Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1886 — Page 1

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Alfred MoCot, T. J, McCoy E. L. Hollingsworth. a. m«c©y & e®„. a IAMIIS 3 (Succeetois to A. McCoy & T. Thompson ,) Rensselaer, Ind. • DO a fie; eral bankjug buslines. Exchange bought and sold Certificates bearing interest issued Collections made on aT available points Office same place as old firm of McCoy & Thompson April 3,1888 MORDECAI F. CHIT. COTE. Attorney-at-Lavr i ENSSELAER, .* . INDIANA Practices Sin the Courts of Jasper and adoinlng counties. Makes collections a specialty. Office on north side of Washington street, opposite Court House- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID ,T. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION Xj. SPITI.ER, Collector and AbstractorWe pay particular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasiag lands. v 2 n*B H. H. GRAHAM, . ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdelatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at low interest. Sept. 10,’86. •TAMES W. DOTJTHIT, ATTDRNEYSAT-LAW and notary public, je~ Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new >uildinc. Rensselaer. Ind. EDWIN P. HAMMOND, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. l E§i~C)ffic6 Over Makeever’3 Bank. May 21. 1885.

A y^ r M. W WATSON, ATTORNEY • AT-L A W Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazav, RENSSELAER IND. Yf W.HARTSELL, M D HOMOEOPATHIC & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Diseases a Specialty.^! OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11, 1884. ,1 * H LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Washington street, below Austin’s hotel Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running uusettled longer than three months. vim DR. I. B. WASHBURN, Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer Ind. Calls promptly attended. Will give special atter tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. ClflßW BANK. RENSSELAER, IND., E. S. Dwiogixs, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking business; C;rtiflcates bearing interest issued; Exchange bouirht and sold; Mon-yioaned on farms t lowjst ra'.es and QtXH J avor&ble terms. " April 1886.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA. FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 1880.

THE OLDEST AND BEST.

The Saturday Evening Post, of Philadelphia, enjoys the proud distinction of being the oldest family and literary paper in America, if not in the world. Originally established b Benjamin Franklin in 1728, and appearing in its present character in 1821, it has had an uninterrupted career of 158 years! As its originator, Franklin was one of the first men of his time, or any time, both in ability and eminence. The Post has ever tried to follow its founder, by carrying out during its whole course of existence the best aims and highest purposes of a family newspaper. In its management, conduct and choice of reading material, usefulness, purity, morality, progress and entertainment have always been its watchwords and i ts guides. The history of The Post is the history of American literature and authorship. Not to speak of those who previous to and after the War of the Revolution made it a power in the land, since 1821 there is liar ly a writer famous in the world of letters whose works have not adorned its pages. Among these may be mentioned Horace Greeley, Dickens, Mrs. Southworth, Poe, H' lleck, Bryant, T. S. Arthur, Ned Bun time, Gilmore Simms, Ann S. Stephens, Mrs. Henry Wood and others It is no wonder then that The Post claims the right to add to the glory of being the oldest family paper, the even more honorable title of also being the best. Always keeping in sight what was Highest, Purest, Most Entertaining, in a word, the Best in literature, it has never once failed in its long career to go forth as a weekly missionary into hundreds of thousands of the finest families in all quarters of the land, the most welcome and cheerful of visitors

For the coming year The Post has secured the best writers of this country and Europe, in Prose and Verse, Fact and Fiction. In these respects as in t e past it will only have the best. Its pages will be perfectly free from the degrading and polluting trash which characterizes many other so-called literary and family papers. It gives more for the money, and of a better class, than any other publication in the world. Each volume contains, in addition to its well edited departments, twenty-fiv? first-class Serials, and upwards of five hundred short Stories. Every number is replete with useful information and Amusement, comprising Talos, Sketches, Biography Anecdotes, Statistics, Facts, Recipes, Hints, Science, Art, Philosophy, Manners, Oust ;ms, Proverbs Problems, Personals, News Wit and Humor, Historical Essays, Remarkable Events, New Inventions, Recent Discoveries, and a complete report of all the latest Fashions novelties in Needlework, and fullest and freshest information relating to personal and home adornment and domestic matters. To the people everywhere it will prove the best, most instructive, reliable and moral paper that ever entered their homes. Terms, $2.00 a year in advance. A specimen copy of this exeellellent family paper will be sent free on application. Address, The Saturday Evening Post, (Lock Box), Philadelphia, Pa. Examine quality and ascertain prices of overcoats at Eisner’s. You will buy. Notice is hereby given that on and after Wednesday, December Ist, 1886, the undersigned Banking Houses will be open for business at 8 a. in., and will close at 4 p. m. A. McCoy & Co’s Bank. Citizens’ Bank. Farmers’ Bank. Th re are 96,000 women on thegov* ernment pension rolls. Elk teams are not as infrequent sight on t 'ft streets of Denver Mr. - Stevens, on his bicycle tour around the world, has arrived at Shanghai.

Peterson’s Magazine for December, that old favorite, is before us, ahead of all others. It maybe called a “prize number.” It has two splendid ste. 1-engravings: one, “Meadow-Sweet,” as lovely as we ever saw, and a title-page, with a beautiful girl’s face, also unrivaled: in fact, “Peterson’ is now the only magazine that goes to the expense, all the year through, of these costly and elegant original steel-en-gravings. There is also a mammoth colored fashion-plate, likewise engraved on steel, and colored by hand —a ‘perfect love of a thing,’ as the ladies would say. Still more, there is a colored pattern, in Berlinwork, such as would sell for fifty cents, but which is given, gratis, to subscribers, for a Christmas-gift. Beside these, there are about fifty wood-cuts of fashion, embroidery and crochet patterns, etc. The literary contents more than plaintam the long established reputation of “Peterson” as giving the best original stories. Mrs. Ann S Stephens, Frank Lee Benedict, Edgar Fawcett, Mrs. John Sherwood, etc., etc., being regular contributors. We do not see how any lady or any family can be without this magazine; its tone is alw tys high and pure, so it is just the one for the home-circle. The price is but Two Dollars a year. To clubs, it is cheaper yet Jour copies for six dollars and forty cents, with an extra copy to the person getting up the club. For larger clubs, costly premiums are given in addition. Specimens sent, gratis, if wri ten for, so that there may lie no deception. Now is the time to get up clubs. Address Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

MONEY DEFEATED HIM.

The proofs accumulate that Mr. Morrison was defeated in the 18th Illinois Congressional District by the direct use of money, and that the secret organization of the Knights of Labor was made use of to coerce the votes of members. — The Chicago News, an independent newspaper, makes distinct charges of bribery. T'lat journal says: “Seldom has the evidence of wholesale corruption been more directly brought home to the parties employing it. Aside from the end to be accomplished, being no other than the deliberate purchase of a Congress district, the source from which the corruption fund came and the manner of its distribution mark a phase in contemporary politics more dangerous to the Commonwealth than the clumsy audacity of half a dozen ballot box stuffing cases.” It is of the first importance to the Knights of Labor that they shall show that their organization has not been used by mercenaries to influence the result at the ballot box in Mr. Morrison’s district or elsewhere. —Philadelphia Record.

The Effect of Free Trade.

In a recent article in the London Spectator, discussing Blaine and free trade, a reference is made to he canvass, popular with protectionists, of representing the free traders as desirous of helping England at the expense of America, which is wort reproducing for its common sense view of a much distorted impression. After speaking of it as a device to raise the anti-Englkh prejudices of the voters, it goes on to say that the protectionists have not hesitated to declare that streams of gold have been freely poured out by the Cobden Club for the purpose of corrupting t ;e citizens of the United States and of weakening the patriotic instincts. “Thus,” it continues, “words of encouragement, or even any mark of special interest of respect expressed towards free traders by E glislimen, are more likely to do harm than good, as they would be misrepresented to mean that England had a purely selfish aim in desiring the adoption of free trade in America. As a matter of fact, free trade in America wo’d ultimately mean the end of England’s commercial lead-

ership. At first there would be a spurt of manufacturing activity. Then healthy American industries would begin to appear and 'develop until the natural advantages of raw material, always at 11 and, wo’d conquer in the competition for the world’s purchases, would drive England out of those neutral markets which American protection has hitherto 1 t us make our own, and would wrest from us also that ship building and carrying trade that has been a gift derived from the mistaken economic policy of the great ref üblic.” Protectionists have no answer for such logic as this.” —Chicago Herald.

Taxation.

Editors Western Rural: It Is useless to talk of poli.ical economy so long as the tax paver thinks he has nothing to do wit": footing the bill for political extravagance. The plumed knig’at said at Niles six year ago. ‘‘They sav we have misappropriated the revenue. Rut what difference does it make: you, the people, do r ot p iya penny of the revenue tax.” Butler says ‘'Englaud has no interests in this country, therefore we make them pay fax on all their goods before we will allow them to be sold in our market.” Now if we can make England pay part of our tax, let us be as seiflsh as we can, and make h*r pay all of it. En land does not bring goods to this country. If I want tea from C ina, hardware from Birmingham, linen from Belfast, T sit down ahd order it, just as I would if I want glass from Pittsburg. The goods arrive; a tax is demanded from me by the government and I have to pay before I can get mv goods. Merch ants in New Yor k pav millions of dol lars a year tax and add the tax to the price of the goods. If you buy the goods you pa it back to them Hence indirect taxes. A duty of ten cents a pound on woo l regardless of va ue is called “specific duties ” A duty of twenty per cent- ad valorem [according to value] i* cabe 1 “ad valorem duties.” The duty of twenty per cent ad valorem was taken off from wool March 3d, 1883. That is the way the do it. The man who gets out the raw material always gets the last boost, and Is the first to have it taken away. He is the man who docs the mosjwork for the least moiey, ’Tis he who has adopted the eight hour plan, eight hours in the forenoon and eight hours in the afternoon. In 1882 my wool brought thirtysix cents a pound. In 1883 after the twenty per cent duty was taken off, my wool sold for twenty-eightJeeDts, just about twenty per cent less. My brother’s wool, on corresponding dates sold far forty and thirty-two jents. Sa you can see that Jprotection protecta. If not why do we wool growers kick so strenuously against taking it off? Ditto, the steel, iron, and woolen manufacturers. Also the salt and lumber manufacturers have got the same kick and the same self interrsf The duty, tax, protection on wool helped me; did it help my hired man? Did it help all the poor of the land, who have to buy clothing made from protected wool ? I rescind my stutemwnt above, and say no, it did not help me, for while lam get* ting a little taffy on my wool, dollars are paid out on a thousand and one protected articles I have to buv Protection benefits the lumber kings; does it benefit iheir workmen? Does it keep Canadian workmen at home, from coming into Michigan by the score, and competing with home labor? Brother farmers why this unre *t? Why this unsettled state es affairs? Mr. Blaine, at Pittsburg, Oct. 20, quotes Dean Swift, and seems to sanotinn the quotation. Dean Swift told the ministers of Queen Ann, ‘That they could double the luty and halve the revenue orhalvt the duty and double the revenue. ” Now brother, if that is the way it will work I say amen to halving the tax r our tax] and doubling the revenue [our Then lev us demand that our revenue be used to pay off the public debt. Then anarchy, strikes and this unrest will In a measure have its cure. This whole system is contained in a nut shell; is it right to tax one man for the upbuilding of anoth er? I nave voted protection all my life, but I say no.—T. in Western Rural.

Reducing General Taxation.

Oa leading the earnest appeals of the President and Secretary Manning for a reduction of taxation it may s’rike some people as peculiar that words should need ti be multiplied to induce Congress to perform a duty at once obvious and beneficial. If the taxes are too high for the needs of the government, bringing in juotq

money than can be honestly aud ju>. diciouily expended, whv should they not be reduced as a matter of course? Beoause many of these taxes have been laid for the double pmpose of putting some money into the Troaa* ury and a great deal more money in* to the pockets of favored rings and combinations. Vast businesses nave sprung up under this system, and to the extent that thsyd pend upon it for their profits they ars as much a public burden as the same number of poor houses, prisons, or deaf and dumb and insane asylums would be. They <esist the reduction of taxation because it wouiti cut down their profits and necessitate the employment in their enterprises of the same sagacity which is to be found in the man* ageraent of all industries which have not been leeches on the people Always ready to have taxes Increased, these interests are never prepared to have them reduced It thus ha ppens that a class appears in a country •which should have do classes, and that while the mass of the people favor low taxes n small element is actually uenefitc-d by high taxes. Taxation al o opera'es in another way to make certain interests favor it as against the wishes of the majority, but this cannot very well bo helped, and as it does not put public money into private purses it is not particularly objectionable. When a heavy tax is laid upon an article of manufacture which must be paid by the producer and afterward collected from the consumer, the business calls for large capital aud men with small means arc practically debarred fiom engaging in it. It consequently becomes to the interest of the wealthy manufacturer to resist all attempts to reduce the taxation u on the article which ho produces, bccuuse with lower taxes or no tares at all, competition is sure to be more formidable It was this which caused the old match monopoly to fight to the last the proposit.on to abolish the tax on matches. It is the same spirit which causes the presen' manufacturers of whisky to oppose the reduction of the tax on liquor. The resistance to (he reduction of tariff taxation is inspired by tne comparatively few men who profit by It and whoso businesses are adjusted to it. It is from them that all the twaddle about pauper lubor emanates, and they are the people wuo, oy the libi eral use of money in i olitics and elsewhere, have built up a school of so-called economists who argue that tariffs are not taxes, or that, if they are, that they make t,.e people who pav them rich. It is hardly probable that the intelligent citizens of the republic will be loner misled by the sophistries of such arguments based od the seiflsh interests of a class al-' ready gorged wi h public plunder.— Chicago Herald. The “Old Reliable” is umler the management of Norm. Washer & Sons. They keep constantly on hand an extensive stock of stoves, in great variety, hardware, agricultural implements, etc. They know when, where and how to buy, and put their goods on the market at bottom prices. In addition to getting goods at lowest figures you are afforded an opportunty to procure a first-class shot gun without money and without price. *.<»»►. - Thaddeus Fowler of Seymour, Conn., who died recently, was a Yankee of the Yankees, for invention.— He ihvented machines for sticking pins in paper, for manufacturing iron pins, for sorting pins, for making pins, bead and all, at a single stroke, for making needles, for painting wire, for making horseshoe nails, for sharp ening horse-clipping machines, and for stamping metal. He also invented a reaping and binding machine, and the “sewing bird* used on ladies’ work tables. He died poor. Miss Harter, our new dressmaker has arrived and we would be glad to have you call and give her a chance to give you a perfect fit.

Mrs. J. M. Hopkins.

An End to Bgne Scraping. Edward Shepherd,of Hrrisburg, 111. says: ‘Having received sc much bene-* fit from Electric Bitters, I feel it my duty to let suffering humanity it. Have had a running sore on my leg liir eight years; my doctors told me 1 would have to have the bone scraped or leg amputated T used, instead, tlir e bottlis ot Electric Bitters and se\en boxes Bucklen's Arnica Salve and my leg is now sound and well,” Elecf ic Bitters are sold at fifty cents a bottle, and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve a 25c. per box by F. B. Meyer’s-. 34-5 ■ • Lafayette was a tnajo 'general at the age of twenty.

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