Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1905 — Page 2

STATEMENT OP THE CONDITION OP THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF RENSSELAER. IND.. MARCH 14. '»•*. BMOUBCM. tUBILHIII. Loan. *2*5,367 36 Capital Stock •*».«»» U. 8. and County Bond* *B,IOO 00 Surplu* and Profit* 15,7*4 » Bank Building 7,000 00 Circulation 7.500 00 Caah and ducTrom bank. 70,809 06 Dcpoalte *76,05* 03 0329,276 4* *3*0,276 42 DIRECTORS, A. ParklMn, John M. Wnm, B. L. Holllnrrworth, P redden t. Vlc*-Pre*lden«. Cn*Sl*r. Jane. T. Randle. Om. B. Hurray. | na loons o swum I am oi Tour wnronaoe is sowed, | I Blacksmith and Wood-Work Shop | | FRONT ST. NORTH OF K. P. BUILDING. j ! MBA General S Blacksmithing ; and Repairing t \ lIHjl \ Ilorsc-Shoeing, BoilOr and Engine Work, t ;j mS-Blry Windmills, Tanks and Supplies, Well | i W Drilling and Well Repairing, m I /PlßCli MACHINE WORK A SPECIALTY. | \ Residence Phone 259 ELHER QWIN & CO. 1 Ransom County, north Dakota. An Introduction. —We will introduce to you in a few words the famous Red River Valley, the great bread basket of the world, the land that will make your fortune. We have selected this field for our work, because we can give you more for your money, than in any other part of the L nited States. The world talks about the enormous grain fields of this region, in the heart of the American continent where we supply humanity with bread. The fertility of our soil cannot be surpassed. Our climate is beautiful and makes people strong and healthy. Our railroad facilities and markets are good. Our beef cattle fattened on native grass sell at top prices. Our winters have very little snow and permit stock to graze out of doors at any time. Our people are progressive, energetic and intelligent. Our school system is recognized as one of the best in the West. We have many churches of all denominations. We have rural free delivery and country telephones. Our country roads are excellent. Our land can be bought at the present time at from S2O to $35 per acre, but the people are moving west in largo numbers, and are settling this country fast. will be but a few years and the bargains will be gone, land will soon sell from $75 to S3OO per acre, This has been the case in all the older states and it will be so here. Remember the wise words of the great Horace Greeley, when he said, “Go west, young man, go west and grow up with the country.” Since the landing of the Pilgrims, the people have been pushing west. Your forefathers cleared the forest and built homes, which have become valuable. Why do you hesitate to profit by their experience? Take advantage of the opportunity, shake the dust from your feet, and seize your last chance to get a home cheap. Nature has made this beautiful country for you to live in, aud we ask you to come and look it over, get a home and be happy. We will now appeal to your good judgment and ask you to sell your small farm; or if you have a few thousand in cash to come out to where you can get from 1 to 5 acres for the cost of one in the East. It will be a pleasant trip for you to take, we will treat you right aud give you a square deal. We will be pleased to have you look us up. The Improved Farm Land Company, LISBON, NORTH DAKOTA.

OAK LUMBER

From Arkansas, good. Screen Doors with all trimmings Ladders, cheaper than you can make them, at Gwin’b Lumber Yard.

FOR EXCHANQE.

A two story briok business block, with business room below and five living rooms above, on two lots with good barn, rented for $lO and all in good shape. Will trade this property clear for property in this town or farm, and assume or pay cash difference. The property is in a town in Benton county. G. F. Meyers, Rensselaer, Ind.

5 PER CENT LOANS.

We can positively make you a loan on better terms than you can procure elsewhere. No “red tape.” Commission the lowest. No extras. Funds unlimited. Bee ns before borrowing or renewing an old loan and we will save you money. IRWIN & IRWIN. J O. O. V. Building.

LOW RATE EXCURSIONS TO PORTLAND, OREGON

Account Lewis find Clark FxpoHition will be in effect via Wisconsin Central Railway. If you intend to go to Portland this year aßk the ticket agent to make your ticket read via Wisconsin Central between Chicago and St. Paul. Pullman sleepers, free reclining chair oars and a la Carte meals make the journey comfortable and pleasant. Further information cheerfully given by addressing C. C. Hill. T. A., 204 Clark St., Chicago, Illinois

“NIAGARA ON THE LAKE,”

is reached by the way of the 1.1. & I. Ry., Nineteenth Annual Niagara Falls Excursion, which is to be run on Wednesday, August 9th, 1905. Low rates of fare, through trains, running solid from 1.1. &I. stations after dinner on that date, and reaching Niagara Falls for breakfast Thursday morning. See bills for particulars, calf on ticket agent, or write to, Mr. Geo. L. Forester, D. P. A., South Bend, Ind.

SEQUEL OF A MINUET

It was on the first day of Peggy’s arrival at tier summer home that Polly Dexter, her most intimate friend, came bursting in. “Thank goodness you’ve come at last!” she exclaimed by way of greeting. “You have saved my life, I wanted you to take part In the minuet which I rashly promised to get up for the yacht club masquerade ball a week from tonight. I’ve had an awful time with the old thing, and now if you don’t help me I shall give It up.” “Poor Polly!” commiserated the teasing Peggy. “Who is to take part?” “Oh, Just the ones you know,” replied Polly. Then she added abruptly, “Did you know that the Thurbers bad taken a cottage here for the season?” She looked at Peggy curiously as she spoke, but her friend’s face was as ealm and Innocent as that of a baby. Peggy rose and said In a carefully Indifferent voice: “I certainly did not, although It makes absolutely no difference to me where they are. But I may as well tell you now, Polly,” she continued warmly, “If Jack Thurber is to dance In the minuet I shall not.” “So they have quarreled!” thought Miss Dexter gleefully. “No wonder poor old Jack looked so down In the mouth. I’ve a good mind to help him along a bit.” r \ Aloud she merely said: “Oh, there’s not much chance of Jack’s taking part. I asked him, but be said he would probably be away. Joe Brewer Is to dance with you. “All right, then,’’ said Peggy, once more smiling cordially. “I’d love to take part. What are you going to wear?” “We will have our hair powdered and wear masks.” She gave a little gasp as she said this, and Peggy looked at her astonished. “Swallowed a fly?” she asked. “No! A new Idea has dawned upon me! Something most exciting! I’m sorry I can’t tell you what it is, but I can’t possibly! Oraclous me! Is It 12 o’clock already? I must fly! I promised Billy I’d go sailing with him at half past 11. It’s lucky he Is well trained to wait for me."

With a merry laugh Polly ran downstairs and out on to the board walk. Peggy watched her a moment from the window, and her eyes lingered almost enviously on the two figures that presently cast off In the trim little boat. “I never saw any one so happy as she is since she became engaged to Billy Scott,” she murmured. "Oh, dear! I wish I hadn’t said what I did that day. hut I’ll never let Jack know that I’m sorry." She shook her pretty head, and her lips tightened firmly, though there was a suspicious cloudiness in her eyes. “Mercy! Were you ever so hot In your life?” cried Peggy the night of the ball as she entered the little room where the dancers of the minuet were to assemble. “I am positively certain that I shall smother to death In my mask!” “You may lie hot, but you are most bewltehiugly pretty,” remarked Tolly Dexter as she applied a bit of black court plaster to the tip of her rosy tongue. “Oh, by the way, you mustn't ask any of these men to answer you!” she cried. “I have put my magic spell upon them, and they cannot say a word.” “The gods grant Jack doesn’t forget,” thought Polly gleefully, “He is au Impetuous soul. Fortunately be and Joe Brewer are about the same height, and behind all that black mask Mistress Peggy will never know the change in her partner!” Jack Thurber looked at bis dainty partner and blessed the quick witted girl who had made it possible for him to hold his sweetheart’s hand once more. This minuet would settle it. If Teggy refused to listen to him tonight he would cease to trouble her. But his heart ached at the thought, and he put the Idea away from him almost fiercely. He waited until the stately march and the first figure were over. Then as they stood in graceful pose while the second couples repeated it he whispered softly: “Peggy!” The girl started. “Are you speaking to me, Mr. Thornton?” site replied, slightly emphasizing the pronoun. “It isn't Mr. Thornton. I am Jack,” came the reply. Peggy bit her lip and half withdrew her hand as she aud Jack moved forward to the center of the square. The rich color flooded her cheeks, but somehow after her first movement of angry surprise she could not repress the glad Joy that surged In her heart. "Don’t be angry, Peggy," pleaded Jack In a low voice as they once more stood together. “But yon absolutely refused to see me, and you would not read my letters, and I had to talk with you somehow." The girl listened quietly, waving her fan nonchalantly. They were separated again before she could reply, but In the next figure as Jack knelt at her feet It was in real and not pretending adoration, Peggy knew. Their quarrel seemed so foolish now, so trivial a thing to mar the happiness of two lives! Peggy drew a long sigh as she courtesied low to her handsome partner. “Tell me, sweetheart, Is it ‘forgive and forget?’ ” whispered Jack as he kissed her hand. “If It is give me the dance that comes Just after the minuet.” For answer Peggy looked at him as she moved slowly in the last figure of the minuet. Then as she turned tap one final deep courtesy she gently slipi>ed her dance card Into her partner’s band. "It’s ‘Yes,’ Jack,” she said softly. And there was no envy this time In the look ahg bent upon pretty Polly Dexter and her flance.—Boston Herald.

TREASURY SHORTAGE

What Republicans Must Face When Congress Convenes. TRUSTS 0B PEOPLE MUST SUITES Tariff Rcrliian, More Taxes or a Bond line Xeceuarr to Meet Deßett—Dilemma In Which Kxtravagaat, Appropriation* Haa Placed the Party la Power. The growing deficit In the national treasury reached on May 17 the enormous sum of $30,753,556 and increasing so the deficiency for this mouth to the same date Is $3,063,900. Last year about this time Secretary Shaw professed to be tolerably certain there would be no deficit or at least but a small one, but bis prognostications have proved so often erroneous that, like the predictions of the weather bureau, any old weather wise sailor Is more accurate. The Republicans have boasted so much about their business management of our financial affairs and their ability to meet any emergency that may arise that It will be interesting to watch how they propose to overcome this difficulty. At present they are debating among themselves who Is to Buffer for their extravagance and favoritism. Primarily the deficit must be charged to tariff protection, the rates of duty being so high that many schedules produce no revenue aud others a large decrease. But there Is also the serious charge of extravagant appropriations to be met by the Republicans. Knowing the public Income was falling off, they have still continued to increase appropriations until what was in 1896 less than $300,000,000 is now over $500,000,000, without figuring the cost of the postal service. The most shallow business mind knows that expenditures cannot exceed income unless the Income is increased by borrowing or drawing on savings. The latter Is what Uncle Sam has been doing, but he Is now near the end of his string. He must either economize or borrow or Increase the taxes. There are two ways of Increasing taxationfirst, by imposing more Internal revenue taxes, or by reducing duties on goods that compete with trust made products and so increase foreign Importations. And the duty paid on this -increase would replenish the fund In the treasury. This Is the financial Issue that the Republicans face and must meet when congress convenes. The Democrats have warned them every session that this would soon be the result, that high protection and extravagance would not go hand in hand for long without disaster.

MACHINE POLITICS.

How t Few Republicans Control National I.esfialntlon. A Republican congressman may honestly favor reforms that the people are everywhere demanding, but experience shows me that but one in a thousand has the nerve to be independent when he gets to Washington. The atmosphere of Washington is surcharged with machine politics. In the house of representatives three men rule the Republican machine and the balance obey. Speaker Cannon, Dalzell of Pennsylvania and Orosvenor of Ohio, the majority of the committee on rules, dictate legislation. No bill, even a private one, can be considered without the speaker Is first seen and promises to “recognize” the member who wants to pass It. When It comes to public bills, such as tariff, trust or railroad legislation, If any Republican member should be bold enough to introduce a bill that would reform present abuses the committee to whom It Is referred would never report It unless the triumvirate above named favor Its consideration. This machine, through which all legislation must pass, resents any show of Independence In a Republican member and shows him but slight consideration if he persists In his Independent attitude, aud he soon finds all the avenues of legislation for his district closed to him. The Republican machine at Washington rides just as rough shod over those who oppose its policy as the Ipsser end of the machine does here at home.

The Philippine Problem.

The Cedar Rapids (la.) Republican (Rep.) suggests one solution of the Philippine problem: "If Japan Is willing to pay the price, why not let her have the Philippine Islands? Why does the United States want to go across the oceans to engage in the unappreciative task of trying to do something decent for semisavages ?” The Commoner amends this: “Why not recognize the Inalienable rights of the people of the Philippines and turn the government over to them? Has our nation so forgotten its traditions and its principles as to regard human beings as proper objects of bargalu and sale?”

A Problem to Be Solved.

Referring, under the title “A One Sided Bargain,” to the exodus of Americans .to the Canadian wheat country at the same time that immigrants from Europe are arriving in unprecedented numbers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. Dem.) says that we .shall aoon have to solve the problem of keeping desirable Americana at home. “The coming of 1,000,000 aliens of the class now pouring in by no means compensates for the loss of the comparatively few thousands who ars seeking fresh fields and pastures new across the Canadian border.”

THE CARDS STACKED.

k«f*Ulnu Plan to Give Railiw** Another Leue to Floater. When congress meets the Republican leaders will be forced to show their hands, aud we sball then know if the deal has been a square one. The band that the chairman of the ways and means committee will hold will probably be a bobtail flush, for the dealer does not intend there sball be any real revision of the tariff. Sereuo E. Tayne may bluff a bit and pretend that he does not wish the trusts to be fostered, but be will be obliged to lay down his hand early In the game. He is at the mercy of the dealer, and the way that Speaker Cannon has stacked the cards In the interests of the protected monopolies puts the committee out of business. What kind of a hand has been fixed up for Mr. Hepburn and the committee on interstate and foreign commerce Is problematical, but If those card sharps, the railroad attorneys, are as clever today as their predecessors have been In the past the chairman will have a royal flush to stand pat on, and the president will be up against a sure -thing when he draws his cards. But President Roosevelt has been up against skin games before and has settled the matter by exposing the fakirs and Is how demanding a new deal and a square one. He has the nerve to defy the gang that are now marking the cards and rehearsing the brace game that has to be played to give the railroads another lease of power for plunder. The majority of the representatives of the people will merely be onlookers at the game, but few of them will dare to open their mouths for an honest settlement of the railroad rate question. A big smudge will be made for the timid ones to hide behind—ln fact, the fire has already been started by the senate committee on Interstate commerce, and the smoke of the evidence to befog the minds of the people Is rising to heaven dally under the fostering care of the Republican senators and the railroad attorneys. When the “show down” comes next spring, It Is safe to say that no one will have a clear winning hand, and the plot will have to be divided between the railroads and the other gamblers. The people will be out of It early In the game unless the president obtains a square deal.

DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.

N«t Hold Balnner of Power la Railroad Rates Legislation. The Democratic members of congress wilt have a great duty to perform when they assemble next fail. They will find their Republican brethren divided In their support of the proposed legislation to give the Interstate commerce commission power to fix maximum railroad rates. President Roosevelt has made this control of the railroads the paramount Issue before the American people, and as the Democratic members of the last congress were practically unanimous for the Davey bill, which gave the commission power to fix rates and their actlou has been generally approved by their constituents and Democrats everywhere, there can he no turning from the course laid out. It Is a great victory for Democracy when a Republican president has been forced by public opinion and his own good sense to take the side of the people against the corporations, and it is fortunate for Democratic congressmen that their votes may be necessary to help the president In his fight for antirailroad legislation.

NO RAILROAD PASSES.

Democratic Congreesmen Should deface Such Favors. Every Democratic member of congress should refuse to receive a railroad pass now It Is certain that Important legislation affecting the rath roads must be passed upon at the coming session of congress. Although such a small bribe would perhaps not influence many In voting, yet It Is difficult to receive favors and not make some return. Congressmen are paid 40 cents a mile for going to and returning from Washington, more than twice as much as the actual cost, Including meals, sleeping cars and incidental expenses. This mileage should be regarded as a bonus paid their representatives by the people to make them independent of transportation corporations. Let Democrats leave to Republican congressmen the acceptance of such favors as will tie a string to their votes or at least place them In au embarrassing position of trying to serve two masters—the people and the railroads.

The Bosses Will Fisd Them.

The Republican programme in the last congress was extravagant expenditure. No tariff revision or antitrust legislation, no government control of railroad rates, and from the talk of the leaders of the dominant faction of the Republicans the next congress will still stand pat. The minority faction declare they want 'to revise the tariff, control the trusts and regulate railroad rates, but will they be willing to refuse to be bound by a Republican caucus, the majority of which will be the atand patters? Once Inside the caucus corral their freedom of action will cease, and they will have to do the bidding of the bosses.

A Foolish Suggestioa.

Speaking of Secretary Shaw’s recent speech on tariff reprisals, the Springfield Republican (Ind.) says: “Much can be said In favor of adopting the policy of maximum and minimum tariff rates If present rates are allowed to stand as the maximum, but the Shaw plan of treating these rates as the favoring minimum and adding on still higher duties' as a club to frighten off foreign retaliation Is the suggestion of a madman or a foolish man.”

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