Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — Page 1

VOLUME XVI

BRIEF AND PITHY.

The manager of the Theatre Libre says that he will nave no more Ibsen. He has discovered another dramatic genius in Spain. Ohio has 897,909 school children. 01 th ese 798,093 are in the public schools. 39,264 In private schools and 60,552 in parochial schools. Brahms has been very industrious this summer. He has written several new songs, a clarionet trio and another set of gypsy songs for a quartet of vocalists, with a piano accompaniment. Mb. and Mbs. Stephen Osbobne, of Knoxville, Tenn., are soon to celebrate the seventy-second anniversary of their marriage. They are respectively 101 and 92 years of age, and have 290 descendants. A. gang of strikers in Queensland insisted on a hotelkeeper discharging hie Chinese cook, who was excellent. When he was turned out the local police engaged him. The leading striker wae soon arrested for sedition, and the first thing he was set to work at in the prison was chopping wood for the Chinese cook. The oddest oat in Connecticut belongs to A. C. Wood, a barber of Hartford, Conn. It is a pretty little brown and white fellow, three months old and very playful, although it has no forelegs and no tail. It was born without those things. The queer kitten gets over the ground by jumping like a kangaroo, and it travels rapidly.

QUERIES.

What greater loss than that of a true friend? Is not equanimity the best of supports under difficulties? How many hours of vexation will pay even a small debt? Abe not short outs in b'usiness often hazardous to honesty? Do not situations of hazard best prove the sincerity of friends? Is thebe not such a thing as being too prudent ever to fall in love? , Is precipitance in action any more dangerous than excessive caution? Would not some people have a “great footing in the world” if the size of their footgear determined their rank and success in life? How many people who boast of the high standing of their ancestry are as careful as they might be always to sustain the character of their house and hand it down unimpaired to their descendants?—Boston Home Journal.

NEWS ABOUT YOURSELF.

The average number of teeth is thir-ty-two. The average weight of a skeleton is about fourteen pounds. The brain of a man is twice as large as that of any other animal. A man breathes about twenty times in a minute, or 1,200 times an hour. The average of the pulse in infancy is 120 beats per minute; in manhood, 80; at 60 years, 60. A man breathes about eighteen pints of air in a minute, or upwards of seven hogsheads in a day. The average weight of an Englishman is 150 pounds; of a Frenchman, 136 pounds; of a German, 146 pounds. A man gives off 4.08 per cent, carbonic acid gas of the air he respires; respires 19,666 cubic feet of carbonic acid gas in twenty-four hours, equal to 125 inches of common air.—London Answers.

EDUCATIONAL NOTES.

In Spain 80 per cent of the population is illiterate; in Austria it is 84 per cent.; Hungary, 91; Mexico, 93; and in Italy the percentage is 73. Thebe are officially estimated to be in the United States 12,522,721 school children, an increase of 26.54 per cent, in the last Jen years, or a gain of about 2 per cent, more than the increase of population. The bequest of $200,000 from the late Daniel B. Fayerweather to the Cooper Union Art School for Women has enabled that institution to double the number of i upils it can receive, making an increase from 350 to 700. The top floors of the institute are being enlarged to accommodate new students. The library of the institute is less fortunate, and the trustees have made an appeal to the public for assistance.

IMPROVED PROVERBS.

A bun in time saves the nine. A Bolling stone never “gets there.” If at first you don’t succeed, lie. lie again.—Life. man’s house is his servant girl’s castle. The race is not always to the horse you put your money on. When a belated husband comes in by the window a flatiron is apt to fly out at the door. A bibd and a bottle in the hand is worth two boarding house dinners anywhere else. He laughs best who does not laugh at a woman when she thinks there is a mouse in the room.

OUR ODD CORNER.

It makes a cheap swell proud to be called a dude. Makes more money than he can spend—the man who coins eagles in the Mint You’d have to squeeze a man’s throat pretty hard to make cider out of his Adam’s apple. A mam who lives in a flat has discovered that “janitor” and “emperor" both end in “or" because both are the tides-of “ortocrate.” Another New Thing for the Army. Experiments with cyclists and car-rier-pigeons for transmitting messages are being made by the gymnastic society of Borne in the interest of the Italian army. The rider carries a small cage attached to his machine, in which are several well-trained pigeons. When Important observations have been taken and jotted down they are placed in envelopes and affixed to the birds, which are liberated. In every instance thus tar the birds have flown promptly and in a straight line back to headquarters over distances of from ten to twenty miles. It is thoughtrthat thia combination of bicycle and pigeon service can be very profitably used in military oblervations, and the Italian army office imposes to continue the experiments.

The Democratic Sentinel.

THE CORDAGE TRUST.

HOW THE MONOPOLY IS PROTECTED BY A HIGH TARIFF.

Democratic Effort to Break up the Trust Blocked in the Republican Senate. History of the Combine Showing How Millions of Dollars Are Annually Extorted From the Farmers. The bill to repeal the tax on binding twine was one among the first to pass the Democratic house. It was passed under the suspension of the rules in order to allow the senate sufficient time to act upon it so that the farmers might obtain the benefit of untaxed twine for this year’s harvest. But the harvest is nearly over and the free binding twine bill has not even been considered by the finance committee of the Republican senate. The reason for this inaction is easily understood. There is a cordage trust which controls the product of binding twine, cables, rope, twine, cordage, etc. This trust also controls the Republican senate from the fact that it contributes large sums of money to the Republican campaign fund. The tariff on binding twine is seven cents per pound; other twines two and, •ne-half cents per pound; hemp cables and cordage two and one-half cents per pound; other cables and cordage one and one-half cents. The seven cents tariff shuts out foreign Competition. The American manufacturers having the field to themselves can easily form a combination to control the product, output and prices. History of the Cordage Trust. Previous to October, 1887, the cordage manufacturers were in a combination or pool, the object of which was to fix prices. But like other loose arrangements of this kind the members were not slow to break the agreements made when they found it to their advantage to do so.

When the trust secured its charter in October, 1890, it had contracts for the fee of the following companies, in addition to the four original companies; George C. Pooley & Sons, Buffalo) Xenia Twine and Cordage company, Xenia, O.; J. Kenek’s Sons, Easton, Pa., and the Akron Twine and Cordage company, Akron, O. In addition to these it controlled by contract the following: Victoria Cordage company, Dayton, Ky.j H. R. Lewis & Company, Baumgardner, Woodward & Company, Philadelphia) the New York Cordage company, the Atlas Cordage eo&pany, New Orleans, and Randall, Goodale & Company, Boston. The capital of the trust consisted of $10,000,000 of common and $5,000,000 of preferred stock. Only the preferred stock was put upon the market, the common stock being held by the stockholders in the trust. Having thus successfully accomplished its reorganization, the trust proceeded to take steps to acquire other properties, and in order to provide funds for the purchase of these companies it organized the security’ corporation of New Jersey, to which it turned over its options. It was agreed that this corporation should acquire a majority control of as many independent plants as possible and then lease them to the trust. So far the plan has worked as successfully’ as could be expected and the trust has now secured control, by purchase or lease, of the following companies in addition to those already mentioned: The Sewall & Day Cordage company, Boston) the Day Cordage company, Cambridge; Standard Cordage company, Boston; the Boston Cordage company, William Deering & Company, Chicago; Field Cordage Company, Xenia, O.; Miamisburg Binder Twine and Cordage company, and the Middleton Twine and Cordage company, Ohio; the Galveston Rope and Twine company, of Texas; Suffolk Cordage company, Boston; the Peru Mills, Indiana; Hanover Cordage company, Pennsylvania; Donnel Cordage company, Bath, Me.; the New Bedford Cordage company, Indiana, and the American Bagging company, New York. The trust has also secured control by purchase of contract of the plants of the following manufacturers of. machinery: W. C. Boone, Jr., Brooklyn; J. C. Tood, Paterson, and John Good, Brooklyn. In addition to the forty-five concerns mentioned above the trust claims the control of four others, making a total of forty-nine properties. Outside of the trust are the following concerns: The Pearson Cordage company, and the Higham Cordage company, Massachusetts; Fitter & Company, Pennsylvania; Travers Brothers, New York, and the following new establishments: The Miamisburg Cordage company, Ohio, and the Sudlow Manufacturing company, Massachusetts. Outside of the trust are the trust are file following manufacturers of cordage machinery: The Hoover & Gamble company, of Ohio, and the Watson Machine company, of Paterson. Though the trust has succeeded by herculean efforts in gaining control of over 90 per cent, of the manufacturing capacity of the country, it has done so only at great Cost. At the time of its organization in 188? the trust announced as the object sought V its formation an increase in the profits to be derived from a lower cost •f materials by the removal of competition in the market and from the economies to be derived from a decrease in the cost of production. It was asserted time and again that no attempt would

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be made to raise the prices of its finishet products. Has the trust up to the present carried out this promise, or if not is there any likelihood that it will do so in the future? In the following tables are shown the average monthly prices since 1885 of the raw material and finished product. The articles, the prices of which are given, are manilia hemp, and manilia cordage seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter and larger: MANILLA HEMP PEP. POUND. Months. 1886 1887, 1888, 1889. 1890. 1891. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. January . 7.72 8.11 9.04 12.12 11.75 9.81 February. 7.25 8.06 9.12 11.62 11.12 8.66 March.... 6.72 7.89 9.00 11.56 9.62 8.50 April .... 6.98 7.75 9.00 11.87 9.00 8.31 May 7.92 7.67 9.00 12.87 9.20 .8.19 June 7.87 7.44 .9.00 13.00 9.25 7.75 Ju1y...... 7.56 7.62 9.00 12.87 9.25 ■ 7.62 August .. 8.24 9.32 9.00 13.87 9.25 7.45 Septem .. 7.98 9.87 9.00 13.87 9.25 7.32 October.. 7.89 10.34 9.00 14.37 9.08 7.09 November 7.95 9.40 9.25 14.12 10.59 6.87 December 8.15 9.01 9,12 13.87 9.84 6.62 MANILLA CORDAGE PER POUND. Months. 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 189 L Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cta January . 11.75 12.00 10.50 14.25 14.50 11.50 February. 11.25 12.00 10.50 15.25 15.00 10.87 March.... 11.75 12.00 10.50 15.75 15.00 10.75 April 11.75 12.00 10.75 15.75 15.00 10.62 May 11.75 12.00 10.75 15.75 15.00 9.75 June 11.75 11.00 10.75 15.75 15.00 9.25 July 11.75 10.50 10.76 15.12 14.75 9.25 August .. 11.75 11.37 11.87 13.50 14 75 9.12 Septem .. 11.75 11.25 11.50 13.00 14.75 8.87 October .. 11.75 11.75 11.25 13.25 14.75 9.12 November 11.75 11.37 12.00 13.25 13.87 9.87 December 11.75 10.87 13.25 14.25 12.00 10.25 The following are the average yearly prices of materials and finished products (cents per pound): 1886. 1887. 1888. 1889. 1890. 189 L Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cts. Cordage . 11.70 11.51 11.15 14.57 14.53 9.94 Manilla.. 7.68 8.54 9.04 13.00 9.77 7.85 Difference 4.02 2.97 2.11 1.57 4.76 2.04 These figures would be misleading without explanation. The high prices of the raw material prevailing in 1889 were in part due to a shortage in the crop, but chiefly to the manipulation of the market by a combination of the cordage trust and English brokers. In the fall of 1888 this combination began to corner the product with such complete success that during a large part of 1889 they controlled nearly all of the stock. The prices prevailing in 1889 were those at which the trust was will, ing to sell, and not the prices which it paid for the raw material. By this corner of the material the trust was able to keep up the price of cordage to the high average shown for 1889 and 1890, until it had succeeded in working off ths whole stock on hand. The difference between the price of the finished product and of the raw material for 1890, as shown above, was about the actual average difference in 1889 also. This shows that the trust succeeded in making enormous profits entirely at the expense of the consumers. The reduction in the price of cordage in 1891 was made for a purpose. During the whole year the trust was negotiating for the control of the independent estab, lishments, and its success depended upon its ability to force these outsiders to terms. For had the trust kept prices up the outside establishments would either have refused him to join the trust or would have held out for more favorable terms than they would have been willing to accept under other circumstances. By October, 1891, the trust had so far succeeded in securing control of the competing mills that it was able to advance prices again. As a result, the price of cordage has ■ been raised from eight and thfee-fourth cents per pound to the present price of eleven and onefourth cents per pound. And this advance has been made directly in the face of a*declining market for the material. The present price of manilia for shipment is six and three-fourth to seven cents per pound. The difference between this price and that of the finished product is therefore 4.38 cents per pound. The promise made by the trust, that the increased profits which it hoped to secure from organization would not be at the expense of the consumer, has been completely forgotten. Trust Profits.

In spite of the fact that the cordage trust engaged in open war during the whole of last year with the independent manufactories for the purpose of forcing them into the trust, it was able to make very large profits. During the fiscal year ending Oct. 31,1891, the trust made a point of $1,406,313, which enabled it to declare dividends of 8 per cent, on the preferred and 9 per cent, on the common stock, and at the same time left a balance of $106,313. As a result of the higher prices since October the financial director of the trust felt justified in making the following report for the quarter ending Jan. 31, last: “It is very difficult at this time Jo give an accurate estimate of the profits of the business for the quarter ending Jan. 31. I feel safe in stating, however, that after deducting expenses, rentals and all fixed charges, these profits will be found sufficient to pay the entire annual dividend of SIOO,OOO on the preferred stock and a quarterly dividend of $250,000 on the common stock, besides leaving a large surplus,” Should this rate of earnings bo continued throughout the year the trust will be able to pay the dividend of 8 1 er cent, on preferred stock, 12 per cent, on the common stock, and have $1,000,000 besides to be added to the “large surplus” earned during the past quarter, which latter will be increased 80 per cent.

•‘A FIRM AD BNC TO CORRECT PR IN CI • LES.”

“But Goods Are So Cheap.”

This is the argument with wLich our farmeis and work people will be bamboozled for the next five months into voting for a tariff, the effect of which is to enrich at their expense she small class of people who are at the bott om of high tariff legislation. Innumerable smallbore orators and newspapers will repeat this fall the stale old chestnut: “Fifty years ago you hauled a load of wheat one hundred miles over corduroy roads, sold it at fifty cents a bushel, mid bought salt at $3 a barrel. Now you, under a high tariff, go ten miles over macadamized roads, get eighty cents for your wheat and pay fifty cents for salt. Hallelujah, vote again for lhe 60 per cent, tariff.” Now- there is just truth enough in this ancient campaign rot to float the orator’s monstrous inferential falsely. Salt can be bought for fifty cents a barrel, but high tariff has no more to do with it than with the macadamized roads. Why is salt so cheap? Fifty years ago it was supposed that the Creator had given the north but one salt bed; that at .Syracuse, N. Y. A ring of speculators became millionaires by inducing congress to put a high duty on this necessity of life. Did they lower the price? Not much. Another equally valuable salt bed was found in Michigan. The Michigan and Syracuse people combined, but nature was too generous. For salt was found in Kansas and at a dozen other points. Now salt is nothing but boiled water, and its manufacture is as cheap as dirt. In a while the cry “protect our infant industry. Develop home salt by a big tax,” did duty, but God has been too liberal. There were too many salt deposits in the United States. And so we have, after paying the salt monopoly $100,000,000, salt at fifty cents a barrel. The cry of “infant industry” was a fraud from the start. Occasionally the tariff architects blunder and get the duty too high and then the article is over-produced and its price falls to less than the duty. Hence this chestnut. “My friend,” says Mr. Orator, to the countr jinan, “don’t you know there is a duty of fifty cents a yard on that shirt you have got on?” “May be,” says greeney, “but the blamed thing only cost twenty-five cents.” Now this joke is a dead give awaj’ of the whole high tariff argument. For it proves that if the object of high tariff was to cheapen goods bycompetition, the duties would be put to that point that would bring results like the countryman’s shirt. But such results are exactly what high tariff doesn’t want, and such mistakes are invariably corrected at the first opportunity. But why are goods so cheap ? In the first place, remember cheap is a relative term. Giving the high tariff advocate a benefit of all the reductions in dutied articles that he claims, we are still paying for them 50 to 100 per cent, more than they cost in Europe, and in those portions of Europe that are working under high protection. This proves that it is not high tariff that cheapens goods, but dense populations and their labor surplus. Again, everybody knows that the cause of cheapened goods is increased machinery skill and power and more effective labor. “Exactly,” cries the high tariff man. “High tariff stimulates industry and that brings inventions into demand and improves, by high wages, the effectiveness of labor.” Stop a moment, my friend. There is no place on earth where machinery has reached that development and wages been so improved within the last forty years as in free trade England. To make the above assertion good, you must show that your improved machin ery and labor skill is confined to high tariff countries, a thing that is absurd. This process of cheapening goods is common to all the world and nowhere is it so effective as on the salt ocean, the only portion of the earth that man has not vexed with tariff. Ocean freights are about one-tenth of what they were twenty years ago. . • And now comes an answer to this “But-goods-are-so-cheap” business that one never reads about in the Indianapolis Journal. Look at the scale of prices of farm products for the last twenty years :

Home Market Prices for the Fiscal Year Ending June SO. Cotton Corn Wheat per lb. per bn. per bu. Cents. Cents. 1872 Eos 70~ FT47 1873 1.88 62 1 81 1874 15.4 72 1 43 1875 15.0 85 1 12 1870 .. 12.9 67 1 24 1877 11.8 54 1 17 1878 11.1 56 1 34 1879 9.9 ' 47 107 18.20 11.5 54 1 25 1881 11.4 55 1 11 1882 11.4 67 1 19 1883 10.8 68 1 13 1884 ... 10.5 61 1 07 1885 10.6 54 86 1886 ... 9.9 50 87 1887 9.5 48 89 1888’ 9.8 55 85 1889 9.9 47 90 1890 10.2 49 83 1891 (at close of). 6.0 4185 Now for the other side of this cheap goods business. The manufacturer, while ■ his goods have been cheapening, has been protected by the government. In 1890, . finding this cheapening process inconvenient to deal with, Harrison’s administration'came to his rescue and raised , his 47 per pent, protection to 60 per cent. For campaign purposes it made a show of helping the farmer, but, as Blaine said, it did not increase the price of a bushel of wheat or pound of pork (if he ■ had lived south he would have added, or cotton) a penny, and it could not, foi I such prices are fixed in the markets of i the world. I Does that farrnc ret his woolen goods 300 percent. cheaper than in 1872? But

that is the decline, as the above table shows on the cotton. Does he get his dry goods, his farm implements 70 per cent, and 80 per cent, cheaper than he did in 1872? But that has been the depreciation in his wheat and corn. Then it looks as if there were two sides to this ‘‘but-goods-are-so-cheap” argument. This article is getting too long and I can't allude to but one more fact and that is, the whole world over, all kinds of staples have in the last ten years declined 33 1-3 per cent. If any one wants the facts let them read David A. Wells’ “Recent Economic Changes,” and especially that chapter devoted to the causes of tliis universal decline. The aim of this article is to be fair. High tariff, and competition induced thereby, have something to do with cheap goods. Just as I pointed out the other day, it has something to do with wages. But that doesn’t satisfy your McKinley worshiper. He insists that raising duties cheapens prices through competition, and that is the sole cause of their decline. It is a sufficient answer to such a claim to ask, “Then why don’t you raise them to 500 or 1,000 per cent, and make us all happy?” D. P. Baldwin. Logansport, Ind., May 26, 1892.

WISE KINO HUMBERT.

He Does Not Wish His People to Present Gifts to“Hlin. King Humbert’s announcement that neither his wife nor himself will consent to receive any gifts from their subjects on the occasion of their silver wedding, which takes place next spring, has given universal satisfaction, us government officials all over the country had already started local subscriptions for the purpose of presenting some offering to their majesties on their silver wedding day. King Humbert has, moreover, intimated that any sums which may have already been collected for the purpose, aud which the donors do not vyisli to receive back, should be devoted to the foundation of an establishment similar to the Invalides at Paris or the Chelsea Hospital in London, whore old pensioned soldiers wounded in the service of their country might find a comfortable home for the remainder of their days. In acting thus, King Humbert has m rely followed out the line of conduct which he has adopted from the very moment of his accession to the throne w on, with rare magnanimity and patriotism, he refused the offer of the National Legislature to pay the large debts left by his father, King Victor Emmanu 1, declaring that it was a matter which concerned himself personally and that ho would discharge all his father’s liabilities out of his own civil list. This King Humbert has done and today has paid off every penny owed by his father, although many of the late King’s creditors were men who had abused his confidence and in nowise deserved to receive any payment. He managed tq do this without impairing in any way the splendor of the court, which is renowned throughout Europe for its lavish hospitality and magnificence. Things indeed are on a far grander scale than in the time of Victor Emmanuel. What They Eat. The ways of royalties are so interesting to outside barbarians that it thrills us to hear on good authority that the Czar of all the Russias eats five meals a day, and that England’s Queen, at no matter how big a banquet, dines modestly on mutton or beef and wines or beer. His Holiness Pope Leo XIII is the most abstemious of all the monarchs. Sweden’s Queen loves above all things the meat pies that are served in Nice; next to that dainty she prefers the national dish of salmon. The German Emperor is fastidious about food. His special weakness is for ham and eggs cooked in the English fashion. The Empress of Austria gives her whole mind to culinary Improvements. She has invented an apparatus for roasting 1(10 fowls at once. She is not particular about her own eating, but likes to provide for others. The much-reviled Bui, tan of Turkey lives frugally on rice and mutton, and drinks only water. Bismarck is a tremendous eater. Almost fasting througi: the day he reserves his forces for a stupendous dinner at 7, when he eats like a pig and drinks like a lish. President Carnot sets as good a table as the country can supply, and, as indigestion is unknown t > him, he eats like an artistic epicure. King Humbert is a very small eater, but it is whispered sub rosa that the beautiful Margherita enjoys her dinners as much as the nursery queen enjoyed her bread and honey. Every day of the year her majesty has a dish of strawberries served to her. The King of the Belgians eats too much. The King of Greece prefers his viands cooked in the Danish fashion. His wife, Queen Olga, insists on Russian cooking. Little Alph nso of Spain, under the care of a wise mother and a profound doctor, lives as wholesomely as might a mountaineer’s son.

Russia Is Very Poor.

l ussia is supposed to be the richest country in the world. Its Emperor has an in ome of more than $ (>,0(10,000 a year, and the annual revenues of the government are almost half a billion dollars. I n its natural resources there is no country which compares with it, and it could, if it developed these, be more independent of the outside world than i hina is to-day. The truth is, howe er, that Russia is land poor. It has more country than it knows what to do with, and its finances are administered in such a shiftless way that it runs behind millions of dollars every year, and its government debt constantly increases. It already owes more than $2, 00,0 1 0,000, or more than 5,500,00,000 roubles, and its paper money is worth par value of 75 cents.

Always the Same Answer.

A witty individual one morning wagered that he would ask the same question of fifty different persons and receive the same answer from each. The wit went to the first one, then to another, until he had reached the num* her of fifty. And this is how he won the bet. He whispered, half-audibjy, to each: "I say, have you heard that Smith has failed?" "What Smith?" queried the whole fifty, one after another, and it was decided that the bet had been fairly won.

Republican managers are not satisfied with the new election law. They can no lo’ ger force nor purchase votes with assurance of cor rect delivery. Below is the scheme advocated by the Logansport-Tour, nal: Let the tickets be furnished outside, to be scratched only by pasters. The voter thus has plenty of time to prepare his ticket with the pasters he desires to use. He can accept whatever ticke* he pleases at the chute, to misleed the party workers, but when he gets into the booth, after receiving an official envelope of the board, h? encloses his vest pocket ticket in the official envelope and hands it to be deposited in thi ballot box.

By the above plan the “vest pocket ticket in the official envelop would in many cate turn out to have been purchased or cast under compulsion. We think the Journal editor will not live to see the day when the law is changed to accord with his ideas.

It is not to be forgotten that the Republicans devoted more time in the last campaign to assaults on the new tax liw than on any other subject, or indeed to all other subjects. They began directly after the legislatur e adjourned to misrepresent its provisions. They charged that it increased the taxes of individua s and decreased the taxes of corporations. Before the laws were printed Ihe Republican pai ers were filled with charges of this, and injthe excitement of the people that followed the charges the party leaders thought that they saw their opportunity to win on ths. tissue. They accordingly made anungements for an increase of local taxes wherever the Republicans controlled the local levies In the forty-six counties controlled by Republican commissioners they increased the local taxes $1,269,249.45, or nearly $40,000 more

more than the whole increase of state taxes in the entire slate. In the forty-six counties controlled by Democratic commissioners, the scattering Republican township and town offi«rs increased local taxes $853,763.85, making a grand total increase of local taxes by Republican officials of $1,623,018.30. With this refusal of the Republican local officials to carry out the purpose of the law, even urder the direct instruction of the superim tendent of public instruction, there is little choice left the Democratic party as to its future action. It ought, in justice to the people who have been betiayed by these Republican officials, to put the geeel al school tax back where it was in 1890. The purpose of the law that the aggregate school taxes should be kept in that i osition, bet they have been increased encr * rnously by the treacherv ot Recublican local officials. The general school tax in 1890 amounted in round numbers to $1,373,000. — On the present assessment a levy of 11 cents would raise $1,394,000. A reduction of 5 cents on the lew should therefore be made, and the remaining school tax raised by local levies. This, in tact, would be carrying out the real ot ject of(the tax law, for it contemplated no in» crease of school taxes.—lndian ipolis Sentinel.

It gives as much pleasure to say that the democi atio newspapers of Indiana, w’thout a single exception so far as we observed, made a magnificent record throughout the campaign. They presented the issues ably and clearly, were in the aggr ssive from the start, and have overmatched their republican competitors at every f oint. The democratic Dress of Indiana will deserve a large share of the credit for the victory which is at hand. Indianapolis Sentinel. And to the Indianapolis Sentia nel the democratic a newspapers of Indiana are deeply indebted for its untiring, vigorous and successful efforts in unearthing republican conspiracies, and in furnishing its co-laborers throughout the state with facts, figures and data umefutable. From the opening of the campaign to its close the Sentinel had the Journal on the run. S. E. Mores deserves very favorable considerati.>n at the hands of the incoming admi"’stration.

Brother McEwen, of Rensselaer* will be an applicant for the postoffice at that place. If fathful party sei vice count |or anything he will get the appointment— White County Democrat Mr. Bushey, our new meat merchant, is down to business. See card in anoth* r co hi nan.

[ Rev. 1.1. Gorby has postponed his farewell sermon to Sunday, December 4th. It is hoped that there may be a full attendance at this service. The superintendent of the Presbyterian Sabbath school on last Sunday morning appointed the following committees who will have chaige of the Christmas celebration of that school: Arrangements —M. F. Chilcote, C. W. Duvdl, Mrs. U. D. Martin and Mrs. Irene Nelson. Decorations —W. J. Miller, W. W. Wood, Mrs. JJ. J Sears, Mrs. F. Mon nett. Purchasing—Mrs. D. E. Hollister, Misses Nellie Moss, Florence Neal and Mary B. Purcunile. Music—Miss Uarne Eger, Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth and L. F. Hopkins.

Our democratic friend, Hi. Day, rejoiced and was exceeding glad Thanksgiving day. Twins-noy and girl. All doing well. M. L. Spitler and daughter Maude are visiting his daughter, Mrs. F. B. Learning, Goshen, Ind. Ike Wiltshire returned from England last Sunday. Go to the Art Pavilion for photographs. Miss Jessie Bartoo, artist. H. R. W. Smith, Chicago, returned thanks Thursday with relatives in Rensselaer. Jake Eiglesbach has handsome Iv fitted ud his new purchase, the Wm. Rhoades [business propertv, and now occupies it with his meat market. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Willey are visiting relatives and friends in Rensselaer. On Monday last Sheriff Gwin, of White county, arrested DanNichols, of the same locality, at his place on charge of highway robbery, and escorted him to the . ail at Delphi.

Wilson Shaeffer will offer at public sale, at his residence in Newton township, five miles west ot Rensselaer, d asper county, Indiana, on Wednesday. December 7,1892, commencing at 10 o’clock, a. m„ 5 horses colts, 2 brood mares, 6 cows, some of them springing, 14 head of steers and heifers, 7 hogs, 1 top buggy, farming implements, e c .12 months credit on all sums of $5 and over, purchaser giving bankable note without interest if paid at maturity, bearing 8 pj.r cent, interest from date if not paid when due. Under $5 t - be cash in hand. On Monday last tho commissioners met and accepted the bonds ot the county officers elect, toowit; Charles W. Hanley, sheriff; Judson J. Hunt recorder; John E. Alter, surveyor; Charles E. Mills, assessor; Bhelby Grant, coroner, and Benjamin R. Faris commissioner first district. The gentlemen were sworn and entered upon the duties of thejr respective offices. The Kentland Enterprize and the Rensselaer Pontius Pilate were so disappointed and disgusted at the result ot the election that they soared over democratic jubilations and campaign pages.

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