Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1899 — Page 4

JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. Official Democratic Paper of Jasper County. F. E. BABCOCK, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. Entered at the Post-office at Rensselaer, Ind. as second class matter. Terms OF SUBSCRIPTIONt ONE YEAR - «•» SIX MONTHS 50c THREE MONTHS 25c. Payable ia Advance. Advertising rates made known on. application Office on Van Rensselaer Street, North of Ellis & Murray’s Store. 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 papers, please copy. Edwin J. Forrest, Dietiict Chairman.

So many people have been tak- j ing advantage of the bankruptcy ) law, that there was some danger j that Santa Claus would be swept along with the tide. So close is the connection be- i tween this country and England, that, incredible as it may sound, a failure on Tugela river, is the signal for a failure on Wall street. The English, from the first, have been imbued with a desire to avenge the defeat of Majuba Hill, but their efforts to do this only seem to increase the number of Majubas. . Every time you put a revenue stamp on a telegram or a bank check, you are helping to pay the salary of the Sultan of Sulu, and to keep up the wardrobe of his harem such as it is. The spectacle of the government loaning a million dollars a day to a New York City bank is not an inspiring one, but it goes to show how the money power has the McKinley Administration by the throat. The McKinley administration is so blind that it can see no inconsistency in inviting “foreign entanglements” in China, and at the same time holding aloof from any attempt to mediate in the South African struggle. One of the London papers, in reviewing McKinley’s message on the subject of currency proposals, says that “like all of Mr. McKinley’s proceedings, they are tentative, platitudinous and dull.” We have not seen any better comment than this on this side of the water. Major General Lawton, who was recently in the Philipines. was a hero of two great wars for liberty, and, in speaking once of war in the Philippines referred to it as “This damnable war.” showing just what he thought of the policy *of the Republican Administration. Just a year ago, McKinley issued a proclamation calling upon the Filipinos to lay down their arms and become practically the | slaves of the United States, but he held out no hope of self-govern-ment If he had. the war that j- followed .would not have been beK Reports from the Philippines ' frequently state that twer *y per : cent, of Colonel So-and-so's comg mand has been lost. NotwithI standing the fact that a lot of brave American boys will never come home, we must keep on “ex- | panding” to boom the McKinley Administration. fc It is estimated that should the f currency bill, passed by the House, - become a law, the value of the government bonds of the country wonkl be increased 965,000,000, so rz'SK-i-fc* mabeme to play into the hrnnfe of *° b “

And now the republican administration is io give us an imperial bank. What next? Why wasn’t the ’’Barnacle” let in the pool with the pther republican newspapers on that “joint” stationery bid? Perhaps, though, the campaign fund collector comes in on the “divy.”

Hamilton county with a population of 29,763, let her book and stationery contract complete to the W. B. Burford Co. for $1,567.07, which is $346.68 less than the Burt-Terry Co. and Bros. Marshall and Clark (“jointly”) want for Jasper county, with a population of only 16,492. Carroll county gets her’s for $987.35; Benton $1,666; Henry county, $1,220; Union county, $499.36.

There are not many things that illustrate the hardship of the trusts more than the wire trust. Only about one year ago, the farmers could buy wire for fencing for less than two cents a pound, but now the trust compels them to pay double that or more. It illustrates very completely the “benefit” the trusts are to the farmers, but it is only one of scores of cases of a similar character —Ex.

Senator Jones sees encouragement for the Democracy all along the line. He says that there is practically no doubt of the success of the party next year, and he bases his belief upon the mistakes which the republicans are sure to make, now that they are entrusted with the full power of control in the government. New York and New Jersey, as well as Ohio and Indiana, will be found in the Democratic column next year, he believes.

Hawaii is now a part of the United States, and the Constitution of this country forbids “slavery and involuntary servitude, except for crime” in any territory controlled by this country, yet in Hawaii, there are 100,000 men held in involuntary servitude, and the act annexing the island provides for a continuation of this unlawful condition. The action of the American Federation of Labor while holding session in Detroit, Mich., in entering a protest against this matter, is both timely and necessary.

Secretary of the treasury. Gage, has designated the National Cjty Bank of N. Y. city as the custodian of all the internal revenue pf the U. S which amounts to about $360,000,000 annually. Abner McKinley’s connection with this institution has not been clearly established. But owing to the fact that he has shared liberally in all the “good things” of this prosperity administration, especially the embalmed 1 eef army cpntracts and the late bond purchases, he will no doubt turn up at the right time and in the right place to receive his portion of the rake off.

In the President’s message to Congress, in explaining his attitude of neutrality towards the South African war, he said: “We have remained faithful to the precepts, by avoiding entangling alliances as to affairs not of our direct concern.” He evidently forgot the past history of this country, when expressions of American sympathy, both of official and popular, were made in favor of Poland, Hungary, Greece, Armenia and Cuba. Now, it is England, whose feet we would tread upon by any resolution of sympathy that might be passed by Congress, and the republican managers will see to it that no slight is given to the British Empire.

The action of the Secretary of the Treasury in ordering that the internal revenue receipts of the government shall be paid over to the National City Bank of New York City, to use or distribute as it sees tit, is one of the most outrageous acts that has ever beep done by any Administration from the foundation of this government. That bank is the most powerful financial institution in this country. Its capital stock is ten million dollars, and its deposits average more than one hundred millions. It is a bank made up of railway kings. For the favor granted, the National City Bank will not pay one cent to the government, and in return will mak? enormous sums of money, for it is at liberty to put the money out on interest. This was brought about through the influence of Hanna and his syndicate of bond holders. Secretary Gage had better read the past history of the Unifed States. He wifi find that there was a United States bank issue that made and unmade Presidents half a century ago.

Also Applies to Jasper County.

There is a deep lesson in the exposure of official corruption in Shelby County, with which the newspapers are now ringing. It not the first time the affairs of Shelby County have been run with a high hand, but the people seem more fully aroused now than ever before. The root of the trouble lies in the fact that. Shelby County has been controlled by one party for a long time. The fact that it is the Democratic party that controls is not important. The city of Philadelphia and some other Republican strongholds can show records fully as bad, if not worse.

Time and again experience has demonstrated the fact that in our form of government we are apt to have good government—or, at least, honest government—when the contending parties are evenly balanced in strength. And time and time again it has been shown that when one party has a “sure thing” in a State, city or county for a long period of years, its rule becomes corrupt and dishonest. It has been a long time since there developed a scandal in the executive management of Indiana’s State affairs. The balance of power has been so even in this State that neither party could tell when its success or failure might turn upon a few thousand votes. They have, therefore, found it necessary to nominate clean” men, and these men, when in office, have found it necessary to conduct their work as well as they could. With an anxious and hopeful army of critics in the opposing party, any false step might have led to party disaster. This state of affairs has not only made the executive branch of the State Government fairly clean, but it has made it possible to obtain many popular reforms from the Legislature.

When one party is in unquestioned control, most of the incentives to good behavior by party leaders are lacking. The hopeless minority is not watchful in its criticism, for its criticism cau do no good. There is a general carelessness about public affairs, that permits the dominant party to drift into the leadership of men with selfish purposes to subserve, and too often these purposes are not merely selfish, but criminal.— Indianapolis Press.

The Boot on the Other Foot.

During the panic of 1893 republican newspapers were wont to announce the failure of a bank or business house, “Gone Democratic.” Things are now changed. We are enjoying immense prosperity ( ?). Mark Hanna is, like Robinson Crusoe, lord of all he surveys. Republicans control both houses of congress; Wm. McKinley occupies the throne, and last but not least, we are in the colonization business, with bible and bayonet, to beat the band. Secretary Lyman J. Gage has found it necessary to anticipate January interest of U. S. bonds to the amount of $15,000,000; to offer to buy bonds, on a rising market, and not due until 1907, to the amount of $50,000,000; indeed, some $15,000,000 have been purchased, all to allay the “democratic” feeling in the Sanhedrian, the holy of holies, of the republican party, Wall street. Despite all of these facts these mangy financial institutions continue to go “democratic” with a persistency that is sickening. ‘Tis true the institutions that have gone “democratic” have been engaged in, or have been financing the trusts, but are not trusts sacred to the republican party? A partial list of the failures for this month with a partial list of the shrinkage of trust stocks is appended. Globe national batik, Bouton ...$1.0,000,000 Produeeexchangetrust.com., N. Y.. 11.000,000 Broadwttjr nutioiitt! bnuk, Boston.. John P. Squire company, Boston. 3,0()0.000 Henry Allen <S Co \ New York DXD.UOO The Charles A Vogeler Co. Baltimore 200,000 John P. Lovell Arms C<>. 805t0n.... 300,000 Siegel-Hillman Dry Goods Co. St, L. 225,000 Total , . .:i_.,. ...... ,$30J54.000 Shrinkage in copper trust stocks 183,000,000 Grqnd total ..;...,........... ..$213,214,000 A few republicans may look with suspicion cp those figures but The Democrat does not. Everything is lovely and the goose is still swung at a respectable elevation.

Real Estate Transfers.

Anna L. Kirk to William W. Watson, Nov. 24, Its 2-11, bl 8, s% 8-10, bi 3, Rensselaer, South Add.. SI,OOO. Wallace Robinson et al to John A. Zahnir Dec. 27. s'. 2 ne 3-30-5. 80 acres. Gillam, $2,500. William T. Pierson to Peter T. Hordeman Dec. 28. pt w% nw 25-80-7. 78 acres, Union. $2,184, William to Joseph Hall, Jr., Nov. 20. w% nw 8-38-7. pt sw. sw. 6-28-7, Newton. $4, 000. Jocob D. Rich to Joseph Hall, Jr„ Dec. 6, pt sw sw 5-38-7, 8.37 seres, Newton, sl. q. c. d.

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At Bull Run. Comrade Chas. Elms, of Mechanicsville, N. Y.. was struck by a piece of shell which later caused severe heart trouble. He says: “At second Bull Run a piece of shell lodged in my shoulder, and later rheumatism set in, which in turn affected my heart to such extent that several doctors pronounced my case incurable. Dr. Miles' New Heart Cure relieved my pains, shortness of breath and enabled me to work; also to sleep soundly, and prolonged my life." DR. 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. Five Per Cent Non Red Tape Real Estate Loans. Wm. 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 rtiade 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. 100 good envelopes with your return card printed thereon for only 50 cents, at this office. Money to Loan. I have made arrangements whereby L can make a loan on short notice, without giving you the trouble and expense of going to the county seat. Low rate of interest. Call on or address, John O’Conner, Kniman, Ind. Rensselaer Markets. Wheat 85 Corn, i 28 Oats 10% to 31% Rye... 45 tiay...,..... sß.ooto $7,00 H0g5...................... .... $3.00 to $3.75 Potatoes , 45 Butter 15 Eggs "... 19 Chickens. .».«-»» 04 to 05 Ducks.bld 05 Roosters.... 02% Turkey 5..,.,.,.. 07 Hides.... "........... ...... 00 too 7 Ta110w.........7;, 03

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