Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — MERELY A HUMBUG. [ARTICLE]

MERELY A HUMBUG.

The Vermont state election will be held next Tuesday, and that of Maine will follow one week latef. Of course the “Dutch will take Holland,” as usual, but we may expect the republicans to send forth the same old joyful shouts over the “great victory” as of yore. Marshall Field, the Chicago merchant prince, pays taxes on a greater amount of property than any other man in the United States. Mr. Field’s assessment on personal property is $2,000,000 and he owns real estate in Chicago valued at $30,000,000. In addition to these holdings, Mr. Field has a controlling interest in the firm of Marshall Field & Co., whose personal property assessment is about $8,000,000, making a total of $40,000,000 in Cook county alone on which the merchant pays taxes. No other individual in the United States, according to reports from leading cities, pays on so much.

A nineteen-year-old Chicago girl was buried alive at a Wolf Lake resort, near Hammond, Thursday night, under six feet of earth, by a Hindoo doctor. The girl is put in a hypnotic state by the “rlootor” and is to remain buried in such state until to-morrow night, when she will be “fesurrected.” Of course the dear people are supposed to pay a small fee to see the “funeral cortege” go to the burial place, with the six young women pHll-bearers, and see the doctor go through the motions of producing the hypnotic sleep on the patient, and the “grave” is so arranged with an electric light over the glass in the coffin that the curious may see the features of the young woman at all times by looking down a tube at so much per look. No doubt the exhibition will be a very profitable one for its backers, but such things ought not to be allowed in a civilized community—but, we forget, this is to take place in Lake county.

Philadelphia Record: Republicans are complaining that the Democrats preach a gospel of discontent because they point to reductions of wages and the discharge of employes as a reason for voting for Parker and Davis. This is a gross misrepresentation of the Democratic arguments, which is perfectly legitimate, and bears no resemblance to the “calamity howling” that was heard in Kansas a few years ago. The Republicans are demanding a continuance in power on the ground that they create prosperity. Increases of yages and the enlarged demand for labor following 1897_they claim as the result of their management of the Government. It is entirely legitimate to rep’v to them that they are in power now, and yet thousands of men have been thrown out of employment because business is slackening, and more thousands have had their earnings reduced. Democrats do not cite a less favorable condition of business as a reason for supporting Jndge Parker, bat as proof that the Republican claim to the authorship of all prosperity is a humbug.