Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1894 — THE PROGRESS OF CALAMITY. [ARTICLE]

THE PROGRESS OF CALAMITY.

Among the telegrams in our columns yesterday, -says the Indian*, apolis Sentine., were th 3 following in regard to Indiana manufacturing concerns; Kokomo, Feb. 19.—Special.— The Union fiber company of this place began the enlargement of their plant today and will increase the present capacity of their mills fully one-thir 1. They make binuer’s board and trunk board exclusive, y and have been running only since the first of the year. The demand for their product is now far in excess of the (capacity of the mills. Anderson, Feb. 19.—Special.— The Pennsylvania glass works of this city resumed operations putting 300 men to work. The outlook in the bottle and flask line is promising, and should it prove as good as anticipated factory No. 2, the Meridian, employing afhke number of men, will be od ned in the course of a week cr ten days. Anderson, Feb. 19—Special.— W. H. Porer today let the contuact for the erection of the buildings of the corrugated iron works company that loc ted in this city last week. W. S. Hays and Son secured the work. The excav 1tions will be commenced the last of the week.

These are quite conclusive evidence that Indiana is in line with the remainder of the country in the resumption of business, notwithstanding the great dread of the infamous Wilson bill. As the passage of the bill draws nearer factories are resuming in 11 parts of the country. All through February there has been a resumption 01 business, in several of them strikes having ended favorably to the men;

On the 2d the Pioneer pottery company of Wellsville, 0., acced ed to the demands of the striking cotters, and work was resumed at the old wages immediately. One hundred and fifty men are em ployed. At Detroit the Farrand Voley organ company has increased its force to 150 men, and running with with full compliment f hands in a con pie of weeks, he Detroit safe company is working full for ces nigh*- and day. J. F. Bolles <fc Co. have 90 per cent. < f their regular force at work; the E. T. Barnum wire and iron works are running at half capacity, and the Detroit dry dock company has put additional men to work, anti re ports that the prospects are decid edly brighter. At a meeting of the board of di re ctors of the American tin plate company, held Feb. 4, it was de cided to double the capacity of the plant, as it has been found im* possible to fi.l orders at the present rat? of production—3,ooo bozes a week With the increa°ed facili ties they will employ 700 men and turn out 1,000 boxes a day. Operations have been resumed in three butt mills at Middletown, Pa., tube .works, giving employment to 500 linen. The Ashville emery mills of Perth Amboy, which have been closed for several months have re suE&ecL.business with a full force of The Birmingham, Ala., rolling mills, the biggest in dustry there/signed a contract for raw. materialland decided to resume operations at once. This means employment to over 500 men. The mill has been shut .town for six months.

Oregon paper mills of Peekskill, N. Y., have resumed operations.— •The Union stove works’ “big shop” has begun work. The “little shop” will soon fo.low and more than 200 foundrymep will find employment after a forced vacation. The New York stove works have resumed work with nearly 100 men and in a few days will be running fall blast. The other foundries are getting ready to resume labor at an early day. The Peekskill hat factory, which has just removed from Yonkers to Peekskill, and for which the Peekskill board of tiade has just com le* Q d a fifty tkousanddollac factory, consisting of several fine, large brick buildings, is about ready for work. Many workmen have moyed up here from Yonkers with their families. President W. H. Belknap Announces 1 hat work will begin &t once. The hat factory will employ 500 men and women. Thp factory of the Baker underwear company has just started, the company having built a large

We note, with pleasure, that 3Jr Banta, the well and favorably known agent of the Dayton, Ohio, Nurseries is making his annua rounds of this and adjomin couun ies. Mr. B. has been making this route toi the past seven or eight years and has made an extensive acquaintance. He is highly ess teemed and his mode of fair dealing has made friends of all with whom he has come in contact.

thr.e-story brick manufactory.— The force of the factory will be 400 girls. Mr. Denman, superintendent of the steel wo.ks of Benjamin Atha & Illingsworth company of Newark, N. J., says that since the Ist of January business has been picking up steadily. He reports good prospects for spring. Monitor iron works have resumed work after being idle a month. Fint-*r & Co. report that their bus’nessin wagon manufacturing is improving. Mr. Meeker, of the firm of Passmore & Meekr, says the prospects .ire good in his business, especially in the woodwork depart*, ment. revivals are reported from many quarters of Newark. In the leather business the outlook is , oodfor this spring. S. Halsey & Son ar<- steadily increasing the force of men in their leather factory and report i creasing sales. T. P. Howell & Co, another big leather firm, are working a full force of men nine hours a day. The firm was working on half time less than two months ago. Hugh Smith, Stengle & Rothschild, and Henry Lang, who employ hundreds of men at their tanneries, report that full time is being made jy all. In the kindred shoe industry, L. Boyden & Co., Johnson & Murphy and J. A. Bannister & Co., whose employes have been working three-quarter time, are now running their shops on full time.

Un the 19th the immense factory of tbe I. I. Case thrashing ma chine company which has been closed for the past five months, depriving six hundred men, nearly all ot them heads f families, of employment, started up wi'h a full force. Enough orders have been received to keep the works in ope ration for several months. On the same day the works of tne Wheel er & Wilson manufacturing com p my, which has been idle for sev eral weeks, started up with a full force of men.

The only thing that is necessary to make this resumption of busin< ss more rapid is the passage of the Wilson bill. Let it be a law by March 4, and business will be in good condition very soon afterward.

Editor Sentinel: In the last issue of the Republican appears an article purporting to be on the “Gravel Road Question”, but is wholly made up of low-flung personalities. I take it for granted that no one person could have pul together such a mass of silly twaddle, and that it must have been the joint product of two heads, fairly bursting with pent up ideas in a state of fermentation, the onej head furnishing the mathematical details and the other those choice literary tid* bits.

This double has discovered an immense mare’s nest, with many large eggs. The first discovery is that roads, ditches, etc., are wholly philanthropic in • their design, whereas, most of us have been under the impression that such works were purely business enterprises. Of course those of us, whose names are so conspicuously diss pla .ed in that article, will consids er ourselves utterly annihilated by the array of arabic figures and screed of personal spite The whole argument—if such childish gabble can be called ar gument -is based on the groundless assumption that the contractors and builders of the proposed roads will be compelled to buy their material from the Iroquois Drainage company, regardless of cost or convenience. Now every man of common sense knows that these contractors will get their material where it can be obtained at the least cost.

These people should agree upon some plan of campaign, and not circulae so many conti adietory ■stories in their crusade against the tide of ruin and distress which their imagi sations have conjured ui, as the result of a plain, simple and cheap method of obtainmg a long desired and much needed improvement. If the contractors find that crushed rock from the river bed I will fully answer their purpose, it is hard ’’for any seasonable person to unperstaud why they should not | have that privilege, or how to pre* vent them from exercising ha

right, or how any person can be injured thereby. Again the mathematician has figured, in his imagination, how certain shrewd individuals can and will make a clean profit of 833,000 on material furnished to bui.d these roads, when the whole cost of the roads cannot exceed $39,630.74. This beats the world. Mr. Thompson and I will be vastly pleased if our la* ds are increased in value to the extent set forth in that article. 1 find that all the physicians in Rensselaer plead equally guilty vi h me, in desiring and Badvocating better roads. In this they are supprrted and endorsed by all the enterprising and public spirited business men of the town, and rE he enlightened and progressive farmers in the country.

J. H. LOUGHRIDGE.

The Indianapolis Sentinel thus states the position or every true Democrat toward the A. P. A. or* gamzation: “The Sentinel has not been “championing the catholics.'’ We agree with our correspondent that “th y are abundantly able am! willing to light their own battles,” and besides 'Re Sentinel is not i. religious organ. We have fought the A. P. A. because it is an i ifamous, treasonable, unamerican, know-nothing, republican organization . It was organized for noitical purposes. It operates by imposing on the credulity of the ignorant and appealing to the passions of the bigoted. It has not only announced its intention to resort to crime to accomplish its purposes, but has actually done so. In Denver it made a most villainous attack on the mayor of the city and passed resolutions to desecrate his grave when he Was buried. In Toledo it purchased arms and ammunition to make war on American citizens, which consti

tutes the crime of treason. In Indiana, and generally througnout the eountry, it published and circulated a forged encyclical letter of the pope, ordering catholics to arm and murder all protestants In this city R has bombarded Mr. Carstensen, an episcopalian minister, who preached again.-1 the organization, with anonymous letters so vile and indecent th .t no reputable paper could prin. t.otn, and whose authors if known wo’d be promptly sent to the penitentiary. In Columbus, 0., it circus lated such outrageous falsehoods against the catho'ics that nearly every protestant minister in the place united in denouncing them as false aud in protesting against any such action being taken in tne name of protestantism.”

Our neighbor of the Republican is forging to the front m pressing his claims for recognition as the organ or the A. P. A. First he announced himself in full accord with the A. P. A. creed. Second, he alluded to the remarks of expriest Rudolph in an article fil 'ed with most fulsome ’audations.— Third, he reproduced an article from the Goodland Herald tending to show that? catholics have received more than their share of the offit es in Chicago. And last week he came to the defense of the A. P. A. as follows:

“Neighbor McEwen has bren red headed right along, for several weeks past, in regard t the A. P. A. He not only parades the fact' that some of their lecturers had : been arrested charged with es, (arrested, not convicted, mind you) as conclusive evidence of their wickedness,” <4c. We published the telegraphic news ot the da? concerning meet* ings of the A. P. A. and the arrest of their lecturers, and peddlers of iibeloijs and obscene literature. Bro. Marshall seeks to make the point that they were “arrested, not convicted, mind you,” but this will not held good in the case of Ft. Wayne A. P. A. editor w'- ?, it was announced, was

| fined SSOO, but certainly not with- | out first being convicted. The | simple fact that A. P. A. meetings 'have stirred up inobocracy and riot in almost every instance, is certainly not a certificate of gooc character.