Democratic Press, Volume 2, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1896 — Page 6

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,OW shall any man add aught to the praise or eulogy of George Washington? History and biography, eloquence and poetry have exhausted their combined riches upon the successful leader of the American revolution, and the founder of the American republic—our first great national hero. Every great crisis in the history of the world has found its

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ma a to control and guide it. Call thia Providence, or accident, the American revolution was no exception to it. Before the first murmurs of discontent were heard in that struggle the man was being prepared for the crisis. On the banks of the Potomac and the Rappahannock, thirty years be.'»re Lexington and Bunker Hill, a truthful and manly boy was growing up, ripening into stalwart young manhood. With only the common school education of that early day, the young man was soon being educated in the broader school of natu e and experience, in the great forest, under the open heavens, with his surveyor's chain and his sword, in Indian wars, defending the frontier settlements from savage incursions. Growing still apace, the manly young Virginian is soon the leading spirit and military commander of all that Potomac region, and his skill, endurance and courage in those campaigns swell the measure •f his fame. Then with the peace, the young commander lays aside the sword, marries and settles upon his inherited country seat at Mt. Vernon, and like his ancestors is now’ a rich landed proprietor, • Virginia fanner and planter and country gentleman. So he might have remained tn the end. had not the voice of patriotism called him to take part with bis neigh-

■y EAItt.Y VORTKAIT OF WASHINGTON. From the iialntlng by C. W. Feale, 1772, owned by Gen (>. W. C. Lae. Lexington, Va. bora and the oppressed people of the colonies against the tyranny of the mother country. Washington eat with Jefferson and Richard Henry Lee and Mason and Pendleton, colleagues to that first continental congress at Philadelphia. The guns of Lexington crack, and their Car echoes reach the patriot congress at Philadelphia. They waked the colonies to action. It hnd been debate and petition and remonstrance before —it was war, war

He Never Told a Lie. (Tint SMALL BOY’S VHCW OF IT.) lie mu«t ’« l*»« * bully chap, that Mier Waalilu'tuu, . •C<»» I have often beard my pa wuah hr had •N' inn say** It miiat 'a tilled hit mother's 'Coa ii'io r < l <>*l<| ll tel7’the folks neat door she hud a little boy Which wire the bcateat boy In town; n on her liack yard fence „ Could lean her chin ’n' tall Miss Brown she didn't have no «.<■>«• 'Bout rallhln' chll crn; es alte had there wua no reathua why ... . „ Iler Johnny wuan’t like her George, who never told a He. c-.,.-. My! I've told lota o' whoppers, n <><orge must a beeu a g-uithe 'F's never told a lie when It went better n the truth. , fc When my ms'* Jam la tulaaln n she takes me on her knee. Pulls off her thllpper, 'n' I think a llckln won't suit me. I don't mlud auayln I raw little Wuliy •N‘ that* he couldn’t reach the shelf 'n' se he I guesa'tl "y 'hid no Jem them days, ’n' that's That n'ul ”boy George Waahlu'ton never told Ma sends me off to Sunday school ’n' I meet •N' we with a lot. o' boy. Whet/1 get' back 'n' ma asks what kep' Sunday school so long, . I tell her that the teacher made us learn a •N’ made us learn a lots o' hymns, 'n' lots o’ •N' holy things. I guvs. I. olden times _ They didn't have no Sunday school, n that s the reason why .... .... That little boy George Washln ton never told I beard'pa tell the story wunst about the •JP 'boutTSe'little hatchet I’ll bet If It wus I wou°d*'a chopped the thing clean down 'n' et the cherries, too. •N' rd 'a said that Wu'ly done It—that s what 1 wou.d do. My pa run for office wuust. n promised tr He'd sdve each one a bully Job who'd help to get him In: . But when he wua elected n got bls seat, be found . a ♦*. There wusn't Jobs enough to go one-tenth • N - jVe^' r t O 'l«'i«! the neat time th.t h? run. . I ruent there wux no jobs them days, or mebbe Washin’ton Never run fur office, *n* that s the reason The Father of his Country never told a lie. Me 'n' pa went Ushln wunst n dldn t get a But I b heard pa say that we caught nineteen the other night; , •X’ when I said. "Why. pa!’ bls face It Jes got awful red. •N' 'e slipped a penny tn my hand, n I looked up 'n said: . • •‘Why. pa! I found twus twenty when I counted 'em again." Well I guess the Presidents never went a-fishln' then .u.... Like they do sometimes nowadays, n that s the reason why. Pa says that Mister Washin ton never told a He.

for liberty now. Twenty thousand patriot colonists had closed in upon the retreating British in Boston. Who should this leader be? The hour found the man, and out there stepped from the Virginia delegation and advanced to the bar of the house to accept his great trust, this modest frontier colonel, legislator and planter —tall, imposing and commanding in appearance, his fine form made athletic and sinewy by long, manly exercise; his judgment ripened by experience in war and peace—the very ideal picture of the hero which the crisis demanded, George Washington. the MAN. Aside from all questions of success or

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failure, as we look at the man, what was it that made Washington great? It is clear that it was not the possession of great or brilliant intellectual faculties. Not in congress or convention, nor as speaker, writer, or even soldier, were these displayed. Other men have excelled him in all these ways, but in a word, it was manhood; it was character; it was moral greatness. It was that nice adjustment of the moral and intellectual faculties, that perfect blending of parts, that lofty sense of duty in the performance of every trust, that spotless truth, that stainless honor, that incorruptible integrity, that faultless courage and unshaken endurance—all these and more, that made up that consummate piece of manhood which flowered out in that eighteenth century of time and which is now evermore the priceless possession and glory of history. This is the supreme greatness of Washington. Washington belongs not with the conquerors—with Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, but with the great unselfish patriots —with Timoleon, with Cincinnatus, with Hampden and William of Orange. It is useless to compare him with Napoleon. It were batter to contrast them. The great Corsican and the great Virginian were entirely dissimilar. They belonged to different races nnd were cast in different molds. The physical men were wide npnrt in appearance. Washington was tail, straight and commanding, with the blue eyes of the Anglo-Saxon. Napoleon was short nnd corpulent, with the sallow coiqplexion and dark piercing eyes of the Latin race. Washington was slow, retiring and dignified; deliberate and calm in speech and action. Napoleon was quick and restless of movement, impetuous of speech and sometimes undignified in manner. But in moral greatness, compared with Washington, he was a dwarf. The one is the embodiment of human intellect and will? devoted, in the main, to selfish ambition; the other is the noblest combination of the moral and intellectual

faculties, Inspired by justice and patriot* lam ami guided by duty. Tim one Is a fiery, portentous meteor, seen through the lurid smoko of battles, nmld disuniting governments and toppling thrones and quenched at last in utter darkness. The other is an orderly planet in its appointed sphere, a grand and quenchless luminary, shining ever <>n with undimlniabed luster, lighting the world with liberty, in the serene, eternal heavens. GEORGE AT SCHOOL. Got « Holld Knowledge of Mathematics. but Never Learned to HpelL As n matter of fart little is knows al>out George Washington's schooldays. HI. first teacher was named Hobby, and he was sexton ns well as pedagogue of the \ irginin parish in which the Washington family settled. Hobby was not a muu of wide information or of deep culture. It is to be inferred that he km-w how to write legibly and to teach the art skillfully, for the one pupil of his school who was destined to bo illustrious wrote a clear plain hand. Hut, judging from the letters and other writings of the immortal George that are now exAT JOlSk wt * THE CHARLES ST. MEMNtX CRAYOM. tant, the teacher knew very little about orthography. At least he taught young George very little, for his spelling would drive a modern schoolmaster to drink. Possibly it was bis pupil's inability or lack of desire to learn to spell that brought about the lack of cordiality that is said to have existed between them, though it is stated on excellent authority that in a very short time after entering Hobby's school the pupil knew as much if not more than the master. Washington, pore, died in 1743, when Washington, fils, was but 11 years old. He then went to live with his halfbrother Augustine and attended a school kept by a man named Williams. There he studied no language but the English, and. the story goes, devoted little attention to that, confining himself principally to mathematics. This stood him In good stead when he became a surveyor. The future general and first President of this republic, at the time he went to school to Mr. Williams, was tall, activs and muscular and was so generally considered quite capable of thrashing any one of his comjianions that no one ever had the temerity to pick a quarrel witt him. Uses of the Cycle. In the “Cycle Notes” of the Scientfic American we find. In one week, three new uses of the nineteenth century

chariot. In France it is used for the distribution of telegrams; the riders have an allowance for the use of the machines. In some Belgian cities the fire department uses tricycles for hosecarts, with good results. On Long Island, New York, an entomologist carries a reservoir of insecticide attached to the handle-bars of his bicycle, and a knapsack spraying machine on his shoulders. He has thus a quick and efficient means of scattering the poison, which kills Insects Injurious to vegetation. UNLESS HE HAD AFFIDAVITS, George Washington Wonld Not Be Above Soepicion. r If Washington in “splitting wood” Or “boxing with a friend,” Had got a blow by chance that should His optic features blend; Did he, in all truth, state the way He got his bold black eye, His fame would not resound to-day Aa one that could not lie!

TRUTH TRIUMPHANT. CLAIMS OF DEMOCRACY FORC* IBLY VINDICATED. KcpnbtlcaK Lcnd»r»«nd I’ve** Obliged to Admit the Returning Prosperity of the Country-Further Testimony from the Organ of the Iron Trade. A Bure Sign of Prosperity. Republican paper* are now publish Ing returns of the Bureau of Statistics, which. If rightly construed, show that the country hits prospered remarkably under the Wilson tariff law of August, IHtM. These official returns show, say the "protectionist" papers, that In 1895 we imported from England alone nearly |4n.I)OO,<MIO more than In 1804. No sign on the commercial horizon of the I tilled States In many years has Iw-on so auspicious and promising as this Increase of our Imports. It shows lieyond all doubt that the people are not impoverished; that they have a solid backing of wealth, and that they are making an earnest effort to extend their foreign trade without which no people can thrive. But the papers that are so much distressed by the "unfavorable balance of trade” spectre might do well to note what the Philadelphia Record rays. After pointing to the fact that in the p. riod from 1791 to ISHI the foreign

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commerce (including the import trade) and home industries of the United States flourished apace and "a population of 5.000.1X0 had rapidly grown to over 31.000,000,” it adds; "This tremedous development should cause some misgivings in the breasts of those who are constantly distressing ' themselves about what they call the | •unfavorable balance’ of imports. If their alleged theories of trade had been anything else than vain chimeras the American people would have been so completely impoverished and exhausted from 1701 to 1801 that neither section would have had the means and the credit to raise, equip and maintain great armies in the field for four years." The pending Dingley tariff bill would check and in many cases prohibit importations. It is a blow aimed at our foreign commerce, which is indispensable if we are ever to have foreign markets for the extensive sale of our domestic manufactured goods. It is. therefore, to that extent a blow at the entire labor and capital of the United States engaged in the mills and factories which produce these goods.—New York Herald. When Hoes Protection Protect? Some defenders of McKinleyism explain the disastrous panic of 1803 by saying that although the high tariff law of 1890 was then in full operation its ability to promote prosperity was suspendi-d by the fact that a Democratic administration was In power. Other Republicans blame our unsettled financial system for the panic, and say that protection could not prevent the results of unwise currency legislation being shown in general business depression. Botli these explanations confirm the main objection made by tariff reformers against the McKinley law, which Is, that it did not. and could not, do iWiything to save the trade and industry of the country from ruin and bankruptcy. If it be true that high duties utterly failed to maintain prosperity because the Democrats were running the postoffices and collecting and expending the public revenues, then It must follow that it is not the tariff, but the polities of the party in office, which makes business good. In that case the Republicans will have to show how it happens that the year 1895, with the Democrats still in power, business of nil kinds was vastly more prosperous than in 1893. Again, if protection can only make good times when the currency system and all other conditions are favorable. Is it not reasonable to suppose that it is these various conditions which really make prosperity, and that McKinley and his tariff are only flies on the wheel, unable either to help or hinder? Is not file high taxation superstition like the heathen idols, which can only give their worshippers good crops In seasons when there Is abundant rain, and can do nothing In years of drought? An Idol to be of any use should bring rain In dry seasons; and protection, if it is what its credulous worshippers believe, should prove its power by making good times in spite

t'»' " do lids Is an admission that It Is a very weak and Inefficient pollcj.l<• apologists only weaken their case « h< n they try to excuse Its failures. I hey would <lo Is'tter lo stick to their oldfashioned plan of plain, ordinary lyl '«■ nnd either assert that there was no panic in 1803. or that there was no prel(.. tlon. The Aim rleati |ssiple know that we had both, ami for fear that we shall have more panhw they are do. termlnerl to not return to high protco tlou. Our Greatest Iron Ivar. The bulletin Issued by the American Iron nnd Oteel Association shows that ING was the greatest year for i n ,n pr.Mlu.tlon lu the history of the country. Instead of shutting down because of the reduction of duty from M a ton to the "free trade nite" of W per cent, ad valorem, the furnaces of the country Increased their output to J,44tMsst tons for the year. This is an Increase of a quarter of a million tons over the output of 1»«>. which had lieen the year of maximum production. Compared with 1«H the increase for the year was more than -lu per cent. The Iron and Steel Association attributes the increase, as the World has done, to the Increasing demand for structural Iron, and as this demand will grow with the Increasing vogue of iron-framed buildings, the output of plg-lron isdlkely to Increase from year to year with the same entire disregard

of tariff rates, high or low, which was shown in 1895. On the figure* of 1805, the United States increase their lead as the world's greatest producer of pig-iron. We had already passed Great Britain in 1893, when out of a total production for all countries of 24,684.000 tons the United States produced 7,124.000 tons, against 6,776,000 tons for Great Britain. Large as are the figures of total production for 1895 they are only a prophecy of development As yet we have hardly done more than enough to show the possibilities of our vast mineral resources. In another ten years our iron output ought to double that of Great Britain, and It is entirely possible that it may do so,—New York World. A Fraudulent Protectioniat. Mayor W. L. Strong, of New York City, is the latest example of the demoralizing effect of protection on Its advocates. At a recent dinner of the Merchant Tailors’ Association Mayor Strong, who is a director of the American Protective Tariff League, urged the tailors to use American cloth instead of English gods. He claimed that the domestic cloth was just as good as the imported, and to prove his assertion declared that not long ago he had sold a prominent New York tailor a piece of American cloth at double its real value, by representing it as being a foreign manufacture. The tailor did not knew the difference, and sold the cloth to customers as genuine imported good*. Tariff reformers have always contended that the injury to public aud private morals was the worst effect of the high tariff system, and Mayor Strong's frank confession of business dishonesty is another proof that they are right. Mr. Strong is a millionaire dry goods'merchant, who probably considers himself an honorable upright citizen. Yet on his own admission he deliberately cheated an unfortunate tailor who accepted his statements as true, by selling him domestic cloth under th* pretense that it was made in England. Not only that, but he says he charged twice as much for the cloth on account of his fraudulent representation that 11 was imported. This is a business transaction of which most men would be ashamed, even if they did not fear prosecutior for getting money under false pretenses. But so accustomed have pro tectlonlsts become to the Idea of dis honestly using the power of the Government to put money In their owt pocket* that they think It is all right tc deceive customer* by misrepresenting the character or quality of their goods Instead of regretting that an eminent Republican should have been guilty oi such wilful fraud, the protectionist papers in New York and other cities have been republishing his story as a good joke, and claiming that it 1* a reason why English cloths should bo shut out of our markets. What do fair-minded people think of such business or of the press which defends them? Whoever comes face to face with unI ’elfish love has to stop and think.

AROUM) A Blg STATE, B - "■ »•—mu BRIEF COMPU-ATIGN uv |fj ■ ANA NEWS. ■ What Oar Natclibora A.r t> n |»- ■ of G«wm»l au«l tavral 1,,,, ■ •n.I Itratb* Arrtdaot. „„ | < I a.uial INAuler. Alout 1,,.!, ** ■ Minor State New. H Rush County will Imuo Hsonm * H per cent, bonds. ' ”» ■ Elmer Winters of Terre ||, inl „ sl .. ■ arm off while hunting. I Evansville police officers are um u ■ remiiin awake while on duty. I Indiana Epworth loa->u. s lnw( ■ Anderson, .tunc 2.1, 26,27 m.| "s. I N. M. Stewart of BraiH. kill da I vijaT eight Inches long, i.' . ntly. ■ A four-foot vein of lead <. P |.»«i»~. I found near Washington. V H Kosedale Ims a meat war and the ■ cat cuts are selling at Ironi bmr tuturtt I cents a pound. ■ Idle convicts nt.lcfferamoille rennskw I Warden Herts’ residence ami now th I family Is moving in. I The Fort Wayne City Cmmcil pMwdu I ordinance taxing street raiiway.telephon. I and telegraph poles. I Cyrus Pnllman, aHushville miner, ku I learned that one of his Cripple Creek Col I claims is worth $50,000. I A perforated bullet has lieen inv-ntri I oy nn Anderson man. It is said tohtw I great destnictive power. "Big Ge<»rgia” Burks, a negress nw. dererat Terre Haute, hasn't eaten abit» since jailed, twelve days ago. Henry Hilton a workman in the Anderson steel works, is insane as a result of«. cessive heat from the furnaces. The 4-year-old daughter of .fames jfalott.of Onward, was burned to death. B« clothes caught fire from a hot stove. Last week Louis Vernard of Laports, blind for several years, profesMd r»-lig;oa at a revival and had his sight restored. Thirty-six per cent, of the citizens of Brazil are church members, hevea and one-third percent, of the homes are Without a bible. Logansport jail is without a p-isoMt Willard McDowell, the l ist <« eupant, «« sent to the Prison North for trying to kill his mother. Wayne County agricultural associate has passed resolutions approving Seetetr.ry Morton’s attempt to abolish the era of free seed distribution. Wni. Isenhorn of Lebanon, fell intou □pen fire place while in an epileptic ft. and was burned to death. Bis arms nd legs were burned to a crisp. Sanford Heaton, wire fence manufacturer of Kokomo, three weeks ago. handed his wife s3n. saying that he was going to Frankfort. He hasn’t returned. Mrs. Angela Carbery of Eekerty, after I ving fifty-eight days without solid nourishment, except a sip of milk and tea.# dead. Her case puzzled physician. A Greenstowu hotel full of guests is quitan’ined.’on account of malignant diphtheria. Among others, many commercial travelers have to wait until the malady a st imped out. In the center of an eight-inch boart brought from Arkansas with other lumber, Neal Robinson, of B > ch Grove, lias found a minie ball. Shot into an Arkansas tree by bushwhackers, during the late war. Green, Melrose, and Moore, Big loin workmen who were retired a few days ago. have brought heavy damage suits against the company. They say they were dismissed without a proper bearing and that their reputations have been damaged. Mont Sheperd, a day laborer at the mine it .hiek.-on Hill. '' as caught gear of a revolving coal screen and one arm was torn to pieces ami the other arm was broken and badly lacerated. His clothes were torn from his body. He is not expected to live. A victimizers of widows is 11. C. Howe, tn the Terre Haute jail. Last .July be married Miss Belle Buell of Effingham, 111., and deserted her in Indianapolis on their wedding trip. He then induced a St. Louis widow to sell her furniture, got the proceeds and skipped. He worked three Terre Haute widows for small sums and was arrested. He has a wife in Senrea, Kan. At Columbus the other night Mrs. Thomas Greenfield surprised a surprise party in i way those present w ill not soon forget Mrs. Greenfield and h. r husband were among the guests invited to a birthday surprise on Mrs. Albert Foster. Ibecompany had assembled and all were having a good time, especially Mrs Gr< • nfiold. Her husband seemed to grow suddenly jealous of his wife and called her apart and scolded her. He then left the house, but soon returned and called her out again. Ou her return Mrs. Greenfield siw a bottle of chloroform on the shelf. Eagerly grabbing it, she again joined in the merriment, but to the astonishment of all present soon fell to the iloor unconscious. Ike party broke up hurrt -<ily and Dr. Roland was summoned. Alter several hours work her brought he around all right. F. A. Balser, State Veterinarlau,who resides in New Castle, has long be 'tr onleavoring to secure nutionul legislation to prevent the importation into tin- Stow of cattle from Texas afflicted with t.w dreaded Texas fever. Since the ex? .e enee of last summer, when the di.-i uso made its appearance in several sections oi Indiana and hundreds oi animals were sacrificed in order to put a stop to t..e scourge, the subject has been agitaicd alio as a result Mr. Balser received recent*) a letter from the chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry at Washington unnouncinß that the subject had been taken up and 1 had been decided to locate two < l e l' t ’ l . s .J ) inspection, one al Louisville, K' l •> uti' ‘ 11 other at Nashville, Tenn. Mr- " says when these are located almost a danger of the disease being introiimr into Indiana will be reduced to a mm' " mum,as all diseased cattle which m» ‘ heretofore lieen brought into the ■ m have come byway of Nashville or Luusvil'e' Mary Lawrence, a quaker girl <>'> >;i land, fell in a trance while at 1 ' 11 ", during a rcvivel meeting, and n : " all ''. unconscious fifteen hours. The revi meeting continued all night, particip** expecting revelations when the girl , awake. When the trance ended, the « could not speak. Monroe Seiberling of Kokomo, " hei . cently sold his manufacturing m ll ' - and engaged in similar enterprises in ria, 111., contemplates moving bls 1 !I1C kotno residence to his new location, mansion cost ftW.OOO, and a contractor, agreed to take the edifice down, ship J’eoria and rebuild it for $15,000.