Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1910 — COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY TICKET.

Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp, Auditor A. BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. Treasurer Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor Assessor BERT VANERCAR, Kankakee Tp. Coroner x>R. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp.* Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District C. F. STACKHOUSE. Marion Tp. County Counoilmen—lst District. GEO. O. STEMBEL, Wheatfield Tp. 2d District A. O. MOORE, Barkley Tp. 3d District L STRONG, Marion Tp. 4th District GEORGE FOX, Carpenter Tp. At Large GEO BESSE, Carpenter Tp. JOSEPH NAGLE, Marion Tp. J. F. SPRIGGS. Walker Tp.

Congress created a commission to “study the possibility of reducing the cost of government.” The commission should not have a hard job. *AII the studying that is necessary is as to the best and quickest way to put the Democratic party in full control of the government. When that is done the cost will be reduced and it will not be reduced before.

W hen President Taft went into office he said that government expenses should be reduced. But they have nor been reduced. On the contrary, the session of congress just closed managed to get away with more'money than any of its predecessors —many millions oi dollars more. I Congress created a high-salar-ied court of commerce and a high-salaried court of commerce and high-salaried tariff board and provided many other new jobs for partisan workers, besides appropriating $1,054,000,000 for various purposes—and then it created a commission to study the "possibility" of reducing the cost lof government! *

Senator Beveridge, it is reported. recently told a friend that the Democrats would carry Ohio this year by 20,000 and Illinois by 50,000. but that Indiana would go Republican by 40,000 —all because the Republicans of Indiana had a LEADER. Mr. Beveridge's traditional modesty prevented him giving the name of that leader, but he did not rnean Fairbanks. Hemenway, Watson; Durbin or any other person savfrig and excepting the Hon. Albert J. Beveridge.

Among the other little arrangements tor spending public money devised by the late session of congress is the one appropriating 5200.000 for rhe prosecution of violators of the anti-trust laws. The money will be spent all right, but there is no liklihood that it will be spent in the prosecution of the trusts that need prosecuting. Some combination of tradesmen may be jumped on and put out of business, or some labor union that is trying to protect itself against imported ‘‘pauper labor" of Europe may be squelched; but the real trusts, the ones that get their hands in the people’s pockets, will not be ihterferre’d with in the smallest degree if past practices are followed; ■

It has been said before and -hould be said agairt that the Democrats representing this state in congress are entitled to the highest praise and credit for the efforts they have made in behalf of good legislation and economical government. Senator Shively has been a tower of strength in the senate, where he quickly took a commanding position among the ablest men in that body. In t-he house Boehne, Cullbp. C- 'x. Dixon. Moss. Korbly. A’dair. Morrison. Rauch. Cline and Barnhart have been true to every obligation and have worked in season and out for the welfare, of their constituents, their Alate and the nation. Indiana is J t • be congratulated pn its DemoI cratic delegation. Without exi cepTon if .has made good.

i ’ the increase in wages and saiario should keep pace with rhe increase in cost of necessaries I <>f life, no one would be heard to ; complain. But such has not been | the case. Relatively considered —that is. on the purchasing power of a dollar—wages are something like 100 per cent lower than they were thirteen years ago. when the Dingley tariff law ; was enacted. Recently the difference has grown rapidly greater. and doubtless will continue to grow greater under the operation of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. The senate committee appointed to “investigate” the causes of the high cost of living has repotted that the tariff has 'had nothing to dp with. it. The. committee decides that the farmers are principally to blame, al-.

though it is admitted that some other causes, both natural and unnatural. must share part of the responsibility. But this is just the kind of report that the committee was appointed tQ make. Xo one ever expected the tariff to be blamed. The committee was created to guard against an accident of that sort. THEY ALWAYS DO IT. President Taft to-day signed the river and harbor appropriation bill, carrying over $52,000,000, with the distinct warning to congress that if it ever again sends him a measure so full of unwise provisions it would be’ vetoed.-—Washington Dispatch. This congress ~ was not different from other Republican congresses. They have always passed bills “full of unwise provi sions,” and yet no Republican president has had enough courage and sufficient interest in the people’s affairs to veto such bills. On the contrary they have signed them and then defended them as gdod’legislation, just as Mr. Taft did with the tariff bill and as he will do with the 552,000,000 river and harbor bill.