Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1903 — Page 3

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. xs EBNBBKLABB, INDIANA. Jjudson J. Hunt, in. mm, Loras m mm m RENSSELAER, IND. Office op-stalra to Leopold block, lint tfafcs wert at Vanßcoaseieet Meet. ' ; ( Wm. B. Austin, Lawyer and Investment Broker Attorney Roe The N. A. AC.Ry, end Rensselaer W. L * P. 0» m.OflwOT«rChlMcojß»iriiili Store. r * L , *L M. Baughman. O. A. Williams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. . • Law. Notary work. Loan,. Real Batata and Jpeorance. Special attention riven to eollecJgraof 3»o klDd *' office over “RadtetStore.” RiNaaiun, - Indiana. d. R. Irwin 8.0. Irwte Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. yir * RBNSSRLAER, INDIANA. R. W. Marshall, ATTORNEY AT LAW. • Practices In all courts. Special atteotloe given to drawing np wills and settling da* eedent's estates. Office in county building, east aide of court house aquare. ' 1 11 11 NUMB wus •> •. Bmua namv a. bsmbb Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Snoeaaaora to Thompson A BroJ ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law. Beal Estate, Insurance Abaracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books In tha County. RENSSELAER, IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Remington, Indiana. Lew. Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs la Dorsad Drs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians A Surgeons. end Chronic Diseases. He elan teats eves for gleaeea. Om»« Ttunwa. Ns 4t Raaieaaea Poeea Me. er. f 4 Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E. C. English, Physician A Surgeon. Office over lines’Millinery atore. Wimaanlaw. Ornea Pnom 177. Meaaeaaea Pnomi, Its.

Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICI AN ND SURGEON, Rensselaer, • Indiana. Office up-stairs la Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or ni«bt Ofjte (J ~" <»■ S*'-- i iW. W. MERRILL, M. D. iieciic mm am sown RENSSELAER, - INDIANA. Chronle Dlmm ■ Specialty. (Office ’Phone 808. Residence 'Phone 848 JDr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anna Turflsh Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPANHIC PHYSICIANS. Graduates American School of Osteopathy. (Office over Harris Bank. Rensselaer, tad. (Hours i 8 to U at Ito 4:80 p.m. '*• °iS3Bs«. *• c - ea,. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call, Interest Bearlnn Certificates of Deposit Issued on time, Kl* chance Bou*ht and Bold on principal cities, Notes Discounted a current rates, Fanil leans made at 8 percent We Seßctt n Share as Yeor Badness. ■H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drag store Crown. Bar and BrMgo Btxt \ Work. Teeth Without Trhr I Plntes. Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTON n larcARStN KKNpncLAan ffeethearefaUr stopped with cold and othee Alllnc*. Consultation free. Nitrous Oxide ,Oes administered dally. Cherces within the jceeehof ttß. ! t if - .v-

POLITICS OF THE DAY

The Tariff Injustice. •- It the federal customs duties collected at the ports of entry were the only taxes on the goods the people consume and the government needed the collected in 1902, the largest sum ever before received. It would still be a great burden. But the receipts from all sources in that year exceeded the «expenditures by s9l, and will probably be $50,000,000 for the present year. The cash balance now In the treasury Is 9225,179,705, so there is no present reason to continue this excessive taxation, through high tariff, for it is criminal to tax the public more than the need# of the government demand, especially when this surplus is loaned to favored banks without any return in interest, er otherwise. The Wall street bankers to whom a great portion of this Surplus is loaned and the other banks that are similarly favored throughout the country, loan this money to their customers at the going rate of brterest, so that the tax payer* of the country are furnishing the capital to the banks and paying the interest that the banks demand on it or if they are Hot borrowers but have money of their own to loan, they furnish the money tree to the banks to compete with their own capital. This tax collected through the custom bouses is only a small part of the tax that the Dingley tariff imposes. Indirectly there is a much greater impost demanded by the monopolists, combines and trusts that were called Into council by the Re publican leaders when the Dingley bill was being secretly Incubated at the Arlington Hotel In the City of Washington, D. C., In 1897. No Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee was permitted to Join in the creation of the Dingley bill and Senator Dolliver In a speech in the Senate which Is reported In the Congressional Record, acknowledged that the tariff, rate /was purposely placed much higher than was necessary to allow a margin for reduction under the treaties for reciprocity with othesr countries, that the bill also provided for but which have never been ratified. As Senator Dolliver was at the time the Dingley bill was created a member of the 'Ways and Means Committee, this intide history ot the enormity of that bill Is therefore at first hand, by a Republican who was present at its preparation. By virtue of the extremely high tariff the protected trusts and combines are more extortionate than the Dingley bill. Where that law provides for the collection of over 50 per cent on the average value of most of the necessities of life, the trust tax gatherer demands In many cases over 100 per cent, of which the government receives nothing. The Statisticians of the "Bureau of Labor of Massachusetts have figured that in the boot and sboe industry the average wages are $491.49 for workers per year and allowing that two of each family are employed the amount that each family earns would be $983. The tariff tax on the expenditures of such a household is $13.75 and the tax that the trusts and combines extort is $95.25. Think of it, nearly seven times more to the trusts under the Republican protective system than the United States government receives. Congressman Littlefield, a Republican, gave a list of 800 trusts with a ’capitalization of nearly $14,000,000,000 which was pilnted in the Congressional Record of February 26, 1903, to which, aggregation each family in the United States contributed nearly SIOO.OO, so that the trusts can get rich and the poor poorer. It matters not now poor or wretched a man may be, the protective tariff demands and obtains a tax from him. The ways of the protectionists are peculiar, they pass laws to keep out foreign goods and then pass another law appropriating $5,000,000 for an Exposition at St. Louis and Invite foreigners to exhibit their productions side by side in competition with our domestic products. They have established a system of taxation, so remarkable that a tramp • chewing his qnid of tobacco pays his taxes with the rest of us and the poor man and the laborer pays in far greater proportion than the millionaire. And yet we are being told by the Republican leaders that no steps must be taken by the coming Congress to reform or revise this unequal tax. That the prosperity of the country Is bound up with the protective tariff and we must “let well enough alone.” k The Trouble# of Rooeevelt. In spite of the denial from the White House, there Is no doubt that there Is friction between President Roosevelt and at least two of his Cabinet The usually well inform fd Washington correspondent of Ihe New York Post says: “The whole postoffice affair la rapidly developing into a controversy between the President and the* Republican organisation in many States.” Jhen be quotes an organization Republican as saying: “The President seems to think that all that fa necessary is tor the country to etoct hhn. He torgats the Republican organization must first nominate him.” . All this shows a strong underground MOtfcneat against PresUWnt Roosevelt fa his own party by the party chiefs

who have always controlled the dele* gation from their States to the Republican national convention. The pledges already given by some of these leaders and the resolutions adopted indorsing President Roosevelt will be thrown aside and another selected In his place, if the winning combination can be made. The large and controlling delegations from New York and Pennsylvania have been pledged to President Roosevelt, not for love of him, but because the patronage depended on such action. These two States, with Ohio and Indiana, can come pretty nearly dictating the nominee, with the delegates from the Southern States ready for revolt. The revolt may never occur, because President Roosevelt may succumb to the pressure that the organization leaders will bring to bear on him, as he has done on former occasions. If he persists In the removal of Traccwell and in forcing his Ideas on Congress, the leaders may conclude to throw him overboard for some more pliant candidate who will think of some one else besides himself. If matters do not come to such a pass and the outlook for success of the Republican ticket Is doubtful, there will be a scramble by the organization leaders to save their own scalps from the political erruption that Is probable and let the President care for his own fortunes. The Democrats can view with complacency the clouds gathering on the Republican horizon, for In the event of President Roosevelt’s rejection by the Republican national convention, there would be a vast number of ardent Republicans who would be at least lukewarm for the slight cast upon their leader. If President Roosevelt la able to overcome the opposition In hla own party and Is the candidate, there will be very Influential political elements that will openly and secretly oppose him, so edther horn of the Republican dilemma brings aid and promise of success to the cause of the people.

Looting the Public Domain. Tho public lands of the United States belong to the whole people and should be sacredly kept for their use and benefit. These millions of acres of forests, mountains and land In the arid belt will before long be very valuable and will be occupied by a thrifty and prosperous people. Even the mountains with their small valleys will be wanted as the Increase of population pushes our future millions further and further from the present centers of population. That a mountainous country will maintain those who are willing to work has been exhibited for ages In Switzerland. A combination of lumbermen and land office officials have formed a conspiracy to acquire these valuable timber lands and the Portland Oregonian, a leading Republican newspaper announces that a “land graft” ring has for years been acquiring titles to millions of acres through the use of dummies and other fraudulent means.” It Is even stated that a number of United States Senators and Congressmen are implicated and an investigation has been going on for some time. The unearthing of these gigantic land frauds stealing the peoples patrimony, on the heels of the exposure of the postofflce and other scandals will serve to awaken the American people to the necessity of entrusting the affairs of the government to a new set of men. The Republican leaders have so impressed their followers with the idea that “graft” and “loot” are the desirata of government that honesty of administration Is no longer considered.

The Protected Few. If the Republican leaders were not In league with the trusts, combines and corporations, would they be continually advising the voters of the United States to “stand pat” on such an Iniquitous and unjust system that makes the farmer, the working man and the people with small means pay ena/mously more in proportion to their Incomes than the millionaire or the trads or corporations. Is It any wonder to see vast fortunes accumulated by the few, who are protected, and tha great majority continuing In straitened circumstances, with no hope of Immediate improvement. Will you eontir.ue to vote to keep the Republican party In power by electing Congressmen and Legislators who favor the continuation of the high protective system. or rather vote for Democratic candidates who are pledged to reform the tariff so that the system of taxation should be changed to “Equal rights to at, special privileges to none?” “Waiting for the Minister.”

INDIANA INCIDENTS.

RECORD OP EVENTS OF THE PABT WEEK. ; ;, v \ J ’ • Lev# of Music Cause# Girl to Commit Crime—Will Be Tried for Old Mar* der—Woman Found Guilty—Change es Religious Views. It was love of qrasic which caused the young woman arrested in Indianapolis td raise $1 bills to $lO. She broke down and told the whole story. First she admitted giving the false name ot Miller, saying she was really Miss Dale Matthewa of Angola. She was poor, she added, and found it impossible to make enough money teaching to educate herself in music. Hence her forgeries. Miss Matthews has l>een a student in the Marion Normal College for about eight weeks, where she Qiade many friends. She seemed completely in love with mte* sic and was regarded as one of the most promising students in the school, her voice being susceptible of high cultivation and her assiduous practice showing an eArnOstness that was highly commended by her teachers. Held for an Old Murder. Justice Kloenne of Cnss County has fixed the bond of Isaac Stover of Sends at SI,OOO after a preliminary examination for murder. This was the case in which Stover’s sister, Mrs. Harriet Bittner, caused the arrest for the killing of her husband in a quarrel twenty-five years ago, she having guarded the secret ever since and only divulged it in a fit of anger. The justice thought the woman’s charge should be received with a grain 'Of salt and held Stover for involuntary manslaughter. Mrs. Bittner on the witness stand told the story of the assault, relating how Stover had hurled a stone at Bittner, which struck him on the head, causing instant death. Stover has lived nn upright lift and has a wife and three children. Find Mrs. Talbert Guilty. In Shelbyville the jury in the case of Mrs. Hattie Talbert, charged with the murder of the infant child of Eva Cochran in September last, agreed upon a verdict of “guilty of voluntary manslaughter,” which involves an indeterminate imprisonment in the female prison for from two to twenty-one years. The prosecutor says he has an intimation that the woman will make a further confession implicating others thought to be connected with the crime. Profess Faith at Funeral. Standing at the bier of their dead brother and son at Michigantown, the father and brothers of R. E. Baker, who had long claimed to be infidels, publicly joined in prayer and professed their faith. This revulsion of feeling was the climax of a dramatic scene, during which a man named Purciful, a brother-iz-law of the dead man and a devoted Christian, publicly denounced them for their lack of religion. Killed by Explosion of Stove. Julius Schultz, aged 22, died in great agony as a result of severe burns caused by tiie explosion of a coal stove, in his home in Wabash. Schultz arose and lighted a fire, but upon its failure to burn he poured coal oil on the coals. A terrific explosion followed, and Schultz’s body was terribly burned. Man Meets Death on Track. William Stainbrook was instantly killed near his home in Shelbyville by a Pennsylvania freight train. He was walking on the track, when the engine struck him. Both legs were cut off. Brief State Happenings. James Cunningham, unmarried, was killed by a Pennsylvania train at Galveston. Gpv. Durbin has declined to be a candidate to succeed Mr. Beveridge in the United States Senate. Semi-official rumors are being circulated concerning a proposed new railroad from Terre Haute" to Chicago. Fire at Urbaua destroyed almost the entire business portion of the place, causing a loss of $20,000, with SI,OOO insurance. A Big Four passenger train crashed into a street car in Columbus. The car had one occupant and he was not injured. The receipts and property of the “Respetti” company was attached at Bedford to satisfy a debt contracted at Bloomington. A street car at Peru hit a buggy and Mrs. Peter Medary and Mrs. Silas Fisher were badly cut and bruised. Two children also were injured. Mia. Charles Trook, wife of a farmer seven miles west of Marion, dropped dead of heart failure in a bargain'counter rush In a city store. A freight train and a work train on the Sullivan branch of the Southern In; diana Railroad came together near Latta. Brakeman John Stafford of Bedford was killed. Conductor James O’Dea, Brakeman Frank Baker and Brakeman John Osborne were seriously injured. A pitiful case of poverty and desertion has been reported to Marshal Prewitt of Seymour. A woman named Crockett came from Columbus and told the following story: She and her husband, with their two little girls, had been living in Columbns until a few days ago, when the husband left. Not returning for several days, she started to find him. He was found living with another woman In a covered wagon just outside of Seymour. She pleaded with him to return home with her, bat he refused, aud drove her out of the camp. She then came to Marshal Prewitt and asked aasistance. The deserted woman and children are in destitute circumstances, they having not enough clothes to cover their bodies. Charles Berry, a prominent New Castle citizen, returning from a drive, went to the sick room of his wife, snd, throwing himself across the foot of her bed, shot himself twice. The reason is thought to be financial difficulties. Berry will die. In 1880 the population of Martinsburg was given as a round 100. The old town has been steadily Increasing until now, by actual count, the population U 105. An increase of one-fifteenth of a population per year is not so bad, and Martins burg will just go ahead, sad in another hundred years gain another fiv*_

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE ON CUBAN RECIPROCITY.

Following la the message of President Roosevelt dealing with the Cuban reciprocity treaty* It waa read Tuesday to both houses of the Fifty-eighth Congress In extraordinary session: To the Senate and House of Representatives: I have convened the Congress that It may consider the legislation necessary to put into operation the commercial treaty with Cuba, which was ratified by the Senate at its last session and subsequently by the Cuban government. I deem such legislation demanded not only by oat Interests bit-by our honor. We cannot with propriety abandon the coarse upon which we hgve so wisely embarked. When the acceptance of the Platt amendment was required from Cuba by the action of Congress of the Ualted States, this government thereby definitely committed itself to the policy of treating Cuba as occupying a unique position as regards this country. It was provided that when the island became a free and independent republic she should stand in such close relations with us as in certain respects to come within oar system of international policy; and it necessarily followed that she must also to a certain degree become included within the lines of our economic policy. Situated as Cuba is it would not be possible for this country to permit the strategic abuse of the plan by any foreign military power. It is for this reason that certain limitations have been imposed upon her financial policy and that naval stations have been conceded by her to the United States. The negotiations as to the details of these naval stations are on the eve of completion. They are so situated ns to prevent any idea that there is the intention ever to use them against Ouba, or otherwise than for the protection of Cuba from the assaults of foreign foes, and for the better safeguarding of American interests in the waters south of us. Mast Be Loyal to Cuba. These interests have been largely increased by the consequences of the war with Spain, and will be still further increased by the building of the isthmian canal. They are both military and economic. The granting to us by Cuba of tho naval stations above alluded to is of the utmost importance from a military standpoint and is proof of the good faith with which Cuba is treating us. Cuba has made great progress since her Independence was established. She has advanced steadily in every way. She already stands high among her sister republics of the New World. She is loyally observing her obligations to us; and ebe is entitled to like treatment by us. The treaty submitted to you for approval secures to the United State* economic advantages as great as those given to Cuba. Not an American interest is sacrificed. By the treaty a large Cuban market is secured to our producers. It Is a market which lies at our doors, which la already lorge, which is capable of great expansion, and which is especially important to the development of our export trade. It would be indeed shortsighted for us to refuse to take advantage of such opportunity and to force Cuba into making arrangements with other countries to our disadvantage. Bays Treaty Is Demanded. This reciprocity treaty stands by itself. It is demanded on consideration of broad national policy as well as by oar economic interest It will do harm to no industry. It will benefit many industries. It la in the interest of our people as a whole, both because of its Importance from the broad standpoint of international policy and because economically It intimately concerns us to develop and secure the rich Cuban market for our farmers, artisans, merchants and manufacturers. Finally it is dhsirable as a guaranty of the good faith of our nation towards her young sister republic to the south, whose welfare must ever be closely bound with ours. We gave her liberty. We are knit to her by the memories of the blood and the courage of our soldiers who fought for her in war; by the memories of the wisdom and integrity of our administrators who saved her in peace and who started her so well on the difficult path of self-government. We mnst help her onward and upward; and la helping her we shall help ourselves. The foregoing considerations caused tho negotiation of the treaty with Cuba and its ratification by the Senate. They now wife equal force support the legislation by the Congress which by the terras of the treaty is necessary to render it operative. A failure to enact such legislation would come perilously near a repudiation of the pledged faith of the nation. I transmit herewith the treaty, as amended by the Senate and ratified by the Cuban government. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.

Interesting News Items.

The water works tunnel at Cleveland, Ohio, that has coat fifty lives and millions of money, has been opened after years of work. While delirious, Margaret McFarland, a typhoid fever patient in St Luke’s hospital, Duluth, leaped from a fourthstory window and was Instantly killed. The plasterers’ union at Minneapolis, Minn., is one of the strongest onions in that city from a financial standpoint, and with three exceptions every plasterer in the city is a member of the union. Samuel Huukin, a contractor, was instantly killed and his companion, Misa Mattie Fitzsimmons, was dangerously injured in a suburb of Cleveland. They were driving and were struck by the flyer on the Erie road. Thomas Lucas, a lfi-year-old colored boy of Brooklyn, Ilk, is a prisoner charged with killing his stepfather, Charlea Anderson, also colored, aged 40 years. The production of the play, “Jesse James, the Bandit King,” by a company filling an engagement at the Auditorium Theater, in Lincoln, Neb., was stopped by order of Chief of Police Routxahan. George Grace, aged 10, whose parents reside at Lake Contrary, near St. Joseph, Mo., was killed in a runaway. He fell from a seat and his right leg was caught between the spokes of a wheel and ton

WASHINGTON GOSSIP

No President calls Congress In extra sessioa if he thinks he craavpid it without detriment to the public service, yet nearly half of them—John AdgOac Jefferson, Madison, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Pierce, Lincoln* Mayes, Cleveland, McKinley and Etoouwrelt — have bees obliged to do this. Jefferson, Madison and Hayes had to do thia twice. The session called by President Roosevelt Is the fourteenth on the list The first five extra sessions (accept Jefferson’s in 1803, which the LotiMfifra purchase necessitated) grew out of the country’s relations with Earopeen powers) the fifth of them being bent during the war ot 1812. A financial convulsion, the panic of 1837 in Van Buren’s case, and that of 1893 in Cleveland’s, brought two Congresses together in called session. The exigencies of the CivU War incited the summoning of that of 1861, and the Cuban reciprocity question is responsible for that which has now assembled, while the general finance question in oue or other of its aspects brought all the rest of them. *h~l* Nearly one-third of the members of the House who answered the roll call at the opening of the extra session did oo for tho first time. The House consists of 386 members. There are 64 Democratic members of the House and 56 Republican members who have never before served in Congress. These new members are distributed among the several States as follows: D. R. D. R. Arkansas 3 0 Nebraska 1 4 California S 2 Nevada 1 0 Colorado 0 2 New Jerzey .... 2 2 Connecticut ... 0 1 New York 8 5 Delaware 1 ONorth Carolina.. 4 0 Florida 1 0 Ohio 2 4 Georgia ....... 1 OOregon 1 0 Idaho 0 1 Pennsylvania ... 4 8 Illinois 2 5 Rhode Island.... 4 0 Indiana 0 1 Tennessee 1 0 lowa 1 0 Texas 8 0 Kansas 0 1 Utah .0 1 Kentucky 4 0 Virginia 1 1 Louisiana 1 0 Washington .... 0 1 Massachusetts . 8 1 West Virginia... 0 1 Michigan 1 4 Wisconsin 1 2 Minnesota 0 S Oklahoma 0 1 Mississippi .... 4 0 Hawaii O A Missouri 8 0 Moutana * 0 1 Total 61 56 The present House has a greater number of members than any House of Representatives in the history of the United States. Tho first Congress had only 65 members, of whom 10 were from Virginia, 8 from Pennsylvania, 8 from Massachusetts and 6 from New York. After each decennial census the number of Representatives waa increased as follows: Members. Members. 17C0 105 1850 234 1800 141 1860 243 1810 181 1870 243 1820 213 1880 825 1830 240 1890 856 1840 223 1000 386 A hundred years ago each member represented an average of only 30,000 people; now the ratio is 194,000. How fast Uncle Sam has grown! Six Vice-Presidents of the United States have died in office. The first was George Clinton, who had the further distinction of having been the first Governor of New York and who rendered brilliant service in the war es the revolution. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was the second. The third death was that of Willi Am Rufus King of Alabama, United States Senator and minister to France. The fourth VicePresident to die in office was Henry Wilson, also a United States Senator. The fifth was Thomas* Andrews Hendricks and the sixth Garret A. Hobart. “Uncle Joe" Cannon woa the speakership of the House “hands down.” It is a somewhat remarkable fact that there has not been a real fight over the speakership in twelve years—-not since 1891, when Crisp of Georgia beat Mills of Texas. Two years before that there waa a lively contest between Reed and McKinley, and, luckily for the latter, tha Maine man won. His victory made McKinley chairman ot the waye aud means committee, author of the McKinley tariff law and President -; 2There is not a single ex-Speaker in the membership of the House. It is many years since thia has occurred. Of recent Speakers, Reed and Crisp are dead and Carlisle and Henderson are practicing law in New York. For a number ot yean there has been but one ex-Speaker present, Galusha Grow, the venerable Pennsylvania statesman, who was Speaker of the Thirty-seventh Congress. -3—5The Postofflce Department of the United States now pays out annually a total In excess of $138,000,000 and takes in receipts above $134,000,000. Such figyes era staggering almost beyond beAet, but they are official. This wonderful world goes spinning down the ringing grooves of change, and with its progress the activities and the developments in this repoblie become steadily more extensive and more important Theodore Rooeevelt is the first President of the United States for many years to write his own messages and epeeches. It is usually supposed that the words of a ruler are his own, and his acts* the acts of his ministers, but as a rule the speeches of Emperors, Kings and Presidents are composed by their ministers, or at least the material is furnished them. Representative Hitt of Illinois is tha oldest member of the House in point of continuous service, next to Representative Bingham of Pennsylvania. Committee work at this session should progress more rapidly than In recent years, not solely because Mr. Cannon, in accepting the speakership nomination, urged his colleagues to b« diligent In discharging their committee obligations, but rather because no intoxicating beverage# will be sold in the restaurant at tha House end of die capltoL Members who were wont to spend moet of their tiara while at the capitol in the Hesse restaurant, will now be forced to frequent their committee rooms, as only these will they he able to find the little hswws jsg.