Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Page 5

Professional Cards. ATTORNEYS. Hanley & Hunt, Law, Abstracts, Loans and Real Estate. Office in Hollingsworth •Building, Ist floor, rear of McCoy's Bank. J. L. Duvall, Attorney-at-Law. ' All business profession carefully and thoroughly executed. Money to loan on almost any terms. Real Estate bought and sold. Collections and abstracts carefully propounded. First door east of P. O. upstairs. Geo. K. Hollingsworth Arthur H. Hopkins Hollingsworth & Hopkins, Attorneys at Law. second floor of Leopold’s Block, Corner Washington and Yanßensselaer sts. Practice in all the courts, purchase, sell and lease real estate. Attorneys for Rensselaer B. L. & S. Association. Jas. W. Douthit, LAWYER, Rensselaer, Indiana. Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker. Attorney For The L. N. A. AC.Ry, and Rensselaer W.L. AP. Co. £&»Office over Chicago Bargain Store. Rensselaer, Indiana. rnAMK polti. e. a. scitlss. massy a. sussis. Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) Attorneys-at-Law. Law, Real Estate, Insurance Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. RENSSELAER, IND. Chilcote & Dunn, Attorneys-at-Law, Attend to all business in the profession with promptness and dispatch. Office in second story of Makeever Block. RENSSELAER, IND.

R. S. DWIGGINS, ...COUNSELORAMAW... Rensselaer, Indiana. I have recovered my health and have again entered upon the practice of the law. Call and see me. Office in Makeever's Bank Buildins. BANKING. Alfred McCoy, Pres T. J. McCoy, Cash. A. R. Hopkins. Assistant Cashier. A. McCoy # Co’s. Bank, RENSSELAER, IND. The Oldest Bank in Jasper County. Established in 1854. Transacts a general banking business, buys notes and loaus money on long or short time on personal or real estate security. Fair and liberal treatment is promised to all. Interest paid on time deposits. Foreign exchange bought and sold. Your patronage is solicited. Patrons having valuable papers may deposit them for safe keeping. Addison Parkinson. John M. Wasson. President. , Vice President. Emmet L.'Hollingsw-orth. Cashier. Commercial State Bank, (North Side of Public Square. RENSSELAER, IND. The Only State Bank in Jasper Co. DIKXCTOKS. Addison Parkison. G. E. Murray. Jas.T. Randle. John M. Wasson and Emmet L. Hollingsworth. This bank is prepared to transact a general banking business. luterest allowed on time deposits. Money loaned and good notes bought at current rates of'lnterest. A share of your patronage is solicited. PHYSICIANS. I. B. Washburn. E. C. English Washburn & English, Physicians & Surgeons, Dr. Washburn will give special attention to Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose. Throat and Chronic Diseases. Dr. English will give special attention to Surgery In all Departments, and general medicine. Office over Ellis A Murray’s Telephone 18. C. E. Powell, n. D. Physician and Surgeon. Will be at office from 2to 3p. m. Sundays. Calls promptly attended. Office over Commercial State Bank—Residence one block north of school house. Office phone 80. Residence phone 81.

H. L. BROWN, Dentist Office over F. B. Meyer’s drug store. J. F. Warren J. F. Irwin Warren & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. Colleetlons, Farm Loana and Fire Iniuranee. Office la Odd Fellow’s Block. RENBSBLARR, INDIANA. George Goff, LUNCH, CREAM, 80DA AND ICES. Agent for Collins lee Cream Co. Union Business College, MCOLUMSIAST.IAMVaTTS.INk Peaataasalp. The best la every way. Bead for Catalans. Apr/njlyrT* 8. A. DRAM, Free.

i. ‘ * —« m*o2sim . f OMIOAUO. INiIANAFOUt * LOU I*V ILL* «V. Rensselaer Time-Table, Corrected to May 15,1888. South Bound. No. 31—Fast Mail (don’t stop) 4:48 a, m. No. s—Louisville Mail,(daily) 10:55 a. m, No. 33—Indianapolis Mail, (daily).. 1:45 p. m. No. 38—Milk accomm., (daily) 6:15 p. m. No. 3 Louisville Express, (daily).. 11:12 p. m. ♦No. 45—Local freight 2:40 p. m. North Bound. No. 4-Mail, (daily) 4:30 a.m. No. 40—Milk accomm., (daily) 7:31a.m. No. 32—Fast Mail, (daily) 9:55 a. m. •No. 30—Cin.to Chicago Ves. Mail.. 6:32 p.m. {No. 38—Cin. to Chicago 2:57 p. m. No. 6—Mail and Express, (daily)... 3:27 p. m. ♦No. 46— Local freight 9:30 a.m. No. 74—Freight, (daily ( 7:52 p. m. ♦Daily except Sunday. {Sunday only. No. 74 carries passengers between Monon and Lowell. Hammond has been made a regular stop for No. 30. W. H. Beam, Agent.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) The government is preparing to send food to Cuba, not only for the insurgents, but for all that need it, including the Spanish soldiers, but the Red Cross Society is ahead of the government as it is already distributing food and other relief in Cuba. * * * It is stated at the War Department that no troops will be discharged until it is known how many will be needed to garrison Porto Rico and Cuba, and it will be some time before that is known, as military commissions are first to meet at San Juan and Havana, and arrange the terms and time of evacuation of Porto Rico and Cuba. The Spaniards will be hurried out of Porto Rico as fast as possible, but as there are six or eight weeks more of the unhealthy season in Cuba, our representatives on the Commission are not likely to object to the Spaniards taking all the time they want to leave there. * * * There is some very strong talk among the Senators and Representatives, who have been in Washington since Sampson was advanced eight numbers and promoted to be Rear Admiral, while Schley, who was also promoted to be Rear Admiral, was only advanced six numbers, which makes Sampson one number ahead of him, instead of one number behind him as he was before these promotions were made. While it is not regarded as likely that any attempt will be made to hang up Sampson’s promotion in the Senate, it is almost certain that occasion will be taken in both House and Senate, to show that he owes it more to favoritism than to anything he did. It will not be more surprising, either, should the resolution offered by Representative Berry, extending the thanks of. Congress to Schley for destroying Cervera’s fleet, be adopted.

* * * If the democrats do not elect a majority of the House, this year, it will not be the fault of the democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is preparing for a vigorous campaign with confident expectations of success. While the Committee will, as usual, furnish the candidates with the kind of literature they think will be most effective in their districts, it will also distribute literature criticising the war revenue law, because of its being harder upon the poor than upon the rich; showing up some of the many evils resulting from Secretary Alger’s using the War Department as a republican partisan machine, and the financial question will not .be neglected, but will be discussed in accordance with the Chicago platform. Democrats who have visited the Committee headuarters, without exception, regard the close of the war at this time as decidedly advantageous for the democratic party, because it will enable them to bring other questions to the attention of the voters and because it will prevent the other side going into the campaign with a false plea that a vote against a republican candidate would be a vote against the conduct of the war. It has not yet been determined whether the administration should be attacked for its action in giving Spain too much to say through the three joint commissions provided for in the terms of peace, when it could just as easily have settled everything in the terms themselves, which Spain would have been bound to aooept anyway, although such action is being strongly advocated. ••• V Mr. McKinley is still in doubt as to the policy we should pursue—towards the Phillippines. It was that doubt that oaused the temporary peaoe agreement, signed by representatives of the two governments,’to provide that the Com-

missioners to negotiate the treaty of peace, which shall determine the final disposition of the Phillippines should meet at Pans, not later than Oct. 1, when it would have been easy to have saved a month by having the Commission meet September 1. The Spanish government has been quick to recognize this doubt on the part of Mr. McKinley, and to act upon it; it has issued a statement to the Spanish people saying 4hat they had reason to believe the peace commission would allow Spain to retain the Phillipphies. What the policy of the administration is to be towards the Phillippines will be plainer after Mr. McKinley names the five American peace commissioners. The only one yet known is Secretary Day, who may be considered as Mr. McKinley’s mouthpiece and personal representative. It is daily becoming plainer that a great mistake was made in allowing Spain to have any say as to the disposition of the Phillippines. While there are differences of opinion among our people, as to our keeping the islands, the opinion is practically unanimous that Spain should not be allowed to retain them. It will be farcical for us to talk about driving Spain out of Cuba and Porto Rico for the sake of humanity, and then to allow Spain to keep the Phillippines after they were practically in our possession. We should not confine our humanity to the Cubans, else foreigners will refuse to believe that it is humanity.

THE STATE MEDICAL BOARD.

Its Action In the Burroughs Case Roundly Condemned. To the Editor —Sir; In the refusal of the state medical board to issue a license to Dr. Burroughs to continue the practice of nis profession in the state as sustained by the recent decision of the supreme court there are some features of more than passing interest to many beside physicians, in that it invades the rights of individuals as' guaranteed by the constitution of the United Staten, and confers mandatory and discretionary power upon a set of men personally interested in having the number of physicians as limited as possible, which, altogether, is completely at variance with the authorizing the creation of a medical board. Therefore a considerof what are some of the assumed powers, of this board and of what are its really legitimate functions is commended to all persons who would conserve the constitutional rights of the individual or who knows that an injury to one class in a community is necessarily an injury to the whole. Dr. Burroughs was refused a license on the nominal ground of “irregular schooling,” the real objection to his continuing practice, as is well understood by many, was that, contrary to the so-called “ethics” of the profession, he advertised largely in the public press.

Now, as regards the real or the nominal grounds upon which Dr. Burroughs was refused a certificate. there is in the law, as it stands on our statute books today, not the slighest shadow of warrant as a very brief analysis will readily show. In the firfet place the law says: “A 11 persons wishing to begin the •?. % tice of medicine in the state, shall, in brief, prove that” they have pursued a certain prescribed course of study, when, if of good moral character, the board shall issue the license admitting them to practice within the state.” For those already practicing at the time the law went into effect, it was provided that to those who could show regularity Erocured license under the old iw the board also “shall issue” certificates entitling them to the privilege of continuing practice—a plain mandatory provision without a vestige of discretionary power in it, nor the shadow of right to raise the question of how or where the already established physicians received their mental training, the clause bearing upon this point relating exclusively to those wishing “to begin” practice within the state. Did the law read otherwise it would be retroactive and therefore unconstitutional. But this board ignores this point and goes the law one better, by formulating a set of rules under which all old physicians are arbitrarilly required to submit to the conditions of this one clause or be deprived of their right to continue in practice! < . What this means to many physicians who have not had the benefits of the later method of the schools, but who nevertheless are doing faithful, conscientious and really skillful work in their several communities, let any man answer for himself who has a business which it bus taken him years to build ’• i and which, to be suddenly deprived of, would leave him

without the means of support. Yet it is this clearly unjust and illegal action of the medical board which our supreme court upholds. Surely the board can ask for nothing more. For by this decision there is established a medical censorship as dangerous and illegal as any of the so-called trusts which in these days of almost universal monopolistic domination are undermining the liberties of the people and in so many subtle and underhanded ways lessening individual chances for making a living. So much fpr the nominal grounds upon which Dr. Burroughs was refused a license. As regards the real cause it is reported on good authority that one member of the board was heard to say in reference to this case that “no d—d advertising doctor” would be allowed in the state, from which it is the natural inference that advertising was the chief of Dr. Burroughs offending. On this point the attitude of the board is as clearly illegal and unjustifiable as upon the one already explained. In the law as written there is no hint nor specification as to how a physician shall manage his business, when a license to go into business has been given. That is a matter very rightly left to his own judgement

I^JUDY_> AND THE EIF BUGGY CO., ....Have come to stay at.... GOODLAND, INDIANA. We have good reasons for so doing. It is beise the lands around Qoodland and vicinity are :ile and the farmers thriving, because from out he ground, all the good things must come. ...We have Proof of it already... Ve are already running a corps of mechanics airing buggies here; we mean business so do friends who have trusted us with their work; shall and will do their work so that we will rit their confidence; we want the buggy repairfrom all over the vicinity of Qoodland and er towns around that have no such repair shop. 11 [1 18. :re will be a grand display of all kinds of Harness on these Special Sale Days. ome and see them. We sell at the lowest pose price for cash and will sell to anybody and rybody without personal security on time. We eve in every man standing upon his own re- £ sources, therefore we have adopted this plan. • Come and talk to us. Be sure and call on Sale! | days. Special terms offered. I Judy and the Leif Buggy Cu. j

and business sense. In these days of struggle for a living, among professional men as well as others, a physician will not be long in learning that it is the one who profits by established business methods, the man who advertises honestly, boldly and contiguously, who “gets there” the surest and soonest. And in the name of all that is good and sensible, why should not a physician advertise his specialities of skill and knowlege the same as does the dry goods merchant or green groeer those wayes of which they know there is need in the community, for is not he in business as well as they? Are not his knowledge and skill his “stock in trade?” And is it not his purpose to convert these into money and thus obtain the means of living the same as does the merchant or green grocer his wares which constitute his stock in trade? Most assuredly; yet in almost every town or hamlet throughout our land today there are doctors well educated and capable sitting behind their modest door plates in a condition of semi-starvation, waiting, waiting, waiting for calls which never come rather than violate that pitiful rule of “profession pthics” which forbids them to advertise. Verily the old adage which says, “it takes a fool to be a physician,” is not

without some foundation in fact, for this they do well knowing that all about them are sufferers to whom they could bring the blessings of cure or relief if but ones these sufferers could be brought to their hands, while the physicians themselves would quickly be raised from a state of chronic impecunosity to one of ease and comfort or, oftentimes, even affluence. In the rapid multiplication of “trusts” and monopolies at th© present time there is good reason to believe that in certain high circles the great American public is regarded as a good deal or an ass. If the physicians of our state tamely submit to the arrogant domination of an illegal censorship, as thus far exercised by the so-called medical board the utter assinity of one class of our people will certainly have to be conceded. W. M. L. Watch The Daylight Clothing House for the finest line of clothing, shoes, hats, caps and gent’s furnishings ever shown in Jasper county. Bring your buggy, wagon and harness wants to Judy and The Lief Buggy Company and they will supply you. They have th© material and ability to do it.