Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — Page 3

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Tariff Reform Issue. One of the most significant developments bearing upon the issue of tariff reform as that Issue is being pressed by the national Democracy is the fact of increasing Republican impatience with the radical minority of that party which insists upon the view that the Dinglcy tariff is too sacred to be changed in the slightest degree. There are now but two or three Republican organs in the United States which stubbornly forbid their party to entertain any other view save that which absolutely prohibits tariff reduction, says the St. Louis Republic. The majority sentiment of the Republican party is against this radicalism of spirit. The late President McKinley saw plainly that tariff revision was inevitable. Himself the apostle of protection, he clearly sounded to his party the note of tariff reform. To his utterances as much as to any other one influence is due the fact that the Republican majority is to-day contemplating an abandonment of the Dinglcy tariff. From the Republican standpoint, the embarrassment of the existing situation is found in the difficulty of making a graceful retreat from the high tariff citadel. The extreme high protection ists contend that this retreat means a surrender of the whole Republican position on the tariff issue. This argument Is having its effect. Uncertainty of purpose accompanied by an apprehension

The unfortunate uniutal is getting in deeper and deeper.—Chica'V) American. Copyright.

which amounts almost to dismay, is apparent in Republican movements. The near approach of the Congressional campaigns seems to add to the Republican confusion. Whatever is to be done by that party with regard to the tariff issue must be done quickly. And the party is not prepared to act quickly. The national Democracy must press the Issue of tariff reform with all the vigor and aggressiveness possible to a harmonious party spirit and an excellent organization. Upon the Democratic party falls the duty of arousing the people to a full realization of the bunko nature of high protection which protects manufacturers who are selling their manufactured products -cheaper in Europe than in this country, thereby underselling the European competitors against whom the Dingley tariff Is supposed to afford them a needed “protection." The time is near when the protection issue must be settled from the people’s view point, not from that of the protected trusts. The Democratic party must bring about this settlement Future Rule of Uncle Ram. At the preseut time the tariff and the trusts combine to make the strongest and the most urgent Issues before the people of the United States, and If Judiciously haudled will serve to advance the Democratic party substantially and in the end will restore the organization to power or force needed reforms at the hands of the Republicans. Aside from the trust question the tariff iss.ie Is stronger to-day tliun it was In 18? d, when It gave Tllden the popular vote, or in 1884 or 1802, when it brought about the election of Cleveland. The number of industries that have passed far beyond any possible need of p?o----lection Is larger than ever before, and the Injustice of making American consumers pay the excessive prices that can be demanded where foreign competition is restricted by heavy duties

has become more apparent than at any time in the past.—Kansas City Star. National Honor Sacrificed. Cdbn is to be left to her fate. The Republican Congress, caring more for the sugar beet and the sugar trust than for the national honor, refuses to grant reciprocity, refyses to give thfe people of the island' such commercial conditions as make prosperity possible. Were Cuba strong enough to resent betrayal by resisting us she would be held justified by the world in repudiating American suzerainty and seeking in other countries the trade concessions we deny her. Cuba must submit because Cuba is weak, but the fact remains that she has been cheated. It was upon the promise of President McKinley that her material welfare should be guarded that she consented to a constitution limiting her independence. President Roosevelt has tried to redeem McKinley’s promise, and he has had behind him in this the conscience of the country. But President Roosevelt's party, as represented by a Congress overwhelmingly Republican, has deferred to the “protected interests’’ and disgraced the nation. The party guilty of this act of sordid perfidy will shortly go to the people for judgment, asking that It be given again the House of Representatives as proof of popular approval. To doubt

MIRED!

the result of this appeal would be to think that the American people, like the "protected Interests," care Infinitely more for dollars than they do for duty. The protectionists, in their mindless greed, have struck a blow at the vitals of protection. A system that yields such fruit as the refusal of justice to Cuba cannot endure. It orders Itself out of the court of ordinary morals. Justice will be done Cuba by the people who freed the island from Spain, over the wreck, if need he, of the political party which has sacrificed the good faith of the Republic at the behest of tariff - fattened favorites.— Chicago American. Not Much of *n Investigation. Labor Commissioner Wright, wko has been "investigating” the coni st/ike for President Roosevelt, says: "I have secured all the Information I desired. It will not he necessary for me to go to the coal fields.” A newspaper reporter, who could secure “all the information desired,” without going to where the Information was to l>e had, would be a wonder—but he would not last long enough to make a second Investigation.—Albany, N. Y., Argus. Pernicious Activity in Ohio. Federal officeholders In Ohio would lie amazed. Indeed, should President Roosevelt order an Inquiry Into their relations with partisan factional controversies in the Buckeye State. /Hie Ohio Idea in politics Is to £et office and right hard for continuance therein. N< secret Is made of activity In party sc: vice, which Is both creditable and m <• ossury, from the practical worker'.point of view. Investigate, forsooth!— Philadelphia Record. The Klniz of Coin. "Doesn't the soprano's voice so mid metallic to you?" "Yes, but then, you know, there’s money in It."—Philadelphia Bulletin.

GARDEN and farm

LICE ON CATTLE. The ordinary kerosene emulsion ( which is used in spraying trees is also excellent for destroying lice on cattle. The animals may be sprayed In the same manner as with trees, which is to apply a fine spray. Several applications are necessary to destroy lice hatched later. The emulsion is also excellent for ridding poultry houses of lice. CLOVER VARIETIES. • There afe several varieties of clover, some better adapted to certain soils than others. Alsike clover produces seed from the first crop, while red clover produces seed the second crop only. The alsike is fertilized by the honey t>ee and the red variety by the bumblebee. The latter i 3 being exported to some countries where clover has not heretofore flourished, in order to fertilize the blossoms. THE CORN CROP. The critical time with corn during the growing season is after it is up and well under way, as the drought may overtake the crop and injure its progress. ’lt has been demonstrated by experiment that there is nearly always sufficient soil moisture to assist a crop through the dry period if the farmer does not allow it to escape. Prevent evaporation of the water and it remains within reach of the plants. During a dry season the water will naturally rise to the surface of the soil, through capillary tubes in the earth. If these tubes are sealed at their upper ends the progress of the water to the surface is consequently arrested. This is performed by keeping the top soil loose with a cultivator, the loose, dry earth providing a covering over the tubes which effectually prevents the moisture from reaching the surface and passing off Into the atmosphere. But the cultivation must be repeated after each rain, as the rain drops beat down the dry dirt of the top soil, packing it, and therefore permitting the capillary tubes to the surface. The dirt covering made by the cultivator serves as a blanket, or mulch, and protects the roots of the plants, while the frequent cultivation effectually keeps weeds in check. The roots 01 corn plants feed very close to the surface, and extend in every direction, a cornfield being a thick network of roots but a few inches down. It is advisable to give shallow cultivation Jn order to avoid breaking or cutting the corn roots as much as possioie, stirring to a depth of only an inch or two. or just sufficient to make the dirt covering. By thus keeping the top soil loose the farmer may be able to secure a fair crop, even during a prolonged drought, where otherwise Mb crop would be a total failure. He cannot cause rain to fail, but he can at least save the moisture already existing in the soil—Philadelphia Record. CHANGES IN BREEDING. With the revival of horse breeding as a profitable industry, the fact must be recognized that there has come a complete revolution in this business, j The old methods will no longer prove i profitable. We must raise for profit distinct types of horses for the market and not generally all round useful i horses. We must define in our own minds the different types of horses in j demand, and then work toward the production of the best specimens of one or more of these types. These I types, briefly stated, are the road, carriage and coach horse. The cab horse, the draught horse and the American trotter or road horse. One of these types should be selected in breeding horses for the market, and the peculiar characteristics of each one studied and carefully understood. Breeding for a specific class is the only | kind that pays today. The man who ! breeds on the old lines is doomed to failure. His horses will bring so much less in the market that there will be no margin left for profits. One reason why horses became a drug in the market ten years ago was because farmers and breeders yiinduced a surplus of horses which had no particular characteristics. They are not specially good in any line. Then a demand slowly grew up for horses which would excel in one particular class, and this has steadily increased until today it has become universal. The evolution In breeding has thus made It necessary for the farmer and breeder to know his particular class of horses thoroughly. Promiscuous breeding does not pay, j but special class or type breeding j does. Every horse must he bred for a particular purpose the sooner you ! can dispose of him the better. The small horse and the horse of mixed virtues have passed forever, and their day will never return. Breed the large horse that Is useful for particular lines on hauling, the road or coach horse, which can travel well with a fair load, or the trotter, which can make speed. In one of these classes every horse must excel or he cannot bring the high market prices offered. Premiums are dally offered for the best animals of any class.—C. L. Betters, In Indiana Farmer. TO INSURE A GOOD GARDEN. Aside from the question of good seeds and frequent cultivation, the true basis of success In gardening rests upon the way the ground is prepared before the seeds are planted. We have tried deep and shallow plowing and spading, and in every ln-

Stance, other things being equal, ths ground that was- turned from the ■greatest depth has given the best results. In plowing the ground should be sub-soiled, and In spading it should be treated In very much the same way, the soil being turned under deep, and the sub-sorf brought to the surface. When practicable it should be top-dressed with well-rotted manure, which through rain and cultivation, will naturally word downward to about the seed level at planting time. A top-dressing of heavy, coarse manure before the first turning, would be an advantage. By all means the ground should be loosened up as far down as the roots of the vegetables are likely to penetrate. The advantages of such thorough and deep upturning of the soil before planting are apparent in a midsummer drouth. Then it will be seen that the effects of the drouth may be averted simply by keeping the surr face stirred about the growing crops. The loosened soil beneath acts as a reservoir for the moisture that still remains near the surface,, and loosened soil on top serves as a mulch to protect it from drying. With a shallow turned soil at planting time, there is a dry sulj-soil; when a drouth comes the effect is disastrous, because there is no reserve of moisture down out of reach of the sun's drying heat. By all means turn the garden soil deep so as to insure success regardless of the weather that may come after the plants are up and growing.—H. B. Geer, in The Enitomlst.

USE OF COVER CROPS.

Cover crops may in a measure take the place of fertilizers and manures. They are not, however, a universal panacea for all soil _ deficiencies, neither are they a full substitute in all cases for fertilizers. There Is always a wide field for the profitable use of either one or all of the concentrated forms of fertilizers named and in many cases there is also a special place for the use of fertilizers, therefore the more need of honest goods. Commercial fertilizers furnish available plant food, but no humus. r The cover crop furnishes both but it is only fair to say that the plant foods in the former are more quickly available than the latter. Cover crops improve the physical condition of the soil, lessening the cost of tillage. Physically, fertilizers benefit the soil little or none. The humus furnished by the cover “crops increases the availability’ of the plant food already in the soil; fertilizers do not. Cover crops shade the land and conserve moisture. It is impossible to accurately compare the cost of fertilizers with the cost of seeds for the cover crops and the preparation of the soil for them. The cost of increasing productively by extra tillage, by the use of fertilizers, by cover crops or by all three means can only be determined in each case by the farmer interested. I give below a single illustration of what a cover crop contains, knowing that another cover crop under other conditions might be either • more or less valuable. Second growth of clover furnished in roots and tops per acre the following: Nitrogen, 138.86 pounds; phospheric acid, 67.35 pounds, and potash, 109.96 pounds. There is removed by 25 bushels wheat and accompanying straw 43 pounds of nitrogen. 20 pounds phosphoric acid and 27 pounds potash. It is believed that most of the nitrogen taken up by legumes is secured from the uncombined nitrogen in the atmosphere. The clover did not add to either the store of phosphoric acid or potash. The plant took them from the soil and made them available. —I. P. Roberts, in American Agriculturist WATER ON A DAIRY FARM. The water supply should be even more scrupulously guarded than the food supply. It serves a double purpose, that of water for the cow and for the washing of the utensils. The water for both should be equally pure, and it ought to be made an axiom that water unfit to wash the pails or cans is unfit for cattle to drink. The milking cow requires large quantities of water, and whether it be capable of demonstration that impurities may find their way into the milk, it is safest to take the benefit of the doubt and use only pure water. A shallow dug well in the corner of the cow lot cannot escape contamination at some time. The contamination may not last all the time, and it may be, as is usually the case, that it is of a harmless character. The fact is that any contamination from the surface, no matter what may be its character, marks the well as one that may become infected and the cause of an epidemic. It only remains for the right kind of an infection to enter. It may require one year or forty years. The special forms which are partial to the water supply are the Intestinal germs that cause diarrhoea and the typhoid form. Many of the most alarming epidemics of typhoid have been traced to such source, it is not an easy matter to obtain an adequate supply of water at ail places about a city, but as far as possible It should be from driven well. As far as tested, all driven wells of more than twentyfive feet are supplying pure water. The hard-pan near the surface acts as an effective harrier to the passage of gerins, and those that come from below are harmless. A driven well of twenty-five feet Is a deeper well from a sanitary standpoint than any dug well. All dairies within the corporate limits of a city should be compelled to use city water. —New York Tribune Farmer. Among a certain class of people when a man stops lending money he ceases to be a good fellow.

JULY CORN REACHES 90 CENTS IN CHICAGO.

•Tul.v corn was forced to 90 cents a bushel in Chicago Tuesday, the highest price it has reached in ten years. John \V. Gates, the steel magnate, who lias beaded the New’ York bull clique, is said to he the cause of the cereal's recent skyward tendencies. According to Chicago reports’the impression prevails in market circles that Gates and his crowd practically control -the July option and are able to raise or lower the price at will.

JOWA UNDER WATER.

Flood in the Central Section the Worst in Ten Years. Ihe flood situation in lowa is more serious than at any time in ten years. 1 he Des Moines, lowa, Raccoon, Cedar and Skunk rivers are from seven to fifteen feet above low water mark and the low lands are submerged. Hundreds of people have been made homeless. Near Des Moines 2tKl persons have been compelled to abandon their homes and have suffered loss of horses, cattle and hogs. Truck gardeners have suffered the loss of crops of an estimated value of $3,000. Similan scenes were reported at Marshalltown and elsewhere. Throughout the central section of the State rain fell steadily for twenty four hours, the precipitation at Boone and Fort Dodge being reported as nearly four inches. Rivers rose rapidly and tilled with driftwood. Half of Kxira was inundated and Bnrrytown was in similar condition. Ottawa experienced a rain tilmost amounting to a cloudburst. At Marshalltown the lowa river reached its highest point, and numbers of washouts delayed trains on the Northwestern and Great West ern roads. As a result of a terrific storm south and west of Waseca, Minn., two members of the family of Adam Bisliman, Jr., were killed. June 19 Philip Bishntan, the son. was murdered in a wedding row at Wilton. The younger brother, Adam, his two sisters and the hired man were in the basement of the large ham milking when the storm burst in all its fury; the barn was wrecked and the mass of farm machinery and hay with which the upper floors were fillet! crashed upon them. One of the daughters was killed instantly, and Adam was so crushed that he died from his injuries. The other two oeupants were rescued from suffocation after long hours- of work by the neighbors. Eight horses and six head of cattle were killed.

The storm caused more destruction, but so far as reported no other deaths occurred. The damage was heavy around Wanda and at Perham the storm leveled a circus tent, which caught fire from the lights. Several people were burned and bruised, but no one was fatally injured. A terrific rain and electric storm swept over Peoria and the adjacent countryin Illinois. Rain fell in tioods for several hours, and the damage done is great. The damage to timothy and oats is heavy, Several inches of rainfall was recorded As a result of the heavy rains a Lake Erie and Western east-bound freight train went through a bridge at Farmdale. The engine fell into the creek and half a dozen cars were piled on*it. A cloudburst in the upper BushlTill district of Northampton County, Pa., did great damage. Charles Abel, a farmer, who with his wife was returning from the field, was struck by lightning and killed. Bushkill creek overflowed its banks and many fields of grain were almost wholly destroyed.

JAPAN’S GREATEST PROMOTER.

He Is Here, In Worth 9900,000,(KM)and Controls $700,000,000. Baron Eiiche Shibusawa of Tokio, the richest and most aggressive business man of Japan, is in this country with his fam-

ily and friends and a retinue of servants, for he travels in great style. The party has 272 trunks in which to store their belongings. Tile purpose of the baron’s visit is three-fold—to secure a rest, to look into our business methods and to cultivate friendly relations with our

BARON SHIBUSAWA

people. His business ramifications are so extensive that lie is styled the I’ierpoiit Morgan of Japan and lie likes tilt' appellation. He controls the principal banks of Japan, line of railroads, several coal mines and half a dozen steamship lilies. He is a big holder in insurance, gas, electricity, silk, cotton, woolen, printing, hemp, lint, beer, sugar refining, cars and other stocks, lie is president of seventytwo companies engaged in business exploitation, every one of which is very successful. Ills possessions amount to #300.. 000,000 and lie controls properties besides amounting to $700,000,000, the aggregate rising to one billion dollars. lie is also a benefactor, lie has established schools, reformatories, orphaiiagt*s. hospitals, asylums and siiuihw institutions intended for public l>« Petit. He is the busiest man iu Japan, which now ■ontains 45.000,000 people. At a cabinet meeting held at the Elvaet* palace, President Louhet signed a decree closing the religious institutions which have not complied with the pr->-visions of the law of associations. One huudred and thirty establishments are iuvolved. Instructions on the subject were sent to the Tarious prefectures.

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK. Woman Fasts for Three Months—Passengers Dangerously Wounded in Street-CarFight—Victory for Indiana Brokers—Girl Cqmmtta Suicide. After a fifty-three days' fast Mrs. Wanda George of Muncie, who at 81 claims to be the oiliest Spiritualist medium, although still alive,- is reduced to a skeleton. When site started she, was a hearty woman weighing 210 pounds. While living in Chicago five years ago she prophesied she would soon lie stricken blind. Now she is the victim of a strange disease which has battled the skill of all available specialists. She fasts not because she wants to, but because she is physically incapable of taking any food. Her daughter, Mrs. Ella Filipps of Chicago, is with her. Battle with Colored Thugs. When the internrbnn car on the apolis and Greenwood Line reached Southport at 3:30 o'clock the other afternoon three coiorc'd men got aboard and refused to pay their faTes. The conductor and motonnau tried to eject them and a fight ensued. When the negroes were finally ejected John Foster of Greenwood was found lying in the center of the car dying from two bullet wounds in the head, and Frank Selling was unconscious with a bullet in his head. The negroes were captured after a chase of a mile across the country. Indiana Brokers Are Victors. Judge John H. Baker of the United States District Court in Indianapolis refused to grant the injunction against Indiana brokers asked for by the Chicago Board of Trade against the use of the lioard's quotations. The defendants claimed the board was a huge gambling affair and had no rights. Judge Baker said if he granted it the injunction would injure the defendants' business. The court declined to give an opinion as to whether the Chicago Board of Trade was a gambling scheme. Think Boy Was Murdered. The body of Frank Ganger, aged 19. and son of Emanuel Ganger, a prosperous farmer living near Goshen, was found floating in the race. His parents think lie was murdered and thrown into the water. The dead boy’s face was crushed in and the body was in the canal many hours. The case is shrouded in mystery and the police and coroner are investigating. They are convinced he met with foul play. Girl Burns Herself to Death. Maud Fritz, daughter of Hirant Fritz of Kokomo, committed suicide by fire. She went to the woods, ostensibly to pick berries. In a secluded thicket she saturated her clothing with coal oil and ignited them. When found she was running through the woods screaming, with clothing ail burned off. She died the next day. She was a member of Kokomo high school. One Jail Breaker Caught. Joseph Herbert, the murderer who escaped from jail at Washington with Bill Edson and others, is behind the bars again. He was captured by half a dozen young men at the home of a relative in the city. He was surprised and could make no resistance. Since being locked up he acts like a maniac. His trial probably will not be resumed before the next term of court. Within Our Border*. In a wreck on the Broad Ripple and Indianapolis Electric road near Broad ltipple one man was killed and nine badly injured. Alma and Ada Kilgas, 10 and S years old, near Reynolds, were drowned by stepping into a washout while crossing a field covered with water. The Marion City Council passed a resolution declaring the Union Traction Company’s franchise forfeited. Suit for $50,000 damages will be tiled. Archer Wade, 23 years of age, shot and fatally wounded James Owens at Martinsville. It is alleged that Owens was jealous of Wade’s attentions to his wife. Jack Winters of Jacksonville, 111., made a balloon asecusion at Lafayette. His parachute did not come loose and he clung to the balloon until he struck the ground, He was not fatally hurt. After having roamed the streets as an insane person, and doing many tilings of a disgraceful nature, Joseph Winters, a glass blower of Anderson, suddenly regained his reason. He was so mortified when told of his actions that he said he would kill himself, and he did so by deliberately stepping in front of a Pennsylvania train at Renner. An unsuccessful attempt was made to kidnap Ethel, the 10-year-old daughter of Mr. and MTs. George Paris of Vincennes. A man, whose description cannot he given, raised the wiudow at the aide of the child's bed and lifted her out. She screamed and the wdhld-be kidnaper dropped her and ran. There is no clew to his identity. *lliram GUssotn, a wealthy farmer near f rosheu, unmarried, uged about 50 years, was attacked by burglars,, his home ransacked, and When he refused to state where his money was hidden he was gagged and bound and, locked in a bedroom, Glissom managed to crawl to the bedroom window and, although his bunds were tied behind his back, he tinully ninnnged to open it and fell out. He waa but scautily clad and it was ruining heavily ut tile time. Hopping with tied feet, Mr. Glissom finally reached the bouse of a neighbor a quarter of a mile distant, who released Glissom and provided him with clothes. The robbers left no clew lint Baltimore and Ohio Railroad lanterns. George Power was fatally hurt and Mrs. Salaeli and Mrs. Deiiean were seriously wounded in a fight iu tile Syrian quarter at Fort Wayne. John Burnett and Edward (’omits, farmers residing east of Brazil, engaged In an altercation, when Combs drew a revolver mid fatally shot Burnett. The heir to a 00,000 estate in Michigan has bet'll found by the South Kcihl Tribune. The lucky uinu is Fred Warner, who for years lias been trumping around the country as an umbrella mender. He has gone to Kalamasoe to claim the fortune.