Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1912 — Page 2

VOICE OF EXPERIENCE

CRIES OUT AGAINST DANGER r OF DEMOCRATIC VICTORY. Hamilton County Man Declares he Sold His Corn in 1897 for 18 Cents and Paid $47.50 for Fine Four-Year-Old Horse. It Is not many years for Indiana Burners to harken back to the period of Democratic national administration when low prices for farm products were reached. So many industrious farmers who are doing well today can vividly recall those fearful days on the farm when it was hard to find a market for their products. Joe Stafford, of Nobles ville, recently wrote a letter to the Indianapolis Star reviewing his experience, in which he says: “I am not a candidate for any office, •or will I ever be again. I helped*to organize the Republican party and in 1856, in the city of Indianapolis, I was one of 75,000 who marched in a grand Republican parade, 1,000 of whom were from Hamilton county. The was formed and founded upon eternal prifaciples, which never change and are in'accordance with the Declaration of Independence. It is the same party today that it was then and is founded upon the same bed rock principles, viz.: Equality of all men before the law, obedience to the constitution of the United States and of the several states, as well as all acts of Congress, and of the several Legislatures. ; 1 r~ “I am one who does not condemn any one for his party affiliations. I believe that the masses of the people are honest in their political views and Intend to vote for their own and their country’s best interest. There is no good reason why they should be dishonest. They differ only as to the policy to be pursued in administering the affairs of this illustrious republican government. It is from this standpoint that I wish to submit a few facts for the candid consideration of the voters. “Four times since 1820 the tariff has been reduced to a revenue basis, and each time it has brought on a panic. Then, after the people had a dose of this disastrous policy, they were glad to return to the policy of a, protective tariff, which in each instance brought commercial activity and abundant prosperity. “I am a Republican and I believe In a protective tariff. I have lived through free trade disaster and do not care to try It again. In 1897 I sold my corn for 18 cents a bushel and the same year I bought a fine 4-year eld horse for $47.50. Such a horse would now bring $175. I also bought good land within a mile of Cicero for $45 per acre. In short, the Cleveland panic cost the people of the United States more than the late civil war. It brought want, suffering and desolation to millions of American homes. I have seen more judgments on notes and foreclosures of mortgages in this county in one term of court during the Cleveland panic than has been rendered in the last three years. The weekly papers were full from one year’s end to another of the sheriff’s notices of sale of property. “You who have notes and mortgages coming due in the next two or three years might do well to consider these facts. With the low prices which prevailed fifteen years ago could you meet your obligations? If the prices of commodities should de crease 100 per cent, it would practically double your indebtedness, including you- "axes. Fifteen years ago there was widespread dissatisfaction prevailing because of low prices, and a good many people did not "have the money to buy at any price; today a good many people -are complaining because of high prices, notwithstanding they have money with which to buy. Prices are not unnecessarily high, excepting foods, and why are they so? Because the Republican party has pursued a policy that has kept the mills open and the great army of laboring men employed at good wages, and thus created a home market that consumed all and more than the farmer could produce—hence the high price of foods. “There has been much said about the people ruling and doing the voting. I have been of the opinion that the people do rule and do the voting. Who elects your county officers, the people or somebody else? Who does the voting when the Legislature is elected? Who was it a few years ago that elected thirteen Republican representatives from this state? Who was it two years ago that elected twelve Democratic representatives and one Republican, the people or somebody else? “As our own Ben Harrison said some years ago, we are no longer confronted with theories, but a condition. 'the condition is four years at least of Democratic rule with ‘its disastrous free-trade policy and in all human probability a panic the like of which none of us has ever yet seen; or the Republican party, with a policy which has brought to the people during the last fifteen years great and unparalleled prosperity. ---. “William McKinley said: ‘Open the mills and the factories and prosperity will speedily follow.’ The Republican part/ did open the mills and factories and great prosperity did follow and has up to this date. Therefore It seems to me that It would be wisdom on the part of the voters of the United States to so vote that the mills will be kept open and the factories running at full timw*

What Does a Change Mean for YOU?

Two groups of zealous politicians are crying to the country for a change in our National Administration. They want to take charge of the nation. They want to administer public affairs. - And they promise wildly, eagerly, what they will do in return—if only they are granted control. From Maine to California, their words fill the air. And have you, the workers and taxpayers, whose affairs these gentlemen would control, stopped to analyze their proffers and promises? You should. To the politicians themselves these proffers and promises are of no special importance. They have nothing tb lose. They have everything to gain. Even if they lose, they win; for the contest will keep them in the limelight. But for you, the workers and taxpayers, this contest is serious business, and you should weigh the consequences with a serious mind. Don’t take mere words. Seek facts. Out of this whirlwind of language which the “spellbinders” send beating about your ears, what is it that stands first, last and all the time? “We want a change in Washington.” A change for what? To what? The present administration, after nearly four years’ hard-.work, has finally succeeded in restoring the country’s business to a prosperous basis.

The mills are running full time. Mines are operating all their shifts. Factories are working to capacity. Commerce is thriving. The country is free of labor troubles and financial troubles. The working man is steadily gaining better wages. The farmer is growing steadily more prosperous. The market for farm products has never been so broad and generous. The railroads report the heaviest freight and passenger traffic in their existence. Shipping is everywhere active. Public works on a great scale are everywhere under way. Trade is moving smoothly, in ever increasing volume. The savings banks are overflowing with money. The United States is on the threshold of the greatest boom in its history. Within six months, under present conditions, we will dwarf the great period that followed the Spanish War. And our prosperity will be here to stay, for we are on sounder ground than we were in ’9B.

The trust problem has been settled —and settled right. “Big Business” has been put in its proper place, and this without halting industry or disorganizing affairs. The currency question is understood as it never has been, and will be solved along sound lines as soon as the heat of partisan political controversy dies down. The tariff is gradually being placed on a business basis, and soon will he out of politics, as it should. Everything is shaping to give the American people a long, unbroken, unparalleled period of peace and plenty. And at this time of all others, along comes these political gentlemen shouting for a change. Do you want to change? Do you want to check prosperity just as you are about to pluck its choicest fruits? Would you, the workers who must pay, commit the mad folly of taking your government out of tried and proven hands and turning it over to the self-seekers who are clamoring for its control? When President Taft look over the government the country was prostrate. Industry was paralyzed. Business was chaotic, uncertain, suspicious. Millions were out of employment. Investors, wherever possible, had withdrawn their capital. Enterprise was dead.

All this was the result of the panic of 1907, the “talking panic.” The “Rich Man’s” Panic, it was called. But do you remember any poor man who was not hurt? It took the Taft administration over three years to repair the damage of this panic. It required infinite patience, skillful ifianagement at home and abroad, unflinching enterprise, good judgment and vast prudence to bring the country .out of that black pit And now that the pit is covered, and the country is basking once more in the level sunshine of prosperity, do yqu want to take a chance' on being thrown back? Do you want to take a chance on being talked into another and a needless panic? , It is a grave problem that confronts yon. Whether you are STmotorman or railroad, president a day laborer or millionaire, the issues are the same—either continued prosperity under a sane, stable government, or a plunge into a period of experiment The question is not to be settled' by talk, no matter how smart. The huzzahs of the lust&gs may make sweet

music, but in the background of the future you may hear tbe mutteripgs of a people unemployed. Your family stands with you at the dividing line, which has happiness and prosperity on one side and unhappiness and even want on the other. If you are a tramp, without kindred and without responsibility, by all means follow the adventurers. But if f’ you own a stake in the country,, if you have kith or kin dependent on the job you hold, weigh carefully the words and deeds of those who would lead you in a mad gallop to the precipice of experimental government. Remember, a change at Washington would mean everything for them. But what would it nfean for you ? Would Mr. Taft’s defeat help you? Would the theories, untried and unproven, on which the politicians are seeking to ride into office, benefit your wife and family? Brush aside all the fine language of the orators long enough to dig btft answers to these questions. You will then have a reasonably safe guide on Election Day, for, like true charity, true politics begins at home. The intelligent man votes for that which is best for himself and those dependent on him, and not for that which is best only for the other fellow. He is not misled by the shadow of the bone-in the water. t The American people, for the first time in years, have the bone of prosperity firmly between their teeth. Are they prepared, like the dog in the fable, to drop it, to chase elusive shadows? REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE, James B. Reynolds, Secretary. Charles D. Hillis, Chairman.

Partners In Town Business.

A village, a town, a city, is a partnership. All of us here are in business together. Ownership of property is individual, but our prosperity as a whole is closely bound up in each* other’s interests. If you have a house to rent, goods to sell, labor to sell, your success in getting a good price for such service depends on the prosperity of your neighbors. If they are doing well, they will pay fair prices, and as times go, these prices tend to rise. On the other hand, if your neighbors are not succeeding, they will haggle for the last cent for your house, your goods, your labor. The prices for these services will tend to fall. When you buy goods away from home, you work to reduce the prosperity of your neighbors. Thereby they become less able to do anything to help you, and you have failed to build up business ties with them so that they feel no personal interest in you. When you buy goods at home, you increase the prosperity of your neighbors. They are not merely better able thereby to help you along 4n return, but you have created business friendships that make them want to help you. Buying at home pays!

Dates of the Several Township Institutes.

The second township institute in the different townships is to be as follows: Carpenter, October sth. Gillam, October sth. Hanging Grove and Milroy, September 28th. Jordan, October sth. Kankakee and Wheatfield, Oct. sth. Keener, October sth. Marion and Newton, Sept. 28th. Walker, October sth. Since these are meetings of the teachers of the townships held for the betterment of the schools, patrons of the schools are invited to be present and take part in the discussions. , Members of the general stafT on the organization of the land forces of the army in a report issued Friday recommend a substantial increase in the strength_jof the army and national guard. Hundreds of rations of whisky were poured into the streets of Petersburg, this state, Friday afternoon, when revenue officers raided three alleged “blind tigers.” More than a dray load of demijohns and barrels containing the liquor were hauled to the public square and the whisky poured into the gutter. Petersburg is a dry town, u*. No person Bhould miss seeing one of the biggest dramatic sensations presented in years, when “A Girl of the Underworld” will ,be produced at the Ellis Theatre on Saturday night, Sept 28. A beautiful story "of tenderloin life which holds /its audience spellbound from the opening act to the finale. -

KEEP THE WHISTLE BLOWING

HAPPY FARMERS

They Have Every Cause for Joy on the Next Thanksgiving Day. From the Detroit Free Press, Sept. 12, 1912. - A marvelously fortunate year Is this of 1912 for this land of ours. The government crop report yesterday renews once more the proof that all things are uniting for the welfare of Americans. It is an amazing showing, 300,000,000 bushels of spring wheat being reported as In sight, where last year the yield was only 190,000,000 bushels, and the year before 200,000,000. Added to the winter wheat, which in spite of the soft wheat losses In our own section of the country, will still pass the 1911 mark, the total yield of Jthlß grain will run well above 700,000,000 bushels, and if private advices are reliable, even above 800,000,000 bushels. We have had but two years In the past when the 700,000,000 mark was passed, 1906 and 1901, and the outlook is that the return per bushel for the harvest now available will exceed that of either of these. Nor is wheat the only crop that is practically assured of reaching record figures. Com, potatoes, barley, rye and some others are already in the class of bumper yields. The indications amount to assurance that they will all exceed any previous aggregate. While the American fields are teeming with their produce across the ocean is heard the cry of distress. Cold weather and prolonged rainfall have played havoc there. The land is sodden and unfruitful. What crops have grown are drowning in flood. The American farmer, with his barns bulging with the yield of his acres, will get big prices for his big stock of food supplies. A bountiful harvest and a strong demand should make the farmer of this country a happy man on Thanksgiving day.

BRIGHTENING WEEKS.

From the New York Commercial, Sept. 11,1912. Each week Is more auspicious than its predecessor in the auspicious promise of a great business year. This implies according to the laws of trade chances several to succeed it With immense uniform crops as a foundation, accompanied by conditions In the Old World much less favorable, ,jt gives this country a place of vantage, which it has rarely if ever experienced, so concurrently do the general facts at home and abroad run in our favor. A significant fact is that New York for the last week has been put to its trumps to accommodate adequately the immense throngs of business visitors. No city is better supplied with such resources of hospitality, but they have been strained to the uttermost since the middle of August There is nothing In the capacity of our transportation lines which does not - fully conjoin with the sanguine outlook that pervades the whole country. While all the activities of trade are notable now they will be vastly more so in a few weeks.

Should Not Imperil Prosperity.

From the Buffalo, N. T., News. The current number of Don’s Review remarks upon the steady advance in trade activity, according to reports from various business centers in all parts of the country. The advance, It saya, is both in actual volume of business and in that confidence which is the basis of health In business. It is well to remember these things when one Is considering the outlook. The situation together with the magnificent crops of the year explain why business men are less and less inclined to imperil prosperity by overturning the government

Era of Greatest Prosperity.

TroaTtt# NewTUrtt TOsiraph. It is pleasant to note that the opinions of leading business men nod watchers of ! die country’s Basnets pulse are that an era of the gre prosperity la on Its way.

BUSINESS OUTLOOK GOOD

Dun's Trade Report Gives Encouragement for all Lines of Business. From the Freeport, 111., Standard, Sept. Dun’s trade report for the past week gives encouragement for all lines of business, crops and manufacturing enterprises. In part the report says: Continuous advance In trade activity Is the tenor of the reports from the principal manufacturing and distributing centers last week. The advance is both in actual volume of transactions and in that confidence which is the basis of healthy business. The big August bank clearings are a development of present activity and buoyancy. Clearings in August gained 4.6 per cent, over last year, while during this week they increased 10.5 per cent, over 1911 and 17.6 per cent, over 1910. The evidence of these -clearings is confirmed by the current railroad grosß earnings, which show a gain of 6.8 per cent, over 1911. Rates of money are hardening in all parts of the world, a plain response to the greater movements of trade and commerce and the bigger demands of new enterprises. The increased confidence in the financial markets is illustrated by the fact that the August output of new securities and short-term notes in this country was $92,000,000 greater than a year ago. The remarkable consumption of iron and copper products continues to the point of actual capacity, and all the principal industries show satisfactory activity.

PROSPERITY LESSENS CRIME

Secret Service Chief Bays That With Good Times There la Leaa Law-Breaking. From the Buffalo, N. Y„ Inquirer. The department of agriculture in its latest announcement reports bumper crops of corn, white potatoes, spring wheat, oats, rye and buckwheat. Business agencies report booming iron and steel trade, strong demand for cars and decrease in the number of commercial failures. The most hovel sign of prosperity, however, is recorded by Chief John E. Wilkie of the United States secret service. “Whenever work is plentiful and employment easily obtainable,” says Chief Wilkie, “crime is less, and thiß rule, which has been demonstrated by years of experience, applies as much to counterfeiting as to other offenses against the law.” As a general proposition easy times are the times freest of crime, indicating that distress is the cause of much law breaking.

BANKS SHOW PROSPERITY.

From the Beloit, Wli., Free Preee. September 11, 1912. Rank deposits are a sure indicator of prosperity in a city, and on this point Beloit banks show a steady Increase and this city on this score compares most favorably with the outside world. Total deposits In the tear banks according to the current statements aggregate $4,348,4 <8.46, of which $2,569,371.14 represent the savings of the people. Rockford with three times the population has little more tb«m double the amount of money on deposit In her seven banks. Figuring Beloit’s population at 18,000, which is probably conservative, the per capita deposits In the banks •mount to $2.41%, which Is a pretty good showing.

Can Be Affected by Polltica.

Henry Clews, the New York financial expert, says in his weekly lector that business conditions are good, especially In the west- but be points that they may become unsettled by political developments, --r - There were times before the last Democratic administration, but they boob became bad timas. The ronntrr does not waat history to rup»f

COL DURBIN AND DEEDS

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Has Fine Record Against Bad Legislation. From Peru Republican. A “progressive” candidate for the legislature in Madison county is loudly boosted by the “progressive" press because he finally voted against the Joss railway consolidation bill, after his attitude had been the occasion of much anxiety on the part of those opposing the measure. This same press might have the fairness, if there were any fairness in its make-up, to record the fact at the same time that it was a citizen of Madison county, the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana at this time who, as governor, vetoed this Joss railway consolidation bill after it had passed the Indiana legislature. Winfield T. Durbin has never gone about the land blowing about his patriotism and his progressiveness. In every' avenue of endeavor that has been opened to him he has simply gone ahead in a quiet, modest, effective way doing his duty as he saw It, making, of course, some mistakes, but fewer than nearly any man in public life in this state. Away back in the sixties when the mightiest war in history was on, when the greatest step in human progress in the whole history of the republic was being taken, and taken through fields of blood, Winfield T. Durbin, the boy of fifteen, shouldered a gun and marched away. He was too young for such service under the law of the land. His fellows wished to elect him a lieutenant, but his age made this impossible. He wasn’t a soldier for office then, any more than he has been a soldier for office since. He wanted to fight for the old flag. And he did It—“a grand young soldier.” as one of his company comrades now in the Soldiers’ Home at Marion put it the other day. Then wheii the Spanish-American war came on he was one of the first to offer his services to his state and his country. He was made a colonel of volunteers, and he was one of the best in the whole service. A business man of largo affairs, he was willing to make the financial sacrifice involved in abandoning his business that he might help his country take another great step in the human progress —the wiping of the blot of Spanish tyranny from the map of this hemisphere, the freeing of ten mfllloSs of people from the yoke of thralldom.

It is unnecessary for such a man to carry in front of himself a banner inscribed “I am a Progressive” or “I am a Patriot.” On such subjects actions speak louder than words. Not every man who can spin yards upon yards of beautiful phrases about progress and patriotism is either a progressive or a patriot When the hours come that test the fiber of men, we find who are patriots, who are the progressives. To talk about being patriotic and progressive in order that one may fasten himself to a public job is one thing—to go out on the field of battle, and offer one’s life for a patriotic and a progressive cause is quite another. And so the friends of Colonel Winfield T. Durbin smile when they hear politicians and the newspaper tools of politicians in this campaign compare the patriotism and progressive spirit of Winfield T. Durbin with that of either of his opponents for the governorship to his disadvantage. The friends of his two principal opponents for the governorship point to their speeches, the friends of Winfield Durbin point to his deeds, his deeds on the battlefield when he served his country and its progressive cause in two great wars, his deeds as governor, when he boldly vetoed a bill backed by the great Morgan interests and rammed through the legislature by the most powerful corporation lobby that ever infested a state capltol, when he stood for law and order during the riots at Evansville, with such courage and ability that the whole world rang woth his praises and Theodore Roosevelt, then president of the United States, did the unusual thing of writing him a public letter of enthusiastic commendation. In fact in every public act of this quiet, modest, efficient, firm, lovable man is evidenced the spirit and the ability that a patriotic and progressive people should be glad to command in their Service. In Winfieldf T. Durbin is embodied the progressiveness and patriotism of deeds rather than the mere profession of the agile mouth and nimble tongue. When he was a soldier, when he was governor, he did thing!, he did not stipply talk about doing things. He is no demagogue; he is no timeserver; he is no hypocrite preaching one thing and practicing another; he is a man among men. In a day of sham and shoddy,, bluster and pretense, this quiet, firm, courageous, capable man rings true. He will make no promise he can not fulfill; he will not pretend; he will not lie. The platform on which he stands is, indeed, “a contract with the people,” because 4t bears the signature of a candidate who in private and public life has always made good. a f "Upon a careful analysis of the situation it is quite evident that the proportion of voters to this movement is but a amalii minority and that the evidence of the primary in Michigan would be largely substantiated in this state if a vote were to be, taken. L. ■; ■: ,- r . '% T • # ,