Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1888 — Page 1

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Mi'CoY, f..J.VcCoT E L. Hollingsworth. A. MW & BANKERS S (Succeseois to A. McCoy & T.Thompson,) Rensselaer. Ind. DO a fie; eral banking bnsln< es. Exchange bought and sold Certificates bearing in tercet issued Collections made on al available points Office same place as old firm M & Thompson April 2,188 b MORDECAI F. CHTLCOTE. Attorney-at-L aw RENSSELAER. - - . - INDIANA PrnoHce« in the Courts of Jasper and adoinhin counties. Makes collections a specialty- Office on north side of Washingtoi street. opposite Court House- vlnl BIMON P. THOMPSON, DAVID J. THOM PSON Attorney-at-Law. Notary Public. THOMPSON & BROTHER, Rensselaer, - - Indiana Practice in all the Courts. ARION L. SPITLER, Collector and AbstracterWe pay r xrbcular attention to paying tax- , selling and leasing lands. v 2 nk ‘ '—————— TV n ‘ n * GfRaHAM ’ * ATTOkNEY-AT-LAW, Reesdelatk, Indiana. Money to loan on long time at. low interest. J Sept. 10, bb. JAMES W. DOHTHIT, ATOPDRNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY public, *T Office upstairs, in Maieever’s new yUllding. Rensselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAMMONO & AUSTIN, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Rensselae , Ind Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, co n«r of Was ington and Vanßensselaer streets. William B. Avstin purchases, sells and le see ®al estate, pays taxes and deals in negotiable

W WATSON, uATTOiCIsrHS'Sr-AT-LA.'W Office up Stairs, in Leopold's Bazar, RENSSELAER. IND. yy W. HARTSELL, M D HQMGSOPATHIC {PHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, • - INDIANA. Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Residence at Makeever House. July 11.1884. J* H LOUGHRIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second Hoar, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all jßeounts running unsettled longer than Aree months. vinl DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer, Ind. □ails promptly attended. Will give special atten tion to the treatment of Chronic Diseases. CWIZE W* BANK, BENSSELAEB, IND., It. 8. Dwiggixb, ;F. J, Sears, Val. Seib, President. Vic-President. Cashier Does a general banking business - Certificates bearing interest issued; Exchange botieht and sold; Money loaned on farms t lowest rates and or mos favorable te * AprC.S 85 I

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 20, 188 K

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“If the government may rightfully collect money by taxation and then donate it as a bounty or subsidy to individuals or corporations engaged in particular industries or particular commercial enterprises, in order to make their private business profitable, why may it not also collect it and distribute it among particular classes of the people to equalize their fortunes, and thus accomplish all that Socialism and Communism are demanding?”—Speaker Carlisle. One Grabber Makes Money.— Bill Arp says: “A farmer said to me the other day: “Why doesnt Uncle Sam pay me $lO bounty on every bale of eotton I raise? He ’ ays Joe Brown $6.50 on ev: ry ton of pig-iron, and I’m just as good as Joe Brown.’”—Atlanta Constitution. That is what we call getting to the core of the matter. The Minnesota farmer is just as good as the Pennsylvania iron king. If the latter be entitled to a bounty on his iron, why shouldn’t the former have a bounty on his wheat and pork?—St. Paul Globe. Thebe is more philosophy in a woman’s little finger than in a man’s old . hat. Next to love, sympathy is the divine passion of the heart.

The great men of the republican part • differ in their estimate of President Cleveland. Our neighbor, of Mie Republican, refers to the President as “The ignorant amateur statesman !” James Russell Lowell, one of tbe acknowledge I intellectual men of that party, and late republican Minister to England, at a recent banquet _n Boston, said: “I feel strongly attracted to Mr. Cleveland as tbe best re: resentative of the high st type of Americanism that we have seen since Lincoln was snatched from us.— We are here to felicitate each other that the presidential chair has a man in it, and this means that every word he says is weighted with what he is, that he understands that politics means business, not chicanery; plain speaking, not paltering with us in a double cause. That he has the courage to tell the truth without regard to self or party, Our politics call for a broom. Cleveland has found it and begun to p]y it. He ha:; set us an example of courage, good sense and moderation. He has kept well to his text.”

Governor Luce, of Michigan, a strong Republican, says, “I m oj posed to piling up a surplus for the sake of spending it I say cut the revenue down to die actual need of the government. Ti ke the tariff off sugar and pay a bounty to the producer, and wt would soon be producing all our sugar Then put on the tree list every article not produ ed in this country ?”

A Boston Girl in Chicage.

I feel that I am very far from Boston, f realize that I am many miles nearei the line that separates civilization from the land of savages. And into these Western solitudes I have brought a volume of Herbert Spencer to refresh and sheer my mind. He always fascinates; and the fact of his being still unmarried has something to do with it, for you know there is a halo surrounding the celibate which marriage utterly destroys. As in most philosophical questions, it is useless to ask why this is so. We can only observe the working of the phenomena, but not its cause. But truly, of Spencer I never tire. His ideas of the higher life are so consoling—the development from an “indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity.” What could be truer or more conclusive*? Perhaps the illiterate mind might be staggered by the Unusual combination of polysyllables, but we who are cultivated can appreciate the subtle significance of a definite, coherent heterogeneity. His ideas of love, however, are not extravagantly tinged with romance. Suppose that a man with tender eyes and raven-hued mustache, having seated himself by your ■ide, should tenderly, take your hand in his, and then assure in fervent tones that he is conscious of a molecular change in the vesicular nerve matter of his system, whose oonoomitant is love, and that you are the external object which has caused the change. Would an ice bath be more chilling? An hysterical woman would certainly lift up her voice and shriek aloud. H» wonder that Herbert Spencer htt lived to the age of sixty without flurrying.

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Bouquets. What a pleasure to gather the beautiful flowers, and fashion them into bouquets, to ornament our rooms, decorate the graves of our dear ones, or gladden the heart of the invalid! They are fit messengers of love and sympathy to our sick and suffering friends, telling their own story of. 1 heavenly care and protection.

THE LAND STEALERS.

(Concluded.) He asserts that I have charged the Supreme ourt of the United States with joining hands with the blunderers of the public domain. There is not a sentence or word in my article which can be tortured into any such meanr g, and Mr. Dorsey, who carefu ly read it for reply, knows this to be true. He says that my article implies t at all the Secretaries of the Interior from 1861 to 1885, all the Commissioners of the General Land Office, and all my predecessors in office, were dishones' and corrupt men. This statement is a gross exaggeration, and it is, moreover, a mere begging of the question. Quite a number of the officials referred to are involved in my exposure, and the records of the Government will identity them. Are my sects aut entic ? Mr. Dorsey makes no attempt to controvert them, which he certainly wo’d have done if he had been able, but with uplifted hands and the whine of a convict, begs that the officials whom I have arraigned as his accomplices shall be shielded 1 row the right of search!

Mr Dorsey says the Committee on Public Lands of the House of Repr ’sentatives, during the time I was its chairman, reported favorably bills granting lands to railroad corporations covering more than half of all the land granted to railroads in the United States, which bills passed Congress as a result of such report. In these statements he does not refer to the vast areas granted to our great ’’rans-Continental railways, respecting which he makes no charges against me. He speaks only of the fertile lands granted in Illinois, lowa and other Western States, which were not granted to railroad corporations at all, but to the States themselves. The entire ; *»g re gate of these lands was a small fraction only of the many millions granted to our Pacific railways by bills reported from the Committee on Pacific railroad -, and not by the Committee on Public Lands. Mr. Dorsey should also have remembered that, even as to these moderate grants for which he holds me responsible, I had only one vote as a member of the com mittee, a majority of which made the report, and that I could not, of course be made responsible for the action of the two houses of Con 7 gress on the passage of the bills reported. Moreover, Mr. Dorse/, h.mseif, says the land grants in hese cases “wete for the best interests of the whole country,” and thus defends my aciior. But mt me admit for the sake of the argument, that soiim of my votes are indefensible. Does thatjprove that he is not a land-stealer?

Mr. Dorsey further holds me responsible for the provision in all our railroad grants, c impelling the settlers on the reserved sections to pay $2.50 per acre for their lands, instead of the ordinary price, $1.25 per acre. He says “I thus added more than two hundred millions of dollars te the burden of the settlers who sought homes along the proposed lines of the railway,” while I put an additional “two hundred millions of dollars into the pockets of the railroad lobby.” I think I am safe in saying that this example of parliamentary al mightiness has no parallel in the annals of the

civilized world. Both houses of Congress and the Presid nt of the United States were my playthings, and my diabolism had full sweep from 1850, when the first land grant was made, till I left Congress in 1871! Such flashes of imbecility are really somewhat dazzling and spectacular, but life is too short to be wasted in a fight with dissolving views.

I must not conclude these illustrations of the ethical side of Mr Porsey’s character without noticing the display he makes of him.self in connection with the Una de Gato grant, m which he is personally involved. This is what I said on that subject in my article:

“1 he area of this grant, according to Mr. D isey, its claima was nearly 600,000 acres. It as reserved from settlement, and is so reserved to-day by the act of 18?4; hut when the forgery of the grant was demonstrated iu 1870, and he thought it unsafe to rely upon that tide, he determined to avail himsels o’ the homestead and pre-emption laws. This he could not legally do, because the land was reservad; but the Commissioner of the General Land Office w«s touched by his misfortune, and iu defiance of the Lw ordered the land to be surveyed and opened to settlement. Mr. Dorsey, who was already in possession of thousands of ac:es of the choicest lands in the tract, at once sent out his squads of henchmen, who availed themselves of the forms of the pre-emption and homestead laws in acquiring pretended titles,which were conveyed to him acccruing to arrangements previously agreed upon. No record of this unauthorized action of the Commissioner is to be found in the Land Office. What was done was done verbally, and in the dark, and nothing is now known of th transition fact of its oe; i rrence, and the inH.’ii te relations then existing between Mr. Dorsey and the Commissioner and his chief of surveyors. Of course, he and his associates in this business have no title t:> the lands thus acquired, and their entries should be cancelled, rot only because t. e land was reserved from sale by act of Congress, but . tcausethe entries were iraudu ently made, as will be shown by investigations now in progress.”

((’onth’ued on 4th page.)

A Sound Legal Opinion. E. Bah bridge Mm-duy. Epq,. County All.; .. Chty Co., Tex says; “Hav* used Eleeiricßitters with moet happy results. Mv butlu r was also very low wifi, M.iloia' Fever and Jaundice, but was <und ly timely use of this medicine, Am satisfied Elect? Ic Bitters saved his life ” Mr T) T Wileoxsm:, of Horse Cave, Ky., add> a like testimony, saying:— IL positively bt I.eve, he would have died, had it not he, a for Electric Bitters. This great remedy will ward off, as well as cure a’i Malarial Diseases, and for all Kidney, Liver and Stem < nuh Disorders stands umqualed.— Price 50c. and $1 at F B Meyer’s. 0 And now domes a chemist and explodes the theory that unbolted flour is the most nutritious, by stating that experiments show that it is harder to digest. The most sensible plan to follow is to eat what experience has proved agrees with you.

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“Yankee Doodle" was written in derision of the appearance of the Continental troops who joined Braddock to beat the French in 1758. Dr. Richard Shackling wrote it as a parody on a song sung in England as a caricature of Cromwell. But it failed in its purpose, as a nation of whistling boys can testify.

DON’T let that cold of yours run on. You think it Is a ligh thing. But it may tun into catarrh, Or into pneumonia. Or con umptioD. Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumonia is dang rous. Consumption is death Itseit. The breathing apparatus must beKept healthy and clear of all obstructions and offensive matter. Otherwise there is trouble ahead All he diseases es these parts, head, nose, throat, bronchial tubes and lungs, can be delightfully and entirely cured by theuseof Boschee’s German Syrup I: you don’t kno v this already, thousands and tbous* ands of people can tell vou They have been cured by it, and “know how it is, themselves ” Bottle only 75 oents Ask any druggist

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