Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1909 — Page 2

THEM COUNTY DEMIT. 1.1. BIBCOCK, iDIIOR MD PUBLISHER.. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JABPER COUNTY. Published Wednesdy’s and Saturday's. filtered as Second-Class Matter June 3, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaeer, Indiana, under the Act of March >, 1879. Office on North Van Rensselaer BtreeL Long Distance Telephones Office 315. • Residence 811. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1900.

A BAD INFLUENCE

The Sugar Trust Leads and Controls the Beet Sugar Factories GETTING ALL THEY WANT A New “Joker” Found In the Aldrich Bill For the Sugar Trust—What the Beet Sugar Industry Amounts to and What It Demands Costly and Wasteful Business For Consumers. It Is reported from Washington that President Taft has asked for Information from the treasury department to help him to get an Idea of what sort of relief the consumers are likely to get out of the new tariff bill on the articles of common use In every household. The explanations of the hill by Payne and Aldrich and the whole debate in House and Senate have made It clear that such a thing as relief for the consumers was not contemplated by the framers of the bill. The consumers have all along been openly laughed at. Is President Taft beginning to see a new light as to the possible Influence of the consumers when aroused ? The President Needs Light. The president should receive all the light possible flfom every source. An open letter was recently sent to him which gave some light on the provisions of the senate tariff bill about sugar. This letter was sent by Mr. Frank C. Lowry, Secretary of the Committee of Wholesale Grocers formed to assist in obtaining cheaper sugar for consumers through reduction of duties on raw and refined sugar. A Universal Necessity. Sugar is an important necessity , in every household and also a material that must be used in large quantities In the great industries of canning, preserving and making confectionery,’ which would all. bo much greater industries In this country if they could get cheap sugar. The present Pingley duty ou refined sugar is 1.95 cents per pound. The tariff bill now pending in the senate reduces this rate to 1.90 cents per pound, but ns the ‘‘maximum and .minimum” proviso adding HO per cent to tlie rates is practically certain to be imposed in the case of sugar, the tariff on this article will be considerably higher than in the Pingley law. The Aldrich Bill “Jokers.” • The Aldrich tariff bill, like the Dingley and Payne bills. Is crowded with “jokers," which arc only gradually bediscovered. A “joker" Is a coneeajyd job, whereby the actual effect of Iho provisions of. the act" is otherwise than it appears on the surface to be. A new “joker" to the advantage of the Sugar Trust has just been made public by the New York Journal of Commerce.

A Trick by the Trust. It was known that t ho Sugar Trust mill tin* boot sujrs.tr. interests were opposed to the admission of sugar free of duty front the Philippines, which President Taft favored, and it lists been 6tated tbiit the Trust opposition was' disarmed by t lie provision in the Aldrieb bill that not more titan 300,000 gross tons of sugar could he imported duty free from the Philippines In any fiscal year. It now appears that this provision contains another provision that preference in this right of free entry is to lie given to producers of less than 500 tons in each fiscal year. Ostensibly tills Is to encourage the small producer, but practically it makes the provision for free eutry*of Philippine sugar Ineffective, itecause it discourages the investment of money In any large way in sugar cultivation in the Philippines, and sugar cannot be produced to advantage for export In the Philippines or anywhere else on any sdcb small scale. This matter is nnother indication that the same old evil Influence of the Bugrfr Trust, which. has been in evidence in the framing of all previous tariff bills. Is also busy In the Aldrich bill. The beet sugar interests and the Louisiana sugar interests are in alliance with the Trust

TAFT OPENS ROSE FESTIVAL

Presses Button Inaugurating Week’s Carnival In Portland, Ore. Portland, Ore., June 8. —Portlands third annual rose carnival was Inaugurated by President Taft, who at tbo White House In Washington pressed the telegraph key opening the show A week of festivity has been arranged by the rose festival committee. President Taft's message to President Ralph Hoyt of the festival committee follows: M I have pleksure in sending good wishes for the success of the rose fe3 ' tlval and hearty greetings to those par ticlpating in it.”

SCHOOLBOYS AID TRACTION STRIKE

leave Classrooms Because Teachers Ride on Cars. COURT ISSUES INJUNCTION Writ Prohibits Any Interference With Traffic by Union Leaders, Union Members and “All Other Persons." Defendants Have Ten Days In Which to Answer—Parents of Rebellious Pupils Told Lads Will Not Be Promoted Unless They Surrender. Evansville, Ind., June 8. —On application of the Evansville and Southern Indiana Traction company, Judge Gilchrist of the circuit court has issued an injunction against the striking employes of the company. The writ prohibits interference with traffic on the street cars. The defendants are Benjamin Commons, organizer for the National Street Car Men’s union; Matthew Hallenberger, president of the local Building Trades council; Commodore Goad, former president of the Local Street Car Men’s union; President Reese, now of the Street Car MenS union; forty-eight members of the union and "all other persons.” The defendants have ten days in which to make answer. Forty boys of the Centennial school on the west side went on a strike because, they said, their teachers were riding on the cars. At noon they paraded in front of the school house and endeavored to Induce other boys to Join them. The school authorities notified the parents of the absentees that,unless their boys returned to school they would not be promoted.

DESCRIBES INDIANA METHOD

Problem of Child In Small Towns Discussed at Buffalo Conference. Buffalo, June At the Charities and Corrections Conference, Mrs. Annie L. Morrison of Modok, Ind., told of the problems of the child In the small towns and rural sections of the country. The probation system now generally In vogue in the larger cities of the country may be used in the country as well. This is being done in Indiana through unpaid county boards of children’s guardians appointed by the judge of the circuit court, who is also the judge of the county juvenile court. Mrs. Morrison claimed that even in rural communities party politics frequently plays havoc with the efficiency of juvenile court work there. In her opinioh delinquent and defec tive children of the small towns or country* communities do not differ greatly from children of the same classes in the cities.

DIES TO SAVE HER SISTER

Girl Rushes Into Burning Building and Faints Amid Flames. Indianapolis, June B.—Leta Williamson, eight years old, lost her life in an effort to rescue her baby sister, Irene, when fire broke out in Jj,er home. The girl failed in the attempt, but firemen rescued the baby as well as another sister. The Williamson family lived on the second floor of a barn. The mother was preparing supper when the flames broke out. Site seized Leta and rushed down the stairs. Forcing her way through the smoke between groping firemen, the child went hack for her baby sister/ But the baby was not to be found in the room where it had been playing. t The girl started to search the remaining four rooms, A policeman found her prostrate. She died in ftis arms as she was carried out of the building.

AUTO CAR TURNS TURTLE

Chicagoans Have a Disastrous Ending to Their Outing. Dyer, Ind , June B.—An aged Chicagoan was perhaps fatally hurt and five other persons, including two women and a ten-months-old baby, were flung headlong into the roadside when a speeding automobile skidded, struck a root and turned turtle on the highway three-quarters of a mile west of here. The party had left the family home for a spin across country. The auto was going at a high speed along the road between Dyer, Ind., and Chicago Heights, 111., when It seemed to lose its grip on the road. The wheels slipped, the heavy car loaded down with six passengers skated toward the aide of the road, lunged Into a protruding root and turned over.

HEART BLOW KILLS MAN

Quarrel Over Collection of Debt Ends In Fatal Encounter. Marlon, Ind., June 8. —John McDougal, a leading merchant of Van Buren, this county, was beaten to death In a struggle with Frapcis Miller. Miller and his brothers, Alva and Lester, were arrested, the latter two being held aa accessories. Francis Miller, it was alleged, was lingered because McDougal had collected a debt through Miller's employers. He met McDougal on the street and the two came to blows. The brothers interfered. McDougal’s death la said to have been caused by a blow over the heart.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ELECTION

William P. McKenzie la President of the Mother Church. Boston, June 8. —The board of directors of the Mother Church of Christian Science elected William P. McKenzie president; Stephen A. Chase of Fall River, treasurer; and John V. Dittermore of New York, clerk. The following letter wals received from Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy: "I thank you for your kind Invitation to be present at the annual meeting of the Mother Church. I will attend the meeting, but not in propria persona. Watch and pray that God directs your meetings and your lives, and your leader will then be sure that they are blessed In their results.”

'CONTRACT PRACTICE’ UPHELD

Physicians In Conference Support Plan Designed to Aid Poor. Atlantic City, June B.—Eminent physicians advocated "contract practice” before the American Academy of Medicine as a solution for the problem of securing proper medical attention for the wage earners at small cost. The plan presented favors small monthly payments by the clients of the contract physician who is expected to attend them in case of illness without extra charge. f

DISCREDITS REPORT ON WATERWAY BY ARMY

Says Engineers Cannot Judge’ Commercial Value of Project. St. Louis, June B.—Tn a letter to Phillip Worlein, New Orleans, W. K. Kavanaugh. president of the Lakes to. the Gulf Deep Waterway association, asserts that the opinion of army engineers as to the commercial value of the project will have little significance. Kavanaugh declined to make public the full text of his letter to Worlein, but said it contained the statement that army engineers were not qualified to pass on the commercial value of s the waterway improvement.

WATERWAY FEVER SPREADS

Red River Nawigated to Winnipeg First Timd In Years. Winnipeg. Man., June B.—Business men from Grand Forks and other North Dakota cities arrived here by river route and were warmly welcomed by dozens of river craft. This was the first trip made from Grand Forks to Winnipeg by steamer in twenty-eight years. The object is to impress congress with the feasibility of the Red river as an avenue of commerce.

Prosperity Stock Exchange Prediction.

New York, June 8.: —The end of the Roosevelt administration, quick settlement of the tariff question, and assurances of excellent crops, are given as the reasons for prophesying the approach ot great national prosperity in the annual report of the Consolidated Stock Exchange.

Woman Embezzler Is Sentenced.

Denver, June B.—Mrs. Electra R. Beard, convicted of misappropriating $2,000 of the funds of the Children’s Hospital association, was sentenced to serve eighteen months to three years in the penitentiary.

The Weather. Following is the official weather forecast: Illinois and Indiana—Showers today and tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Showers today and tomorrow. t Wisconsin and lowa —Showers today and tomorrow.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Live Stock. Chicago June 7. Hogs—Receipts 49,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy, [email protected] butchers, $7.30® 7.40 light mixed, $7.40® 7.50 choice light, $7.50 @7.60 heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 19,000. Quotationo ranged at $6.80® 7.25 for choice to primb steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, $4.50® 5.25 good to choice beef cows, $5.00® 6.00 good to choice heifers, $7.25®7.60 good to choice calves, [email protected] selected feeders, $4.45 @4.80 good to choice Stockers. Sheep—Receipts 14,000. Quotations ranged at sß.oo® 8.50 for good to choice shorn lambs, $6.25®8.00 fair to good shorn iambs, $6.60® 7.25 shorn yearlings, $5.75 @6.25 shorn sheep, $6. 50® 6.25 good to choice shorn ewes. Potatoes. Choice to fancy, 88® 90c; fair to good, 83® 85c. New Potatoes—Choice to fancy. $1.40® 1.45; fair to good, $1.30® 1.35. East Buffalo Live Stock. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—ceipts 120 cars; market alow. Hogs —Receipts 60 cars; market steady; heavy, $7.90® 8.00; Yorkers, $7.60® 7.80; pigs, $7.40. Sheep ahd Lambs— Receipts 20 cars; market steady; best lambs, $8.00; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected] Calves—Best, [email protected]. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, June 7. Creamery, extras, 29c; prints. 27 Vic* extra firsts, 24Vic; firsts, 23Vic; dairies. extra. 26c; firsts, 21c; packing itock, 17 Vic. .

FIREMAN DEAD IN $650.000 BLAZE

80,000 Bushels of Coro and Plant Destroyed. DECATUR CONFLAGRATION Wall Falla In Factory of Cereal Company Crushing Out a Life—Main Building and Adjoining Elevator Prey of Flames—Defective Electric Wiring Held Responsible—Establishment Employed a Large Number of Hands. Decatur, 111., June B.—ln a fire which started shortly after 1 o’clock this morning, from electric wiring on the sixth floor of the mill of the Decatur Cereal company, the entire plant was destroyed with a loss of $650,000 with $165,000 insurance. In addition 80,000 bushels of corn in an adjacent elevator, also owned -by the Decatur Cereal company were destroyed. The elevator had a capacity of 100,000 bushels of com. In an effort to rescue some of the office effects of the firm, John Sheehy, a fireman, was struck on the head by a falling timber and instantly killed. The company manufactured starch, but one of Its main products was corn grits, used largely by brewers. It employed a large number of men.

MAINE HAS BIG FIRE

Church, Masonic Hall and 100 Presque Isle Dwellings Destroyed. Presque Isle, Me., June 8. —An entire section of this village, comprising the district where were situated the most pretentious residences, was swept by fire. A high wind carried flames and embers from steet to street until 100 dwelling houses and the Congregational church, the Masonic hall and several other structures had been reduced to ashes.

DIAMOND COLLAR ON HANDS

Trinket Seized When Wealthy Mexican Neglects to Declare It. New York, June B.—The customs authorities have on their hands a diamond collar and bracelet appraised at $12,120. The trinket was seized when Celsft del Villar, a wealthy Mexican, failed to declare it. Villar was paroled In the custody of a representative of the Mexican consul, but when he was wanted could not be found.

BASEBALL RESULTS

National League. W. L. Pc I W. L. Pc. Pitts. ..30 12 714jPhil. ...17 21 448 Chi. ...28 16 636 j Brook. .17 23 425 N. Y... 20 17 541 jSt. L... 17 26 395 Cin. ...24 22 522[805. ...12 28 300 At Pittsburg— R. H. E. Pittsburg 4 7 1 Philadelphia .............. 3 7 1 Leifield and Adams, and Gibson; Moren and Brown, and Dooin. At Cincinnati— R. H. E. Cincinnati 6 11 2 Boston i 1 7 3 Campbell, and McLean and Roth; Ferguson and Mattern, and Smith. At St. Louis — R. H. E. Brooklyn 2 6 1 St. Louis 0 6 1 Bell and Bergen; Beebe and Sallee, and Bresnahan. American League. W L. Pc.j W. L. Pc. Det. ...27 14 659|Clev. ..18 22 450 N. Y. ...22 15 595|Chi. ...17 22 437 Phil. ...23 17 575|St. L... 17 22 437 Bos. ...22 19 536|Wash. .12 27 308 At Washington— R. H. E. Chicago 8 9 0 Washington 0 5 4 Waish and Owens; Gray and Street. At New York— R. H. E. New York 5 11 3 Detroit l 4 2 Manning and Kleinow; Summers and Works, and Schmidt and Beckendorf. At Philadelphia— R. H. E. Cleveland 3 9 1 Philadelphia 1 8 l Berger and Bends; Plank, Dygert and Vickers, and Thomas and Livingston. At Boston— IL H. E. Boston 6 15 4 St. Louis 4 5 i Arellanes and Cicotte, and Carrlgan; Graham and Howell, and Stephens and Smith. I American Association. W. L. Pc. W. L. Pc. Mil. ...29 20 593 Minn. ..25 23 621 Ind. ...28 24 538 L’ville. .27 24 529]St. P... 19 26 422 Col. ...27 24 629 K. C.... 19 28 404 At Columbus— R. H. E. Columbus 6 12 2 Milwaukee 2 5 2 Milligan and Shreck; Pape and Wacker, and Hostetter. At Louisville — R. H. E. Louisville 4 11 I Kansas City 0 4 1 Selby and Hughes; Swann and Sullivan. At Indianapolis— R. H. E. Minneapolis 1 6 1 Indianapolis 0 8 2 Olmstead and Block; Glaze and Howley. At Toledo— R. H. E. St. Paul 3 10 1 Toledo 0 6 1 Gehring and Yeager; Wright and Abbott. .- t -fiinr

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ALL FOR THE SUGAR TRUST

The Beet Sugar Factories Are Practically Controlled by the Unscrupulous Sugar Trust and Are Led by It In Asking For Extreme “Protection”— Costly and Wasteful Business For Consumers. The beet sugar people are asking for the continuance of the present exorbitant “protection” on refined sugar, equivalent to more than 78 per cent ad valorem, and are attempting to create the impression that their industry is not controlled by the Sugar Trust The facts, however, indicate that the Trust does coutrol the beet sugar industry. The different domestic beet sugar factories are, for the most part gathered together in groups, each group operated by a “parent’’ company. It is known that the American Sugar Refining Company (the Sugar Trust) either directly or through its directors has a controlling interest in at least ten of these “parent” companies, which in 1908 produced about 70 per cent of the total beet sugar production. All the beet sugar companies act together and all

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act as the Trust wishes. The Cost Not Justified. The beet sugar factories claim that they cannot produce sugar cheaper than they are now doing. In 1008 our total domestic beet sugar production was only a trifle over 12 per cent of our total consumption of sugar. The hope is held out, however, that iu time the beet sugar production will be sufficient for all our requirements. If this result is achieved through the maintenance of a high tariff it will mean that the American people will always have to pay an excessively high price for their sugar. It would also be possible, of course, to grow bananas in Maine with sufficiently high protection kept up for a sufficient time, but it would not be good business. The New York Sun is a high Journal, but it cannot defend the demands of the beet sugar Interests. In a recent issue it said: “It is not a question of what can be done, but yf what is likely to be done and whether results will justify the cost. The beet sugar industry must show better results than it has shown thus far before there will be proper justification for its demands for an extravagant oroteetlon.”