Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1909 — Page 3
GOOD * COFFEE For 'BreaK Nothing better to fit one for a good day's work than a cup of coffee at breakfast time. But get good coffee. Poor coffee is little better, from a health standpoint, than roasted snowflakes. There is nothing there which your system demands or palate relishes. Say—try our Ferndell Coffee. That’s all. McFarland & Son Reliable Grocer*
Millions to Loan! We are prepared to take care of all the Farm Loan business In this and adjoining counties at Lowest Rates and Best Terms, regardless of the “financial stringency.” If you have a loan coming due or desire a new loan It wIH not be necessary to pay the excessive rates demanded by our competitors. FIVE PER CENT. Simi commission : Mill senrice Irwin & Irwin Odd Fellows Bldg. Rensselaer.
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Stop That Cold To check early ool<1» or Grippe with “Preventice” means sure defeat for Pneumonia. To stop a cold with Preventice is safer than to let it run and be Obliged to cure it afterwards. To be sure. Preventics will cure even ,a deeply seated cold, but taken early—at the sneexe stage—they break. or head off these early colds. That's surely better. That s why they are called Preventice. Prevonticeare little Candy Cold Cures. No Quinme, no physio, nothing sickening. Nice for the chi dren—and thoroughly safe too. If you feel chilly, if you sneeze, ifyou ache all over, think of Preventice. Promptness may also save half your usual sickness. And don't forget your child, if there te feverishness, nlghtor day. Herein probably lies PrevenUcs* greatest efficiency. Sold in 6c boxes for the pocket, also in 26c boxes of « Preventice. Insist on your druggists giving you Preventics “ALL DEALERS"
BREWERS MEET IN INDIANAPOLIS
Deny Conference Bas to Do With Option Wave. WHISKY IS CONDEMNED Owner of Plant Which Produces Hogsheads of Malt Liquor Declares He Would Donate His Institution to Charity If the Drinking of Bourbon and Rye Could Be Stopped—Schaf Declares - That Marion County Saloons Are Safe. Indianapolis, April 23. —The presence here of a number of brewers, includng Albert Lieber of the Indianapolis Brewing company, Joseph Schaf, of the American Brewing company and Stephen B. Fleming, of Fort Wayne, who is connected with the Berghoff Brewing company, led to the report that the brewers were having a meeting to consider county option exigencies. The report was denied by Schaf and others. Schaf said that he and a number of other brewers were interested in a manufacturing business which had no connection with the brewing business and that they were conferring here in regard to this manufacturing business, The capital stock of the business had been increased, he said, and some improvements were being considered. He was asked whether the brewers were thinking of diverting the money which is now in the brewing business to this other line of business. Past Fright Stage. "I should say not,” he replied. “We are not thinking of quitting the brew ing business, not by any means.” “Aren’t the brewers frightened about present conditions in Indiana and the coming option elections?” he was asked. • “Frightened!” he exclaimed, “we are past that stage. What’s the use?” “But Marlon county will never go dry. What would this town do if it should go dry. Do you suppose that without any of the stronger beverages here we should ever have any conventions. Well, I should think not. “Suppose a man invites me to go to a banquet. I ask him what they are going to have to drink. He says, ‘lce water.’ What would I say? “Now, I was down at Palm Beach. Fla., not lonfe ago. And I never did see as many whisky flasks as I saw cm the train passing through ‘dry’ territory.” Offers Brewery to Charity. Schaf was asked whether the brewers would attempt to reduce the number of saloons in Indianapolis. "We shall,” he replied., “But it will take time. We can’t start out here with a brass band and a drum corps and say, ‘Saloons, go away? We shall gather information in order to find out just which are the objectionable saloons, and then we will try to weed these out. "But I’m against the whisky traffic. I told a man the other day that if he would eliminate the whisky drinking entirely, I would give away my brewery; would donate it to any deserving charity which be might designate.”
LIFE TERMS FOR SIX
Half Dozen, Guilty of First Degree Murders, Before Same Judge. Indianapolis, April 23. Judge Pritchard of the criminal court sentenced six men to imprisonment for life. All had been found guilty of murder in the first degree. Harry Doty, Harry Riggin, Edward Decker and George Miller were sentenced for the murder of Mrs. Mary Nichols on March 9 last. The four young men after beating the woman to death, took a small amount of money that had been suspended about the victim’s neck. Fred Cassel, colored, was sentenced for the murder of his wife. Charles Jackson,colored, had been found guilty of the murder of Madeline Howard and Joe Clemens.
GUARDS HIS WATER PIPES
Alleged Delinquent Keeps His Shotgun Ready For Use. Hartford City. Ind., April 23. Robert Landon, one of the beat-known residents of Montpelier, is armed with a shotgun and declares that if the service pipes of the water works systern to his house are disturbed, it will cost the life of the man who attempts it. Landon is delinquent, it is charged, and when Charles Butterfield wont Into Landon’s front yarq and dug down to shut the water off he failed io complete the job before he went to dinner Landon came home and when Butterfield returned to resume the work he was confronted by Landon’s shotgun. He left the place.
MAD DOG CAUSES SCARE
Five Indiana University Students Arp N to Take Treatment. Bloomingion, Ind., April 23.—Five members of the Emanon club, at Indiana university, probably will take treatment for hydrophobia, beginning tonight, as a result of the recent mad Jog scare. ' Those who expect to take the treatment are Guy Hobbs, Alva Taylor, Birt Wilcox, Paul Schmidt and probably Clyde Chattln.
PEOPLE OF THE DAY
Pennsylvania’s Naw Senator. Conspicuous among the new arrival* to the United States senate is George Tener Oliver of Pennsylvania, who takes the seat vacated by Philander C. Knox, now secretary of state. While he has never held a political office, Mr. Oliver has been prominently identified with political affairs in Pittsburg all his life and has several times been a delegate to national conventions. On two different occasions in his life opponents of the late M. S. Quay induced Oliver to stand against him, and it is said that Oliver could have won had he remained in the field, but Quay was his bosom friend, and he refused to have any part in his downfall. Senator Oliver was born in Ireland in 1848 while his parents were there on a visit. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced his pro-
GEORGE T. OLIVER.
session for several years. Most of his time, however, has been devoted to the iron and steel business, at which he amassed a large enough fortune to place him in the multimillionaire class. Senator Oliver is the owner of the Pittsburg Gazette-Times and the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, papers of Influence throughout Pennsylvania. In the senate Mr- Oliver is expected to be a conservative. He is a good speaker and is rated a man of excellent political judgment. Home, Sweet Home. Senator McLaurin of Mississippi tells a story to illustrate his conception of the difference between the treatment of the colored brother up north and down south. A Mississippi darky went up to Kansas and shortly got stranded. He begged for food and shelter from door to door and got neither. Finally he wandered back to Mississippi and knocked. “What are you doing at my front door, you black rascal?" “I want something to eat” “Well, go around to the back door and get it, then, you rascal,” said the white man. Then the old negro, remembering the polite way In which his requests had been refused in Kansas, threw up his hands and exclaimed: “Bless Gawd, I’s among my own people at last!”—Washington Star. Dean of the Cabinet. With one exception James Wilson of lo\ya, secretary of agriculture since March 4, ISO", holds the record for consecutive service in the cabinet, and he will soon reach the period when he will have served longer than any cabinet minister in the country’s history. Although seventy-four years old, he is hale and hearty. Albert Gallatin, secretary of the treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison from 1801 to 1814, has been the only cabinet officer to surpass Mr. 'Wilson’s present record. A native of Scotland, Mr. Wilson came to this country with fils parents when a boy of seventeen.settling in Connecticut Three years later he re-
JAMBS WILSON.
moved to lowa, locating in Tama county, where he has since made his home. He began his political career as a, member ,of the lowa legislature, serving three terms, one as speaker of the house. In 1872 he was elected to the Forty-third congress, re-elected to the Fourty-fourth and after serving several years as member of the lowa railway commission was returned to the Forty-eighth congress. For six years prior to becoming secretary of agriculture Mr. Wilson was director of the agricultural experiment station and professor of agriculture at the lowa Agricultural college at Ames. During bls control of affairs of ths department over which he presides Mr. Wilson has seen it grow from a modest institution into one that ramifies the whole country.
A GREAT PROTEST
The Women Attack Increased Glove Duties - 1 ALDRICH SEEMS TO YIELD But the Fight Is Not Won Until the Conference Committee Has Acted— Payne’s Attempt to Add to Littauer’s Millions Littauer’s Glove Scandal, His Work For Cannon and Its Reward. Women are patient and will suffer long in silence, but they have been aroused all over the country by the outrageous increases in the Payne tariff bill on Important necessities of women's and children’s wearing apparel, such as gloves and hosiery. A mass meeting of women under the leadership of the Federation of Women’s Clubs has been held in New York city to protest against these increased burdens, and important meetings of protest have been held in other cities, while petitions from Indignant women have been pouring in upon congressmen and senators from all sections of the country. The Astute Aldrich. Apparently impressed by the great outburst from indignant women all over the country, Aldrich in the senate now reports the tariff bill with the rates on women’s gloves and hosiery put back to the same figures as in the Dingley tariff. But these rates will be finally fixed by the conference conimittee, which will adjust the differences between the house and senate after the bill has passed the senate. It is a common trick to make an apparent concession in rates and have the conference committee quietly put them up again. Typical Tariff Extortion. There is not the shadow of an excuse for the imposition of these higher duties. It is a flagrant case—and there are many others like it in the Payne bill—of robbing the public of millions more in order to still further enrich a tariff fattened and already rich private interest, composed of a very few manufacturers in a very few localities. The chief of the beneficiaries of the proposed enormous increases on women's and children’s gloves is L. N. Littauer, the most prominent manufacturer of gloves In the United States, who has become many times a millionaire through this industry and was for a number of years a member of congress from New York state. Littauer’s Government Contracts.
This is the same Littauer who came into national prominence in 1903, while he was a member of congress, by the exposure of what was called the “glove scandal.” It came to light that Littauer’s firm was interested in a contract to supply gloves to the United States army and to the marine corps. This was declared to be a violation of the federal statute, but Littauer escaped prosecution through the statute of limitations under an opinion by the then Attorney General Knox. After that he was frequently nicknamed “Limitations Littauer” in congress. His partner in the government contracts testified that the profits to the Llttauers in these transactions were about $90,000. Littauer Helps Cannon. It is the direct influence of this same Littauer, and nothing else, which brought into the Payne tariff bill the surprising Increases in the glove schedule. It is openly charged and generally believed that the action of Chairman Payne and the committee on ways and means was part of a bargain under which Mr. Littauer agreed to use his influence with the independent Republicans who were opposing Speaker Cannon’s re-election in return for higher protection to his industry. This charge w l as made by Representative Pou of North Carolina in a speech in the bouse on March 26; also by F. W. Larom, a member of the well known firm of Mills & Gibb of New York, in an Interview in the Journal of Commerce of New York on March 20. and it has not been denied. His Political Reward.
If the rates fixed in the house can be carried through the conference committee, Littauer’s reward for serving Cannon and his man Payne will be very great. His wealth will be increased by millions. He will not need any more government contracts. The official statistics show that tlie average rate of duty collected on the classes of gloves chiefly Imported during the ten years from 1898 to 1907 was 52.65 per cent. Under the rates provided for in the Payne tariff bill the duty on the same classes of gloves, based ou the average value of the importations for a jieriod of four years, would be 92 per cent. On the cheapest gloves worn by the masses the rate would be from 117 to 133 per ceht. The Revenue Will Be Much Less. The revenue to the United States treasury will be lessened by the increased duties. They will not and are not intended to add to the income which tlie government so sorely needs. They will prevent importations, of course, just as the increased duties on men’s gloves granted by the Dingley tariff for Llttauer have done. That is what they are for. They will all make Llttnuer richer and more powerful. The losses to the people and the government count for nothing. It pays Littauer best to serve Cannon and his man Pavne.
Appearances may be / L w deceitful and if they are, It pays to have them deceive for, instead of against you. . Wearing garments made by |i I CARL JOSEPH & CO. Merchant Tailors, Chicago Imlaßer 19f Is an assurance policy against dissatisfaction. /Kl ilmb W IW / - '■ I|| R / High grade materials —perfect fit — I ■ UP f \ 1/ feff/ skilled man-tailored work —not duplicated ™ly / r st elsewhere at the same price. s I nW Drop in and look over our complete line. I Ink IM | Suits Made-to-Measure, $13.50 to $40.00. I * IK HERMAN TUTEUR ” (faPw Over Warner Bros. Store. ’wU'/ “ Rensselaer, Indiana. MILCH COWS FOR SALE <> 1 have too head of Milch Cows for sale at private sale, <• some now fresh, others fresh soon, ages, 3 to 5 years, <* mostly Durhams, some Jersey mixed. Will sell for cash or bankable note. <; Come early and get the pick of the lot. < ► Also 150 head Shoats, weighing 65 to 125 pounds each. Will ], sell in any quantity desired. All healthy and in good condition. J » ED OLIVER NEWLAND, - INDIANA
| For the Trade of 1909 E | JT expect to ejchibit the best line of Bug- | gies that ever came into the city of Rensselaer. I have bought three car loads at this writing and if the trade is as good as last season (and I think it will be better) I will need another car or E two. I have the agency for none but first-class firms’ goods, the latest styles of Auto Seats and other designs of high-class. All work made up by experience! workmen and no job is misrepresented, nothing but guaranteed work is bought or sold; the best that can be bought is none too good; the good class of work is the winner in the Ion" run. 55 a With this fine line of Buggies and Carriages, I also have the Farm Wagon with a reputation behind it, the Studebaker, South Bend, Ind. Some one is advertising wagons built out of White Oak and Hickory—why, that is an everyday occurance with the Studebaker, for the last fifty years and = still at it. 33 The world’s best Mower and .Binder, the McCormick, also the McCormick Hay Rake, they have double coil teeth which makes them more than again as good as the single coil. For a Manure Spreader, The Success is* the world’s best; it regulates the number of loads you wish to put on an acre. I have other articles for sale:—Clover Leaf Stock- Tonic and Poultry Tonic, guaranteed to give satisfacton or money refunded. Extras for all machines I sell. f C. A. 'Robert*? On Front Street, north of Postoffice and just across the street from King’s Blacksmith Shop, Rensselaer, Indiana. ifiiiiiiiliiiHiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiminn
FOR SALE—FARMS AND PASTUIRE LAND. 40 acres on main road near staion with stores, school and churches No improvements. Will trade clear for live stock or town property or ell on easy payments. 80 acres, on main road, free mail, near church, 40 acres cultivated, 40 acres timber and pasture, six room house, large barn, good well and mall orchard. This farm has chool fund loan on it of SBOO. Will sell on terms of S3OO down or trade for live stock or other property. Price S3O. 280 acres, well located, gravel 'road, near school, mostly black lev-
1 land that I will offer for a short ime at $22.50 per acre. Terms SI,OOO down. This place is fine for general farming and all good soil. 14 acres, on main road, near station, that I will trade clear for tock, vacant lots or other property. G. F. MEYERS. A new supply oi abstract, legal or complaint backs, linen finish and in different, colors, just received at The Democrat office. They will ba sold in any quantity desired.
IT PAYS TO TRADE AT WORLAID'S.