Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1882 — WHAT CAN THEY DO. [ARTICLE]

WHAT CAN THEY DO.

A tariff for revenue. St nator Fred Hoover. St John defeated in Kansas. Moiwp-a’es rtjust stand from under. Indiana, 15,000 to 20,000 Democim- .. Pennsylvania about 40,000 Deme •laticNew York, Democratic about 200,000' “Spoony” Butler beats radicalism in Massuchu-'Ctts - Congress Democratic by a large majority Keifer won’t be speaker soon again. Illinois claimed by the Demo erats. Congressman Wool’s majority in tl/.s district is about 1170. How the trace-chains jingled about the ballot boxes Tnescuv. The millionaire's diamonds and lnxurei anwt be taxed proportionately with the laborers’ necessaries. The people have spoken. Onr young friend, John T. Ford • rae near smashing the political i pes of the “life long Republican" of Keener. The people of this Congressional istiict has no further need of a rep sentative who does not know a nee chain at sight. The “Travis combination” made delivery, but the other side failed come to time—and Hoover is electGlory to God! We rejoice with our friends Clerk < wger and Treasurer Didlake over i.andsnme majorities received by ti. ir. in old White.—Between 400 and - a haadsome endorsement. T-* “bosses” are exultant over th,. 1. they retain upon the rank and file of tl.eir party in this county. They rei<> . that their following have proyen then, selves wedded to party, and blind to the needed reforms so universally demanded all over the land. The result of the vote in this Marion township, where the candidates for Auditor reside, is certainly gratifying to Mr. Nowels and his friends 'the Republican candidate for Secretary of Stste received a majority of 130 in the vote cast. Mr. Nowels was beaten only 12. The doleful lamentations of the Re. publican oyer the defeat of Travis rc minds us that the Blue Ribbon friends that gentleman were badly “damphooT ed” whenTthey “compromised” against voluntary declarations and pledges.— Though they kept faith with the comnact the other parties to it were unable and disinclined to deliver the goods. , m et th 6 .dead and the beautiful rest.” Boss, ’ in the Republican. Yes, let them rest—buried deep under the mighty political cyclone which has swept over them from “sea to sea”. If Bro. Travis gaye up the ghost before a knowledge of the manner in which his Blue Ribbon friends had been tricked by the “bosses” and their tools had time to mar his features, no doubt his political corpse presents a “beautiful” appearahce To falsehood, lying circulars secretly -nd liberally distributed through the out -wnghips, liberal supply of money, and ne grand scare given certain professed iue-ribbonites, may be attributed! the s uccess of the Republican ticket in Jasper! ' therwise the political cyclone would also mive swept this county in its course— However, the big majorities of that party U other days is gradually disappearing. Those good temperance Repubiicans, who thought they were doing such immense service to the tempercause by supporting a temper"nco candidate for Auditor, on a whiskey platform, can go home and o Milge themselves in the comforting r- j;-‘ction that by their course in that j . si>ect they have defeated the Repub k n candidate for state SenatorRensselaer Republican. 1: is the Republican abandoned its windy professions of Temperance ? Note its sad wailing over the defeat of Travis and look in vatn for the Temperace Pro gramme for next Saturday evening, and then ask what damphoolism has taken .possetsion of tbe editor! A Detroit saloon keeper advertises that he has paid S3OO for a year’s license to sell liquors, but that he means to voluntarily restrict his bus iness within certain moral bounds' “To the wife who has a dwnkard for a husband,” he says in an advertises ment “or a friend who is dissipated,! say emphatically, give me noitce of such cases, and all such shall be excluded from my place, Let fathers, mothers, sisters, do likewise, and’ their requests shall be regarded, I pay a heavy tax for the privilege of selling whiskey and other liquors,and I want it distinctly understood that I have no desire to sell to drunkards or minors, or to the poor or destitute, I must prefer that they save their money and put it where it will do the mo. t good to their families.”

On Wail stre t prominent Repulicans, in discussing the results of the election generally give the o’ inion, as business men. that the general Democratic victories were larg-ly rendered, possible by the action ol the last Republican Congress in its treatment of the questions of taxa lion , the tariff and expenditure so National works. Chicago Tribune, Rep; “The Keier syndicate has not fared well this year. Robeson in New Jersey, Paee in California, Hazelton and Williams in Wisconsin, all of them conspicu ous members of the combination and liberal sharers in its spoils and advantages, have had their stock can celed by tieir constituents. Almost the only member of the syndicate who survives is Keifer himself, who had the- good luck to pull through by a hair’s-' reath a month before the tornado struck the whole country.” And when tbe committees are made out in the next Congress, we trust they may be so arranged that Keifer, Robeson’s servile part san may con stitute a committee in himself. It would neither bo right nor proper to insist that gentlemen who have a decent reapect f .>r themselves should be compelled to associate with him' * * » California has elected to Congress, a solid Democratic delegation, including the Congressman-at-Large. Horace F. Page, of the Second District, whom Keifer made Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, and who reported the River and Harbor steal, giving California alone SBOO,000 of the swag, has beeu beaten. It will be remembered that this SBOO,OOO was to make California a safe Republican state, and that the grab was urged on this account. There seems to have been a mistake somewhere. ■ - - “Do you ever go to meeting?” i.sited a minister of a blue grass Kentckian. “Certainly, sir, twice a year spring meeting and fall meeting.”

The wampum belt which Wm. Penn gave the Indians in part payment for the territory now known as Pennsylvania, afterward reclaimed and held as an heirloom in the Penn family in England nntil 1856, is in the Historical society of Pennsylvania. The Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor Bell, of New Hampshire, Is very brief, saying: “It behooves all men to show gratitude for benefits received; it is especially becoming for a Christian community, at stated seasons, to acknowledge publicly theii obligations to their bountiful Father.” Stonewall Jackson’s army horse, called Little Sorrel, is twenty-six years of age, and is still kindly cared for by General Jackson’s father-in-law, Dr. Morrison of Lincoln county. North Carolina, It is the horse on which Gen. Jackson received his death wound. Paul H. Hayne, the southern poet, is a man of medium size, perhaps five and a half feet tall, with a well proportionad figure, oliva complexion, dark, penetrating brown eyes, and a full, massive forehead. He has highly polished manners, cordial address, and so much natural eloquence in conversation as to remind everyone of the fact that he is a nephew Robert Hayae, Daniel Webster’s famous opponent. A. Philadelphia,!! tells the press a characteristic story of Daniel Webster. The statesman’s father was a great lover of military musters. One day -when he was going to the training he gave Da iel and his brother Ephraim a querter apiece to spend as they pleased. At night he called the two boys to him, and asked them what tht y had done with their money. Daniel was very ready to tell; he had bought cakes, cider, etc., and had a good time. But Ephraim i efused to tell h«w he had disposed of his wealth His father insisted, and at last he re luctantly confessed tnat he had lent it to Daniel.

Between forty and fifty years ago there existed among American boys a much greater capacity for “turning their hands” to any piactiowl matter than is found among them today The boy of that period did “chores” about the house He was : familiar with the stable. Even in town or village he could milk the cows, harness the horses or mend a broken picket. He learned early . something of the use of the toois in ■ the bain, and probably spoiled mors or less good lumber. A little older he learned a trade, or he went to sea. There was not so much “style” as ’ now. but more practicability. More ; boys could liandlo the ax, chop wood and use the buck-saw. A g,eat many American boys now can do none of these tilings. Everything is done for them. They’ are above grooming horses, milking cows or mending pickets. A trade is despised. They grow up white banded, well dressed, conversant with the polish and ve neer of society, but often useless in practical matters, Many of them can not drive a nail nor tie a square knot IX the harness breaks on an out-of-the-way place of road they are helpi«M. They can not even make a fire. They can not with ax or hatchet chop down a tree or point a stake. For the nTost trifling I it of carpentry they must send fc-i a mechanic. They are incapable of cooking the simplest meal. They arc useful where? At a desk in a banking house or a lawyer’s office. They are entirely “profess ional.” They are always dressed up to the prevailing style, and own no overalls or working clothes. The faculty of “turning ones hand to anything” is a very useful one. Not so much for the attainment of perfection in any particular kind of occupation as for the cultivation of adaptability to circumstance and condition. One may on a wreck knock a raft together and give himself a chance for escape. Another waits for help and perishes. One man out of the relics of failure builds immediately some support, while the other sits idly down, waits, does nothing and starves.