Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1887 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XI

THE DEMOCRATIC SBffISEL. DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER. ißß**™*® s3s -' 1 PUBLISHED EYEIIY FaJDaY, byfAS. \v. McEwen RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. . sl-5° g * 50 jLver*t,ising Rates. r ciunm. one year, SBO 00 ' colmon, *; 30 oo h/h 1 - “ 10 00 n ncrcMOt. added to foregoing price if ertisements are set to occupy more than * pracll onal pa 1 a year at equitable rates Business cards not exceeding i inch space, year: $3 for six months; $ 2 for three AJI le«ai notices and adt ertisements at espublication ,0 «,nt 9 BliSe; “act. publication thereafter « cents a advertisements may be changed auarterly (once in three months) at the opthe advertiser, free of extra charge. Advertisements for persons not; residents TasDcr county, must be paid for »n ad sknce of first pnblic 'tion. when less than *CM-qua*ter column in size; aud quarterly nadvanc® when larger.

nv T. <T, McCoy McCoy, x ' E. L. Hollingsworth. A- SP€s©¥ & ©§», BANKER S 5 (Snccesioi s to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer.lnd. DO a fiei eral bunking buslm ss. Exchange bought and sold. Certificates bpart»g interest issued Collections mane on *vaffflble Shits Office same place as old firm & Thompson April UORBECAI F. CHIECOTE. Attorney-at-Law £* ■nsskXjAKß. - Indiana Pmntices fin the Courts of Jasper and adorning counties. Makes collections a speoialtv on north sido of Washington opposite Court House- vlnl SIMON P. THOMPSON, D AVTD .T. THOM PSON Attorney-at- Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, ***SSKDAEB, - " liIDIAKA Praoticein all the Courts. ARION Lu SPITX.ER, Collector and AbstractorWo pay r irbculnr attention to paying taxselling and leasing lands. v 2 n4B tt n. n. graham, ’’ * ATTORNEY-AT LAW, Reesdelatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time tit low interest. Sept, lu, Mi. JAMES W.DOUTHIT. A.UK)RNEY''AT-LAW and notary public. *■ office upstairs, in Maieever’s new ‘ ,uildine. Rensselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAMMOND & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-ATNLAW, Rensselae”, Ind Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, co> ner of Wnsiington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and leases «ml estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable Instruments. may27,’B7. W WATSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW fggr Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER IND. W. HAIITSEIiL, M- D HOMOEOPATHIC fPHYSICIAN & SURGEON. WEKBBELAEB, • - INDIANA. VChronic Diseases a Specialty.^B OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11,1884. Ji H. LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: it Ten per cent, interest will be added to all |Boounts running uusettled longer than liree months. vlnl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, . Rensselaer, Jnd. Mis promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. Clf IKENS’ BANK, RENSSELAER, IND., X. S. Dwiggins, F. J. Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic«-Pr@sident. Cashier Does a general banking business: Certificates bearing interest issued; Excha*ge honsht and sold; Money loaned on forms ♦fewest rates aud on mos :i avertible te sKteilb >5

BENSSELAER, JASPEB COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY DECEMBERS (i, 1887.

MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

A Letter From a Proud, SelfReliant Woman That Speaks for Itself. Augusta, Ga., Dec. 1. —Some time ago a movement was on foot at Macon to raise, by popu’ar subscription, a Jeff Davis fund. The project was heartily approved of by the press and people, and bad-* fair to be a great success, but it has fallen through. The following letter from Mrs. Davis brought about an abandonment of the project. It is addressed to Col. W. II Cross, Macon, Ga., chairman of the committee having the matter in hand:

‘ If anything could endear me to our friends in Macon it would be the solicitude manifested for our welfare throughout and the love for my husband; but, my dear sir, let me thank you for the efforts, but deprecate the accomplishment of it. Both my daughter and I have received an education which will stand instead of money, wore anything to be sw 'pt away, which I do not contemplate, and the blessing of iudepender ce ard freedom are dearer to us than wealth and ease, and we should not be comfortable under this monied obligations to those who have given afar greater boon to my husband already, their hearts. I have been thus frank with you because, as Montague says, ‘ t is you and it is I.’ I hope you will act on my letter. mph Q 1 1—■■ Since the 4th of March, 1885, acres of land, stolen under Republican administration, have been restored t > the : üblic domain. Indiana contains 23,264,GOO acres. It will be seen that the amount of land reclaimed in two years by a Democratic administration is equal to the State of Indiana and leaves a balance of 8,56°,481 acre.?. New Jersey contains 5,001,600 acres and Connecticut 3,193,600 acres, and thus it is seo . that the Democratic party has reclaimed from the land thieves lands equal as follows to A Creg Indiana 23,264,000 New Jersey 5,001,600 Ooiuecticut 3,193,600 Total 31,458,200 with a remainder of 365,281 acres equal to 2,283 farms of 160 acres e: ch, and still one acre is left, about enough for a prison in which to inearcerate the thieves if they could be caught and punished as they deserve. If the Democratic party is defeated in 1888, the land thieves will again go into business, and what little of the public domain is leit will rapidly disappear.

Attorney General Garland has given an opinion on several points which have been raised relative to the adjustment of railroad land grants under the act of March the 3d, 1887. He strongly emphasizes the remedial scope of the aet, and says that its intent is to relieve from loss, settlers and bona fide purchasers, who through the erroneous or wrongful disposition of the lands in the grants, 1 y the officers of the government or by the railroads, have lost their rights or acquired equities, which in justice should be recognized. He holds that the whole remedial part of this act was passed with a recognition of the fact that the railroad companies had sold lands to which they had no jmst claim. Stephen W. Dorsey, the Republican Shir route thief, attempted to steal 600,000 acres of lan J * in New Mexico. Hon. George W. Julian exposed the rascality of the Republican scamp, and Mr. Dorsey replied. This gave Mr. Julian an opportunity to let a little more light in upon the rascality of Dorsey, and if the Government does not compel the old star route tkief to let go his grip upon the stolen lands it will be justly deserving of censure. This is the same Dorsev who supplied) the money with which to run republican voters from Illinois into In liana, October, 1880.

Hew the Farmer Is Robbed.

Congressman Turner, of Kentucky, in oneoi his speeches, furnishes ma'er al for thought on the part of the farmer, in showing how he is robbed by the tariff. He s vs of him that “h rises from his bed in the m ining ard puts on his common flannel shirt, taxed 95 per cent; his - oat taxed 75 per cent; shoe . t ixod G > per cent, and hat, taxed 92 pt-r ut; takes the water ftom a bucket, taxed 35 per cent; and washes his ,ace aud hands in atiu bo*l, taxed 36per cent; dries them on a cheap cotton towel, tax;d 45 per cent. ' He sits down to his humble meal and eats from a plate taxed 50 per cent; with <. knife and fork taxed 35 per cent; drinks his coffee sweetened with sugar taxed 68 per cent; seasons his f aod with salt, taxed 69 percent, and pepper, taxed 6L per cent.— Even the sunlight from heaven th-t pours into his humble dwelling must come through the window glass taxed 59 per cent; and yet he thinks he lives under the freest government under heaven. Then he starts to work, puts a bii.de, taxed 35 per cent, on his horse, and takes the horse that lias been shod —the nails used in shoeing being taxed 59 per cent; driven by a hammer taxed 25 per cent; and hitches him to a plow taxed 45 per cent; with chains taxed 58 per cent; and after the da 7 s labor is closed and his family are gathered around, he reads a chapter from his blble, taxed 25 per cent; aud kneels to God on a humble carpet, taxed 51 per cent; and then he rests his we tried limbs on a sheet taxed 45 per cent, and covers himself with a blanket that has paid 104 per cent. Nor do the grasping manufacturers stop here, for even the broom with which his good wife sweeps the floor, is taxed 35 per cent; and the cooking vessels used in preparing her husband’s frugal meal are taxed 42 per cent; and the soda used to lighten his bread is taxed 59 per cent. She sits down to her sewing with a needle taxed 25 per cent, and a spool of thread taxed 74 per cent, to make a calico dress, taxed 58 per cent; or if she wishes to knit warm socks to protect her husband and cmldren from the bitter cold, she uses yarn taxed 120 per cent; and thus daily and hourly must the hard earnings of the laborer go to satisfy the manufacturer and add to his ill-gotten wealth.” ,

To the Editor of lhe Indianapolis News: Why is it that, with a protective, duty on steel rails, and with linen on the free list, mills for the manufacture of rails have become numerous, giving employment to thousands, while there is not a single linen mill in the country?— And this is true, as is also the assertion that America grows the finest flax in the world, and immense quantities of linen. X. P. Lain. The News is a Republican paper, but goes for *he advocate of monopolistic theories in the following vigorous style: We do not know about there being no linen mills in the country, but if Mr. “X. P. Lain” is correct in this, then he has “explained” according to his own sjlaim that protection is a ghastly failure, for there is a thumping tariff on linen. The said tariff taxes you 35 cents for every dollar’s worth which you buy of “brown or bleacned linens, duck, lawn, handkerchiefs,” etc., etc., ‘or other manufactures of flax, jute or h«mp, or of which flax, jute or hemp is a component part.” If the stuff is worth more than 30 cents a square yard, then it taxes you 40 cents on the dollar. It taxes you 35 cents on the dollar for buying any flax, hemp or ju+e yarns or linen yarns for oarpets. It taxes you 50 cents on the dollar for buying flax or linen thread in whole or in part and for all manufactures of flax or linen not otherwise specifically mentioned. It taxes you 30 cents on the clo'-lar lor buying flax or linen laces. It taxes you the same on all buriai s and like rnan-

ufactures that have any flax, jute or hemp in them. It taxes you 40 cents on the dollar for oil cloths that have such burlaps, etc., for a foundation. These are the specific fines for buying any linen in any shape made anywhere but in this country, and of course on all made in this country it allows the addition of this fine to the norma.* price plus freight exchange and insurance which the same stuff sent from abroad has to pay. But if Mr. X. P. Lain is correct none of this is mad j in this country and hence the tariff fines us for buying linen —a crying necessity of life—from 30 to 50 cents on every dollar, and this in the face of a $100,000,000 yearly surplus yielded from such fines. Yet the fines are not to be remitted, the tariff must not be reformed!

THE TARIFF-REFORM ISSUE

In Line With the Best Interests of the Country From Every Point of View. [Chicago Tribune.] The more carefully and dispassionately President Cleveland’s message is studied, leaving partisan considerations on one side, the more surely convinced vill any honest critic become that its opinions and suggestions are in line with the best interests of the country from every material poin of vie «. The threatened congest tion of the National Treasury has made this matter plain. It is generally conceded that the Government revenues must be reduced, and the only question is whether they shall be reduced in the interests of farmers, workingmen, and the non-manufacturing class or solely in the interest of mill and factory bosses. We are confronted with a huge surplus in the Treasury, co etantly growing. The tariff alone during the last fiscal year yielded $217,000,000, whereas ten years ago it produced but $130,000.000. One-half of the present customs taxes would be amply sufficient with the revenues from other sources to meet the necessary expenses of government. And what more natural and reasonable plan of reduction can there Je than to cut the present tariff receipts in half (mak > due selection of the articles t * be reduced), thereby taking off present taxation on the necessaries of life, with the added result of further cheapening indirectly their cost to the consumers? Tor every dollar so taken off from the customs revenues five or six dollars are remitted from the bounty profits of the home bosses and factory lords. A reduction of $100,000,000 in direct tariff taxes would involve a total lessening of the burdens now sustained by the people of the United States amounting to $600,000,000 or $700,000,000 per annum. With a tariff ineome vastly beyond the necessities of the Government, beyond even the necessities of protection to the so-called “infant industries,” the mill barons still persist in their right to overcharge fer these necessities by keeping up the old war taxes, and when threatened by competition combine into trusts to extort their swag from the oppressed and overburdened people. The farmers and the laboring classes themselves have found that the promises of protection are illusory, and that the only persons who derive any advantage from it are the mill bosses and trusts. — They have also found that a reduction of the revenue by euttiug down the oppressive tariff taxes will result to their own advantage, and that the high tariff results in the increased price of all manufactured products which they need for their use. The farmers have long been bled for the benefit of the bosses, but they are now waking \ip to the fact that it is time to cheapen the cost of *heir implements, lumber, clothing, sugar, salt, iron, glass and other articles in common use, and they will not consent to be victimized any longer for the benefit of protected monopolies

At this point the ; dvcrales ot protection repeat tbeir old gabMe that to reduce the tariff wll be to cut American laborers down to the pauper wages of Europe. The statement is not only false but absurd upon its face. The paupsr was es of Europe are paid by the high tariff Europ an countries, like France, Germany and Austria. England pays one and a ha f times higher wages than any other European country. Her unemployed surplus of workingmen is not due to tariff arrangements, but to other causes ;but, taking her workingman who are regularly employed, and they are paid better wages and are more comfort ably fed, clothed and housed than those of any other European country. Tt e profits which will remain to the mill bosses after the tariff reduction will still be oufficient to remunerate their employes, and that remuneration will be all the more valuable by reason of the decre sed price of tl eai tides which they have to for themselves and families. The President makes an additional point whi h is of special interest to them, namely: that manufacturers would have a belter chance of comp ting in foreign markets if tbs taxes were removed from raw material, thus extending their sales beyond the demands of home consumption, offsetting the depressions and panics which arise irom an overstocked domestic market, and assuring workingmen of more regular work and steadier prices.

The President is to be congratulated for his courage iu formulating tariff revision and presenting it to Congress as the most important issue now before the country. It is n d a partisan matter. It concerns the interests of the large majority of the people of the United States and of the entire farming population. It must come up for discussion and action before long. Meanwhile let it be remem bered that there are sixteen districts in Illinois 95 per cent, of the people of which have no int- • erest in maintaining an t xcessive war tax. The action of tLe representatives of these districts will be watched with much interest It will show whether they are in Congress as the representatives of Eastern factory lords or of Western agricultural constituencies. Of the four Chicago members, two have a large number ot rural constituents and a few mill owners in their districts. Do they propose to represent the majority sentiment of these constituents or to vote conUnufrd excessive bounties to the latter?

The Yerdict Unanimous. W. D, Suit. Druggist, Bippus, Ind. testifies: “3 can recommend Elo trio Bitters as the very best remedy. Ev* eiy bottle sold has given relief in eve-' ry case. One man took six bottles and was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years’ standing." Abraham Hare, druggist, Belleville. Ohio, affirms: “The bestselling medioine I have ever handled In my 20 years’ experience, is Eieotric Bitters." Thousands of others have adde 1 their testimony, so that the verdiot is unanimous that Electric Bitters dooure all diseasssef the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. Only a half dollar a bottle at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. 2L Chicago clergymen sinceiely hope that the ballet is on its last legs.

DON’T let that cold of yours run on. You think it Is a ligh thing. But it may run into catarrh. Or into pndumo> nia. Or con umptioD. Catarrh is distrusting. Pneumonia is dang roue. Consumption is death itself. The breathing apparatus must be kept healthy and clear of all obstructions and offensive matter. Otherwise there is trouble ahead Alt he diseases of tboso parts, head, uose, throat, bronobial tubes and lungs, can be delightfully and entirely cured by the use of Boschee’s German Syrup It you don’t kno v tkia already, thousands und thous« ands of people can tell vou They bav<* been cured by it,* and “know how it is, themselves ” Bottle only 75 eents Ask any druggist

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