Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 25, Decatur, Adams County, 4 April 1895 — Page 4

PL'BiJsHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, EDITOR $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. THURSDAY, APRIL 4. The new fee and salary law will now be tested in the courts. Some flaw in the law makes the whole thing subject to court dissection, and that is severe and painful some times. The governor’s private secretary has been called before a grand jury wnere he is supposed to have tok. all be knew about the legislative rumpus in which he was a central figure. At Chicago a bank cashier took $50,000 in currency from the vaults ami afterwards confessed his guilt. It was the same old story, he having gambled in stocks, lived high, and the result was as sure as taxes in Adams county. We are again indebted to Congressman Mart’r for favors shown. This time it is a complete record of the session of the fifty-third congress. The document will prove very valuable, so here is our free ami unlimited coinage of thanks. The new'tariff law seems to be meeting the general demands of the government very nicely, and you hear nothing to its disapproval. To try it was to like it, and we like it because it was just what the country at large ought to have. Illinois democrats will meet Boon ami take action upon the monetary question, and the indica tions are that they will favor free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. They don’t propose to Inmealy mouthed about it, ami whatever they want they intend to figure for. Yesterday the postoffice at Springfield, Ohio, was robbed of *B.OOO, ami no one has a faint idea as to who perpetrated the neat job. It was done at noon by the use of duplicate keys, securing an entrance into the private office of the postmaster. The amount was all in stamps. Charles Edgar Brown has been appointed by the president as postmaster at Cincinnati, the ap \ pointmeut having been made last Friday. It is said that the ap pointee owes his go >d fortune to the fact that he was a bosom friend of Postmaster Billy Wilson. So, much for luck. Governor Matthews intends naming non-partisan boards of control for our benevolent institutions, I something that will lie generally ■ approved by thepeopleof the state, except the politicians. Rumors ariafloat that the governor and Sena tor Voorhees will lock horns in the next contest for the senatorship, but these rumors are indefinite as fairs. It is real amusing to read the long winded statements of republi can statesmen who affiliated with the late unpleasantness at Indianapolis. They all tiied to tell their constituents all about it when they reached their homes, and universally they termed the rumpus as a joke. It seems to a man up a tree that it is quite a serious joke to crush the wind out of a man, break his ribs and so on, just for a joke. It’s quite a joke, any way. With our manufacturers s -tiding wagons, carriages, steam engines, pumps, boots and shoes nearly ail over the world, steel armor plates to Russia and Italy, locomotive driver tires to Europe, nearly all kinds of the manufactures of steel and iron to South America, cutlery and woolen fabrics to England, besides cotton goods to other countries, it looks very much as though we are able to compete with the products of “pauper labor.”—Lebanon Pioneer. The elections of Tuesday indicate a favorable uprise of democracy after a short concealment under a half bushel. There was no cyclone or tidal wave which comes from whence no one knows, but it was a general feeling that democracy is neither dead nor sleeping. Next year the people may expect much of democracy and not be disappointed. Swift, the republican candidate for mayoi of Chicago, was elected by some 45,000 plurality. That of course don’t look very democratic, but these city lections, and espeUallya city like Chicago, you can never tell where it is at.

The Sentinel Tells Why. “Did this government ever have free c-in age of silver, and if so, why can’t it have it now? What has happened to prevent it at this timet” That is a formidable question, but consider it for a moment. Unquestionably this government had free coinage of silver for some eighty years. Nobody ever questioned that. Unquestionably we can have it now if the people want it. Nobody ever questioned that. This country once had wampum for money. It cau have it now if the people want it. It once had an irredeemable paper money. It ean have it now if the people want it. It once had stage coaches instead of railroads. It can have them now if the people want it. There is no question as to what the people can have in the way of mere legislation, but there is a serious question as to what they should want and why they should want it. and there is a i painful certainity as to now legislation would result in this case. Neither ths country nor any other country ever had bimetal lisiu, or free coinage of silver, or of gold, or of both, “independent of other nations,” and none have ever had. If you will study the history of our coinage legislation of 1792, when we established the ratio of 1 to 15, or the legislation of 1835, when we established the ratio of 1 to 16, you will find that our states meu carefully examined the “market value” of the metals and the coinage ratio of other nations, and tried to make our raiio conform as closely as possible to the general ratio. They did this because the.v knew that one nation alone could not control the relations of the piecions metals to each other. The reason why they knew this is simple. \\ hen you use any weight or measure you must have some material and tangible form for it. You cau imagine yards and pounds tnd bushels, and you can guess at them, but when you want actually to use them you must have yardsticks and weights and measures. And so with measures of value ! You cannot buy anything withan imaginary dollar. You must have -oinething to lay down on thecoun ter that can be seen and felt. In all ages and in all countries, known as civilized, by universal consent, gold and silver have been the materials for measuring value. The only way they can be used is to agree that a certain weight or quantity of the metal shall represent a certain value. And when both are used it must be established that a i certain quantity of one shall I a equal to a certain quantity of the ' other. This universal use of the-e two metals existed before the United Stars did, and when the United States decided to use them for its

measures of value its statesmen saw that they must value them as nearly as possible as the rest of the world, because they knew that the world was larger than the United States. Some people seem to real ize that now, but it is a fact. There ire about 60,000,000 people in the United States, and there are 1.487,900,000 people in the world. Now, [ if the 60,000,000 people of the United States say that they it ill make 16 ounces of silver equal to one ounce of gold and the remaining 1,487,900,000 people of the world say they will make 82 ounces of silver worth one ounce of gold, it ought to be reasonably plain to anybody that the United States will get the silver as long as it has any gold to pay for it, and when it has no gold it will make no difference what our people say as to the relative value of the two, because it will only have one metal. It would lye just like a man who had no money offering to pay 81 a bushel for all the wheat in the world. Wheat would not go up a cent. If the people of this country want silver monometallism they can gel it quickly and easily by adopting a ' free cointge law. But the indications are that the people do not ' want silver monometallism, and ! the Sentinel is of the opinion that this is the only reason in t he worffi why we cannot have free coinage of silver by this country alone. J. W. Middleton will start for the famous Painesville nurseries in about two weeks to select his stock of fruit trees, vines, plants, ornamental stock and seeds of all kinds. If you want anything in this lie 1 you will do well to place your order “ with him, as he will save you fifty 1 cents on the dollar. All goods 1 guaranteed true to name and No. 1 1 stock. Our bread trade is growingDon’t ask us why? The bread is what talks. Union Bakery. Follow the crowd at meal time and you will find yourself at the Union Bakery. Myers & Middleton for Seed Potatoes. Early Rose and White Sar.

Legal Advertising. (GDI < >F Dlb- » Tl’ A. Not lev is hereby given that the partnership I, retoforeexistingbetwc*n Daniel N. Era n and Fred Falk, in the piano anfi music business*, by mutual consent has this day been dissolved. said Erwin retiring. The present stock will be closed out. Daniel N. Erwin. Fred Falk. March®. 1805. XETOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT OI ESTATE. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Thompson Roebuck, deceased, to appear in the Adams Circuit . < aurt. held at Decatur. Indiana, on the Pith day of April. ’.*35. and show cause if any. why the final settlement accounts with the estate t of said decedent should not be approved: and I said heirs are notified to then and there make i proof of heirship, and receive their distributiveshares. CLARISSA ROEBUCK Executrix, i Decatur. Indiana. March 23.1895. France & Merryman, attorneys. | STATEMENT. Report of the condition of the Bank of Berne, at Berne, in the State of Indiana, at I the close of its business. March 28. lsys. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $76,255 48 Overdrafts 143 35 • Furniture and fixtures 1.139 47 Current expenses 1.1 s 7 70; Interest paid u 0 Currency 6.082 Specie 5U6 sj Due from banks $23.792 37 Cash and cash items 1,350 53 25.142 0 Profit and lihss "1 36 Total resource- $110,844 39 ; LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in 00 Surplu* fund. “'•"■'i" l Discount, exchange and interest 3,1ul 27 , Undivided profits 339 73 Ind*l deposits on demand... .$49,307 27 Individual deposits on time. 16.0U0 00 65.707 27 j .i hie 1W 12 Total liabilities. $119,811 30 , State of Indiana. • County of Adams, f 5 *®' I. Rudolph Lehman, cashier of the Bank of . Berne. Berne. Ind., do solemnly swear that 1 the above statement is true. Rudolph Lehman. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this-nh . day of March. 189.5. Andrew Gottschalk. Notary Public. I STATEMENT. Report of the condition of the Old Adams County Bank, at Decatur, in the State of Indiana, nt the close of its business. March 28. 1885. RESOUIU F.S. Loans and discounts ?"*62 696 93 Overdrafts 2.752 74 Bonds 1.»*»2 65 Banking house 6.808 40 Furniture and fixtures 2.699 9j i Current expenses 5u2 17 Due from batiks A5 ?4 Cash items 26.568 58 95,744 42 Total resources $372,867 21 ■ LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $120,000 oO > Surplus fund SaUOIU Discount, exchange and interest.. . 3,5'39 2.’ ; Undivided profits 667 86 j Dividends unpaid 1.575 00 Rent 62 N) lad 1 deposits on demand.sls3,794 79 lnd’l deposits on time 9U.6J7 56 244.468 35 , Total liabilities $372,867 2' | State of Indiana. • County of Adams. I. R. K. Allison, cashier of the Old Adams i County Bank, do solemnly swear that the I above state men* is true. R. K. Allison. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 2.Hh : day of March, 1895. Simeon P. Beatty. Notary Public. TO CONTRACTORS of the letting for construction of the Patten free gravel road. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned engineer and superintendent of the Patten fret* gravel road in conjunction with the 1 boards of commissioners of Adams county and Jay county, state of Indiana, will, on the ■ 18th Day of April, 1895, at the auditors office in Jay county. Indiana, proceed to let to the lowest and Itest bidder or bidders, the contract for the furnishing of all material and doing all work necessary for the completion of the said Patten fret* gravel road, according to plans and specifications on file with the auditor of each county above named. Bids for the same may l>e made and filed with the auditor of Jay county. Indiana, at any time until 10o'clock a. m. of said day. All bids must be sealed and accompanied by a bond of SSOO. signed by at least two freeholders of one of the above named counties, and approved by the engineer and boards of [commissioners; conditioned that should the contract be awarded them, they will enter into contract for the faithful performance of said work. Said road liegihs at the southwest corner of section thirty-three (33), town- [ ship twenty-five (25) north, range fourteen (14) east, Adamscounty. Indiana, thence running [ east on the county line road, between the | counties of Jay and Adams, state of Indiana. [to the state line, a distance of 10.4 W feet. The i engineer and commissioners reserve the right | to reject any or all bids. Abe Bergman. Auditor Jay County. W. H. H. France. Auditor Adams County. John W. Tyndall. 24>t3 Engineer.

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