Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1907 — LOCAL AND PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Corn, 58c; oats, 46c, The sale of the Gifford railroad did not go through, we understand. Mrs. A. J. Miller and baby are visiting her folks near Rushville. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows are visiting relatives in Carrollton, 111. Miss Manda Hoyes of Logansport, spent Sunday at her home here. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Milliron of Knox, visited relatives here over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Brenner visited Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sayler at Mt. Ayr Sunday. Cassie L. Chadwick, the former “queen of finance,” is dead at the Ohio penitentiary. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Smith of near Galesburg, IU. r have been visiting relatives here for the past week.

Simon Fendig was down from Wheatfield Thursday. The doctor got him out of his attack of pleurisy in short order. Tuesday’s Monticello Journal: Mrs. Fred Phillips, of Rensselaer, is here the guest of Mrs. A. K. Rawlings and other friends. Fred Berger and family of Remington and his sister-in-law and husband of Indianapolis were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Minicus of Chicago Heights, is here at the home of her mother, Mrs. Seible, west of town, who is suffering greatly from rheumatism. Twenty head of young draft mares and geldings and six bead of mules will be sold at Robertson’s sale at Wolcott next Saturday, Oct. 19. The Parr and Pleasant Ridge baseball clubs will play at Riverside Park today to settle the championship and incidentally for a SSO side bet and gate receipts. An extra* large amount of advertising made a change in makeup necessary in this issue of the democrat, and local news in part will be found on seventh page. Roselawn is to have a four days carnival next week. It is not unlikely that the state militia will have to be called out before the carnival is over to preserve order. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Henson, who were married Saturday, as noted elsewhere, have begun housekeeping in John Schanlaub’s tenant house in the west part of town.

Revs. Isaac E. Springer, D. D., of Detroit, Mich , and Henry M. Springer of Dakota, are visiting their sister, Mrs. Davidson, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Geo. A. Williams. Mrs. Fern Carter of Silver Lake, Ind,, returned home Thursday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ponsler of Mt. Ayr, and Mr. and Mrs. L. Strong of Rensselaer. 1 Miss Josephine Minicus, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Minicus formerly of Rensselaer, was married Wednesday at Chicago Heights, 111., where the family now reside, to Mr. Frank Shotak of that city. Mrs. R. W. Marshall is here from Santa Cruz, Cali., with her daughter Mies Kate Marshall of St. Paul, Minn., and is arranging to ship the balance of her household goods to California, where they are now located. Charles Hansen and family left yesterday for a couple of weeks visit in their old home in Illinois, after which they will go on to Oregon where they expect to make their future home. The best wishes of a host of friends go with them.

The democratic editors of the Tenth District will meet at Lafayette October 20 as. the guests of the district chairman, James K. Risk. It is probable that politics will be discussed a little at this meeting. ° Mr. Risk is a candidate for state chairman, to succeed Wm. H. O’Brian, and has the hearty support of the democracy of his district in his race for the place.

According to the testimony of an official of the Standard Oil company, that monopoly has made $900,000,000 profits since 1882. The profits of the Indiana branch of the concern in 1906 alone were $10,516,082, And yet the Standard Oil company is one of the “infant industries” that the Republican tariff “protects” by a 150 per cent import duty. Does the tariff need reforming?

Now that Harriman has been indicted by the federal grand jury at San Francisco, along with the Southern Pacific railroad, for cutting published rates, he will see what he has come to by breaking off his relations with that other “practical” man, Theodore Roosevelt. The Hon. Paul Morton admitted that be had violated the rebate law, but Mr. Roosevelt kept him in bis cabinet until a place at $75,000 a year could be found for him with an insurance company — at the policyholders’ expense.

In a speech at Nashville, Governor Folk of Missouri, said: Fortified behind the wall of tariff protection, gigantic trusts have sprung up, controlling the necessities of life, whereby the cost of living has been increased enormously during the past few years. Until those tariff privileges are eradicated the trust question can never be settled.” Governor Folk is right. Everybody knows that the Republican method —the Roosevelt method —of busting the trusts does not bust thermal all. It does not even jar them.

President Roosevelt is represented as saying that bis opinion of the Oklahoma constitution is “not fit for publication,” but that as there are no legal objections to it he will promulgate it and allow the new state to enter the Union. Mr. Roosevelt’s personal opinion of the constitution adopted by the Oklahomans by such an overwhelming majority is not important. It is well known that he has a mighty poor opinion of constitutions in general, including.tbat of the United States. He thinks so little of that great charter that he neyer mentions it “for publica-

tion.” Mr. Roosevelt has some excellent qualities, but at the same time he has many glaring weaknesses—one of which is the belief that all authority should rest in the White House while he is president, regardless of constitutions.

The Indiana branch of the Standard Oil company is capitalized at $1,000,000. Last year its profits were more than $10,000,000, which is more than 1,000 per cent. A “protective” tariff duty of 150 per cent gives the Standard a monopoly of the American market and enables it to cheat and swindle the people at will. Bnt the Republican leaders declare that the tariff shall not be reformed ex r cept “by its friends”—and the Standard is surely a “friend.”

To the impartial citizen it looks distinctly unfair for the friends of Roosevelt and Taft to gloat over the troubles that hgp' come upon Vice President Fairbanks because of that cocktail episode. The defeat of Mr. Fairbanks for lay delegate to the general Methodist conference is traced by the RooseveltTaft newspapers to it and they grow hilarious about it. Of course, it is generally known that when President Roosevelt was in Indianapolis to make a speech last Decoration Day he was entertained at luncheon by Mr. Fairbanks. The latter had been in Washington a long time and he certainly knew what sort of solid liquid refreshments would suit the president. In his effort to have everything satisfactory to his distinguised guest, he provided the cocktails, the wines and the brandy digester, as he doubtless had furnished them on many other occasions to other persons too numerous to mention. Outsiders have a right to think of it as they please, but the Roosevelt people should feel estopped, .