Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — Page 2

i Loans on Land. I We make our own inspections; no delay, no extra expense; interest 5 per cent. Loans on City Property and on Personal security also. $ Call, write or telephone No. 35. \i I The First National Banks RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J I 99 CENT Racket Store I ► 4 * : . if ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ t ► ► «► : Our September Sale is Now On! f > , * * : 'T'HIS is the month that we will slaughter all our Sum- *1 ; * mer Goods, they must go, no matter at what price. U ; Our Fall Goods are now arriving, and to make room 2 > for same you can for the next 30 days get goods almost 2 > at your own price. Do not delay, but call and see for U : yourself the beautiful display, the vast assortment and 2 ", the greatest variety of goods ever put under one roof. U ’ Do not be afraid of asking for -‘something we have not 2 ' got,” for we make it a point to keep that little some- 2 . thing that no one else keeps. When you are looking “ 1 for that class of goods do not forget The 99 Cent Rack- 2 iet Store. If you would only make a “jot” of this in 2 1 your “thinking cap” you conld save yourself a lot of U i trouble. > -► : Remember that we handle almost everything 2 £ and at prices that defy competition. ♦ ► We can and will save you money on all lines, be- ♦ ► sides giving you a Beautiful Present Absolutely Free ♦ t when your purchases amount to $5.00 or SIO.OO. Save X f your checks that you get with every purchase no matter ♦ I how small, showing the exact amount of cash sale. X ♦ T I I We are the only people that sell you the same goods tor less ;j f 11 money or more and better goods tor same money t 4 ( /VWWVVVVWW VVVVVVV>.<VS/V»A^f«A^A^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i + I Besides giving you a premium, Besides, buy your goods r t of parties that are willing to divide part of their profit t ♦ with you; this is our way of advertising. Do not be + t gulled by these catalogue houses throwing out their cir- f I culars claiming cheapness in prices. Bring in that little £ X bill and let us figure on same goods. If we can not save ♦ T you at least from 10 to 20 per cent you can call us the ♦ | worst kind of names and we will say nothing. You ♦ X must recollect that you have freight bills, express bills ♦ X and all other kinds of bills you do not figure on when ♦ t you buy goods of them. When you buy goods of us, ♦ t you see the goods, you get what you buy; if there is ♦ X any mistakes to fix up we are here to fix them without ♦ ♦ any trouble to you, and it is lots nicer to think that your ♦ ♦ money spent at home goes for home improvements, for ♦ X the betterment of your city and country at large, and ♦ t not to put golden images on top of a sky-scraper in Chi- ♦ } cago, to look at. to always remind you of what a poor £ X fool you have been for playing into their hands. Then ♦ f you wonder why the towns around your part of the ♦ | country never have any graven images or fine buildings ♦ X to boast of. The reason all lays with you— ♦ + X | Spend Your Money at Home! \l X ♦ t We will in time make it worth your while; we may t t not put up any sky-scrapers or things of that kind, but ♦ T we will give you as much for your money, if not more, ♦ X than those fellows will. f Come to The 99 Cent Racket Store, the Greatest X ♦ Wonder of the 20th Century; Largest Stock and Low- ± 4 est Prices. Yours for Business, £ l E. V. 'RAWSFO'R'D | X Location North Side of Square, 2d door west ♦ T of F'irst National Bank. X + ♦

4-1 pages 9 x 12 inches; 22 pages showing in natural colors 216 variet'er of Fruit, with concise description and season of ripen* I ■> ing of each; <>l half-tone vi v.s of Nurseries, Orchards. Packing Houses, etc. Send 50cts. for book (poet-] aid; and Rebate Ticket permitting return of I "If book by mail within 00 da.. s a:.d v e refund the 50jf. Or, mail us within 1 year, Rebate Ticket with sl2 order for nursery stock and we will credit SI.OO in part on your order and you Kjsitr izz book free. WE PAY THE FREIGHT, nr n n_ _L weekly and want more home and traveling salesmen. OUTFIT w e ray vasn free.—surk ßros, lwisum, *».. uimuc.iom,

PEACB. When the smoke curls up from a good cigar This world looks rather fair, And it matters not much just where you are Or the cut of the clothes you wear. With your feet cocked high on a mantel shelf You may sit there in silence and hug youmelf. When the smoke curls up from a good cigar You may dream such gorgeous dreams, And send your fancy to the fields afar, Where the future is cloudland gleams, And build high castles of thin blue smoke And forget the fact that you’re dead, flat broke. When the smoke curls up from a good cigar You may leave the vales of care And send your soul to a beaming star Of hope in the upper air. And close your eyes to the world below As the fragrant smoke wreaths come and go. When the smoke curls up from a good cigar A man can never feel blue. For his spirits will ride on the smoke afar To the realms of the morning dew, And the world with roses will be abloom And light and brightness will baulsh gloom. When the smoke curls up from a good cigar The visions of peace unfold. And the silence falls in the fields of war, The pathways are paved with gold. And the soul pots all of its woes to rout For a little while, till the weed goes out. —Chicago Chronicle.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and deneral Gossip of the National Capitol. Special Correspondence to The Democrat: To a resident of the national oapitol an end seems to have come to all partisian activity. The city has no caucuses,no conventions,no partisan harangues, no beseech, ments to rally register no partisan newspaper, and no pratriotism, for the few clerks who have retained the privilege of voting in the states they came from are cautiously waiting to see which side wins before announcing their allegiance. The work of the Congressional committees goes swiftly and silently on; some scores of girls are busily addressing documents and mule teams are every day dragging to the postoffice four or five tons of franked stuff —information, allegation, and protestation. Congressman Cowherd is back again from New York This remark can be made of him three or four times a week. Your correspondent asked him yesterday what specific fact he was now endeavoring to impress upon the American people. “This week,” he answered, “the fact that the Democratic party is the party of thrift and economy. For instance, when President Arthur went out of office, March 4, 1885, he left for Cleveland a surplus of barley $63,462,770. When Cleveland went out, in March, 1889, he left for Harrison the magnificent surplus of $330,348,916. When Harrison in turn surrendered the presidency to Cleveland in 1893, he left behind him the pittance of $62,450,575. Under Harrison began the hard times, which continued during Cleveland’s second term, but so frugal and thrifty was Cleveland’s administration that it turned over to McKinley the great surplus of $157,213,632. Doesn’t that record sound very much as if the Democratic party was the. party of prosperity?” Of course your correspondent scorned to answer such a question as that and here leaves it to your readers. General William Birney remarked to your correspondent the othor day, “The most distinguished Republicans of the past generation have repudiated the principles and party of McKinley and Roosevelt. Besides John Sherman, who opposed the war on the Filipinos and was therefore persecuted on his dying bed, and Tom Reed, who resigned the second office in the gift of the American people because of his disgust with his party comrades, there remain Boutwell, Carl Schurz, and Teller, wheelhorses of the Republican party through two generations and all of them in its Cabinets, and ex-Senator Edmunds of Vermont, whom Mr. Roosevelt nominated for the presidency in 1884, who has just joined the Parker Club in New York City, and will vote the Democratic ticket, on the issues of trusts and imperialism. Isn’t it strange that these illustrious men should abandon their life-long associations unless they had the best of reasons? Then th6re’s Ben Harrison, as an ex-president he sternly opposed the Philippine policy of the United States and told McKinley to his face, ‘We hold no commission from God to police the world!’ It is now reported that general W. H. H. Miller of Harr son’s Cabinet and Hon. S. N. Chambers, Harrison’s district attorney, will vote the Democratic ticket.” Congressman Sulzer, the redheaded rustler from New York City, who has his foot in the road a good deal of the time, was here on Thursday, full of information. He Baid, “We in New York mean to have ten or twelve hard-work-ing Democrats assigned to each of the 5,000 election districts in

the state —a force of 50,000. About 9200 will be expended on an average by each, for printing, meetings, carriages, etc. They wiH take two careful canvasses costing probably a million dollars. By the first week in November they will have their lessons by heart. We never had so thorough an organization as we have this year, and the first canvass of the state above the Bronx is about finished. t t t A fraud order has been issued by the Attorney General barring W. M. Farr of this city from the use of the mails in connection with his alleged colleges and universities and their “diplomas.” General Goodwin says its pretencces and promises are “a tissue of falsehood.” Why does not the Postmaster-General tackle that institution in Niles, Mich, which offers diplomas and degrees to men who have never studied medicine or surgery, guaranteed that they are competent to practice those professions and reccomends such quacks to all whom it may concern?” Yet it may be possible to carry this supervisory business too far. Wiley’s chemical laboratory for testing imported food products may possibly do some good by menacing people who transport impure food, and cannot do much harm. But if the government is to issue fraud orders against all the newspapers that advertise medicine “with no curative power,” what will the end be? Will it test every alleged medicine and guaranf.ee to the purchaser the excellence of those which it thinks is good? “The Department intends to-issue fraud orders against all remedies that are shown by analysis made by government chemists to contain harmful ingredients or ingredients that have no medicinal value in the complaints for which they are designed and sold.” Such inspection would require a force larger than the entire army and navy of the United States. t t t Congressman J. Adam Bede of Duluth, is now galloping through the United States expressing himself on every eligible stump. Fifteen years ago he was a reporter in this city, and a very lively boy he was, He followed his business to the west and came to Congress from the Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas as a Democrat. Then he indulged in a sober second thought and came as a Republican. A sentence of his speech the other day at Chautauqua was, “The first thing Democrats need to do is to get right with God.” No auditor ought to mention or even remember the fact that it did not occur to Adam Bede to get right with God till after the Democratic party had refused to re-elect him.

TO HANGING GROVE DEMOCRATS.

The Democratic voters of Hanging Grove township are requested to meet at Banta school house, in mass convention on Saturday, Sept. 17, at 2p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for township assessor, in place of Albert Warner, resigned. C. A. Lefler, Cbm, Arthur Stewart, Sec.

REGULATE AUTOMOBILES.

Farm and Home. The good roads movement, now being agitated throughout the country, is a step in the right direction, but the one great, barrier to it is the automobile in the hands of reckless drivers. The autos have become a public nuisance in many parts of the country, due largely to careless, reckless drivers who seem to have no concern for the lives and welfare of the country folks they chance to meet. Farmers are becoming much wrought up over the subject and are slow to advance the good roads cause. Unless there be radical measures taken to govern the speed and driving of automobiles, soon every lady driver will be forced off the public highways and be obliged to take to the byways or stay at home. Not half the auto drivers hold up for frightened teams, and there are but few horses that are not frightened at the sight, sound or smell- of an auto, especialy when going at breakneck speed, as is the general custom. The farmer must pay for the building and maintenance of good roads and his rights and liberties should not be encroached upon in such a manner. If the auto must use public highways, let there be more moderation in speed and greater care exercised for the concern of the lives and welfare of others. If you want a home farm in lowa, write us for prices, terms and piotures. Northern lowa Land Co., Independence lowa.

JUGGLING

Hfew a Republican Tax Board Reduces Assessments on Railroads and Increases Them on Lands. Mr. Fairbanks, as chairman of the Fort Wayne convention in 1892, declared the new tax law odious, and the Republican platform of that year denounced the law as putting unnecessary burdens upon the farmers. But it was notorious then and has been often repeated since, that all the large railroad corporations gathered statistics along their right-of-way to show that the assessments on farm lands were much lower than on the railroads, and it was on this ground—unequal discrimination —that the corporations made their fight against the law in the state and federal courts. The Democrats refused to lower the assessments except in cases where It was demonstrated that inequalities existed and when the Republicans came into power in 1895 they did not dare to carry out their policy of antagonism to the law, much less redeem the promise to repeal it. But they wanted to find a way to make the law “odious,” as Mr. Fairbanks characterized it, and to make it a burden to the farmers, as it had been pictured in the Republican platform. In pursuance of this policy the Republican board of tax commissioners has become an autocrat that defies local Judgments and arbitrarily increases local assessments on lands and improvements on lands, till protests are coming up from all parts of the state. The new law provided for a county assessor, who reviews the work of the several township assessors, and established boards of review to finally pass upon the county assessments and eliminate discriminations. The Democratic principle that the people, through their local officers, should be supreme, was adhered to in the enactment of the law and in its administration, but the Republicans have reversed this rule and in theif zeal to favor corporations and yet meet the ever-increasing expenses of the state government, they are engaged in a seductive policy of reducing from time to time the corporation assessments and increasing those upon lands and improvements. That these statements are not based upon hearsay and that it is easy to coihe down from generalities to particulars, can be demonstrated from the records of the board of tax commissioners itself. The records for 1904 have not yet bean made up, but those for 1902 and 1903 show conclusively the trend of the Republican board. For instance, the reduction of assessments of railroad property in Bartholomew county in 1903 aggregated $33,290, but the assessments on improvements on lands in the same county were increased 50 per cent, thus reducing the county revenue from corporations and increasing it from the people. In Jackson county the railroad assessments were reduced $28,890, but the assessments on land 8 were increased 20 per cent. Some of the most flagrant cases of this kind are submitted in the following table: if $ 2 Per cent of Increase: 1 o County. On improve- a 3 On lands, men ton lands. * 5 : 5 s : w Bartholomew. 50 $33,290 Jackson 20 28,890 Miami 10 60,105 Montgomery.. 10 10,700 Starke 15 50 6,755 Wabash 10 73,525

How It Works.

The tariff on tin plate is 1% cents per pound. In the year 1894 the customs revenue on tin plate was $9,609,175. In the year 1902 the revenue was $2,997,786. The production of tin plates for the year 1902 was 819,840,000 pounds. The collectable bonus at 1% cents a pound was $12,297,600. During the five years inclusive, 1898 to 1902, the total production of tin plate was 3,932,871,040 pounds. The total bonus collectable was $58,993,065.60, while the total revenue collected by the government was only $11,143,215. In the year 1900 the total capital Invested In the tin plate industry was $27,488,302, and the total wages and salaries were a little over $11,000,000. The total number of wage-earners and salaried people in this industry are 15,552. In the dipping department of the tin industry the total number of employes is 4,004. This includes wageearners and salaried people. The special bonus of one-fifth of a cent per pound would give a bonus of $1,355,939.20, which is considerably more than half of the sum paid in wages and salaries. Is it any wonder, after reviewing the foregoing statement, that those engaged in this industry should have been able to have reaped a profit in a few years sufficient to have purchased one of the largest railway systems In the United States? It is not surprising when we consider these facts that Mr. McKinley In his last public utterance should have stated that the time had arrived when the protection laws should be revised, and it is not surprising that those who are interested in this class of industry should be so zealous In the advocacy of its perpetuity. Judge Parker’s trust record is one on which the party may make its campaign. Like his record on the labor question, it reveals sympathy with the masses rather than with the oppressor! of the masses.

MONON CHEAP RATES.

65 cents for the round trip to Monon, Sept. SO to 38: limit Sept. 24, Street Fair. $1.95 for the round trip to Lafayette, Sept. 20, 31, 23; limit Sept. 24. Reunion of Wllder’e Brigade. Low ratea West, September 15th to October 15th; one way to— Billings, Moat., .....S3O 35 Helena, Butte, Salt Lake City.. 3135 Spokane, Wash 33 05 Portland, Seattle 34 56 San Francisco, Cal.. 34 35 Round trip rates for the world's Fair at St. Louis commencing April 35th, good until Dec. 15th,513.b5; sixty day excursion tickets $11.60; fifteen day excursion tickets, $10.80; seven day excursion. $7.30, W. H. BEAM, Agent.

An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. REDUCED RATES TO THE WEST. To all points in Montana, Washington, Oregon and British Columbia, September Isth to October 15th, 1904. Write at once for information and maps to C. C. Hill, Traveling Agent, Wisconsin Central R’y, 230 Clark Street, Chicago, 111.

Upholstering and Repairing Having sold my bicycle repair business, I have concluded to put in the place of it, and in connection with my undertaking business, a first-class Upholstering and General Furniture Repair Buaineaa. I have secured the services of a first-class upholsterer. Work called for and delivered to any part of the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. ’PHONE 56. A. B. COWGILL.

Nil DAY, DEALER IN 5 Lime, iiili id M. RENSSELAER. IND.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE. Notice is hereby given to the citizens of the village of Parr and to the citizens of Union Township, in Jasper County Indiana, that the undersigned a male inhabitant of the state of Indiana, over the age of twenty-one years, of good moral character and not in the habit of becoming intoxicated and has been a continuous resident of said township for over ninety days last past and who Is and will be the actual owner and proprietor of said business, and will be if such license be granted, will make application to the Board of Commissioners of said Jasper couDty, at the October Term or session of said Board, commencing on October 3.1904. for a retail liquor license empowering him to sell and barter spirituous, vinous, malt and all other intoxicating liquors in less quanities than a quart at a time and in less quantities than live gallons at a time with the privilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drank upon the premises where so sold and bartered. That the location of the nom in which this applicant will ask for a license to sell and barter liquors as aforesaid is on the ground floor of a two story frame building situated upon the north end of (he west twenty feet off of the west side of out lot twelve in the village of Parr, Jasper County. Indiana. Said building being more particuiarily described as follows: Commencing at a point three feet south of the north west corner of said out lot twelve and running thence south a distance of thirty-two feet and three inches, thence east a distance of eighteen feet and three inches, thence north a distance of thirty-two feet and three inches, thence west a distance of eighteen feet and three inches to the place of beginning. Said room in which applicant desires to sell being thirty-one feet live inches by seventeen feet five inches inside measurement. The applicant says that said room fronts upon Firman street, a public street In said village of Parr, and that the front of said room facing the said street is furnished with two large glass windows and one large panel door with glass therein and that the whole of aaid room may be viewed from the street; that there is one window upon the west side thereof and ODe door and one window in the south end of said room; that the said room la separate and apart from any other busineas of any kind whatever; that there are no devices for amusement or music of any kind or character in or about said room: that the same can be securely locked and admission thereto at all timea prevented, and that there are no partitions or partition in said room. The applicant says that he is qualified aa an applicant for said license for the said place. The applicant will ask for a license for a period of one year and permission to aell cigars and tobacco in connection therewith. Edward Cull. REVIVO ggflP Restores VITALITY FRmtfCS H WMBPT produces the above results In 30 dsya. It acts powerfully and quickly. Cure* when ell others CslL Voung men wi u regain their lost manhood, and old men will recover their youthful vigor by using BEVIVO. It quickly and surely restore* Nervousness, Lost Vitality, Impotency. Nightly Emissions, Coet Power, Failing Memory. Waiting Disease*, and all effects of self-abuse or excess and indiscretion, which unfits one for study, busineas or marriage. It not only cures by starting at the seat of dUeass. bat laagreat nerve tonic and blood builder, bringing back the pink glow to pale cheeks and r* storing the fire of youth, ft wards off Insanity and Consumption. Insist on having KEVIVft no ether. It can be carried In vest pocket. By rtall •LOO per package, or six for tLOO. with a p°*l. tive written guarantee to care or the money. Book and advise free. Address EQYAL MEDICINE CO., For sale In Rensselaer by l, A. Larsh druggist.