Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 2 January 1896 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS rrat4«H*o wKMki.r. DEMOCRATIC FREW TCBLIi’HIMG CO. LEW Q, ELLINGHAM. EDITOR. 11.. W PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. Etitcn il »l the Ih-’atur. tmllann Xecund-Class Mall Matter. THURSDAY, .lAM ARY 2. CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING. There will lx* a meeting of the Democratic Central Committee of Adilin* county, Indiana, held at the court room al 2 p. ni. on Junuary I, ISfifi, to select delegates to the convention to lx* held at Muncie, on .January S, 1890, to select a member of the State Central Committee, and to transact such other business na may <nme before the county central Commit tee. John \V. Tyndaix, Uh’rm. By Wm. Bi.ackbvrn, Sec’ J. It will be a little difficult to write ISJMI, but you might as well learn now, ________ The district meeting to select a mem tier of the state central com mittee is due at Muncie next Wed needay. Another issue of bonds to the Morgan syndicate seems to l»e in sight. The amount is supposed to be fixed at $100,000,000. Saturday Adams county democrats will meet with the central committee at the court house. Business of importance is on hand. Governer Matthnws is now trying to impreM the public that he will give up his position and views on questions of policy. Let’s hear ’er. The district meeting to select a member of the state central com mittee will be held at Muncie next Wedm s.lay. Every democrat who can should attend. Thanks to E. I’. Thompson for a complimentary ticket that entitles us to ride the elevator at the Indianapolis soldier's monument. We are much 'er bliged. Give us good gravel roads, so that, no matter wnat time of year it is. a person can go some place and get luck the same day. This is an important matter and one that needs your immediate attention. Think about it. Tin: lion. 11. B. Smith, of Hartford City, is favorably mentioned for chairman of the democratic central committee. No better selection could lie made, as Mr. Smith is an old timer in politics and one of the foremost democrats in the state. W. W. Canada, of Winchester, wants to represent this congressional district on the republican state central committee. The gen tlemm is a wideawake hustling politician and the district will make a mistake if they turn him down. The republicans of Adams couldn’t do better than to support Mr. Canada. The Venezuelan commission has been named by the president, and it consists of David J. Brewer of Kansas, associate justice of the supreme court of the United States; Richard H. Alvey of Marxian I, chief i ust ice of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia; Xndrew I). White of New York; Frederick R. Coud- rt of New York" Daniel C. Gilman of Maryland, president of the .John Hopkins university. THE leisiness men of Decatur should not lie mealy mouthed about: taki ighold of the agitation tending towards the formation of a board of trade. It isn’t a matter that is be ing work'd in the interest of any individual or class of individuals, but for the common good of all and for the especial upbuilding of our prosperous little city. 1 >on’t stand in your own light by thinking some one will get a bigger pull than yourse'f. Get a full grown hump on yourself and lets twist the elephant’stail. Come what may, war or no war, we believe that it is time to check I the stealing of England of the con- ) tinent of America, and to force! that country to the arbitration' which she refuses, knowing well why she does refuse it. Here we) get a petition from England asking for universal arbitration, and yet when the demand comes for arbi ) trating a question between her and Venezuela she refuses it. The principle of the Monroe doctrine is one that we have been contending for seventy years. We ought to be willing to tight for it if necessary.

THE BRITISH HEART. Who hears of lender scntiuient from the English for their kith and kin on this hide the Atlantic, except when there is danger ahead? When does the gush set in iiltoiii common blood, and coiisangiiinity, and the natural love of the two greut English speaking nations.' )Only when then' is a threat ofn ••lush of arms, and the great bully | of the world is afraid his bluff will lie called and he will receive a sound thrashing. When are we | “patronized’ and talked to like children, ami reproved in a father ly way for trying to embroil the peaceful world in bootless carnage? When does the solemn Mr. Bull say that the Government of thv United States is one deserving great regard, and that it is only the .linguists and loafers who are talking almut war, ami that the sober sense of the better people will in a short time curb the foolish show of hostility! Only when Great Britain has af<x»t an outrage on another nation, no worst 1 than she has committed many a time before, but this time touching the honor, the sympahties and the vital interests of the greatest republic of nil time. Only when her many bloodless victories over weaker nations have emboldened her to u guarded defiance of a people who have the men, resources and the spirit to take up the gage of battle. There were no kind words for our fathers in 177*> w hen they were an unorganized band of patriots, with amuch p orer footing thanthe insurgents inCubanow have. I'here was not then, aud there has not lieen since, when England was con lident of her ability to whip us. any honey in their words to us. All was gall and wormwood then. > Great Britain is dogged and deter mined when she has a puny adversary, and only “diplomatic” when she is in danger of being beaten. She cannot conceal her detestable policy. Every true American must lx* proud of the popular response to the firm words of the president. Those who have not yet seen the true Itent of things should pause before they make more mistakes. Even those New York papers w hich cry “pause,’’ and “halt,” and ••consider,” should pause themselves Itefore they make a record from which they can never recover. Somebody i.as said that there were Tories in the time of the Revolution, aud that there may be Tories now. \Ve hope not. Let those who seem to be trying to dash cold water on the American spirit, lienliting only the selfish and sordid, remember the indignation with which even the people of today hold ihose who burned blue lights on the Atlantic coast as signals to the British ships in the memorail struggle for American independence. Let them gaze upon and take a lesson from the monuments.in the city of New York to the martyrs of the British prison ships. Let them contemplate the statute of Nathan Hale, bound and ready for execution, which daily confronts the thousands who walk aud ride through the main artery of the commercial capital, and plant themselves against enemies abroad and at home. Let them remember the familiar words of Stephen Douglass: “Our country, may she always be right; but right or wrm g, our country” This is no time to cavil. Hesitation is next door to damnation., The universal duty is to support the president in a policy of manhood and patriotism. Grievences against the executive on other accounts are not now in order. The Enquirer makes no apology for past differences with Mr. Cleveland. In that regard it is simply in the position of thousands of others of all parties who have freeely cm-i braced the right of free speech inour internal aii'aiis. We have blamed Mr. Cleveland for policies and per-) formances which we believed to be wrong. We h ive argmd that he did not projterly treat the party ; which elected him and which w:’« responsible through him for the) conduct of public affairs. The question is a different one now. It i is not Grover Cleveland we are talking about, but the president of | the United States, representing the) whole people and reflecting the best type of patriotism, in an affair which involves the honor and integrity of us all. Let nobody stand back. Let congress be careful how it halts or shifts responsibility. Let it not falter. There is only one course to pursue now to avoid just suspicion. There must be no traitors. Let us not underestimate or depreciate our own strength, either. If the United States is obliged to go into the fight which now threatens it will be with the abundant and glorious prospect of winning a victory that will “thunder through the ages.” Let Great Britain beware when she embroils herself with this country, of the tempta-

tion of Frairne to rescue Egypt, of the unfaltering gaze of Russia on Constantinople, and oflhe restraint (hut will be taken from the jieople of her many minor colonies who ate (rented now a* the American (Colonists were Ix’fore the revolution. Let her remember that we can overrun and capture Canada while she is coaling her ponderous crafts t«i attack Boston, New York, Phils delphia ami Baltimore. Even if she is aide to inflict damage, or even partially destroy the city of New Yolk, for example, she will be then throw'll into the hands of (JO,000,000 of people who will welcome her forces Io “hospitable graves” on land, ami for every brick she displaces in New York or any other city, and for every stick of timber she breaks, she will pay dearly in money. At her expense new and better houses will be built. Whatever may have liven the sash ion in 1770, indemnity is the result ) of war now. Let nobody think that war will not be as serious in the end to England as to America. We can not lie whipped or scare 1 by a sensational flurry in the stock market. If London wants to bite her own fingers by throwing thousands of millions of our securities on the Rialto she only reduces the value of her own holdings. It was the head of the ass and not that of the helmeted warrior she showed. As a forceful New York contemporary has said, she cannot curb this country by scaring those who get their patriotism through the “ticker.” Stand by the government, as represented by the wise and patriotic course of her administration. There is one course, and only one to pursue.—Cincinnati Enquirer. STATE CHIARITIES. The Indiana Bulletin of Charities and correction has been enlarged and this week appears with a number of valuable j a nicies relating to the charitalbe instu- I lions’ work in the state. Os the cost of the ataie institutions its leading article says: The total amount of money paid out of the state treasury for the support and improvement of the twelve state charitable ; and correctional institutions in the fiscal year ending Oct. 3t, 1895, was 51,284,454 - , 25. Os this sum, $76,712.90 was expended on new buildings. Ihe remainder went fur , salaries, food, clothing, etc. The total earning of ail these institutions amounted to $162,297.85. These earnings were paid i into the state treasury. Subtract the I earnings from the total expenditures and ! there is a net coat of $1,066,156 40 Os this i amount $609,889.66 went to the insane h< I pitak; $307,035.63 to the institutions for i soldiers and sailors’ orphans* home, the ■ deaf, the blind aud the feebl-minded; | $149,231.11 to the prisons and reform ; schools. The cost of supporting each patient in I an insane asylum if 1891 (five years ago) {, was $227 58. In the year ending Oct. 31, I last the cost was $201.38, In the soldiers I and sailore’ orphans, home each child cost i $209.85 in 1891 and $175.74 in 1895; school | for the deaf, 1891, $212.56, 1895, $220 80; , stitute for the blind, 1891, $239 80, 1895, , $287.01; school for faeble-tninded, 1891, j $214.06, 1895, $183.13. Inthe reform school ’ for girls an I woman’s prison the per 1 capita cost in 1891 was $200.70, in 1895, . $217.61; reform school for boys, 1891, one ] hundred and twenty-three dollars and I eighty-four cents; in 1895, one hundred , and sixteen dollars and ninety cents. In , •he northern prison the per capita cost in , 1891 was one hundred and thirty-three , dollars and thirty-one cents, in 1895, one | hundred and twelve dollars and sixty cents, southern prison, 1891, one hundred and twenty-six dollar s and ten cents, 1895, ' one hundred and thirteen dollars anil thirteen cents. This shows substantial decreas- i es tn the per capita cost of maintaing the | insane hospitals sol iers and sailors’ orphans’ home, school for feeble-minded, boys’ reform school and the northern and southern prisons in the last five yeats, I while the per capi'a of maintaining the institutions for the deaf and blind and the reform school for girls and woman’s prison has increased. In the last year at the southern prison ■ twenty- dollars and twenty cents was paid j for guardingeaeh prisoner, while at the i northern prisou gaurding each prisoner I i cost thirty-four dollars and sixty-two ’ i cents. The cost of "personal attendance” in the charitable institutions refers to the : salaries'of governessesa, insane hospital ) attendants, etc. For each inmate of the I ! insane hospitals in the last year an average of twenty-eight dollars and four cents ■ was paid for personal attendance. At the ) southern hospital this item was smallest, being but twenty-three dollars and four cents, while at the eastern hospital it was), the greatest, reaching thirty-three dollais and fifty-eight cents. At the soldiers and sailors’ orphans’ home personal attendance for each child cost eight dollars; at the institution for the deaf, six dollars and thirty-four cents; at the institute for the ; blind, five dollars and sixteen cents; at the Jchool for feeble minded, twenty dollars and ninety-nine cents. The cost of food for each inmate of the different insti utions during the year was as follows, Central) insane hospital , fifty dollars and ninety-) five cents; nort’ern insane hospital, thirtyseven dollars and twenty-five cents; east- j ern insane hospital, thirty-nine dollars and i

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eighteen cente; aouthern insane hospital, forty aix dollars and thirty cents; soldiers and sailors’ orphans’ home, fifty-seven dollars anti sixty-eight cents; institution for the deaf, thirty-four dollars and twentynine cents; institute for the blind, fifty-two dollars and twenty-two cents; school for feeble-minded, thirty-two dollars and nine-ty-two cents. More eggs and poultry, according to population, are used in the soldiers and sailors’ orphans’ home than in any other institution and the same is true of canned and fresh fruits. An idea of the economy with which good food can be purchased in large quantities may be found in the cost of each day’s board furnished during the last year in the institutions The average cost of a day’s board furnished for each inmate in the Central Insane hospital was 13 cents; Northern Insane hospital, 10 cents; Eastern Insane hospital, 10 cents; Southern hospital, 12 cents; Soldiers and Sailors’ Or; han's Home, 15 cents; Institution for the deaf, 9 cents; Institution for the blind, 14 cents; School for feebleminded, 8 cents; state prison north, 9 cents; state prison south, 10 cents; Ketorm school for girls ami woman's prison, 10 for boys, 7 cents. The Institute for the blind paid the highest average price flour, three dollars and twenty-nine cents per barrel, while the prison south paid the lowest, two dollars and fifty-seven cents. The highest average price paid for fresh beef paid was five dollars aud seventy-five cents per 100 pounds, by the Institute for the blind, and the lowest price, four dollars by the Reform school for girls and woman’s prison. The highest average for potatoes was paid by the school for feeble-minded, 68 cents, and the lowest by the Eastern Insane hospital, 30 cents a bushel. The price of beans ranges from threedollars and twelve cents per bushel paid by the Southern Insane hospital, to one dollar and forty-eight cents paid by the northern prison. The southern prison paid 20 cents a gallon for milk, which was the highest, and the Reform school for boys paid 11 j cents, which was the lowest. Tea ranges from 40 cents a pound in the Soldiers and Sailors* orphans’home, to 13 cents in the northern prison. Tbe Central Ineane hospital bought ice for one dollar and forty cents a ton, while the prison south paid six dollars per ton for ice.

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