Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1902 — Page 2

POLITICS OF THE DAY

National Crime Bearing Fruit. “Anarchy or annexation." That, says General Fitzhugh Lee, is the early fate in store for the Cuban Republic, over whose birth, only the other day, we all were rejoicing with pride. The treasury Is empty, for the commerce of the Island is paralyzed, and the receipts of the custom houses, which are relied on for revenue, have fallen far below the needs of the government. The school system established by tlie Americans cannot be kept up and the methods of sanitation which we introduced- will have to be abandoned. The soldiers who fought in the patriot army are*demanding their pay, and there is no money to give them. Planters cannot sell their produce, merchants cannot find customers, and labor is idle. Poverty, idleness and want threaten public order, ltlots and uprisings may at any time throw Cuba into the anarchy which former Consul General Leo predicts. Where rests the responsibility for Cuba's distress and peril? Upon the Republican party of tin* United States. Without access to our markets Cuba must suffer as she is suffering. It was known when we hauled down the American flag in Havana and left Cuba .to govern liersclf that nil now happening there would happen were reciprocity refused her. Yet the Republican party, indifferent alike to the demands of national honor and tin* claims of humanity, deliberately inflicted upon the new republic the poverty out of which anarchy looms. The American people want to do justice to Cuba, but the hands of tin* American people are tied. The Republican party is in power, and It refuses to act for Culm's relief. Why? Because tlie Republican party does not dare to touch the trust-breeding and . trust shielding protect lye tariff.

“Meddle with the duty on raw sugar,” said the sugar beet crowd to Congress, “and you must then take off the doty on refined sugar, or we will fight you.” “That cannot lie allowed; there must he no meddling with the differential.” commanded the Sugar Trust. So, in obedience to these two “protected interests,” the American Congress, with tlie Republican party in fail control of both Houses, turned Ha hack on Cuba, and disgraced tlie United States before the civilized world. What is to be done? The President ran call an extra session of Congress—but It la the same House that took orders from the sugar beet lobby. The President can negotiate a reciprocity treaty and submit it to tlie Senate for ratification— but it is the same Senate that condemned Cuba to misery and danger rather than offend the Sugar Trust.

By voting to deny justice to Cuba, the Republican party in Congress, with full knowledge of what It was doing, voted to drive the new-born republic upon the rocks of destruction. What are the American people going to do about It? Their hands nre tied, for the time being, as to Cuba, but tin* hands •f the American people are free to siulte the Republican party, which lias committed this crime.—Chicago American.

A Deficit for July. The official reports of receipts and expenditures by the federal government for the month of July are of exceptional interest because that was-the •ret month since tlie repeal of the “w-ar taxes" went into effect. The receipts were about $49,300,000 and the expenditures $50,800,000, leaving a deficit of $7,500,000. Secretary Kim w is cheerful in spite of tills deficit, lie explains that tin* expenditures at the beginning of a new fiscal year are alwaye very heavy. He cites ns an example of the extraordinary expenditures In July the item of $3,000,000 paid to Illinois and other states for the equipment of troops during the civil war. This item does not serve at all to expiuiu why expenditures are always heavy In July. It Is rather an Indication that Congress appropriated money with extraordinary freedom daring the late session. And such was the fact. The total was enormous and there will be extraordinary outgo duriot (lie remaining eleven months of the fiscal year as there was during the ■rat month. The falling off in receipts last month. «a compared with July last year, was In Internnl revenue, of course, as the Internal revenue taxes were tlie only ones repealed. The decrease on tills account was from $28,3:18.190 to $21,•18,124. a loss of $6,720,03(1. The customs receipts Increased from $21,203.9(53 to $24,430,743, an increase •f $3,100,780. It qppears, therefore, that the receipts from other than miseella neous sources were only $3,553,JTvti loss last mouth than for the same month Inst year, while tlie deficit was, aa above stated, $7,500,000. This means, of course, that the expenditures were very much greater. This Is the fact that the reports disclose, and it is n fact whlcli I* likely to reappear In tlie monthly statements, mm the appropriations for the whole joar were far beyond those for Inst jaar. Probably there will be no deficit or aoty a small one, but we can not be ■■re of that. There will be a surplus mmlj in case the receipts from customs

are much larger than they were last year. For the first month they were about $3,200,000 greater, as above stated, than for the same month last year, tnjt there Is no certainty that the Increase for July will he maintained proportionately for tho year. A collapse Is coming, and it may come tills year. Probably, however, it will not. Probably there will lie a small surplus this year, but Congress will have to stop going on the assumption that the boom is everlasting and that there is no bottom to the pile in the treasury, or it will have something harder than a surplus to deal with. It will be liest, perhaps, for the Democratic party and the country to let tlie Republican party stay In power until the crash comes. Then the guilty | party will have to take the consej quences and a party of rational eeon- | omy in expenditures and of general I ooundness in both economic and pollt* ! leal policy can come in with a good I chance of staying in until the national ! sanity is rc-establlslicd. Chicago j Chronicle. i Government by Injunction Must ,Go. There can be only one outcome to the battle between enjoining Judges and the labor unions. Tills being a free country, government by manhood suffrage, the people are sure in the end to conquer every form of tyranny that attempts to set itself up. The writ of injunction is a useful writ in its proper place, but it cannot be allowed to displace statutes and trial by jury. That would tie to substitute the will of judges—who are only men, and often neither the wisest nor liest of men -for a government of law. The tyrannical Judge may lie quite sincere in ids belief that be is aiming at good ends when lie plays tlie despot, but excellence of motive does not justify violation of the fundamental principles of ordered liberty. Every wellintentioned Judge who resorts recklessly to tlie writ of injunction sets a precedent which keeps in countenance tlie judicial rogue who prostitutes the power of tlie bench to the service of capital when it finds itself in conflict with labor. There is no probability at all that the courts will succeed In destroying labor unions, but every probability that the courts, by their abuse of tlie writ of injunction, will bring about an irresistible movement for severely defining and abridging tlie power of courts in relation to this writ. Labor unions cannot be destroyed without at tlie same time destroying the liberty of the citizen. Government by Injunction is un-American, and therefore government by injunction must go.—New York Journal.

Portentous Revolt in lowa. Probably the most portentous cloud on the Republican horizon at the present time is the menacing movement for tariff headed by Governor Cummings in lowa. lowa is one of the Ynost unyielding and reliable of Republican strongholds. Defection there counts for much. The action of tlie Republican State Convention assembled at lies Moines yesterday reaffirming the opposition of the party to trusts and the desire for “any modification of the tariff schedules that may be required to prevent their affording shelter to monopoly” is a distinct indorsement of Governor Cummins and a rebuke for Senator Allison nml the do-nothings who sit in Congress and twiddle their thumbs while the people are plundered. —Philadelphia Record. Attacking a Policy, Not the Army. It Is evident that the Republicans In the pending campaign intend to answer all references to atrocities in the Philippines by tlie counter charge that the Democrats are abusing the army. It is not the army as an organization that is attacked, but certain offices* that have Issued illegal orders and men who have committed crimes without orders. But in addition to tills, and of more *mportance, Is the general policy pursued by tlie administration in regard to the Philippines, which was felt to be so Inexcusable that desperate efforts were made to keep the facts from the American people. The army Is only an incident. It is the policy pursued at Washington that is really up for review by tlie American people.—Louisville Cur-rier-Journal. ' Circumstunccs Alter Cuhch. When President Cleveland used a fourth-rate old government tub to go on a fishing excursion liow our dear Republican contemporaries did howl nbout. It! But now when President Roosevelt uses the magnificent Mayflower as a family yacht and employs the Sylph as n dispatch boat to bring Senator Platt and Colonel Dunn lo bis home for a political confab, those whilom guardians of the public treasury nml foes of privilege are ns mum as the oldest bivalve in Oyster Bay. Why Is this thus? —New York World.

Does Not Prove Them Right. The sending of a few miners to jail does not prove that those who have their liberty are well up id or that tlie operators and coal roads arc not systematically robbing the miners and the public. The conditions in the world'of labor nre such that even the hanging of an advocate of fair piny would not settle everything in favor of the monopolies.—Cedar Rapids Gazette.

POET’S SON MADE JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.

Chief Justice Holmes of tlie Massachusetts Supreme Court, who has been appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme Court by President Roosevelt, is a son of the author of “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table.” He la 01 years old, a graduate ot’ Harvard, and LL. D. of Harvard and Yale. He has been on tile Massachusetts Supreme bench since 1882, and has been chief justice since August, 1809. -*■

BIG YEAR FOR CROPS.

Harvest of Wheat, Corn mid Oats Promises to He Grout. Nature has dealt lavishly with the farmers throughout the grain growing section of the country, despite the heavy rains of Juno anil July iu some localities, und the drought in others, nml as a general proposition the crop 3 will exceed those of last year, and in many instances prove the largest for a number of years. Not only is there promise of this being a banner year in the amount of grain harvested, but prices me very high. The monthly report of the statistician of the Department of Agriculture shows the condition of corn on Aug. 1 to have been 8(5.5, as compared with 87.5 on July 1, 1902, 54 on Aug. 1, 1901, 87.5 at the corresponding date in 1900, and a tenyear average of 84. There has been an Improvement during the month of 10 points in Pennsylvania, 7 in Indiana and Wisconsin, 4 in Ohio, Illinois and Kansas, 3in lowa and 11 in Nebraska. This substantial improvement in the most important corn States would undoubtedly have resulted in a marked improvement in the average for the entire country but for the fact that fourteen Southern States, containing 30.8 per cent of the total corn acreage, show an average decline during July of 10.7 points. The statistician estimates the winter wheat crop at about 380,000,000 bushels, or an average of 13.8 bushels per acre. While this estimate is subject to revision, thrashing not being sufficiently advanced in the more northerly sections of the winter wheat licit to justify the making of a definite and final estimate at this time, it is based on reports of yield per acre, in

PICTURES FROM THE ANTHRACITE COAL DISTRICTS.

Kffigles of scab workmen strung up by i Stockade to protect mine property fro: striking miners. | the strikers.

bushels, received from correspondents and special field agents. If the estimate is higher than was indicated by previous reports of condition it is due to the fact that the crop is turniug out somewhat better than was expected. The estimated average yield per acre in the principal States is as follows, the States being arranged iu order of acreage: Kansas R.7|llllnots ~10.(1 Missouri is. 2 Nebraska 22.0 California 13.0 Pennsylvania ....13.0 Indiana 15.0 Oklahoma 11.3 Ohio 10.0)Michigan 17.4 The average condition of spring wheat on Aug. 1 was 89.7, ns compared with 92.4 last month, 80.3 on Aug. 1, 1901, 5(5.4 at the corresponding date in 1900, and n ten-year average of 80. There was n decline during July of 2 points in Minnesota, 3 in North Dakota, 9 in Nebraska nnd 12 in lowa. On tlie other hand, tlie crop of South Dakota is reported ns 1 INiint higher than even the high figure, 94, reported last month, nnd the condition of Minnesota, North Dakota and Nebraska, notwithstanding the decline above mentioned, is still considerably above the ton-year average. The following estimated yields by States lias been compiled by u Chicago paper: Wheat, hu. Corn, bu. Oats. hn. Illinois ...24,600,000 Heavy. iks.ocn.ooo Missouri .68,74X1.000 21X>,(NX>,000 Heavy. MlnnetotntHl,ooo.ooo 2».0()(\000 20,01i0,000 Nebraska .24,000,000 3(XM*>O,OOO 833)00.000 Wisconsin 7,000,000 Heavy. 72,000,000 Ohio ....32,012,878 86,224,203 .'17.234,191 8. Dak0ta.33,000,000 64k009,000 Above av. Indiana . .40,000,000 170.000,(XX) 44.000.000 Kansas ..40,000,000 300,000,000 46,000,000 Richard Croker is reported to be negotiating for a house on Carlton House terrace, London.

REV. WALTER CALLEY.

REV. WALTER B. CALLEY.

The Rev. Walter B. Caliey of Boston, who has been made general secretary of the Baptist Young People's Union of America, and will establish headquarters in Chicago, is pastor of Boston tabernacle. . He was born in Dover, Del., in 1858 of Quaker parents. He was prepared to enter the publishing business, but by attending services one Sunday in New York conducted by the Rev. Isaac M. Haldcman, he. was led to adopt the ministry. He graduated from Crozier Seminary in 1880. His first pastorate was in Bethlehem. Pa., and three years

later he took charge of the Philadelphia city mission boards. After nine years he went to Cambridge, Mass., as pastor of the Charles River church. After paying off u large debt there lie went to the Baptist tabernacle in Boston, where his vyork has been greatly successful.

SAY HE KILLED HIS MOTHER.

Startling Development in the Search for a Youn k Chicagoan, With n jagged wound in the left temple, and physical evidence that she had been strangled or smothered, the almost nude body of Mrs. Annie Bartholin was found buried beneath the cellar floor of the house in which she lived at No. 4310 Calumet avenue, Chicago. Coincident with the finding of the body, the police redoubled their efforts to find the missing sou, William Bartholin, who is also suspected of the murder of Miss Minnie Mitchell, whose body was found in a vacant lot at Seventy-fourth and State streets. The body of Mrs. Bartholin was found by a party of newspaper men, after the police had searched the house. There is no apparent motive for the killing of Mrs. Bartholin or of Minnie Mitchell, but the police nre following every possible theory. . The one that finds most favor at present is that the young man, being in debt, killed his mother in order that her equity in the mortgaged property might revert to him. While this theory will not cover the murder of the Mitchell girl in any way, the police believe that Bartholin had the idea that she either suspected him of killing his mother or that she had taken him to task for telling conflicting stories regurdia* his mother's disappearance.

PYTHIAN KNIGHTS MEET.

Supreme Lodge Holds Biennial Con* vention at Sait Francisco. The biennial convention of the Knights of Pythias was opened Tuesday in the Palace Hotel, San Francisco. Nearly 150 supreme representatives were seated when Supreme Chancellor Ogden U. Fethers rapped for order. Supreme Representative Walker C. Graves of California, in behalf of Chairman Charles L. Patton of tlie executive committee, welcomed the assembled knights. Got, Henry T, Gage sent his regrets at not being able to attend in person to receive the visitors to California and sent n message of welcome, which was read by Myron Wolfe. Supreme haneellor Fethers responded in a humorous speech to the welcome of the Governor. The visitors who had witnessed the opening scene then withdrew and the supreme lodge went into secret session, the first business being the conferring of tlie degree on twenty delegates. The afternoon session was devoted to hearing reports. Supreme Chancellor Fethers in his annual report said: “On Doe. 31, 1901, the order had 540,138 affiliated mem hers. To these should be added at least 500,000 who have been suspended for non-payment of dues or have taken withdrawal cards, making a total of more than 1,000,000. During 1901 the figures were: Initiated. 55.202; reinstated, 7,733; admitted by card, 7.077; total, 70.(51(5. During the same year 4,915 died, 2(58 were expelled, 8,378 withdrew by card and 32,857 were suspended. The net gain for the year was 23.194.” The report of 15. V. L. White, supreme keeper of records and seal, showed that the total number of subordinate lodges orr Dec. 31, 1901, was 7.002, the net gain during the year being 112 lodges. The net gain in 1900 and 1901 combined was 262 lodges and 47.032 members. The report of Maj. Gen. James R. Carnahan, commander of the. uniform rank, set fortli that there are 858 companies in good standing, organized into ninety-nine regiments and twenty-four brigades. There are in addition twenty-five separate companies, and warrants have been issued for twenty-three more. Elks from every State in the Union gathered in the great tabernacle of the Mormon Church at Salt Lake City to attend the formal opening of the annual reunion of the grand lodge of Elks. More than 8,000 persons, a large proportion of them clad in the white and purple uniform of the -order, were present. G. W. Powers of Salt Lake as master of ceremonies called the meeting to order and introduced Gov. Wells of Utah, who delivered the speech of welcome.

EXTRA SESSION LIKELY.

President May Call the Senate to Me:t in November. There is a strong probability that President Roosevelt will call the Senate in extraordinary session early in November. Ever since it became evident that nothing would be done to give reciprocity to Cuba at the recent session of Congress rumors of a more or less definite nature have been in circulation that the President would call an extra session either of the entire Congress to enact Cuban reciprocity legislation or of the Senate to ratify, if possible, a reciprocal treaty with Cuba. During the last week it has oeen stated" in Washington that it was the intention of President Roosevelt to call a special session of the Senate early in September. A correspondent says, however, that it can be stated with authority thut he has no such intention. His- time and that of many members of both political parties will be occupied during September and October. It is understood to be the belief of the President that a session of the Senate to ratify a reciprocity treaty would be much more likely to be fruitful of results if held after the November elections than if held before. A treaty with Cuba practically lias been prepared. It requires only the finishing touches and the signatures of Minister Quesada and Secretary of State Hay to make it ready for presentation to the Senate. No date, it is understood, has been fixed for the session in November, but that it will be soon after the election is reasonably certain. The President, it is said, hopes to have the reciprocity question cleared away entirely before the regular session of Congress.

MISS HAY TO WED.

Will Be Married to Jamcn W. Wadsworth, Jr., Sept. 30. Miss Alice Hay will be wedded to James W. Wadsworth, Jr., son of Rep-

reaentative Wadsworth of New York, Sept. 30, at the Fells, Newbury, N. 11., the summer home of Mr. 11ay. Only relatives and a few intimate friends will be present. After a short wedding trip Mr, and Mrs. Wadsworth will go to Geueseo, N. Y„ for the rest of the autumn.

MISS ALICE HAY.

BIG HARVESTER TRUST.

Company Incorporated, with Capital of *120,000,000. A harvester trust has been formed by the incorporation at Trenton, N. J., of the International Harvester Company with a capital stock of $120,000,000. The company, according to the charter, is to manufacture harvesting machines, harvesters, binders, reapers, mowers, rakes, shredders and ull kinds' of agricultural machinery, tools und implements. The new company, according to the best information obtainable, is to consolidate some of the large agricultural machine works of the country, chief among which arc those of the McCormicks of Chicago. The Milwaukee Harvester Company of Milwaukee, Win., has been sold to tlie Eastern syndicate for $5,000,000. According to a census bulletin on collars nnd cuffs, $10,21(5,817 is invested in this industry nnd fifty-four out of the fifty-seven munnfuctorics are in the State of New York. About 17,000 persons are employed. Considerable Huxiety is felt in diplomatic circles in Constantinople over the increasing unrest in Macedonia nnd Albania, ns a result of renewed activity of the revolutionary committee*.

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