Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1912 — Page 2

Rensselaer Republican DAILY AND SEMI-WEEKLY - ■ WST.wr * CLASH - Publisher* IKE FBIDAY ISSUE XS EEGULAB WEEKLY EDITION. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Daily, by Carrier, 10 Cents a Week. By h.ail, $3.76 a Year. Berni-Weekly, in advance. Year, 31.50. Friday, September 13, 1912.

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL TICKET. For President, WILLIAM HOW ABD TAFT. For Vice-President, JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHEBMAN. .For Congress, --—- EDGAR DEAN CRUMPACKER. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. For Governor, WINFIELD T. DUBBIN. For Lieutenant Governor, THOMAS T. MOOBE. For Secretary of State, FRED I- KING. For State Treasurer,.. JOB FBEEMAN. For Auditor of State, L NEWT BBOWN. For Attorney General, F. H. WUBZEB. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, SAMUEL C. FEBBELL. For State Statistician, J. L. PEETZ. For Reporter of Supreme Court, WABWICK H. BXPL2Y. For Supreme Judge, First District, WOODFIN D. ROBINSON. For Supreme Judge, Fourth District, LEANDER J. MONKS. For Appellate Judge, Southern District, DATED A. MYEBS. For State Senator, L. D. CABBY. For Joint Bepresentative, CHARLES C. WARNER. For Prosecuting Attorney, FBED J. LONGWELL. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer, ALSON A. FELL. For Sheriff, ALTON L. PADGITT. For Becorder, GEOBGE W. SCOTT. For Surveyor, W. FRANK OSBOBNE. For Coroner, WILLIS 3. WRIGHT. For Commissioner, Second District, DANIEL 8. MAKEEVEB. For Commissioner, Third District, CHARLES A. WELCH.

WILSON WOULD REPEAL ALL PROTECTIVE TARIFF LAWS.

The following Is taken from an address delivered by Professor Woodrow Wilson before the tariff board In 1882, showing his view then on the question of the tariff and the distinct announcement of his position as a free trader, opposed to all tariffs except merely for the purpose of raising revenue: “But the danger of Imposing protective duties is that when the policy is once embarked upon It Cannot be easily receded from. . Protection Is nothing more than a bounty, and when we offer bounties to manufacturers they will enter into Industries and build up Interests and when at a later day we geek to overthrow this protective tariff we must hurt somebody and of course there is objection. They will say, ‘Thousands of men will be thrown out of employment and hundreds of people will lose their capital.’ This seems very plausible; but I maintain that manufacturers are made better manufacturers whenever they are thrown upon their own resources and left to the natural competition of trade.” “Protection also hinders commerce immensely. The English people do not send as many goods to this country as they would if the duties were not so much and in that way there Is a restriction of commerce and we are building up manufactories here at the expense of commerce. We are holding ourselves aloof from foreign countries in effect and saying, *We are sufficient to ourselves; we wish to trade, not with England, but with each other.’ I maintain that-It is not only a pernicious system, but a corrupt system. “By Commissioner Garland: “Q. Are you advocating the repeal of all tariff laws? “A. Of all protective tariff laws; of establishing a tariff for revenue merely. It seems to me very absurd to maintain that we shall have free trade between different portions of this country and at the same time shut ourselves out from free communication with other producing countries of the world. If it is necessary to Impose restrictive duties on goods brought from abroad it would seem to me as a matter of logic, necessary to Impose similar restrictions on goods taken from one state of this Union to another. That follows as * pseessary consequence; there is no escape from it."

Let the people of Rensselaer and Jasper county know what you have to sell; oso The Republican Classified

WHERE THE CASH IS COMING FROM

Women Work at Night to Finance Roosevelt Campaign. AWFUL FACTORY CONDITIONS Mew York State Investigating Committee Found Pale, Worn Women Work—ing—in Twine —Manufacturing Concern Owned by the International Harvester Company. Awful conditions haye been found jy the state factory investigating committee of New York in the mills of the □sborne Twine company, No. 3, at Aujurn, N. Y., owned by the International Harvester company, of which Jeorge W. Perkins, chief financial backer of Theodore Roosevelt in his scheme to ruin the Republican party. Is a director. “The appearance of the women workers in this plant,’’ said a member if the committee, “was very disheartening. They were worn and pale and their clothes, faces and bands-were covered with oil and hemp cloth. Many of these women, so called, are only children in age and they have to lug huge piles of hemp, weighing 150 pounds each, across the floor, the load in some cases being bigger than the women themselves. In the spinning room, where women are employed alone, to the exclusion of men, who would have to receive higher wages, the clatter of machinery is so frightful that a voice below a shriek cannot be heard. The rooms are dark, though tor no necessary cause, and no attempt is made to remove the dust, which is kept in constant motion by the line shaftings despite the requirements of the law. This dust is breathed continuously by the women, many of whom complain of chronic coughs and colds. The dust and dirt are so thick upon the clothes of the girls that at the noon hour—which in many cases consists of but a few minutes —and at the close of the day’s or night’s labor, the girls have to sweep each other clean with brooms.’’ It is further stated that the custom of working the women all night is permanent, married women being selected for night work, their hours being from sundown until 6:30 o’clock tn the morning. Of 400 women employed In the mills, 200 work all night. When George W. Perkins was asked by a New York Times reporter for an explanation of the conditions In an establishment of which he is one of the directors, he made, In part, the following remarkable reply: “This night work has been' rendered necessary largely because of the government’s perfectly unreasonable attitude toward large corporations, which has made it impossible for managers of large concerns to know whether they were on foot or horseback, whether they could expand their plans to keep up with increasing demands or not.” The late Mark Twain in his brightest moments never uttered anything more grimly humorous than the foregoing explanation by George W. Perkins of why the company of which he is a director Is working women all night under the frightful conditions disclosed by the New York state factory investigating committee. Meantime it ought to be of Interest to millions of Republicans throughout the United States to know where the money comes from to finance Theodore Roosevelt in his campaign of “rule or ruin.”

BOUGHT HIS SOCKS IN SCOTLAND.

Governor Wilson is a free trader and is so recognized by the rank and file of his party. The truth Is a little by the fact that he buys his socks in Scotland. His apparent indifference to the condition of American laborers may be due to his ability to get along without being obliged to eat bread in the sweat of his brow. He has been extremely fortunate in this respect His autocracy has been deeply tinged with aristocracy during his entire career as an educator and dabbler in literature. He has neither by personal experience or observation acquainted himself with the actual struggles and needs of the ordinary wage earner. During the trying times that this country was under the blight of free trade in 1894, ’95 and ’96, Woodrow Wilson was enjoying a liberal income that was in no degree affected by the deplorable conditions surrounding the laborers in this country. Mr. Wilson is not to be condemned for his good fortune. On the contrary, we should be disposed to congratulate him, but tn . self Interest the less fortunate should protect themselves against the enforcement of his tariff theories and policy, a trial of which has been given more than once with deplorable effect upon the industrial life of this country.—Trenton Gazette

“THE SCUM OF THE EARTH”

“PLAYING THE GAME.”

Truly, President Taft Does Not Follow System Politically. That is a criticism often heard oi President Taft. It is the professional politician usually who voices it, but often it is repeated by those who are accustomed to take their estimates of public men and their political opinions from others. Playing the game has been the occupation of time serving politicians from time Immemorial. Men who regard politics as a game like to see it played deftly. Other men without fixed ideas on the subject parrot the criticism passed by the experts. Playing the game in politics necessarily has deceit as its fundamental principle. The public man who sees developing an issue that might prove embarrassing to him personally, and who manages, by guile, to divert public attention to another, a lesser, but a perfectly safe, issue, plays the game. The public man who makes public protestations of his enmity toward swollen wealth and then holds secret conferences with the representatives of that wealth, plays the game. The public man who preaches one code of political morality and practices another plays the game. The public man who utters sounding bitt empty phrases, no matter how delightful his diction or how superb his eloquence, plays the game. The public man who makes promises impossible of fulfillment plays the game. The public man who puts the acquirement of public favor above ideals, of public service plays the game. Truly, President Taft does not know how to play the game. He has been reared in an atmosphere of service rather than politics, as we have-come to know politics. The thing that has always concerned him is the doing of an the spec-, tacular staging of it, nor the exploitation of it, nor, on the contrary, the concealment of it. To serve has always been his ideal, not merely to acquire the appearance of serving. It has been impossible for him to look upon public service as a game. The public’s business, as he regards it, is serious business. There is reason for the belief that the American people as a whole share with him this view. The growing Intelligence of the nation is rejecting the idea that the selection of their public servants is merely a sporting proposition. «

NORTH NEWTON.

Mr. Keeney’s are boarding the new school teacher. James Lane is building a new automobile shed. James Lane and family were in Rensselaer Saturday. Milt Grimes and daughter, Dile, were in Rensselaer Saturday. They finished thrashing in this neighborhood last Thursday. —— School begins Monday. A gentleman from Wabash is teacher. Mrs. Milt Grimes spent Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Wm. Bierley. Mrs. Wm. Bierjey’s parents returned to their home at Thayer Sunday. Mrs. James Lane spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Milt Grimes. Misses Rose and Amelia Lane are visiting friends in Chicago this week. finished a new corn crib, granary and tool house at Milt Grimes’ last week. i, Joe Lane’s daughter and family Returned to their home in North Dakola this., week. Mr. and Mrs. Milt Grimes attended the picnic of the Mayhew family at Ade's Grove last week- The latter is a sister of Mrs. Mayhew. MISS Dile Grimes returned home Thursday of last week from Fountain county, where the had been visiting her sister and brother and other relatives and friends.

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"SPEAK OUT! SPEAK OUT!”

Democratic Stomachs Revolt Against Wilson-Marshall Mush. “Speak out! Speak out!” is the al-i most desperate cry of the New York; World, the newspaper chiefly responsible for the nomination of Woodrow Wilson in 1912, as it was for the nomination of Alton B. Parker In 1904. Day after- day, It seems, the World has been waiting with ears to the windward for some point, some virile, vital expression from its latest presidential jack out of the box on questions of the hour, some solid positive utterance by the candidate, which it could grab and lay about with as a campaign shlllelah. It has waited In vain. Rounded periods of ( dreary drivel, pedagogical commonplaces that might'have come out ofi a third reader and which had about as much relation to issues of the campaign as “It Is a sin to steal a pin” has to Metropolitan opera, have been fed to curious crowds and to editors waiting with whetted pens for red hot meteors of inspiration. Disappointment and disgust are not confined to the World office. » "We asked you for bread and you gave us a stone” 'is paraphrased In Democratic sentiment by “We asked you for meat and you gave us mush.” Nauseated with Wilson they turned to Marshall only to find him as aperient of vacuous platitudes as his coadjutor. It’s a hopeless appeal. As well try to seize the elusive tail of a greftsed pig at a county fair as expect to get, anything definite out of Wilson. He was definite enough when he said in his “History of the American People” that “the Chinese are more to be desired as workmen, If not as citizens,” than “the coarse crew crowding in at eastern ports”—that Is, Immigrants from Europe. He was definite enough in saying in the same book that congress had “dealt very harshly” in passing the law excluding Chinese from the United States. He was definite enough in denouncing immigrants from Poland, Hungary and Italy. Evidently Wilson can speak out If he wants to, and the Inference is that he Is afraid to. On the Issue of a navy powerful enough to defend the Interests and uphold the honor of the United States he is silent for fear of offending the Democratic''majority In congress opposed to strengthening the navy. On the tariff he is, to quote an old comparison, “neither a man, nor a mouse, nor a long tailed rat,”' but more like one of those ancient Egyptian monstrosities carved on the mummy cases, with heads looking contrariwise. On one point he Is definite —he wants to be president, and he doesn’t care much how he gets there. He Is willing to slosh through a sea of bosh to the White House, and now that he has the nomination he counts upon the world and the rest of the whangdoodles to follow, whether they like his style or not. Perhaps they will, notwithstanding grimaces of disgust and protesting cries to speak out. But the people—they want a man for president

CASES SET FOB TRIAL IN JASPER CIRCUIT COURT. State vs. William P. Michaels to Be Heard Sept 23rd; Moore vs. Overland Co. on Sept. 80th. Tuesday was call day in the Jasper circuit court and the following cases were set for trial: Monday, September 23. State vs. Wm. P. Michaels. Tuesday, September 24. ” Medaryville S. Bank vs. Fred Will. Trust & Savings Bank vs. I* J. Lane. Wednesday, September 25. Lendert Mak vs. Clifford Dutton. Central Rubber Co. vs. U. S. Match Co. I. M. Washbum vs. E. V. Ransford. Thursday, September’ 26. Central Electric Co. vs. Ray Delmar. Geo. W. Kime vs. John D. Miller. State ex rel Lila Mildred Peek vs. Bar! Wiseman. , A Classified Adv. will rent it

CLAPTRAP BY UNDERWOOD

Tariff Duties Not Paid by Users of American Goods. HIS ADDRESS SHOULD BE READ Workers Will Recognize His Distortion of Figures and Facts and Will Not Be Beguiled by It—Shows How Hard Pushed the Democrats Are For an Argument. It Is to be hoped that every American worker in the various Industries protected by the tariff will read the address of Mr. Underwood, Democratic leader in the house of representatives, in which he sets forth as taxation the tariff duties on articles- In ordinary use. There is nothing novel in the Underwood distortion of tariff figures and facts. It is as threadbare as free trade, as threadbare as the American workingman would soon be If he should allow himself to be beguiled by Underwood and other votaries of the late Confederate constitution Into the surrender of Republican protectfon. , It is true, as Underwood says, that the tariff taxes he describes are Imposed on articles such as he describes —woolen clothing, shoes, the tin pail, window pane, carpet, etc., but he is wholly and deliberately wrong and misleading when he says that the duties in question are Imposed on or added to the cost of these articles, as used in the ordinary American family. The tariff tax Is imposed on goods' manufactured abroad and Imported for sale in competition with goods made In America by American workers earning American wages. The man or woman who is satisfied with the product of American labor — and nine-tenths of the American people are so satisfied —has no tariff tax to pay, and this is shown by the fact that the American article, with Its manufacture fostered by protection, is often cheaper In price than the Imported would be without paying tariff duties. The tariff duties prevent excessive Imports, which would flood the markets, as .imported goods flooded the market under the tariff reductions made by the Democratic Wilson bill of 1894, reducing not only the tariff, but reducing also the demand for American goods and for American labor to make American goods. Mr. Underwood’s statement Is cheap claptrap. We had supposed that style of talk too muddy and cobwebbed sos further exercise, and the fact that it is again dragged out of the discard proves how hard pushed the free trade Democracy is for something to bolster its waning cause.

FAIRNESS TOWARD NEGROES

Taft’s Attorney General Stands for the “Square Deal.” Attorney General reflects the broad American spirit of himself and his chief, President Taft, in his splendid fight against the dropping from membership In the American Bar association of his able colored assistant, William H. Lewis, It is needless to say that every supporter of Woodrow Wilson and every sympathizer with Theodore Roosevelt in his refusal to recognize the citizenship of the southern negro, is opposed to Mr. Wickersham in his battle for equal rights and fair treatment for colored Americans. The action of the executive committee of the Bar association in revoking the election of three colored members, gentlemen of spotless professional standing and excellent personal character, by their local committees, was outrageously, cruelly unjust and ought to be repudiated by every reputable lawyer in the United States. It was a concession to that southern' Democratic prejudice which seeks to crush the spirit of manly aspiration in the negro’s breast and to tolerate him only as a laborer on the plantations and for the households where his ancestors were slaves. It amounts to an attempt to nullify the constitution of the United States, as amended after the rebellion, by men whose sacred obligation and welcome duty It should be to support that Instrument in their every act as lawyers and as citizens. In their resolute backing of Assistant Attorney General Lewis against the assaults of rank Bourbonism and racial prejudice. President Taft and his attorney general have the godspeed of every American who believes in the principles for which Lincoln died, and who is determined that the sacrifices which the nation offered up dn the altar of freedom and equal rights for all shall not have been made in vain.

The Wileop Fall Frost.

The free trade Evening Post publish, es a lot of figures to show what would happen if all the states voted the same as Vermont in November. A two-and-three-makes-five schoolboy could tell the free trade Evening Post that if all the states should vote In November, the same Way Vermont has voted Taft would have the whole electoral college. - " It came early, but It .came with a bite to it —the Wilson fall frost. Bryan and Parker were both elected in August and burled under a snowstorm of ballots In November, aad Wilson is hurrying to the •nine snow pile.

((■> RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect July 7. 1912. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31 —Fast Mail 4:40 a. m. No. s—Louisville Mail .... 11:18 am. No. 37 —Indpls, Ex. 11:48 a. m. No. 33—Hoosier Limited .. 1:65 p. m. No. 39—Milk Accom. 6:06 p. m. No. 3 —. Louisville Ex. .... 11:05 p. m. NOBTH BOUND. No. 4 —Louisville Mail .. 4:53 a. m. No. 40—Milk Aecom 7:32 a. m. No. 32—Fast Mail 10:12 a. m. No. 38 —Indpls-Chgo. Ex. .. 3:22 p. m. No. 6—Loulsvle Mail &Ex 3:37 p. m. No. 30 —Hoosier Limited .. 5:45 p. m. Train No. 31 makes connections at Monontor Lafayette, arriving at Lafayette at 6:15 a m. No. 1;, leaving Lafayette at 4:20, connects with No. 30 at Monon, arriving at Rensselaer at 5:45 p. m. :Trains Nos. 30to 33, the “Hoosier Limited," run only between Chicago and Indianapolis, the C. H. & D. service for Cincinnati having been discontinued. W. H. BEAM. Agent

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