Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — Page 4

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Why don’t our three republican contemporaries tell their readers something about that stationery deal of last year? William J. Bryan seems to be a pretty lively political corpse yet, a fact which the republicans are beginning to realize. County superintendents elected next June will hold their office for four years. This fact should not be forgotten when selecting a successor to Supt. Hamilton. The work of “assimilation” goes merrilly on in the Philippines. Several hundred of the nations have succumbed to Mac’s assimilating scheme this week. By the way, have you noticed in any other paper in Rensselaer anything about Heinzman Bros, claim of $2,500 damages filed against the county, and which the commissioners dismissed Ik If you want ALL the county news read The Democrat. County property must hereafter be sold at public sale to the highest bidder, after having been duly advertised. This law applies to stock at county farms, as well as other county property, a fact it will be well for “Honest Abe” and his coherts to note. Don’t let the guilty owner of a worthless dog escape, especially if he’s poor. But proceed cautiously and prostrate thyself upon thy belly when dealing with wealthy corporations. Consistency is a most rare jewel in Jasper county under the present regime. We are sorry to note that Bro. Marshall makes no effort to apoloogize for the naughty things said* by him about The Democrat last campaign, although recent events have proved that every statement made by The Democrat at that time was true as gospel, and that the Republican was the sheet which was “mistaken.”

And now Rensselaer proposes to act on the advice of her city attorney and saddle on the taxpayers of the county the expense of feeding her hobo visitors by arresting them as vagrants and having them committed to jail. Is this justice to other towns in the county, which pay their own bills for feeding tramps? Is it justice to the country taxpayer? Bro. Marshall has “seen a great light” in the Jasper County Telephone matter. The “light” is said to have developed as the result of a “conference” held in the office of a prominent stockholder some days ago in which Bro. Marshall occupied about the sajne position as did another gentleman at a “conference” held here a few years ago, at which Bro Marshall was one of the party of jokers. The Democrat is informed that the Jasper County Telephone Co., is to be placed on the tax duplicate, for several thousand dollars, as a result of The Democrat’s exposure, and the assessment will carry two years of back taxes withit. Now let “Honest Abe’s” lines be put on for the years ’96-7, and the Standard Oil Co., for the time they have maintained a depot here. The latter evidently wish to pay taxes here, and know they should pay, or they would not have written for the amount of —• for 1«8.

Henry Seegrist, recorder of Starke county, will turn into the county no more fees collected through his office. The fee and salary low enacted in 1895 placed the salary of the recorder of Starke county at S7OO per year. All over that sum which Mr. Seegrist has collected as fees he has turned into the county funds. But now he declares he will keep every dollar he collects as fees until the courts decide that he shall give up the excess collected. —Rensselaer Republican. If the above is true, Henry Seegrist, recorder of Starke county, should be taken out to the woods by the good people of his county and given a liberal dose of hickory stripes; then he should be arrested for embezzlement and sent the penitentiary without delay. The legislature fixed the salaries of county officers throughout the state and the supreme court has upheld the law. Every man who accepts office takes it with all its burdens and the compensation fixed by law. IT either are distasteful he can resign, but it ill becomes any honest official to defy the law of the land and fix his own compensation. The little or no notice taken of just such brazen. flagrant and wilful violations of law as the above is the sole reason for the notion entertained by too many public officials that all money they may come into possession of is theirs to keep and use as they may see fit.

The Barnacle “editor” says that he never collected any campaign funds. The memory of the Barnacle “editor” always was a little defective on financial matters, and he evidently has forgotten about the $25 Hon. Thos. J. Wood of Lake county entrusted to the Barnacle “editor” to deliver to the democratic central committee of this county as hiscampaign assessment for campaign purposes in 1884, when Mr. Wood was a candidate for congress, and which never got any further than the pocket of the Barnacle “editor.” The Barnacle “editor” has also forgotten about the county chairman notifying the county candidates four years ago of what their assessment was for the legitimate expenses of the campaign, and asking them to hand in same, only to find that the Barnacle “editor” had forestalled him and assessed the candidates, collected the “assessments” and “put it where it would do the most good”—to the Barnacle “editor.” The Barnacle “editor” has also forgotten how he attempted the same thing two years ago, and did succeed in “collecting” $3 from one candidate who had not been warned against paying the Barnacle “editor” anything. So we might go on and on, showing the peculiar ability of the Barnacle “editor” for collecting campaign funds, while h’s name was carried on the pay roll of the republican central committee’s superanuated list, and the Barnacle “editor” was obeying the biblical injunction, of the republicans, to “spoil” the Egyptians (democrats). The above, however, should be sufficient recommendation to secure for the Barnacle “editor” the position of “treasurer” of the new democratic (?) county central committee,composed exclusively of republicans, which the Barnacle “editor” proposes to form.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

(From our regular correspondent.) According to War Department officials, Gen. Gomez will not receive a dollar of the $3,000,000 about to be destributed, entirely on his say so, among Cuban soldiers, by this government. , This statement has caused everybody to wish to know where Gomez got the money to pay for his present extravagant mode of living, in Havana. It is known that previous to his beginning the negotiations with R. B. Porter, who acted as Mr. McKinley’s personal representative, which resulted in the agreement to pay $3,000,000 for the disbandment of the Cuban army, Gomez had no money, and that ever since he has apparently had plenty. Did Porter make an individual payment to Gomez? If so, how much, and from what fund was it derived? These are some of the questions suggested by the

situation and asked on every hand. Congress did not appropriate a cent to pay Cuban soldiers, but there was an item added to the Sundry Civil Bill by the last Congress, appropriating $3,000,000 as an emergency fund, to be expended at the discretion of the president. That is the money that will be used, but if the claim that Gomez has got none of it and will ?;et none of it, be true, the source rom which Gomez extracted the wealth to pay his present enormous expenses is left in mystery. But it will be solved. The acting Secretary of war says that the administration intends to make Cuba repay from its revenues, this money.

Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, isn’t one of those wild republicans who regard the Presidential election of next year, as already settled. In an interview, Mr. Thurston said: “The Presidential battle next year promises to be lively and exciting. McKinley will probably be renominated and I presume that Bryan will head the democratic ticket. I believe that the republicans will win if we stand together and work hard, but our democratic friends will undoubtedly put up a stiff fight. We must not indulge ourselves with the delusion that we are going to have a walk-over.

Secretary Alger dosen’t appear to care any more about being consistent than he did about the welfare of the soldiers during the war. Several days before Congress adjourned, Alger announced that the junket he had intended to conduct to Cuba and Porto Rico was off, because his official duties would prevent his leaving Washington. Of course, it was well known that Alger abandoned the intended junket because he failed to get a sufficient number of democratic Senator’s and Representatives to accompany him. But for consistency’s sake, it was supposed that Alger would remain on duty and make a bluff of being busy. Not he. He left immediately after Mr. McKinley did, for a trip to New England, which was extended to Canada, and this week he is going to start for Cuba and Porto Rico, but he won’t take any congressmen with him. He says he is going to pay the expenses of himself and the two men who will accompany him, but it would require the vouchers for the payments to convince the public.

* * * If any proof were needed that Mr. McKinley isn’t in the South solely for rest and recreation, it is furnished by the fact that he will, during the present week, meet Czar Reed in person on Jekyl Island, where Mr. McKinley will be the guest Jof ex-Secretary Bliss, and Mr. Reed will be the guest of a rich Wall street banker, both at the same club house. It is stated by Mr. Reed’s friends that the meeting is his idea, and that he intends to compel an immediate show down on the part of Mr. McKinley that will make the position of the administration on the Speakership of the next House, perfectly clear. The queer part of the whole business is that two men who have spent the whole winter within a stone’s throw of each other, in Washington, should find it necessary to meet in the Spring, on an island off the coast of South Carolina, in order to come to an understanding.

* * * Private news from the Philippines indicates that the administration is again juggling with the public in regard to the situation. While no official dispatches have been quoted, officials have talked so as to leave the impression that the reports of Gen. Otis, since the victories of the past week have been to the effect that Aguinaldo’s army is about ready to ask for terms and that a general collapse of the rebellion may be looked for at any time. Owing to the strict censorship, no private telegrams dealing with the conditions existing, can be sent from Manila direct, but some have been sent to Hong Kong by boat and cabled from there, which do not take so rosy a view of the situation. According to these, the war is a long ways from being over, and the only effect that will follow thrashing Aguinaldo’s army, which our troops do every time they come into contact with any portion of it, will be to transfer the fighting ground to the hills and bushes, where it will be difficult for our men to get at them except when they choose to be got at, and possibly to other islands of the group. There is a nightly panic in Manila and most of the white women and children have been eent •way for fear of a native uprising. Time Will tell which is correct, the of-< ficial or the private view of the tituation. The Oregon has arrived in Manila Bay.

WOMEN AS RENT-COLLECTORS.

One Who Know* Something About It from Experience. When nearly 30 years ago Miss Octavia Hill first demonstrated that women could collect rents from the poorest class of tenants without injury to themselves, and with benefit to those with whom they were thrown, she opened a door for other women to enter. Slowly and timidly at first, her followers in this country began to try the experiment, but at the present time it has ceased to bean experiment and become an established fact that women can do this work, and do it well. Having been for many years a rent collector myself, I can speak with positive knowledge of the great satisfaction tenants feel in establishing personal relations with the landlady. She is not (or at least she ought not to be) a person to collect rents only; she should be the friend of the tenants, their counselor in case of trouble, and their reliance in any extremity. A good rent collector will see that roofs are tight and drains sound, the small repairs are attended tc promptly, and that unruly neighbors are not allowed to disturb the comfort of the deserving tenants. But she will also see that if a family is in distress, some means'is sought to alleviate their suffering; that if a child is dangerously ill it is sent to the hospital; that if a young girl is out of work she is directed to a place where she may find safe and suitable employment.

It is to encourage this friendly relation between tenants and collectors that I advocate strongly the house-to-house collection of rents. How is it possible for an agent, sitting in an office and having the rents brought to her to know what is the condition of the rooms or of their occupants? How can any intimate knowldege of a family be gained by a brief interchange of civilities as the rent is paid to the collector over a counter? Although it may mean more work for the landlady or agent, I am sure she will be amply repaid by the knowledge she will gain of each family, and the pleasure the tenants will feel in the more personal relationship which is established by house-to-house and room-to-room collection.

There are three points on which I dwell carefully in instructing a new agent in regard to her duties: First, that, for the protection of other tenants and of the property all references furnished by tenants shall be inquired into most thoroughly; second, that house-to-house collections shall be made; and, third, that good faith, extending even to the smallest matters, shall be kept with the tenants. If a landlord exacts prompt payment of rent he should be equally exact in attending to repairs. If he expects uniformly fair treatment from the tenant he should be willing to give the same in return. No one complaint is more commonly made by tenants than this: “My landlord will not do anything for me”—which means too often that drains are neglected and teaks allowed to remain, or that wall paper, paint, and whitewash are unrenewed. The best lesson which can be taught the tenants is that a moral obligation exists on both sides—that if prompt payment is exacted reasonable demands will be complied with. The unwritten law of courtesy to each and all is an important factor in this work. The one thing which has been borne in on me through an experience of almost 20 years as a landlady is that tenants like to be treated as we would wish to be treated ourselves, were the positions reversed. The nearer we can approach to this simple application of the golden rule the more likely are we to succeed in this especial form of work.—Municipal Affairs.

JUDGING CHARACTER.

New Question That Recently Came Up for a Court to Decide. In the Wisconsin supreme court decisions appears the brief entry: “Conde vs. Stark, reversed,” that definitely settled Charles Conde’s hopes of securing SIO,OOO from the estate of the late Edward J. Stark. Mr. Stark had willed SIO,OOO to Mr. Conde, a relative, to be paid him at the age of 30 years, providing he was at that time of such moral character as to encourage the belief that he would invest the money properly. Mr. Stark’s will was not probated until some time after Mr. Conde had passed the age of 30 years. The contention on Mr. Conde’s behalf was that the administrator of the estate could not hold the SIO,OOO, and that the level of morality upon which the young man was being judged by the administrator was greatly above the average, and one reached by few young men. The county court held that the young man was not entitled to the money, because of the life he was leading. This decision was reversed in the circuit court, but in the supreme court the decision was again against Conde.—Milwaukee Sentinel.

London's Grain Imports.

London*! imports of grain amount io about 25,000,000 bushels per annum, 8,000,000 of which eonabt of wheat

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