Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — Page 4

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CUMMINS MAKES TARIFF DEMANDS

Consults Taft and Progres- , sives Before Talking. ODTLINES HIS OBJECTIONS Senator From lowa Emphaalzea Importa nee of Insisting Upon Reduc* tlons In the Duties Upon Manufactures as Well as Upon Raw Material. Says It Will Be of Little Adantage If Nothing Is Done to Prevent the Taking of Extortionate Profits. Washington, July 23. —Emphasizing the Importance of Insisting upon re. ductions In the duties upon manufactures as well as upon raw material, Senator Cummins of lowa made public a statement which is accepted as representing the views of at least a majority of the “progressive" Republican rffenators. Previously Cummins had been In consultation for two hours with the president. Cummins said: “It is of great importance that the duties on manufactured products shall be brought down somewhere near the protective point. It will be of little

SENATOR CUMMINS.

advantage to the b :dy of the people to do .v.vay'wjfh. unnecessary duties upon, raw materials if the manufacturers are permitted to enjoy the excessive tint enab e them to take ex-, toittot .'.ln r rest:- upon the things that the i < pple st buy and use.” Inrtiincim the most prominent features of the senate bill which he thinks slw id be amended, Cummins said that "those who have been contending for lower duties can afford to surrender a part of their just demands if they can, in the main, obtain the reductions which insure the people against undue prices in the chief commodities of commerce,” • Outlines His Objections. Cummins outlined his principal objections to the bill as it left the senate. He says the reductions In the steel schedule generally are not sufficient, but the schedule might be accepted but for the increase on structural iron and steel. “Structural iron and „steel, the use of which is so rapidly increasing.” said Cummins.” is raised from the Dingley rate of $lO per ton and the house rate of $6 per ton to 45 per cent ad valorem which, at the present price of this commodity, means a duty of sl6 per ton, an increase over the present law of $6 per ton and over the house provision of $lO per ton. “In the lumber schedule if both rough and dressed lumber are not free, as they ought to be, ttye house rate of $1 on rough lumber should be preserved. “In the paper schedule the house rate of $2 per ton on print paper, without the possibility of Increasing it by a countervailing duty, and free wood pulp, also protected against a countervailing duty, should be rigidly insisted upon.

- . ' . I “In the cotton schedule the senate , increases from beginning to end should be rejected, and while I believe that there should be reductions in this schedule, the people might be willing to stand for the house rate, barring, of course, the hosiery increases. Talks of Voting Down Report. “The woolen schedule, with respect to the compensatory duties to manufacturers, is manifestly wrong; and the artificial and arbitrary plan of estimating the relation between unwashed and scoured wool is grossly absurd. The wool grower is sacrificed in order to give undue protection to the worsted wool manufacturer. The whole schedule is so indefensible that a readjustment seems imperative, even though to accomplish it the conference report be voted down and the bill brought before the senate again for amendment. i,, “Our platform and our pledges embrace every dutiable commodity, and We should apply the same criterion from the first to the last. It will be most unfortunate If, in trying to give relief tq the rank and file of our peo-

pie, we succeed only' in giving manu-, facturers free materials, and thus add to the over-protection which they now enjoy the further profits of cheapened production, profits which the manufacturers will probably be slow to share with the consuming public."

SPENT GOLD TOO LAVISHLY

Police Hold Buyers of Champagne as Train Robbery Suspects. Laramie, Wyo., July 23. Money spent for champagne by William White and R. W. Stockwell led to the arrest of the men and the recovery of a large sum of money believed to be a part of the loot taken by bandits several yean ago in a Union Pacific train robbery at Wilcox. The men spent 3445 for wine, White later depositing $4,020 in a Laramie bank. White declared he found the money tn a glass jar buried in the cellar of William Taylor’s residence here. All of it is gold coin and bears dates many years back.

BRIAND AS FRENCH PREMIER

Socialist Offered Post and Will Give His Answer Today. Paris, July 23. —Aristide Brland, brilliant scholar, orator and avowed socialist, and architect of the final chapters of the separation law, was summoned to the Elysee palace and asked to reconstruct the Clemenceau cabinet Brland promised his answer today. A Briand cabinet would be exceedingly distasteful to the monied classes, who at least knew that Clemenceau was not afraid to resist revolutionary tendencies.

URGE A PARDON FOR SMITH

Son of Famous Author Is Imprisoned In lowa Penitentiary. Des Moines, la., July 23.—The state board of pardons recommended an unconditional pardon for Samuel Francis Smith, seventy-two years old, son of the author of the words of the hymn “America.” S. F. Smith formerly was one of the most prominent residents of Davenport and had served as mayor. He was accused of misappropriating the funds of several estates Intrusted to his care.

JEROME IN THAW CASE AGAIN

New Yorker to Cross Examine the Slayer of Stanford White. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 23.—1 t has been decided that District Attorney Jerome of New York county will be called into the Thaw case when the hearings are resumed at White Plains next Monday. Jerome will conduct the cross examination of Harry Thaw when he goes on the stand. This, It is stated, was decided on at a conference in New York.

MISSOURI SEEKS SETTLERS

Will Have Agents on Ellis Island to Find Desirable Immigrants. St. Louis, July 23.—This state will establish an immigration bureau on Ellis Island, New York. There are 11,000,000 acres of unoccupied tillable land in Missouri and the purpose of the bureau will be to get desirable foreigners to settle on it.

BASEBALL RESULTS

National League. W. L. Pc.[ W. L. Pc. Pitts. ..58 23 716 Phil. ...35 44 443 Chi. ...53 28 654 St. L... 33 45 423 N. Y.-... 47 32 595 Brook' .29 52 358 Cin 42 40 512|80s 24 57 296 New Xork— R. h. E. Chicago 3 5 1 i New York 1 4 2 j Iluelbach and Archer; Wiltse and 1 Crandall, and Myers and Schlei. Boston— . R. H. E.; Pittsburg 9 10 11 Boston 0 4 2 Maddox and Gibson; White and Gra- ’ ham. American League. W. L. Pc.| W. L. Pc. ; Det 54 30 643'Chi. ...39 45 464 • Phil. ...48 34 585 N. Y... 38 46 452 1 Bos. ...50 37 575iSt. L... 36 49 424 i Clev. ...46 37 554jWash. ..24 57 296: Chicago— R. h. E. I Chicago 4 8 0 ‘ Philadelphia 3 8 0 ; Smith and Sullivan; Plank and Bender. and Thomas. Detroit— R. h. E. Detroit 6 8 0 Boston 0 6 1 Killian and Schmidt; Arellanes and | Wolter, and Donohue. I Cleveland — R. H. E. | New York 1 4 0 Cleveland 0 2 0 1 Doyle and Kleinow; Joss and Clarke. (Six innings; rain.) St. Louis — R. H. E. St. Louis 5 5 1 Washington 1 9 0 Waddell and Stephens; Groom, Wltherup and Collins, and Street. American Association. W. L. Pc.| W. L. Pc. Mil. ...51 44 537|C01. ...47 47 500 [Minn. ..51 45 531 Ind 45 50 474 St. P... 46 44 511|Tol. ...43 49 467 L’ville. .48 46 511|K. C.... 41 47 466 Indianapolis— R. h. E. St. Paul . 4 6 1 Indianapolis 0 4 0 Leroy and Carisch; Graham and Stone. ' • , Louisville — r. jj. e. Milwaukee 4 n 2 Louisville 3 g 3 Curtis and McGlynn, and Moran; Thielman and Packard, and Peitz. Toledo— r. H . bj i Toledo 9 2 Minneapolis 0 2 3 1 Owen and Abbott; Young and Ober- ! lin, and Rapp.

< »••••*•*«.* HE material world, howsoever it may have gained in ’I yfIMT •• sublimity, has, under the TOUCH OF SCIENCE, o <• lost in domestic charm. Except where it affects the ;; ’ immediate needs of organic life it may seem so remote j * J * from the concerns of men that in the majority it will < >**«»»»«*♦ rouse n 0 curiosity, while of those wRo are fascinated by its morals not a few will be chilled by its impersonal and indifferent immensity. The appropriate remedy is the perpetual stimulus which the influence of science on the business of mankind offers to their sluggish curiosity. And even now I believe this influence to be underrated. If in the last hundred years the WHOLE MATERIAL SETTING OF CIVILIZED LIFE HAS ALTERED we owe it neither to politicians nor to political institutions. We owe it to the COMBINED EFFORTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE ADVANCED SCIENCE AND THOSE WHO HAVE APPLIED IT. If our outlook upon the universe has suffered modifications in detail so great and so numerous that they amount collectively to a REVOLUTION it is to men of science we owe it, not to theologians or philosophers. On these, indeed, new and weighty responsibilities are being cast. They have to harmonize and to co-ordinate to prevent the new from being one sided, to preserve the valuable essence of what is old. BUT SCIENCE IS THE GREAT INSTRUMENT OF SOCIAL CHANGE, ALL THE GREATER BECAUSE ITS OBJECT IS NOT CHANGE, BUT KNOWLEDGE. AND ITS SILENT APPROPRIATION OF THIS DOMINANT FUNCTION AMID THE DIN OF POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS STRIFE IS THE MOST VITAL OF ALL THE REVOLUTIONS WHICH HAVE MARKED THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN CIVILIZATION. It may seem fanciful to find in a single recent aspect of this revolution an influence which resembles religion or patriotism in its appeals to the higher side of ordinary characters, especially since we are accustomed to regard the appropriation by industry of scientific discoveries merely as a means of MULTIPLYING THE MATERIAL CONVENIENCES OF LIFE.

But if it be remembered that this process brings vast sections of every industrial community into ADMIRING RELATION WITH THE HIGHEST INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENT and the most disinterested search for truth, that those who live by ministering to the common wants of average humanity lean for support on those who search among the deepest mysteries of nature, that their dependence is rewarded by growing success, that success gives in its turn an incentive to individual effort in nowise to be measured by personal expectation of gain, that the energies thus aroused MAY AFFECT THE WHOLE CHARACTER OF THE COMMUNITY, spreading the beneficent contagion of hope and high endeavor through channels scarcely known to. workers in fields the most remote —if all this be borne in mind it may perhaps seem not unworthy the place I have assigned to it. A SOCIAL FORCE HAS COME INTO BEING, NEW IN MAGNITUDE IF NOT IN KIND. THIS FORCE 18 THE MODERN ALLIANCE BETWEEN PURE SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

Disgraceful Lack of Uniformity In Our Laws.

By GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY.

j O more important work has ever been undertaken by the I American bar than that of bringing about a great deI t gree of I NIFORMITY in the laws of the several ' states. IT IS A STANDING REPROACH TO OUR CIVILIZATION THAT WE CONTINUE TO TOLERATE THE INCONVENIENCES, THE HARDSHIPS, THE DENIALS OF JUSTICE, WHICH RESULT FROM OUR DIVERSITY OF LAWS. R R «t In the case of our marriage and divorce laws the REPROACH BECOMES A DISGRACE. The law is at bottom the FORMAL EXPRESSION OF THE PUBLIC OPINION of the community, and we must expect to find differing laws and institutions. But no one can pretend that the confusion and diversity of our American jurisprudence have any such JUSTIFICATION. It is one of the most hopeful signs of the times that the lawyers of our country, under the leadership of the American Bar association, are becoming aroused to the importance of doing away with this condition of affairs.

What is still needed is AN AROUSED PUBLIC OPINION which shall back up the official agencies and make them effective.

Dishonest Corporations Must Be Crushed Out of Existence.

By PETER. A. HENDRICK.

H DANGER that is more potent than the rebellion has crept into this country and taken possession of the government. The battle is BETWEEN THE CORPORATIONS AND THE PEOPLE, and when I speak of corporations I only speak of those corporations which dishonestly, for the accumulation of money, have strangled competition, have crushed out individual effort without regard to means. V R « ALL THOSE CORPORATIONS WHICH HAVE NOT HESITATED TO VIOLATE THE LAW TO MAKE MONEY, SOME OF WHICH ARE NOW BEING PUNISHED BY THE COURTS OF THIS COUNTRY, AND THE GREAT NUMBER OF OTHERS UPON WHICH THE HANDS OF JUSTICE HAVE NOT YET FALLEN WILL BE AND MUST BE CURBED AND, IF NECESSARY, CRUSHED OUT OF EXISTENCE IN ORDER THAT A GOVERNMENTAL' LAW WHICH SHALL GIVE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO ALL MAY SUCCEED THE GOVERNMENT OF LAWLESSNESS WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN CARRYING ON DURING RECENT YEARS.

Science the Great Instrument Of Social Change.

By ARTHUR. J. BALFOUR.

Dean of the Columbia University Law School

Supreme Court Judge of New York.

British Statesman.

ELIOT PREDICTS A NEW RELIGION

“It Will Not Be Bound by Dogma or Creed.” SUIHEB SCHOOL ADDRESS President Emeritus of Harvard Says In the New Religion "There Will Be No Deification of Remarkable Human Beings” and “That God Will Be So Imminent That No Intermediary Will Be Needed.”—“Skilled Surgeon One of Its Members.” Cambridge, Mass.. July 23—Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, in an address before the Harvard summer school of theology prophesied the advent of a new religion. “It will not be bound by dogma or creed,” he said. “Its workings will be simple, but its field of action limitless. Its discipline will be the training in the development of co-operative good will. It will attack all forms of evil. There will be no supernatural element? it will place no reliance on anything but the laws of nature. Prevention will be the watchword and a skilled surgeon one of its members.”

The coming religion, he thought, will be built on two great commandments, the love of God and the service of fellow men. “The new religion,” he said, “will not be based upon authority; the future generation is to be led, not driven. In the new religion there will be no personification of natural objects; there will be no deification of remarkable human beings. “The new religion will not teach that character can be changed quickly. It will not deal chiefly with sorrow and death, but with joy and life. “God will be so imminent that no intermediary will be needed. Its priests will strive to improve social and industrial conditions. The new religion will not attempt to reconcile people to' present ills by the promise of future compensation.” «

GIRLS ARE LURED TO PANAMA

“Life They Lead Would Make Your Heart Bleed.” New York, July 23. —Writing to the police here. Lieutenant C. W. Barber, Second L T nited States Infantry, who Is assistant chief of police of the canal zone, declares that many American girls, especially actresses, had been lured to Panama and that “the life they lead here would make your heart bleed.” The letter tells the story of three chorus girls who, the writer says, were lured to Panama on the promise of an engagement in a local playhouse.

WOMEN POLICE AND FIREMEN

Dr. Anna Shaw Says That the Criminal Needs “Mothering.” Minneapolis, July 23. —That Minneapolis* needs 100 women policemen Is the opinion of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National Woman’s Suffrage association. “It would not be too much to expect that women should do their share In the police and fire departments,” she said. “One hundred women specialists put on the police force would make for better civic conditions. The criminal needs ‘mothering.’ ”

POLICE CAPTAIN OUT OF JAIL

Completes Term to Find That His Position Is In Danger. New York, July 23. —When Acting Police Captain August Kuhne was released from jail after serving a thirty days’ sentence for measuring and photographing Banker Frank Jenkins, he was notified that he had been suspended pending trial on charges. Police Commissioner Baker would not disclose the nature of the charges.

TWO GLASSES LIMIT ON BEER

Workmen Leave Question of Eviction to Their Legal Representatives. Pittsburg, July 23. The striking workingmen of the Pressed Steel 1 ar company have decided to leave the question of their peaceful eviction from the company cottages to their attorneys. Two glasses of beer only were allowed to one person in Stowe township saloons.

JOHNSON INTERVIEWS “JEFF”

Minnesota Governor—Not Negro Boxer—Chats With Retired Champion. St. Paul, July 23.—James J. Jeffries called on Governor Johnson and told the executive that he was ready now to battle for the Queensbury premiership. “You look fit to go In right now and kill almost anybody, I should say,” remarked the governor. Jeffries said he now weighed 235 pounds and had J.iught before at about 215.

HARRY ORCHARD BAPTIZED

Seventh Day Adventist Performs Service fcr Confessed Murderer. Boise, Ida., July 23. —Harry Orchard, Murderer of former Governor Steunenburg of Idaho, according to his confession, was baptized at the penitentiary. The service was performed by Elder Steward, a Seventh Day Adventist

IWell Drilling and Rapairing ;i We have just purchased a / brand-new well drilling outfit and solicit patronage In ' our line of work. Phone 298 or 354. ]! MOORE & HOCHSTETLER J. W. HORTON ■ DENTIST Opposite Court House Hffl f DEALER ) J S Um Hoii M Coal. $ RENSSFLAFH, IND. (

Ol!|i|!l;|i|Nt —W Chicago to Northwest, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and the South, Louisville and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. In Effect March 7, 1909. SOUTH BOUND. <o.3l—Fast Mall 4:46 a. m. No. 6—Lqulsville Mail (dally) 10:66 a. m. No.33—lnd’polls Mall (dally).. 2:01p.m. <O.39—MUk accomm (dally).. 6:02 p. m. NORTH BOUND. 40. 4—Mall (dally) 4.69 a. m. No.4o—Milk accomm. (dally) 7:31a.m. No.32—Fast Mail (dally) 10.06 a. m. No. 6—Mall and Ex. (daily).. 2:17 p. m. No. 30—Cin. to Chi. Ves. Mail 6:02 p. m. No. 4 will stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers from points south of Monon, and take passengers for Lowsii, Hammond and Chicago. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct connection at Monon for Lafayette. FRANK J. REED, G. P. A., W. H. McDOEL, Pres, and Gen'l Mgr., CHAS. H. ROCKWELL, Traffic Mgr.’ Chicago. W. H. BEAM, Agent Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Mayor... J. H. 8. Ellis Marshall w. S. Parks Clerk Chas. Morlan Treasurer .Moses Leopold Attorney Geo. A. Williams Civil Engineer H. L. Gamble Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden C. B. Stewart Councilmen. Ist Ward H. I*. Brown 2nd Ward J. F. Irwin 3rd Ward Ell Gerber At Large..C. G. Spitler, Geo. F. Meyers. JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney Fred Longwell Terms of Court—Second Monday tn February, April, September and November. Four week terms. 4 COUNTY OFFICERS. Clerk Charles C. Warner Sheriff Louis P. Shlrer Auditor..... James N. Leatherman Treasurer J. D. Allman Recorder J. W. Tilton Surveyor W. F. Osborne Coroner W. J. Wright Supt. Public Schools Ernest Latnson County Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer M. D. Gwin COMMISSIONERS. Ist District John Pettet 2nd District Frederick Waymire 3rd District Charles T. Denham Commissioners’ Court—First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm. Folgar Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer Gillam George Parker Hanging Grove W. H. Wortley Jordan Tunis Snip ....Keener John Shlrer nankakee Edward Parkison Marion George L. Parks Milroy E. J. Lane... .....Newton Isaac Kight Union S. D. Clark Wheatfield Fred Karch Walker Ernest Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green...., Remington Ceo. O. Stembel... Wheatfield Truant Officer..C. B. Stewart. Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan township attends to official business at his residence on the first Saturday of each month; also at George Wortley’s residence, on the west side, the second Wednesday after the first Saturday of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-4. Telephone 529-F. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-R-2. \ E. P. LANK. Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union township attends to official business at his store in Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business . WIU P leas * govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.