Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — Page 1

VOLUME VIII.

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MOUDECAI F. CHIIiCOTE, Attorney-at-Law BENSSELAER, .... INDIANA Practices tin the Courts of Jasper and adoiHln g counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington stieet, opposite Court Reuse- vlnl B, 8. DWIG GINS ZIMRT DWIGGINs R. a». & Z. D WIGGINS. . Attorneys -at-Law, Rgksseliks ■ j . Indiaka Practice in the Courts of Jasper and ad counties, make collections, etc. t.e Otilce west corucr Newels’ Block. ni SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSOH Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - . . tNDIAIiA Practice in all the Courts. VtARION L. SPITLER, Collector and Abstractor. • trtwulkr attention to paying tax- , sellini, and leasing lands. v 2 nis FRANK w B < ©ck. JLitomey ®.t laSS.IRJ And Real Estate Broker. r ® ct *p es a R Courts of Jasper, Newtor »d Benton counties. Lands examined . Abstracts es Title prepared: Taxes paid. C®ll©ctlo33Lß a, Specialty. - 1 ' ' II!. •TAMES W. DOUTIIIT, attorneysat-law and Notary public. bu^ing?Ben E 6e 8 lae i r. S in i d. MaieeVer ’ 8 new HTwTOTTOEKi at; Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A IiPECIALTY. IRA W. YEOMAN, Attorney at Law, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate and Collecting: Agent, -Fill practice in all the Courts of Newton Beaton and Jasper counties. Office: —Up-stairs, over Murray’s Cit.'» drug Store, Qoodland, Indiana. DD. DALE, • ATTOKNEY-AT law MONTICBU.O, - INDIANA. Bank bnilding. np stairs. I. H. LOUGHRIDGE. F. p. BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE BITTERS, Pliysicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel. Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, llensseluer, Ind. ' Galls promptly attended. Will give special atter tiou to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. — - -a R. S. Duriggius. Zimri Dwiggins, President. Gas flier. Hank, v RENSSELAER, IND., floes a general Banking business; gives i f spei.-ii.l atten non to epUpetioriH; n'nritt.-; aces made on day of pi. micnt at current rae of exchange: hit i aiantL: q^rtltlcates bearing hiuiest issued; exeiringe bought and sold. Tins Bank owns (he Bu-glar Safe, which i'rcmiuraatthe Chicago Exposition 18 ‘*V U lfi base is protected by one of scuts lime Locks. TTiabunkvnultused * a9 »» be built. It will be seen f'om thn teregoing that this Bank furnishes as good Bacuritj te depositors os can be. ALFRED M COY. THOMAS THOMPSOS. Banking House OF A. MoCOY &T. THOMPSON, successors to A, MoLoy & A. Thompson. Bankers, Rensselaer. Ind. Does general Banking business Buy and sell exchaoge. Collections made sn all available points. Money loaned Interest paid on specified time deposits. &e •ffleo same place as old firm of A. McCoy & Thompson. aprU,’Bl

The Democratic Sentinel.

THOMAS J. H.

t§f P^^SHOES ife. W EVERY FAIR WWfiMd'D Ekv * for sale bt THOMAS J. FARDEN, 3 Doors East of P. O. Rensselaer, Ind. A complete lme ot light and heavy shoes for men and boys, 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, Tinware, jgj nß| h/jr S«u4li Side Washing-tom Street. rbnsseljler, - . - iriDiAarj: BEDFORD i WAR!, Dealers In Groceries, Hardware, Tinware, W oodenware, Farm Machinery, BKICK & TILE. Our Groceries are pure, and will be sold as low as elsewhere. in our Hardware, Tinware and Woodenware Departwill be found everything called for. Our Farm Machinery, m great variety, of the most approved styles. Brick ai id I lie, manufactured by us, and kept constantly on hand. We respectfully solicit your patronage. BEDFORD & WA RNER. *"«m»wii— I — 2&L t T , >& MMHBB STOMACH ikOSsi WILL POSITIVELY CUM , and is uwxqualed as a Dyspepsia, Chills and p>|-« j Fever. Kidney Disease. £ w > °r-. liver Complaint, Purifier.’ SSOO REWARD FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE CASES THAT THIS MEDICINE WILL NOT CURE OR HELP, j] They will (Umulate the secretive orgnn*, digestion, prodac« a he»lthy and laxative effect and ll al yylfiF4*» ot dlseaee calculated tej otular-mme the naturnl vigor of the body, ohj.rt k U< protect and bond np the vital strength and energy while removing cause* of disease and op,ratine as ii a cure: but are no less useful as a preventive Sf«]l classes of similar allmenU bvbulhhng in the 5 wl& t vlncey^u a Fi?sllobvflrk« he iw h ’^ d making it proof against disease. 'One botffe uliLu ’ pf u ‘ ,u “ > ° l - 1 - |

BENSSELAER, JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1884.

OUR TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE

Should bk the Kioht Man in the Right Place. He has a nominal jurisdiction over roads and bridges in his township, but the real responsibility in these matters rests with the County Commissioners and the Supervisors of highways. It is in the management of our district schools that his duties become all-im-portant. In the location and building the repair and furnishing of school houses; in the selection and employment of teachers he is supreme. Upon the judicious selection of teachers and their assignment to the several schools, in such manner as to utilize the special qualifications of each one, whether of scholarship or of' government, depends much of the efficiency of our schools. It requires an intimate acquaintance with the education, the aptness in teaching, the faculty of governing, the temperament and the moral and the social qualities of the several applicants, m order to assign each one to that particular school best suited to harmonize the relations of teacher and scholar —thus giving to the advanced schools scholarship, to the unruly firm government, to the infants affection and matronly care. Let us be careful, then to select for this very important position, men whose interest and experience in the cadse of education are well known to us, and on whose judgment we can rely to give efficiency to the schools of our several townships and thus place our county on a high and enlightened plane, equal t » the best in the State. Bear in mind that ninetenths of the time employed by our Trustees, and ninetenths of the moneys passing through their hands, will be expended in the interest of our public schools. To this end it is the duty of every voter to make such selection as his conscience and judgment may approve after the excitement of the election has cooled. MENTOR.

ATTENTION, COMRADES!

If the so-called patriots had not been so tardy injgoihg to the front in 1861. no doubt they would be in sympathy with those that did leave home and friends, and all friendly ties to help crush the Wickea rebellion. In thinking the matter over, it seems to me that many of these same men are the first to hoot the soldier down—especially if he is a candidate for office. It is likely Comrade Charles Platt will be a candidate for Marshal of the Town of Rensselaer—of course, an independent, for he or any other soldier that served his country faithfully stand no show at all when they ask office at the hands of the Court House clique. They only meet with disappointment. How many ex-soldiers are there to-day holding office in Jasper county? Few, compared'with the many that are well qualified and justly deserving. . Comrades, we still have the ballot left, and I think we should determine firmly in our minds that we we will vote for no man who was not himself a soldier, or in sympathy with the soldier. I want a little better proof for it than street talk before they get my vote. Don’t you forget it. A Com hade. A robust countryman on physician, ran to hide himself behind a wall.— Being asked the cause, he reElied: “It is so long since I ave been sick, that I am ashamed to look a physician in the face.” The N.Y. Star suggests Fred Douglas for Vice President on the Republican ticket.

In protection 1 ’ haunted 1 ennsy lyania the workingman is receiving less wages than anywhere else. If those iron anti coal barons do not import a lot of Chinese, it will be becanse they can’t get them. Monopolists are protected, but the workingmen have no remedy against the introduction of cheap competitors. Is industry protected^

THE W. C. T. U.

Pt«par«d by th* Women's Chile-, tlnu Temperance Uilon of Rensselaer, Ind. ■N The W. C. T. U. met at the residence of Mrs. Laßues on last Saturday afternoon with a very good attendance. All the members and all that wish to become such are requested to meet at the same place next Saturday at 2 o’clock p. m. Mrs. J. C. Stone, of Milwaukee, says: If the policemen were as blind to the dog law as they are to the liquor law, you might have a dog big as an elephant,with a church bell on it, and no policeman would see it. The Gospel Temperance Meeting has been postponed one week and will be held at the Opera House, Sunday evening, April 6th. The following is the programme arranged for the occasion: 1. Music, Anthem. 2. Scripture Reading, Mrs. J. Clark. 3. Prayer, Rev. J. T. Abbett. 4. —“Band of hope,’’Song. 5. —Remarks, Rev. Furguson. 6 Song by choir. 7. Declamation, Alice Irin. 8. Remarks, Rev. Miner. 9. Song. 10—Remarks, Alfred Thompson. If—Singing and Signing, gi 12—Benediction.

IS IT 1UOI1T? I The following article from the Carson (Iowa) Ciiterion, the editor of which was formerly a citizen ot this town, ap)lies, in every way, as well to lensselaer as it does to the town In which itjwas first published: “ While the great question of licensing the sale of intoxicants may not be before our people as an issue, it has, nevertheless been a subject of general discussion, in Carson, as well as over the entire State, and is a question upon which there is a very great diversity of opinion among all classes of people, There is one point upon which we can all agree, that the indiscriminate sale and use of ill toxicants is a crime, and when we call to mind the number of the most atrocious crimes resulting directly from the use of alcoholic stimulants that have come under our personal observation, we are forced to the conclu sion that the sale of the stuff which aberrates the mind and puts the weapons of murder in the hands of the naturally humane and noble man and ca ses him to commit the deed the human penalty of which may be imprisonment for life, or, perhaps, death on the gal--1 >ws, is the arch crime of all. We do not believe there is a man who is acquainted with the of the world generally, within the range of our circulation, imbiber or temperate. who cannot recall incidents of human woes, which • ill cover the whole category of crimes, from the smallest to i the greatest, «that has been ( brought Iv!ore his wye.' sometime with.;; ,i. > life, as direct results of the use of intoxicants. And who will be held responsible for the commission ot these crimes at the great Judgment Day, the buyer orthe seller? Now since the indiscriminate sale and use of intoxicating drinks are criminal in their effects, let us ask, is it right to license their sale, thus giving the business an air of respectability by legalizing

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I - Why not just as consist- | ently legalize tlie effect as the cause? Thus making every offense against God and man right in the sight of the law. llie only difference we can perceive, is through some unconsciousness of the evil there is in intemperance, or because our law makers have been, in times gone by, in a great measure, scourged by the curse themselves, it has been allowed to establish itself in our customs to such au extent that it now finds advocates among our most respectable people, and is handled and sold by our most substantiallbusiness men thus, whilefthe offense remains the same, the law is made to throw its protection around it thus giving the greatest source ot crime a respectability. In small towns, like Carson, the license men argue that to remove the saloons is to drive away a large portion of the trade of farmers, the majority of whom, it is claimed, will do their trading in the town where they can procure intoxicating drinks. Now we have too much respect for our agricultural brethren, and too much confidence in their manhood, generally speaking, to believe that this argument, or rather this excuse of the friends of intemperance, has any force, and we believe it to be an insult to the fanning community, as a class, to insinuate that they are a class of d tinkers. But the proposition is not well founded, |as we all ought to know from daily observation. The heaviest patrons of saloons in Carson, and in nearly all other towns, are men who live in town and have the temptation ever before their eyes. Of course there are those among the farmers who do drink, but very few who would go far out of the -fray to get it. Our observation convinces us that the majority of those who drink to excess, are those who, when they come to town go first to the saloon and pay their last dime for whisky, then go to the merchant, purchase goods on time, and in many cases fail to pay Such trade as this may be good from a saloon

stand-point, but is very damaging, to a legitimate business, and the sooner a community is freed from it the better. It is also claimed by friends of license that whisky will be had whether we have saloons or not which in a measure is true as there are many drunkards who are beyond human help, and of course Satan will provide means whereby his liquid can be procured for his servants. The greatest accomplishment we can expect from the annihilation of saloons is the removal of temptations to drink from before the boys and yong men who are often enticed into them by “alluring scenes of vice” that are shaded behind the screens, and there induced to take the first drink, the ending of which may be a “drunkard’s grave and a soul damned through eternity.” Admitting that the saloons* do draw business to our town but conceiving the principle involved in the licensing and use of intoxicants to be wrong, in advocating it are we not selling our souls for even less than thirty pieces of silver?— Are we not violating the laws of nature and nature’s bod by giving respectability to and countenancing the thing which, in itself, is a most outrageous crime against our Creator? This is the view we take of the matter; whether it be the (ion-cot o-»e or not \;o leave others to Judge. . For the holding such opinions our license friends will doubtless term us a fanatic, which word implies the entire argument for their cause, but fanatic, if the friend of temperance is justly so-called, is a cognomen which we shall ever ■cherish as, a definition of the noblest principle ever promulgated by man.” ,