Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Page 1

yOLUME XVII.

We have a large suroluscf ev'rgreens, maple, ash, catalpas, apple, pear, peach and a full line of small fruits. We will close out cneap. Pai ties wanting to set out anything in the above line will do well to give my agent a call. h. A. Woodin, Nurseryman, Goodland, Ind. John Schanlaub, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind.

A LITERARY SENSATION.

“Uncle I'om’s Cabin” has certainly “broke loose”! The copyright on this most famous of American novels, by Mrs. Stowe, has recently expired, which irees its publication from the monopoly of the high-priced publishers, and though in anticipation of this fact they have within a few months greatly reduced its price, now that it is really “unchained” the consequences are something surprising. John B. Alden, Publisher, of New York, issues several editions, selling them only direct (not through agents or booksellers); one in good type, paper covers, tor 5 cents, sent post-paid, or the same bound in cloth for 10 cents with postage 7 cents extra; also an excellent large-type edition, on fine paper, handsomely bound in cloth for the price of 25 cents, postage 10 cents. Surely a copy of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” will soon be found in every home where it is not already. Mr. Alden sends a 32-page pamphlet describing many of his publications free, or a catalogue of 128 pages of choice books, a veritable “literary gold mine” for book lovers, for 2 cents. Address John B. Alb n, Publisher, 57 Rose St, New Y rk

IND. NAPOLIS SENTINEL.

THE Dailv, Weekly and Sunday Issues. The Sentinel in its several editions reaches more readers in Indiana than any other newspaper published within or without the state. It is read in every city, town and hamlet. The Daily is an eight to twelvepage paper of 5G to 84 columns and contains the very latest market reports, m addition to all the important news of the days It has a special news service from New York, Washington a d Chicago. The Weekly is a mammoth issue of 12 pages and 84 columns, and in addition to the cream of the news of the week includes an invaluable farm and department, with a variety of speei: 1 features for all {.lasses of readers. The Sunday issue contains regularly 20 pages of 140 columns of reading matter, and frequently 24 pages or 168 columns This issue is much like the Daily, but political topics except a; items of news are allowed but little space and the •additional columns are used to meet the .tastes of those who desire clean, wholesome and entertaining miscellany. t By Mail--Postage Prepaid. Daily edition, 1 year, $6 00 Parts of a year, per month, 50 Daily and Sunday, I year, 800 Sunday, by mail, L year, 2 00 Weekly Edition. One Copy, one year, 1 00 Specimen copies sent free.

INDIANAPOLIS SENT NEL, Indianapdis, Ind.

A copy of the Indiana Almanac for 1893 has just been received by us. It is without question the most complete and best ■work of its kind that has been issued in the State. The main features of the work are deserving of extended notice. The World’s Fair, which is to be held this year, will no doubt be visited by almost every citizen of Indiana. This important subject is fully outlined in twenty-eight pages of printed matter, showing cuts of the buildings and descriptions of all the interesting features and exhibits. Complete tables and Tariff Duties and increases are noticed. A reliable table of the Indiana Post-offices, with their salaries. This constitutes reference volume for those interested in the new appointments expected after March 4th. The United States Government, with the names and salaries of every official thereir , from President down, are given- A full list of United States Senators and Representatives are furnished. Tables of population of States, cities, etc., and other matters of paramount importance are also set fully forth. A concise collection of general information on the recent political revolution is perhaps the most interesting featu eof this work. The vote of Indiana by counties on both State and National tickets is scheduled, and separate tables are given on legislative districts. The great result by popular vote an 1 electoral votes is also shown For the benefit of handy reference the platforms of the four leading parties in 1892 are appended.

The Democratic sentinel.

Austin & co., G. K. Hollingsworth, will loan you money on peisonal mortgage, .?r chattel security, for long or short local bank rates. These loar s can be paid back at any time, and are more desirale than bank loans, because interest is re bated.— We have unlimited capital and can accommodate everybody

We recently copied from the flies of a paper printed by us in 1859, a little story adapted to all times, and more especially during a flurry in the financial world, entitled

SMALL DEBTS:

OR WHAT $5 PAID.

The cases cited went to show how much inconvenience and Buttering might be saved the toilers of the land dependent upon their daily earnings for the support of themselves and families and at the same time neither incur hardship nor discommode those from whom “small debts* may be due. Lyman J. Gage, the well-known Chicago banker tells the following story in illustration of how much a single bank note can accomplish when in active use: “After the panic of 1873 I visited a not distant town of moderate size, and from the most important merchant in the place I heard this story: “For a week or ten days during the panic," he said, “business here came to a standstill. We did absolutely nothing, but one day we received a one-hnndred-dollar bill by express irom a distant town, with a direction to credit it upon the open account of the sender. We looked at the one-hundred-dollar bill with interest and curiosity, and, after conferring together concluded to send it to Mr. A., to whom we owed a small ac count, knowing that he was in need,— About 3 o’clock in the afternoon a wagonmaker in the village came into our office with a bread smile upon his face and said: ‘I am glad to pay you $ 100 on account. It is the first money I have seen in a good wnile.’ Wejtook the money from his hand and discovered it to be the same note we had received by express in the morning. We asked him where he got it, thinking he would reply that he received it from Mr. A., to whom we had paid it. He informed us that he had received it from Mr. E. We then followed the history of the note back, and found the facts to be that it had paid us SIOO of debt in the morning and had liquidated six other debts of SIOO each during the day, and in the afternoon it had come back to us, liquidating another debt of SIOO, and we still had the note for fresh operations on the morrow.’' An exchange very properly says that the remedy tor the pre ent hard times is for each individual to exert himself to pay every little debt he ow.s, to keep industriously at work, to hold his confidence in his neighbor, and to look hopefully into the future.

PARTIES AND GOLD.

The New York Tribund continues to dole out to its readers such “food for fools” as this: ' “Three months ago, when President Cleveland came in, business was large in volume and highly prosperous. The outgo of gold, which had begun the very month he was elected, both indicated ano created some apprehension, but the business world was disposed to extend to him generous confidence and support. The editor of the Rensselaer Republican doses out to his readers the above stuff this week, forgetful that for the correctioi. of such falsehoo Is there is nothing so effective as cold facts. And the official statissics show that—1. During President Hairison’s administration the net loss of gold to this country by export was $122,624,000. 2. During the same period the free gold in the Treasury—the amount above th.e $10(1,009.009 reseive—was reduced from $97,874,422 (the sum turned over by President Cleveland March I, 1889), to $987,01).—a pait of the sum borrowed by Secretary Foster to keep good the reserve when he turned over a looted Treisury amt demoralized currency as a Republican legacy to his successor. 3. During President Cleveland’s former term the net gain in gold imports was $54,772,000. Of course such Republican < rgans as the Tribune and Republican will not conce.n themselves about facts and figuresTheir nlan is to presume upon the ignorance or the partisan bigotry of their leasers.

DELPHI WILL HAVE NO ELECTION FOR POSTMASTER.

The pations of the Delphi postoffice gave very little encouragemant to the scheme of holding an election to selec' a Candidate for postmaster, and it has been abandoned. Postmaster General Bissell, 1 t is understood gave the petitioners to understand that if an election were called it would not be by his authority. This action on the part of the Postmaster Gene ral is to be commended. The election plan is now advocated and urged by Republicans, as they are on tha ‘outs’, as a possible firebrand within the Democratic lines. They, however, were mighty careful not to adopt that scheme when in power Late reports from the prison "north are to the effect that Rev. Fred. Pettit lias been confined to his bed for the past six weeks and is in a precarious condition. He had just undergone a surgical operation , and the doctors expressed but little hope for his reco»ery. The reports conearning his declining health have not in the least heen exaggerated, and <t is the general belief of the prison officials that he will never live to hear the decision of the Supreme court in his case. After haring robbed the treasury of the surolus accumulated under Mr. Cleveland, s former administration the republicans would like to shift their responsibility for present financial demoralization.

RENSSELAER lASPER COUNTY. INDIANA . FRIDAY JULI 7 1893

A DESERVED SCORING.

The Indianapolis News, a Re> publican paper, administers the following rebuke to Ex-President Harrison and such republican pa pers as the Re isselaer Republican for their efforts to fasten upon the Deino'cratic administration blame for the existing financial aemoraldemoraazaticn. It says: “Ex-President Harrison wrote a note to the convention of the Republican League Clubs, as reported in The News yesterday, in which he said he “ thought he might add without transgressing the proprieties, that there is nothing in the present business situation to sugs gest any great gain to the country as the result of the inauguration of Democratic politics.” This statement, it seems to us, does greatly transgress the proprieties, and reacts in a way not to be desired; for it forces attention to the

fact that the present business sdnation has nothing to do with Democratic politics, and vice versa; that this situation is the direct result oi laws passed and carried forward for years by the Republicans, in the face of as plain forewarning as ever an event had. For years every man of affairs lias persisted in pointing out that it was only a question of time when the exists ing silver laws would bring us to the condition that we now face.Since “the inauguration ot Democratic politics,” no one thing has occurredgto increase the malevolent effect of these laws. The long foreseen crisis lias arrived.That is all. There is no reason to suppose ii would not have arrived had Mr. Harrison been re-elected. If anything, the inauguration of of Mr. Cleveland as President may be said to have been in the nature of reassurance because his attitude and determination to save the credit of the country were well know’ll from the beginning.

“As the. St. Louis Globe-Dcm-ocrat, an able Republican paper, pointed out not long ago, Republicans will heavily lose in moral effect by any attempt to make it appear that the present business condition is the result of Democratic politics. It is the simple logical outcome of the Sherman law; this, and nothing more. To the same purport spoke also the I hiladelphia Ledger, one of the most Candid Republican papers of the country: “As it is still lather commonly believed by the rabid partisans that anything and everything is fair in politics, it is not surprising that some of the more radical organs are taking advantage of the unsatisfac ory condition of the national finances and the disturbed state of the money market to gain a little political advantage by attempting to make it appear that the jiresent administration is responsible for the troubled condition of affairs. Nothing could be further from the truth than this, and nothing more unfair. Few, if any, are so ignorant as not to know that the existing financial situation is a legacy left by the late Republican administration to its Democratic successor. The Sherman law is admittedly the cause of present conditions; its author was a Republican, it was passed bv Republican votes in Congress, and approved by a Republican President.”

The Laporte Argus remarks that “in what the Republicans call ‘free trade Democratic times,’ the United States stood a close second to England in the foreign shipping and carrying trade, and this government was rapidly fgetting the first place. Had the same policy continm d there is not a reasonable doubt that ths United States would have long ere this taken the lead in foreign commerce, but the Republican party came into power and changed the policy to one of protection. Our foreign commerce f-oon dwindled to practically nothing, and a dozen nations outstripped us in the race. England steado ilyy pursued its policy of encouraging foreign trade, and the wealth it has accumulated by it is beyond human conception. All nations go to England when they want money. The nation is a hive of industry that may be compared with a hive of bees that go out to all quarters

•*A FIRM AD ENOE TO CORRECT PRINCI LES.”

of the earth and gather cheap raw material, which is taken home, worked into manufactured goods, and sold at a profit. The profit is kept in England or loaned in foreign countries, and the interest used to advance the interests of Great Britain. It is by this sim - pie and common sense policy that England has grown so powerful and great, and yet the whole of England is not larger than some of our states.”

WHAT THE SHERMAN ACT IS.

Wabash Times: It is safe to remark that not onethird of the Am rican people know what the much-talked-about Sherman act is. The prevailing supposition is that it is a law authorizing the purchase of silver bullion in gold. But this is wrong. The Sherman act could not well be more vicious in principle, but it would be absolutely disastrous to every interest of the country with a provision to compel the purchase of silver in gold. The act provides for the purchase of 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion each month on a gold basis, or at a i rice estimated in gold. Legal tender n otes are issued on this bullion and put into circulation. The bullion when so bought may be coined into money, but this money is not put into circulation until the legal tender notes issued on the bullion from which the silver is coined are res deemed or called in by the government . Under the act all legal tender notes are made payable in coin. Those holdin them demand gold, aid th’s takes the yellow’ metal out of the United States treasury. A few’ a all Street‘gold horde all the go d they can obtain and demand a premium on it. This is what impairs the credit or th- country. These men hold the key to the situation. If the Sherman law specified the redemption of these legal tender notes issued on stored bullion in either gold or silver coin all the viciousness of the pct would disappear. Silver is completely demonetized when the law' gives those holding legat tender notes issued on silver bullion the right to demand gold in payment. Silver should be placed on an equality with gold. This is what the democratic party means to do at the coming session of congress.

labor Commissioner Peck, who betrayed Lis trust and got up a lot of fraudulent statistics for the use of the Republican national campaign committee last fall, is finding out that the way of the transgressor is hard. "When he was waited on, during the campaign, by a committee armed with authority to investigate his alleged statistics he burned the original returi.s so that his forg'rier- should not be discovered. At first he denied that h 3 had destroyed th i doc umerts but when the fact was brought hom? to him he said they were not state papers and he could do what he liked with them. He was arrested and indicted, but again set up die plea that they were not state papers. The New Yoi k courts have dee ided the destroyed pape s belonged to the state and as soon as the decision was announced Peck threw up his job and fled the country to escape the penitentiary. Unfortunate’y the forged statistics remain as part of the state papers of New York, and when the facts of the forgery are forgotten they may mislead honest inquirers into the condition of labor and wages in the Empire state in the beginning of the last decade ©f the nineteenth century.

Our i eighboi of the Republican mav as well rest easy. The Sher man silver bill which robs the national treasury of its gold sup ply, and the “robber tariff” which robs the consumers of the land are dooi> ed. That s a happy suggestion which says it was much better for the democrats to come into power with a panic on their hands, than to have met with a nanic during the administratin''. They now have an opportunity to demonstrate to the world that they can bring order and prosperity out of chaos. There was a very slim ttendance at the New York meeting of Re publican clubs, and Whitelaw Reid’s letter of regret in which he condemned th<» unwise Republican legislation of recent years and asked Republicans to stand by Cleveland in his efforts to remedy existing evils, knocked all the en thusiasm out of the few who did attend.

fl, M’CO & CO’S BANK) Is pre | red to make five year loans on farms at tee positively us low, ana on as favorable nms as can be obtained in town, giving the privilege of partial payments at any time, and stopping the interest on the amount paid. We are also prepare J to make loans nn personal security on shorter time easonable rates. If you are in need o f . loan, give us a call. 13- 4t.

The Repnblica i notes with glee the shutting down of some manti facturing eetablishme ,ts in the face of the highest tariff known in the history of our government, but adds that ‘confidence in the future has been destroyed” by the “sweeping success” of the Democ racy last fall. Are not such ac tions designed to intimidate con grass and prevent, if possil le, tar iff reduction? Such tricks have been played by these shemers be fore. Notwithstanding,• the <ob ber tariff will have to go.

A NEW VOTING MACHINE.

A machine h is been designed to carry out the present “Australian system” of voting to a degree of accuracy, secrecy and dispatch which cannot be attained without its use. It is perfectly automatic and although each voter sees and stamps his own ballot, yet no ticket is handled by anyone until the vote is counted. Those tickets are printed in one continuous roll and occupy the same form and relative position as at present. The roll Is placed in its proper position and locked into the machine.

In voting, this continuous ticket passes over a glass-covered table on to another roll placed in a ballet box. The glassscovered table is arrang?d in panels, four or more, according to the number of parties represented. At the side of each glass panel is a sliding frame wherein are placed keys similar to I hose of a type writer and so spaced in as to stamp opposite the name of each person to be vo*-ed for. At the top of this sliding frame is a larger key called the “straight ticket” key. When this key is struck by a voter all the other keys on tne board are locked, or f any other kev be struck the “straight ticket” keys are locked, thus pre venting mistakes In addition to this the. inventor has gone mrther and invente I an electrical device attached to each k >y, which automatically counts the number of votes cast for each name.

“Our elevators are bursting,” says the New York World, “with wheat for which the farmer can command but little more than 50 cents a bushel. There are in Eu'•ope alone, if we may credit the stat ment made by the late secretary of agriculture, Mr. Husk, 150,000,000 people who never eat wheaten bread. In the one country an immense suppb of visible food waiting for buyers. In the other counti are millions who go to bed hungry. Between|them ply daily ferry boats with freight charges rjduced to a minimum. What prevents a. exchange that means benefit to both sides—needed food for the one and needed market for the|oth r? “Not the sea, for it costs no more to send a bushel of wheat abroad than to send a letter in the .1 ail, but the McKinley bill, which takes from the farmer,or his middleman, one-third or . ne-half of the commodities for which he might exchange this surplus wheat iu foreign markets as a fine for not buying those commodities from some protected home producer. “F is clear, then, that whatever direct benefits may come to classes from release of taxes on the necessaries they consume or on ma* terials with which they work, the great general good to be sought in tariff revision is a healthy expansion of foreign commerce. This was the immediate result of the Walker iariff in 1846. During the twenty-five years previou. our foreign trade had not doubled. In 1822 it was $141,000,000. In 1846 it had grown to 227,000,000, an increase of but 60 per cent. “Under the low revenue tariff enacted in that year it swelled by 1860, to 8687,000.000, a growth of more than 200 per cent, iu fourteen years. More significant and instructive still was the increase in the tonnage of American shipping engaged in the foreign trade. For thirty years prior to 1 ?46 it had been nearly stationary. In that year it was only 943,307 tons, almost 40,000 less than in 1810.— By 1860 it reached 2,379,396 tons. “These figures speak volumes, but their chief encouragement is for those who produce the surplus I roducts that must have other markets besides oar own for remunerative sales “The tariff of 1846 made a vent for our surplus products bv opening a market for the things which,

and which aloim, other people hat to exchange for them. Yet this rapid expansion ot imports bro’ ; no distress to home manufacturers. On the contrary, after eleven years’ ex: erience of that tariff they assented, almost unanimously to a lurther decrease of 20 per cent. “The party of low tariff and revenue duties is not about to try a new and dangerous experiment.— It has no new f angled theory which it wishes to test upon the body politic. It has not only the suppor ; of reason but this solid justification of experience in the reform i proposes to make by purging ou: laws of the duties that smell of monopoly and rescuing the sovereign power of taxation from pris vate control.”

SEND twelve cents in postage stamps to 39 Corcoran Building, Washington, D. i o.’, and you will receive four copies of Kate Field’s Washington, containing matter of special interest. Give name and address, and say where you saw this adveitisement. ———♦ V* - A pensioner has been found who under Raum’s administration got a good round sum for loss of hair. Senator Edmunds attributes the ‘‘hard times” to the Democratic administration, and then proceeds to confess that they are mainly due to the Sherman 1 iw, for which he is ; orry he voted, which was passed by a Republican congress, sign* ed by a Republican president, and which, after its disastrous operations had been clearly demonstrated, the Republicans of the succeeding congress refused a bill repea ing because, as they patriotically acknowledged, they wished to “put the democrats in a hole.” B Hireling by the meal, day or •week at the World’s Fair restaurant, 0. H. Vick, proprietor.

Go to ths New York Millinery store for your stylish hats and dress making. M . & A. Meyr. - ~ ♦» "■■■■■ ■ Advertised JjETTEUS--Miss Ada Wood, Miss Olive Weeks, Chancy W. Wilson. Persons calling forb ters inthe above list will please iy they are advertised. Ed. Rhoades. D WIG GINS SETTLED. The Dwiggina’ nettled with the Lowell an i Hebron bank creditors and Receiver haa boon discharged. The bluff auit against Sheriff Freidrioh was also dismissed. By tho terms of the agreement the Dwiggina* retain the contracts and collect moneys on same, but nil receipts are to be turned over to creditors of Lowell and Hebron banks until all such claims are settldd. Then the contracts and income are theirs again. We are told the amount of creditors’claims is about #16,000. Oroditora of other Dwiggina banks made no attempt to “file under" on tho claims against the Griffith contracts.—Lake Co. News.

Dr. I. B Washburn, handles the celebrated Tolley’s Kochinoor eye glasses, the best made. We invite attention to the ‘ad’ “See Again as in Youth," in another column. Bear it constantly in mind that the present demoralization of financial mat. ters is the direct offshoot of Republican legislation.; - ........ eu»fi» ■ . I have made arrangements with Eastern capitalists whereby I can loan $30,000 00 in amoiints from SSOO 00 and upwards, borrower to pay commission 5 per cent.— Kesp money 5 years or more. M. F. Chilcote. Rochester Sentinel: The hope 'entertained by tenth district republican j apers that the president would precipitate democratic turmoil by re-opening the county seat post office contests, already settled bv Congressman Hammond is dwindling into ethereal ether. The county seat postoffice contests are settled but the republican papers cannot reconcile themselves to the fact. But there is nothing remarkable about this. One of them published within a stones throw of the Sentinel is still insisting that Cleveland isn’t President of the United States.

Charley Landis, of the Delphi Journal, and Judge Johnson, of ’92 fame, it is said have ugly political dreams with Billy Owen in them. REV. FRED PETTIT IS NOT DYING. The Rochester Sentinel, whose editor is one of the Directors of the prison north, says: The report going the lounds of the press that Rev. Fred Pettit, the alleged wife murderer, serving a life sen’ence in the northern prison, is dying, is a mistake. Pettit did have a critic 1 and almost fatal surgical operation performed but he is recovering from it nicely and the prison physician thinks the operation will effect such new life in his general constitution as to fully overcome his bronchical trouble which many thought to be consumption. The stories|of his atingsoap with suicidal intent or to injure bis l.ealth for the purpose of eliciting sympathy are all bosh. Pettit has been a very sick man but he wanted to get well as earnestly as anv body because he expects the Supreme Court to gr nt him a new trial and to be acquitted in such an event. IMPORTANT TO ADVERTISERS. The cream of the country papers is found in Remington's County Seat Lists. advertisers avail themselves of these copy of which can be had of Remington Bros., of New York A Pittsburg.

NUMBER 25

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