Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 24, Hope, Bartholomew County, 6 October 1892 — Page 2

HOPE REPUBLICAN. By Jay C. Smith HOPE INDIANA Tup, announcement of a coffin trust and an increase of 10 per cent in the price looks a good deal like making the necessity of one portion of the people the opportunity of another portion. Ocean steamship stock has greatly depreciated this season. The ex. peuse of lying in quarantine is a heavy one, and to this loss must bo added what might be made were ocean traffic uninterrupted. Oue of the most peculiar features ef French parliamentary life is the custom of drinking while addressing the house. No sooner does a deputy or senator ascend the rostrum than a glass filled with his own favorite brew is placed before him. Niaoaiia is to be set to work treading mill wheels and furnishing electric lights for various Canadian towns. No doubt the commercial spirit of this age will soon have Niagara doing laundry work for residents of all the surrounding country. Edward Bellamy, the author of "Looking Backward.” has grown whiskers since he was last photographed. On behalf of the gentlemen who have no whiskers and cannot raise whiskers, all good socialists should protest. Common property in whiskers or socialism is a mockery! Tue use of wood creosote, which is extensively distilled in North Carolina from the wood of Pinus Palustris, is recommended by Capt. W. H. Bixby for antiseptic purposes. It destroys vegetable and animal life, repels moisture, and coagulates fermentable matter. As a paint for wooden or metallic surfaces it preserves them from wet or dry rot, rust and the attacks of insects; and when forced by hydraulic pressure into the pores of wood its antiseptic effects are extended to the very center of the block. An exchange announces that “20,000 women in Chicago support their husbands.” The sooner people all recognize that the faithful wife in the home in all cases furnishes her full half of support to the home the better it will be. Tlje wisest and most successful men know that their success is due as much to their wives as to themselves. The best capital any man ever had to start on is a good wife; and to keep her at her best she must always be trusted as bis equal in all things. There is a strong probability that within a few days the federal authorities will stop foreign immigration. The order will apply to steerage passengers who are not American citizens. The wisdom of such a proceeding is manifest. It would tend to minimize the danger from cholera infection and would render more easy the eradication of cholera should it obtain a foothold on this continent. At the same time it would be a measure of kindness in preventing helpless and misguided immigrants from undertaking a trip which now is beset with perils and discomforts. The restriction of immigration at this time is called for by every wise consideration. It is a funny thing, but all men like aprons. There is something housewifely about them that suggests good dinners and sweet considerate care. The coquette thoroughly understands this, and every season finds her armed with an apron or two with which she intends to quell mankind. The latest one is made of mummy cloth, quite plain, and gathered in at the waist to a broad sash that is tied at the back. At the bottom are bands of scarlet, blue and green ribbon, arranged just as are the bands of color on the apron of a Homan contadina, No faint colors must be chosen, but just such healthy tones as the dark-eyed, dark-haired Italian peasant would select as becoming to her.

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. A GROUNDLESS CLAIM. Tudlanapoliu Journal. The Sentinel is trying to manufacture popular opinion against the gerrymander suit by claiming that, if the apportionment acts of 1881 and 1885 are held unconstitutional, it will invalidate all the acts of the two Legislatures elected under them. The Journal showed that there is nothing whatever in this claim, because the persons thus elected were de facto members of the Legislature, and it is well settled law that the official acts of de facto public officers are valid and binding. To this the Sentinel replies that, as the offices of State Senators and Representative are created by the apportionment act, they will cease to exist if that act is set aside, and there cannot be a de facto incumbent of an office that does not exist. In support of this position it quotes from a decision of the United States Supreme Court, in the case of Norton vs Shelby, 118 U. S., 425, to the effect that there can be no such thing as a de facto officer except where the office which ho claims to fill legally exists; in other words, there cannot be a de facto official without a do jure ofoffice. That is' undoubtedly good law, but it does not apply to the case in hand. In the case of Norton vs. Shelby the question before the court involved the validity of the acts of certain persons claiming to bo Commissioners of Shelby county, Tennessee. That is an office created by an act of the Legislature; and the court held that as the law creating the office was invalid the office did not exist and there could be no de faeto incumbent of it. That is true as to a statutory office, but the offices of Senator and Representatives are not statutory offices. They are created by the Constitution, which fixes the number of members in each body, prescribes their term of office, their qualifications, etc. It also prescribes how these offices shall bo filled. The apportionment law does not in any sense create the offices of Senator and Representative. It simply apportions or districts the State for the election of persons to fill those offices. If the apportionment law creates the offices it would be competent for the Legislature to increase the number of either house or change the qualifications of members. If they are statutory offices it ( would be competent for the Legislature to say that a Senator or Representative need not have resided in the State more than one year before his election, or that a Senator need not be more than twenty-one years old. But the Legislature cannot do this, nor touch the offices in any way. It can o*ly apportion the State for the election of persons to fill them, and that apportionment must be in conformity with the constitutional requirement. The decision of the United States Supreme Court in Norton vs. Shelby County applies only to statutory offices, and does not touch the case in hand. The claim the the holding the apportionment act unconstitutional would invalidate, the acts of the Legislature elected under it is intended to alarm the people by creating the impression that the suit/involves revolutionary consequences. It cannot be intended to affect the court, because the Sentinel knows, or could easily learn if it wished to be informed on the subject, that there is nothing whatever in the claim. Noboby need have any fears. There is no danger of chaos. All that is necessary is to Jobey the law as it shall be expounded by the Supreme Court of the State, which, in this case, will be the court of last resort. The claim that a decision against the gerrymander would invalidate the acts of the Legislature elected under it is absurd. FOREIGN TESTIMONY AS TO THE WKINUEY TARIFF. Indianapolis JournaL It is a noteworthy fact that while free trade papers and orators in this country are trying to convince the people that the McKinley law is a dreadful failure and is ruining the business of the country, foreign papers are reluctantly admitting that it is operating all too advantageously in favor of American interests. From the way they talk they would give a good deal if the assertions of American free traders were true. Thus the London Morning Post, of Aug. 20, says; On Saturday several additional proprietors con nected with the W elsh tin plate trade closed their works, in consequence of the depression in the British trade caused by the operations of the McKinley tariff act. The mills are stopped at about sixtyfour tin plate works in South Wales, and it is estimated that upward of ten thousand workmen are thrown out of employment. A large number of operatives,with their families, sailed on Saturday for the United States, where new mills are now being erected by Welsh proprietors. it is cruel for an English paper to blurt out the truth like this. The statement of the Post, which, by the way, is a leading paper In Loudon,

virtually gives tho lie to all the assertions of American free traders in regard to the growth and prospects of the tin plate industry in this country. It is a candid admission from an unfriendly witness that the McKinley law is working strongly in favor of American interests. Further testimony of the same kind appears in an editorial in the South District Advertiser, published at Manchester, England. After referring to the evidence that the McKinley law, so far from injuring, has actually benefitted this country, the Advertiser says, “But, while America is improved rather than impoverished, the McKinley tariff has told most disastrously on some of our manufacturing industries. ” It then describes the rapid decline of tho alpaca trade in England. It says : “ A melancholy change has taken place within the past two years. The business has suddenly and rapidly declined, and now the winding up of the great enterprise is published. The McKinley tariff has killed the alpaca trade. There is still a great demand in the United States for the material manufactured at Saltaire, but the new tariff shuts it out. Under the protection of that tariff moreover, factories have been established which are already producing the goods nearly, if not quite, as cheaply as they can bo produced here. ” Here is another sad admission that the McKinley law is working in favor of American interests. And so it is all along the line. While American free traders are wildly vociferating that the McKinley law is ruining the country, English editors and manufaoturers are frankly admitting that it is damaging British and building up American trade. In the bottom of their hearts they must have great contempt for American free traders, who are showing themselves either utterly ignorant of the operation of the law or viciously opposed to American interests. PRESIDENT HARRISON AND SIONSThe Democratic literary bureau, along with its vilification of Pension Commissioner Raum, is disseminating an assertion that President Cleveland approved a greater number of pension bills than President Harrison has done. The forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses passed 2,042 private pension bills. Of these 297 were vetoed either by message or by pocketing, and 227 became laws by lapse of time without his approval", so that he approved only 1.518 of them. The last Republican Congress passed 1, 377 private pension bills, every one of which received President Harrison’s approval and became a law. But then came in the present Democratic Congress with its overwhelming Southern control on the Democratic side. As a result there were weeks following weeks when no private pension bill could even obtain consideration in the House, to say nothing of being passed. No quorum could be mus - tered in a House with a Democratic majority of 140 to consider bills to pension old soldier’s. It was only on the last private bill night of the session that the House, in a panic at the pension record it would have to go before tho country with, shoveled 105 bills into the hopper and approved them in 105 minutes. But, with 1 all this reckless haste to make a record, the first season of the Fiftysecond Congress enacted only 133 private pension bills. These became laws with President Harrison's approval. Compare this 133 bills with the 849 of the first session of the Fif-ty-first Congress or even with the 747 bills which became laws of the first session of the Democratic Fiftieth Congress, and it is seen who is to blame for the apparently fewer number of bills approved by President Harrison. Yet, unless the second session of this more-than-a-bil-Ikm-dollar Congress makes the number of worthy pension bills less than ten, President Harrison will still have approved more private pension bills than did President Cleveland in his full term. These facts are stated because the Democrats seem insistent about figures. The figures seem superfluous when the unfeeling jocularity with which Cleveland dwelt upon the injuries of old soldiers in his pension vetoes is recalled. In his veto of the Total Disability Pension act of the Forty-ninth Congress, Cleveland struck at hundreds of thousands of pensioners who never obtained their rights until President Harrison signed the Dependent Pension bill passed by the Republican Fifty-first Congress. The other day President Harrison attended soldier's reunion at Malone up in the region of New York. Here is the way he closed the little speech he made: “And now, comrades of the Grand Army of tho Republic, surviving veterans of that gallant band that from these.mountains and valleys went out to defend the flag, I give you a comrade’s greeting to day. God bless you, every one. God forgive tho heartlessness of that American in this bright day of prosperity

and unity who can begrudge to any T one of you the just duds of your hard ] service. ” 1 QOOD THINGS "BY HARRISON. A Tori* PaiiBCO from UI» Sjjooclxes for Ertry Day In tho Week, “It would have been a climax of disaster for the world if this government of the people had perished. The one unsolved experiment of free government has been solved. We have demonstrated tho capacity of the people and a citizen soldiery to maintain inviolate the unity of the Republic. "—Benjamin Harrison. “ It was one of the great triumphs of the war —a particular in which our war was distinguished from all other wars of history—that we brought the vanquished into the same full, equal citizenship under the law that wo maintain for ourselves.'' —Benjamin Harrison. “ We are not attracted by the suggestion that we should surrender to foreign producers the best market in the world. Our 60,000,000 people are tho best buyers in the world,and they are such because our working classes receive the best wages. But re do not mean to be content with our own market. We should seek to promote closer and more friendly commercial relations with the Central and South American States. ” — : Benjamin Harrison, 1888. “We do not desire to dominate these neighboring governments ; we do not desire to deal with them in any spirit of aggression. Wo desire those friendly, political, mental and commercial relations which shall promote their interests equally with ours. We should not longer forego those commercial relations and advantages which our geographical relations suggest and make so desirable. ” —Benjamin Harrison, 1883. “And now peace has come; no hand is lifted against tho Hag : the Constitution is again supreme and the nation one. My countrymen, it is no time now to use an apothecary's scale to weigh the rewards of the men who saved the country. ”—Benjamin Harrison. “ It is one of tho best elements of our strength as a State that our farm lauds are so largely possessed in small tracts, and are tilled by the men who own them. It is one of the best evidences of the prosperity of our cities that so large a proportion of the men who work are covered by their own roof trees. If we would perpetuate this condition we must maintain the American scale of wages. " —Benjamin Harrison. “ The laboring men of this land rnav safely trust every just reform in which they are interested to public discussion, and to the logic of reason ; they may surely hope, upon these lines which are o pen to-you by the ballot box, to accomplish under our American institutions all those right things you have conceived as necessary to" your highest success and well being. Do not allow yourselves to doubt for one moment the friendly sentiment of tho great masses of our people. Make your appeal wisely and calmly and boldly for every reform you desire, to that sentiment of justice which rtervades our American public. ’’ —Benjamin Harrison. A DEMOCRATIC PLAN. Huntington Herald. “The only way to abolish private property in land is by the way of taxation.” We quote from page 61 of “Protection or Free Trade,” a book printed in the Congressional Record as a Democratic speech, at public expense, and now being mailed by thousands as a Democratic freetrade document. Farmers are advised to quietly put this together with the new Democratic Indiana tax law and soberly meditate between now and November. Also please consider the following from the Indianapolis Sentinel (State Democratic organ) of 1890: “The prospect is that all taxes, at least for State and Municipal purposes, will, in the near future, ba laid upon land.” It doesn't seem to need much argument to show where tho Democratic party is going. THE M’KINLEY TARIFF AND TINCrawfordfivllle Journal. Two years ago the Democracy said the people of Indiana could not make tin plate. The R»nuolicaa partj r said we could make it. Two years ago the Democratic party said the price of tinware would be increased. The Republican party said it would not. Now, at the end of two years, since tho tin tariff was placed on foreign tin plate, the Republican party is willing to face its former declarations, and go before the people without hedging and trying to avoid the point. Now the Democracy says that the discovery of gas in the region of Elwood was the cause of the tin plate factories there. What cause will the Democracy give tor tho starting of tin plate factories ir. other States, where they have no gas? Gas was discovered ir. Indiana seven years ago. and what cause «itl the Democracy give for the stnrt.n* of tin. p-atfl faotorlos 1 o Indiana since the tariff was placed ou foreign tin aud unt bafor* ?

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