Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — A. P. A. MAKES TROUBLE. [ARTICLE]

A. P. A. MAKES TROUBLE.

One of Its Followers Arrested for Using Abusive Language. Appleton, Wis., April s.—The Rev. George w. Patrick, late pastor of the Baptist church at Kaukauna, was brought before Justice Ming in this city yesterday, charged with using abusive language. The complainant, John Heid, charged that on the street at Kaukauna on election day, Mr. Patrick called the complainant a bad name and also referred to him as a pimp. Patrick pleaded guilty and paid a fine and costs amounting to sl2. The difficulty grew out of the fact that the a a. a. figured largely in the local election in Kaukauna. Patrick is a prominent and outspoken a. p a. man, and it was at his church that Sims spoke on his last visit to Kaukauna. The altercation was forced upon Patrick by Heid at she pol s, in the course of which language was used as charged, Papers have also been served upon Patrick in a civil suit fox damages for slander, which will be tried a 1 the next term of the Circuit Court Bad feeling is running high again ix. Kaukauna MW ■ THE WILSON BILL. Gen. John C. Rlack, in a recent soeech at Chicago, spoke unreser vedly in favor of a low’r tariff and predicted that the “alduds will soon roll by.” “The Wilson bill,” he said “is buildtd uprn the Democratic idea of taxation for revenue. Its pur pose is to raise revenue, to admit free raw material, to lay the load o f taxation on property and not on consumption, on money and noton men. Held for debate and discus sion in the senate, it will leaa e congress, when it shall go to the president in harmony with princi pies of Democra ic taxation. The operations of this law will, 1 be lieve, be satisfactory. Tne reve enues it will raise will be ample for ah governmental needs, and es they shall exceed those needs a schedules will be so changed from

time to time as to further reduce taxation and add to the free list. Ii will enlarge oar trade and leave a greater share of production with the producer; surely the real prosperity of a people is determ in?d- not by the wealth the tax gatherer secures, but by the enlarged proportion of his earn ings the laborer retains; not by the wages the people receive, but by the purchasing power of what re mams when taxes are paid* We are now at the bottom; false and Specu.ative wealth is gone; there n ver was a more propitious time for reconstructing our fiscal system upon true foundations and, if we build aright on Democratic lines, our prosperity will return and will endure. If we repeat the folly of the past we will, as heretofore, entertain bankruptcy as a national guest, and debt as a household inmate, and regularly wilh each dec .de will be compel led to pass through panic only to other panics.”

Gill at the h me of Rob’t Bardie Thursday of last wee I. Boy at Bam Norman’s last Friday. Boy at John Robertson’s last Monday, And a boy at Chas. Ruwen's Monday. Carried his audience from laughter togtears.—lndianapolis Joural. Opera House April 10th.20 and 10c. Ed. D. Rhoades retired from the p. o. Monday. He was faithful in the discharge of his duties, accommodating, obliging, and in every respect a model p. m. Call at John Healy’s new shoe shop, on Vanßensselaer st., south of McCoy’s b*nk, when needing any boot or shoe repairing, or other work in his line. Good work guaranteed. at fair prices. Terms cash. 12 - 4tp. Clerk Coover has moved into he Psesbyterian “manse” 8. M. Laßue will occupy the premises vacated by Mr. 0. A. W. Conner is a gifted speaker.—howler Era. Opera House, April 10. 20 and 10c. admission Mrs. Jesse Grubb is visiting her mother and friends in Rensselaer. Don’t Forget!—Tommy Crockett will pasture colts at 75c. per month; cattle at one cent a day.— Running water. Dr. Washburn and wife attended lie 80th birthday inniversaiy of he doctor’sjjfather last Monday, at Star Center, Pulaski county. I have made arrangements with Eastern capitalists whereby I can oan $30,000 00 in amounts from 1500 00 and upwards, borrower ;o pay commission 5 per cent. — Keep money 5 years or more. M. F. Ohiloote. Doc. Kelley knocked a bicycle off the track at the crossing in 'ront of the p 0., Monday. The doctor received the bruises. 60 laughs in 60 minutes.. .Gone nersville Examiner. Opera house April 10th. Bayard Clark, a Rensselaer boy, has been promoted to a conductorehip on th - Monon, Congratulations. We laughed and cried.—Graphic Opera house, April 10th. John Healy has established himself in the boot and shoe making and repairing business in rooms with Uncle Charley Rhoades, hars ness maker. John is industrious and honest, an expert workman, ana his charges will be moderate. We wish him success.

Mb. Editor: My St. Patrick’s day essav convinced the editor of the Republican of his error on the ditch question. In five columns he swings a half circle and, endorses my views. So that peace and harmo iy prevails in the Valley of the Iroquois. But as it was a farmer wh ounotured the frothy bubbles of his sophistries his narrow mind would not permit a candid acknowledgment that he was beat. So he got wrathy anu thereupon occused a fellow townsman of he.p'ng the farmer in his argu« ment. It does not become us literary fellows to try to prejudice the rights of any one who may be assessed ‘prior to the final judgment of the court in the fairness and justice of making the improvement. As to the personal allusions in said article 1 had better say something for fear the author may “be wise in his own conceit.” He seems to think that it takes less brains to run a farm than it does to edit a newspaper. In this country all kinds ot honest work stand on an exact equality. Every one hath a right to think, speak, write and print, and there is no deep and wide mental ulf between a farmer a”d an editor. 1 am of course willing to admit that the editor of a newspaper aould

be as vise and sensible as a farme er, but I do not admit they all are. 1 can give a pointer or two on running a newspaper. It is nauseous to most readers to have flouted in their faces all the private petty spites, personal hates and cranky notions of an eaitor and I would leave them all out of my paper if I was an editor. I can not see but Messrs. Starr, Thompson and. Bostwick, referred to in said article, have as much sense and are as good citizens as the verbose and pompous owner of the Republican. 1 do not want to be turned out ol th° Milk church nor quit farm * ing, but when I do start a newspaper it will reflect a progressive public spirit as to men and measures, and not any narrow, selfish, private notions of my own. i thought 1 had as good a right to be anonymous as the other “liter,, ary fellow" but ns such a course offends the self sufficient editor of the Republican, 1 will subscribe myself on all fool’s day simply Jas. W. Cowden. April Ist, 1894.

A good deal of sympathy is being wasted over the farmer by people who don’t know what they are t Iking about. The low price of wheat and the decline in the value of live stock are pointed out as reasons why the is crying himself to sleep evert night. As a matter of fact, the farmer who ins his farm paid for is ths most independent man on earth—indec pendent of panics, of “financial cial stringencies” and political experiments. He may not have a j»reat d«al of ready money, but he is as sure of a comfortable living as any man can be in this uncer . ;iin world. There may, it is true, be a failure of some crops, but all the crops won't fail. His hags may be decimated by cholera, but I is slieen and his cattle are left. Times may be dull, but if the worst i omes to worst he cud live and live fairly well on the produce of his own farm. Clothes he must have, but fashions don’t change rapidly in the country and a few bushels of potatoes or a few hogs will produce the monev needed for absolutely essential clothing. The farmer is all right. He is not at the mercy of labor unions or capitalists. All the mills in the country may shut down and he is still certain of three meals a day and a bed at night. As he is the main spring and foundation oi all ma terial prosperity, so is he inde pendent of all the minor disturb ances that trouble the people who are, after all, dependent on him for subsis ence.—Chicago Her aid