Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1895 — Page 6

NOW IT BEARS FRUIT. COUNTRY BECOMES PROSPER. OUS UNDER WILSON LAW. Good Tiroes and Increased Wages Everywhere- Republican CalamityHowlers in a Bad Way—An Old Superstition Gets Some Hard Raps. The Income Tax Decision. The organs of tariff protected monopoly are jubilant over the decision of the Supreme Court declaring the income tax unconstitutional. They foolishly think that the movement away from high tariffs toward direct taxation can be checked by the failure of the first crude attempt to tax the wealthy classes in proportion to the benefits they receive from the Government. And they boast that the decision means that protective tariffs are to be the settled policy of this country. Never was there a greater mistake. The sentiment which put the income tax through Congress is stronger to-day than ever before. It is perhaps better that since in its first form the income tax was far from satisfactory to its friends, it should have been wiped out altogether. But the widespread demand for direct taxation which will reach the fruits of monopoly and special privilege, is growing every day. and will sweep away the party which dares oppose it. Far better had it been for the privileged classes had the patehed-up tax been allowed to stand. The next direct tax bill, introduced by a majority party in Congress, will be far more radical, and it will be enforced by a popular sentiment which will insist on the Constitutional amendments necessary to make it the law of the land. Oh. no. short sighted protectionist editors. Don't fool your readers with any such nonsense as "high tariff our settled policy." The people of America have a good deal to say about settling things, and little obstructions like Constitutions won't stand long in their way when they make up their minds to settle them right. “Home Market" Delusions. Almost the only argument on which the trade restrictionists have relied to catch the farmer's votes has l>eeu been the pretense that high tariff tpyTKtob would create "home markets" which would make the farmer prosperous. And in spite cf the fact that the prices of fam. products are fixed in foreign markets, farmers have been found foolish enough to believe that some time, far off. protection would give them a home market for all their produce. At the same time that they have been crediting high taxation with the development of this country, the protectionist press has been steadily harping on the alleged decline of agriculture in Great Britain, under a low tariff. "It is true, they say. "that by abolishing restrictions on commerce. England has vastly benefited her manufacturers and workingmen. But look at the farmers. Within forty miles of London there are thousands of idle acres, and foreign competition in all kinds of food stuffs has greatly reduced the rents of Londoners throughout Great Britain." Admitting that the farmers in the neighborhood of London are not prosperous. the natural question is; What Is the matter with their "home market?” With a city of over four millions of people almost at their doors, why are they not rich? Come. Messrs. High Tariffites, explain how it happens that with enormously increased population in the cities, the British farmer has not received the benefits which are so glowingly promised, but never bestowed on, the American farmer! Why Republicans Weep. The calamity howlers of the Republican press are just now using blue ink. and an extra width of mourning border for their wails. The cause of their sorow is no longer the terrible evil of unrestricted trade, but the fact that, in spite of their doing all in their power to hinder the revival of business, the country is entering on one of the most prosperous periods in its history. Factories are running on extra time to full orders; new industries are starting up all over the country; wages are being increased from ten to fifteen per cent.; and railroad business is steadily growing. And in the sight of this prosperity, which should gladden the heart of every American, the high-taritfite sits bins down and weeps, and weeps. Because: he said that the hard times brought on by a dose of McKinleyism would last until we get more of the same mixture. He thought that people would stop using food, clothes, furniture or steel, just because the high taxation policy had been knocked out. But. strange to say, the people are going right on to produce and buy and sell things as usual. Hence these Rpublican tears. Good Times and Increased Wages. All such reports as that of the advances in wages grouped by the evening edition of the World recently are gratifying. It is most gratifying, however, to see that among the advances now so frequently reported nearly all are made voluntarily by the manufacturers.

Prices and wages are advancing together. In wheat, corn, cotton, coffee, provisions and various metals there has been a marked advance, shitwing an increase of demand and of general activity. It is only fair to add, however, that business has never been as depressed as some people would have it thought—New York World. Duty on Silks. The voice of McKinley is to be invoked in favor of higher duties on silks. Cheap silks have become one of the few luxuries of the thrifty poor, and a little group of manufacturers demand the right to tax them more for the indulgence. That there is no reason for it the record shows. Under all tariffs raw ■ilk has been free. The present duty

on manufactures of silks Is 50 per cent. This is exac'iy what it was under the Republican commission tariff of 188390. The McKinleyites raised it to GO per cent A call for more than 50 per eent taxation on any article of clothing will never again be popular In this country.—New York World. Keep Together, Tribune! It is too much to expect that the “no traders" will agree among themselves as to the real purpose of protective tariffs. Neither do we hope to find the utterances of any one protectionist agree from week to week. But we certainly believe that a daily tariff organ should at least be consistent with itself in each issue. Under the heading "Some Startling Facts.” the New York Tribune recently published an article from its Washington correspondent, based on the Government summary of exports and imports. From that report the Tribune showed that while the value of the imports of articles of food and live animals imported free of duty in the month of March. 1894, amounted to $32,000,600; in March, 1895. it amounted to only $13,000,000. The same issue of the Tribune contained the usual original remarks about the "flood of foreign gods" which tariff reform is pouring on the country. Did any of the paper's readers think to ask the editor why, if foreign goods are things to be avoided and shut out, the McKinley bill permitted $32,000,000 worth of them to come in free in one month? Perhaps they did ask and perhaps the editor did not know. Hard Raps for an Old Superstition. Secretary Morton is doing good service in combating foolish notions about International trade. In the preface to the valuable pamphlet just issued by the Department of Agriculture, entitled "The World's Markets for American Products,” he gives the dear old superstition about a “favorable balance of trade." ami the need of selling more titan we buy. some particularly hard raps. He maintains that the nation, like the individual, that does not take in more than it puts out is in a bad way, and gives a conclusive point to the argument by citing the case of England’s exports ami imports for the past five years. During that period her imports exceeded her exports by some $3,000,000,000, and she ought to have suffered several Kinds of blue ruin, according to the Tribune's favorite doctrine. (tn the contrary, she has accumulated so much wealth that she has had milions and millions to throw away in Argentina and the United States, and not even yet shows any signs of applying for a receivership.—New York Evening Post "Humbug at a Premium." A calamity organ sententiously observes that "humbug is at a premium these days:” and it then proceeds to emit a yawp over the terrible frauds in valuations of imports under the ad valorem duties on woolens in the new tariff. It is assumed in this specimen of humbug that the public is not aware that the ad valorem duties were much higher under the McKinley tariff, and the profits of frauds in valuations consequently much greater. Why England Has Cheap Meat. A writer in the Frankfurter Zeitung calls attention to the fact that Australian meat can be bought in English towns aimost as cheaply as in Mel-bourne-front 6 to 10 cents per pound—and attributes to this and similar blessings of free trade the fact that in spite of hard times, there has been so little actual suffering in England. Just Watch Them Squirm! The McKinley brethren are now saying that improvement in business is only in those branches not touched by the new tariff. Os course this is not tru . but it is interesting to see the McKinleyites wriggle, just the same. The Whippoorwill's Song. The whippoorwiil's best singing is coincident with that hour of agricultural enchantment—corn-planting time. That used to come "when the leaves of the white oak were as big as rats' cars;” but this year the hot weather succeeded in hurryiug up even the oaks, which usually are not to be beguiled with any such blandishments, and already their leaves are as big as cats’ ears, and the corn—if the agriculturist was wise and foresaw the cold wave—is not yet planted in Massachusetts. But corn-planting time Is the time of keenness md vividness of life in all things. The mere sight of nature is a stimulus and a string to the dullest and laziest uature; for once in their lives the farmer's l>oy and the hired man spring to their hoes like madmen, eager to be at work—to have a sort of growing part in the exuberant springing forth of all things. It is an intoxication to smell the fragrant earth. The birds are all wild with joy in rhe blossoming orchards and the intensely green woods. Corn-planting time! It is the summit of the earth's creative ecstacies—the maddest, if not the most spiritual, of natural moments. -Boston Transcript His Reason. Charles the Second was altogether in favor of extempore preaching. On one occasion he asked the famous Stillingfleet "How it was that he always read his sermons before him. when he was Informed that he always preached without a book elsewhere?" Stillingfleet answered something about the awe of so noble a congregation, the presence of so great and wise a prince, with which the king himself was verywell contented. "But. pray.” continued Stilliugfleet "will your majesty give me leave to ask you a question? Whydo you read your speeches when you can have none of the same reasons?" "Why, truly, doctor," replied the king, “your question is a very pertinent one. and so will be my answer. I haw- asked the two houses so often and for so much money that I am ashamed to look | them in the face."

THEY MET IN PEACE. ANIMOSITIES OF WAR BURIED AT OAKWOODS. Blue Joins with the Gray in Dedi* eating a Monument and Decorating Soldiers* Graves—American Heroes All—Funeral of Secretary Grcbham. — Former Foes in Reunion. Memorial Day in Chicago was like noth ing in the history of nations. It sent in the same line the victor and the vanquished, each with garlands for its own army of dead, with the uncounted thousands from the heart of the city to Oakwoods cheering for the memory of heroes, of friend or foe. It was the first time since the first shot that warriors from the North and cavaliers from the South forgot entirely revengeful bitterness by such a kind of public demonstration of unity. It marked an epoch. The multitudes heard upon the same winds plaudits for the men who died for their country and the yell which led the hardest and bravest enemy that ever faced fire. They stood with bared heads in the presence of 6,000 graves of victims of their own Douglas prison or shouted in salvos of patriotism at the sight of the thinned ranks hunting the humble mounds marked by a flag. It was this unique feature that brought to the city a crowd which barely found standing room in the stretch of territory dedicated to the ceremony. Thursday the surviving veterans of th* two mighty armies which for four long years faced each other in bloody strife HAMPTON. LONGSTREET. pledged anew their faith in a common country and a common flag beside the pallid shaft which marks the eternal camping ground of fallen soldiers who pined and died beside the great Northern lake, brave and uncomplaining victims of merciless civil war. It was a scene long to be remembered, and may be regarded as the final epitaph upon the tomb of sectional strife and sectional estrangement. At Cottage Grove avenue and Thirtyfifth street, then nt the outskirts, but now in the heart of this city, a stockade was built during the civil war and named Camp Douglas, and there many thousands of Confederate prisoners were confined between the years 1862 and 1865. The men held there under the restraints which befall captives of war had spent their lives in the balmy climate of the sunny South and the rigors of a Northern winter told upon them severely. As a consequence 5,000 of them were liberated by death and were buried in Oakwoods cemetery at Cottage Grove avenue and Sixty-seventh street. It was to the memory of these thousands who died in a military prison in an enemy’s country that the monument was dedicated by their comrades and opponents in arms on the spot where they lie buried. It is the first monument to Confederate dead erected in the North, the event was perhaps without a parallel in history. It does not appear that anywhere else on the face of our round globe within 8. period of thirty years after the . 1 CONFEDERATE SHAFT AT CHICAGO. close of a bitterly fought war. the vanquished have ever before erected a monu meut in the memory of their comrades in arms in the heart of the victor's territory. Especially has the sight ever been witnessed of the victors heartily joining the vanquished in doing honor to the valor of the vanquished dead. Gen. Wade Hampton delivered the dedicatory address. THE DAY IN NEW YORK. Grand Army Parade Reviewed by Prominent Officials. X eterans of the Union army iix New York city celebrated “the day of the dead” under favorable conditions. The

parade of the Grand Army members starting from the Plaza at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street showed sadly the ravages which thirty years have made in the ranks of the volunteers of 1861-65. The reviewing stand at Twenty-fifth street was occupied by exPresident Harrison. Gov. McKinley, Gov.

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Morton and Mayor Strong. While reviewing the parade Gov. Morton was overcome by the heat and fainted. The services at Grant's tomb were under the auspices of U. S. Grant Post, G. A R_, and included a memorial address by Gov. McKinley of Ohio. Contributing to make this affair noteworthy, the United States cruiser Cincinnati was anchored in the river near by, by order of the Secretary of the Navy, and fired salutes. The statue in Battery Park of John Ericsson, the designer of the monitor, was adorned with flowers in honor of his distinguished services for the Union cause. Kansas City. Mo., will have a military encampment from Sept. 30 to Oct. 5.

WITH MILITARY HONOR. Secretary Gretham’t Bemaine Temporarily Deposited in a ’Vault. Without ostentation, a» befitted his hfe among his people, but with the military and civic accompaniments which ran even j foot with his achievements us soldier, jurist and statesman, the remains of VV alter Q. Gresham, general In the I nion armies, the judge of the Federal courts and Secretary of State of the L nited States, were temporarily laid to rest in Oak woods cemetery. Chicago, Thursday ■ afternoon amid the flower-strewn graves of his comrades in anus-graves decorated by the hands of men who had fought them on many a bloody field—and in the AIM? ‘-Lk 'W/Ji. LEAVING THE STATION. shadow of the monument just dedicated in honor of the valor of those who had given their lives for the Confederate cause. It was a most remarkable juxtaposition. In the early hours of the day Federals j and Confederates had joined in the unveiling of a monument to the 5,(M0 Confederates who had died in the military prison at Camp Douglas; the ex-Confederate Association had strewn on the graves of the Union soldiers buried there a mass of flowers brought from the ground over which they had fought less than a generation ago. and the Union veterans had placed upon the graves of their fallen comrades in the other cemeteries about the city the flowers which grow in our own : latitude. Almost the echoes of the volley fired over the Confederate burying ground by the first regiment of State militia and of the bugle blare could be heard and “taps” were still sounding, and the smoke from their rifles was still floating over the '■!s — — „dji igg|kg THE VAULT AT OAKWOODS. field of peace, as the cortege of the dead Secretary of State filed in through the gates into the cemetery. It was a remarkably fitting climax to the remarkable ceremonies which had just closed that the remains of the man who claimed the allegiance of both the North and the South should be deposited there, the keystone to the arch of re-ce-mented friendship whose visible sign had just been unveiled there. For a, a soldier he had won the respect of those who fought him; as a jurist he bad gained the love of the common people, and as Secretary of State in a Democratic admlnistra- I tion he had commanded the support of the people of the South as well as of the North. The special funeral train arrived from Washington in the afternoon. The provession was formed, headed by the escort of honor, consisting of the troops of all arms from Fort Sheridan. These were followed by the honorary pall-bearers, and next came the funeral car with the active pallbearers walking on either side. Next rode the members of the late Secretary’s family and the Presidential party, and in the rear of the cortege brought up the members of the Loyal Legion, G. A. R. veterans, judges of the courts, State and municipal officers, civic societies and citizens, The entire line of march was crowded with people who respectfully bared their heads as the cortege passed. Arriving at the cemetery chapel, the casket was removed from the funeral car and borne within by eight sergeants of marines. The services conducted by the Rev. S. J. McPherson, of the Second Presbyterian Church, were impressive but simple, consisting merely' of scriptural readings. There was a hymn by the choir and prayer. The remains were temporarily deposited in the receiving vault of the cemetery. No salute was fired, the ceremonies concluded with “taps.” The train had blen held.and the Presidential party returned to it and at once started on the return trip to Washington. FAIRMON IS FIRST. Officially Declared Winner of the Chicago Road Race. Homer Fainnon, of the Chicago Cycling Club, was declared the winner of the road race from Chicago to Evanston and return, a distance of about twenty miles. Edwin Fry, who came in ahead of him, was disqualified, the judges having decided he had not covered the full course. Fairmon's time was 54:36. George Emerson, of the Englewood wheelmen, won second and the time prize, his time being 52:14. Reports say the race was woefully mismanaged. Mrs. Catherine Adney, who has resided near Lebanon, Ind., for the past sixtyfive years, died at her home in that city. She was 97 years old. Freight cars with every modern improvement and capable of carrying sixty tons can now be bought for 20 per cent less than the prices of 1892. Prices vary because of the standards of different roads and the necessities of the manufacturers. The average for the best cars in round lots Is under SSOO. By order of the President, the pay. ments of claims of the Nez Perce Indiana, amounting to $600,000, have been held up. The reason for this action is not known at the Treasury Department

Opinions of Gresham. The administration of the State Depart moot under Secretary Gresham will be regarded by the historian of the future as equal to any.—Milwaukee Journal. In each of three fields—war. the bench and the cabinet, as soldier, jurist and secretary—he attained a distinct and enduring fame.—Grand Rapids Democrat. One of his beat characteristics was hos- , tility to the growth of corporation infiu- ■- «nc« in political affairs, and to this was - due most of his strength with the masses —Buffalo Express. Personally Mr. Gresham was probably the most democratic man that ever occupied the State Department. He was mors accessible than any of his clerks. St Louis Post-Dispatch. While Gresham won no especial distinction in either cabinet, he was a painstaking and conscientious official, and deserved more credit than the country has accorded him. —St Louis Globe-Democrat Republicans cannot but believe that hit uncertainty of political faith was unfortunate and that he was In error when he cast his lot with the Cleveland administration, but he can be credited with hon- ■ esty and a desire to do his duty.—Duluth News-Tribune. A man has died who has deserved well of his fellow citizens. The Secretary of State was a brave soldier and a just judge. In his later career many of his countrymen find things to disapprove, and find other things that stamp him with the same patriotism that won him fame in bygone years.—Pittsburg ('onxmcrcial Gazette. There are those who were closely attached to Secretary Gresham and who were cemented to him by years of per sonal friendship, who will feel that a light has gone out of their lives, and that grief has come in to sit where hope of ths future of the dead statesman had held its place and joy at his success was genuine and the outgrowth of appreciation and true sympathy.—New Albany Ledger. Utah’s New Constitution. The Utah constitutional convention pro sided far no lieutenant governor in the list of State officers. Utah should provide for such an emergency, so that when the people elect officials representing one party or policy there will be some one to slip In when a Governor dies and carry on the work as it was begun.—Chicago Inter Ocean. A glance at the new constitution w hicl Is to be submitted to the people of Utah in November will suffice to show what a tremendous advance is In store for womanhood in that territory when it sha>! become a State. Not only is the Federal statute prohibiting polygamy confirmed, but woman suffrage is established at one sweep.—Chicago Herald. The constitution which is to be submitted to the people of Utah in November prohibits polygamy, as do all the States; !• provides for woman suffrage, as does Wyoming; it does away with the grand jury system, as does Michigan, and it does not provide for a lieutenant governor, in which it is like L>elaware, Alabama. Arkansas, Georgia, Maine and some other State*. It Incorporates some new features in trials by jury, providing for petit juries of eight persons, six of whom can render a verdict except in criminal cases, when a unanimous verdict is required to convict The constitution provides for a school system that is comprehensive, and if well carried out will give the new Stats a high rank in educational matters.—Chicago Record. The Russian Squeeze, If Japan was about one-fourth the siz« of Russia the latter wouldn't be offering it any advice.—Chicago Tribune. Japan, like Cuba, may not have the sympathy of the United States Government, but both have the cordial sympathy and good will of the American people.— New York Advertiser. Russia is inclined to crow over what it regards as a diplomatic victory in forcing Japan to agree not to demand any of the Chinese mainland. It is hard to see wherein the victory lies, for Japan was clearly made the victim of bulldozing by three of the most powerful nations of the world.—Kansas City Star. Russia’s tender regard for “those principles on which rests the concert of civilized nations," and her agonized fear lest Japan, by violating them, should imperil the progress of civilization in the East, almost make one forget the part Russia took in the dismemberment of Poland and | her more recent treatment of the Jews.New Y’ork Times. The Lion's Grab. It will be England’s next move to culti rate an impression that the Monroe doctrine is a theory and not a condition.— ’’ asL.agton Star. The savage is not far beneath the skin of this Christian nation. The instinct that leads England to enter up judgmenl without arbitration, to refuse mediation and to chagtise the quaking antagonist is the instinct of the aborigine.—Chieairc Post. ” England’s conduct in the Nicaragua matter is arrogant and cowardly, but il is characteristic. It is the course she hai always taken in dealing with small na tions. She is a swaggerer and a bully ex cept when the other party is a country o: her own size.—Globe-Democrat. If this method of procedure should tak< place between two individuals, one a big man and the other a little boy, we should apply epithets to the big man that would not be flattering. Why should not ths same methods of justice exist between nations as between individuals ?—Boston Globe Col. Goldsmith W. Hewitt, the most prominent criminal lawyer in Alabama and member of the Forty-fourth, Fortyfifth, Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh Congresses, from the Sixth Alabama district, died at his home in Birmingham of neuralgia of the heart. He was 61 years of ageThe late trolley strike cost District Assembly, No. 75, Knights of Labor, New York, $13,739. Dress la the table of your contents.-* Lavater,

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