Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — Page 8

THE SCHOOL FUND SWINDLE.

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mate personal and party friends, who probably never saw the land, he obtained money from the school furid to full twice the amount of the value of the swamp. He has failed to pay the interest .on the debt, and for eight years the taxpayers have been obliged to pay it for him. He has failed to pay this honest debt to the school fund although repeatedly urged to do so. He is a lawyer and knows that the money cannot be collected on his note by suit until the land is sold, and he has the best of reasons for believing that the land cannot be sold at the appraised value, which is only two-thirds of the amount he received from the school fund. He knows that the people who have been paying the taxes have for nearly eight years heen paying the interest that was due from him to the school fund, is this an honest transaction, or is it a swindle on the school fund, that should be. sacred to every citizen of Indiana! s such a man worthy to be made Chief Executive of the State? is he the right kind of a man to guard the interests of the children of the State, and to look after the welfare of the taxpayers? We leave the voters to answer these timely questions at the ballot box in November.

Protection A Tax.

The strength of protection lies chiefly in the fact that the mass of the voters do not understand that protection is a tax. Let them once understand that they are taxed, taxed agam and again by protection, let them once grasp the extent and certainty of this tax, and then protection is doomed. If the money taken out of the pockets of the people were taken directly, if every time bills of goods were bought the additional percentage due to protection were set aside and taken as a tax, then there would he few protectionists. Let the extent and certainty of this tax be once understood by the consumers who pay it, and then let the protectionists come forward to prove that protection is desireable; that for the tax imposed ajnst return is made. He would be laughed at- The truth once seen, no protectionist argument would avail. No argument would convince the people to vote upon their shoulders the tax demanded. Nothing would convince the people to pay such a price for what the protectionists pretend to give But, unfortunately, just here lies the difficulty for tariff reformers. The tax imposed upon the people is indirect. It Is a tax that does not force itself upon the attention; it has to be looked for. Its presence is only|to|be noted by disen. tangling it from the obscuring Influence that surround it. Like one of those insidious diseases that gnaw at the vitality of the patient, but which create no alarm because they do not force themselves upon the attention, so with protection. The evils Me there but they hide themselves, The hope of revenue reformers must be, that Dy agair and again pointing out the elementary principles of the tariff question the evils may at laii become apparent to aJI. Let me, in this paper, attempt to do away with some of the darkness that envelopes toe subject. What, then, is a protective tariff? Suppose a farmer in New York city who Wishesito buy a trace chain. Upon a vessel in the harbor there is a chain, bro’t irem England, In every way suitable to the farmer's purpose. He asks the owner the price of the chain, and is told $lO. The price,is satisfactory. The farmer hauls out his pocket-book to pay for the chain. But just then an official steps forward and says; -‘Wait a bitDo you know that if you buy that chain you will not be allowed to take it home with you until you have paid an import duty of £5,30? In other words, if you buy this chain the government taxes you 3U.* This alters things somewhat Under such .circumstances the price of the chain to the farmer is $15.30. Of this price $5.30 is owing to a law passed by congress If the farmer buys the chain he is poorer by f 5.80 because of this law , and the goverment has $5 30 more in its treasury. He certainly H|taxed by the tariff in this transaction.

Now, the farmer not being a fool, does not want to pay more for the chain than needs must. He would prefer to take the chain for $lO, hut the law forbids that. If now an American chain just as good as the other is oflered for a little less than the price of the other plus the tax, say sls the farmer will take that. He prefers paying sls to paying $lO and a tax of $5 80. He therefore buys the American chain and pays for it sl6. Now how do things stand? The government gets nothing in this transaction. But the farmer pays $5 more than he would have done were it not for the law of Congress. He is poor by $6 in this transaction because of the law. Is it a misuse of the words to say that the law has taxed him $5 even if the government got nothing? These are the two types of tariff tax* ation. Variations from these tyres are consequently of some influence outside of the tariff. The influence, generally competition, may be such as to entirely overcome the tendency of the tariff, or may modify the tax from the zero point up the fall amount. The tendency of the tariff, howeyer, is in either one or the ether direction. In one the resu.t goes to (ho government, in the other else-where; but in both it is a tax, a bur dea upon tbo people. By F. J. Krameis—The million* (Indianapolis News] Th ere comes up every once in awhile evidence or the desirability of perpetual youth for Judge Drummond, that he

might remain upon the bench forever Once he slopped the late Matt. Oarj-en-ter, who was attempting to quibble and get around the application of a law, by reminding Carpenter that as Benator ho had helped to make that law, and that he ought to be ashamed of himself f<>r trying to thus discredit his own work. That shut Carpenter up. The other day there was a case before him of an estate to be settled, in which three Milwaukee lawyers participated. The estate was worth *32,«00. The lawyei s had considerately left the heirs S7,«CO of it, applying for 25JMI for their own services. A) this Judge Drummond, with all hit integrity fused into the very incarnation of justice, as any one knows him can easily imagine, said: ‘Gentlemen, you consider yourselves good lawyers. How much more are your services worth io your c’tents than mine are to the people? You have charged $25,00 lor sixty days’ service. Can you not be cwntont, each of you, to take my pro rata for the same time? These charges are infamous They are such as scoundrels and thieves at heart would make. This charge of t 15,000 is cut down to $1,500, those of $.6000 to SSOO. Repeat Buch a piece of rapine in this court and I will disbar every one of you."

Indianapolis Sentinel.

The Sentinel’s Position.

When the Sentinel, ou the 18th inst., qnestioned whether Mr. Blaine could afford the method of warfare his following was waging against Mr. Cleveland, it made, for itself, no assault on the wife or children of the Republican candidate. Criticising and reprobating the venomous and continuous private caluminies printed against the Democratic candi. date, it recited certain reports in general circulation concerning Mr. Blaine. It did not assert them true It only referred to the currency of the scandal. Whatever condemnation the editorial had for Mr. Blaine was conditioned upon the truth of the rumors. No opiuion was expressed as to their correctness-or incorrectness. The publication left the matter an open question for refutation provided refutation was possible Ab a candidate for the Presidency Mr. Blaine was legitimately subject to questioning as to the validity of the reports. If innocent of their charges he had only to summon lecord to confute them- The churches and civil courts in this country afford by their ministers, officers and books sufficient date for establishing legitimacy of marriage consummated under them, even were not personal witnesses available. If really free from irregularity, there has net been a mar rimonial ceremony in a State east of the Mississippi Rivor within forty years which could not be proven ou short, notice by preachei, priest record or witness. There is not a sane man living whose marriage was regular and correct, who would Jjot prefer answering a questioning with one <-r the other of these kinds of proofs I" involving ths reputation of wife an<> children in a libel suit; but this asid< • We .again state that -e (editorial on which Mr. Blaine plat -- his libel suit was chiefly inquisitive to the truth or falsity of the prevalent j * uors that no had dishonored a girl before wedding her. Wito the violent assaults of uis ! political friends against the Seutinei’.eanuidate, we had the right tmiuqtiire of him as to those rumors. Had Mr. Blaine met them with formal evidences of the error of those reports, the Senti. uei would have gladly published them. Had he remained silent, and would but have also silenced his organs .from uttering slanders against the Democratic candidate, the Sentinel would have questioned Mr. Blaine’s affairs no further. But oy the course he has selected MrBlaine has forced rthe Sentinel into a position requiring flt to prove the .truth or falsity of the rumors it has referred to. This position was not our seeking. It is Mr. Blaine’s own doirg. His action was a stupendous mistake. "He has committed a crime,” said one of Napoleon’s Marshals to TalLyraud- ‘‘Worse lhan that.” answered .the minister, "he has committed a blunder ” Mr. Blaine has blundered For the sake of Mr. Blaine’s family we regret being forced to produce the overwhelming evidence- which we will produce in the trial. Sit is evidence against wliiek bravado can not 3tand. It is evidence in the face of which Mr. Blaine’s blustering telegram ordering the suit will appear as either blind recklessness or grim caricature. It is evidence which must make his own family coudemu him for having oonf*omed—knowing of its possibiity, if not actual, existence. We protest against its responsibility for Us disclosure being laid at our door. Let Mr- Blaine’s friends remember that it was bis doing—not ours-

William Purcell Retracts.

William Purcell, wuo has withdrawn from the editorship of The Union and Advertiser, published this afternoon in that paper the following letter, under the head of “A Ghanged State of Facts;” ‘ Two days after the appearance in the Buffalo Evening Telegraph of the article headed 4 A Terrible Tale, M in conversation with a representative of the Kew York Sun I remarked that, upon the the* exisiting state of facts, Gov- Cleveland must be considered a “moral leper.” The conclusion without the premises was prin ed, and has since been extensively copied. I desire to say that information has come to me from a source in which I place explicit confidence materally changing the state of facts upon which the remark was made. Hence, in justice to Oov Cleveland, myselt, and to all ethers whom it may eoncern, I withdraw the characterization,, ami request that hereafter it be not attributed to me.”—Chicago Times. An editor is a man who is liable to grammatical blunders; toothache, typographical errors and lapses of memory; ana usually he has ninety-seven thorn* and people watching to catch him trip* ping. Be is a mail of sorrow acquainted with grief and poverty, and frequent* ly liable to go ragged, hungry and dry for a very long period. And yet the woods are full of people who want to be editors—Chicago 3un- * <»> ■ 1.."—. Terre Haute Gazette: ft is c fear that Blaine’s libel suit is a delusion and a pretense, desi&ovd to cheat and mis*

lead the publi . Were i‘ a good faith suit why institute in the United States Court? Why not bring in the State coart? It can not be that he is afraid of the judges, for they are mai -lv Republican. The secret of the matter lies in the fact, aa every lawyer knows.|that the cause cannot be trb d in the Federal Court until after the election. The Indianapolis Journal of yesterday admi's this much and gives the whole thing away. No jury will be com eaed in the United States Circuit Court unt 1 N | ▼ember. This suit, like some others o< ita kind. Is not brought to be tried. It Is brought for effect, and it will cause aa elf ct, bat no such one as its authors hope for. If Mr. Blaine meant to iry this cause he could have it done in a Republican court, in a Republican county and surrounded by Republican sympathisers by simply instituting it in any of the courts of Marion county. Blaine’s conduct in this matter has all the ear-marks of a “Mulligan bluff.”

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THE MOREY LETTER. Lawyer Hadley Denies That He Confessed to Davenport That He Wrote the Morey Letter in Very Plain Language. New York, Aug. 16. —H. H. Hadley, wnom John I. Davenport charged with haviug forged the Morey letter, on being interviewed deuied emphatically having forged or wriben the Morey letter, and branded as a he Davenport’s assertion that he confessed the forgery. He asserts he never saw or beard of the letter until it was pablsbea in the public print- He admits having investigated the question of its authorship at the request of the Democratic National Commute, but asserts nothing ever came io .his knowledge lm I .'heating any member of that committee iu the affair. ' At the request of promineut Democrats, he offered $2,00u in 1881 for the discovery of the author of the letter, aud made a memorandum of the entire affair, which he gave to an intimate to publisti in • case of his death, it thought necessary. He would now consult with his friends, *md, if concidered best, would publish his conclusions, which, he rays, are sustained by unquestioned documentary evidence. He declared Senator Barnurn had nothing to hideio regard to his connection in the matter. ;.ud in conclusion said; ‘‘ln due time I shall speak for myself, and, when I do, it will be effectually.”

Blaine’s Magnetism. i The following incident iu the life of fil&ine, showing his personal magnetism and his remarkable memorv of o’d acquaintances. was told by Mr. Frank Hatton, UHsLiant Postmaster General, to some friends in Iowa: Some years ago j Mr. Hanoi* accompanied Mr. Blaine to a speaking at Fait Held, lowa. The i lumed Knight heard that, a gentleman who had removed to Fairfield from Washington. Pa., many years before had become quite prominent locally. Before tbe speaker commenced he asked Mr. Hatton to .point the gentleman out Mr. Hattou .did so, and tbe Mulligan man arose went to the front of the platform and cried out: ‘‘Gyrus, you did not think that I would know you. but 1 do, I never forget one of the old Washington boys. Gome right up here and sit on the platform.” Such “ personal magnetism” and such a “remarkable memory” (recently refreshed J show exactly the demagogue the man is. The above story is direct irom Frank Hatton to a Republican Supreme Judge, of whom I have it.

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Seymour Democrat: When Cleveland wa3 asked about the scandals against his character originated by an irresponsible paper, he telegraphed to his friends: “Tell the Truth.” When a reputable newspaper asked a ques. tion in reference to the private character ot Blaine, lie telegraphs to a dog that wears bis party collar: “Muzzle the press! We can’t afford to let the facts be investigated.” Viuccunus Sun: The New York f’er* aid, which charged Blaine with his scandalous perfidy, is worth $10,000,000, yet Blaine came right by it to Indiana to get to sue a paper not one-hundredth part as stroug financially as the Herald. He stoops down and backs out, begging somebody to kick him so that be can get sympathy—the Plumed Knight dot.-'. Logansport Pharos: Blaine has undoubtedly made a fool of himself in suing a newspaper. It makes all the difierenee in the world whose ox is goreii. Cleveland has bom all the slander heaped U| on him unflinchingly. His only reap *n was Tell the truth. M

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AGRICULTURAL.

An Eastern farmer recently- ammm nounced his conversion to ensilage, fti9' announced his intention of immediateJp'A. building a “cyclone.”- Chicago nal. 989 The chemist of the Agricultural DHB partment at Washington says that tiHS|| soil beat adapted for the growth JUS sorghum for sugar appears t* Im HB sandy loam. 9^9 An authority says there are $1,9009 000,000 invested in the 6,000,000 mil Jff§: of fences in the United States, and tiu9 they have to lie renewed on an averagju once in fifteen years. 99| Thomas E. McConnell, of Scojß county, lowa, soaks his wheat in water for twenty-four hours before BOtJv? ing as a cure for smut. He uses pound of vitriol to twenty bushels (flflß wheat. Very careful experiments made ffKgm New York last season, show that thHB flat culture of potatoes produces thHgH finest tuber and the largest yields. best results followed the Dutch methoJH| of planting, which consists in the surface level, planting a single eyS||| in a place, covering it six inches deeflfl| and allowing but a single stalk to groJH in a hill, which are a foot apart eaefl9| A correspondent of the Review has practiced during severaHH winters the plan of keeping apples iJH dry sand, poured into the filled barrelHß after storing in the cellar, and finds iH|| a "decided improvement” on any otheJH ever tried, the fruit remaining till latjg spring “as crisp and apparently as fresrßß as when first gathered.” He does likeHg wise with potatoes, and uses the saififlH sand year after year. The practice of some of the farmers new is to keep pigs througlJj| the summer on green food, cut and carHf|| ried to the pens, with a little grain, axkH9 what milk can be spared after butteflfl making. Spring pigs are thus made tJfl weigh 200 pounds at 7 months old, andHß except in the last month, they get grain. The best time to sell such is at the beginning of cold weathefßß usually in October. The Indiana Farmer says one of itiHg subscribers kept a record of the employed in cultivating fourteen of corn last season in the old-fashion&tJJ way, and finds he gave about two to the acre. The yield was 800 els, over fifty-seven bushels to the acre-HS He estimated the value of his crop afljl $320, and the labor expended on it at 9 $l2O, and, deducting expenses, befli claims a profit of sl4 per acre. J 9

President Ohmer, of the HaytonJi Horticultural Society, says he knew man who made a great success with anHi acre or two of strawberries, gatheringJj from twenty to thirty bushels a and he was so elated with his aucceaaJ that, on enlarging his fields, he “he would gather 100 bushels a day orßg bust.” He “busted.” His single acreßj was well attended to; his five acresHj were necessarily more or less neglected. J This scrap of history has been manyH times repeated —Chicago Journal. 9 A farmer vouches for the following™! as a prevention of chicken cholera “Take a tight barrel, saw it in two in J the middle, then wash it out good with9j hot water, so that there is not a particl© J of bad flavor in it. Then take twoß| quarts of fresh lime and slack it, fillingH the tub or half barrel full of fresh 9 water; when slacking, add one ponnd 9 of alum to it and stir it good; let it.fi stand until the sediment has settled I and the liquor ie clear, and it is ready H for use. When using it, take one pint fl of the clear liquor and add it to one fl pail of fresh water, and give your fowls 9 to drink during summer months.” , 9 An exchange, speaking of the Central 9 Ohio farmers, says: “They abandoned 9 our old-fogy, antiquated way of allow- 9 ing every farmer to work out and fool 8 away his own tax according to liis own 9 notion. There is a money tax, and the 9 money is used by the lowest responsible 9 bidder who agrees to keep the roads in 9 repair. At one time there were a good 9 many toll roads, but the people are I gradually buying them out, so that all B roads shall be free. They go much fur- fl tlier. They often tax the land a' mile fl or more back from a certain road up to fl as high as $8 an acre, and make a good fl pike. This tax is in most cases very fl willingly paid. Several men assured fl me that it raised the price of land from I 25 to 50 per cent. They could not be fl induced to go back to dirt roads, using fl a foot or so of gravel on a well-graded I foundation. It is certainly a great 1 treat to live where the roads are good I the year round; and a farmer is thereby I brought much nearer his neighbors, I nearer market and the rest of the '■ world.” 1

The mode of breaking steers in Kentucky is thus described: Get a strong post, eight feet long by two thick; plant it three and one half fo'et in the ground, well rammed; round or level the ton oi the post and leave a pin to it, or make a mortice and insert a strong two-inch pin of tough wood in it, perpendicularly at the top, six or eight inches long. Then get a tough sapling twenty-five feet long, measure off at the small end of it the usual length of a yoke, and bore the holes for your bows. Then bore three holes, or more if you choose, four, eight and twelve feet from the other end of the sapling, of the size of the pin in the top of the post, giving the shortest lever first. Draw your steers up, let them be young or old, gentle or wild, it makes no diffexence; yoke them to the end of the pole; • but, instead of tying their tails together, if you wish to avoid bobtail oxen, tie their loins together with a good rope, Wrap up their head halters, clear the front and let them go; round and round they will go with a rush; drunk—drunker, still they grow, until, groaning, down they drop. For a while they lie panting and looking wild; then leapas if suddenly frightened, and rush round and round again, grow drunk and drop again. Leave them, they will repeat the experiment, until, reeling, they will stop or stand. In a few hours you may lead them around by their halters. Uncouple them from the pole or yoke them to your cart, and drive them where you please with safety.