Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1888 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel.

VOLUME XII

THE DEMOCRATIC SEHT'JEL. democratic newspaper. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, —.—-BYJas. W. McEwen subscription. ’■ .75 ’ * . 5(1 I. -V ( jLvertising Rates. _ ..nr SBO.OO ' -2' vIUB*U vnr. la f column. „ 30 o o ‘ rtcr . > 10 oo h l«rn M ot added to foregoing price if ertYsements arc set to occupy more than . K'e ecdumn width. at equitable rates Eraetional parts of y - ding j i nc h space. Business cards not exceeding SoticU and ad; ertisements at esstatute Price. blication 10 cents Public Jtion P thereafter s cents a advertisements VttuTbP? quarterly (once extra chargeof Jasper county, must be legs thfm ane C qmuter quarterly n a d v an c

AmxD McCoy, HoIungBWOBTH T ' J ’ MCt ° T A* MMSDY Ik ©099 BANKBKS) (Success to A. McCoy & T. Thompson,) Rensselaer, Ind. h O a fteL eS * l Ao n id ing Certiftc"as hearinV’iFD bought and sold. Certinca avftila blc is sued Collections of McCo/ points Office same place as om 6 & Thompson MORDECAI Indiana i enssklaeb, • ■ Practice? |in the Co^ s o c f o fiXn “ steTHOMPSON & RENSSEDAEB, - . Practicein all the Courts. ARION I*. SPITLER, Actor and AbstracterWe pay ptrbcular attention to paying tabselling and leasiag lands. TV*, fl. B. GRAHAM, ’ ’ ’ attokN EY-AT-LAW, Reesdjxatr, Indiana. Money to loan on long time, at Joy interest JAMES W. DOUTHIT, ATTOBNEYsAT-LAW AND NOTARY PUBLIC, , * ■ Office up-Stairs, in Maieever’s new yuflding. Rensselaer. Ind. Edwin P. Hammond. William B. Austin. HAND a AUSTIN ATTORNEY-AT'LAW, Rensselaer, Ind. Office on second floor of Leopold’s Block, e r rer of Was ioi-doii and VanßenaßelaOr street?. William B. Av.-Un purchases, sells and !< ■ srealestate, pays taxes and deals in ne.rot>.abk instruments. may2> S>.

M. W WATSON, JVT<rO±-tTxTI2V-.A.T-X J A VZ Office up Stairs, in Leopold’s Bazay, RENSSELAER !>'»• W. HARTSELL, M- D HOMOEOPATHIC jPHYSICIAN & SURGEON. RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA. Diseases a OFFICE, in Makeever’s New Block. Resi deuce at Makeevcr House. July 11,1884. . JEL J> H. LOUGH RIDGE Physician and Surgeon. Office in the new Leopold Block, second floor, second door right-hand side of hall: Ten per cent, interest will be added to all accounts running unsettled longer than ftiree months. vini DR. I. B. WASHBURN Physician & Surgeon, Rensselaer t Ind, Tails promptly attended. Will give special attet Hon to the treatment es Chronic Diseases. l 1 ■ A’ I*'. 1 *'. . . !'! .. " ~ Zixri Dwiggixs, F. J. Snaps, Vai.. Seib, President. Vic—President. Cashier CITIZENS’STATEBANK RENSSELAER, IND., Boes a gen era l Certificates hearing interest issued; Exchange houaht and sold; Money loaned on farms »t lowsst rates and on avorable terms. Jan. 8, 88.

RENSSELAER. JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY JUNE 15. 18«

THURMAN AND THE PACIFICS.

Chicago Timos: The scene in the senate of the United States when Th urman, by the sheer force of his rugged honesty, compelled the passage of his refunding bill is one of the most memorable in the history of that body. The manipulators of the subsidized railroads, chief of which we e the Central and Union Pacific, had not permitted their corporations to make any preparations whatever for the payment of their obligations to the United States. Fourteen years had passed and the only credits the government o'd give them for the subvention, which, principal and interest, now amounts to more than $100,000,000, grew out of the transportation of troops and supplies. Vet the projectors of the roads, or their successors in control and mangement, were bilding gigantic fortunes from the properties. The companies had the audacity to ask of congress that certain barren and unsalable lands granted the roads should be bought by the gover ment for a priee. U .der the management of a persuasive lobby such a measure was likely to be carried. Thurman called a halt. “Debtors of the United States, you must arrange to pay your obligations,” said Thurman: “Year by year there must be set aside from your earrings and paid into the treasury of the United States a sum that, with accruing interest, shall make the government whole when the subvention bonds mature.” This was revolution. Was Gould to stand it? Was Huntington? Were the plu ocrats of Nob Hill, in Frisco? When the day for the vote was at hand Huntington came himself to the senate and was permitted the use of a room openmg out on the chamber. He Blew many of his men. Blaine wffi a lieutenant, active upon the fio«r. Gould sat in the gallery checking off the votes on the amendments offered for the purpose of killing the bill. Ordinarily placid, Thurman, indignant at the scandalous spectacle of a shaneless lobby, led by the chiefs of the Pacifies, thundered a speech that compelled senators to choose then and there between their duty to thjir constituents and the government and their interest with the Pacifies. The bill carried. Yet Stanley Matthews, who was opposed to it, went through republican favor to the supreme bench, and Leland Stanford was soon after sent from California by a republican jgislature to reinforce the millionaire monopolists whom Thurnlan had routed. - - - - , I A Republican-farmer )of Illinois, in discussing the polit- ; leal elation in the United State •, 'jay.-:: “I he Farmers’ Alliance in i fllinoiswiil elect the Democratic State picket with Gen. Palmer at the hlad of it. Never since the old Giungerdays has there been so much bathusiasm and such complete organization among the farmers. iVhilc the majority of the members are nominally Republicans, almost all of them are tariffreformers to the core. They are sick o! all this talk about protection. The average Illinois farmer has serse enough to know when he is beinif robbed, and he is commencing to wake up to I is necessities. 'ihe Snringfield ring is held responsible for a great deal of bad government i» the State, and as a result ] am willing to wager anything tiat Palmer will be elected.”

A Tribute to Thurman.—There is no perceptible diminution in his mental icumen, in his rugg d adherenceito what he believes to be right. To the despaiiers in his own the adventurers, the “expedihit” men, he is as unbending as and, naturally enough, his iamb excites their hostility whenevej it is mentioned, whether in or cd of a convention. —Cincinnati Times-Star, rep.

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an one million men are by the various railway le Uhited States.

WAGES AND THE LUMBER TARIFF.

We do not hear much from the high taxes about the “pauper labor” of Canada. Can ;da is too near by and the facts are too easily accessible to make Canada a good place to locate “pauper labor.” — Still, we are given to understand that we must have h high tax on lumber for the protection of the tariff-blessed American laborer. There are a number of things that might be said about that, one of whic' is that a great number of Canadians work in our pineries.— American laborers are fin no way protected against their vheap labor. • But the thing that The Times desires especially to say at this moment ts that the tariff-blessed American lab< rer does not get a very large slice of the ben fit of the lumber tariff, even w en he is not crowded out by the Caradi >n laborer. A gentleman recently spent a few days in th > pine .timber portion of Pennsylvania. He found that the laboring men there as in other parts of the state, were in favor of high tariff; were victims of the prevailing epidemic in that state. The gentleman tho’t he would like to know about how much the laborers in the lumber region were benefited by the tariff, and ne instituted an inquiry which resulted in putting him in possession of some interesting information.

He got his facts from the men who “feed the machine,” and who imagine that the tariff enriches them. Here they are: The cost of material in twenty doors, inch to inch and ona-eighth, is $10; the cost of labor (one man at $2 25 and one helper at $1) is $3 25; the value of the finished product is $25. — Same number of inch and threeeighth doors; cost of material, S2O; labor, $3 25; value of product, SBO. Same number of one and threesi xteenths-ineh sash; cost of material $10; labor, $9 75; value of product, SSO. Same number of check-rail sash; cost of material, sls;labor,sll 37|;value of product, S7O. The value of product in excese of cost of imperial, i will be seen, is sls in the first instance, of which capital gets sll 75 and labor only $3 25. In the second instance the excess is S6O, of which capital gets $56 75 and labor $3 25. In the third instance the excess is S4O, or which capital gets S3O 25 and labor $9 75. And in the fourth instance the excess is $55, of which capital gets $43 62| and labor sll 37|. Ho v much good does ‘• ■e tr.nff i do the men in these mills and sow much would perfectly free trade hurt them? Doesn’t capital make enough to be able to stand all the loss that might result from nee t ■ ade and yet command the American market as entirely as it does now? —Chicago Times. The republican papers which have been bawling about Andrew Jackson as a high tariff advocate, should give their readers the benefit of the following extract from his farewell address: “lhere is one safe rule, and that is to confine the General Government rigidly within the sr here of its appropriate duties. It has no power to raise a revenue or i np< se taxes except for the purposes enumerated in the Constitution; and if its income is found to exceed these wants it should be forthwith reduced and the “bur ens of. the peopie so far lightened.”

Gov. Hill, of New York, on Monday signed the bill abolishing hang ngfot all murders committed aft.-r Jan. 1, 1889, and substituting death by electrio ity therefor. The bill provides that the prisoner sentenced to death shall be immediately conveyed to one et the State’s prisons and there kept in solitary confinement until the day of execution.

Cleveland, Thurman, and tax reform enters the canvass assuiedof success.

NOTICE TO DEMOCRATS.

The Union Township Hendricks League No. 3 will meet at the Center School House, Union Tw’v, on Saturday, June 23d. Evening. The Barkley Township Hendricks League .No. 2 will meet at Center School House, Barkley Township, Saturday, June 30th. — Evening. The Democrats will meet at chi' following named places and tiine for th-* purpose of organizing branches of the Hendricks League: Carpenter Township, Remington, Thursday, June 21st Evening. Jordan Township, Egypt School House, Thursday, June 28th.— Evening. Milroy Township, Center School House, July 7th. Evening. Wheatfield Township, Wheatfield, Saturday, July 14th. Evening, Kankakee Township, Dunrville, Monday, July 16th. Evening. Let all Democrats turn out. By order of Jasper County League Organizing Committee.

DAVID W. SHIELDS,

President. A. N. Lakin, Sec’y

FROM WHEATFIELD.

Business progressing, Oats look well. The hay crop promises to be good. The wheat crop will be light in this vicinity. Cut worms are getting in their wor< on the corn. Potato bugs are getting numerous. A neat little building is being erected in town by John Graves and Dr. Ellis. AVe understand it will be occupied by a drug ."tore. Myers & M rble have their new building competed and are filling up with new goods. The expect to be jeady for business by next Monday. James Melsei, our Supervisor, is getting some good work done on the roads this spring.

THE COAST FOR THURMAN.

I'a’ -Congressman M. F. Tarpey, of Ca ifornia, is very enthusiastic over the nomination of Thurman for vice president, and he regards the Pacific slope as a sure thing for the Democratic party this fall. Mr. Tarpey is' authority f r the statement that the Democrats of the Golden st’te are sure of car rying it by a majority of at least five thousand. Oregon and Nevada are much the same as California— en husiastic for Thurman. “What has 'Thurman done to make himself so popular in the west?” was asked of Mr. Tarpey. “Well, in the first place a reduction of the tariff is what the people on the Pacific slope want, and they kno v that Thurman, being m favor vs a reduction, will keep his word as far as it is possible with the people. Then he has done much for the western states in regard to the Chinese question. The labor question has become of vast importance in California, and the laboring classes are strong for the democratic ticket. There is no man to-day in the republican ranks who can draw his party around him to his support as can Thurman, and 1 do not think there is a man whom tfie republican party can nominate 'who will be so popular on the Pac.fic slope.”

Indianapolis News(republican); Thurman is, we believe, the strongest man the democrats could have h aainated. He appeals to the respect of the country as a man of incorruptible integrity and of as fine abilities as have adorned our public life in years.

MORE ANON,

THE PRESIDENT’S WAY.

He Never Neglects the Appeals of the Poor and Friendless. [Wash. Cor. N. Y. Herald.] Here is an incident which shows, the President’sh..hit of work: One evening last winter M*. Cleveland sent for your correspondent at II o’clock to speak, about a matter of public interest. The conversation lasted three quarters of an hour, and as the president had had a hard and long day of public receptions and pri - vate consultations, I said to him on going away: “I hope you are going to bed at once; you must be very tired?” He replied: “I am tired, but I shall hardly get to bed before 2:30. I must go through some papers here,” pointing to a large mass. “Why not leave them until tomorrow?” “I cannot do that. You see what it concerns. A man is to be hanged, and there is an application for his pardon.” “But what do you keep an attorney general for?” I asked. “The attorney general has gone over the case carefully,” rep’ied the president. “Here is his re - port. He thinks the man ought to hang.” “Very well, hang him,” I rather hastily said, for I saw in the president’s face that he was very weary.

“No,” said Mr. Cleveland, “that will not do. This poor man has a wife and children who plead to me for his life. 1 must look into this matter myself. I cannot take any body’s word or judgment in a matter like this. Suppose he was hung and that hereafter some neglected or overlooked or improperly weighed piece of evidence should turn up to show that he ought not to have been hanged, what reproaches would not these poor people have a r ight to make me ? No, you are wrong; this is a matter I must go to the bottom of my pelf if it takes all night ” That is Mr. Cleveland’s way.— He is, they say, often rough and peremptory to powerful politicians but he does not neglect the appeals of the poor and friendless.

Tried and Found Faithful.Mr. Cleveland’s ability to adjninister with fitting dignity the great office of president of the United States has been tested. The record of his administration is open to the pi-xiple. It has been scrutiniz.d uy friends and by foes alike wiHi a minute attention which h;r left no defects unconcealed, and has made known many virtues which even his adversaries have applauded d It is faint praise of him to say that he has been senipulously faithful to the laws of the land, but he has been much more than this. He has been vigilant in the performance of his duties to protect the individual from the oppression of ill-regulrtted|power, corporate or otherwise, and to shield the people from an injudicious or waste! ul exercise of the legislative function. —New York Times.

HOW THE THING WORKS. Every yard of steel rails laid down in the United States imposes a tax of §l7, that the government does not need, and that the government does not get, but which goes directly into the pockets of the steel rail trust and out of the pockets of railroad patrons. Meanwhile the labor employed in making the rails is kept in subjection to its masters, the steel rail trust, by that organized band of murderers, known as the Pinkerton detective force. This is what is culled “protection to American labor.’— , Evansville. Courier.

Three girls flogged a Portland, Oregon, hackinan, a few evenings since. They concluded that his designs were dishonorable. A certain style of shoe button is called “old maid’s wedding” because it never comes off.

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