Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1907 — Page 2

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This is the last week of the legislature —the week of the deluge. The fish and game commissioner reports that the expense of his office during the last two years were $41,572. He believes that the laws should not be changed. If this be madness, then surely there is method in it. The banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. admitted before the interstate commerce commission that it had made over seven million dollars out of two of Harriman’s railroad deals. Harriman and his associates have made tens of millions. And it is only the people who pay the freight. That was a mighty wise statement that Representative Kimmel of Ligonier made in the house the other day, w hen he said that if the people would vote the Democratic ticket and put Democrats in office they would not have to appeal to the legislature so often for protection from the acts of their public servants, For the pleasure of having 10,000,000 of subjects in the Philippines the people of the United States have paid out about a billion dollars. Furthermore, because we have those islands, the Roosevelt administration has felt it necessary to show’ the white feather to Japan. Surely our imperial policy is bearing fruit.

Among the curiosities in the Republican state platform is the declaration that “the present state administration from its inception has stood for the wise enactment of laws.” And yet every law which “the present state administration” that is, Governor Hanley—urged upon his party brethren in the legislature has either been cut to pieces or kicked out of doors In 1860, when the Republican party was four years old, Simon Cameron of Pennsylvania failed in his attempt to get the presidential nomination through the use of his money. Other rich men have since repeated the Cameron experiment. What will happen in 1908, with the Republican party on its last legs, the Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks hopes will be different. The “billion-dollar congress”— and it was, of course, a Republican congress —aroused the indignation of the people and led to the overthrow of the party in power. And the “billion dollar congress” was so called because it spent a billion dollars in two years. The congress i

which has just expired—and which is also Republican by a big majority—has spent, in round numbers, two billion dollars in two years. Do the people like that sort of thing any better than they used to? If not, what are they going to do about it? Governor Hughes, of New York, nod a few other frightened Republicans in different parts of the country are warning their party that it must mend its ways or suffer defeat. But it has been warned before and has not mended its ways. It knows only one way And that is the way it has been going and is going now. Nothing lets than a complete overthrow will teach the Republican party as now led that ours should be a government for the people and not for the trusts and other special interests. When William J. Bryan is elected president he will clear the air and bring the government back to the people, to whom it belongs. Melville E.J Jlngalls, former president of the Big Four railroad system, in an address before the Economic club of Boston a few days ago, said he was not in favor of taxing for destruction,but there were too many millionaires for the good of the republic. "I believe,” he said, “that one of the greatest causes of the production of large and illegal fortunes is your tariff.” Mr. Ingalls went on to tell the Bostonese about the necessity for reforming the tariff, and he also spoke in favor of an income tax. Those Massachusetts people_Jike to be told about the iniquities of the tariff, and they are very fond of talking loudly about those iniquities themselves. Perhaps some day they will vote to do away with them.

Just what sort of a ditch bill will be passed finally by the legislature no one knows. And there is no way to find out until the measure has been completed and subjected to close scrutiny. Satisfactory bills have been presented bj’ Democrats in both the house and senate, but the Republican majority will pass no ditch bill that has a Democrat’s name attached to it, however good it may be. The majority may take all or a part of a Democratic bill and relabel it with the name of a Republican, but in perpetrating this legislative larceny they are likely to mix enough things of their own invention to spoil the whole enactment. The exclusively Republican ditch law of two years ago was declared by its authors and sponsors to be the acme of wisdom, but it was in reality a rank outrage on the farmers of the state.

“SALARY GRABS” AND SUCH

Among the papers that talk a great deal about republican extravagance and yet persistently support the republican party and strive to keep it in power, is the Indianapolis News. After declaring that the expenditures of the congress which has just died, unhom red if not unwept or unsung, are “beyond all reason," it says this about the salary grab: This congress has increased the salaries of members and senators to take effect at the beginning of the next congress, and a large number of the present members will share in the increase. A curious thing about this is that it has hardly elicited a protest from press or people. The celebrated "salary grab" of 1878 caused a tremendous protest, resulted in relegating many members who voted for it to private life, and caused an excitement that forced congress to repeal the act at the next session. And then the News asks if the people have “abandoned the fight for economy in public affairs.” Surely they have not. All signs indicate that the “two billion dollar congress” will cuta large figure in the next campaign along with subsidy grafts, tariff thievery and official rottenness.

WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and General Gossip of the National Capital. Special Correspondence to The Democrat. There is much just dissatisfaction in the office that Mr. J. W. Oliver, the unsuccessful bidder for the Panama Canal contract, has established on Fourteenth street. Mr. Oliver -says he has been defrauded, lured on by false pretences, and has been made to spend $40,000 in putting in his bid. He says that he is going to sue the government for this amount. Whether he will add anything for “mental anguish” as is the custom in breach of promise suits, be does not say. Anyhow Mr. Oliver is thoroughly disgusted with the unbusinesslike way in which he has been treated. He says he was made to pay $40,000 in good money. It is easy to see how this amount could have been expended in organizing a syndicate to dig the Panama Canal. t tt There will be no war with Mexico at present. This will be satisfying information to the people who did not know that there was war impending anyhow. Perhaps there was not a war cloud, but there surely were international complications, and they are settled most happily by the escape of Mr. Antonio Vilarea. This is an amusing case that has been hanging over since last October. Vilarea was down in El Paso, but the crux of the situation was in Washington. He was a revolutionist by profession, and the government of Mexico wanted his blood in the most approved melodramatic fashion. So he skipped over to the United States. But the Mexican government was crafty and pointed out that while we might not surrender Mr. Vilarea as a revolutionist, it being against our policy to surrender political refugees, he. had been convicted in a shooting scrape down in Mexico, and was therefore ineligible for admission to the United States under the immigration laws. If this were true, we could not admit him to the United States, but if we deported him, it was sure death when he fell into the hands of the Mexican government. So the immigration bureau, to whom the case was finally turned over, was ranch in a quandary. The case dragged on for months, and just as it was on the eve of being settled, Vilarea es- J caped from the custody of immigration inspector and the incident is at an end. But the escape was so opportune and the Mexican consul at El Paso was so indignant that Secretary Strauss, commissioner sargent, and everyone else who had anything to do with the case has been kept busy every since explaining that they were not particeps criminis and that it was a really truly escape. Maybe it was.

An announcement has been made by the department of agriculture as to the process of cotton seed separation to which some reference has been made in print with the cheering information that will add übout 10 per cent to the actual amount of the cotton crop wherever it is put in use. As the cotton crop amounts to about $750,000,000 in value annually, it will be seen that this is a considerable item even if the system is followed over only a part of the cotton belt. The trouble in picking out good cotton seed all along and in planting the cotton, too, hb is known bydwellers in the belt is that the seed is 'fussy and will not easily separate. But the department has discovered a process of smoothing down the seed at the cost of about 1c a bushel and, afterward a very cheap method of picking out the heavy from the light seed by means of an air blast. The system has been experimented with on two successive crops by the department, and the results are good beyond question. It means an inexpensive aid to the farmer in planting his crop and a better crop as a result of his planting. The process and the two machines involved are being patented, and when this is done the process will be thrown open to whoever wants to take advantage of it. t t t Senator Beveridge has, temporarily at least, lost his fight to amend the meat inspection bill so that the date of canning shall be shown on every can. The packers say that meat is just as good after it has been canned a decade as it is after it has been canned a year. But they are very loth to have the date of canning put on the can for all that. Senator Beveridge has made a strong fight to amend the law, but he has been opposed by the house conferees led by Representative Wadsworth of beef trust fame, and the measure probably

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will be barred for the session. It will be Mr. Wadsworth’s last legislative act in congress anyhow, for he has been defeated for reelection and goes out at the end of his term. t t t A delegation of Russians called on the president at the white house last week in the interests of the Famine Relief association. They presented the facts in the case to the president, saying that the villagers in twenty provinces were starving owing to successive crop failures, and they begged that he issue a proclamation recognizing the existence of the distress and authorizing the American Reed Cross to act as it was now acting in China. Mr. Roosevelt promised to take the matter under consideration, and it is probable that the proclamation will be issued. The Red Cross is doing good work in China, and $65,000 was forwarded last week by the Christian Herald to the missionary committees at Soanghai and Chingkiwang. t t t Minister Carbo of Eucador was summoned unexpectedly to his home last week to take the post of minister of foreign affairs. He has been one of the best known and active of the younger South American diplomats, and was only recently put on the directorate of the Bureau of American Republics. He will act as chief advisor on American affairs to the government of Eucador and the position will be an important one, as Guayaquil is the last port of call for vessels passing west through the Panama canal. The city is in a most unsanitary condition and will have to be thoroughly cleaned up either by its own government or by the United States before the canal will be safe to use.

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FOR THE CHILDREN “Brother, I Am Bobbed.” A good game for boys Is one that conies from the French and is called “Frere, on me bat,” which translated means "Brother, some one strikes me.” Here we call it “Brother, I am bobbed.” It is a game and a trick combined and can be played on the green or Indoors, which Is well, for on rainy dujj boys want such a game. Two boys are selected as brothers, one of whom must know the game, and the other must never have played It before. The two brothers are blindfolded and must stand back to back, but not close together. The one who does not know the game Is told that one of the other players, who all stand around the brothers In a ring, will bit one of them with a knotted handkerchief from time to time. The one who Is hit must call out, “Brother, I am bobbed," and the other asks, “Who bobbed you?” If the hit one answers correctly, the hitter takes his place,

Now, this is the trick: As soon as the game begins the brother who understands the game removes the bandage from his eyes, and, quickly knotting it, he strikes his brother with it When he asks “Who bobbed you?’’ he gets the wrong answer, of course, and so the game goes on until the victim begins to realize that he is being tricked. To throw him off the scent the other brother must say now and then, "Brother, I am bobbed.” The players in the ring have the fun e* s he laugh.

PREPARE THIS YOURSELF.

For those who have any form of blood disorders; who want new rich blood and plenty of it try this: Fluid Extract Dandelion, onehalf ounce; Compound Kargon, one ounce: Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla, three ounces. Shake well in a bottle and take teaspoonful doses after each meal and at bedtime. Any good pharmacy can supply the ingredients at small cost. This is the prescription which, when made up, is called “The Vegetable Treatment;” by others the “Cyclone Purifier.” It acts gently and certainly does wonders for some people who are sickly, weak and out of ssrts, and is known to relieve serious, longstanding oases of rheumatism and chronic headache quickly. Make some up and try it.

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