Democratic Press, Volume 1, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 5 September 1895 — Page 4

&EuuLonf l U'tzlorfrroo/'ct’Lan; and cuffs that you can clean yourself by simply wiping off with a v.-ct .sponge. The genuine look exactly like linen and every piece is marked this way: IRADf _ tfcELWLOIO aiarK* They are made by covering a linen collar or cut? -.. ith “ celluloid,” cud are the only waterproc. f goods cade with an interlining, c d ;':e only goods that can stand the v. :.- end give perfect satisfaction. Never -.vilt and not effected by moisture. Try them and you will never regret it. As": for those with above trade mark a. A refuse any imitations. If your dealt r docs not have them wc will mail you a cample direct on receipt of pri,.e. Cellars 25c. each. Cuffs 50c. pair. State whether stand-up or turned-down collar is wanted. The Celluloid Company, 42T-429 Broadway, New fork. £he flemocraiij PUBLISHED WEEKLY. DEMOCRATIC PRESS PUBLISHING CO. LEW G. ELLINGHaM, EDITOR. $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29. Michael Finan, the outgoing treasurer of Pauldingcounty, Ohio, is short $32.122.24. Not very much money, either. The state tax board adjourned last Friday, after being in session their limit of fifty one days. They finished up on railroad business, reducing some of the assessments on this kind of property. But on lauds, town property and improvements, they increased instead of reduced. That’s the difference. Articles of incorporation were filed with the secretary of state last Friday, which incorporated the In diana Central Railway Company, with a capital stock of SIOO,OOO. The road is sixty miles long, and runs from Union City through Randolph, Jay, Blackford. Wells and Huntington counties. The fun of electing county superintendents Monday was knocked into smithereens by a decision of the supreme court, handed down last Friday, which decreeded that the 1895 legislative law was unconstitutional and void. Our readers are all familiar with the facts leading; to this attempt by the last legislature of dragging the public schools system into political contempt. | The last election was a land-slide for the republican side of the fence —that fact being demonstrated by the election of a republican legislature. Before that land-slide sixtythree counties out of the ninety-two had democratic boards of trustees, | and of course that many county superintendents. The last election turned all but seventeen of those boards into the republican column, hence this law was made to make republican superintendents, and in the meantime those superintendents were supposed to do much for re- ‘ publican supremacy. To meet this end the legislature changed the time of electing superintendents from the first Monday in June to the first Monday in September, at which time all the new republican trustees would be in office. Last Monday was the day fixed by the new law for said election, but this decision handed down Friday, has no doubt blighted the hopes of many of those aspiring would-be republican superintendents, who were to be benefited by an act of political hypocrocy. This decision leaves in office the old superintendents who will now hold uutil June 1, 1897. In eleven counties elections were held last June and new superintendents elected, but in all counties where no elections took place, the old superintendents will hold over for two years. The over throw of this law is no doubt a bitter pill for those republican schemers who concocted it, and the position they now attain is most surely embarrassing, but thanks to an honest supreme court our public schools are saved from their clutches of political garbling. It will be County Superintendent Snow for at least two years yet.

Allen county will erect a new (500.000 court house. Harrison has been solicited to pull his coat and help to save the republicans at Indianapolis from defeat. It will take more than grandpa’s hat to do that. The supreme court decision, deciding the rotton paitison legislation, changing the time of electing county superintendents, as void, is a victory for the democrats and good governments. The Hinshaw murder case is now on trial at Danville. The defendant is charged with the murder of his wife at Bellville, January 10 last. The outcome of the trial can’t be determined at this time. The liquor league of this state was in session at Indianapolis this week, at which a discussion of plans to overthrow recent legislation, was the object. The Nicholson and Moore laws are decidedly distasteful. Holmes, the wholesale murderer and insurance swindler, is now busy writing a book, or having it written. The book purports to be a sketch of his life, and the proceeds will be used for a defense fund. This is the latest out. It is said that Calvin S. Brice has his eye on the Clover Leaf lines, with a view of swallowing them up in the near future. Calvin J could come as near doing a little 1 turn of this kind as any man we know of. If be consumates this fond hope and desire, his system of roads will measure 2.160 miles.

Dunn’s reports for a week past, are decidedly discouraging to the ■ republican calamity snorters. It ! says that improvement in markets and prices continues, and whereas I a few months ago everybody was nursing the faintest hopes of recovery, it Iris now come to Lie the only question in what branches if any, the rise in prices and the increase if business may go t»o far. A strong conservative feeling is finding expression, not as yet controlling the markets or industries, but warning against too rapid expansion and rise. In some directions the advance in prices clearly checks future business. But encouraging features have great power. Exports of gold continue, but are met by syndicate deposits and expected to cease soon. Anxieties about the monetary future no longer hinder. Crop prospects, except for cotton, have somewhat improved during the week. Important steps toward reorganization of great railroads give hope to investors . Labor troubles are for the moment less threatening, and some of importance have been definitely settled. The industries are not only doing better than anybody bad expected, but are counting upon a great business for the rest of the year.

Some of the advocates of free silver in this country profess to find encouragement for theircause in the absence of any declaration iu favor of international bimetallism from the newly elected parliament in England. There is no hope, they say, of the restoration of the coinage of silver by international agreement. The only alternative then is to favor such coinage without waiting for the action or approval of any other nation. Inasmuch as the British government has not expressed itself or laid down a pro- ! gram on any public question it is not surprising that no special notice has been taken of the question of ! bimetallism. But it would be a serious mistake to draw therefrom the conclusion that the idea of international bimetallism had been abandoned, or that it ought to be abandoned. The security for the future of international bimetallism lies in the fact that it offers the only settlement of a currency question which has got to be settled. Those who really desire the restora - : tion of silver to its former place in the currency of the world could not meet with a worse check than 1 would result from the adoption of the free silver plan as defined for instance by the recent democratic 1 convention in Missouri. There is J a hope aud even a reasonable certainty that the commercial nations of the woiid may unite on an agreement which will settle thesilver question by providing for the more general use of silver at its actual value. They will never consent, nor will this country ever consent, to any plan which has for its fundamental idea the substitution of a debased currency or the enforced establishment of a fictitious ratio. On the contrary, they would rather abandon entirely the idea of rehabilitating silver than accept such a plan. The most dangerous enemies of silver are not I the gold monometallists, but the advocates of free and unlimited i coinage of 16 to 1. —N. Y. World.

The Wilson Tariff Law. The Hon. William L. Wilson, auiher of I the present tarifl law that now governs the I Count-r was solicited bv the New York World to give his views of the law. and its future probabilities, to which he replied as follows: If the opening vista of higher wages, cheapened necessaries of life, larger consumption at home and expanding markets I abroad under lower duties had but a single year’s experiance to rest upon, I should be very cautious in prophesying as to the future. But when it is remembered that like results followed the law of 1846 in this country and crowded on the heels of tariff reduction in England, it is not claiming too much to say that a few months’ experience has already justified the arguments and predictions of the tariff reformers and laid, it is to lie ho|>ed forever, the spectre of ruin and impoverishment with which tiie protectionists are frightening the ameri can people. The country is lieginning to see to day that there is no way to protect American industry except by relieving it from burdens upon the materials with which it works; no way to insure good wages and steady employment to home labor except by freeing it from the shackles which have ■ confined it to a glutted home market and prevented it from seeking its customers all over the world. It is first of all gratifying, therefore, to s*e the progress already made by our manufactures in reaching out for the world’s markets. With temporarily diminished exports, chiefly in foot! products —in no wav due to recent tariff legislation —we behold iu a single year an increase in the volume of manufactured products sent abroad. This already appears in our exports of I agricultural machinery, building hard- | ware, locomotive engines and iron and ! steel goods generally; also in leather and manufactues of leather, in pianos and or- ■ gans, paper manufactures and many other items of the treasury statement issued at the close of the fiscal year. In all of these industries the wages of labor has been increased. As the daily pay of the American artisan was already much greater than that of any competing laborer in any other country, this growing foreign market for our manufactures is especially significant. There is no doubt that the iron and steel industry of the world is soon to find its chief center in the United States. We are constantly strengthened iu the belief that our supply of ores of all kinds is more exhaustlesa, more cheaply mined, more cheaply transported and more cheaply wrought into finished products than the supply of any other nation, and this must eventually carry with it the manufacturing supremacy of the world.

This means untold benefits to all our industries. Years ago it was truly said by a republican secretary of the treasury that if all our manufacturing plants ran six months at their full capacity they would glut our home market,. For the next half of the year there would necessarily be slackened work or 'even idleness, with , slackened employment and uncertain wages | for laber. The conquest of foreign markets now ■ implies the ability to hold our own market: against all competing from without. It means a broader and more stable basis for manufacturers, which, in turn, carries with it more work and more wages for the operative and more home consumers for the farmer, who is also relieved irom the burden of maintaining industries to buy from him. In a word the more self-supporting industries we have the greater and more diffused is our general prosperity; the more non-self supporting industries we have — fed and maintained by taxation —the smaller and more lop sided becomes that prosperrty. The house tariff bill aimed to increase largely the number of industries thatcould stand without bounties. Its foundation was a large free list of raw materials. Fortunately the most importantof these remain in the tariff bill as finally enacted, such as copper ores, salt, flax, hemp aud wool, to which in a more advanced stage, may be added sulphuric acid, the basis of so many industries; cotton ties, sawed lumber, bind-

ing twine, etc. As to revenue, the operation of the new [ tariff bill ought to be satisfactory to its promoters. The customs revenue under the McKinley bill fell from 229 millions in 1890 to 131 millions iu 1894 True, the last year was one of widespread depression aud great allowance must be made forthat ' fact in any comparison. . The new bill began under the shadow of: : that depression. Only of recent mouths , has there been of feeling of financial security in the country at large, but the close of i the fiscal year saw an improvement of more 1 than 20 millions in our customs receipts, ami ihe revenues for July and August ! promise a still larger increase f»r the present year. Indeed, the temporary insufficiency of ' revenue for the present current expendi- ' tures is to he found in the receipts from internal revenue and not in thoee from the ! tariff. And yet the law of August last, ■ while removing and greatly reducing tariff! ’ taxes, increased internal revenue taxes. I The shrinkage in internal revenue re--1 eeipts, notwithstanding the addition of E twenty cents a gallon on whiskey, is bel lieved by treasury officials to be a thing of 1 the past, and they confi Jently predict the rapid and permanent recovery of this item of our national income. As soon as that

occurs there will 1>? no trouble alout trexsurv receipts, and if for awile they enforce rigid economy in public expenditures, so much the better for the tax payers and for the government. Iu conclusion I sill say that tariff reform, although wounded in the house or its alleged friends, is triumphantly justified by its results. Those results are lightened taxes, cbesjer necessaries of life, quickened employment and increased wages for labor, widening markets and the promise of adequate revenues. The country has bid a last iarewell to McKinleyism. The day of “mad’’protection is over. I congratulate the World on its mighty contribution to this beneficent result. Wm. L Wilson.

Sick Headache Permanently Cured “I was troubled, a long time, with | sick headache. It was usually accompanied with severe pains in the temples and sickness at the atom- ■ ach. 1 tried a good many remedies S recommended for . this complaint; but I it was not until I be- j gan taking AYER’S ( Pills that I received anything like penna- • •x tv/ r nent benefit. A sin- | gle box of these pills did the work for me, and I am now a well man.” ! 1 C. 11. Hutchings, East Auburn, Me. | For the rapid cure of Constipa- j tion, Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Nau- j sea, and all disorders of Stomach, Liver, and Bow’els, take AYER’S M Cathartic Pills Medal and Diploma at World’s Fair. Aik your druggist for Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Money to Loan. - r have mot-y to loan onthe L<»n Assoclation plan. No fees to be paid by borrowers Can furnish money on a few days notice. Buy a home and stop paying rent. Low rate of Interest. Office over Donovan & Bremer | camp. Central Grocery. J>ecatur. Ind. PAUL HOOPER a. T. rRANCK. a.T. ME.wkYMAN, n. in FRANCE A MERRYMAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DECATUR, IND, Office—Nos. 1. 2 and 3. over Adams Co. Bank. We refer, by permission, to Adams Co. Bank.

GEORGE R. DICKERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Pensionsand Collections a specialty. Office in tile John O. Hale Building , GENEVA. ... - INDIANA. R. S. PETERSON. ATTORNEY AT LAW, DECATUR, INDIANA. Roftms 1 and 2. in the Anthony Holthouse Block. John Schurger. W, 11. Reed. Dave E. Smith SCHURGER, REED & SMITH. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Money to Loan at lowest rates of interest. Abstracts of title, realestate and collection* Rooms 1, 2 and 3 Welfley block. 38

A. L. DEVILBISS, DENTIST KSEXC 1 ® I. O. O. F. BLOCK. Professional Dentist. Teeth extracted without pain. Especial attention given to bridge work like -11 lust»: tion above. Terms reasonable. Office « ond street, over Rosenibaii s clothing Auoie. Capital $120,000. Established 1871 THE OLD ADAMS COUNTY BANK Decatur, Indiana. Does a general banking business, makes collections in all parts of the country. Buys town, township and county orders Foreign and domestic exchange lieught and sold. Interest paid on time deposits. Officers—W.H. Niblick. President; D Studebaker. Y’ice President; R. K. Allison,Cashier, and C. S. Niblick. Assistant Cashier | £. . E. H. LeBRUN, Yittrinry Decatur, Indiana. Office: —Corner Second and Madison street. Treats all Diseases of Domesticated Animals. making a specialty of Optical Cases. Cails day or night, promptly attended to. 2S-ly P. W Smith, Pres J. R. ITolthouso. V-Pres C. A. Pugan, Cash. E.X. Ehinger. Asst Cash — Decatur National Bank Decatur, Ind. CAPITAL STOCK SIOO,OOO Directors—P. W. Smith, William A. Kuebler. J. D. Hale, D. G. M. Trout, J. IL Hobroch, C. A. Dugan and John B. Holthouse. This bank does a genera) banking business, loans money upon approved security, discounts paper, makes collections, sends money to any point, buys county and city orders. Interest given on money deposited on time certificates.

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