Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — Page 2

IRE Jlffl COUNTY DEWI. F. f.BIBCOCKJDITORMIIDPDBLISHEII. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. ** i i II ' .'.'■■■r —* I—j-.--.-r 1 — j-.--.-r r' '■ '' Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act' of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephone* Office 315. - Residence 311. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1910.

“May 1 will be a favorable- time for independent Democrats to move over into the non-Republican par-ty.”-—lndianapolis Star (Rep). On the contrary, what is' left of the non-Republican party shows an intention to move over among the Democrats. T

Now that Hearst has indorsed Taft, it is only the fair thing for Taft to indorse Hearst. As Hearst did what he could to help elect Taft, there Is no impropriety in his present course, and nobody is going to be troubled about it—unless it is Taft.

Jim Watson showed the Beveridge people last week that he was still something of a force in the Sixth district. He managed to secure an indorsement of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and that is sufficient to keep him on friendly terms with the old guard, to-wit, Taft, Cannon, Aldrich and their adherents in Indiana.

Some time ago Senator Aldrich, the Republican leader in the United States senate, declared' that the government was costing the people $300,000,000 a year more than it should cost. And now Senator Beveridge," whose voice has never been raised against extravagance, pretends, to be greatly tickled over the report that Aldrich is. going s to retire from the senate at the end of his term.

Out of five congressional conventions so far held by the Republicans in Indiana three have indorsed the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and the other two have, sidestepped it. If the. remaining eight districts adopt a similar course not only will the Republican campaign be still worse “mussed up,” but all real tariff reformers will have indubitable proof that their salvation must be sought exclusively through the Democratic party.

In a congressional investiga-. tv>n of the doings of the ship subsidy organization known as the “Merchant Marine League,’’ and its organ, “T he American Flag,” it was developed that the Hon. Charles I>. Landis had been a paid emissary of the subsidy project. But then most persons already knew it. It was known that among the “all sorts of jobs for all sorts of men,” about which Mr. Landis was wont to expatiate so eloquently, he had found his.

In looking over the Republican papers of the state it is apparent that they do not know yet just “where they are at.” The leading organs, both regular and insurgent, are whaling away at each other with vim, but the more timid adherents of each of the Republican parties, are trying to keep under cover and many of them have taken refuge in their' respective stormcellars. However, the campaign is still young ,and it may be assumed that both of the Republican parties will ii| due time have all of their forces organized for the finish fight which they propose to wage against each other. '

The Ballinger-Pinchot investigation firings out many interesting things. For instance, Di•rector Smith of the geological survey, testifr d that Pinchot had spoken of Ballinger as a “yellow dog.” The same witness also? testified that in a conversation . with him, Governor Pardee “insinuated that Ballinger was either a fool or a knave and rather intimated the latter as his favorite hypothesis.”. Much more has been put in evidence to the same general effect. And yet Ballinger is Mr. Taft’s secretary of the interior and a part of the “administration” which Mr. Beveridge’s insurgent convention “indorsed.” ■

It is said that the standpatters are willing to concede a tariff commission. Of course.. Every tariff grabber in the country is willing to have a tariff commission, built- “on the fight lines,” Such a ' comihision will, if created, “study” the tariff question for a generation or two and make a report to congress. Congress will pay no attention to the report in the end, though it will doubtless keep it on file as an interesting document, which will furnish food for debate (and delay) for several sessions. This tariff commission idea is such a splendid thing that it must have originated with the trusts. Persons who really desire some relief from tariff extortion while they are alive rather than after they have been starved to death, will not become “stuck” on the commission proposition.

The Democrats in congress were right in opposing an appropriation to pay the expenses of the the “cost of living” investigation by a congressional committee. Everyone knows that that investigation is mere partisan buncombe; that there never has been any honest intention to find and tell the truth ; and that the report of the’ committee might just as well be made in advance of any hearing whatever and in these words: “We acquit the Payne-Aldriph tariff law of all responsibility for the increased cost of living.” That is precisely the kind of report the committee was organized to make. . The insurgent Republicans are pointing to the reported retirement of Aldrich at the end of his present term as evidence that the Republican party is purifying itself. But then the removal of one spot doesn’t change the skin of the leopard.

The steel trust ’ has made a great flourish of trumpets about having increased the wages of its employes an average of nearly 6 per cent. The trust officials say that this- will mean the payment of an additional $9,000,000 a year to its 195,500 employes. Last year it is given out, the average of these employes was’ $776 a year. Six per cent increase would raise this to $822 or S6B per month. Tn 1909 the trust made a net profit of $131,491,414, which means a net profit of $672 made off of the labor of each employe during the year, or $56 per month, while the average Wages paid that year were $64 per month. In other words, the trust hired 195,500 men at $64 j)er month each and made a net profit of $56 per month off of the labor of each man. So it does not seem, therefore, that the steel trust is guilty of any great generosity when it raises wages a measly little 6 per

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A ONE SIDED PURER.

Protection For Workers Shocks New York Tribune. THE IDEA IS UNAMERICAN. But the Great Advocate of High Protection Sees No Wrong in the Government Providing High Dividends For Selfish Manufacturers.

The New York Tribune of Feb. 17 has a funny editorial on the subject of the “Right to Work.” It is not, of course, intended to be funny, but it is a funny editorial for such a paper to print, for the Tribune is a high protectionist paper and a thick and thin supporter of the Payne-Aldrich tariff. Yet, here is what it says about the demand made by the English labor party that work shall be provided at the public expense for every man who wants it: • . ; “The theory is that the world owes every man a living and if one cannot find a private employer who wants his labor and will pay him wages he may deman/ employment of the state as a natural and inalienable right and the state will have to give it whether it needs his services or not.” If that is a fair description, of the demands of organized labor, wherein does it differ from the demand of an American protectionist capitalist who goes to Washington and says: “Mr.. Aldrich. 1 am in the manufacturing business, and I can’t make it pay. The Germans are getting all the contracts, and 1 can’t get one. So 1 want a tariff that Will enable me to put up my prices 40 or 50 per cent and thus continue in business?" 1 Speaking of the effect of thus sub: sidizing labor in the city of Manchester by means of public works to relieve unemployment, it goes on to say: “We are informed that $75,135 was paid for work which? under normal conditions would have cost $22,600 that is to say, the work cost the taxpayer more than thrice times as much as it should have cost.” Is it necessary to go all the way to Manchester to find a parallel case to this? Surely not Is not the American consumer always paying out money to the trusts that he would never need to pay if the government did not put into their hands a legal weapon with which to raise prices? Ex-Gov-ernor Douglas of Massachusetts has shown that To put $2,500,000 into the United States treasury as a-result of our former duty on hides we put $7,000,000 bf unnecessary profits into th®

hands of the beef and leatlier trusts. And the same rule appliies to other protected articles. | If it is right to protect the unemployed capitalists, why is it wrong to protect the unemployed laborers? The truth is that’ we have too much pro- ' tection and too little economic freedom for both labor and capital.

TARIFF RESPONSIBLE.

Byron W. Holt Says It Adds 12 Per Cent to Cost of Living. Mr. Byron W. Holt has an important article in, the New York Independent of Feb. 24. entitled “Tariff and Cost of Living.” He assigns to the tariff the second place as a factor th bringing about the current high prices, the other two factors being gpld depreciation and rising land values. He admits, however. that “it might be shown that the tariff is responsible for some of the increase in land values.” He continues: “From somewhat careful estimates made by myself in 1903, the cost of living in this country was then nearly 12 per cent higher than it would have been had there been no tariff. It was estimated that the 17,000,000 families then consumed foods worth $15,999,000,000, or $941 per family. On this basis the tariff tax was about slll per family, or $94.48 after dedusting the $16.52 per family which was the amount of tariff taxes actually collected by the government.” Mr. Holt does not think that the amount of the tariff-trust tax per family is less now than it was then. Then follows an Interesting list of the amount of the tariff tax which the average family had and still has to pay, as calculated from the best data available. It ought to Interest the consumer just now. “.Taking some of the more important items, the tariff-trust tax per family was, on woolens;>s9.2B; on silks, linens, laces, furs, rubber goods, gloves, etc., $9; on cottons, $6.37; on furniture, etc., $6.24; on beer, whisky, wine, etc., $5.34; on building materials, $5.20; on implements and tools, $5.05; on sugar, confectionery, etc., $4.72; on tobacco, etc., $3.72; on sickness and death, $2.55; on beef, veal and mutton. $2.49; on vegetables, $2.40; on bread, $1.94; on amusements and recreation, $1.75; on hogs and hog products, $1.74; on travel, $1.35; on boots and shoes, $1.23 Other items brtng the total up to $94.48.” ; The elimination of the tariff graft, according to Mr. Holt, would be equivalent to an advance of 11 per cent in wages and salaries throughout the country; strikes would diminish, and railroads could secure cheaper materials and, more freight. “Our railroads.” he “would to-

day start an agitation for free trade if they knew their own interests. Fully 95 per cent of the 90.000,000 of consumers in this country would do likewise.”

If each article sold to was plainly labeled with the natural price and the artificial price separately stated the people would make short work of the tariff.—George S. Merriam.

SUFFRAGISTS ROW; ADJOURN

Mrs. Rachel Avery and Mrs. Harriet Upton, Officers, Resign. The suffragists wound up their national convention in Washington with a row. Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, of Westchester, Pa., first -vice president, and Mrs. Harriet Upton, of Warren, 0., treasurer, both re-elected, have resigned. - Their resignations were accepted to take effect in a month. The ,split Is between the forces that are for organizing the working women and those that are inclined to cater a little to wealthy women who have recently taken up suffrage as a fad.

Suffragists Petition Congress.

The army of suffragists moved of. Capitol hill, in Washington, and presented to congress a monster national petition of half a mMlion signers praying for the ballot for women.

Names Son as Corespondent.

August J. B. Kuhlmann, of New York, has obtained a divorce from his second wife, Anna, after naming his own son, the defendant’s stepson, as corespondent.

The Natural Reason.

“Why is Mrs. Cashitt’s fine new whispering gallery, with its rubber plants, so unpopular?” “Paradoxically because jt is a telling success.”—Baltimore American.

Merely a Suggestion.

Wills of rich men oft remind us, ' If in our graves we’d rest content, ■ We should in dyjng leave behind us For heirs and lawyers—not a cent. —Judge’s Library.

Joy and Boy.

Old Boy—l get up early for the sun and air. New Pop—l get up at all hours. Same reason. Son and heir.—Browning’s Magazine. * •

Chick Wright a Professional.

H. A. (Chlek) Wright, who won the world’s amateur balk line billiard championship in New York last fall and was awarded a diamond trophy for his skill, has announced that he will enter the professional ranks immediately. Wright’said that he would return the trophy to its doners witbuut delay. -r

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