Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1902 — THE CORN CROP. [ARTICLE]

THE CORN CROP.

Dan Simms of Lafayette, democratic chairman of the Tenth district, has been elected president of the state Young Men’s Christian Association. Barnum’s “greatest show on earth’’ landed in New York last week after a several years tour in Europe, and will next year tour the United States. The anti-saloon movement has struck Pulaski county and enough remonstrators have been secured in Monroe and Vanßuren townships to knock out any future licenses, says the Winamac Republican. At the late reorganization meeting of the Newton county council, Councilman Charles W. Hartley of Goodland, introduced a resolution to appropriate $45,000 for a new court house at Goodland. The motion was declared lost for want of a second. It looks like Goodland's troubles were multiplying. Meanwhile Kentland sits back and smiles. Evidently the New York apple crop is very large this year according to the following taken from a a local paper in that state: “There are thousands of barrels of good apples in Green and Albany counties that not will be gathered this year. The market seems very low. The buyers have been seriously handicapped for barrels, the coopers not being able to supply the demand. In many cases the farmers have sold their entire crop to buyers who have failed to take the fruit.” Railroads all over the country are preparing to advance freight rates. That, it is declared, w ill be done to offset the 10 per cent, advance in wages of employes lately made by a number of roads, and which will have to be followed by all other roads to avert strikes. The railroads, however, will not be the losers on account of the large outlay for wages. The shippers and merchants, as usual, will have to make good the increased (Cost to the railroads. Present indications are the advances to be made in freight rates will amount to from 15 to 20 per cent., leaving the railroads a surplus as a reward for their philanthropy.— Monticello Herald, (rep).

‘•lnsufficient time” will be the excuse the republicans will make for not repealing the duty on anthracite coal and altering many tariff schedules known to be entirely too high even to suit the vast majority of republicans, according to Representative Grosvenor. Moreover, the General says that there will be no extra session, or words to that effect. There may be a difference of opinion between the President and the General on this score however, for it is stated by some politicians who are very near to the President that he regards an extra session of the fifty-eight Congress as inevitable to republican success in 1904, in which Mr. Roosevelt is very much interested. Of course, he will not commit himself for the present but will “keep his ear to the ground,” to um the expreMion of his political friends.

Unless we greatly mistake the “signs of the times,” Jasper county will in the next two years see the “rockiest” local administration‘all along the Jine she has ever seen, with the newly elected officials. Every grafter in Rensselaer is wearing a serene smile and gives evidence of his pleasure at the success of the grafters’ friends in the late election. The Democrat would urge upon Messers. Waymire and Denham the necessity of stiffening up their backbones and giving “Honest Abe” to understand that he is but one of the three county commissioners, instead of the whole thing, as formerly. Taxpayers over the county generally should also make it a point to speak to Waymire and Denham regarding this matter, as it is one that deeply concerns them and their financial interests. Abe and his crowd don’t know what shame is, and take the meager majority given him by the worst element of both parties as an endorsement of his administration. Unless some of these newly elected officials are restrained by the more honorable and conscientious officers, the people may expect extravagance and graftism to run riot.

The corn in Benton county this year is hardly as good as that grown last year. The report that this year’s crop is one of the largest ever grown in the state is not believed.—Fowler Leader. Yes, the Department of Agriculture says this season’s corn crop is the largest ever raised in Indiana, but the farmers say it isn’t by a whole lot.—Morocco Courier. F" a -Wg ra in this locality, almost to a mah, hoot at the idea that we have the biggest corn crop ever raised in Indiana as given out by the state statistician. They say the yield here will be much less than anticipated, and the corn is light and chaffy. The best average yield reported to the Herald is forty bushels per acre.—Goodland Herald. It is strange how we judge the world by the little we see of it. Farmers from other counties who drop into the Review office claim that they “are beating Benton county this year,” and Benton county surely did not suffer as much as Newton from the excessive wet weather in the spring.— Benton Review.