Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — Page 3

“Fifteen gallons of water”AyiTS// says the Monarch man, “heat TAJSI Wj quickly in the Monarch en- J |&q|J jTj| f[~ j /tV , cased reservoir. The tank is of 1 |g“gjy A | l|| copper, coated inside with pure I ppjjrtty B block tin. The casingsurround- i S I ing is open at the bottom. No y sweat nor drip; no damper complications. I* cannot affect the oven if filled with cold water. * TO INTENDING PURCHASERS ONLY Foetal Card us for oar new booklet, "Hints for Range Boren or how H 0 to cut kitchen work in two." It's worth reading. If you state about how JrcSL-soon you expect to purchase a range, we will send yon Free a Toy Monarch HU Range, 0 inches high. 5# inches wide, 2U inches front to back. Address MALLEABLE IRON RANGE COMPANY, Wonantgof St. Louis, Mo.) - 191 Lake St. BEATIBDu, wis.

Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Law, Abstracts, Real Estate. Loans. Will rrartire in all the courts. Office oxer renfllg’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. [ludson J. Hunt, lav. ADsirocts, Loons and Real tsioie. RENSSELAER, IND. Office np-stalrs In Leopold block,’first stairs west of Vanßensselaer street. i ju. M. Baughman. G. A. WUUams. Baughman & Williams, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW. i Law, Notary work. Loans. Real Estate and Insurance, bpecla l attention given to collections of all kinda. Office over "Racket Store •Phone 828. 1 Riniseuii, Indiana. I !Wm. B. Austin. Arthur H. Hopkins. Austin & Hopkins, {Law, Loans and Real Estate. S Loans on farms and City property, persohr *1 security and chattel mortgage. Buy, sell and tent farms snd city property. Farm and clty'flre insurance. Attorneys for American Building. Loan and Savings Association, Office over Chicago Department Store, RKNSSRLAKR, IND. F. Irwin S.C. Irwin Irwin & Irwin, Real Estate, Abstracts. boUeetiona. Farm Loans and Fire Insurance. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

R. W. Marshall, i ATTORNEY AT LAW. Prtctllfea in all courts. Special attention given to drawing up wills and settling deeedent’s estates. Office in county building, {east aide of court house square. ■UH polts. a. a inriaa massy a. assets ' Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie, (Successors to Thompson A Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Beal Estate, Insurance Aberacts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books In the l”**' RENSSELAER, IND. i |ra W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington, ... Indiana. ; Law. Real Estate. Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office uostairs in Durand Wock. t)rs. I. B. & I. M. Washburn, Physicians A Surgeons. Dr. 1. B. Washburn will sirs special attention to Diseases of the Bye, Bar. Nose, Throat : and Chronie Diseases. He also tests stss for glasses. Ornc« Tiunisas No. 4S • Rbsibbhos Pmoms No. W. Rensselaer, - - Indiana. E* C. English, Physician & Surgeon. (Wee over I roes’ Millinery store. Rensselaer. Omoa Pmsks 177. Rssiesaos Pmoms, 110. Doctor A. J. Miller, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Rensselaer, - - Indiana. i Office np-stalra tn Forsythe block. General practice of medicine, surgery and X-ray work. Calls answered promptly, day or night. Office ana residence ’phones, 304 (Jasper Co.); also (Hallecfc) 41 at residence. w. W. MERRILL, M. D. EI6CIIC P md (DM non, RENSSELAER. - INDIANA. Chrwnlo Diseases • Specialty. Office ’Phone 808. Residence ’Phone 845 Dr. Francis Turfler. Dr. Anns Turfler Drs. Turfler & Turfler, OSTEOPATHIC PHXSICIANS. . I Graduates American School of Osteopathy. Office over Harris Bank, Rensselaer, led. Hours: 9 to Urn; 1 to 4:80 p.m.

H - °-Harris, E. T. Harris, J. C. Harris, President. Vice-Pres. Cashier. Rensselaer Bank. Deposits received on call. Interest Bearing Certificates of Deposit issued on time, Rx* change Bought and Sold on principal cltlee, Note# Discounted at current rates. Farm L o.ius made at 5 per cent We Solicit a Share of Your Business. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK 08 RENSSELAER, IND. Addison Parkison, Pres. John M. Wasson, Vice Pres. K. L. Hollingsworth, Cashier ■ucc.lso. TO TMt BUSIMSOO or tno COM.IUCIU STATS SANK. Opened March 3, 1808. at the old location. NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. A general banking business transacted; deposits reeeired. payable on time or on demand. Money loaned on acceptable security; Drafts on all cities at home ana abroad bought and sold. Collection of notes and accounts a specialty. 5 par cent, farm loans. Yonr Business Solicited. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store MMKfIM. r y ®S Crown. Bar and Bridge \ Work. Teeth Without QW 1 /A Plates. Without Pain. .. J. W. HORTON .. I# TEARS IN RENSSELAER Teeth carefully stopped with gold and other fillings. Consultation free. Nitrons Oxide Gas administered daily. Charges within the reach of all. orncs erresiT* cooat moo.a.

Attention Farmers Why remain in the North and stay in doors %x months in the year consuming what you raise during the next six months. Go Bouth where you ean work out doors every month in the year, and where you are producing something the year round, If you are a stock raiser you know your stock are now “eating their heads off" and, besides, have to be protected from the rigors of winter ' by expensive skitter. Economical stock feeding re- , quires the combination of Doth nesh-forming And fat-forming foods in certain proportions. Alabama and Florida produce in abundance the velvet bean and cassava, the first a flesh producer and the latter a fat producer, and they are the cheapest and best fattening materials known to the world. » More money can be made and with less labor, in general farming, fruit and berry growing and truck gardening along our road in the South than in any other section in the Union. If you are interested and desire further information on the subject address G. A. PARK. Gen’l Immigritional and ludustnal Agt Louisville & Nashville R.R. Ce. Louisville, Ky.

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POLITICS OF THE DAY

High Tariff and Rednced Wages. Thirty-two thousand operatives lo the cotton mills of New England have had their wages cut 10 per cent, and they do not view low’er wages and high cost of living as prosperity for them, whatever it may be for the protected trusts.'Then again the employes of the American Tin Plate Company—part of the steel trust —have returned to work at a 20 per cent redaction of their wages, and they do not feel prosperous. If the Republican party had permitted the amendment to the Cuban reciprocity bill abolishing the differential —extra duty—on refined sugar, the saving of seven or eight million dollars to the cotton and tin plate operatives and other consumers would have helped to tide over the long, cold winter that has just begun. But the sugar trust was more influential with Republican Congressmen than the people, and by taking off 20 per cent of the duty on Cuban raw sugar they presented the sugar trust with the opportunity to make, as Increased profit, almost to a dollar what the people would have saved by the abolishing of the extra duty on refined sugar, which the Democratic amendment proposed to abolish. The leaders of this same Republican Congress have agreed with President Roosevelt that reciprocity for the sugar trust and the Cubans was the most important legislation that was necessary, and they have further agreed that no reform of the tariff In its shelter to the trusts is needed. With no reduction or abolition of tariff taxes, the numerous trusts, that are protected like the sugar trust, can continue to extort their enormous profits. If the tariff taxes were reduced to a reasonable figure, enough to produce what the government needs, honestly administered, the trusts would have to reduce their profits to a corresponding ratio, or competition from abroad would come In and supply the market. That most of the trusts are able 4 o make ample profits without any protective tariff is shown by their exporting their products to foreign countries and selling them In competition with the foreign manufacturers after paying the high duties which are demanded there. In many instances it has been proven that the price the trusts obtain abroad are much less than they charge our own people. If the trusts were making no profit on the goods they export, they would not long continue such business, or be so anxious to extend this trade by sending agents to increase it, so the excuse .that the trusts are losing money on the goods they are selling in foreign markets, or dumping their surplus for whatever it will bring, is not borne out by the facts. The trusts, like other people, would not continue to do a losing business and be seeking more at the same unprofitable rate. The steel trust Is 'bidding on foreign contracts against the English, German, French and Belgian manufacturers, and successfully, too, at 33 per cent less on some of its products. To enable it to compete with the foreigners on their own ground it reduced the wages of its employes, but does not lower the price of its products at home. The workmen, the farmers and the balance of us would all be better off If the tariff was reduced and competition was allowed to keep the trust prices down. If the cost of living was reduced one-third, the workmen could afford to labor for less wages, and what a blessing the lower cost of living would he to those with limited incomes. The farmer would get the same price for what he raises under a low as he does under a high tariff, because the price of agricultural products Is based simply upon supply and demand, and no tariff can change that Immutable law, and the fanner has no protection to aid him except the duty on wool, and that has proven to be a boomerang. The wholesale and retail dealers make a larger percentage of profits the cheaper they can buy the goods they sell, so they would gain by tariff reduction. The whole army of those who work for wages, be the wages large or small, are benefited by a reasonable price for all they buy. The high tariff adds to those .prices directly. and in a much greater proportion through the increased profits the trusts and protected monopolies charge under the shelter of high protection. The Republican masses feel that protection is robbing them and are protesting, the “lowa idea” being a sample protest, but the Republican leaders have succeeded in putting even that small effort to sleep.

The Bristow Report. The report made by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow "as a result of bis Investigation into the post office cases presents a record of bribery, blackmail and miscellaneous political corruption which has few parallels In recent political history. It Is a record of criminal collusion and deliberate betrayal of a public trust. The methods pursued by those who prostituted their offices and entered into conspiracies to defraud the nation were various, but the end jn all cases was the satisfaction of Selfish greed. For a period of ten years. It Is shown, there has been a system of organized corruption ramlfytogthrough some of thejnost Important branches of the Post Office Department and Implicating officials bolding places of

higb responsibility. Apparently the dishonebt crew, of whom Beavers. Machen and Tyner were the chief offenders, neglected no opportunity which might be turned to use for their own profit Unnecessary and worthless supplies were purchased, the manufacturers and the government officials dividing the profltß of the transaction. Extortionate prices were paid to favored firms. Leases for post office premises were canceled and the rent increased upon the recommendation of prominent politicians. Clerks, assistants and bookkeepers were hired without regard to fitness or the needs of official business, salaries being paid in some Instances where no work was done. Nor Is this all. In some cases conspiracies were entered into with get-rich-quick concerns and other swindling devices which bribed officials. According to Mr. Bristow, the personal profits of the boodlers were small ;s compared with the losses inflicted apon the government and the pubr lie. He estimates the sums secured, by the men who debauched the public service at between $300,000 and $400,000, while the loss to the government, considering the needless supplies purv chased, must mount well up into the millions. The full loss which the nation has been made to suffer, however, is not to be measured in money. The ultimate effect of all the proceedings has been the debasing and*demoralizatlon of the public service and the Introduction of an element of greatest danger Into national affairs. President Roosevelt says In his comment on the Bristow report: “Self-government becomes a farce if the representatives of the people corrupt others or are themselves corrupted.” The President makes recommendations as to the desirability of new legislation to prevent “boodling,” but the prime need, as he recognizes, is the prompt and effective punishment of every wrongdoer. Simultaneously, there must be a steady, earnest effort to dam the sources of corruption by putting venal politicians out of power, not only In executive positions, but in Congress.—Chicago News.

Ftrenuons Times. It Is rather a singular coincidence that just when General Wood was beiyg investigated by a committee of the United States Senate on the serious charges made of his conduct in Cuba that the War Department should report the slaughter, by the forces under his command, of 300 Moros in the Island of Jolo and the balance of “Hassan’s forces literally destroyed,” which consisted In all of 2,000. This reported carnage may be true; It may be exaggerated, for the censorship of news from this extreme point of our dependencies is in the hands of the War' Department, and the authorities can deal out such as they desire. The United States was supposed to have been at peace with the Sultan of Jolo, and had certainly made a treaty with that pot&ntate and his dattos, of whom Hassan was the principal one, which continued the control of Jolo In the bands of the natives, as It had been under the Spaniards. No news has been published of any insurrection, or other reason, for this sudden onslaught of General Wood, unless secret instructions had been given him by President Rooaevelt to clean out these semibarbarian* without the usual declaration of \v*r. One circumstance that Is mentioned in the dispatch announcing the slaughter gives color to suclv-an unusual proceeding, for it is stated that the treaty with the Moros may now he considered at an end. It is therefore possible that this sudden onslaught may have been premeditated for tha purpose of annulling a treaty that has always been unpopular, as it guaranteed polygamy and slavery. If the news of the slaughter of the Moros was not concocted to show General Wood was more than a doctor —indeed, a strenuous general—and thus help his.case with the Republican member* of the Senate, it will be necessary for the administration to explain who ordered General Wood to attack the Moros.

Victories at the far end of the line and presidential pressure close at home may lead to a favorable verdict from the Senators who are investigating the former doings of General Wood. Nowadays it is well not to be surprised at anything. Strenuosity is in the saddle, and war, pestilence and famine may be forced upon us at any time, and we may be thnnful that at present those calamities are so distant as in far-off Jolo. At th* White House Window.

INDIANA INCISENTS.

RECORD OF EVENTB OF THE PAST WEEK. Youth's Painful Experience with u Cockle burr—Bad Marksmanship Joke on Gov. Durbin - Bedford Men Are Convicted—Explosion Near Kokomo. Oren George, the 15-year-old son of John George of Connersville, has passed through a dnngerous experience. While hunting and walking rapidly through a thicket of weedß, coekleburrs were set afloat, and one of them was drawn into his mouth and lodged in his windpipe. He could not dislodge the burr, and fled back to the city, and applied to local physicians for relief. They were unsuccessful in dislodging the obstruction, which caused violent coughing and hemorrhage, with intense suffering. The boy was removed to the Septon sanitarium at Rushville to undergo an operation, but scarcely had he crossed the threshold of that institution before he was seized with a violent fit of coughing, daring which the burr was dislodged and ejected. It is full one inch in length, and nearly three-quarters of an inch thick, and is covered with the usual spines, seasoned hara; and as sharp as needles. Apprehension is still felt as to the young man's condition, as his injuries are very serious. Shoots Horae for Quail. Gov. Durbiii, who is now hunting in Coffee County. Ga., displayed his marksmanship by shooting a horse when he aimed at one of a covey of Georgia quail. The Governor, in company with Joe Brewer, a local sportsman, had fine shooting all day until his bad shot caused the steed they were driving to run away. He and Brewer had to walk several miles through the swamps back to camp, which they did not reach until 10 o’clock at night.

Gnlltr of Intent to Kill. The jury in the case of the State against Duncan, Patton and Bruce in Bedford, for assault with intent to kill Frank Dorsey last September found the men guilty after being out twenty hours. They were given a fine and jail sentence. Charles Cain, 18 years old, was killed by Dorsey during the fight between the men. Explosion Shakes Kokomo. Two hundred and fifty pounds of dynamite at the quarries of the Kokomo, Marion and Western Traction Company exploded. Though one mile away, every building in Kokomo was shaken and many windows shattered. A dozen persons were slightly injured by flying glass. Short JWheh He Resigned. An auditing comtnittee reported to the Martinsville City Cohoetl that ex-Treas-urer Thomas F. Bruns was short $3,120 when he resigned a few weeks ago. William and John Downey, A. G. Hobson, H. J. Hinson, J. E. Robinson and F. T. Singleton are his bondsmen.

State Items of Interest. Paul Red wit* of Terre Haute took atrophine to relieve a headache and died from the effects. While hunting Rex Weaver, the 16-year-old son of a farmer living near Roanoke, was instantly killed by the accidental discharge of his shotgun. One of the leading Booneville hotels was quarantined on account of smallpox. There are many cases in town. The vaccination of 1,000 school pupils has been determined upon by the authorities. The body of Robert Rondthaler, an Indiana representative of the SherwinWilliams Paint Company and son of Rev. Dr. J. A. Rondthaler of Chicago, waa found north of Indianapolis, where he evidently had killed himself. A sensation was caused In jjafayette by the sudden death of Mrs. Elias Burkhardt at the German Lutheran Church. While in the midst of a hymn Mrs. Burkhardt staggered into the aisle Sfed dropped dead into her husband’s arms. The Gold Creek Mining Company, composed of Indianapolis and Martinsville capitalists, has been formed to mine gold in Brown and Morgan counties. The State geologists say the ore lands will produce from 35 to 80 cents a square yard. The saloon of Thomas Utt at Bickneli was demolished with stones at the hands of Mrs. Thomas Dant, wife of a coal miner. She said she is determined to stop drunkenness in her home and will smash every saloon that sells her relatives liquor. Mrs. Fannie Thompson, widow of former Mayor Otis Thompson of Elkhart, a prominent society woman, has taken a position as saleswoman in a department store, following the assignment of the Acme Cycle Company, of which she was secretary and manager. The assignment was due to a collapse of the Indiana National Bank. The 2-year-old child of Robert Steward, living four miles northwest of Salem, fell in the fire at the honse and died in a short time from its burns. The mother was away from the house at th# time and the child was in the care of two brothers, the oldest being 9 years. After the child was Spiled out of the fire, It ran to the yard with its clothing on fire, and its mother was burned about the hands and arms in puting out the flames. A dispatch from Washington says ths Indiana mortgage exemption law is valid. The Supreme Court has dismissed the suit to test the constitutionality of the law. The court held that it had no jurisdiction. This leaves the decision of the Indiana Supreme Court sustaining the law in full force. The original enlt in the Marion County, Indiana, Court was brought by Martha J. Lewis on the relation of the State. Harry B. Smith, county auditor, appealed the case to the Supreme Court of the United States. Robert Craig, a structural iron worker of South Chicago, employed on the new Bimplex factory in Hammond, fell forty feet from a steel truss. He is partially paralysed and may die. Two big mogul engines drawing a heavy freight train on the Big Four Railroad were wrecked near La son tains, together with twelve cars, A pilot bar connecting the engines broke, dropped on the track and threw the second engine and ears down the embankment. Bngineer McGovern of Wabash was killed and Fireman Frank Kimball seriously scalded.

WASHIHCTOH COSSIP

Is cun sequence of the Democratic victory la New York City, Hon. Charleu Towns, ex-Senator, ex-Congressman, ex-

vice presidential nominee and ex-resident of Minnesota, will become a prominent figure in the Democratic national convention and may be either presidential or vies presidential candidate. He Is s Tammanyite and New Yorker. He took an active part In the New York campaign and, in his capacity as spellbinder.

CHAS. TOWNE.

did aa much aa any other one man to bring about the election of McClellan. Town* was a member of the United States House of Representatives In 1885, ’B6 and ’B7. Be was elected as s Republican, but left the party when the gold standard was written into the creed In *BO. Towne then practically organized the Silver-Republican party. In 1800 ha was appointed to the United States Senate to fill an unexpired term of two months. In the past two years he has made a fortune in Wall street, mostly as a promoter of Texas oil properties. -:—:-

The monthly statement of the public debt shows that at the close of business Nov. 80, 1903, the debt, less cash in the treasury, amounted to $925,829,410, an Increase for the month of $5,420,909. The debt proper shows a decrease of about $4,000,000 for the mouth. It is rscapitulated as follows: Interest-bearing debt 9 902,911,240 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity ' 1,198,720 Debt bearing no interest 890,898,879 Total .$1,295,006,829 This amount, however, does not Include $931,206,869 in certificates snd treasury notes outstanding, which are offset by an equal amount of cash held for their redemption. The cash In the treasury la classified as follows; Gold reserve $ 150.000,000 Trust funds 931,206,809 General fund 144.793,557 In national bank depositories.. 168,047,000 In treasury of Philippine Islands .. 4,908,445 Total $1,398,957,982 Against this there are demand liabilities outstanding amounting to $1,029,720,503, which leaves a cash balance on hand of $369,237,429.

While there is no disposition to pass a bill raising the salaries of Congressmen, It Is growing more apparent each year that the existing stipend is wholly Inadequate, and that few men without private fortunes will consent to remain in public life. With every Congress not a few useful men quietly drop out on this account. A New England representative used to say facetiously that there were two classes of men, speaking from the financial point of view, who should come to Congress—those who were so rich that •air amount of appeal for money could affect them adversely, and those so poor that the worst hauger-on would not waste his time In hunting them up. As this member said he belonged to neither class. Congress was no place for him. There was a time twenty years or more ago when by common consent this waa not the case. A Congressman could live in reasonable comfort on his salary. Bat standards of entertainment are constantly rising here, as elsewhere, and few men can afford to wholly omit social obligations. -f —s-

The amendment of the timber and stone law as proposed by Senator Hansbrough’s bill, Introduced the other day, In the opinion of many Irrigation advocates may have a disastrous effect upon the irrigation law, killing its homemakiug features and leaving it a convenient end profitable tool for grasping speculators and cattle men. The irrigation act provide* that the government shall store the fioodwaters and construct dams and diverting works, the land, when reclaimed, to be divided into small farms end given to homemakers and settlers. The Hansbrongh amendment, it is claimed, would allow the land* to be filed upon in tract* of unlimited acreage by individuals or corporations holding lien land rights for is the forest reserves. —}»

In his annual report to the district commissioners. Major Bylvester, superintendent of the Washington police force, says that the cocaine habit is greatly on tto increase among the lower classes inf the capital city, and that rigorous measures should be taken at once to check the evil. “It Is bound to become a destructive agency unless something is done to prevent its sale by druggists,” he says. “Two years ago the drug was hardly known, but the habit has grown, and the wreck of lives which accompanies the use of this deadly drug and its sister drugs, morphine, chloral and other pharmaceutical preparations, and even patent medicines. Is becoming apparent.” The comparative statement of the government receipts and expenditures shows that for November the total receipts were $44,692,594, and the expenditures $47,427,788, leaving a deficit for the month of $2,735,194. The receipts from customs are shown to have been $19,220,347, a decrease for the month of abont $3,370,000; Internal revenue, $21,235,511, an increase of $2,388,000; miscellaneous, $4,238,735, Increase, $2,000,000. The expenditures on account of the War Department show a decrease of $1,460,000. For the navy an Increase is shown of $3,703,000. • WJ. * The fight for statehood for Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and probably Indian Territory is fairly on the way. Senator Quay again is the champion of statehood. Nothing Is to be done In the direction of securing statehood until the regular session ■ Then the suhject la to bOvPrecipltated in the House, where quick action Is confidently expected upon a WIL Senator Quay expresses the opinion that Indian Territory should be included la those to be admitted to the Union and a provision to that effect probably will bn iaclnded in the bilk _