Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1884 — Page 1

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■ KOKDSCAI F. OHELOOm I _ Attsraoy^it-Law K BwfflßAiAßa. - laniANA ■ Practises Ma ths Counts of Jasper and adI e na? ntl **' collections a speI Office aa north side of Washington | streat, apposite Court Haase- mi, I *,s.DWi«a*f. emipwiusw. Hi a. Sc. Z. DWIGGIHS. Attorneys-at-Latw t«MEx.an - - | - .Udiaju ’ Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad Joining countias, make collections; eto. *c west, corner Newels' Block. Y_ni ! MMONP. THOMPSON. DAVID 3. THOM PSOK , Attorney-at- Ls w. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, fvXNSSEDAEB. - . . Xndhsu Practice in ail the Courts. f VARIOM L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. ? «,#»?, ‘ 1 / r t .]°, uhlr - aU , Mtion to paying tax- , Selling and leasing landa. v2n4B FRANk w. H .COCK, Attorney at Lam Ajid Real Estate Broker. Practical in all Coart» of Jasper, Newtor *®“ Benton countie*. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared: Taxes paid. Colloctioai.® a. Specialty. •TAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW and notary public, kuiMtogf Bent sehferfincL, Maieeve, ” s h^^dekT^ Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. •OLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY POJLIt, Real Estate and Collecting Agent. ’Till practice in all the Courts of Newton Benton and Jasper counties. Office:—Up-stairs, over Murray’s CiO Srug Store, Goodland, Indiana. “ DD. DALE, ■ ATTOKNEY-AT LAW WONTICILI.O, - INDIANA. Back fcailding. np stairs. -.1, -j— ij _ X. H. LOUG-HRIDGE. F. P, BITTBES LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all , iccounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlni DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer Ind. Sails promptly attended. Will give special atter tien t» the treatment cf Chronic ilinecsea. .i " „ , J R. S. Dwiggins. Zimri Dwiggins, President. Cashier, Citizens’ Hank, RENSSELAER. IND., noes a general Banking business; give* j.? special attennon to collections: rornitts <ces made on day of painient at current msofexchange;inte., m , • 0i.,,, i.«i ant . ua; CTtlticates bearing inGi.-st issued; exoii inge bought and sold. Tbis Bank owns the Nu-glar Safe, which premium at the ClHeago Exposition to I*7B. This BafeMs protected by one of Sargent s Time Locks. The bunkvaultused » as ?£ 0< ? aB ea f be x t will be seen l/em thn teregoing that this Bank furnishes ■s geod saeurlti to depositors as can be. AXiFHED M COT. THOMAS THOMPSOX . Banking House AF. A \ McC ° Y & '£■ THOMPSON. succeosorS U t.o A, McCoy * A. Thompson. Aankers. llcn»PGlaer, Ib<L general j&anking bustness Buy and sal! exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits. &c Office same place as old Hrm of A. McCoy & Thompson. aprU.-fil

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S&Sa I kfe, Revert rurwbrahi'd IBfe * FOB SALE BY THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. , Rensselaer, Ind, A complete line ot light and heavy shoes for men and bojrs, women and misses, always in stock at bottom prices. Increase of trade more an object than large profits. See our goods before buying.

Gents' Furnishing Goods! N WARNER & SONS . DEALERS IN Hardware, Tinwarp, J Stoires Sido Washington Street. RHiM SSBajABR, • - INDIAN/: BEDFORD & TUB, Dealers In G mceries, Hardware, Tinware, W oodenware, Farm Machinery, BRICK & TILE. Onr Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as eisewhere. Ln our Hardware, Tinware and Wooden ware Depart ment, will be found everything called for. Our FarntMachinery, in great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick and 1 lie, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA EtNER. 1 —— ‘‘"’l iMloidioici STOMACH BITTERS Ik . A.... . Wmm akd u umequalkd a* a Dyspepsia, Chills and WM pi__j Fever, Kidney Disease, PI 00 ?,. liver Complaint, | ISIY Purifier. SBOO REWARD FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CASES THAT THIS MEDICINE WILL NOT CURE OR HELP. rpmn«Ynll t H l ). , f?l^ te # t i',® ** cretl T® ? r *® n »> »»»ist digestjan, prodace a healthy and laxative effect, and nt! toi wider-TTmio the nnturnl vigor of the bodr. Their object U Ij> J- Up i '^ e v . •trength and energy While removing enuses of disease, and operating as n ?e , fu > ®» a preventive ot all classes of stmilnr ailments hv'lulldiß-up the llconvlnce vou r^sI C 1« lit 1 #l-.e he i ,h ’^R d maki . n * H proof against disease. \}ne bottle alone > U - N I MMOh’s"'!’' n" 1 RW—MMWiiiMfiirnTimHiwiMnii'iiii *i—■*■■■ n " T.

BENSSELAER, JASPEB COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1884.

JUSTICE VS. EXTRAVEGANGE.

Mr. Editor: There are a great many men who, in summing up the whole matter, seem to think that there is only one class of men in this country trying to bankrupt this glorious government, and that is the ex-soldier in the way of sending petitions to Congress demanding additional pensions, land-warrants, equalization of bounties, and other measures of justice to the soldiers and their .. idows. Let us see about this business. How did the bond-hold-er settle with the government? HI am not mistaken, it took thirty-one hundred million dollars to pay him, and he was paid $2 50 in good money for every dollar he loaned the government, and is exempted from all taxation on his bonds, while the soldier was paid about 60 cents on the dollar of what was promised him. — What do a great many of the men who remained at home during the war and accumulated money, say? “Go west, soldier, take a homestead, and have the time that you were in the army applied upon it. Let me say that I have had the benefit of that law. I lived on my land one year and when I proved' up, my the holy Hoses, I didn’t have but one shirt left, and you couldn’t cover the smallest hole tn it with a government hard tack. These same patriot^say very little about the government fiving so freely to railroads. ‘or instance, the Pacific railroad land grant is to-day estimated to be worth two thousand millions of dollars.—l can safely say five times as much as it would take to pay>tno pensions honestly due the ex-solder.

Now kt us nee if our senators and representatives practice what they preach in the way of economy. I have in my possession two interesting documents—Senate Miscellaneous Document, No. I, and House Miscellaneous Document, No. 8. They can be procured only through Senators and Representatives. Senate Miscellaneous Document, No. 1, page 86 —For washing and ironing 151 dozen towels for United States Senate during the month of March, 1883, $75, 50. For 21,150 pounds ice for United States Senate fnrnished during month of March, 1883, $105,75. For 300 quarts Appollinaris water during Feb. and March 1883, $45. Page 46: Foi upholstering in red leather 8 large Senate sofas, $300; for 78 small Senate chairs, $624; for 48 Ballons lard oil, $50,40. Page 84: Here is an old army dose—so 2 grains Q. pills, $10; there are 78 miscellaneous items on this page —for sweet oil, pulverized borax, tincture arnica, ginger, chamois skins, insect powders Italian cosmetics, essential oils, etc. Cost of items on this page, $3,618 64. Page 50: Lunch furnished to Seriate during an executive session, $175. Page 91: For uniforms furnished the capitoi police force, May, 1883, sl227,s2;capitof polioe pay rolls for January, 1883, captain, $137,80, lieutenants, $103,30, privates, $94,70. Page 27: For 4 dozen Bats pencils, s2l; for 4 dozen Urns pencils, $27; for 4 dozen No. 4 barrel pens, $31,49; for 10 papertieres, decorated, $50,82. Fage 22: For 90 days service as clerk to committee on patents. Dec. 5, ’B2, to March 4,83, $718,02; on same page, Aug. 16, for one gold charm, $4. Page 42: For 3 doz gold pens $51,17; 5 doz. gold pens and holders, $115,20; 84 doz. pencils, assorten, $246,07; 44 doz. pocket books $128,25; 24 doz. portemonaies, *109,03Page 78: Bethesda water during the month of July, ’Bl, *121,60; washing and ironing 2414 doz. towels for United States Senate during month of July, ’B2, 8120; 137,800 lbs. ice for U. S. Senale during month of July, ’B2, - 689. Page

180; Two raw hide traveling ; boxes and trays for use of com- | mittees of the Senate *Bo. Page 20: 32 days service as clerk to committee on contingent expenses, >192. Page 85: Washing and ironing 249£ doz. towels for U. S. Senate, Jan. ’B3 124,75; 42,815 lbs. ice, *211,57; 9 obes for Senate committee rooms, *148,50. House Miscellaneous Document No. 8, page 59: 102 buckets paste, April ’B3, *23,80Page 67: Funeral expenses of a congressman '3OOO. These bills, and others like them, too numerous to mention, for charm, gold pens, pencils, eatables, drikables, etc., for individuals, were paid out of the people’s treasury, and some of these same individuals oppose doing justice to the ex-soldier Comrades, we are on the eve of another Presidential and congressional election. I think it would be well to investigate this matter a little, especially before we join torchlight processions and parade through the streets whooping and yelling like hounds on a tiger track. Ten chances to one, if we don’t look out we may vote for men that are opposed to giving the soldiers widow anv more than 48 pelmonth. And if there is any one under the whole canopy of Heaven deserving a pension of 25 or 30 per month, it is certainly the soldier’s widow. Swamp Angel. 39th Ills. Vet. Vol.Juft.

SOME LABOR THAT IS NOT PROTECTED.

Tidlanupolis Sentinel. It is an interesting inquiry to know how many, or rather how few of the laboring classes are emplo. ed in the naijls, factories and shops of thft industries that are specially protected by virtue of acts of Congress restraining commercial freedom that revenue may come in small amounts to the Government and in large sums to the few owners of these mills, factories and shops. We shall take no account of the farming classes, whose name are legion, but confine ourselves to a portion of the other unprotected class to show the contrast in numbers. According to the figures contained in the last census, there were in 1880 more than 878,000 carpenters and joiners in the country, and this figure is more than two and a half times as much as the number of men employed in the iron and steel industry, while in the cotton', the metal and the woolen industry altogether, there are not many more persons employed than there are carpenters in the country. And yet the average protection given to the cotton industry is about 50 per cent., to the metal industry. 30 per cent., and to the woolen industry 60 per cent. If these workers have received a protection, which ranges from 30 to 60 per cent., why are not carpenters entitled to at least 30 per cent, or more. The carpenter is not a visitor at Washington, does not lobby a Committee or button-hole in fluential Congressmen. He is deriving no interest fr m the protective policy, and, therefore, has nothing to ask at the hands of Congress. And it is because he has never been able to fully realize what he pays under the tariff for the protection of others that he has not resented the unnecessary taxation imposed upon him by interested legislation. He is taxed upon the lumber, nails and tools he uses, on the clothing he wears, and on the salt he eats. He has n > protection to offset these drains on his pocket, and was never asked for any. Again, there are 3,837,112 persons m the United States en &aged in manufacturing, mechanical and mining occupations, according to census returns. It is claimed that this number of persons receive j employment only by reason of i the protective tariff; that if

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duties are reduced shops will , he closed, manufacturing and i mining operations will cease, and there will exist no demand or market for labor. The New York Herald, commenting on this claim, says: ■‘Let us seA Bakers, carpenters, blacksmiths, butchers, clerks and bookkeepers, contractors, painters, brickmakers, tailors and milliners are among those who will be found m almost any town, and to say that they would be de prived of labor is to say that man will not eat and clothe and shelter himself. These persons derive no advantage from protection. On the con- 1 trary, they are injured because everything they use is taxed and this tax comes out of their earnings. Fully one-half of the three million eight hundred thousand persons in this class called manufacturing re ceive no benefit directly or indirectly from protection. On the contrary, they are injured

THE STAR TEMPERANCE UNION.

The Womens’ Temperance Union met at the Opera Hons last Sunday, at Si p. m., and called for ei reorganization, which is to be known as the “Star Temperance Union, of Rensselaer.” The object of the organization shall be to discourage drinking in ail its forms, and membership for the same to be solicited from all who will sign the following pledge: “I hereby promise, God helping me, to-abstain from ail distilled, fermented and malt liquors, as a beverage, to employ all proper means to discourage the use of, and the traffic in, the same, and to labor for the promotion of temperance” Forty-t wo persons gave their names to the pledge. The society elected the following officers and committees to s ;rve one quarter: President, Rev. T. C. Webster; Cor. Secretary, Rosa! Eaker; Rec. Secretary, H. J. Dextei; Treasurer, Mrs. F. J. Sears. mittees:-Executive-Miss Alice Irwin Mrs. Lillie Hyland, Mrs. M. J. Honan. Com. on Exercises—Miss A. W. Osborne, Mrs. A. Purcupile. M rs. T, L. Jones. The CommHtee appointed the following Teachers—Messrs J. H. Willey, A Thompson, B. F. Ferguson, F. J. Seats, and R. P. Benjamin: Mrs. R. S. I)Wiggins, Mrs. F. J. Sears, Mrs. Cal. Porter, -Misses Alice Irwin, May Miller, and Madge Osborne. T. C. WEBSTER, Pres’t. 11. J. Dexter, Sec’y.

The Committee on Exercise and Literature met on Mon day afternoon and decided to send for Temperance Lessons leaves and Teacher’s Manual, also samples of Singing Books. At the Sunday afternoon meeting there were 42 adults signed the pledge that formed the society, and 34 children joined the Band of Hope. Every one is invited to join the society, whether they wish to sign the pledge or not. An interesting question drawer will be opened before the close of each meeting to be answered by some one appoint ed each week. March 3d, in the U. S. Su preme Court, at Washington, m the long pending legal ten der case of Juillard vs. Greenman, the court held that the legal tender act of March 31, 1878, is valid and constitution al, and that treasury notes reissued under it are a good and legal tender in the payment of all debts. ■"’! 1 *" 1 +• Gen. Boynton was on the stand. Saturday, in the KeiferJ Boynton* investigation. He denied holding the conversation detailed by the ex-speaker ;in hi 3 testimony and charged Ketfer and his clerk with rank 1 perjury in their statements.