Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — Page 2

IHt JIM MH DEMOCRAT. F.L BIBCBCK, EDITOB IMP PIIBIIBHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Published Wednesdy’s and Saturday’s. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 3, 1908. at the post office at Rensselaeer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Office on North Van Rensselaer Street. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY', MAY 8, 1009.

FOR THE TRUSTS

|The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill a , Sham and a Fraud INO RELIEF FOR THE PEOPLE (The “Friends of the Tariff” Make ■ Bill For the Favored Few—Most of the ; Tariff Hogs Taken Care Of—The Reduction of Duties on Steel Trust Products Will Not Disturb the Protection of the Trust. The three parties most interested in the tariff are producers, consumers and the government. Producers may be divided into protected and unprotected interests.

The protected producers Include to day a comparatively small percentage of our manufacturers, the owners of mines and timber lands afid a very small percentage of farmers—mainly those raising sugar cane, sugar beets, barley and sheep. The unprotected producers include about 95 per cent (by value of products) of our farmers, about 85 per cent of our manufacturers and virtually all of our wage and salary workers, professional men. merchants and transporters. The consumers include every man, woman and child inside of our national borders. As usual, when tariff bills are being made, the consuming class, those who pay the tariff taxes and who therefore are most vitally interested, were not consulted by the framers,of the Payne bill. The two or three men who appeared before the ways and means committee in the Interest of the neglected and forgotten consumer were treated with ignominy and contempt. The committee had no time to waste on those who did not appear to represent special and selfish interests.

Raises Cost of Living. The Payne-Aldrich bill will raise rather than lower the cost of living. Under it the breakfast, dinner and supper tallies will be taxed even more heavily than they now are. Under It and partly because of it the cost of living (measured in gold dollars) will continue to rise in the next decade as rapidly as it has risen in the one just ended. There are many ‘'jokers" in the PayneAJdrleh bill. Nearly all have been put there for g purpose—to-ltisidiously raise tariff duties, it is reasonably certain that if the Pay he- Aldrich bill in its present form becomes law not only will the percentage of goods (by value) imported free be diminished, but the average j-ate of duty on dutiable imports will be higher than it is at present. Consumers who asked for tariff " reduction. bread will lie given tariff enhanced stones—that is. “handed a lemon,” as we would now render it. Consumers should not, however, ex pect much from the tariff revision now, under way. It was not undertaken at their behest. . Their voice has never been heard at Washington since the civil war. It was undertaken because it was demanded by the unprotected or no longer protected manufacturers. Thus the boot and shoe makers, not being in a trust and therefore receiving little or no benefit from the duties on shoes, were beseeching congress for free hides, free leather and free coal. Manufacturers of implements, machinery and tools, who were benefited less than injured by duties on iron, steel, lumber and coal, were asking for reduced or no duties on these raw materials and supplies. Newspaper publishers were asking for free wood pulp and paper.

The Steel and Iron Cute. Most relief Is expected from reduced duties on Iron and steel. The country has heard much of the “50 per cent” cut in the duties on steel. It has seen the prices of some kinds of steel products cut SO or $8 a ton. Putting these two facts together, it imagines that we are in future to have cheap steel as a result of lower duties. There Is undoubtedly a connection between these two facts, but It is not where most people think it Is. Steel prices have been reduced for effect on Washington —that is. to prevent radical tariff reduction that might hurt and to save as much as possible of the present duties. In reducing prices so ostentatiously the United States Steel corporation would have the country believe that prices are reduced because of the proposed reductions in steel duties. It is also a part of the gams that the “independent” steel manufacturers are to make a loud outcry, to reduce wages and to claim that they will be ruined (f the proposed reductions are made.

If necessary, she steel corporation will reduce wages and perhaps pass its quarterly dividend at its meeting on the last Tuesday in April. All kinds of fits will be thrown to prevent drastic cuts in steel duties. That the proposed cuts are not drastic, except possibly the 50 per cent cut in the duties on steel rails (from $7.84 to $3.92 a ton), is certain. In fact, the most of the reductions take away only a part of the superfluous duties and will leave even more tariff protection than is now needed or used. Thus the duty on tin plate is reduced from 1% to 1 1-5 cents per pound. As foreign and domestic prices seldom differ by more than a cent a pound, the proposed rate would be just as protective as is the present duty. Similarly the proposed duties on wire, nails, bar Iron, steel beams, billets and cotton ♦tes would ns effectively protect the manufacturers in ordinary years as do the present duties. Steel Stock Going Up. Within two months of the enactment of the new tariff bill it is reasonably certain that the big and little steel manufacturers will be advancing prices working as harmoniously together as they have been doing for several years. This year the great steel corporation will probably earn 10 and next year 20 per cent on its common stock, which will almost certainly sell above 70 this year and 80 next year. The proposed tariff bill is avowedly made by “the friends of the tariff”— that is, by the favored few who have grown inordinately rich through their tariff license to tax our millions of hoodwinked consumers. The proposed modifications In our present tariff are made mainly in the interest of the little tariff hogs who have been crowded out of the protection through the big ones. The steel, sugar, lumber, leather, paper and other big trusts are getting an unfair share of the protection pap. The little trusts and others of the special Interests, who were formerly nourished at the tariff trough, do not ask the big hogs to get out of the trough; they only ask them to move over and to permit the trough to be patterned differently, so that the little hogs can again get their snouts into the rich, juicy food BYRON W. HOLT, In Moody’s Magazine.

ADDUAL SPRIG SOG.

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Weather Forecast.

Cooler tomorrow.

The Terrible Infant Again.

“Yes. sister ’ll be down in justa minute, maybe. Don't you think she’? awfully funny?” “Why, no.” “Don't you? Well, anyway, yon know she’s a big story teller, don’t you?" "No." "Well, she Is, just the same. She said she bad a string to you. but 1 don’t see any.” Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Vain Hope.

“But,” we say to our friend, “won’t it pretty nearly bankrupt you if you keep on cm enraging your wife to go shopping for dresses and hats and things?" “Yes," he acknowledged, “but it will be worth all it costs. I think she may become so interested that she will for-get-about spring housecleaning.”—Chicago Post.

Cruel Suspicion.

“Bllgglns is a great reader. He invariably buy* a newspaper before getting on a street car.” “I have noticed the paper,” answered Miss Cayenne. “But I am not so sure he reads it. Maybe, be holds it up because he’s too* polite to see a lady standing.”—Washington Star.

Signs.

“They sap that big ears are a sign of generosity.” “That’s right—nature’s generosity."— Houston Post

Is It True, Girls?

“Say, pa, what’s a sheath skirt?" “That’s the kind that has to ba put on with a shoe horn.’’—Lippincott's Magazine.

♦♦ Tx H The House Cleaning Season is now on and the 8 H housewife will find everything in the Furniture w § line at our store, including floor coverings of § xx various kinds and styles. tx 0 ——- ------ _. - XX I Housewives’ Attention! I ▼ ▼ Y Y XX We wish especially to call attention to the fact that we are going to close out all ?X XX our Roll Carpets, which includes a new stock of Ingaains, all new patterns, XX XX bought since January ist. S ▼ ▼ Y Y AA ££ """""""" XX Extra Super, All Wool Ingrains, regular 65 cent grade, ♦♦ ft at per yard XX ▼▼ "" ————■—BOMB*—.—_—_ ▼▼ X? —————————————— XX Union Ingrain, extra heavy wool- Extra Heavy Granite, regular 28 XX XX faced regular 40 cent cent S rat le, will close out O*fl ♦♦ H grade, at WW at, per yard I C H ▼▼ -—III. —————AA ££ - ' \ - ♦♦ XX Here is an opportunity to get handsome and durable Ingrain Carpets at a XX XX time when you need them, for practically wholesale prices, as we are go- XX XX ing out of the roll carpet business altogether. Call early and get first ♦♦ XX choice of patterns. A Few Remnants at your own prices. XX XX We shall still continue to handle Rugs, and have the largest and most eom. XX XX plete stock in Rensselaer to select from. Beautiful new patterns in Wiltons, Vel- Xx XX vets, Brussels, etc., and at prices to fit any sized pocketbook. YY XX Xx i JV Y ▼ |l WRIGHT’S FURNITURE STORE I | THE GREEN FRONT 1 YY YY H South Side Washington Street, Rensselaer, Ind. H H Opposite Long’s Drug Store. s XX j

Money Hidden by Prisoners.

“I would venture it as a safe assertion that there is every Cent of $2,500 in cash hidden within the walls of this prison,” said Colonel E. E. Mudd, the warden. He then explained that the convicts hide the money in all sorts of places, oven to burying it In the yard. They will hide it In cracks in thejr cells and in the shops, frequently changing it so that the other convicts cannot get hold of it. A convict complained to the warden recently that he had SIOO hidden under the window sill in one of the shops and that it had been stolen from him by another convict. This shows how much money gets into the prison from time to time and is not discovered when the general search is made. The convicts are not allowed to have money in their possession, although they may keep it with the prison clerk. When the search was made the other day an old negro \vas forced to cough up 85 cents. which he laid in pennies and nickels concealed in his mouth.—Frankfort Cor. Louisville Courier-Journal.

Crazy Railway Methods.

How the Chinese are wasting British capital in building the Shanghal-llan-kow-Ningpo railway Is told by the Pekin <•<., respondent of the London Times, who says: “The railway presents every possible defect. Bridges are unsafe. Kails are of native manufacture, of obsolete section, spiked into soft wood lepers from Manchuria and Japan. Sleepers are wrongly laid. Wrongly ballasted, their life lii this soil is little more than one year. Eight different patterns of rolling stock are In use. Where there was difficulty In bridging a stream the Chinese built the bridge on dry land and then dug a canal and diverted the waterway under the bridge, both the entrance to the diversion and the exit from it being literally at right angles to the natural direction of the stream.”

Canada and a National Antham.

Every now and then some one tries to write a national anthem for Canada; but, in the opinion of the Victoria Colonist, every effort is a failure. The Colonist adds: “Canada is not old enough to have evolved a national anthem. The sentiment of the people has not clustered around any particular person, event or idea. When the average rhymester sits down to write a Canadian song he tries to include everything in it, from the herring fleet of Nova Scotia to the miners of the Klondike, and the result is a species of directory. By and by something may happen, or we may do something as a people, or some one may think of something that will catch the popular idea.”

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PRICE vs. QUALITY And perfect fitting. Mere spectacles fitted in a haphazard way are apt to be an injury to the eyes. This is a matter in which you cannot afford to take chances. To preserve vision means to help the eyes do their work; to help the eyes means to wear glasses—not any glasses, but scientifically fitted glasses. We are fully qualified in this line and would appreciate your patronage. Our glasses are reasonable in price—your sight is priceless. DR. ROSE M. R EMM EK Second Floor of Harris Bank Building. ’Phone 403.

O PTO M ETRY. "" _ "1x5 s Mb 1 - ' ■ “OPTOMETRIST” means a person licensed under the laws of the State to test eyesight and fit glasses. Having recently taken the State Examination and was one of a few that successfully passed, the privelege to use this title has been extended to me and is the State guarantee to you of my competency and authority to correct refractive erfors by proper glasses, which is not only an improvement to visslon but a benefit to one’s general health. Remember the word “Optometrist,” it will safeguard you against Incompetents who are neither capable nor authorized by law to test your sight or prescribe glasses. You owe It to yourself to get posted on the new Optometery law, recently passed by the State for your and your family's protection. If your eyes bother you and cause you to feel bad, don’t put it off, but call on the “Optometrist,” have your eyes properly taken care of and be relieved of your trouble. I you break a lens or any part of your glasses don’t take them just any place, thinking you can get the same -thing, but take them to Catt? the Optometrist, there you take no chances. Remember this, In order to get the people familiar with the new title “Optometry,” which the State law has given the science of correction of visual defects by glasses, I will give $5.00 in gold to the person that writes “Dr. A. G. Catt, Optometrist,” the greatest number of times on a 3Uf 5% inch postal card and malls to me on or before the first day of June, 1909. DR. A. G. CATT, OPTOMETRIST. Rensselaer, Ind. > Office over Long’s Drug Store.

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Edward P. Honan, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Abstract*, Real Estate, Loan*, - Offlc ’ RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Arthur H. Hopkins, Law, Loans and Real Estate. Loans on farm and City property, personal security and chattel rnortwe, Buy, sen and rent farms and city property. Farm and city Are „ AMERICAN BUILDING, LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. Office over Chicago Department Store. RENSSELAER. IND. J. F. Irwin. s. c. Irwiv Irwin & Irwin, Law, Real' Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER. IND. Frank Folts C. G. Spitler. Foltz & Spitler (Successors to Thompson & Bro.) ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Law, Real Estate, Insurance, Abstracts and Loans. Only set of Abstract Books in the County. ■» •» RENSSELAER. IND. Ira W. Yeoman, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Remington - - . Indian., Law, Real Estate, Collections, Insurance and Farm Loans. Office upstairs in Durand Block. E. C. English, Physician & Surgeon. Opposite the Jasper Savings & Trust Company Bank. Office Phone 177. Residence Phone, 116. M. D. Gwin, M. D. Physician & Surgeon. Office opposite Postoffice, in Murray's new building. PHONE 205, day or night. DR. J. H. HANSSON VETERNARY SURGEON—Now at Rensselaer. Calls promptly answered. Office in Harris Bank Building. Phone 443. W. W. Merrill, M. D. Eclectic Physician and Surgeon, RENSSELAER, - - INDIANA Chronic Diseases a Specialty. Dr. E. N. Loy HOMEOPATHIST. Office East Side of Court House Square. Phones—Office 89, Residence 169.

H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug store. COMMISSIONERS’ ALLOWANCES. Following are the allowances made by the Board of Commissioners’ of Jasper County, Indiana, at the May term, 1909: L H Zuch, emer bd of health....! 8.00 Burt-Haywood Co,' sup auditor.. 19.80 Same, supplies recorder 10.50 Same, supplies clerk .......... 13.50 Same, supplies treasurer 4.55 J W Tilton, postage recorder.... 12.95 Healey & Clark, supplies clerk.. 3.50 Same, supplies treasurer 2.50 Ernest Lamson, per diem Co Supt 108.00 Same, office*, expenses. 11.30 C B Steward, per diem Tr officer 38.00 W Frank Osborne, per diem Sur 60.00 Same, postage Surveyor 3.00 Same, repairing instruments 78.35 Nettie Price, deputy Surveyor.... 32.00 Omar Osborne, helper Surveyor.. 6.00 Mryt B Price, ex Jungles ditch.. 6.00 John W Smith, repairs jail 17.00 G E Murray Co, sup inmate Co jl 1.40 City of Rens., lights Co. jail.... 5.25 Chicago Wood Furnish. Co, ex e h 1.25 J L Griggs, fireman boiler house.. 45.00 Chas Morlan, janitor court house 45.00 Same, expense court house 1.00 Shirley Hill Coal Co, coal c h. 39.44 Jesse Gates, coal court house, haul 7.42 Edna Turner, labor Co Farm.... 24.00 J E Cooper, same 50.00 Joseph Groom, same.. 25.00 9J 3 P? rte C supplies same John Eger, same 124.33 J D Allman, tr. insane hospital.. 44.22 R A Parklson, sup p'r child in sch 2.75 W J Wright, coroners inquest.... 8.00 « eale X & Clark, exp special elec 42.43 L P Shlrer, special election not.. 61.40 F E Babcock, public printing 12.15 James W McEwan, same 12.00 Healey & Clark, 5ame............ 26.05 Alice McDonald, et al, ref err tax 135 10 John W Marlatt. exp com court.. 8 00 F J Smith, rep Gillam G R 32'00 J S Maddox, same ’ 10 00 Wm Shlrer. G Rrep Ist dlst 18 00 W’illie Norman, same 12 00 Sylvester Gray, same..' 2811 H G Daniels, same 2nd dlst 34'50 John T Murray, same 600 Jacob Gilmore, same 4'50 Harry Magee, same... ° 3'oo Same, same. 61 50 Jesse Gwin, same 630 A Wood worth same... I N Hemphill, same 18.00 Lemuel C Huston, same 52 50 E D Britton, same 19 50 Harry Swartsell, same ' «oo Milt Michaels, same i'r,n D T Cresse, same 3d dlst .'' 4900 Same, same 2d diet 74X0 Marlon Supply Co. same J 38'79 Newton Co. Enterprise, not. Lawlev stone road 19 on Healey & Clark, not Lawler S R Same, samp. qq R a R I3 S >a « lai ,’ d <Uteh Bonds ? £ Nichols, Iroquois ditch 1828.93 £ D A ! 1I P a !?4 Co Assmt Evers dt 34.00 Same, Int Horton ditch bonds.... 41 40 Same, bonds Kent ditch . 120 00 Same, bonds Moseley ditch 426 00 Same, bonds . Ott S R._ 'jJS'bq JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, . Auditor Jasper County.

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