Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1899 — Page 4

JWB sown DM. Official Democratic Paper of Jaaper County* M. BIBCOCK, EDITOR AID POBLISBER at the Pout-office at Renaaelaer, Ind. aa second eiaau matter. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION t ONE YEAR n.OO SIX MONTHS.,.. 50c THREE MONTHS.;.. .25c. Payable in Advance. Advertising rates made known on application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store. r'*' . * For President in 1900, . WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

CALL FOR DISTRICT MEETING.

The Democrats of the 10th Congressional District will meet in delegate convention in Monon, in said district, on Tuesday, January’ 9th, 1900, at one o’clock p. m. of said day, for the purpose of selecting a member of the State Central Committee for the ensuing two years. The basis of representation fixed by the State Central Committee will be one delegate for each 200, or fraction over 100 of the vote cast for Hon. Samuel M. Ralston for Secretary of State in 1898. Democratic pipers, please copy.

Edwin J. Forrest,

District Chairman.

Dividend declaring in London to be curtailed for some time.

The English appear to have stirred up a regular boer’s nest in South Africa.

Those Republican members of bimetalism concluded to shut their eyes and vote for the gold standard bill.

The English .officers in the Transvaal labor under the disadvantage of not having a Kansas press agent.

We fancy from the remarks of railway king Yerkes, that the only safe things to speculate in are Chicago aldermen.

It is a pretty safe guess that when England goes to war again she will place someone besides Joe Chamberlain at the starting gate. >

A newspaper that is honest to its readers does not protect incompetent or unworthy offici ils under the cowardly whine of harmony. —Oxford Tribune (rep.)

The only way that Governor Roosevelt will be able to intimidate Lou Payn will be by sending him a copy of his book, entitled “How I Chastised Spain.”

We predict for the financial bill an unpleasant surprise when it reaches the Senate and the Hon. William V. Allen of Nebraska discovers its presence there. .

It strikes us that the selection of Philadelphia as the place for holding the next Republican National Convention, is another straw going to show that the convention is expected to be a “tame old affair.”

We have heard that pretty little story that General Buller expected to take his Christmas dinner in Praetoria, but it strikes us the General will be doing well if he gets one of those 10,000 plum puddings served cold.

Some of that gas that the Hon. Billy Mason is letting loose in Congress might be exceeding useful to the Hon. Cecil Rhodes, pent up as he is in Kimberley, with teose dreadful Boers offering a price on his head and his balloon still uninfiated.

Those Washington correspondents, who have been writing to their papers that Billy Mason’s speech on the subject of the Boers did not create any excitement, evidently were not present to witness that gentleman when he was in the act of delivering it. By the way, did any one even see anything in the Remington Press under its present management favorable to an investigation of county affairs? No, certainly not. Like all the other republican papers of the county, its “policy” is dictated by the ring, and nothing that would tend to raise the fur on the leaden’ backs is allowed to pass theeagle eye of the “hoes editor” proof reader.

We have not yet heard what disposition was being made of “the brains of the revolution” which General Otis reported the capture of some weeks ago.

It is of course a base insinuation that Senator Chauncey Depew expects to make good his >50,000 house rent in Washington by writing little pieces for the New York newspapers.

It is stated that the Republican nominations in Philadelphia next June, are to be made by acclamation, which .makes evident the fact that the politicians of that city will not have a chance to do any ballot box stuffing such as they resorted to in the late election.

Hon. W. V. Allen returns to the United States Senate. It is safe to predict that there are several shivers causing annoyance to the gold bugs about this time. Mr. Allen knows the currency question from A to Z and will be able to get in much light on the fallacies of the majority.

Attorney General Griggs is said to cast longing eyes toward a seat on the Supreme Court bench and bis good friend. McKinley is anxious to reward hint. Incidentally it may be mentioned that in his last annual report, Mr. Griggs recommended that the salary of the Supreme Court judges be increased from >IO,OOO to >20,000 per year.

Professor Dean C. Worcester of the United States Phillippine commission sees in the Phil lippines a splendid field for the growth of cotton, climate and soil being declared especially advantageous for the crop. How will the South like this new rival in a field that it has held practically exclusive for years? There has been too much of this benevolent assimilation business; it looks more like belligerent extermination.

Suppose the prosecuting attorney should feel called upon to begin suit against Bro. Marshall for ft'ilure to list all of his property for taxation—he has done this with some others—and would find that something like $2,000 worth of property had been “overlooked” each year for several years. What a neat little Sum that would add to the treasury of Jasper county. The Democrat will mention the fact when this occurs, however.

How to raise the average, onecrop. renting farmer, with no capital but his labor, to better conditions is a problem which is demanding solution. If some genius can find a way for orgqjiizing the farmers so that this can be accomplished he will benefit the whole country, as well as the producers of agricultural products.— Kansas City Times. One mighty good way to solve this problem would be to reduce his rent and taxes. No union needed, just a little less greed on part of the landlord.

The sympathy and support of the newspaper publishers of the country will go with Representative Bellamy’s (of North Carolina) effort to suppress the greed-of the Paper Trust. He has introduced a bill providing for the repeal of all duties on wood pulp and other raw materials used in the manufacture of paper and also providing for the reduction by one-half of the duty on manufactured paper. This bill is a sturdy blow at the Trust, which has taken advantage of the tariff to increase prices and create a practical monopoly, this following out the usual Republican doctrine of monopolistic grabbing. The Democrat editor asks for no better endorsement from the people of Remington and vicinity than his 138 regular and bonafide subscribers of this paper at that place, which is one-fourth the entire circulation of the Remington Press and is twice as large a list as that ever before enjoyed there by a Rensselaer paper even in its palmiest days. The people of Remington and Carpenter township, know that there is one paper in Jasper county whose editor can neither be bought off or scared out by the dastardly gang who have been robbing them for years, and that, the statements whwh appwir in its columns can be depended upon, as Is evidenced by our steadily increasing list at Remington. Our esteemed friend of the Remington Press will possibly learn sometime that it is better to enjoy the confidence and esteem of his readers than the fawning sycophancy of a few rascals who if they got their just deserts might even now be working for the state of Indiana instead of the county of Jasper.

The recognised authority on newspapers, the American* Newspaper Directory, which occupies the same position regarding newsSapers that Dunn or Bradstreet oes in financial rating, in referring to the Rensselaer papers, says of the Barnacle:

■'No recent copy of this publication has been «een at the office of the Directory, and it may have ceased publication altogether.” Still the gang want to continueto foist this apology for a newspaper upon the democrats of Jasper county—notwithstanding the latter have publicly repudiated it on numerous occasions—as a “leading” paper of the county. Some officers in Jasper county seem to have very little regard for the oath they take when entering upon the duties of their office. '

A prominent Jasper county farmer gave us an illustration a few days ago of how the farmer had been “prosperityized” by the present national administration which is worth repeating. Said he: “I moved to Jasper county during the latter part of the Cleveland administration. At the time I came here hogs were selling at >4.25 per hundred weight and I bought barbed wire at >2 per hundred pounds, and the staples were thrown in. Thus, for a 200-pound hog, I could buy 400 pounds of barbed wire and have 50 cents left to pay for stretching it on the posts. To-day I was told that hogs were >3.40 and barbed wire >4 per hundred pounds, and the staples were extra. Now, my 200pound hog and >1.20 in cash buys only 200 pounds of wire and I have nothing left over to pay for putting it on the posts, and must buy my staples extra! There is no doubt in my mind but what people in certain lines of business —the trusts and money kings—have found times prosperous under McKinley, but not the farmers.” The same condition prevails in nearly every article consumed by the farmer, wagons, farm implements, lumber,’nails, stoves, furniture, boots and shoes, all kinds of rubber goods, coal and hundreds of other articles, have jumped up from 25 to 100 per cent, while the average prices of all the products of the farm are evert lower than they were three years ago. Is this not so, farmers?

Five Per Cent Non Red Tape Real Estate Loans.

Win. B. Austin continues to make as? many farm loans as all the other agents in the county combined. In a recent given period of time Mr. Austin made 86 loans while all the other agents combined made 87 loans. It is not hard to understand this when you know the facts: First, Mr. Austin makes the interest as low as the lowest. Second, He closes up loans in from two hours to one week from the application. Third. There is absolutely no red tape in his loans. You don’t have to prove by affidavit that your great grandmother had red hair in order to make an acceptable title. Fourth. He loans home money and is prepared to be lenient with delinquent borrowers. So they may have no attorney fees to pay. Don’t wear out your lives waiting on insurance companies.

COMMUNICATED.

A Public Spirited (?) Citizen. Mr. Editor: —l desire a little space in your valuable paper to speak of a public improvement in Marion tp., and the liberality of one of the parties who should have been the most interested in making the said improvement. Three years ago, in the neighborhood of Burk’s bridge, a movement was started to build a gravel road from Union school house east one mile, and have it accepted by the county. The first year the township trustee used the railroad tax amounting to about SIOO, and the citizens thereabout, excepting the one who should have been most interested—he did nothing—contributed about 355 loads of gravel. Two years ago nothing was done to further this worthy enterprise because this man still refused to do anything toward it. This year the tiustee agreed if S2OO was raised by interested parties he would contribute SIOO from the township funds to finish the mile of road. Parties abutting, and some remote from the road, went to work. The S2OO was raised, but not a cent of money, nor a load of gravel did this man contribute, although, the road passes his residence and onehalf mile along his farm. It is needless to say that this gentlemap is the same who superintended the construction of Burk’s bridge during the many years of its building, and the success achieved in the I first efforts was no doubt directly i attributable to his liberal policy, | and transcendent abilities. The road, however, is completed and

ARMY UFE A-.- W wiß of <?. Warner, of Bristol, Vt.. left its mark on him In what physicians called a "hopeless case" of heart disease. Be tells how his life was spared. "In *% two physidans pronounced my case hopdess, and said I had heart disease in Its worst forau that it was use* less to doctor, nothing would care me. In March, *97,1 took Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure and have not had a symptom of the disease since. It saved my life.” MILES' Heart Cure is sold by all druggists on guarantee first bottle benefits or money back. Book on heart and nerves sent free. Dr. Mlles Medical Company, Elkhart, Ind.

will be accepted by the commis-, sioners, no doubt, at their next regular session, but no thanks are due the individual referred to for this happy result. xx

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Owen Q. Williams to Minnie L. Casto, issued Dec. 20th. Samuel M. Mitchell to Phebe Kiehlow,-issued Dec. 21.

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