Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — SOUVENIR ENVELOPES. [ARTICLE]

SOUVENIR ENVELOPES.

“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

Boom Rensselaer By Using the Handsome Envelopes For Sale By The Democrat. The has just got in a case of 40,000 souvenir envelopes, of Rensselaer/ The front contains a group half-tone of St. Joseph’s College, the .court house, school buildings, and library, while the back contains a write-up of the business and social advantages of Rensselaer, and a view of-Washington street from the west side of the river bridge, and also a view looking southeast from the court house. These envelopes are--eridorscd by the Commercial Club, and should be used by every business firm and individual in the city. They will be sold in lots of ten or more without printed card in corner or in lots of 250 or more with printed card, as desired. They come but a trifle higher in price than the ordinary blank envelopes, and after seeing them you will want some. Their use will greatly advertise your home city, and if you. are patriotic you will want to use them anyway.