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

THE m COUNTY DEMOCRAT. f. [ BtBCOCK, [DITOR AND PiIBUSHtR. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Published Wednesdy's and Saturday’s. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 3. 1008. 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. WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1909.

MAKE HIDES FREE

The Story of the Duty and What It Means POWER OF THE BEEF TRUST The Few Chiefs of the Beef Trust Making a Strong Fight Against the Welfare of the Shoe and Leather Industries, the Cattle Raisers and the People Who Use Leather. No civilized country on the face of the earth breeds enough cattle to furnish sufficient leather for domestic use. In this respect the United States is not different from England or Germany or France. We do not raise half enough leather for our shoes and belting and dress suit cases, for our harness and upholstering and a world of other things.

Industry Grow* With Free Hide*. This leather is called neat leather. It is the thick hide from the backs of beeves and is a byproduct of the slaughtering business. Hides have always been on the free list In our tariffs except during the civil war and up to 1872, because it is by all means best to have enough raw material to give employment to our citizens as shoemakers and harness makers and beltmakers and saddlers. All along all sorts of hides were on the free list. Nobody ever wanted them off; no statesman ever wanted them off; no farmer or tanner ever wanted them off. Of course it is most advisable to give employment to as many workers as possible by bringing in as easily ami cheaply as possible as much raw product ns is needed to enable the workers to be put to work mid provide for their families, We have greatly increased the wealth of the country by putting superior American brains and skilled American' fingers to manufacturing all types of leather goods not only for home use, but for consumption. abroad. The Duty Cripples Shoemaking, It was because hides were on the free list all along that the making of American shoes has kept so many thousands at work and made the support of hundreds of communities, If hides had been oh the tariff list the increased cost of the raw material would have more than counteracted the-effi-ciency of American labor, and foreign countries (none of which has a tax on hides) would have secured the stronghold in shoemaking that has been ours for years, a stronghold so great tliat we have been able to become the shoemakers of the world, fearing no competition anywhere. The Beef Trust Gets the Duty.

But this result was'obtained before 1897. when the Bingley tariff was passed. The Dingley tariff did not have hides on the schedule when it left the house of representatives. Dingley never put them in the schedule. The farmers did not ask to have them put there. The shoemakers did not ask it. The tauuers did not ask it. But. at the last moment, quietly and without warning, somebody with sufficient power and pull managed to sneak in a 25 per cent duty on neat hides just before the senate passed the bill. Through the best opposition that could be made at short notice this was cut down to 15 per cent. it Has Cost the People Millions. Thus the beef trust, for which the trick was done, by influencing certain senators, imposed a great burden on the American people. This 15 per cent duty has added only about $2,000,000 a year to the revenues of the i government, but It has cost the people untold millions. It has cut off thousands of men from employment, because. through the duty on sole leather, the American shoemakers could only | finish the uppers of millions of dollars' i worth of shoes which they have been ' forced to send abroad, where they . could put soles on them much cheaper than we could. It Wipes Out the Tanneries. Through this duty on hides, put on by senators to add to the profits of the beef trust, we have all had to pay more for our shoes and everything else made of neat leather. The farmer has had to pay more for his harness, the ranchman more for his saddles, the manufacturer more for bis belting, and every one more for trunks, satchels and furniture. We are handicapped in getting leather from outside. The control of the leather supply at home is entirely in the hands of the beef trust. The tanneries have been greatly injured, and many have been forced to either go into bankruptcy or to sell their plants to the trust. Thus the trust has been getting into a position where it could not only dictate the price of raw bides, but also on the tanned leather as well, through its command of the leather finishing business.

Th* Payne Bill and the Trusts. Now, through the pressure of aroused public opinion, the Payne tariff bill, as reported to and passed by the house of representatives, makes hides free of duty. A determined httempt was made in the bouse on the day the bill was passed to impose a duty of 10 per cent on hides, but it was voted down. The beef trust, however, Is not yet beaten. Its greatest strength is in the senate, where the destructive duty on hides was put on in 1897. And it is to the senate that the Payne bill now goes. There the rich, powerful and unscrupulous beef trust will marshal its senatorial friends and use all its resources to get a duty of not less than 10 per cent In this struggle in the senate between the welfare of nearly 90,000,000 of people on one side and the eight or ten chiefs of the beef trust on the other side, victory for the people win be won only by the most active and persistent demands from the people. Letters from the pebple should pour in upon the senate in overwhelming numbers demanding free hides; The Trust Tries Humbug. The beef trust tries to hoodwink the farmers by stating that if the duty is removed from hides it will make the farmers and cattle raisers pay for it by giving them less for their cattle. The absurdity and humbuggery of this are becoming plain to the sellers of cattle. They know very well that if the beef trust thought that it could buy cattle, by hook or crook, for even I cent per head less than it is buying it for today, the present market price on stock would be down to that figure, hide duty or no hide duty. The beef trust, like every other trust, forces down the price of everything it buys in every possible way and takes for itself every advantage it can. The farmers and cattle raisers are vitally Interested In the healthy activity of the independent tanneries.

Chicago and Mail Orders.

Chicago claims the distinction of being the mall order center of the universe, and some recent figures from the postofflee there would seem to establish the right to the honor. One of the biggest mall order houses recently broke all postal records by mailing 0,000,000 catalogues, each weighing two ounces, the whole weighing 450 tons. The sacks holding the catalogues weighed sixty-five tons, If these I>amphlets had been sent on one train thirty cars would have been filled.

Judge H. L. Palmer Dead.

Milwaukee, May 7.—Judge Henry L. Palmer died early today.

BASEBALL RESULTS

National League. W. L. Pc.l ' W. L. Pc. Pitt. ...12 6 667|Cin. ...10 11 476 Phil. .. 8 6 571|Brook. .7 8 467 Bos. ... 8 7 5331 N. Y... 6 8 .429 Chi. ...10 9 526|St. L... 7 13 350 At Chicago— R. H. E. Chicago 4 7 0 Cincinnati 2 10 2 Kroh and Moran; Karger, Campbell and Rowan, and McLean. At Brooklyn— R. H. E. Brooklyn ................. 7 7 2 Philadelphia 1 4 '”'4' Mclntyre and Bergen; Covaleskie and Richie, and Dooin. At Pittsburg— R. 11. E. Pittsburg 6 14 4 St. Louis 5 7 2 Camnitz and Liefield, and Gibson; Beebe, More and Sallee, and Bresnahan. (Eleven innings). At Boston — R. H. E. New York 2 6 6 Boston 1 o Wiltse and Meyers; Ferguson and Smith. Second game— R. H. E. New York 1 12 4 Boston 0 7 2 Raymond and Schlei; McCarthy and Graham. (Twelve innings). American League. W. L. Pc.' W. L. Pc. Det. ...14 5 736|Clev. ..7 9 438 N. Y... 10 6 625 Phil. ...6 8 429 Bos. ... 9 7 562 Wash. . 5 9 357 Chi. ... 8 8 50D|St. L... 5 12 294 At New York; — R. u. e. Bost on . 481 New York ................. 3 7 3 Steele and Cicotte, and Spencer an-1 Donohue; Wilson and Warhop, and Blair.

At Philadelphia— R. H. E. Philadelphia 2 6 0 Washington 1 5 3 Bender and Thomas; Groom and Street. At St. R. H. E. Detroit .... 7 12 2 St. Louis 3 7 2 Mullin and Schmidt; Powell and Bailey, and Stephens. At Cleveland— R. H. E. Cleveland 2 6 I Chicago 1 3 3 Berger and Clarke; Scott and Owens. American Association. W. L. Pc.| W. L. Pc. Mil. ...12 4 7501T01. ... 8 11 421 Lvllle. 13 6 6851 K. C... 7 10 412 Ind. ...11 9 550,C01. ... 8 12 400 Minn. ..8 9 471|St. P... 511 313 At Kansas City— R. H. E. Louisville ....... 3 5 i Kansas City ............... 1 6 2 Selby and Hughes; Carter and Sullivan. At St. Paul— R. h. E. Columbus * 2 7 2 St. Paul o 3 3 Linke and James; Nelson and Carisch. At Milwaukee— R. h. E. Milwaukee 5 7 2 Indianapolis i 5 2 Dougherty and Hostetter; Jones and Howley. At Minneapolis— • r. h. E. Minneapolis 9 14 2 Toledo 5 5 0 Wilson and Block; Lattimore, Pinkney and McSurdy, and Abbott

GENERAL STRIKE THREAT IN PARIS

Government Employes Are Refused a Hearing. AMOUNTS TO OPEN REVOLT Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Operatives Put Themselves on Plane of Members of Workmen’s Union* and Belief Exist* That They Are In League With the General Federation of Labor—Administration Fall* to Disclose Course It Will Pursue. Paris, May 7.—The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Employe’s association has transformed itself into a urflon, thus placing its members on the same footing with members of workmen’s unions with the right to strike against the state employer, as the workmen have the privilege of doing against private employers. This defiance, which Is nothing short of open revolt, came as a sudden and sensational sequel of Premier Clemenceau’s failure to receive a deputation of postal employes, who called to present demands for the redemption of promises which they claim the government made when the recent strike was declared off. The most serious aspect of the situation Is the fact that the leaders in this new movement are undoubtedly hand-in-glove with the moving spirits of the general federation of labor, which is now universally recognized as a revolutionary organization and which has for a long time been preparing for a general strike to destroy “capitalism.”

DOUBTS SAFETY OF REPUBLIC

Labor Leader Given Three Months’ Sentence For Insulting Magistrate. Rouen, France, May 7. —M. Marek, treasurer of the general federation of labor, who was arrested on a charge Of insulting a magistrate, was sen fenced to imprisonment for three months. As he heard the decision of the Court he cried : “This may save your republic, but I doubt It.” Merchants Prepare For Strike. Lyons, France, May 7. —The Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants’ associations here have combined in the organization of an emergency postal service in anticipation of a strike in Paris.

JUDGES ATTACKED AGAIN

Missouri Member to Ask Congress to Impeach McPherson and Philips. Washington, May 7. Formal charges of impeachment against Federal. Judges Philips and McPherson of the western district of Missouri, are to be filed by Representative Murphy of that state. Incensed over a telegram to Attorney General Wickersham from Frank Hagerman, attorney for eighteen railroads, in which Hagerman characterized Murphy’s resolution as “an outrageous tissue of misrepresentation,” Murphy held the attention of the house with a repetition of the charges which he had made in his original resolution. His colleague, Mr. Rucker, corroborated all that he said in denunciation of the action of the two judges in connection with Missouri’s two-cent passenger rate la'v,- and remarked that Judge Philips ought to have been impeached twenty ago. Makes Injunction Permanent. Kansas City, Mo., May 7. —Judge Smith McPherson in the federal court here continued in force the temporary injunction recently granted by Judge John F. Philips restraining Siebert Jones, circuit attorney of St. Louis, from prosecuting the suit filed by him seeking to restrain the railroads of Missouri from charging a three cent passenger rate.

THREE HURT BY BOMB HURLED BY BLUECOAT

Policeman Tries to Toss Thing In River, but Misses. • New York, May 7. —The explosion of a bomb, hurled into West street by a policeman, caused painful injuries to three men, and threw the neighborhood, recently in a ferment over the teamsters’ strike, into a state of terror. The bomb was found in the stable of one of the truckmen who opposed the union and was removed by Patrolman Patrick McMahon, who started for the waterfront with the idea of throwing it into the North river. The throw fell short, and the bomb, landing on the bulkhead curbing, exploded with tremendous force. McMahon and two stewards of the steamer Celtic were injured by flying fragments.

Fulton County In Dry Column.

Rochester, Ind., May 7.—ln a local option election Fulton countyvoted dry by an unofficial majority of 1,627. The county was previously dry by remonstrance.

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KING No. 6433. SHIRE STALLION. KING is a dark a_ dapple bay stallion, 16 hands high weigns 1,600 at present time, 4 21, 1900; bred by wMMWr C. Moots, Normal, 111. Sire, Al-b-rton, No. 3008 ggSIV ML <8682); Dam. LuIaSHEK 5868, by Conquerer Stand, Term* and Conditions: King will make the seasdn of 1909 at my •arm, miles north of Rensselaer, 3% miles east of Fair Oaks and 3 miles south of Virgie, at 310.00 to Insure colt to stand and suck. Service money becomes due and payable at once oi owner parting with mare; product of horse held good for service. Not responsible for accidents. PAUL SCHULTZ, Owner. VASISTAS. VASISTAS is an imported Percheron Stallion, recorded in botn the French and American Stud Books; color black and tan. He weighs 1800 pounds in moderate condition. He stands 16 hands high, fore leg 10% Inches, hind leg 12 Inches. We will gladly show him to you at a trot. We invite an Inspection of his colts throughout the country. Will stand for the season of 1909 Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at farm of Charley Pullin, five miles north and one-half mile east of Rensselaer; Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Hemphill stallion barn, in Rensselaer. TERMS—3IS to insure colt to stand and suck; sl2 to Insure mare in foal, payable when mare is known to be in foal. Parting with mare forfeits insurance and service fee becomes due at once. Not responsible for accidents. CHARLEY PULLIN & SON. REGISTERED PERCHERON STALLION. ■ ■ BAUMBIN Registered in the Percheron Society under the Number 2868. Sire Daniel 46828; he by Cotte 2,5271. Dam Julia 2735, she by Mirka 2419. BAUMBIN wil) be 5 years old on April 9, 1909, is a beautiful coal black in color, with white spot in forehead and one white hind foot. His weight 13 1800 pounds; he has large, smooth bones, excellent style and fine action. Baumbin is an extra good breeder; his colts are large, with good bone and nice color. Baumbin will make the season of 1909. as follows: ’ Mondays—At W. S. Lowman’s 2 miles east and % mile north of Pleasant Ridge. '‘Tuesdays and Wednesdays—At the Ford Farm, near the Banta Schoolhouse, 3 miles northeast of McCoysburg. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturday*— At my place, 3 miles east and 1% miles north of Rensselaer. TERMS:—SI2.SO to insure a living foal, pr $lO to insure a mare to be in foal. Parties parting with mare or leaving the county are liable^at once for the service fee and the get will oe held for the service. Care will be taken to prevent accidents, but will not be responsible should any occur. Shire Stallion. BILLY WONDER. Is a brown stallion, weight 1500 pounds; age 7 years, with excellent breeding qualities. Will make the season of 1909 at my place, 3 miles east and 1% miles north of Rensselaer. TERMS:—SB to Insure living colt, or $6 to insure a mare to be in foal. Parties leaving the county or parting with mare, the service becomes due at once. H. E. LOWMAN. Owner and Manager.

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