Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — Page 4

TIE JIM COOIffY Will F.E.MBM,BnOtMDWI. SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1000.

HARD TIMES AND THE PEOPLE’S EXPENSES.

There Is a great concern throughout the country over the continuance of “hard times.” Those persons who voted for Taft and Sherman, and who helped to give the Republican party a majority in congress with the expectation that the land would instantly flow with milk and honey, must feel that they made themselves the victims or a political confidence game. As a matter of fact—cold and disagreeable fact—business conditions have shown no appreciable improvement, and the chances are that times will get worse before they begin to mend. In addition to their other troubles the people are carrying heavy public burdens in the shape of direct and indirect taxes for much of which they get little in return. The deficit in the national revenues for the present year will reach about <140,000,000. The national government’s income through various forms of taxation has been enormous, but its expenditures have been monstrous in their extravagance. The people of Indiana have borne and are still bearing their share of this heavy load. Under Republican control in this state—and that control has only partly been broken —the taxpayers have been made to groan. Heads of families, with children in the schools, have been particularly hard hit, and if the State Board of Education shall make a complete change in the text books used in the public schools, as they will be urged to do by interested book sellers (including the trust), the parents in this state will have to dig down into their pockets for many hundreds of dollars more than will otherwise be necessary. When the late legislature met, Governor Marshall and the Democratic members did what they could to cut down expenses. And they did much, although they were handicapped by a Republican senate and by conditions created by the Republican party which could not be at once corrected. The Democratic party is pledged to save the people from a public extortion in every form, and this is a thing that is vitally important while the hard times continue. So long, however, as the Democrats have only partial power they must be held responsible only for those things which they can control.

TICKLISH DAYS FOR BEVERIDGE

Ex-Vice-President Fairbank's appointee (Kealing) is out of the United States district attorney’s office, and Senator Beveridge’s friend (Miller) is In. Now, we will soon see what will be dime about transporting the proprietors of the Indianapol's News to Washington on that libel charge. Taking it all in all, these are ticklish days in Indiana Republican politics. Senator Beveridge controls most of the offices—a fact which carries as much weakness as strength. There are signs that he has attempted to placate the other faclon by a disribution of federal positions, but he appears to have failed. Mr. Hemenway, who announced that he was still in politics, refuses to be buried in the ambassadorship to China. Mr. Watson declined to be sent as minister to Cuba. Mr. Fairbanks does it with dignity, too. And then there is Mr. Hanly astride of the county option wave, who has deep schemes of his own. It can be set down that there is no peace between the Republican factions—there is not even a truce—and open and well-defined lines of battle may be looked for when the time comes to reorganize the state committee next winter.

INHERITANCE TAXES.

The question has been raised whether the national government should pass an inheritance tax law or leave that source of revenue to the states. Many states already have such a law. Indiana would now have one If the Republican senate had passed the inheritance tax bill passed by the Democratic house at the late session of the legislature. The weight of opinion seems to be that the national government should avail Itself of ’an income tax and leave Inheritances to be assessed by the states. Perhaps the strongest argument In favor of the general government taxing Inheritances is the congestion in a few centers of enormous wealth drawn from all parts of the country. A. general tax would reach such "swollen fortunes" for the benefit of all who, In one way or another, had contributed to them.

But there is no doubt about the right of the states to assess inheritances and the bill approved by the Democrats of the house at the recent session of the legislature was a well drawn measure, which would have been effective as a revenue producer. f _

INDIANA DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS.

It is fortunate for the people of Indiana that the eleven Democratic congressmen from this state have put themselves clearly on record on the tariff bill that has just been forced through the house. The Washington dispatches say that Representative Moss off'the Fifth district is opposed to the removal of the “protective” duty on hides on the theory that the duty benefits the farmer. As the packers who compose the meat trust are the only ones who really get the benefit of the duty'Mmposed on Imported hides, the chances are that Mr. Moss has been misunderstood as to his position. With a united front, therefore, the eleven Democratic congressmen from Indiana have stood squarely for an honest and genuine revision of the tariff. It was not their fault that the fraudulent Payne bill was accepted by the house. Doubtless the senate will make it worse, and when it gets to President Taft, it will be a monstrosity compared with which the infamous Dingley law was respectably.

So the end of the tariff farce is in sight! It has been a performance that should be very instructive indeed. Under a promise of tariff reform a great party has brought in a measure that increases the tax on most things, lowering it on a few of which the people will get indirect benefit.’—lndianapolis News. t Well, who expected anything else? The Republican party is still controlled by the same thieving special interests that have guided its legislation for a generation. Three times before it promised the people a fair and honest revision of the tariff. But that was during the campaign, when it was after votes. The people listened and were fooled. A fourth time the same promise was made, and for the fourth time the people listened and were fooled. Is it possible that a majority of the American voters can be fooled all the time? It begins to look like it.

The next general election is more than eighteen months away, but it should not be forgotten that the Democratic members of the late legislature tried to pass a bill which would, had it become a law, have made it impossible to commit frauds through the instrumentality of illegal foreign votes like those charged in Lake county last November. The Democratic house did pass this bill but the Republican senate killed it. Governor Marshall approved it—he even was said by.the Republicans to have been the author of it • the best citizens of the state'wanted it enacted into law, but the Republican politicians had profited by the scandalous laxity of the law as it stands and would not allow it to be changed. A legislature ought to be elected in 1910 which will put this election reform bill in the statutes.

The eleven democrats and one of the two republican members of congress from Indiana voted Tuesday for free lumber in the pending tariff bill, Crumpacker alone from this, the tenth’ district, voting to retain the duty. The voters of this district should paste this item in their hatbands that they may not forget when the next election rolls around and “Crump” comes up again as usual for another term.

Life In the Country.

In the country every morning of the year brings with it a new aspect of springing or fading nature, a new duty to be fulfilled upon earth and a new promise or» warning tn heaven. No day is witbout its innocent hope, Its special prudence, its kindly gift and its sublime danger, and in every process of wise husbandry and every effort of contending or remedial courage the wholesome passions, pride and. bodily power of the laborer are excited and exerted In happiest unison. The companionship of domestic and the care of rervlcenble animals soften and enlarge bls life with lowly chartties and discipline him In familiar wisdom and unioastful fortitudes, while the divine law# of seedtime, which cannot be recalled; harvest, which cannot be hastened. and winter, in which no man can work, compel the Impatience and coveting of bls heart into labor too submissive to be anxious and rest too sweet to be wanton.--John Ruskin. f Ml* Ml,- ‘ Cows’ mint For Foals. Cows’ milk is often used with advantage in feeding foals, says Orange Judd Farmer. Foals suffering from distemper cannot always take .solid food satisfactorily and may be nurtured on cows’ milk. Tlje foal may be taught to drink by pouring it upon the grain feed. The young tiling eats the moMtened feed, and by Upping the pan ft soon learns to drink the separated milk.

.... z> , y i ! **••••>*■»•<»OLITICS is a trade, and one of the dirtiest trades in *! 1I tfie whole world. The misgovernment of American ;j B • cities is a BYWORD AND SCANDAL throughout J; ; the earth. Something is deeded—regeneration in , ’ o conscience, a breath of new life that will redeem pol- < H’lteeeete# itics from the ooze and slime of log rolling and graft This the ENFRANCHISEMENT OF WOMAN will accomplish. I don’t understand how men foreign born may become citizens before they are Americans and yet women who all their lives have been Americans can never become citizens. SEE THE CONDITION HERE IS PUZZLING. WE RECOGNIZE IN THE AMERICAN WOMAN THE FLOW E l OF CIVILIZATION. BHE HAB CAPTIVATED THE WORLD BY HER CHARM. UNDOUBTEDLY BHE 18 THE QUICKEST WITTED WOMAN IN THE WORLD. YET HERE WE FIND WOMAN DISENFRANCHISED, A NEGLIGIBLE FACTOR IN GOVERNMENT OF CITY AND STATE. In countries that have been a standing joke to America women are ENJOYING RIGHTS OF WHICH AMERICAN WOMEN ARE DEPRIVED. In Australia, New Zealand, Isle of Man, Norway, Bohemia, Saxony, Russia and Great Britain the women possess the power of the ballot to a far greater degree than anywhere here in America. WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT THE EUROPEAN WOMAN 18 BTEADILY MOVING FORWARD AND HAS DISPLACED HER AMERICAN BIBTER FROM HER FORMER POSITION OF LEADERSHIP. The question, of equal suffrage is a conflict between the tout and the lady. WOMEN ARE AS MUCH CONCERNED WITH THE LAWS AS MEN. They have to abide by them. I should expect women to come into politics LESS CORRUPT AND LIJSS CORRUPTIBLE. Women are less ignorant than men; less women are drunkards. In any woman suffrage state criminality ampng women is absolutely an insignificant fraction. H it at More than this, they are brought up Under the old belief that politics is the happy hunting ground of the boodler and the thief. A NEW SPIRIT WOULD BROOD OVER THE FACE OF THE DEEP. I admit woman’s sphere is the home. But think of the citizens she might raise if sh 6 were given the rights of citizenship herself. BUT DO YOU SUPPOSE BHE 18 GOING TO READ, THINK AND DIBCUBB WHEN HER IMPOTENCE IS FOREVER BEING FLUNG INTO HER FACE? LET US GIVE WOMEN CITIZENSHIP AND THEN SEE WHAT CITIZENS THEY# CAN GIVE US.

Public Mischief Makers Best Checked by Newspapers.

By Justice WILLIAM J, GAYNOR.

MHBF HERE 18 ONE RESPECT IN WHICH A FREE PRESS IN A FREE COUNTRY OUGHT TO BE ALL POWERFUL. IT j OUGHT TO BE ABLE BY FAIR AND PUNGENT STATEMENT AND QUERY TO GIVE THE TRUE SIZE AND MOTIVES OF DEMAGOGUES AND POLITICAL HUMBUGS WHO BET THEMBELVEB UP A 8 STATESMEN AND PUT THEM IN A SEPARATE BUNCH, WHERE THEY CAN BE EASILY DISTINGUISHED. They are now and have been for several years going up and down the country DENOUNCING WHAT THEY CALL “TRUSTS” and aggregations of capital with voices like the bull of Bashan WITHOUT TELLING WHAT A TRUST

IS or what the trouble or the evil or the wrong is, so that it may be dealt with and removed. They do not say a concrete thing. Promiscuous and indefinite denunciation is all we have ever got'from them. They bawl out against every large business that it is a monopoly. THEY DO ‘not SEEM TO EVEN KNOW XYHAT A MONOPOLY ■J. These denouncers put every large and succe.«si‘nl business under the ban and

copyright by j. a. sneer at captains of industry, as they are called. It Purdy. Boston. j s on a business which is built up and FOSTERED BY SPECIAL PRIVILEGE OR WRONG ADVANTAGE given or suffered by law or government or existing conditions which may be given the name of monopoly, which has always and t* prvwhpre been justly odious.

Application of High Explosives In Aerial Warfare.

f LYING MACHINES NEVER WILL BE ABLE TO WORK WIDF. DESTRUCTION BY DROPPING EXPLOSIVES FROM THE AIR Even large quantities of high explosives dropped from an aerial fleet upon battleships, coast fortifications and ill the streets of large cities would not be widely destructive. In order to do much damage dynamite REQUIRES CONFINING. Large, high explosive bombs dropped into the* smokestacks of war vessels or close beside them in the water might do some wicked work. The great field for operations with high explosives carried in airships will be in the raiders’ outfit The coming aerial fleet NEED NOT BOTHER ABOUT COAST FORTIFICATIONS OR BATTLESHIPS. They cannot in the least bar tjhe way to aerial invasion, and in war it is never policy to waste effort or ammunition on what does not stand in the way of entering the territory of the enemy. The true work of high explosives in aerial warfare LIES IN WORKING WIDE DESTRUCTION ON UNPROTECTED INLAND CITIES AND TOWNS, DESTROYING RAILROADS, BLOWING UP BRUGES, ARSENALS, PUBLIC STORES, POWDER MAGAZINES AND POWDER MILLS, IN LEVYING RANSOM AND IN THE HARASSMENT OF THE OPPOSING POPULATION.

Deprived of Votes, American Women Lose Leadership

By the Ray. Dr. CHARLES F. AXED

By HUDSON MAXIM.

L of the New York Supreme Court.

Inventor.

of Naw York.

THEATRICAL WAR STARTS

Shuberta Leave the Big Theatrical Managers* Association. New .York, April 9.—The announcement by the Shuberts that they have withdrawn from the Theatrical Managers’ association is the first gun of what will undoubtedly be a big theatrical war. £. The Shubertf, it la stated, have long been the object of concern to the members of the syndicate composed of Klaw & Erlanger, Nixon & Zimmerman, Charles Frohman and Al. Hayman. A new managers’ association, which will Include David Belasco, Harrison Grey Fiske and the Shuberts will be formed.

MAY GLUT DIAMOND MARKET

Gems Similar to Kimberly Product In , German Southwest Africa. Berlin, April 9. —The latest intelligence from German Southwest Africa says the discoveries of diamonds at Luderitz Bay are more important than was at first supposed. Diamonds hitherto have been picked up on the sandy desert, but attempts to bore for water led to the finding of blue earth pockets containing diamonds similar to the Kimberly and other South African stones.

KILLED BY BATTLE RELIC

Shell Picked Up on Field at Atlanta Mortally Hurts Boy. Atlanta, Ga., April 9. —While playing with an old cannon shell in the yard of his father’s home, Wayne Hightower, ten years of age, was killed when the shell exploded. Ing Bowden, eighteen years old, was slightly injured. The shell was .picked up on the field where was fought the battle of Atlanta.

MODJESKA’S CAREER IS CLOSED RY DEATH

Famous Actress Passes Away In California Home.

Los Angeles, Cal., April 9.—Mme. Modjeska. the famous actress, died in a stupor, after a hard fight to conquer

MADAME MODJESKA.

an illness with which she was stricken several weeks ago. Mme. Modjesta was born Helena Marie Benda, at Cracow, Poland, Oct. 12, 1844. Her father was a musician of high standing, and two of her brothers have distinguished themselves on the stage. She was married at sixteen and went on the stage a year later. Her success was marked. About twenty-five years ago, wearying of the stage in Poland and Russia, Mme. Modjeska and her literary husband, Count Bozenta, went with a colony of literary, musical and artistic young men and women to live on a cooperative ranch at Anaheim, in the vicinity of Los Angeles. In two years the colony broke up. The countess then resolved to go on the American stage and retrieve her heavy losses in the colony. By extraordinary work and study almost day and night for ten months the countess was able to play In English roles she had formerly played In Polish and French.

$10,000 BILL IN PLATE

Church Official* Believe Mistake Wae Made by Donor. Washington, April 9.—The insertion of an advertisement in a local paper that there had been found in the collection plate of the Roscoe Methodist Episcopal church, near here, a SIO,OOO bill, developed the fact that the church officers think the donor made a mistake. The yearly collections of the church do not average much more than this amount, and the officials, in the advertisement, state that they will return the money to the owner if he wants it back and can prove he Inadvertently dropped it into the plate.

$8,500 BURIED IN KETTLE

Workmen Digging Post Hble Fjnd Hoard of Gold and Silver. Lexington, Ky., April 9.—While digging a post hole In an abandoned lot, workmen discovered a brass kettle containing $8,500 in gold and silver. The-Jot formerly belonged to J. (J. Dewitt, an aged pensioner, who died several years ago, and it is the supposition that he buried the money.

Il Wist IM. [Under this head notices will be pubJ 4 ’ o®"* 0 ®"* P«r word for each additional Insertion. Figure five words to the line, and to save book-keeoinir cash should be sent with notice. No hnt* C^h«w epte H tor leM . than 36 centa ’ but short notices coming within the above rate will be published two or 25 cen£] eß ' “ «»e case may be for Well Drilling—Watson & Rush, phone 167, Rensselaer, Ind. Sorghum Seed—|2.Bo per 100 pounds.—W. H. PULLIN, Rensselaer, Ind. Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to <IO,OOO. E. P. HONAN. Mortgage Exemptions—lra W. Yeoman, Remington, Ind., will exempt your mortgages. Call at his residence. Mason Work—l am prepared to do all kinds of mason, plastering and rock work, satisfaction guaranteed. MARION SMITH, 2 m Rensselaer, Ind. Pasture—l have 200 acres nice bluegrass pasture, good fences and plenty of water, want cattle or horses; on the old Geo. Nichols farm in Walker tp. FRED KARCH, Wheatfield, Ind., R-l. Specifications Made For Tile— Don’t lay tile by water nor by guess. Standing water has no grade, and flowing water is uncertain. Call ’phone 521-E. JOHN E. ALTER & SON. Pasture—l have 140 acres of pasture, timothy and blue grass; want cattle or horses, two good wells and tanks, plenty of water at all times. Mrs. S. Chilcote, Rensselaer, R-4. Eggs For Hatching:—Pure bred White Wyandotte won six prizes at Rensselaer Poultry Show, 1909. A limited number of eggs for sale at $2 per setting of 15/ R-R-3. ARTHUR MAYHEW, lm9 Rensselaer, Ind.

Eggs For Hatching—Prize winning Rose Comb Mlnorcas, J 1.50 per setting of 15; also Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds, $1 per 15. Eggs guaranteed. H. B. MURRAY, Rensselaer, Indiana. Setting Eggs For Sale—lt’s the busy hen that lays and the laying hens that pay. Pure bred Single Comb White Leghorn Eggs for sale, 75c per setting of 15. There were 14,070 eggs laid on this farm last year by 175 hens. MRS. EDWARD HERATH, Route 1, Phone 502-D. For Sale—l Cyphers “Model” Incubator, capacity 360 eggs. Has served but four hatches, good condition. Price new $35, will take S2O. Also 1 Cyphers, and 1 Kenwood Brooder, good condition. Price new S2O for both, I will take $lO. JOHN M. HELMICK, Wheatfield, Ind.

NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. No. 9197. Notice Is hereby given that .on Monday, May 3rd, 1909, up to 12 o’clock noon, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge in Walker Township across the Grover Smith Ditch, near the southwest corner of 12-31-6. Said bridge to be 40 feet long and 16 foot roadway and to be built on tubes. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications now on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. No. 9196. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 3rd, 1909, up to 12 o'clock noon, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the construction of a steel bridge In Walker Township across the Grover Smith Ditch, near the northeast corner of section 14-31-6. Said bridge to be 40 feet long and 16 foot roadway and to be built on tubes. Said bridge to be built according to plans and specifications now on file in the Auditor’s office. All blds to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. No. 9198. Notice is hereby given that on Monday, May 3rd, 1909, up to 12 o'clock noon, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the following repairs at the Court House, in Rensselaer, Indiana: Painting woodwork outside of* building: sand-papering, oiling and varnishing al! windows and casings, inside and all outside doors, both inside and out. The Board desires bids on the labor and blds on the labor and materials. All blds to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. jj. The demand for Cue Corn Planters and Fertilizer Attachments is so great that you may not be able to get one unless you let us have your order early. , MAINES A HAMILTON. A new stock of Ladles’ coats and suits, two days only, Friday and Saturday, this week. [ '■ CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. The Democrat and tne Indianapolis Daily News, each a full year for only $3.50.