Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1907 — Page 2

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Jin GOOITY DEMIT. I: i. BIBCOCI HHOt HU WHUIU. 11.00 PER YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Advertising rates made known on application Offlolal Democratic Paper of Jasper County. • —— — ll Entered at the Post-oflloe at Rensselaer, Ind as second class matter. Offlee on Van Renaaeiaar Street, Aeae OistasosTsi.sm.osso i Orr.oe «l».' t Risubmoi an. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1907.

One of the beat ways to smash the trusts is to smash the Dingley tariff, which gives the trusts a license to steal from the American people. The Pennsylvania Republicans have endorsed one Philander C. Knox as their" candidate for the presidency. Juat now, however, Pennsylvania is chiefly famous as the state where there was a $12,000,000 graft in the construction of a $4,000,000 state house. Some of the Indianapolis meat dealers are quoted by the News, of that city, as saying that the “best cuts” of beef have not been advanced in price. So, then, it is the man of small means and large family who is the special victim of tfie beef trust. And we do not see how this helps the trust. During these vacation days the parents of the state are not likely to forget that the sohool book trust is not resting from it labors. On the contrary, it is. preparing to bob up Serenely in the fall with a ohoioe collection of new books and countless odds and ends sufficient to take a large part of the spare cash of the heads of families. Among .the men selected by the Republican press as a suitable Democratic candidate for the presidency is General Luke E. Wright of Tennessee, a man who has held office under the Roosevelt administration for six years and is now drawing a Balary of $17,500 a year as ambassador to Japan. They (the Republican editors) say that General Wright “is a Democrat in essentials.” But after all, perhaps we bad better nominate a man who is Democrat enough to vote the Democratic ticket. That is a prime essential. A great chance for destruction has arisen for Ship Subsidy Watson and ail the other ship subsidy congressmen. James J. Hill, who has managed to accumulate a measley little fortune of $100,000,000 or so in the railroad business, declares that the government will soon have to come to the financial assistance of the railroads. If this is not a chance for voting more subsidies, what is it? The ship subsidyites can also become railroad-subsidyites. Taxes can be made still higher and the next congress instead of spending a paltry billion of- dollars a year, can spend two billion a year. Hill says the railroads need just an extra billion a year for five years to put them in proper shape. If the subsidyites have the courage of their votes they will get busy.

If William J, Bryan or any otb«r Democratic leader had declared that the national government could exercise exclusive control over the railroads, whether state or interstate, under the power “to establish poetofficee and post roads,” he would have been denounoed as either an “imbecile” or an “anarchist.” * But Mr. Roosevelt so declares and the Republican press hardly utters a cheep of surprise or protest.

The last congress spent nearly a thousand millions of dollars a year. This is nearly doable the sum spent per year during the last Democratic administration. Bat notwithstanding the wasteful expenditure of such a stupendous sum, it is announced that the Dingley tariff will produoe a surplus of $70,000,000 for the fiscal year ending Jane 30. The tariff is a tax. It is paid by the common people. The tax collected by the general government each year and .spent by the Republican congresses amounts to sl2 a head for every man, woman and child in the United States. The rich do not feel it. They do not pay in proportion to their incomes. The laborer with a large family pays as much as the average of millionaires and more than many of them. Is tariff reform — tax reform—needed? It is, and the only way to get it is to pat the Democratic party in power.

GET IN LINE.

All earnest and sincere Democrats will agree with Mr. Bryan that the Democratic party is the medium through which needed reforms must be sought. The real Democratic party, if you please—represents neither unsafe radicalism, nor dry-rot conversation. It stands for progress where progress is needed, but it also Btands by the constitution. -Its principles are sound and according to them it proposes to test and settle pass* ing questions and issues as they arise. v , All Democrats should get in line and toe up to the chalk mark. It will soon be time for the forward march. The 1908 campaign promises to be one of the most interesting and important in the history of the country. It is too soon to get excited, but it is not too soon to begin to think and to form conclusions. As in previous campaigns, tta voters will have to make a choice between the two great parties. Either a Democrat or a Republican will be elected president in 1908, and one or the other of thd big parties will elect a majority in the lower house of congress. In Indiana a Democrat or a Republican will be chosen governor and one or the other of the big parties will control the legislature and manage the state offices. The country is dissatisfied with the Republican party. It should be turned out of power in nation and state. And it can be turned out of power if the voters who are opposed to its policies and its tendencies vote against it. The Democratic party is strong and it is clean. It has no entangling al liances. It stands for the things that the people are demanding. Its success will mean better conditions in Indiana and in the United States, and it deserves the earnest support of every Democrat and of every other man who feels that the government should be controlled by and for the people and not by and for the trusts and other special interests.

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WASHINGTON LETTER.

Political and deneral doaaip of the National Capital. Bpecial Correspondence to The Democrat. The department of Justice announces that it is about to institute proceedings against the Powder Trust under the Sherman an-ti-trust aot. The only wonder is that the proseoution has delayed so long. Bat the explanation probably lies in the fact that Senator Dnpont, the new Senator from Delaware, is at the head of the trust and is powerful in politics as his election to the Senate proves. The recent investigation of the trust by bureau of corporatipna and the department of Justice indicate that it is one of the most complete monopolies ever devised in any country. It has followed the methods of the Standard Oil Company in beating down and breaking np competition. It has ran its rivals one after the other out of business and bought them up when it was convenient after their business had" ceased to be profitable. The result is that although there jure a lot of nominally independent companies still operating, they are all or nearly all under the direct management of the trust which controls about 95 per cent of the powder output, a larger proportion of the finished product than was ever controlled by the Standard Oil, Probably the thing that baS moved the government to' proceed against the trust is the increasing cost of powder for the army and navy. There are bids formally opened for powder supplies as formerly, but the officers of both the army and navy know that it is a faroe. The same company presents all the bids under different names and if there is any difference in the prioe it is because the trust wants some particular mill to do the work instead of some other. Efforts to establish government powder factories have been succeßsfally fought in the past, and if the country were to be plunged into war next week, it would either have to confiscate the mills of the powder trust or else pay whatever price the trust chose to name for the firing of every gun in the army and navy. t t t

One of the most important pieces of archeological work ever done in the United States has just been reported to Washington. It is the partial completion of the work of excavation at the “Casa Grande.” Most people know that the Casa Grande has always been ranked as the most important and impressive of American ruins. The translation of its Spanish name is “The Big House,” and it is located in southern Arizona where it has been known to the scientific world since the oonquestador Alvarado first entered that section in his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola. It is a great building something less than 100 by fifty feet in area with walls in some places thirty feet high. It is built up of adobe concrete with wooden doors and window frames, and is different from any other Indian coiistruotion of the southwest. It is such a remarkable structure that the government some years ago made an appropriation to help preserve it from the effects of the weather, and last year Dr. Walter Fewkes of the Bureau of Ethnology was sent down there to do a little more protective work. But instead of confining himself to the work he was sent to do, he commenced excavating, and the result is that he has unearthed what was the ground floor of the house which is 400 feet by 235, and 30 feet high, making the original house small by comparison, What the world has known for three and a half centuries as the Casa Grande, is merely the delapidated top story of an immensely larger structure. It seems to have been the oitadel of the Pima tribe against the attacks of the Navajos and Apaches. It is by far the most remarkable ethnological discovery ever made on this continent and has won Dr. Fewkes much credit from the branches of the Archeological Society aU over the country. j t t t It will be of interest to users of the weed to know that the Treasury Department has officially decided that tobaoco is a necessity and not a luxury. The case came up in an appeal to the Comptroller over an expenditure for tobacoo for some laborers who were held in quarantine in Panama, There was $15.50 worth of tobaoco bought for the laborers, and the item was questioned by the disbursing officer. The Treasury decided that it was an expenditure for one of the necessaries of life within the meaning of the act. . The decision went on to say that whatever might

be the moral or hygenic aspect of the caae, that tobacco, especially in the laboring clasees, was so sity and the item was allowed in the aooonnt. The Treasury la oalled on harender a numbfr of interesting decisions, and another even more curions than this was made some time ago where a man coaid not possibly tell how old he was and could not be convioted of perjury in swearing falsely on the snbjeot The case came up under the civil service act where a Treasury employee hod stated his age at a certain figure and where it was proven conclusively that he was at least five jears older. It was shown in this oase that the man had gone on information given him in stating his age, and the department made a ruling in general form that nobody oonld be certain of their own age, as they always had to depend for the information on hearsay evidence. ft t There have been no new developments in the Japanese situation in the past few days, and it is inferred that this government does not feel much uneasiness on the subject, as the Navy Department has just sent 6,000 tons of ooal to the American naval depot at Yokahama where the < vessels of the Asiatic squadron refit instead of going to Manila- This action certainly would not be taken if there were any apprehension bf trouble during which the coal sapply would easily fall into the hands of the Japanese. t t t The Navy Department has just started on a new system of identification for the sailors of the service. The “scar system” has been in use for a number of years, and has worked very well. The recruits were all identified by scars and moles on the body, and it was found to be a remarkable fact that the scars of no two men ever coincided. Bat the army has gone in for finger print identification after the Bertillion method, and it has been found so much easier and more effective that the navy is going to adopt it as well: ' ’

DON’T PUT IT OFF LONGER.

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