme show the gift of onomatopoea, as the note of the bobwhite, “not quite, not quite,” and the swishing whir ,of the old-fashioned spinning-wheel in the line, “I wish I were, wish I were, wish I were with him.” Every poem is stamped with the sincerity and simplicity Os a lonely heart singing to itself, without theught of listeners, and it is apparent that any thought of publication was far removed • frbnr the’ poet’s mind when they were penned. Some, like “Day . Dreams,” contain true Tennysonian music, while in "A Sonnet -Sequence" Miss Dinsmore approaches the heights of real poetic greatness. o-; ‘■<; Richmohd, TnC; May 18- i (Bpecl£ to Daily Democrat)—ln twelve special trains and a number of special interurban cars more than 3,000 visitors from Indiana and Ohio towns arrived >here today to attend the annual convention of the St. Joseph StaatzZeltung. It is declared that the societies will not discuss political issues. .. \ , r rMii.'if. ‘ Laporte,; Ind., May lS»*-(Speclal to Daily Democrftt)«*MltcheH Fitzgerald Os. Princeton, was run over and killed by a Pere Marquette train near Benton Harbor, Mich.,.today He was identified by fotter* from a Princeton < /' '. V.' ’ . Washington, D. C. May 16—(Special. to -Daily jbembprat)**'! consider President, Taft’s letter to Chairman Neteon of the i Ballinger invtetigatlng committee,; exblainliig. the clrcum. stances of the Lawler letter, to be a vindication of •my statement.” This lowing the i president's move in tiie Ballinger controversy. •* <“ -u? > Murrall, Wlscohsinj May 16—(Bpecial to Daily ! DemoeratJ—Desperate vffoeta iby lumber mtlV mefi, working ftfl night saxOd Art toww ot Panrtsh from the mosj disastrous forest ffire* ever •kpertenjsed LhKOln connty. Fire fighters are today trylng to the towns /of felm fries Junction jaaifl »so | ) >u| . ' I’ l I' * '>'—«* ! ■ “ Rev.'’ Father Flaherty hhd 1 Tdt^ 1 KhingCr 10ft* this morning for RehsSaT»ter> Where Will attend tili dedfcatUtt ereVciseV Bf Joseph dtapdl; : Wiehi will' take' pihee Ttieodtfy. “A 1 W-'impbrtirft' 1 chrtlrig Gortfrhb? Mireitall, Wvfilf i&tetote a We'Msemhlf ; ’h*rf (in morning. Wlrtfiteßir tills ift atthat piieh, 1 tteeh called"upon to ■ down the gb'veritor’s spdech so? We faculty 'of mte >s: edifege.’ ’, | ‘'''' 0 ~ - _ AN IDEAL HUSBAND is patient even with a nagging wife, for he knows she needs help. She may be so nervous and run down in health that trifles annoy her. If she ( is melancholy, excitable, troubled with loss of appetite, headache, sleeplessness, constipation or fainting and dizzy spells, she heeds Electric Bitters —the most wonderful remedy for ailing women. Thousands of sufferers from female troubles, nervous troubles, headache and weak kidneys have used them and become healthy

I 'indtanapellß, ind., wi<HßmW Ji Iw y Dill, wiwnocrat)“WuliMn J* Wood, xAalwanraf. the Indiana -rail-. hasMssato >»n >w- ! teiflNOhiiltafon bn the petition lOtAhwr.' I ift 1 - 'i WWll A ’■ w 1 w" "'w ssw - raaoß *a ■ th* tompatny topTblief from tbewcent-orto. on aft toads tee statek’having gross earning* « m(-s jnitat of or * more, 1* The* petitioner der Glared in release, that its earnlngs wdre only slightly over the minimum laid down to the commission by legislative Act, and that. the money required tor .the installation of the signal systems could be expended otherwise to better ad van- < tage in assuring safety to patrons of the road. Chairman Wood went into the hie- * tory of the block signal order ln~ detail, since the, care Os tiie GC’ ft. 7 A I. 7 has counterpart In scores of railroads ’in tao state, which would hhVe the' same groiipd* for asking tdbiteb a h* ? ' advanced by the petitioner. An examination ofthe records of the petitioner showed that the traih inoviement over L single track in 4 from Richmond north, was frota twen- ' ty to. thiry trains a day, with an un* usually heavy summer traffic, due to frequent excursion trains. Accidents, 'either fatal or serious, to passengete' ‘ on the road have been few. ‘ > Chairman Wqod held, however, thftt? ! the commission whs “uhable ‘to con- jl ‘ cede that where there is such A ’movement (of trainsy, the - same can be conducted, When there are no 'bfock signals, without substantial hazard to - life hnd property? 1 ' I Jr “It is not *h‘ we understand wrote Chairman, bod, “that a rail- ■ road has gone bh from week to week and month to month and year to year Without accidents. Accidents do hot occur in the normal and ordinary course of business and transportation; safety appliances hrd not made,, as a rule, to- protect a railroad from dally accidents. The accident is the extraordinary and unlooked for and unexpected event, and it is for this very thing that Mock signal* wereprovided, so that the unexpected and. unlooked-for may not happen. “Inasmuch as the decision in, this case will indicate to other carriers in the state the yltws of the commissfon on thio, important subject, we hare given full consideration to this mat-: : ter and deem It best to express our convictions heretofore affirmed with block signalling in this stated ' fowK .""O ’. A REGULAR TOM BOY . was Susie—climbing trees and jumping ditches, whltling, always getting scratches, cuts, sprains, bruises* bumps, burns or ,scalds. But 7awsf Her mother jubt applied Bucklenta Arnlca Salve and, cured her quick. Heals everything healable—bolls, ulcers. eczema, old iores, corns or piles. Tky it; 25s at all druggist*. . , ’7,. r The bans bf. matrimeay were lished for at St. Maig^ hv church on last Sunday Frances 'Biting and MCEdward Gase. Both people well known ajwL the .ov^t,'i|iirite'4yiMy i; biippy.ow-.. . 1 ; •/#' i" ''.wrrWgtti* ■ L^>N- ; : IpPittsburg a- savage Upr,: foadjegc the hand. that a f child thrust Into Ms ; ,qfegq. Danger ,to a child, is sostetime* ; - least regarded. Often-tt coma* ; through <coW*> croup mH-A .ccnigh; They. slay . sand* that lfr. King’s New DtoßPwery - cquldthave asved. “A few dosewpured our baby of-a very bad cftee of crpup,” , MteAfPeorge 9. Davis of- Flat. Rock, N.-X?.* f’iWe always give ~&> tQ . him’when hf cold. .--Its» a-wxm? derful medicine: ton Aftbies." coughs, .colds, lagrippe, hemorrhages, weak, langs, o.Qe and; Trial tetttie free/ ( Gh*raateed OdJ '.--trf-ii > /■ be*. 1 *- I .' ttfr ?s,, ..... Ohfld»ea .Cry ■ t<ir< » ra»:FI.EK!HErS . ■ ■.■.■4 ..a- 1 . «■/. p. p: p. o. , ... > - ’ y • *l’ ' k;.l Positive,. Painless Pile Cure iqpiK , tnonough and complete, practiced and paihiess method of treating all jcurabale diseases of th* ( reetum evqr placed before the public. It ? dtajacb* aU tee old, barbarous methods of cutting, ligating and injecting. are permanently cured in, a few weSty by the use pf this treatment, \ Mssure Fistula, Catarrh, Inflammation, j Ulceration, Prolapsus, Constipation, Bleeding, Blind and