Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1889 — Page 7

INDIANA HAPPENINGS.

EVENTS AND INCIDENTS THAT HAVE LATELY OCCURRED. An Interesting Summary of the More Important Doing'* of Our Neighbors—Weddings and Deaths—Crime, Casualties and General News Notes. THE LEGISLATURE. Jqnuary 24.—Senate—The Ray-Carpenter contested election ease was discussed at length. House—A bill was passed providing for the establishment of a State Bureau of Statistics and Geology, and creating the office of Chief of the Department. Reports of standing committees were submitted. Jan. 25.—Consideration of the Ray-Car-penter contested election ease was continued in the Senate. The resolution unseating Carpenter was adopted by a party vote, but the resolution seating Ray was indefinitely postponed. A new election for Senator will be ordered by the Governor. In the House a bill was passed providing for the incorporation of religious conferences and camp-meetings. Both branches adjourned until Monday. Jan. 28.—Senate—On a call of committees for reports Mr. Barrett from the committee on judiciary reported a substitute for the Senate bills introduced by Senators Andrew and Cox, in relation to elections. The bill is substantially the Andrew bill with various amendments. A new section is added which compels employers to give four hours to each employe after the noils open in the morning to vote. In addition to a fine and imprisonmentforviolation of the electionlaw disfranchisement is provided for ten years. House—After the adoption of Mr. Shambaugh’s resolution commendatory to the Indianapolis Sentinel's art gallery, Mr. Willard introducee H. R. 336, relating' to the use of dynamite by railroad companies. The following bills were indefinitely postponed: H. R. 132, relating to partition fences; H. R. 232. to create a food commissioner; H. R. 127. relating to stock breeding; H. R. 285, relating to the State Board ot Agriculture. Bills ivere ordered engrossed as follows: H. R. 270, relating to hedge fences; H. R. 225, relating to the spread of hog cholera; H. R. 117, relating to destroying weeds by railroad companies. H. R. 142; H. R. 136, for purchasing lands, after being amended, was ordered engrossed. Jan. 29.—A bill was introduced forbidding the importation of armed men into Indiana for police duty. A bill was passed in the House preventing the blacklisting of employes. The passage of an election bill was recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Jan. 30.—Senate—A bill providing for the maintenance of night schools in certain cities was discussed at length, but postponed, there being no quorum present. Gov. Hovey's nomination of Robert ■Chisholm to be State Mine Inspector, was referred to a committee. House—A bill providing for. the legal adoption of children when taken from Orphan Asylums or other public charitable institutions was passed. Also, a bill making it a misdemeanor for saloon-keepers to permit boys under fifteen years of age to enter saloons. The bill to repeal an act concerning rental for the use of telephones, was reported from the committee on corporations, and recommended for passage,

Minor State Items. —The total amount of school funds -distributed among the several townships in Montgomery County is $35,095.45. —A new postoffice, to be called Fruitts, has been established five miles west of Yountsville, in Montgomery Gountv. —The South Bend Tribune offers a reward of SSOO for the arrest of the burglars who robbed its storo of SI,OOO worth of goods. —Chris Slout, a farmer living near •Chesterton, fell from a load of wood and broke his neck. He was 35 years old and left a family. —William Cap, a contractor, of Peabody, Whitley County, was crushed to a pulp by a falling tree, while overseeing ■some men cutting timber. —James Sassafras, aged 70, and Susana Goodhoo, aged 53, were married recently at Peru. They are members of the Miami tribe of Indians, and are well-known. —John F. Denniston, aged 54 years, one of the most prominent and influential farmers in the vicinity of Sardinia, Decatur County, died from pneumonia. —W. J. Blanton was bitten by a mad -dog near Greencastle. He immediately went to Terre Haute to have the “madstone” of that city applied to the wound —Mrs. George Barkley, of Seymour, attempted to start a fire with kerosene. She narrowly escaped a horrible death. As it is, her face and neck are badly disfigured. Two persons have died from drinking water from an abandoned well near Waveland, Montgomery County, the last person being Charles Bobinson. Four others are yet sick. A mixed train on the Bockport branch of the Louisville, Evansville and St. Louis Kailway was wrecked near Chrisney. Several persons were seriously injured, but none fatally. —While loading log|j on a truck at Peru, the blocking slipped, and before Abraham Kissmau could get out of the way one log rolled on him, breaking a leg and otherwise injuring him. —Patrick O’Neal, of Indianapolis, who for years has been unkind to his family, especially when drinking, was taken * from his bed by White Caps, and whipped severely with switches. —The Baptist Church, of Valparaiso, has a novel plan of informing the members of the financial condition of the society. Each Sunday figures on a blackboard show the week’s collections and expenses. —A number of students at De Pauw TTniveisity, Greencastle, have received notices of expulsion on the grounds of insubordination and intemperance. There are now 800 students in the institution, and as a rule their deportment is exceptionally good.

—C. D. Caughlin was caught between the bumpers of two cars at Corydon, and received injuries that may prove fatal. —John White. of Nashville, Brown County, stored his wheat up-stairs in his house. The floor gave way, and the wheat, in pouring down, overturned a pot of hot water, scalding the little girl baby to death. ' —Greencastle is agitated over the relocation of the postoffice. A special agent of the department is now in that city trying to select a suitable one, but he is confronted with rival petitions favoring different locations, making the selection not an easy task. —Postmaster Wadsworth, of La Porte, received a letter from Germany inquiring for one George Zinn, and stating that he had fallen heir to a fortune of half a million of dollars. Zinn was an inmate of the poor-house until recently, but escaped, and his whereabouts is at present unknown. —The country school-houses in Fayette County are suffering from the depredations of tramps, who make them a roosting-place at night. If the supply of wood runs short, instead of carrying in more the lazy fellow’s pile the stoves with school-books, and in some cases use the desks for fuel. —At Montgomery, Daviess County, a man started to skin a live dog, but was detected w’hen he had the job half completed. For a time there were strong threats of lynching the fellow, who said he wanted to get the hide while the dog was alive, as it made the best shoestrings in that condition. •—The following are the new officers of the Battle-ground Camp-meeting Association: President, Rev. William Graham; Vice President, John Dougherty; Secretary, Rev. W. F. Pettit; Treasurer, C. G. Miller; Managers, John Dougherty, James P. Clute, John L. Smith, L, S. Buckles, and W. V. Story. —’Squire Davis, aged 70, living near Lyons Station, Fayette County, committed suicide by hanging. A few weeks ago his wife recovered a judgment for a divorce and SSOO alimony, and he had also recently been in expensive litigation as guardian of one of his sons, and these domestic and financial troubles led to his.self-murder.

—YVilliam Goben, of Lexington, caught a neighbor’s dog, saturated it with terpentine, set it on fire and let it run. The tortured brute ran under several wooden houses and sheds, aud threatened to set the town on fire, but was finally killed. There was talk of lynching the man, but he was finally let off with a heavy fine by t}je town justice. —The town board of Ladoga have passed an ordinance that every dog found in that place without a muzzle shall be killed at once. It is made the duty of the marshal to see that this law is carried into effect, and he is to be paid for every dog killed. This is on account of the mad dogs that have been creating such havoc, in Montgomery County. —News has been circulated in Muucie to the effect that the Lake Erie aud Western Railway Company are contemplating removing their shops from Lima, Ohio, to that city. The rumor has created quite a great deal of excitement in business and railroad circles, and the purchase of 400 acres of land immediately west of the city has given the color of truth to the report.

—A special from Rockport says that hydrophobia is prevalent among the dogs in the Oak Grove neighborhood, and that they have bitten and killed many sheep and fowl. Some of these were eaten by the people before they were aware that the dogs were afflicted with the rabies, and now, that the fact is known, the residents are very much alarmed as to the outcome. —A sad death occurred at Mt. Vernon, recently. Miss Gertrude Burtris, the 16-year-old daughter of William F. Burtis, died of rupture received from a kick in the side while asleep, by her little brother, with whom she was sleeping. Mr. Burtis is a prominent hardware merchant of Mt. Vernon, and the death of his daughter, who was very popular with the young people, is deeply lamented. —Miltom M. Thompsou, Recorder of Allen County and Frank Alderman, members of the old Eighty-eighth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, are making a visit to some of the battlefields in Tennessee and Georgia, in which the regiment bore an honorable part. In the battle of Bentonville, N. C., the last considerable engagement iu which Sherman’s army was engaged Thompson lost a leg. —A wonderful series of revival meetings has just been concluded at White’s Indian Manual Labor Institute, located a few miles south of XVabash, where about sixty-five Indian boys and girls from the various tribes of the West are being educated by the Friends’ denomination, assisted by the Government. As a result of the revival it was announced that every one of the savages has been converted. —On a change of venue from Sullivan County, the suit of James Bradbury has been filed in the Knox court. Hebrings suit against the E. & T. H. for $25,000 damages. He claims that he was put off a train that was moving at a rate of twelve miles an hour, and that the injuries received resulted in double scrotal hernia. At the time he was put off the train, he was going in charge of a car load of hogs for J. W. Cunningham.

HIGH VS. LOW TAXATION

THE CONDITION OF THE FARMERS OF THE UNTIED STATES. How They Are Borne Down with the Oppression of Taxation—Some Instructive Statistics—Speech or Hon. John T. Morgan in the National Senate. I do not believe in this doctrine of taxing a man lo make him tich. My opinion of the American character and the American people is that if you will allow them the free and untrammeled enjoyment of the resources of their own gtnius and the fruits of their owu labor they will rise into riches and power and prosperity; and if any are left behind it will be only those who will deserve it. I believe, Mr. President—and I take occasion here to announce it—in a government that is not rich. I believe in a people who are rich. I believe in keeping the Government of the United States down to its necessary expenditures, aud I think that those expenditures ought to be considered with great care in reference to economy. Ido not believe that it is right to tax any man to enrich another. I believe that the only legitimate use of the taxing power is to support the Government, economically administered, and not to baild up n favored class in this country. or favored classes, at the expense of the toiling millions. Those am the views that guide me in respect to general legislation upon the tariff subject. I believe that there are no classes in the United States to-day who are so borne down with the oppressions of taxation as the agricultural classes, whether cotton-growers, wheat-growers, or the growers of any other kind of American production. There are 17,000,000 people engaged in this pursuit against about 5,000,000 engaged in manufactures; and yet we find that priucely fortunes are mada by men who control manufactures. They grow rich in a year. Mon spring up into enormous fortunes nggreg ding $20,and $30,000,000 who, perhaps, when they first sot foot upon tbi•* soil, only had a small handkerchief full of clothes and a staff to bear them about upon their shoulders. I do not object to this when it is fvrly done; but wheu I como to count up the number of men that it has taken at a .loilar a day to work out these profits in favor of these favore.l pets of yourtaiiff system, I find that a fortune of $30,000,000 thus accumulated has cost 30,000,000 men a hard day’s work. I believe in that sort of legisla'ion which understands and respects the labor that it costs the j oor man to earn a dollar. The men who understand that, the people who understand and feel it, will not be lavish in expenditures aud not attempt to persuade the poor man that they are conferring untold blessings upon him when they are taxing him for the puipose of furnishing him a market, as it is called, or for the purpose of making somebody else rich. Neither will he believe it when he comes to pay for the poods that his family uses, the sugar that they consume, the iron that they must use iir their agriculture, the steel implements and all else, even to the school books with which he educa'es his children. It is hard to make him believe that if a book cods 75 cents, which, without the tariff, would only cost 50 cents, that that extra quarter of a dollar is paid by somebody that prints it across the water. There is too much nice philosophy in that to bear the test of' common sense. These people, whatever they may have done in the past, are now on the march with a bold and defiant front, and they will continue it untd they have compelled the Senate and the House of Representatives and the President of the United States to come down to a just basis of taxation and relieve them from some of the burdens that are loaded upon them so enormously. I wish in this connection to call attention to a fact, and that is the amount of mortgages that, as is stated, are upon the lands of the people of the Northwest. Before doing that, however, I desire to say that the capitalists in the Northern States, while the carpet-baggers were in force in the South aud had the authority over us, were afraid to invest Iheir money upon mortgages in our Southern lands. The result is that there are rot many mortgages held in the Northern States upon Southern lands. Nevertheless, they are being mortgaged rapidly and at a terribly usurious rate of interest. Where does the money come from? Who are the mortgagees? The British people. The British capitalists are swarming the South with their money. You cannot go to a considerable village in the Southern States to-day but you will find the authorized ag nts of British capital there loaning money to the people at from 12 to 25 per cent, per annum and taking mortgages for it. Why are the agriculturists who produce three hundred and odd millions of dollars a year, and throw it into the exchanges of this country, so crippled and borne down that they are compelled to resort to the game plan that your agriculturists in the North wore, to load their estates with gaortaages at usurious rates of interest? The Northeastern people, from New York and the East mainly, own the mortgages on the Northwest, but the British people own the mortgages upon us, and it is getting to be an evil of such dimens ons that the thoughtful men of the South are beginning to inquire whether, after awhile, the Briiish people are not going to dispossess them of their homes, and introduce immigrants from their own country to take possession of these lands. You find some objections stated occasionally to British immigration into the Southern States, and this is what it means. The people of the South are afraid that the lands »re going to be taken from under their feet in virtue of these mortgages by foreclosures, and that the occupants of the land hereafter will be the tenantry of the British landlords. There may come a time even in the South when landlordism will dominate the Southern Sta es and come from England, as landlordism now dominates Ireland and comes from England. What has been the effect upon your agriculture? It is stated in a speech made in the House of Representatives by Hon. Richard P. Bland, of Missouri, that in Ohio the mortgages amount to $701,000.in Indiana to $398,000,000, in Illinois *o $920,000,000, in Wisconsin to $250,000,000, in Michigan to $350,000,000, in Minnesota to $175,000,000, in lowa to $351,000,000, in Kansas to $200,000,000, and in Missouri to $237,000,000. That statement was denied in the House by Mr. Browne, from the State of Indiana, and the follow-

ing is the remark of Mr. Bland, upon this objection being interposed: Admit ing the lowest estimate to be the most correct, it is simply appalliDg. J his is the estimate of Mr. Browne, of Indiana: Ohio $350,000,000, Indiana $175,000,000, Illinois $200,000,000, Wisconsin $100,600,000, Michigan $125,000,000, Minnesota $70,000,000, lowa $100,000,000, Nebraska $50,000,009, Kansas $50,000,003, Missouri sloo,ooo,ooo—in a11,51,295,000,103 of mortgage money upon their lands. Mr. Bland’s statement was $3,422,000,030. Take it either way; put the figures down just as low as you can get them, and yet the startling fact comes to the attention of the people of the United States that the agricultural industry of this country, for some cause or other, has been compelled to go deeply iu debt to mortgage the very firesides of the farmers in order to get money to conduct their operations. What have those farmers been doing? Speculating in tariff profits? No. Where is the bounty that you have conferred upon them in any particular? Not one stiver out of all the thousands of millions of bounty that have been extracted by the' tariff from one class of people and paid to another. You have been putting these people under the leech system of extracting their blood continually and precipitating them into the hands of these men, who, after the capital has been accumulated, are able to lend the money upon these mortgages to the people out of whom it has been taxed. That exhibit shows in the Northwest precisely what is taking place in the South now. Those men who are enabled to accumulate enormous masses of capital from the tariff system and through the financial system of the United States and of England, through commerce, as it is culled, have the power to lend money to these men at enormous rates of interest, which they are compelled to mortgage their estates to pay; and I dare say that these mortgages are not being cleared up. A friend called my attention to a humorous lemark mudo by the editor of a Chicago paper the other day, iu which thoro were a large number of foreclosures advertised. . The remark was: “these homes will all be bought in-the home market.” Y’es, they will be lought iu tho “home market.” The farmer’s home at last finds a home 1 market, and his family tho wilderness.

This exhii>it shows that the agricultural industries of the United States are under foot and are being trampled out by the money power. The only chance wo have to give them relief, ns I have frequently remarked since I have had the honor of taking the floor, is to lift the burdens. If some Senator will devise a scheme by which the agriculturist is to receive out of taxation his part of the protection that is prated about on that side of tho chamber, then I shall be prepared for a new experience in life. As I sea it, there is not a man on this earth who can devise a principle of taiiff taxation or put an amendment in this bill which will relievo the agriculturists of ibis country to tho extent of one cent otherwise than by lifting burdens off of them. Therefore, Mr. President, I am in favor of low taxation instead of high. We have an abundant and overflowing Treasury. We have there a fund which Btands iu that Treasury as a temptation to constant corruption, as an inducement to constant raids, and the sooner we make up our minds to allow the people who earn this money to keep it in their own pockets the sooner we will do justice to ourselvos and our constituency.

How the Republicans Control New York.

Some Republican Senator of an inquiring turn of mind—Bill Chandler, for in-stance-ought to direct the attention of the Senate and the country to the fact that Republican control of the United States Senate is due to the suppression of the Democratic votes iu the State of New York. This is not done avowedly, the form of a free vote being kept up, but it is done as effectively as it would be if there were a law on the statute book of New York, put there by Republican legislators, declaring that in legislative olectious oue Republican vote should count ns much as two Democratic votes. Republican Legislature lifter Republic m Legislatuie has persi-tently refused to order an enumeration of the inhabitants of the State of New York, though required by the Constitution so to do, and Democratic counties are deprived of their proportional strength in the Senate and tho Assembly. At the late election there were four Assembly districts in New York and Kings Counties which cast an aggregate of about 88,000 votes. Seven interior counties, with a smaller aggregate vote, elected thirteen Assemblymen, so that the voting power iu the latter c ise was three-fold what it was in the former. This is the Republican method of controlling the New York Legislutu.e.—Detroit Free Press.

The Workingman and the G. 0. P.

Mr. Butterworth detests tho woikingman who wants to secure $1.25 a day from Mr. Carnegie ia place of the miserable $1 which he is told is enough tor any workingman to live on; but he has no hesitation in tinkering the present oppressive tariff so that it will swell Mr. Carnegie’s profits from $1,500,000 a year to four times that amount. That is the true feeling of the party which Mr. Butterworth leads, toward the workingman and his employer. His candor is not without merit. He and men like him have convinced the wageearners of the cities that they can hope for no redress from the Republican party. Now they are helping matters along famously by carrying conviction even to the benighted rural classes who have heretofore blindly followed the Republican lead under the impression that the civil war is still going on. —Brooklyn 'Htizen. The American I Vool Reporter, a protectionist journal, is of opinion that the Senate tariff bill is a dishonest measure, and was known to be such by its framers. This is not its exact language, but it is the equivalent of its words. The wool schedule, it thinks, was finally arranged as it was as a matter of “parliamentary strategy,” so that if the bill went to conference the Republican Senators could apparently yield something while retaining all they really wanted.

Good Shortening.

Mrs. Brown (to servant girl)—Bridget, I wish you would try and make the biscuits short. Bridget—Faith an’ Oi will, mem. Oi’ll put my wages in ’em. They'll bo divilish abort then, mem. Areola Record.

ORIGIN OF A SAYING.

[From the Chicago Ledger.]

through the kindness of a Texas correspondent, we are enabled to supply the coveted information. Mr. Ernest YVyatt, of Dallas, in that State, sends us the annexed oxcerpt from an old scrap-book, which embraces a circumstantial narrative of the historic episodo:

A great ninny years ago the Governor of North Carolina received a friendly visit from tho Governor of South Carolina. After a real North Carolina dinner of bacon and yums. tho two Governors lit pipes and sat in tho shade of tho back veranda with a demijohn of real North Carolina oornwhisky. copper-distilled, within easv roach. “Thore is nothing stuck up about those Governors." says a North Carolina State historian, in tho hornoly but vigorous language of his soetion. “There they sot and smoked, and sot and smoked, every once and awhile taking a mutual pull at tho demijohn with tho aid of tho gourd, which they used as a democratic goblet. The conversation between tho two Governors was on tho subject of turpontino and rice, the staplos of thoir respective States, and the furthor they got into tho subject the lower down they got into tho jug. and

THEY SAT AND SMOKED AND ARCHIED.

tho lower they got into tho jug the dryer tno (lovornor of South Carolina got. who was a square drinker and a warm man, with about a million pores to every square inch ot Jiis hide, which enabled him to Mate In a likely share of corn-juioe or other beverage, and keep his carcass at tho same time well ventilated, nnd generally always ready for more, while the Governor of North Carolina was a more cautious drinker, but was mighty sure to strike bottom at about tho twelfth drink, like as if nature had measured him by the gourdful. "Well, they sot and smoked nnd argued, and the Governor of North Carolina was us hospitable as uny real Southern gentleman could tio, for ho ladled out tho whisky tn the most liberal manner, being particular to give his distinguished guest threo drinks to his one, and gauging nis own drinks with great care, for fear that if he didn’t he might lose the thread of his argument nnd the demijohn might run dry before tho Governor of South Carolina should bo ready to dust out for home, in which cuso it would look like ho hail not -observed the laws of hospitality, which would have been a selfinflicted thorn in his side for years to come, and no amount of apology could ease his mind or enable him to feel warranted in showing his countenance to his follow-men, especially in his homo district, where for generations it had been a main point with every gentleman to keep his visitor well supplied with creature comfort*, and to hand him a good gourdtui as a stirrupcup when about to make his departure for the bosom of his family. Singular to relate, the cautiousness manifested by the Governor of North Carolina was of no avail, for at one and tho same time the jug went dry, and the Governor of North Carolina, much to his subsequent mortification, when ho learned the fact aftorward, dropped

"GOVERNOR, DON’T YOU THINK IT’S A LONG TIMH BETWEEN DRINKS?"

off into a quiot sleep, while tho Governor of South Carolina continued to keep on with his argument, holding the empty gourd in his hand in close contiguousness to the demijohn, und wondering at the*apparent absent-mindedness of his hitherto attentive host, to whom, after a minute and a half oi painful silence, he made use of but one remark: ‘Governor, don’t you think it’s a long time between drinks?’ Tho remark was overheard by George, body servant of tho Governor of North Carolina, who, knowing that there was something wrong, took to the woods, whore he remained in seclusion for throe days; hut tho Govornor ol f-outh Carolina, receiving no reply front the Governor of North Carolina, mounted his horse and rode sadly homeward, with an irrepressible feeling at his heart that there was coming to be a hollowness in friendship. and that human nature was in danger of drifting into a condition of chaotia mockery." I

ORE than one subscriber to Thb . Ledger has writ'ten us within the last few months for information L as to the circumstance or occasion which elicited from the Governor ot Sotitli Carolina the famous ■ remark, addressed to the Governor of North -Carolina: “It’s a long time between drinks.” -Hitherto we have been unable to satisfy their curiosity; but now,