Decatur Democrat, Volume 53, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 4 August 1910 — Page 4

■wmrvmnmMY noaffme rt [;■ urw ■% ellingmam, ****** SMBPGB YMAJS Ul ABYABOL "' latent at the ppatoffice at Decatur, ML, as second class mall matter. OFFICIAL RARER OF ADAMS Ml mu Jill >■■■■,..ssfeggp 'i: I ,!*?„sgg WHERE ROQgEVELT HAB ALWAYS STOOD The LaFollette delegation to the republican national convention of 1904 was thrown out of the convention. The patronage and countenance of the national administration were given without stint to Spooner and the stalwarts In their fight to kill off LaFollette. Every. sympathy of Roosevelt was manifestly with the anti-LaFol-lette wing.

In lowa, likewise, during the long, heart-breaking struggle which Cummins led for the destruction of the railroad political oligarchy, Roosevelt was always counted against Cummins and for the oligarchy. In Illinois, when the bitter elements were making a determined fight to unhorse Senator Hopkins, Roosevelt made Hopkins chairman of the committee on resolutions of the 1908 painonal convention, giving him an endorsement that resulted in Hopkins carrying the primaries—and the unfit eakab eLorimer becoming senator! In Kansas, when. Long was fighting for a senatorial■,nomination, Rooee--.elt’s influence was thrown to his side' as against Bfristow>, • In .RoQsevelt was- the leader ofopposition to a state constitution wMeh intelligent publicists l ave widely Accepted as the latest FBd SMt Wfffd for progress la eosstltutlmi .making. In Pennsylvania tee exposure <4 the

state capitbl ‘graft having endangered |' the republican control of the state, I Roosevelt spoke In favor of party regularity at a • ttale When every other leader of reform sincerely believed a republican defeat would be a magnificent achievement for the cause of 1 progress. . -- ■* ’ In Massachusetts Roosevelt has always andunifornjly been the friend and supporter'Of Henry Cabot Lodge, uho is an absolutely dependable Tory. To such meh as Joseph G. Cannon, I James E. Watson.anfi other leaders of Toryism in congress, Roosevelt wrote letters which, published at the height of crucial political campaigns, served as Indorsements of the reactionaries to whom they were addressed. f At Cleveland, Roosevelt practically commanded Theodore E. Burton to accept thp republican candidacy for mayor against Tom L. Johnson, leader Os the remarkable jeform and humanitarian movement in that city. Burton I had the support of the municipal monopolies, the “'regular” republicans and Roosevelt! And Johnson received hearty .10,000 majority of the vote. —Hampton!Sj Mags line.

Mr. Beveridge’s special organ, the Indianapoßs Bun, gives notice that “this year the progressive (insurgent) republicans, do not. intend to be fooled. They,intend to be represented (dictate the candidates) or they intend to punish the powers that are.** The Sun Is a foot to print that kind of threats if it really has any interest in Mr. Beveridge’s success.—Huntington Morning Times, Rep. Tne Washington (D. C.) Herald says: “One thing is certain: Governcr Marshall has made one of the best governors that Indiana has had, and from Oliver P. Morton down the list is a strong one." Coming from a republican paper this is a notable admission. But the statement is true, as everyone knows. Both Governor Marshall and his administration will be b-- powerful factors making for democratic success In Indiana this fall. j THE TARIFF • f•. . . IB THE ISSUE In his speech as temporary chairman of the Ohio republican convention Mr. Longworth said that the principal issue on which the party in that state “will appeal to the people in thii campaign js and must inevitably b< the tariff.” Ho assumes responsibil

lity for the present law in the foUow'rng words: 1 . "Wqcould not dodge it if we j v would; . we ought not to if wo equid. We ave responsible” toMt' in the fullest sense. It would be mere futility to attempt now to shirk our responsibility.” , ~ Undoubtedly the republican party is responsible for the Payne law. It was a republican congress that enacted it and a republican president that signed it, and declared it the best tarlfl law ever enacted. Mr* Longworth is therefore right when he says that his party cannot dodge it if it would, and that it ought not to wish to do so. We think, however, that in his very commendable effort to bring the two vlngs or roe party together the distinguish stateman fell into some confusion. He said that “the genuine standpatter is not en-

amored of the Payne law as it stands today.” Yet Mr. Cannon professes to be satisfied with it, and he never loses an opportunity to denounce the republicans who voted against it. Mr. Cannon is of course a “genuine standpatter.” Mr. Payne, whose name the law bears, has spoken most warmly of it. In this state the only republican endorsement that the law has received las come from the standpatters. On the other hand, the insurgents, never Weary of denouncing it Senator Beveridge is open in his hostility to it Senator Cummins is putting up a vigorous fight against it Senator Bristow .pointed out yesterday that the cotton duties had been fixed for 'th® TufpOßaof. helping, speculators in cot- - ton securities. Finally the tariff commission plan, which appeals so strong- ( ly to Mr. Longworth, was put through by the insurgents, who insisted that the law was wrong, and opposed by the regulars who insisted that the law was all that could be desired.—lndlW ’

auapolis News, Rep. 'Ja. __________- Suggestion is made that the franking privilege be. given to Colonel Roosevelt, Colonel Bryan has not been as lucky as Colonel Roosevelt/ but it strikes us that he is equally entitled to the privilege—especially if the insurgents are to control the country. He has furnished them with most of their idfeas.—Huntington Morning Times, Rep. Politicians may confer at Beverly and Sagamore Hill, but political conferences cast mighty few votes on election day, especially when the indictment is against a party and not against an individual. Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt will not save Ohio in 1210, and they may count themselves lucky if they save it in 1012.— New York World. AND GO ON THROUGH THE LIGT . 4 Madam, nave you been to the dry goods store lately. We mean your favorite trading piace right here,in the home town? Have you noticed that you must pay from 10 to 12 cento for

the standard muslins that retailed at 8 and 9 cents not long ago? And have you noticed that ginghams that sold last year at 7% cents a yard now cost 8% cents? And your quarter stocking. Not so good by a long ways as those you wished to buy at that price. And if you have been fortunate enough to be able to buy a new dress you’ve probably found that common blue berge which sold last year ’ At'7s cents a yard, now costs |l, and I broad cloth which sold last year at - fi1.25 is now quoted at |1.50. And t so on through the list; a little more I on practically every item. And you I probably think the merchant is get- . ting greedy—that he wants to get- - rich-quick. If so, you’re wrong. The b home merchant’s profits are not great- •- er—if as great—as they were a year e ago. It’s the Cannon-Payne-Aldrich >• tariff law collecting its toll from the American people and adding to the swollen fortunes of the trusts and special Interests. It is a practical demonstration of the workings of a law which President Taft character- > ized as the “best tariff law ever enl* acted” and which Senator Beveridge h says is the "worst ever.’’—Rochester <t Sentinel. • If Roosevelt is willing to support an * insurgent in one place and a ■UndpatV ter in another, what does his support

• amount < Who does he expect to deceive or mislead hv this double-dealing with the public? Adiiiiatffh'Bays that-while discussing the various schedules of the Payne-Aldrich bill, Speaker Cannon referred to the attitude-of “Bristow and Beveredge, and all of these democrats." Why, Unele Joe! Beveridge says he stands with you and Taft and all the other regulars oh everything except the tariff. And on that the only apparent difference is as to the mere amount of the “protective” graft that congress should legalise. There is no difference between you at all on the point that some amount should be legalized. To be a democrat Mr. Beveridge must oppose the graft in toto. The United States governmen is going after the bathtub trust, but the food trust is doing a prosperous business at the old stand, raising prices every day or so, and swelling? its already enormous dividends. The tub trust, the tnooth brush trust, the nail file trust, the looking glass trust and such things as that have got to look out for the attorney generars trustbusting goblins. Not so, however, with the food trust It is in no danger. The government apparently, doesn’t consider the manipulation of the price of the necessities of life—the things that the people must have —as of muc himportance. But woe to the men who combine to raise the .coet of bathtubs! The bright of the. ‘peqpleto Mvemay’tteleft’to theMlscretion of the food trust, but the right to bathe is inalienable and must not be abridged. The recent interview with Governor Marshall, printed in the New York World, and reproduced throughout the country, has attracted very marked

and favorable attention in all Quarters. It is conceded that nothing better or more to the point has been said id mfcfiy years. Without a waste of words Governor Marshall showed hbw good government may be had and only how it may be had. One influential paper in commenting on the interview said: “We learn foom Governor Mar-' shall that we _shall continue to have unrest until we have public officials who «> U. costitutfon, and people who are not satisfied with any other kind.” And then it adds: “No true citizen can question the validity of these propositions, and, indeed, their acceptance by the people is becoming daily more convincing;” Here is a chance for the Christian, benevolent people of Decatur to practice as well as preach the beauties of their cause. Fred Avery is afflicted witn muscular rheumatism. He is poor, but honest With great Christian fortitude he has managed tor the past three years to keep the wolf from the door and to support hta wife and little family. This has been done against great odds and the bat-

tie of life is a hard one for Feed Avery. Some of the benevolently inclined people of the city have undertaken to raise money-to send him to Hot Springs for treatment, and who know a permanent cure may result. A petition is now in circulation for the purpose of raising this money, and who is it that is so poor that he would -turn down this band of charity. It should not only be a duty, but a privilege to subscribe to this fund. Let’s show Fred Avery that life is worth living. The worst of the trusts which have grown up unagr the unwise policies of the republican party is the food trust. It operates between the producers and the consumers of foodstuffs. Its members grow constantly richer while those who produce make little profit and those who consume pay enormous prices. In no other country on earth are the food supplies suffered to be monopolized as they arete toe United States. Meat, fowls, fish, eggs, butter, vegetables and fruit—in foot all of the vital necessities—are controlled by the packers and cold storage people and doled out to the people at their own prices. As the Indianapolis News says: "When th „to . to Uu prices of raw food the consumer does not get the benefit Farmers are get- —

« tle tor, but the Consumer has had bo reduction. Mitt goes up in price at The I- time of year when it should be the e cheapest Rggs present the same conn dition. The conclusion is that there v is so much money in handling food ► and so little in raising it that a sklllb ed, rich and powerful class of food 1 middlemen has developed.- They r have not only developed, but they run fe things their own way without any real s effort being made to prevent their ext actions. j . . 1 The “tariff commission” proposition 1 that the republicans are trying to • think they can agree on is such a 1 transparent fraud that no one will be deceived by it unless he wants to be. The commission is intended to find “facts” which will justify the robbery of the people through high tariffs. It is also intended to delay as long as possible any real tariff reform. To pay the present expenses of the men I who are to do these things the last ses-1 sion of congress appropriated 1250,-1 000 of the people’s money. This was! done in spite ot the protest of the! democrats. “The corrupt practices in Lake coun-1 ty in the last campaign are still fresh | in the minds of the public. It was I proven that nearly 3,000 foreigners I were illegally voted in Lake county,] men who had not been in this coun-1 try long enough to be naturalized.] .Th® tremuriOh. rwhbtam which that county gave .and which] saved the republican state ticket, was! illegal, corrupt and rotten to the corsj and it is to the shame of the republi-l can party in this statd that it ever de-1 fended the voting of a herd of foreign-1 era less than six months away from I Castle Garden, men who could not] read or write or understand the Eng-1 llsh language.” — Indianapolis Sun, | Rep. The superintendent of the indianap-1 Olis city schools has asked the school I board for a $40,000 increase in the appropriation for the pay of teachers] during the next scbeol year. A prin-| cipal reason tor the increase is the high cost of living, capable teachers I are needed in all of the schools of the I state, and they must, in the nature of things, be paid sufficient wages to pro-1 vide sos their living expenses and to I encourage them to do their best work. I If the payment of such wages leads to I higher taxes, the blame must be put] where it belongs, and that is upon the] party responsible for the policies and] legislation which have brought the ] tremendous increase in the cost of] living. That party, as every intelli-l gent person knows, or should know, is the republican party. In bestowing I favors upon a few powerful interests! it has given them both opportunity ] and authority to fix prices of the need essaries of lite to suit themselves, with I tee result that they are constantly augmenting the cost If the people! do not want increased taxation, they should vote with the democrats. —WWW INCREASE* ' THE COST OF LIVING >. ■ Senator in an interview in • * J . the Indianapolis News, shows clearly > bow the Payne-Atarich tariff law, made in pursuance ot the republican ; national platform, Increases the cost -of llylng to the many while allowing i exhorbitant profits to the favored few. i He says: "The Payne-Aldrich tariff law is no worse than the republican national ' platform declaration on the tariff question. In fact, it is better than the platform. The formula laid down in the platform for the preparation of a tariff laws says the law should be bas- » e£ on the difference in the cost of. production at home and abroad, to which should be added a reasonable profit to i the home producer. This means absob lute prohibition of imports, because the home manufacturer is to get the advantage of that reasonable profit as against the foreign manufacturer who would compete with him. The two » c« I O • UiU •**

-1 this system runs up the price of his > goods and the consume* has to pay b tor hd-buys.” ’ ’ • 'anaMmamsmmmmß George B. Cox, republican boss of 5 Ohio, makes affidavit that Senator I Burton, another republican boss, is a . liar, and hypocrite, hr words to that I effect Cox also swears that Burton , also said to him that Nick Longworth L came from a snobbish family and was l a snob himself. Other affidavits from . other republican leaders about each other are yet to follow. So it seems that the Ohio brand of harmony is much the same at that in use amoiff , Indiana republicans. George Hunt after spending Sunday in the city with his family, returned to Fort Whyfie, where he has a posftion in a machine shop, —■- ' i ATTENDS SISTER'S FUNERAL. Rev. Freeman Called to Muncie by Death of Mrs. Uremie Cochran. Rev. Freeman of Pleasant lillls bas returned from Muncie, where he was I called by the death of his eldest sis- | ter, Mrs. Uramie Cochran, whose fun- ] eral was held Monday. Mrs. Cochran who was sixty-eight years pf age at I death, had been afflicted with paraly- | sis, and to this affliction was added the suffering from injury received Wednesday in « fail,-in which her hip was I broken. Her death occurred Saturday morning at 4 o’clock. HAVE YOU WRITTEN A CARD? «’• Time to De It If You Favor M . j Coming Day Thie Autumn...... • ' ■. > . ' It’a now up to the people of Decatur and Adams county to say whether or not they want a Home Coming Day this fall. men who have been boosting this are the kind who do things when start and all that is required now is a little enterprise on your part. Such events are good for a community. We need something to stir us up. If you favor this write a card to this office and if there is sufficient encouragement, amass meeting will be called to complete arrangements. ' : ■ I BALL GAME ARRANGED FOR. Guy Steck Company and Decatur Teams to Moot at Maple Grovo. •’ * * Itl jnwmmemsm » *.f’ ' (.. An, in|prfsing ball game is expected at the Maple Grove park tomorrow afternoon, when a picked team from here win cross bats with the Guy Stock company’s team. The latter is a good aggregation. Last Saturday they played the Montpelier team and were defeated in the fifteenth inning, thirteen to twelve. The locals are also a fast bunch and the fans who see tomorrow’s game win not regret it The teams as they will line up dre: De-catur-Beery, catcher; Biggs, pitcher; Burke, Ist base; France, 2nd base; Miller, left field; McConnell, right I field; Shoemaker, 3rd base; Sowle, I center field, and DeVoss, short stop. I Guy Company—Hill, right field; Line, I catcher; Wolfe, second base; HartIman, short stop; Sousa, Ist base; | Monk, 3rd base; Meyers, center field; | Mercer, pitcher. Game called at 2:30 | prompt, . NAPOLEQN’f GRIT {was of the unouerable, never-aay-die I kind, the kind that you need most {when you have a bad cold, cough or hung disease. Suppose troches, cough | syrups, cod liver oil or doctors have lan faUed, don’t lose heart pr hope. | Take Dr. King's New Discovery. Sat{isfaction is guaranteed when used { for any throat.or lung trouble. It has | saved thousands of hopeless sufferers, {it masters stubborn colds, obstinate [coughs, hemorrhages, la grippe, II croup, asthma, hay fever and whooping cough and is the most sate and ,| certain remedy for all bronchial as--11 sections. 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free at all druggists. >1 Mrs. William Shout arrived today I {from Warren, Ohio, to Join her math,l er, Mr*. William Double, in a visit ]at the John Jtox home. They w lll | le|yjß tomorrow for Mt1 Mich,, for a visit Children Cry I fU FLETCMUrJ ; ‘ ©ASTORIA

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