Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — Page 2

m jisper couiin w. i. t.BIBCOCK. HinORII»BP[l8LI8BEB. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday* Wednesday issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 80, 1010.

DEMOCRATIC CALL.

To the Democrats of Indiana, and all those who desire to co-operate with them: By order of the Democratic State Committee, the Democrats of Indiana, and all who desire to co-operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomilson Hall, in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, April 27 and 28, 1910, for the purpose of adopting a platform and to nominate candidates for the following State offices, towit:

Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-Gen er al. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instrucction. State Statistician. One Judge of the Supreme Court for the Second IDstrict. One Judge of the Supreme Court For the Third District. Three Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District. Two Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern District. The convention will be composed of 1,747 delegates—necessary to choice, 874—-apportioned among the several counties of the State, as follows: (Tenth District.) Benton 8 Jasper 8 Lake 30 Laporte 29 Newton 6 Porter . 9 Tippecanoe 26 Warren 5 White 12 The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congressional istricts will meet Wedncday, April 27, 1910, at three o’clock p. m., at the following places: Tenth District—State House, Room 120, third floor. At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected, viz.:

One member of the Committee on Rules ami Permanent Organization. ()ne member of the Committee on Credentials, i One member of the Committee on Resolutions. One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet in Room 371, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Credentials will meet in Room 372, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Resolutions will meet in Room of Ordinary, Denison Hotel, immediately after adjournment of District meetings.’ The delegates will assemble at Tomilson Hall at 7:30 p. m., to receive the reports of the committees, except Committee on Platform. April 28, 1910, the Convention will reassemble in Tomilson Hall at 9 o’clock a. m., for the adoption of a platform and the nomination of candidates. STOKES JACKSON, Chairman. WM. F. MOORE, Secretary.'

CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION.

Notice is hereby given to the Democratic voters of Jasper County, to meet at their usual voting places on Saturday, April 16* 1910, at 1:30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the County Convention to be held in Eatt Court Room at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Thursday, April 21, 1910, at 1:30 o’clock p. m., to nominate candidates for the following County offices, to-wit: Clerk of the Circuit Court, County Auditor, County Treasurer,

County Sheriff, County Assessor, County Surveyor, County Coroner, Commissioner First District, Commissioner Second District, One County Councilman from the First, one from the Second, one from the Third and one from the Fourth Councilmanlc Districts, Three County Councllmen-At-Large. and to elect eight delegates to the State Convention to, be held at Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday, April 27 and 28, 1910, as follows: Two delegates from each Commissioners’ district and twjO delegates-at-large. You are further notified that delegates will be selected at the County Convention for the various District Conventions, time and place of which will be designated in later calls. The basis of representation to said county convention is one delegate and one alternate for each ten votes or fraction over five votes cast for the Hon. Thomas R. Marshall for Governor in 1908, as follows:

Barkley, East 7 Delegates Barkley, West..... 7 Delegates Carpenter, East .... 9 Delegates Carpenter, West.... 6 Delegates Carpenter, Soiith . . 7 Delegates Gillam 6 Delegatee Hanging Grove .... 3 Delegates Jordan 9 Delegates Keener 4 Delegates Marlon, NO. 1 ......11 Delegates Marion, No. 2 ....14 Delegates Marion, No. 37 Delegates Marion, No. 4 .... 9 Delegates Milroy 3 Delegates Newton 8 Delegates. Union, North 7 Delegates Union, South. 8 Delegates Walker 8 Delegates Wheatfield 9 Delegates N. LITTLEFIELD, Chm. JUDSON J. HUNT, Sec.

The poor old Republican is in hard straits. It pooh-poohed Wiallace Marshall’s charges of bridge graft, and behold the graft was established by unquestioned evidence. It jumped on the new accounting law and condemned the accountants as a lot of leeches prying upon the people. Again behold! One of its republican trustees was found SBOO short and another (ex-trustee) wasi found to have been $1,400 short and had left the state. Woe, woe, woe.

It is reported on excellent authority that ex-Appellate Judge Wiley, when here on the Lawler railroad damage case a couple of weeks ago, expressed himself as of the opinion that the republicans would not elect two congressmen in Indiana this fall, so disgusted have the republican voters become with the work of Judge Wiles’s party in Congress. A friend took exceptions to Judge Wiley’s belief, and the latter backed up his opinion by betting a $5 hat that he was right. 'Hie republicans now have but two of the thirteen congressmen from this state, and Judge Wiley thinks the next election will make it unanimously democratic.

In reply to the Republican’s bluff about the “Bader case,’’ we will say that many good men unthinkingly sign a petition for almost anything without considering what it means, and, too, perhaps in this case they may have thought with those two jurors that hung out all night before agreeing on a verdict of guilty. \V ill the Republican kindly publish for the information of its readers whom it is laborously trying to mislead, as usual, the reasons stated by those two jurors for holding back so ilong? There may be a little more probing into this bridge graft matter that will tax all the reserve energy of the Republican editors to “explain” before it is ended. The taxpayers of Jasper county are at least getting their eyes open to a few things, and they will pass judgment one of these days on whether it has been The Democrat or the Republican that has been deceiving them.

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(IO FLAG ON THE SEA

High Protection Cause of Decline of Shipping. SHIP SUBSIDY FALLACY. Where British Builders Havs the Advantage of Uncle Sam—No Money In American Bottome— Business Throttled by Tariffs. It is not easy to have patience with some of the reasons that are given for subsidizing American ships. We are told that “it is a national disgrace that an American admiral should sail around the world, as Sperry said he did, without once seeing the American flag on a merchant ship.” It may be so, but who are responsible for the disgrace? Those who have built up the high tariff system of the country—these and nobody else. The high tariff has so Increased the price of the things that enter into the .construction and supply of ships that it is impossible for Americans to build them at a profit; hence they are compelled to use foreign ships to carry their imports and exports. The chairman of the shipping and harbo? committee of the New York chamber of commerce* put the latter fact very clearly in a recent utterance. He said-: “I know that no money is to be made in building ships and running them under the present conditions of the commerce of the United States and of labor and of material and of the mode of constructing ships.” Mr. Welding Ring, another member of the chamber, was equally emphatic on that occasion. He said: “I have been shipping forty years, and I know something about it and I know what the conditions are. I don’t believe the government subsidy is ever going to build up our mercantile marine.” Clearly, then, the shipping business does not pay in America. And because it does not pay the proposition is that the taxpayers of the country shall put their hands in their pockets and make it pay. In other words, because protection has ruined the industry there should be more protection.

Let nobody think it an exaggeration to say that protection has ruined American shipbuilding, for Just look back half a century or so. Shipbuilding has flourished with us most when our tariff was lowest, and It has dwindled most when our tariff is highest In 1853 the New York Herald could boast that “it must be a matter of sincere satisfaction to know that in both sailing and steam vessels we have surpassed the whole world.” All this was substantially true then. But those were the days of low tariffs. How is it that England is still mistress of the seas, while this country has no shipping to speak of? Because England has continued the policy of commercial freedom, whereas we have gone further and further on the dreary path of protection. The great development of British shipping dates from the middle of last century, when England repealed her navigation acts and threw open her ports to all nations. We have our barbarous navigation laws still in force, which deny us free ships, and we have the high tariff, which denies us free purchase of the materials with which to build ships. Can we wonder that American labor and capital have forsaken this industry and gone Into more profitable occupations? Indeed, enlightened protectionist writers are candid enough to admit that their policy has ruined American shipping. Thus Professor Robert Ellis Thompson apologiziugly says: “If there were no other reasons for the policy that seeks to reduce foreign commerce to a minimum a sufficient one would be found in its effect upon the human material it employs. Bentham thought the worst possible use that could be made of a man was to hang him; a worse still is to make a common sailor of him.''

And now, since the artificial expansion of our export trade by means of protection has been at the expense of the great shipping industry, what would be the effect upon this export trade of an artificial revival of American shipping supposing it were possible to effect it by subsidies and bounties? The effect would be to diminish our export trade and Indirectly our import trade and consequently to diminish the necessity for shipping. Take our trade with England as an Illustration. We trade largely with England. She is by far our best customer. We export to her shores as much merchandise as we can, and we take from her as little as possible. Thus In 1908 we sent her goods to the value of 1580.663.522. but we took from her only 1100,355,475 worth. How do we get paid for the balance? Largely by the shipping service that Epgland performs for us in carrying goods to and from foreign shores. And supposing that by heavy subsidies we did this carrying for ourselves, what would be the result? That England would take less of our exports because she would not be able to pay for them in shipping services. There is only one way to revive American shipping, and that Is free trade In ships and In the materials of which ships are made. English shipowners know that very well. They know that they can get tbelr materials wherever they can buy them cheapest l«nd that as soon as Americans are free to do the same it will go bard with British shipping. *’Our shipping

trade has only two things to fear,* says Russell Rea. M. P-, in a recent pamphlet—“any departure from,a free trade policy Id England or the abandonment of protection by America and other countries.” What Henry George —an old sailor, by the way—wrote twenty-five years ago is worth quoting today: “From keelson to truck, from the wire in her stays to the brass in her taffrail log. everything that goes to the building, the fitting or the storing of a ship is burdened with heavy taxes. Even should she be repaired abroad she must pay taxes for it on her return borne. Thus has protection strangled the Industry in which with free trade we might still have led the world.” THOMAS SCANLON.

CHEAP MEAT FOR FOREIGNERS

American Meat Dear Only to Americans—Cheap to Londoners. It was brought out the other day in a discussion in the senate that the price of beef Is 3& cents higher in Detroit than it is in Windsor, which is a little town right across the river in Canada. The cost of living in the latter place is, it appears, at least 25 per cent cheaper than in Detroit Hun dreds of Canadians from Windsor come over every day to work in Detroit and go back in the evening, to their homes just across the border, where they can live so much more cheaply. But why is there this difference in the cost of living? So far as meat is concerned there is a tariff duty of 1% cents a pound on fresh meat coming into America. That accounts for so much of tbe difference. But why, in the language of the tariff apologists, don’t the Canadian meat producers send their meat across the border, pay the duty and make a handsome profit out of the other 2 cents margin? Well, doubtless there are shrewd trade reasons for their not doing so. The Canadians know that present price levels are not dependable; that any active show of competition on their part would be the signal for readjustment of American prices to the safe level afforded by the tariff. The' extent of tbe duty is not a measure of the power of extortion enjoyed by the beef The tariff is the foundation privilege Upon which they can by combination build a superstructure of extortion which they c&n use or not as competition may determine. Senator Bailey in the same debate gave a very droll explanation of the above mentioned discrepancy in prices. “It is,” said he, “because the Americans at Detroit have a better quality of beef than tbe Canadians have at Windsor.” But In the fervor of his argument he proved too much. He went on to say that “for fifty years the people of the United States have been exporting their beet beef to Great Britain. Tbe American farmer prepares his very best for export because they pay a higher price over there than we are willing to pay here.” / But according to a cable dispatch published in the New York World of Feb. 2 butchers in London are selling the best American beef at 8 to 11 cents a pound less than in New York. They sell it as “prime Scotch.” It is slaughtered at Liverpool, and the highest price is 24 cents a pound as against 85 and 32 cents a pound for the same beef in Fifth avenue, New York. The World thus summarizes the situation, and it calls for earnest inquiry:

“The beef sold in London so much cheaper than in New York is American beef, bought on the hoof in the same markets used by American packers. It is shipped to Liverpool, is slaughtered in that city and then shipped as meats throughout Great Britain, adding to the prime cost in America the cost of two shipments and two handlings.” Query.—Why can’t American families who are now going hungry have some of the meat that Is shipped to England? And why can’t they have it at English prices?

“Protection" and “Retaliation.”

[As understood by Benjamin Franklin.] “Supposing a country. X. with three manufactures, as cloth, silk. Iron, supplying three other countries, A, B, C, but is desirous of increasing the vent and raising the price of cloth in favor of her own clothiers. “In order to do this X forbids the importation of foreign cloth from A. “A. in return, forbids silks from X. Then the silk workers of X complain of decay of trade. “And X, to content them, forbids silks from B.

"B, in return, forbids ironware from X. Then the Ironworkers of X complain of decay. "And. X forbids the Importation of iron from C. z "O Id return forbids cloth from X. "What Is got by all these prohibitions? "Answer—All four find their common stock of the enjoyments and conveniences of life diminished." And doubtless when they come to this point X would revise its tariff upward and set the whole train of obstruction in motion again, and so on Indefinitely.

Refrigerators and grain elevators are great aids to our food monopolists. They serve to keep out of the market food which but for them would be in the market In this respect they are like a tariff wall. With all three working together the consumer is beautifully "soaked." No country should persist in manufacturing goods which, after a reasonable trial, it can get from other countries more cheaply. It is a waste of i labor and capital, and the consumer | pays for the waste.

N Fm» ■a. < ■ _ ~ (Under this head notice* win be published for 1-cent-a- word for the Oral IIY’?Sl I Y’?5V on ’, H-cent per word for each additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. No ,Ce .£»‘S epte « for leM . than 25 cent * but short notices coming within th* above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents. Where replies are sent In The Democrat s care, postage will be charged y s r e ,® rwßrdlng “ uch replies to the adverFarm Loans—Money to loan oi arm property In any sums up to iO.OOO- E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent Interest with no commission but oflice charges. Write him. ts For Sale—soo bushels potatoes.— CHARLES LAKIN, Parr, Ind., R-l. Phone, 507-J. For Sale—Nice clean Clover seed. Enquire of Rensselaer Lumber Co. For Sale—3,ooo nice Hedge Posts —A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, Ind. R ‘ 3 - Apr. 1.

For Rent—Six room cottage, city water in house, electric lights. First house east of Christian church —J. C. PORTER.

To Rent—About two acree of rich ground in Rensselaer, suitable for onions, potatoes, etc. Want to rent it on shares—Enquire at Democrat oflice.

For Rent—B room house, electric lights, well, cistern and nice shade. Also 4 room cottage 3 blocks from school house, good well and garden. Inquire of J. W. STOCKTON, or Phone 188.

For Rent—Good 8 room house, 3 blocks from court house, electric lights, good well and cistern. Pfione 130.—C. H. PORTER.

For Sale—Some wild hay east of town and some tame hay on Jordan tp. farm.—WM. WASHBURN. Rensselaer, Ind.

Wanted—A second-hand barn of fair size, in good condition—S. A. BRUSNAHAN, Parr, Ind., ’phone 532-C.

Found—Sunday, between Catholic church and depot, a pair of nose glasses, gold rimmed. Owner may have same by calling here and paying charges.

Seed Potatoes—The genuine Buglees seed potatoes for sale at my residence in Rensselaer.—GEO. O. PUMPHREY.

For Sale--' 8 or 10 bushels good home-grown clover seed- —W. E. MOORE, Phone 246, Rensselaer.

For Sale—A good team mares, wit. about 1300 each.—JOSEPH ADAMS, Rensselaer, Ind., Phone 529-C.

For Sale—23 bushels of good clover seed, $9 per bushel, and 100 bushels of best early variety seed corn.—JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, Ind., R-l, phone 8-K, Mt. Ayr, exchange.

For Sale—An elegant B-flat, Beau Ideal Trombone, used only a short time and as good as new. Inquire at The Democrat office.

For Sale or Trade—Two lots in desirable location In Rensselaer, each 67x150, shade and fruit trees. Will sell for part cash or trade for cheap rental property in city. Enquire at Democrat office.

For Sale—Real estate mortgage, $4,000; SI,OOO payable March 1 each year; 6 per cent.—GEO. W. JONES, Remington, Ind.

For Sale—loo acres, black rich soil, 8% north of Rensselaer, good fences, new buildings, well tiled, SSO to SIOO down, 5 to 10 years time on balance. Address F. J. POOLE, Swanington, Ind.

For Sale—Large eight room house, large barn, lots of fruit, well, cistern, allln fine condition, on four large lots, convenient to school and churches. Can sell at a bargain on favorable terms. Also several smaller properties at a bargain.—G. F. MEYERS.

Wanted—A person with some money to join in an extremely profitable business, in which large profits can be made without risk. Reference given. Investigate.—Address Box 72 Parr, Ind., or this piper.

Rose Comb Rhode Island Reda— The great demand for this breed proves they are the best general purpose fowl and the queen of winter layers. Eggs from my fine laying strain |1 per 15. Phone No. 292 and have the number of settings booked “wanted.”—A- G. CATT.

Eggs for setting from S. C. Buff Opringtons, the largest clean legged chicken in existence and recognized as the heaviest winter layers. Eggs from rflie winners at 13 per 15. Utility stock, |1.50 per 15. G. B. PORTER, Rensselaer, Ind. Eggs For Setting—Pure bred Single Comb White Leghorn eggs for sale at the small price of 75 cents a setting of 15 eggs, there were over 18,000 eggs on this farm last year. Phone' No. 502-D.—Mrs. Edward Herath, Rensselaer, Ind., R-l. “

Milk Customers Wanted—At 6c a quart, deliveries made every morning at present) later twice a day.—ALBERT DUGGINS, Phone 514-E. E «« s tw Setting—From Standard Bred Barred Plymouth Rocks, four fine yards mated for this season. Prices reasonable. Satisfaction guaranteed. 29 years a reliable breeder. —D. A. Bickel, Remington, Ind. Threshing Outfit—l 6 horse power Russell engine and separator In good running order, new belts last year; galvanized water tank and pump, running gears of wagon almost good as new, $525 takes outfit if sold before May 1; S3OO cash, bankable note for balance. Wagon may be seen at Charley Rowen’s at Parr, engine at old home place 1 mile wbst, % south of Surrey.— JACOB JUNGLAS, Coldwater, Ohio. NON-RESIDENT NOTICE. State of Indiana, ) Jasper County, ) 88, In the Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1910. LaFayette Loan & Trust Company vs. The American Lubrlc & Refining Company, ej al. Complaint No. 7590. Now comes the plaintiff, by William Darroch, its attorney, and files its complaint herein to foreclose a mortgage, together with an affidavit that the defendants, The American Lubrlc & Refining Company, Charles R. Burke, as Trustee in Bankruptcy of the American Lubrlc & Refining Company, The Peoples Trust Company of New York, are not residents of the State of Indian. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendants, that unless they be and appear on the 23d day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court, the same being May 6th, 1910, to be holden on the 2nd Monday of April, A. D. 191 Q, at the Court House in Rensselaer in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Rensselaer this 15th day of March A. D. 1910. [Seal] C. C. WARNER, Clerk.

NON-RESIDENT NOTICE. Jasper County, ) State of Indiana, ) ss ’ In the Jasper Circuit Court, April Term, 1910. John Cooper, et al. vs. Francis Marion Cooper, et al. Complaint No. 7523. Now come the Plaintiffs, by Schuyler C. Irwin, their attorney, and file their complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendant Francis Marion Cooper and Jane Cooper, his wife, Mary E. Richmond and William H. Richmond, her husband, are not residents of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said efendants, that unless they be and appear on the 7th day of May, 1910, the same being the 24th day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the 2nd Monday of April, A. D. 1910, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer* or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in their absence. In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court, at Rensselaer, Ind., this 12th day of March, A. D. 1910. [Seal] C. C. WARNER, Clerk. Schuyler C. Irwin, Attorney for Plaintiffs.

MAYHEW’S White Wyandottes Those Chickens (tat won 25 Ribbone this season at four shows. Eggs For Salp at $1 and $2 per 15 ARTHUR MAYHEW, R. 3. Rensselaer. Ind. EMBOSSED LETTER HEADS. The Democrat can furnish engraved and embossed letter heads at the most reasonable prices ever heard of. If you want the very neatest and most stylish professional letter head now In use, get an embossed job from The Democrat. We do not rob you In prices on this work, but make you lower figures than any city print-shop you ever heard of, and it is first-class Work in every particular, too. Call in and see samples. Legal blanks for sale at The Democrat office.