Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 22 June 1894 — Page 2
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Siii:uman'h speech against free wool presents eonehisive reasons why no man wlio owns a sheep can atlord to vote the flemoeratic ticket. The “industrial armies” have ceased to attract public attention, and the country is not likely to see u repetition of such an absurdity. The democratic plan of tariff reform as it now stands is mainly a project to give the sugar trust wealth beyond the dreams of ava
rice.
The deficit for the fiscal year ending with the present month is estimated at $74,500,000, which is $74,500,000 more than the government was ever known to run hehiud in a year of republican rule during a time of peace. The papers are laughing at the Century dictionary definition of “guhernaculum”: “The posterior trailing flagellum of a liiMugellate infusorian;” but this is a far better definition than anybody can give of what constitutes a democrat —St. Louis Globe Democrat. For the week ending June 2 the pension bureau allowed only 1266 certilieates or but 211 for each working day. This was not quite one a day for every 2d ot the 5000 employes ot the bureau. Of those only 6:43, or just one half, were original claims, and 142 were claims arising under the old laws. At this
| rate it will take 1333 weeks, or nearly 26 years, to close out the . 200,000 cases under the old laws, I which the commissioner says he ; found perfected and ready for adjudication upon his entry into office.
GOLD AXI) SI GAR.
The treasury gold reserve is now diminished to about $69,000,000, ! anti another sale of bonds to meet the deficiency cannot be much longer delayed without serious injury to the national credit. It is well known that the receipts of the government are much smaller than the expenditures, which means that 'the public indebtedness is being I daily increased. The treasury cash balance is only a little over $115,000,000, and if the money had been expended as appropriated by congress there would not now lie $.i0,000,000 on hand. I’ublic works ! have been practically suspended all over the country, and contractors are unable to get what has been due them for several months. In the presence of this extraordinary situation the democratic senators have voted to postpone the time when the sugar duty is to take effect until next January, in order that the sugar trust may import all that it can buy under present conditions, which will give it an esti mated profit of at least $25,000,0o0. Thus the government is deprived of the revenue that it so urgently needs, and no benefit will he derived from the sugar duty until tlie accumulated supply of the trust is all sold, with the duty added. This favor to a great monopoly in return for a $500,000 contribution to the democratic campaign fund also explains in large measure the outflow of gold which Isembarassing the government. It is estimated that $100,000,000 will be needed to meet the extensive sugar imports during the next six months. If the duty had been fixed to take effect in July, the trust would have no object in making heavy imports, and the demand for gold would be reduced accordingly. But as the democrats have arranged the matter, the gold reserve is placed at the service of the trust for speculative purposes, at the expense of the people, and the government is compelled to sell bonds—to borrow money, in other words—for the payment of its current expenses. This is the manner in which the financial interests of the country are being managed by the party in power. All intelligent citizens will readily see that democratic taritf reform is calculated to be principally beneficial to a wealthy and grasping corporation. The consumers will have to pay a higher price for sugar, the most of which will go into the treasury of the trust. Little or nothing will be gained from the duty by the government for at least a year after it takes effect, but the cost of sugar to the people will lie increased at once. That is what democratic rule means, and the lesson will certainly not fail to turn popular sentiment against the party that is responsible for such a proceeding.—
Globe Democrat.
AN iNFAMOt'S POLICY. At the end of the present year, which closes June 30, the pension bureau will be able to show that out of the $165,000,000 appropriated for pensions by the Ffty-sec-ond congress, a surplus of $25,000,000 will remain. The pensioned solders have been suspended by the thousand without sufficient examination, on hearsay evidence, and then they have been required to show that they are not rascals, and have been treated by the depart-
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merit as if they were criminals. In ordinary criminal cases every man is supposed to be innoeent until he is proved guilty, but the reverse is true in the pension bureau. There every pensioner is supposed to lie guilty until he proves that he is an honest, man. In such ways as this, and by holding back the certificates of thousands of men who have been placed on the completed tiles, they have thus been kept from their rights to the extent of $25,000,000. The old soldiers will have something to say concerning this villianous polioj- at the election this fall. The ultra protection speech of Senator Voorhees delivered at the opening of the Atlanta exposition in 1S61 is receiving new circulation now because of the great Hopper’s recent radical free-tiade utterances. In 1881 he said: “I have cited the opinions of the men who formed the government and took part in early administration in order to show the auspices under which en couragement and protection were first extended to American manufacturers. Differences have exist ed and been exhaustively discussed as to the methods by which these ends were to be attained, but not as to the ends themselves. Every school of statesmanship, from the foundation of the government to the present time, has admitted the duty of fostering, encouraging and protecting the manufacturing industries.
WASHINGTON LETTER
THE LATEST POLITICAL GOSSIP FROM THE CAPITAL.
The McKinley law caused a reduction of 3e a pound in the price of sugar, equivalent to a saving of about $10 per annum to the average family; and the pending democratic tariff full will increase the price of this necessity at least 1c a pound, with a corresponding addition to every family’s expenses of living. This is one of the things that voters can readily comprehend us an argument in favor of another political change. Democrats who have been demanding that the Chicago platform be carried out should be informed that the platform has been taken up plank by plank and carried out, chopped up and burned. There is not a splinter of it left to which they can “point with pride.” That religious wai inCrawfordsville is still in progress, and one preacher in an open letter calls another a coward. Those ministers are letting their creeds get far in advance of their religion, and when that occurs religion generally gets the worst of the deal.
Stevenson is known to the country chiefly by reason of the fact that he is the only man who is will, ing to let himself be talked about as a democratic candidate for president in 1896.
riefiNinit Nurpr *♦» On Monday Mr. Louis Weik celebrated his sixty-fourth birthday and the forty first anniversary of his arrival to this city. A very pleasant surprise was planned for him by some of his friends which was a grand success in every particular. After Mr. Weik had recovered from the surprise caused by the arrival of about twenty of his old friends and acquaintances, short speeches were made by Mayor Case, Mayor-elect Birch and Mr. Henry Meltzer. Mr. Jesse Weik responded on behalf of the family. The evening was pleasantly passed in social conversation and it was not until a late hour that the guests departed. Mr. Weik is the oldest merchant on the square, having been in business here for forty-one years and during that time was never absent from his business for more than two weeks. Mr. Weik is hale and hearti for one of his age and boasts that he never rode a bicycle nor saw a game of base ball.
Intri-fMlnic I>olii|t« »f Con*rM» i»n<l a l>i*li »f anil Ther#* aw S^rn l!» Our Spnrlal Corr«»pi»nd«nt —Nolen, Inridt-ntA, Ktc.
NVashixoton, June IN, 1894 It would be ditfieult to say wlietlier the sugar trust democratic senators or the men wlio compose tlie sugar trust are tlie most frightened just now. The danger ahead of the sugar schedule is no longer, thanks to a robust expression of public opinion by the newspapers of the country, confined to the house. A movement is now on foot to modify the sugar schedule before the formal vote is taken on it in the senate. If it were not for absolute pledges which democratic senators have made there would be no doubt of the success of the movement. Still the disgust of some of them is so marked that they may repudiate their pledges, preferring to offend the sugar trust rather than to lose thousands of their constiinents. The week opened with much uncertainty concerning the taritf hill. Senator Harris expected to have disposed of the wool schedule by the middle of last week, hut it is still undisposed of, although it will he finished early this week, unless the threat to filibuster until some duty is put upon wool shall he carried out. It is expected that the debate on the income tax will occupy nearly or quite a week, and it is not yet certain that it will he reached this week. So there is little probability that the final vote will be reached before the
first of July.
That '‘there are more ways to kill a dog than hanging” is proven by the manner in which Mr. Cleveland is trying to make congress obey Ids request, not to enter upon any financial legislation at this session. The bill prpviding for a currency commission which shall spend six months in investigating the subject before submitting its recommendation to congress, is Mr. Cleveland’s scheme to prevent action upon any financial hill, and the administration influence is being used to get it favorably reported from the house committee on banking and currency. If Mr. Sill, the man who gave the first information for which lie received several thousand dollars in cash) that tiie Carnegie companies were not properly carrying out their contracts with tlie government for making of armor plates for war vessels, is not one of tlie greatest liars of the age tlie Carnegie companies, instead of being fined a few thousand dollars by Mr. Cleveland, should have been made to refund every Inllar received for botched work and to have forfeited their contracts. Sill lias been here for several days testifying in the investigation that is being conIucted by the house naval committee. The most of his testimony can tw verified, as he specifies every piece of had armor Unit was delivered to the government. and as it can all lie got at and examined. and probably will he in course of time. The odd part about the business is that Mr. Cleveland knew all about this man’s testimony when he set aside tlie decision ol Secretary Herbert in this matter and himself made one very much more favorable to Carnegie, who evidently knew whose interest he was serving when tie publicly endorsed 1 in* Wilson taritf hill in it- original form, before going to Europe for an in-
definite stay.
The explanation fever is no longer monopolized by democratic senators. Representative Richardson, of Tennessee, had a very bad case of it. when, in reply to the charge of of a local paper that he had been using his position as a member of the house committee on the District of Columbia to speculate in real estate, lie explained by saying he had bought some real estate on speculation’ which lie sold to a real estate agent
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Letter Lint. The following letters remain in the Greencastle postotfice uncalled for June 20: Mr. Arthur Jackson, Harry Crawford, >■. Y. Bishop, Maine Boiier, Mr. Janies Mace. Miss Anna J. McMullen, Miss lone Schuyler. Mr. Harry Eaton, Miss Anna White, Miss Belle Cane, M. A. Oliver, esq., Mr- Maggie Waller-, O. E. Slioptaugh, Mr. Lettie Gott, W. II. Robinson, Mrs. Sarah E. Burst, Mr. I>. X. Reeves, Miss America Watters, Mr. William Seed. In calling for same nlease say “advertised.” Willis G. Nkff, 1*. M.
I’nrdtic liiilletin Crop Report.
Extremely hot weather was leported from all sections of the state, with it tew light, scattered showers until the 16th, when the showers became general and were timelv, benefiting all crops, especially oats, corn, pastures, meadows and gardens. The weather during the week was beneficial to corn growing and cultivation. Wheat practically made, and uninjured as first reported; it is well filled, heavy, maturing nicely and promises an abundant yield; troubled in sonic sections by insects, but the growth is too far advanced to be injured; cutting has begun on bottom lands in the southern portion. Corn made rapid and vigorous growth during the past week; was well cultivated, is clean and has re gained its color; no permanent damage by frost of last week; oats heading and will be a fair crop;
without knwing that it was purchased l 1 "'' 1 '"’i* is U ‘ r * > g 00(1 ! Rood curfor a street railway company which had Wf “ at ' 10r ,or huy-making; timo a bill before the District of Columbia diy good, but light in some seccommitte •, and that it was a mere coin- tions; pastures very good; stock in cidence that he (Mr. Richardson) hap- excellent condition where pasture pened as a member of that committee to ■ , 1 .-.i.- 10 was not too short; a arse and tim> report a hill favorably to the house, alla nne wliii-h that railway company was very < ’ ro I ) °* potatoes expected: tobacco anxious to have passed, just four days made but little growth; the rain after the sale of the real estate. Such will enable the farmers to go ahead coincidences are dangerous to public and plant cabbage; berries cut The last democratic senator to make 8 * l0rt Ev drouth; general farm
an explanation was Ransom, of North 1 l ,ro9 P (!< ‘ ,s •‘hvouraging.
Carolina, who confessed, after the fact- Montgomery, Putnam and Boone had been ascertained bv newsnauer i -• ,.. 1 men, that his son, who is ids committee ' < ' ,,lintles * " heat filling good : corn clerk, had been speculating in sugar not hurt by the frost, growing ..nd trust stock. It is not probable that Mr. ,.u , * » 11 n a Ransom would have ever said anything | ‘ ; e, *ny potatoes good and have
about it if the senate investigating coni- 1 about full growth mittee had not in deference to a general I
public demand examined every senator 1 Chump* at lUouiuiugton
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feet right to do so, and would whenever ln * u “ c '*y un( ^ represented them to he felt so inclined. The greatest inter-! be red birds ti,„ . • . est i- felt in the testimony of Senator ? * 11 P r,ce he 8ol 'i Gorman, who is still absent and re-i tliem Ht W! ‘8 fifty cents to $1 50 ported to be sick. It may be that Sen- each. A irentlemnn ,, . ' , ator Gorman will join the other demo- . K nUfcIDan who purchased cratic senators who helped him to fix j ,,ne ^ birds stated that they up the sugar schedule in denying ev- were not red birds at all too ~ * erything, but there is reason to believe u uirus at all, but were that he could tell some very sensational "lue jays colored red with diamond ; things in connection with this business dye. It is said »h«» .1 . if so disposed. But it is hardly prob- ‘ • nul that about three able that lie will he so disposed when dozen were sold in the city Next' I his testimony is taken. —Bloomington Telephone.
Will Heartily Approve. Editor Banner Times: Good citizens will heartily ap prove the efforts of the common council to strengthen and improve the existing stock ordinance. Tin protection of the rights of citizens and especially the public schoo grounds, against trespass by stock willfully or accidentally, turner loose to roam over the same, wheth er it lie domestic h.wls or domestic animals, (dogs included) is tin bon mien duty of the city authori ties. If we are without a public pound one should be immediately provided, and the marshal and po lice authorities instructed to allow no trespasser to escape the penal ties of the law. 4’itizfn Hr at Estate 1 ransfers. Thomas W. Jobe to I Many W. Johnston •and in Jackson tp., . Leon Yolton to Robert Cox. lots in Roach .tale, • tty of Greencastle to T (i. Bowman, lots In roreHt Hill cemetery, $800. Huw’w 'I'll In ' Vp offer One Hundred Dt liars Ro ward for any case of catarrh that can not be cured bv Hall’s Catarrh Cure, F.J.Uhknkv A Co., Props.,Toledo,© " .*, tlie undersigned, have know n F J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and b.hevc him perfectly honorable in all bu>im*8s transactions ami financial!v able to carry out any obhgations mad’ by their firm. ... " 1 ''* cuax, \\ holesale Druggi-ts, Toledo, O. M aiding, Kinnan & Marvin, Whole stl Druggists. Toledo, <>. ‘ l ® Catarrh Cure is taken intern ^ ^"^bnrtlv upon the Mood and mucous surfaces of the system Price
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