Hope Republican, Volume 1, Number 39, Hope, Bartholomew County, 19 January 1893 — Page 4

HOPE REPUBLICAN. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. OAY C. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor. Subscription, $1.09 per Year, in Advance. Por Advertising Rates. Apply at Office. Entered at the post ofTice at Hope, Indiana, as second class matter. THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1893. Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, has admitted that he will accept the treasury portfolio in Mr. Cleveland’s cabinet. The corruption which is being shown in France through the Panama canal investigations is alarming. Every day new names are added to the list of the tainted. It would have seemed impossible for so gigantic a swindle to have been carried on among intelligent men, but such has been the case. The people cannot be too careful in ascertaining the real character of those intrusted with the management of public or corporate funds. The Indiana legislature made a good beginning in needless expenditure of the people’s money last week when they appointed unnecessary door-keepers at five dollars per day salary, all “in the interest of the laboring classes, who need employment.” It would seem that such an argument is too transparent to be seriously proposed in any intelligent legislative body. Yet such was the case. It must have required the brass of a copper monkey to stand up and offer such an argument to the people of Indiana, believing they copld not see the entire want of logic in it. It is now reported that the Big Four railway will build a track to Louisville. Several routes have been surveyed, but that from Aurora down the river through Madison has been selected. The route direct to North Vernon would give more direct communication with Chicago, but the one selected will make the most direct route to Cincinnati and at the same time open a Chicago and Louisville route. Most of the southern trade comes via Cincinnati, Louisville or St. Louis. With this new line the Big Four will have connection with all three of these cities, and competition will be considerably sharpened. Hope's prospects for the coming year are decidedly hopeful. The industries now located here are doing well. Our merchants are sustaining their good trade. Business just now is temporarily dull, but that is always to be expected at this season of the year. The holiday trade was good and preparations are already being made for a good spring trade. A much needed store will be added the first of the month which will supply our citizens with a good lino of furniture. The creamery has been put under a new management and promises to prove a success for its supporters. The new flour exchange recently opened is doing a good business. So is our new grain dealer. And then whan our new flour mill is built and put in active operation we can again feel that Hope is awaking to a new life of business activity. The death of Benjamin F. Butler removed a prominent figure trom American life. His intellectual i power and acumen were beyond ques-1 tion, and whether as lawyer, soldier 1 or politician he al ways succeeded in ! winning a reputatian for himself. | He had all the shrewdness of the Yankee; he had the audacity of a lion, coupled with great self-confi-dence. He was fertile in resources. As a commander he did not wait to he directed, but devised his own policy, much to the annoyance of his superior officers sometimes. In Congress, as in every other place, he became a leader at once. He was active in the prosecution of whatever measure he took up. Gradually he ( rifted out of sympathy with the Ropulliean party and went astray

in the wilds of Greenbackism. The Grecnbaekers and Democrats made him their candidate for Governor two or three times, and at last, in 1882, he was elected, to the consternation and dismay of the staid people of the old Bay state. He had run for the office as a Democrat in 1860, and as a Republican in 1871. In 1884 he ran for the presidency as a Grecnbacker, in the hope that he might attract enough votes away from Mr. Cleveland to make sure Of the latter’s defeat. But the scheme failed. Since that year comparatively little has been heard from him. He was always on the lookout for Benjamin B. Hence his influence on American politics can not be said to be elevating. Rather it had an opposite tendency. He had the ability to make him a great man, but he was lacking in integrity and conviction of character, so essential to a place of true greatness. The repeal of the Sherman silver law is now strenuously demanded by the business men of all parties. Senator Sherman himself now favors it. He says it was a compromise measure passed in order to prevent a free coinage act. As such it had some value. But it is bringing evils which were unforeseen at the time of its enactment. Foreign investors are beginning to feel insecure about their investments here and are turning them into gold. There is a feeling prevailing among foreigners that unless a change is made, before six months gold will command a premium in this country. The government is redeeming its silver certificates and greenbacks in gold at the option of the party holding them, but the government is under no obligation to do this. Should it cease to do so, there would be an immediate rush on the treasury and gold in a few hours would be at a premium. But so great is the faith of our people in the soundness of our government that the small reserve has so far been sufficient for all practical purposes. If a reserve of $100,000,000 is none too much to hold against $334,000,000, then a reserve of $22,000,000 is much too small to hold ugainst $571,000,009 outstanding currency, which is, to a large extent, credit currency. Yet at the close of December the reserve stood at $21,300,000, less than one-fourth what it was when the Sherman act went into effect. The petition signed by the business men of Albany, N. Y., regardless of political affiliations, is not without significance. The fact that Congressmen of all parties, including the author of the bill, are favoring the repeal makes it seem hopeful even at this session. To refuse to vote for the repeal from any merely partisan motives will be bad policy as well as bad statesmanship. The Republicans of the legislature, in caucus, on Wednesday night, nominated the Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks to be their candidate for United States Senator. No more fitting action could have been taken. Mr. Fairbanks is one of the ablest exponents of Republicanism in the state, and with his marked ability is combined enthusiasm and affability to a degree which is unusual. It is a matter of regret that Mr. Fairbanks will not be elected. He reflects great credit upon the state as a private citizen. He would do the state great honor as a senator. —Franklin Republican. One of the pleasant things to see j in these days is the effort made by ' some of the newspapers of CincinI nati to relieve the suffering of the : poor in that great city during these i days of severe cold weather. These philanthropic efforts are dictated by the large, warn hearts of men who reside in our Christian land. These men may or may not be Christians themselves, but they have lived amid such influences until their lives, all unconsciously, have been affected by the teachings of the lowly Nazarene. If monarchists or imperialists had a hero to pin their faith to at this crisis, it might be a sad day for the French republic. But if the republic goes by the board, what then?

The French are not clean daft. There is no one in sight to fill a throne with; and however greatly they may be disgusted With things as they are, neither conservatives nor radicals are likely to jump out of the fryingpan into the fire.—Indianapolis News. When Mr. Gladstone was asked the secret of tyis remarkable activity at the advanced age of eighty-four, he replied: “There was once a road leading out of London on which more horses died than on any other, and inquiry revealed the fact that it was perfectly level. Consequently the animals in traveling over it used only one set of muscles.” Continuous employment in any one line involves loss of power in the physical world. The same is true of the mental functions. It is not work that breaks down so many of our business men, but constant concentration upon one line of business. What the majority of exhausted business men need is not that rest which means complete cessation of all mental effort, but that rest which brings a change from the accustomed mental habits. It is this constant change which has made Mr. Gladstone so hale and hearty at his age and at the same time has made him a marvel for his many-sided knowledge. Headache is the direct result of indigestion and stomach disorders. Remedy these by using De Witt’s Little Early Risers, and your headache disappears. The favorite little pills everywhere. S. Stapp & Son.

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