Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — Page 1

The Democratic Sentinel

VOLUME XIII

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RENSSELAER JASPER COUNTY. INDIANA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 23. 1889

SHIELDS REPLIES.

In a late issue of the Republican John W. Powell takes exceptions te certain statements made in a communication over my name from the Indianapolis Sentinel of July 23d. He says that am a liar and a coward —a liar inasmuch as I knew the statemeuts to be false, and a coward because I waited until he was eight hundred miles away before publishing the the same, it certainly is not a verj great test of bravery on +he part of Mr. Powell to call a man a liar and a coward when he against whom those pithets are directed is eight hundred miles distant. He says he is perfectly willing to let the public be the

judge as to the charges made by me, and also to let the public printer be the judge as to his competency to fill the position to which Le has been ppointed. We believe Mr. Powell left his case with the public in 1884, and after six months of piteous pleading by himself and friends judgment was handed down which was not altogether to his liking notwithstanding his political friends cast a plurality of nearly four hundred votes. Repudiation No. 1 did not deter him from making another effort in 1 86, and that part of the public which are his political friends, through their representatives, ad ministered repudiation No. 2 when Dr. Washburn was nominated for Treasurer. Last spring he again bobbed up serenely and pressed his claim for the Roussel* aer Post Office, and although in a convention of “those who knew him longest and best”, he was repudiated for the third time. As fas as the question of his compe tency to fill the position to wliich he has been appointed is concerned it don’t require a very great am’t of ability, except as a vote manipulator or ward worker, under the present odministrntion, if the Indiana appoint™ ej its may be the criterion used, in judging the appointments at large. Taken as a whole, their corrupting influence is enough to poison the moral atmosphere from Boston to Chicago, and even Mr. Powell should be ashamed of such company. Mr. Powell does not deny having beat an old gray-haired man at Wheatfield, during last campaign, but says he did not beat him without provocation, as stated in my communication to the Indianapolis Sentinel. Ihere is an axiom as old as the pyramids, viz: “Strike not the aged or a woman,” which seems to have been violated in this particular case, for the old man who received Mr. Powell’s blows was James B. Graham, an old soldier of both the Mexican and Civil Wars. It does not reflect credit on Mr. Powell, or any man of his physical strength, to strike an old man under any provocation whatever, and in this case it has been denounced by persons who witnessed it, regardless of party

,• o J affiliation, as simply an outrage. — We will give ths facts a* stated by 'reputable citizens who witnessed the affair. Mr. Powell and another man was arguing some question pertaining to politics whereupon the old man ventured some remark which greatly innensed Mr. Powell, who answered him in language more forcible than courted ous, and told him that he could whip him. Mr. Graham stepped down from the platform, and per 4 haps made some hostile demonstration, whereupon Mr Powell landed a stinging blow on the old man’s face, and followed it with several others. The fact that Mr. Graham was fined, and Mr. Powell was not, is no justification of Mr. Powell, for it is veil known that in some parts of Jasper county justice is meted out with rigor or leniency according to the political affiliations of the culprit, and in this particular case it would have been striking a blow at the grand old party to have compelled Mr. Powell to contribute to the school fund of Indiana, as bis mission to that place was of a political nature,

and Mr. Graham’s friends, believing that justice would not be done, refrained from filing charges against him. And the fact that the bondsmen of & certain J. P. were successful in an action in the Circuit Court for re’ease from bis bond, detracts nothing from the wise conclusions of Graham and his friends to seek for redress in that quarter. Mr. Powell denies having said that he co Jd whip any Democrat in the county. Persons whose reputation for truth and veracity we have never heard questioned, state that Mr Powell made such a statement immediately following his difficulty with Mr. Graham. Hoping that the public will investigate and pass judgment upon the facts in this case, 1 am Very Truly, David W. Shields.

Just purchased 700 pairs slippers and children’s fine shoes at 50 per cent, discount ana 1300 pairs of boots and shoes at 33| per cent, discount. These discounts were taken <.ff the regular wholesale prices, and means some rare bargains in the best brands ever offered in Jasper county. Chicago Bargain Store. < . -+ We publish below the ordinance relating to the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise, by transient merchants within the corporate imits of the Town of Rensselaer, said to have been adopted at a late meeting of the Board of Trustees:

ORDINANCE.

An Ordinance regulating the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise by transient merchants within the corporate limits of the Town of Bensseloer, Indiana, and declaring an emergency: Section I. Be it ordained by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, at a regular meeting held in the Town Hall in said Town, August 12th, 1889: That it shall be unlawful for any non-resident, transient merchant to sell, or offer to sell any goods, wares or merchandise of any kind whatsoever, within the corporate limits of said Town of Rensselaer, without first procuring of the Town Clerk a license to sell or offer to sell said YOods, wares, or merchandise as bes re said, a»d shall at the same time pay to the Treasurer of said Town the sum of $2 for license to sell one day; $lO to sell one week; $25 to sell one month; SIOO to sell six months. Any person violating any of lhe provisions of this section shall upon conviction be fined in any sum not exceeding $lO for each offense. Section 11. A transient merchant is a person, or firm of persons who come into the town with a cheap lot of goods, or has said goods shipped into the town before or after his arrival in said Town, and sells the same, or offers to sell the same without paying any taxes, license, or other fees *or said privilege, and then in a few days, weeks or months leaves +he town and goes to another.— One who has no fixed, or permanext abiding place. Section 111, An emergency exists for the immediate taking effect of this ordinance, therefore the same shall be in force from and after its passage.

When tbe Republican party fastened upon the eountoy the high protective tariff which is productive of the stnks, lock-outs and distress now so prevalent over the land, the results of which is proving so disastrous as to alarm the leaders of that party to tuch an extent as to raise the probabil ity that Congress wdl be called in extra session to revise that policy? it was opposed by all true Democrats and the effect as now witnessed accurate ly predicted. Tariff reform! is now, and has been for many years the battle-

cry of the Democratic party. — The above tariff bill—or ordinance, if you please- meets with its un » reserves condemnation, and -o far as we can learn has but few defenders in the republican ranks in this locality. If it were designed only for the purpose of raising revenue for the corporation the inten would not be so bad, even though that power is vested in no body except Congress, but when it assumes the proportions of a “protective” instrument it assumes a force which Democratic platforms have time and again deried to be within the power of even Congress to give.— It is class legislation insofar as it assumes to tax a “person, or firm of persons who eotae into the town with a cheap lot of goods, * * and sells the same, or offers to sell the same,’’etc., * * “and then in a few days, weeks or months eaves the town and goes to another.” It do?s not say “inferior” goods, but “cheap”, and is designed te increase the prices to those charged by competitors already in business —thus taxing the many consumers for the benefit of a :ew. Again, the definition of a “transient merchant”, as defined >y the ‘ordinance’, s» ction 2, will not apply to a “person, or firm of persons who come to the town with a lot” of goods marked up to or over the prices charged by “permanent” merchants. It is a tariff —a tax on the consumer, and is calculated to impress more directly upon the minds of our people the abominable character of the laws of similar import enacted by Congress.

Slippers 10 cents per pair, up; children’s shoes 25 cents per pair, up; women’s kid shoes, silk-work?d button holes, 75 cents per pair up; men’s congress she es $1 per pa.r, up; boots $1.50 per pair up. Chicago Bargain Store. Down in Posey county and other parts of the state, the farmers have foi med an ssociation for the purpose of securing their groceries and goods’at reduced prices. They arrange with a certain dealer to furnish what they want at a very sm >ll profit and reserve the right to inspect his books and invoice sheets to make certain that he jis carrying out his part of the agreement. This arrangement, while beneficial to the farmeis generally, works disaster on other dealers than the one who enters the combmation. There is much complaint about it and some anxiety is manifested, lest such associations become general. We presume that farmers have as much right t y organize for self-protec-tion as any other class of people and since we have the twine trust, the sugar trust the merchant’s trust, the butcher’s trust, the miller’s association and a hundred other similar combinations it seems to be high time that the farmers were beginning to look out for themselves. The whole system of - trusts, however, is

wrong and is the outgrowth of our pernicious policy of high tariff or protection for the few. Under the stimulus of a highly protective tariff our manufacturing and other interests have grown so enormously that the market for manufacture ed products have become overstocked and as a consequence these combinations are formed in order to limit the production and maintain prices. Other industry s, catching the spirit of the times, also organize for the protection and advancement of their particular business until to-day the vast conmereial intercourse of this country is carried on by means of hese combined influences. Hereofore the farmer has stood alone,

the isolated victim, the prev to the combined onslaught of every other business. He has been fleeced when selling and gouged when buying. Is it any wonder that growing restless under such a systematic assault he should become tir. d and cast about for spme means of self-protection? Unless our business system soon changes we shall expect to see the farmers controlling the market for their products, fixing their own prices on what [they stipulating what they will pay for what they buy, just as other industries have been doing for years. —Exchange. Tha high protective duties imposed through the instrumentality of republican legislation, in its creation of trusts, increasing the cost of living, reducing the wages of labor and farm products, is fast bringing about a state of things that wilt recoil with disastrous effect upon the authors and upholde s of the system, unless a backward step is taken. The burdens imposed by the government upon the masses, in the interest of the few, are already too great. Town corporations should be exceedingly careful ’ not to impose additional tax in order to keep up prices, else they may precipitate the policy alluded to in the above as having been organized in Posey county. “It is said, “A word to to the wise as sufficient.” Women’s hand-turned shoes; men’s kangaroo, dongola and calf shoes, all standard brands, a specialty at the Chicago Bargain Store.

■nuBTI M Manufactured by /■ —!«»»-♦ The Chicago Bargain Store p~o)le have decided to remain here permanently, so look out for a fine stock of Clothing and a complete ine of Dry Goods, Boots .and Shoes about September 15th. ». ‘ Cause and effect are not well balanced. A man with a good cause often make little or no effect. The action of the Tvwn Board in rising the saloon license to $l5O is correct. We give the finest prizes that ias ever been given, with Baking Powder, at Priest & Paxton’s. My son, deal vith men who advertise. You will never lose by it. Benjamin Franklin.

Home. Sweet Home! Lots in Leopold’s A ddition ar • selling very fast now. Leonok > terms are such that any per >n wishing to procure a home or. asy payments should call at Mr. Leopold and ascertain what they are. New backgrounds, new camera, new balustrade, new burnisher and new ideas! Now is the time to those photos token you were .bout. espectfully, J. A. Sharp —■ ■■——. A good suit of clothes may now be had at R. Fendig’s for $4, never before sold for less thans6 50. Autograph albums, etc., lower thanevei, at the fost office.

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