Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1886 — Page 1

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Alfred McCoy, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. A. Xl- ['. 0 V & B BANKIISj (Successors to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer, Ind. DO a fie; eral banking business. Exchange bought and sold Certificates bearing interest issued Collections made on aT available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson April 2,1886 MORDECAI F. CHILCOTE. Attorney-at-Law Rensselaer, - - . - Indiana Practices -in the Courts of Jasper and a<lcrinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlni SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. MARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstracterWe pay j trhcular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n4B PRANK W, B tICOCK, Attorney at Law And Real Estate Broker. Practices in all Courts of Jasper, Newtor and Benton counties. Lands examined Abstracts of Title prepared; Taxes paid. Collections a, Specialty. .TAMES W. DOUTHIT, -•"TIRNEYsAT-LAW and notary public, x®" Office up stairs, in Ma leever’s new >uilding, Rentselaer. Ind.

EDWIN P. HAMMONO, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Makeever’s Bank. May 21. 1885. w WATSON, ATTO±tMEY-AT-LAW ig*? Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER, IND. hTwTsnTdek Attorney at Law Remington, Indiana. COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. yy W. HARTSELL, M DHOMCEOPATHIC ’PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty. OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. 3.H. LOUGHRIDGE. F. P, BITTERS LOUGHRIDGE & BITTERS, Physicians and Surgeons. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than three months. vmi DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. Galls promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CITIZENS* BAKU. RENSSELAER, IND., ’ R. S. Dwigginr, F. J. Sears, Vat Seib President. Vic-President. ' Cartier. D°r B rtwi G .? NB^. A i BA . N ? INO BU8INK88: Certificates bearing interest issued; Excnange bought and sold; Money leaned on forms at low ist rales and on most favorable terms. April 1886.

RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY MAY 21 1886.

Senator Voorheesand Wage Workers.

The Washington correspondea of the South Bend Daily Times, under date of April 27th, furnishes that journal with the following eloquent speech in behalf of the rights of labor, delivered by Senotor Voorhees, I efore the Typographical Union, No. 101, of that city: Mr. President,Ladies and Gentlemen: I came here to-night knowing that no speech would be required of me, and came more forjthe purpose of emphasizing (in however slight a degree it might be) the occasion by my presence. (Applause.) I have heard in var’ous quarters that the meetings of labor organizations were not entirely safe for public men to attend. Looking upon this magnificent audience in this splendidly decorated hall, I can conceive of no better place for a gentleman connected with public ass irs to take a lesson than here to-night. (Long and continued applause.) I have been among the laboring people all my 1 fe, (applause) and consequently it was with pleasure that 1 responded to the invitation to be here this evening. I received the invitation of this organization a week ago; but on account of indifferent health I was unable to be here that night. I have come here to-night, ladies and gentlemen, to expound no new argument, but to say with all my heart,my mind,and my strength that I am with you in your just and righteous aspirations. (Prolonged applause.)

I have hstenel to the two eloquent and stirring speeciies that preceded me on this platform, and I do not need to supplement them if T would; but standing in your presence some thoughts crowded themselves on my mind. Why s ould you not organize, why sho’d you not combine for strength, for protection for comfort, for happiness, and for safety? Organization and association is strength; individuality is weakness. For many years I have stood in the halls of Congress, and I only repeat myself when I say that while the wealth and power of the world associates itself together in corpolations and creates by greed and oppression mountains oi this world’s goods, that those whose labor underlies all wealth and power and national greatness, should associate themselves together to see that they have their fair share of this world’s gains and profits.— (Loud cries of “Yes, yes.”) We hear sometimes the dignity of labor spoken of. It is, indeed, a dignified calling and one that carries with it the divine injunction that “by the sweat of thy brow thou shalt earn thy daily bread,” and up to the present time empires, nations and cities have been built un by the toil of mankind. The many control the few, and the laborers are the many, and the idlers and the drones are the few. There is no lawlessness among the laboring people. I kaow them and I fear them not. Looking upon these bright faces, as I have a thousand times upon audiences everywhere throughout the United States, I have no fear of my government in your hands; but 1 have fear of my government in the hands of syndicates and the great corporations who stretch themselves over this vast continent. (Loud applause.) You and I create wealth for the natural rights of man. The danger of my government is not in the hands of the laboring people. The danger to liberty is not with the class who earn their bread by honest work. The danger to my government, and every government in the world, comes from those who “toil not, neither do they spin, and vet, the lilies of the valley are not so splendidly arrayed as they are.” All that you ask is a fair day’s wages for an honest day’s work. In laying down that proposition it relates to the discharge of public duly on the part of every man con-

nected with public affairs. If a fair day’s wage > for an honest day’s work catches onto the system of finance that you have, the question of tariff and all this question on legislation which go to give employment to the laborer should furnish sufficient money to pay you for what you do. In other words, whenever the question resolves itself into high-priced money - nd low-priced work, the people will cry out. lam not one of those who believe that the American laborer can be brought to labor upon a European basis nd live as tlmy ought to. (Applause and cheers.) Ladies and gentlemen, I have said all I desire to say, espeially as I have listened to so full, thorough, and satisfactory a discussion before I arose. I desired more to give evidence of my sympathy . and approbation with your cause* to-night than to make any extended speech. I thank you for your kind attention, and assure you that as long as I remain in the halls of Congress you will find my vote always right. (Deafening applause.)

How They Love the Soldier.

The inmates of the Soldiers’ Home at Bath, m this state, have the audacity to think and vote as they please. A good many of them vote the Republican ticket, but more of them vote the other way. Out of the whole numb r—about 600 —enough voted the Democratic ticket to give Cleveland twentyfive plurality over Blaine and Hill fiift-eight plurality over Davenport. This condition of affairs excites the wrath of the Republican politicians of the town. “We are the soldiers’ friends,” they say, “and they ought to vote as ve direct. If they will not do so they shall not vote at all.” Accordingly the Republican election officers of Bath have refused to accept the votes of these veterans, on the ground that the Soldiers’ Home is a kind of state alms-house and that its inmates are paupers not entitled to vote. The question is now in a local court in a suit brought by one of the soldiers for ssog damages against the election officers who refused his vote. As the sum is too small, however, to permit carrying the case to the Court of Appeals and the Republican lawyers on each side have agreed to submit a stated set of facts without argument, there is some natural fear that the matter will not be fully considered. Under these circumstances Mr. Wolf, the Democratic repres ntative of the district, introd ;ced a bill in the Assembly giving the inmates of the Home the right to vote. By a strict party vote the Republicans refused to allow the third reading of the bill. A similar bill, introduced by Mr. Murphy in the Senate, was sent by Republican votes to the judiciary committee, which will undoubtedly smot er it. No concealment was made of the partisan bias that controlled the action of the Republicans. Mr. C. D. Baker, in the Assembly declared that the matter was a political one, and that the soldiers of the Home were overwhelmingly Democratic. We have here a fine test of the sincerity of the profession of devotion to the cause of the soldiers made by Republican politicians. Like their devotion to the cause of the negro, it is nicely proportioned to the number of votes it brings them. So long as an appeal to war feelings can secure them the votes of the soldiers, they are the soldiers’ friends, but if these people propose to vote the Democratic ticket then the Republican politicians have no further use for them. They are ingrates; perhaps “traitors. In this particular case, having accepted the State’s generous offer to provide for them, and having surrendered their pensions to help support the institution, they are branded as paupers. Why? Simply because it so happened that a. majority of them vote the Democratic ticket. What do the Veteran’s Rights Asrociation and Grand Army of the Republic think

of this treatment of their infirm comrades by the Republican party?—New York Star. • The Louisville Commercial recalls the first case of boycotting on record, as recounted byrEsop, and tells the story with an application to the present difficulties: “According to zEsop’s story,” says the Commercial, “the different members of the body -the legs and feet and hands and arms and eyes and mouth and tongue and teeth and all the rest—became dissatisfied with the fact that they had continually to labor and endure troublefand hardship all for the benefit of the belly, which luxuriously enjoyed the results of all their exertions, and lived in ease and idleness from the proceeds of their labor. The injustice of this was so apparent that only one or two had to mention it before they all took it up, and a meeting was called in which, after much indignant eloquence was expended, it was unanimously resolved that no member would thereafter furnish or help in furnishing food for the jelly until it abandoned its luxu-

rious ways and shared in their work. In other words a strict boycott was ordered against the belly, and at once put in force. The result was not propitious. It is true that the belly at once began to grumble and suffer, but at the same time began to swim, the arms to dwindle, the feet to stumble, the knees to bend, and every one of the boycotting working members to fail and lose its powers. After a few days of this experience the members found that they could not get along without the belly any better than it could get along without them, and that no matter how hard work any. of them might do, it amounted to nothing unless the belly was cared for. Another meeting was called, at which, as the result of their experien e, it was declared that the belly, while apparently living idly off the labors of others, really did continual and important work essential to the good of all, and the boycott was unanimously declared off. It is worth while for labor and capital to look up their 2Esop’s fables and give a little consideration to this old story. Capital is like the belly and labor is like the members. Capital owes its existence to labor, but labor can do nothing without capital, and the industrial system of the country can never thrive when either tries to oppress the other.”

The South Bend Register,founded by Schuyler Colfax, sums up the financial operations of President Cleveland’s administration as follows: “During the first nine months of the present fiscal year ending June 30, 1886, there was an increase of over $7,000,000 in the revenues of the government as compared with the corresponding period of last year and the expenditures of the first nine months <f this y ar were over $16,000,000 less than the expenditures for the same period of last year, making a net gain of over $23,000,000.” □lt is related that when the first Maine railroad was started, about forty years ago, W. C. Pitman of Bangor was a conductor. One rainy morning he started from Waterville, and, on arriving at North Belgrade, a flag station, not seeing any flag, ran by the station. Just as the train passed the red flag was run out for some passengers to get on. Mr. Pitman stopped his train and asked Stephen Richardson, the station, why he did not display the flag before. Mr. Richardson replied, “Be you a-goin to run your train in rainy weather? I didn’t think you would.” “Say, Mrs. Smith,” complained an irate boarder at a Bond street boarding house the other lay, pointing to a dish in front of him, “you shouldn’t put such stufl as that before hogs.” “That’s so,” the old lady snappishly remarked, “here, Jane, bring that dish to this end of ths table.’”

Peterson’s Magazine for June is an unusually brilliant number, even for that popular monthly. It opens with one of the most beautiful, of steel-engravings, “Butterflies”; has a superb double-sized colored fashion-plate; also a steelengraving and a most exquisite colored pattern, “Design in Strawberries and Leaves,” for a sideboard cov r. The original tales, illustrated articles, etc., etc., more than sustain the high character of this lady’s-book. Two stories alone are worth the price of the number: one by A. Bowman, and the other by Frank Lee Benedict. We do not see how any lady can do without this magazine. Now is a good time to subscribe, to begin with the July n .mber, when a new volume commences: a good time, at least, for those who do not wish back numbers from January. The price IS BUT TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. For clubs, it is even cheaper. Beautiful premiums also are given for getting up clubs. The publisher claims it is ‘the cheapest and best.’ Try it a year. Address Charles 1 bterson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

American Enterprise.

No invention of the nineteenth century has worked a greater revolution in household economy or conferred more of a benefit on humanity than the sewing machine. The first productions were crude and uncouth in the extreme, and it was reserved for American skill 'md ingenuity to bring forth a machine of any practical value. In order to appreciate the great advancement which has taken place it is only necessary to compare one of the machines built during the infancy of the invention with one of the latest improved ‘ Light-Running New Home ” AU the really good points contained in other machines have been utilized in its construction.— Many new improvements and devices have also been added, the result of which is a machine as nearly perfect as it is possibie to make one. For simplicity, durability, ease of management and capacity for work, the “Light-Running New Home” has no rival, and the happy possessor of one may rest assured that he or she has the very best the world affords. See adTERTISEMENT ON ANOTHER PAGE OF THIS PAPER.

Barbers near Mono Lake, California, whose water is heavy with salts ot sodium and borax, use it as a natural shampooing water, to the satisfaction of their customers. Ex-Sheriff John W. Rowell has leased the Halloran Livery and Feed Stables, and respectfully solicits a liberal share of the public patronage. A lightning rod which does not go doum into the ground far enough to rea-h perpetual moisture is worse than no rod at all.

BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE.

The greatest medical wonder of the world. Warranted to speedily cure Burns, Bruises, Cuts, Ulcers, Salt Rheumy Fever Sores, Oancers, Piles. Chilblains, Coins, Tetter, Chapped Hands, and all sk n eruptions, guaranteed to cure in every instance, or money refunded. 25 ce<ts per box. For sale by F. B. Meyer. When you want to take out a broken window pane heat the poker, rvn it slowly along the old putty, and soften it loose. If you want good clothing at low figures, call and examine the large stock just opened out at Fendig’s. In the matter of supply, variety in styles, quality of goods, and low prices, Fendig can not be surpassed. All are invited to call, examstock and ascertain prices, before purchasing elsewhere. An Irishman mourning his wife, tearfully exclaimed:“Faith, an’ she was a good woman; she always hit me wid the soft «ad o’ the mop.”

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