Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1910 — Page 2

lit JRSPER COUNTY DEMOGRM. f. EBHCTffI.EOITMIWWI»ia. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. 1 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. Adverstlslng rates made known on application. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1910.

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Doeatur. Auditor of State ; WM. H. OfBRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VOLLMER, Vincennes. Attorney-General THOMAS M. HONAN, Seymour. Clerk of the Supreme Court J. FRED FRANCE, Huntington. Superintendent of Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY, Indianapolis. State Geologist EDWARD BARRETT, Plainfield. State Statistician THOMAS W. BROLLEY, North Vernon Judge of Supreme Court, Second District DOUGLAS MORRIS, Rushville. - Judge of Supreme Court, Third District CHARLES E. COX, Indianapolis. Judges of Appellate Court, Northern District JOSEPH G. IBACH, Hammond. ANDREW A ADAMS, Columbia City M. B. LAIRY, Logansport. Judges of Appelate Court, Southern District EDWARD W. FELT, Greenfield. M. B. HOTTEL, Salem. DISTRICT TICKET. For Member Congress, Tenth District JOHN B. PETERSON, of Crown Point 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 jR. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District, WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District C. F. STACKHOUSE, Marion Tp. County Councilmen—lst District. GEO. O. STJJMBEL, Wheatfield Tp. 2d District A. O. MOORE, Barkley Tp. ■ A 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.

WHEN THE DEVIL IS SICK.

The devil is sick: The old hegoat devil of High Tariff, we mean, who, attend’d by the Painted Harlot of Protection and her retinue of courtesans, big and little, has had a long and riotous debauch at the expense of the plundered millions that dig and delve and sweat and labor, and eat food, and wear clothes and pay taxes. The devil is sick. He is very sick, and, Lord, what a saint he promises to l>e if the voters will only just give him another chance. Only yesterday, still under the spell of a glorious revelry, he was pointing with pride to the Payne-Aldrich plan to raise the wind for the Painted Harlot By frying more fat out of the consumers. “Behold!” says he, “this ' intricate but matchless work of art! Was anything ever s& scientific, so symmetrical, so fantastically phantasmagoric and unique? Get down on your marnow bones and worship, ye of little faith, at the shrine of St. Nelson, of Pawtucket, and at tfie feet of your Uncle Joseph Gamaliel Cannon ! v ,v-_ ,_iLWhat a change has come over the, spirit of his dreams now that,

a trifle sobered, he has awakened to things real? / Through ’ his able attorney, William' Howard Taft', late of the Cincinnati Bar, he ( is going to amend his original ‘ pleading, "Whilst he is stub convinced,” the Associated Press tells us, "that the Payne-Aldrich law is the best tariff law the country has had up to this time, he has at last reached' the conclusion that there is decided room for improvement.” Is it possible.' Can such things be and over-, come us, like a summer cloud, or a blast of hot air?. Nay. hold your nose and your breath and listen: "He does not propose,” we are still quoting the Associated Press, “that business shall be upset by another wholesale revision,” bless you no, the business of the county can only be disturbed by Democrats, "but he will recommend to Congress that individual schedules in the tariff system be taken up separately and disposed of on a scientific basis. The new revision is to be based on the findings of the tariff commission as to the cost of production at home and abroad. Only a fair profit is to be allowed the American producer. ‘Extortionate and unreasonable profits,’ Attorney Taft declares, are to be tolerated no longer.” The best plans o’ mice and men! Fool who? The voters are neither blind nor deaf. 1 hey know a thing, or two. Ihe next House will be a Democratic, not a Republican House. 1 hen what will Attorney Taft do, and where will the Devil of High Tariff be, even with the Painted Harlot of Protection and her frazzled retinue of courtesans, both big and little, behind him?—Louisville Courier-Journal.

CITY AND FARM LIFE

It is always interesting and sometimes amusing to hear Republican statesmen pleading the cause of the farmer and suggesting ways to make farm life more attractive as Compared with life in the city. For more than a generation the farmers have been exploited in the interest of other classes. 1 hey have been heavily taxed for the avowed purpose of “building up 'a home market,” that is, for the purpose of developing the city. It was, we have been told, necessary to “bring farm and factory together,” and so we have laid taxes with that object in view. As a result, cities have grown at the expense of the country. Ihe farms have been drained of their young man who sought, and naturally. the larger rewards offered by citv life. With an abundance of cheap land to which men might resort when they were dissatisfied with the wages offered by the factories, we had a powerful factor operating to increase wages. So it was thought necessary to “equalize" . matters, that is, to lessen the advantage enjoyed by the farmer. This was done by taxing the farmer for the benefit of the manufacturer. • And now we see the result. Cities are growing tremendously, and becoming more and more attractive each year. We are told that the reason for the present high price of certain farm products is that there are not eriough farmers to supply the demand. Having done what they set on’ to do, the wise men are trying to turn the tide in the other direction. We must have, so it is >aid. more farmers and better farming. The boys and girls must be induced to stay on the farm. But no one will stay on the farm

if he can have a better time and make more money elsewhere. It is not surprising that our agricultural class has grown weary of being the burden-bearer of our civilization. That is what it has been for more than a generation. \\ e have taxed it in order to add to the profits of the woolen men, the cottoti men, the steel men, the shoe men. and of the great trusts which now control so many of our industries. We have given hundreds of millions of dollars to- the railroads. Through our high taxes on lumber we have promoted the destruction of those very forests which we are now trying to conserve. Having taxed the farms until they have ceased to be attractive, and having taxed the forests out of existence, we suddenly discover that something must be done to arrest the tendencies which we have, through our legislation, set in motion. , We suggest that it is not the farmers, but congress and -the Republican statesmen who need advice, Instead of legislating in favor of the farmer we ought to quit legislating in favor of those ■' r 1 . . ......... ,

who have prospered at his expense. What the farmer needs is not help from the federal government, but simply fair and just treatment. Men have rushed tp the cities because they have been invited to the cities.' Dissatisfied with our easy prima’cy in agriculture we have done what we could to' destroy that primacy by compelling, agriculture to support a lot of other industries which were jealous of the earnings of the farmer. Such has been our policy. It is not foreign competition but the competition of the farm against which we have been protecting men. And this protection has cost the farmer billions of dollars. It is well to seek for remedies, certainly w-ell to give some attention to agriculture. But let us never forget that the conditions which now seem so unsatisfactory to our reformers are the direct product of the legislation which those reformers have al wavs defended and still defend. We are suffering to-day from the natural consequences of our own acts. The surprising thing is that the farmers of t,he United States should have done so well, and they have done very well. But the best way to make the farm more attractive than it is would be to free it of the heavytaxes that are imposed on it in the interest of other and competing industries. When we think more of the farmer than of the half-dozen or so New England families that have grown rich out of taxes levied on the cotton goods used by the farmer we may find that it is not necessary to do much for the farmers of the United States. Agriculture in i this country never has been and iis not to-day a mendicant indus!trv. All that it asks at the present time is that it have the boasted “square deal"—which is something that it never has had in theJJnited States. What the farmers of the United States ask is not favoritism, but justice. They can get justice if they will only act together in their own interest and to be bamboozled by- politicans.—lndianapolis News. A .

LAW IS NOT OBSERVED

Regarding the Cutting of Weeds Along the Public Highways. Many of the countr yroads throughout Jasper and surrounding counties are in bad condition as regards the weed nuisance. In some places the weeds are so high that they practically hide the fences, ami no one seems to pay anv attention to them. Ihe road officials seein to neglect to comply with the laws which require.the cutting of-weeds. Weed cutting along ,public highways is regulated by statute. The subject is covered by Sections 7807. 7808 ami 7809 of Burns’s Revised Statutes. 1908. which are as follows': "7807. That all- land owners through or along whose lands public highways are laid out and extended shall, between the Ist day of July and the 20th day of August in each year, cause all briars, thistle?, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing along said highway and contiguous to their lands, to be cut down and destroyed for the length and distance the said highway shall extend along or through their lands. “7808. Any land owner along or through whose lands public highways are laid out and extended, who shall, in compliance with Section I of this act. cut down and destroy for the length and distance said highway shall extend along or through’ his lands, all briars, thistles, burrs, docks and other noxious weeds growing along said highway, shall be allowed for such work or service the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents a day. eight hours .to constitute a day. and proportionate thereto: the work to be done under the direction of the supervisor in charge of said road district, and to be credited upon his road taxes as other work is credited. “7809. That any such land owner who neglects, or refuses, after the said 20th day of August, each year, to comply with the requirements specified in first section of this act, the supervisor in charge of said road»district shall hereby be empowered to secure the services of any resident property 1 owner of said road district to cut down and destroy such briars, thistles, burrs and docks and other noxious weeds, said resident property owner to be allowed for such work or service the sum of $1.25 a day, eight hours to constitute a day, and proportionate thereto, and to be credited upon his road tax as other work is credited.” _ ■> i

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NOTICE OF ADMISTRATION. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jasper County, State of Indiana, administrator of the estate of Rachael E. Knox, late of Jasper County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent. NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Joel Randolph Spriggs, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, to September Term, 1910. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Joel Randolph Spriggs, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday, the twelfth day of September, 1910, being the day fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Joel F. Spriggs, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested, are also hereby notified to appear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. JOEL F. SPRIGGS, Administrator. Frank Foltz, Attorney for Estate.

NOTICE TO HEIRS, CREDITORS AND LEGATEES. In the matter of the estate of Frederick J. Stocksick, deceased. In the Jasper Circuit Court, September Term, 1910. Notice is hereby given to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Frederick J. Stocksidjk, deceased, and all persons interested in said estate, to appear in the Jasper Circuit Court, on Monday the 19th day of September, 1910, being the day fixed and endorsed on rhe final settlement account of Henry Grow, administrator of said decedent, and show cause if any, why such final account should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others interested. are also hereby notified to ap pear in said Court, on said day and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. HENRY GROW, Administrator. Judson J. Hunt, Attorney for estate. From Sickness To “Excellent Health” So says Mrs. Chas. Lyon, Peoria, III.: ‘‘l found in your Foley Kidney Pills a prompt and speedy cure for bakache and kidney trouble which bothered me for many months. I am now enjoying excellent health which I owe to Foley Kidney Pills.” A. F. Long. p

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Fertilizer — Anybody wanting fertilizer for wheat this fall, consult J. J. WEAST. Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. Wanted— Two school boy boarders, 3 blocks from school house. Phone 213. For Sale—A nice young male hog, white, wt. about 200 pounds.—WM. P. BAKER, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale or. Trade— Twelve room hotel, first class shape. All the commercial trade. Must sell on account of health.—MßS. J. M. ALLEN, Fair Oaks, Ind. Cow for Sale—Good fresh cow for sale, part Jersey— Albert Duggins, Phone 514-E., Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted— Young girl to care for baby and do light housework, prefer one to sleep at home. —Enquire at Democrat office for name of party. For Rent— Seven room house, centrally located, with ail modern conveniences and in a desirable neighborhood.—AßTHUß H. HOPKINS. V ’ Farm Loans— Mbney to loan ox arm property in any sums up to 10,000. E. P. HONAN. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at 5 per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts For Sale—An elegant B-flat, Beau Ideal Trombone, used only a short time and as good as new. Inquire at The Democrat office. Typecases For Sale— Eight or ten Italic Job Cases, full size and almost good as new, 50 cents each; 1 twothirds case, good as DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. Money— Some loan companies are refusing to make farm loans at the present time. My company is still loaning at 5 per cent. If you are going to need a loan make applies tion at once, as money is scarce.— JOHN A. DUNLAP, I. O. O. F. Building. . ' • Lost— Two female dogs, pointer; liver and white setter, black and white. Suitable reward for information leading to their recovery.—B. < E. STILLER, Remington, Ind. 1

Lost—Thursday evening some place between Rensselaer and Pleasant Grove, a large envelope containing some insurance supplies. Finder please leave at Knapp’s livery barn. Farm For Sale— —l have a farm in Williams Co., N. Dak., for sale. It is one of the best in that country; new town of McGregor within a half mile. They have the best crop in Williams county this year, of any part of the state. This is a good chance for anyone wanting to bi.? a quarter section, with house and barn, cheap. Will sell for S2O per acre. Cause for selling, am a widow, and can’t attend to it. Write for particulars to MRS. M. B. COOPER, Larimore, No. Dak. Wanted—Cosmopolitan Magazine requires the services of a representative in Jasper County to look after subscription renewals and to extend circulation by special methods which have proved unusually successful. Salary and commission. Previous experience desirable but not essential. Whole time or spare time. Address, with references, H. C. Campbell, Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1789 Broadway, New York City. : T' L

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