Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 5, Hope, Bartholomew County, 27 May 1892 — Page 3

1 CURRENT COMMENT. Borne Facts of Interest to Everybody Precisely StatedProtection and Uabor—Why Taxes Are Higher—Tlic South Solid by taw— Other Timely Topics. — No measure is now under consideration in Congress looking to the protection of National citizenship and the enforcement of the laws in the South, but the press of that section continues to enlarge'on the danger that the next Congress may be Republican and adopt a “force bill.” This is the old cry echoed and reechoed from Virginia to the western border of Texas whenever there is a su S& es ti°n of National protection of National rights. There seems to be some magic in this term which appeals irresistibly to Bourbonism and calls forth the ex-confederates and compels them to drop every political idea except that of opposition and •resistance to the Federal Government. No matter what economic measures they may desire, or what .action in respect to the currency and the tariff they may think to their advantage or that of the industries of their section, they must abandon all differences of opinion and array themselves blindly, submissively and obstinately against National authority whenever outcry is sounded. If it had been devised to make political slaves of ■white men it could not have served that purpose more effectively than it has done, while at the same time preventing the assertion of the rights of black men. WHY TAXES ARE HIGHER. It U Becaute There Has Been Extrovagunco and Mismanagement by the Democracy. Rushville’Republican. First—Because Indiana has a large Democratic interest bearing debt. In November, 1860, the Democratic State Auditor reported the State debt to be $10,179,267. As the Republicans were never in power in the State until January, 1861, they had no share in the creation of the debt. It was made by the Democrats. The five items which follow tell the whole story of Indiana's debt: 1860, up to $10,178,267 Democratic; 1880, down to $4,167,507, Republican; 1880, up to $4,998,178, Demo cratic; 1884, down to $4,876,608. Re - publican; 1889, up to $8,540,815, Democratic, Every time the Democrat* have been in power the debt went up. Every time the Republicans had control the debt went down. Second—Because there has been Democratic extravagance, mismanagement and waste in the affairs of the State. When a State lives beyond its in- ; come it runs in debt just as an indi- | viduals does. It has been the rule under Democratic control to spend more than was collected to carrv on the State government. For example: In 1885, they spent $639,617 more: in 1S86, they spent $28,499 more; in •1887, they spent $441,860 more; in 1888, they spent $264,940 more; in 1889, they spent $882,962 more. To make up the deficit thus created : they resorted to borrowing. Borrowed money bears interest. More 1 money was bon owed to pay the interest. Meanwhile economy was ) neglected and the debt grew like a 1 rolling snow ball, until now it takes $273,825 a year to pay the interest alone. Last year more money was borrowed, and three-quarters of a million besides, which had been paid back to Indiana by the general government, was swallowed up by current expenses, instead of being applied to the reduction of the debt and ! eo stopping interest. For a generation the Democratic party has squandered the revenues 1 of the State with a reckless hand, and trifled with the interests of the people by making them subordinate to those of the party. Thus matters went on until the results of mismanagement and waste frightened the Democratic managers themselves, and the Legislature of 1890, forced to do something,enacted the new tax law, whose first fruits are now being garnered. The State school tax is increased ' by it one-third. The increased school money is not needed for the schools 1 and cannot be used for any other purpose. The tax upon land is largely and unequally increased. For State purposes alone Rush county pays this 'year $22,623 more than last year, as follows; For regular State tax $ 4,988.00 For benevolent institutions 9,93f>,9g For soldiers’ monument 82>.0« For State University 210.1* For State school tax 6,666.73 Total increase State tax over 1890... .$22,623.86 The county tax is only $111.51 larger than last year. The State tax is nearly $23,000 more. The excuse for heaping this burden apon Rush county tax payers is that

the debt must be paid. But the sad truth is that current expencs and interest eat up the huge annual income of the State, except about $88,000, at which rate the tax payers must bear their present load of taxes until 1912 —twenty years more-bo-ford the debt can be paid off. Democracy is a tax. WHY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONTINUES TO EXIST. Dave Hill said, in one of his profound and exhaustive speeches in the South, that the Whig party passed away, other parties have passed away, but the Democratic party is forever and ever. ” We see no reason to doubt this, however dffflcult it may be to explain why the country should be so afflicted. In politics, as in the world of nature and of morals, evil seems ever existent, and so far ah philosophy can account for its presence it is only on theground that opposing forces are thereby forced into action and the principle of good is developed and strengthened in its ceaseless contest with wrong. This is the only reasonable theory of the existence of the Democratic party as it is the only clear answer to the old question, “vVhy don’t God kill the Devil?'’ The Devil and the Democratic party are alike necessary to save men from sinking into fatal contentment and lethargy—to keep them wrestling with danger and adversity and thereby to develop their strength and faculties. In nature the weeds grow spontaneously, without care or cultivation, and in soils where it is impossible to produce crops. So Democracy thrives and reaches its greatest development in the quarters of great cities given over to the criminal class and in benighted sections where schools are almost unknown, and churches few and far between. These instrumentalities are not needed to produce Democrats. On the other hand, the Republican is the product of a good soil, favorable surroundings, and careful cultivation. He represents in politics a pretty high stage in the process* of evolution, and yet he can not stand neglect even through one generation without showing a tendency to lapse back to the Democratic condition. It takes hard work to develop and sustain the Republican party, and it seems a great pity that such an organization should be required lo struggle against spontaneously generated Democracy, but so it is. Cockle burrs and thistles grow now as they did thousands of years ago. Democracy likewise survives without education, care,or attention. With Republicanism it is a fight for existence every year; there must be a continuous campaign of education. Democracy develops itself, and is the weed party of politics. To make room for the crop party the ground must be' carefully prepared, good seed sowed, careful cultivation kept up, and the encroachments of the weeds steadily resisted. These labors are often severe and discouraging, especially when it is seen that nothing of the sort is necessary to maintain the Democratic organization, but it is probably necessary that a party of spontaneous growth should exist as a never failing menace of good government in order that men may not forget or neglect the blessings of political liberty and progress, but be taught to prize them by being compelled to fight for them. PIANO FELT. TARIFF AND PRICE. The New York Evening Post having written, as usually it does, without knowing the facts in the case concerning the effect of the McKinley bill on the price of piano felt, Mr. Alferd Dolge, the largest felt-maker in the United States, and perhaps in the world, made answer to the writing. But the Post refused to publish his answer. It is the method of the free-trade press to prefer false charges against the tariff and to refuse to hear evidence in refutation of them. Whereupon Mr. Dolge sent liis answer to the New York Tribune by which newspaper it was published. The Post charged that, as a result of the tariffs in general, and of the McKinley bill in particular, the price of piano felt was increased to the American purchaser. Mr. Dolge showed that the price was $15 per pound when there was no tariff, and when every purchaser in America bought European goods; that it fell by degrees to $6.50 per pound when a slight measure of protection gave a slight encouragement to home manufacturers, and to $3.50 per pound since the McKinley bill went into operation. That is to say, protection to this branch of American industry has reduced the cost to the consumer by about 400 per cent. Perfectly beautiful to look upon is the consistency of the free trader. He is always extending his sympathy to the fafmer because he is not recognized in the tariff. When in company with farmers he is very quiet about the agricultural schedules of the new tariff. The increase in the McKinley bill ot the rates of

duties on agricultural products is given here; Artlciea. Old Law, Law of 18D0. Barley fcO 10 per bu. to 30 p«r bu. Buckwheat ... 10 per bu. 1ft per bu. Corn 7. 10 per bu. 15 per bu. Oats 10 per bu. 1ft per bu. Wheat 30 per bu. 25 per bu. Potatoes 1ft per bu. 25 per bu. Flaxseed 90 per bu. 80 per bu. Butter .. 04 per lb. 00 per lb. Cheese 0-1 per lb. 00 per lb. Hops 08 per lb, 1ft per lb. Bacon and hams.... 02 per lb. 0ft per lb. Beef, mutton, etc ... 01 per lb. 02 per lb. Eggs free Oft per'loz. Beans 10 per cent. 40 per bu. Hay 2 00 per ton. 4 00 per ton. Apples tree 2ft per bu. Apples, dried free 02 per lb. Horses and mules... 29 per cent. 70 per cent Cattle 20 per cent, 02 per cent Hogs 20 per cent, 46 per cent Sheep, 20 per cent. fiO per cent Wools, high grades 48 per cent. 67 per cent Wools,lower grades 26 per cent. 32 per cent The duties on all grains, cattle, horses, potatoes, hay and meats were the same in the Mills bill as in the old law. TIN-PLATE PLANTS. They Are Springing Up Rapidly—What We Uave Faid for Welsh Tin. Indianapolis Journal. “I have kept myself informed on tin-plate business,” remarked a gentleman to the reporter, “and there’s nothing either about the process ot manufacture or the provisions and objects of the tariff that is difficult to understand. I was pleased to see your interview with D. C. Bergundthai the other day, in which he mentioned that American tin was in the market in quantity; that the quality was excellent, and that our tinners were patriotic enough to prefer it to Welsh made tin. “The tin tariff was laid for the benefit of the working people of the United States, as they will be benefited by the creation of a new American industry. Jt was said by the tariff people that, if this tariff was adopted, within five years an industry would be developed employing 35,000 people, distributing $20,U00,000 annually in wages, consuming 1.000. tons yearly of American iron ore, 300,000 tons of limestone. 2.000. tons ot coal and coke, pounds of lead, 13,000,000 pounds of tallow and oil, 40,000,000 pounds of sulphuric acid, and 12,feet of lumber, not to speak of the American tin. These manufacturing plants are springing up, and there are now more than twenty of them. The results here indicated will be achieved before the five years are up, judging from the present progress. Our wholesale hardware firms are now getting tin-plate from Anderson, and they avow that it is a good article and meets with a ready sale. Anderson is not far from Indianapolis, and what does Anderson good helps this city to a much greater extent, to put it mildly, than any increased benefit to Welsh manufacturing interests would do. We shall also have tin-plate manufactured at Elwood and perhaps other places right here in Indiana. The other material called for by the manufacture ot tin-plate should be taken into account. Some of these days we’ll be making sulphuric acid in Indiana. “In twenty-live years the enormous sum of $320,000,000 has been paid by this country for Welsh tin. It should be remembered that the iron and steel imported in those plates was paid for at a rate far in excess of that paid to American metal workers for iron and steel, and that the tin plate worked up cost the American consumer from 150 to 200 per cent, more than it cost the British producer. “The tinning procees as carried on in Wales is simple enough. It is said that it has not undergone change Or improvement in one hundred years' A tin plate factory consists of six huge open pots. One contains water, another sulphuric acid, another palm oil, and the other three molten tin, alloyed more or less with lead. A plate of soft steel is passed into the water, then into the sulphuric acid. This is done to clean it. It is then passed into the water again to wash away the acid. Then it is passed into the oil, which serves as a flux. After this, by means of a pair of tongs, it is dipped into the molten metal. It is then tin plate. It occurs to me, in spite ot the awful howls of the free traders,' or tariff reformers, as they prefer to call themselves, that there is nothing in this process which should be discour aging to American ingenuity and skill, I understand, indeed, that in the tin plate factories already started in this country some very significant improvements have been made over the primitive Welsh methods.” Prospective Duel In High Life. New York Press, “Hotspur and Daeijdayval had a quarrel at the club last night.” "Over Mrs. X—?” “Exactly.” “That means bloodshed if they meet.” “They exchanged cards, and that means a duel.” “Do you think there is a likelihood of their meeting?” “There is if they keep on long enough.” “What do you mean?” “One took the steamer to-day foi Europe and the other the train for San Francisco.”

GRAIN GROWING IN INDIANA. Production of Wheat, Corn and Oats from the Eleventh Census. Indianapolis Journal, May 9. Census bulletin No. 181 gives the cereal production of several States, ( including Indiana, for the year 1889, | which was about au average year, I but not approaching last year in productiveness. As returned the acreage and yield of the State was as follows in 1889: Barley, 10,280 acres. 250,200 bushels; buckwheat, 9,548'acres, 99,957 bushels; corn, 3,586,190 acres, 108,843,094 bushels; oats, 1,102,479 acres, 31,491,661 bushels; rye, 62,890 acres, 877,532 bushels; wheat, 2,570,017 acres, 37,318,798 bushels. The aggregate acreage of 1889 devoted to cereals was 7,340,214 acres, which was 367.953 acres in excess of the aggregate of 1879. During the decade the acreage of oats has risen from 623,631 acres in 1879 to 1,102,256 acres in 1889. On the other hand, there was a decline of 49,678 acres in wheat and 92,652 acres in corn during the decade. The aggregate yield of wheat in 1889 was much less than in 1879, which was a got d deal of a wheat year. In this connection it may be said that the acreage devoted to cereals in Illinois in 1889 was 14,166,415 acres, or nearly 300,000 less than in 1879, corn falling off in 1889 1,158,464 acres and wheat 978,681 acres, while the breadth devoted to oats was increased 1,889,008 acres. The acres in rye in 1889 were two and a half times as many as in 1879. It therefore appears that the tendency is to increase the acreage of oats in such States as Indiana and Illinois and rather to diminish the breadth devoted to corn and wheat. Of the counties, Tippecanoe had the largest acreage of corn in 1889 — 84,089 acres, yielding 2,544.296 bushels. It stood fourth in oat acreage. 29,669, yielding 951,244 bushels, and twenty-fifth in wheat, having 36,386 acres and 490,743 bushels. Its population in 1890 was 35,078. Shelby is the second in corn growing, with 67,165 acres and 2,311,074 bushels; but it did better in wheat, being third in the list, with 59,587 acres and 927,244 bushels. In oats it is low in the list. The population of Shelby was 25,454. Benton, in the northwest section ot the State, surpassed Shelby in acres, having 84,305 acres, but falls short in quantity, 2,211,510. Benton did nothing in wheat, seeming to have turned its acres to oats. Its population is 11,903. Montgomery county was third in corn production,2,120,683bushels, but it is fifth in acreage. That county was sixth in wheat area in 1889J but seventeenth in yield-acres, 51, - i 935; bushels, 628,543. General Lew Wallace claimed that in 1891 it raised the best wheat crop in the State. Gen. Wallace lives in Montgomery. Several well known gentlemen make similar claims tor their respective counties. Knox comes close after Montgomery, with 58,016 acres, and 2,035,528 bushels. In wheat production Gibson carries the wheat banner, both in acreage (67,431 acres) and yield, 1,428,629 bushels. Posey is a close second for Gibson, with 65,882 acres, and 1,239,742 bushels, while Knox presses Posey with 56,574 acres, and 1,156,142 bushels. These three counties in a block have an area of 1,362 square miles, and 84,596 inhabitants and produced an aggregate of 3,824,513 bushels of wheat in 1889. This production of the staff of life is scarcely excelled by any similar area and population in the country. Madison and St. Clair counties in Illinois, over near St. Louis, with an area of 1,390 square miles, produced 4,063,729 bushels of wheat in 1889, but the / have a population ot over 120,000. Gibson county, with 446 square miles, had over 105 square miles of wheat in 1889 —nearly one-fourth of its area. Shelby county, second in corn, appears as fourth in wheat, having, in the census year, 59,587 acres, and 927,214 bushels. Its area is about the same as Gibson: its population 25,454; its acres of wheat and corn, 126,652—that is, almost 198 of the 400 square miles of Shelby were devoted to corn and wheat in 1889. Kosciusko, in the second tier of counties from the north, was fifth in the list, with 44,669 acres and 832,543 bushels. It also had 44,943 acres and 1,320,988 bushels of corn, and 20,268 acres and 774,756 bushels ot oats. Elkhart also in the north, is sixth in the wheat list, with 44,832 acres and 847,153 bushels. Noble, with 39,948 acres and 816,182 bushels is seventh; St. Joseph, with 40,■350 acres and 788,139 bushels, is eighth; Carroll, 45.180 acres and 9)5,836 bushels, is ninth, and Bartholomew, 48.313 acres and 690,898 bushels, is tenth. There are many other counties scattered over the State following close alter these in acres and yield, all showing that wheat counties are not confined tc any section of Indiana. In most instances the large acres of oats are found with whea fields. Benton county, which leads all others in oats, with 2,028.98E bushels and 52,4000 acres, Vas onlj

717 acres of wheat, but nearly 900,000 bushels of oats in excess of unv other county. Newton county, witii 32.373 acres and 1,198,912 bushels, is second; Allen, with 30,685 acres and 1,100, 139 bushels, is third; Tippecanoe, 29,669 acres and 952,244 bushels, is fourth; Warren, 23.285 acres and 836,023 bushels, is fifth. St. Joseph has one-fourth of the acres, and more than one-fourth of the bushels of barley in the State 2 554 acres and 68,491 bushels. Dearboru is second, with 1,584 acres and 33.127 bushels, while LaPorte is low, with 950 acres and 21,561 bushels. White county has the largest acreage of buckwheat—606 acres: Laporte is second with 593, and Starke third with 417 acres. Fifty-six of the ninety-two counties raised over a million of bushels of com each, and - twentv-seven over half a million bushels of wheat, and only twentyseven raised less than 100,000 bushels each. But three of the counties raised less than a quarter of a million bushels of corn. . A FEW OP THE LARGS YIELDS. The following are twenty-five of the counties having the largest yield of the three leading cereals, in bushels, with the population; County. Corn, j inis. VV tr-jt. Pop. Allen 1, 44l.0S7jl.no, 169, 642.0J. 66.SS9 Bartholomew,... i.83-1.691 lUO.sisi «9j.sjs .t,tm Carroll 1,»8.M*I 307.774 Cass l,53V,3ft>; 359,079 685.617SLIM Clinton 1.9)9,901! 978,540 OUT, 1 .»7 ‘J. ,.170 Daviess 1,615.950 599,661 697.88311,9.943 Delaware 1,598,57a 150,715 401.6457) 1,131 Elkhart l.ID1 905[ 731,105 8«7.158j7W.5'_)j Fountain 1,740.942 4tt0..4. r »Ji-iy.5iS Gibson L773,593! SW.I4J 1, 418,090191.9-10 Hamilton il,»9»,55Ii 93J.8?r 593.91 rai. 13! ■ Hendricks 1,6)5,054! 289.S79 376.831,91.498 Johnson 1,718,6-13 144,360 M9.S54! 19.561 Knov 5.185.550 5Qt(.5Ki l.lf5!,14l)]38,0+4 Kostlusko 1,490,988 747.740 838,81098.056 Larrange 485.993, 686,161 15,8 1* MaUison 1,82,2,6971 196,8911 581.411 :16,4S7 Miami 1,445.528' 2"M.178| 648.057 9.).823 Montgomery 2,126.68V 298,157, 628,o4 i 28.aL) p ose y 1,9 V). 380! 146.456] 1,239,745,21. t)29 Randolph 1.719,309 404.336; 42-M5U’28,085 1,707*499 210.98.4 T16. It 0 19.07M Shelby 15 811, 074 299,223 927,91125.454 Sullivan 1,865,701; 351,686 316.971,91. ?8) Tippecanoe.. 19.551.996 951.244 ' 49 ’.74“ 5 0j8 The foregoing counties are selected rather for the large aggregate yields than anything else. The figures of some of the counties having a smaller aggregate production show that they have a larger yield per acre. In two or three counties in one locality a large yield is reported, while u smaller one is returned by counties just as fertile, the difference being due to a local rain in a critical period. Supposed to be Funny. Sniggs (on his deathbed) —I should like to see Wiargs before I die.” Mrs. Sniggs—‘‘What do you want to see him for? You know he’s a disreputable character and the wickedest man in town. And besides, dear, you are sure to see him some time on the other side. —Boston Transcript. Skiggs —“So you are married?” Hippie-—“Yes.” Skiggs—“And yet it is less than six months since you told me you had determined to remain single.” Hippie—“I know; but you see, Mamie had decided to get married. —Judge. — “Thickhead is one of the most ignorant men I ever knew. He doesn t know anything.” “That s because he shaves himself. If he were shaved by a barber every morning same as 1 am he would know everything. ” — New or;; Press. — Hotel Proprietor —.“Who is that fellow who was talking so much about the location of his room?” Clerk-“He is a prominent gas. man from Chicago.” Hotel Proprietor —“Well, you had better charge him $2 extra for gas.” —N. Y. Sun. • Marriages in Slave Times. Indianapolis News. “How many times have you been married, George?” asked the reporter of the ancient darky. “As far as T can remember now I have had thirty-four wives. I was married to a bright mulatto womdn in Montgomeiy, Pa., and we had one child. But I was fold away from them and I have never seen or heard from either of them since.” “What kind of a ceremony did you have to go through. “Bless you. we had none. When , negroes got married the man’s friend held one end of a broomstick and the woman's friend the other Then the, bridegroom would jump over' it and the bride would follow suit, and then they would kiss each other. Then | they were married and the jolifica- | tion began. So far as I can remem- 1 ber I am the father of fifty-two children, but like n.y wives they were always taken away from mb or I from them. One of my masters,. George Oliver, tied my wife to a tree and whipped her with a blacltsnake in a terrible manner. I was right there, handcuffed, and could not help her at all. When I asked him not to whip her I was told to keep still or I would get a double dose. The last time. I heard of Oliver he was a beggar, going from house to bouse, to get something to eat. Smartweed boiled in a brass pot! 1 and set with alum will color a tin® straw color. •