Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — Page 4

TIE JISPER COUNTY OENOCUI ' F.LIBCKI.tHIMIIDPOBIiatI. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, IWB, at the post office at Rensselaer, Trwlte rm under the Act of March 8, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 815. - Residence 811. Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday is* sue 8 Pages. ▲dverstislng rates made known oa application. SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1»11

THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTING LAW.

The predicted attack on the public accounting law has materialized, but fortunately it does not seem to be formidable. It ought to be as we believe it is, doomed' to failure. For no better law than this has been passed by the legislature for many years. The demand for it was bred of the wasteful, careless and corrupt methods which had for so long prevailed. In two short years the law has done much to end them. Men are figuring the cost of administering the law against the amounts recovered under it, as though there were really some force in this contention. We are told of the costliness of the new books with which it was necessary to equip the county and township offices. Is there a business house in the world that would hesitate to adopt a new system simply because of the cost of installing it seemed to be large? Surely not. When this item is met it is met once and for all, while the law goes on saving money to the people. It is believed that enough has been saved already from the more careful buying iof supplies and the lower prices obtained to cover the entire cost of the new books. For the first time, probably, in the history of the state the people are getting a dollar’s worth of supplies for a dollar. Not only so, but the cost will be

Jess as time passes. For, with the close supervision there will be fewer cases of mismanagement, and a constantly decreasing need for the state to interfere. If not one cent is ever recovered it will be because under the influenc of the law the public business is honestly and economically conducted, which is , the result that the law is designed to bring about. The law makes it easier for men to be honest by throwing about them checks and restraint to which every right thinking public officer ought to be glad ■ to be subjected. The power of the old temptations is broken, the force of the old pull is-destroyed. When county and township officers now buy supplies they know that the, price will be made a matter of? public record at the capital. ItVis' further provided that there shall be 1 a uniform price throughout the state. If discrepancies appear in the reports of prices paid, suspicion is at once aroused, and investigation is likely to follow. But a good deal is said about the centralization that results from the law, and men are suggesting or demanding that the inspections and examinations be made by local officers —in other words, that the man inspected be allowed to say when, how and by whom they shall be inspected. The strongest and most ’ salutary feature of the law is that it puts the work of examination in the hands of men who will be utterly unaffected by local influences, unrelated to county and township rings. We regret to see that the Governor has said that he is willing that the attorney-general shall be disassociated from any prosecutions that it may be necessary to bring, and that the work be left to local prosecutors. This is a mistaken theory, and if adopted would greatly weaken the law. The Governor, by the way, asked for more power for himself, or for the state, in removing faithless officers and in enforcing the law in localities in which it was not enforced. He has some such power now under the public accounting law, and it is a power that ought not to be surrendered. These two positions assumed by the -Governor do not seem to consist with each other.

Of course, the real motive back of any serious attack that is now being made on the law is a desire to restore the old, go-as-you-please conditions under which local rings were supreme, and' to re-establish the old influences under which It was exceedingly difficult for officers to be honest. That is the plain! truth about the business. If the politicians in the legislature do not understand this, they may be very sure that the...people, at home do. There is no argument that has been advanced against the law that has the least merit. Indeed, most of them are ao flimsy that we can not believe they have any weight even , with the men using them. The

public officer who Is not willing to have his office examined in the most rigid way, and by men who have no relation whatever to him or his friends, is not fit to hold office. This law has raised the whol£ official tone in the state.

We have adopted the theory that public business ought to be conducted with the same honesty and efficiency that mark the transaction of private business, and that of itself is a great gain. Compared with it, the cost of ( the new equipment, of which so much has befen made, is as nothing. The destruction of the influences which made our local governments a disgrace, and which tempted many honest men to their own ruin, is worth a good deal more than the law has cost. Do the people wish to go back to the old order? We refuse to believe it. But there are men in Indiana who long for the good old days of loot and plunder, and rings and pulls, an it is these • who are back of whatever serious effort is being mae to destroy this admirable law. It ought not to be touched unless, indeed, there is some way in which jt can be strengthened and be made even more effective than it is. Of course the politicians and supply men do not like it. But the people do. In this case we think that the will of the people is likely to prevail. At the same time, there are powerful influences fighting the Jaw, and the people should be watchful and on their guard.— Indianapolis News.

ALDRICH’S PLAN TO UNIFY THE BANKS

Proposes Hoge Organization to Control Money. The Aldrich “plan for revision of national banking legislation,” as he calls it, has been made public. It does not contemplate the establishment of a central bank. In this it proved a surprise. The plan was submitted to the national monetary commission. Senator Aldrich was hundreds of miles away searching for health. “While we have found much that is-admirable in the operation of the various government Ijanks of'Europe, none of them is applicable to our needs here,” says the Aldrich report “The good results which they obtain can, I believe, be reached without the creation of such a central bank.”

Mr. Aldrich proposes the establishment and chartering of the “Reserve Association of American.” with $300,000,000 capital, representing what might be called a federation of local associations formed by national banks. In his letter he says he believes the association could not be “controlled by ambitious monetary interests or dominated by political influence.”

These seem to the the essentials of his plan: At bottom, local organizations of representatives of banks, formed by riot less than ten banks each, bank holding stock in the association in proportion to its capital. Directors elected by these to the board of “branch” associations, one branch for each of fifteen financial districts into which the United States would be divided. Each “branch” board would include certain proportion of men not bankers, but representing industrial, agricultural, commercial or other interests. The “branches” would in turn elect to the reserve association proper for-ty-five directors in all, among whom must also be a proportion of men representing interests other than banks. There would be also six exofficio members of this board, namely, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of commerce and. labor, the comptroller of currency, and the governor and two deputy governors of the association.«

The governor and deputy governor of the association would be appointed by the president of the United States, and be removable by him for cause. The association would be the principal fiscal agent and depository of the government, would fix from time to time the rate of exchange, or discount, and eventually its notes would replace those of the national banks. Prime commercial paper, passing up from the banks through the local associations and branches, as well as bonds of government, could be used as a basis for currency issue. . The plan contemplates also two new classes of national banks, or departments of banks to receive savings and make loans on real estate, and also to be in effect national trust companies. National banks would be permitted to form branches only in their own immediate communities and they could also be organized for business in foreign countries.

To Investigate Vote Buying.

Danville. 111., Jan. 20. —The Vermillion county grand jury -will likely make its initial plunge Into the investigation of wholesale traffic in votes by calling six of the wealthiest bankers in Danville, including E. X. Leseure, president of the Danville National, and a son-in-law of Speaker Cannon. - / •

Democrat Want ads for results.

THE PARAMOUNT QUESTION IS UP

Liquor Legislation Occupies the General Assembly. BOTH SIDES GIVEH HEARING All Persona Interested In the Liquor Bills Invited to Come Forward and Make Buoh Objections Against or Arguments In Favor of Amending Present Statute as May Properly Be Presented to the Legislature. Indianapolis special: The Indiana liquor situation promises to come to the front in the general assembly this week and to occupy more attention than any other one subject up for consideration. Two liquor bills before the lawmakers are scheduled for committee action and report, and the committees are preparing to give the fullest possible hearings to both sides of the controversy. One is the bill advanced by the Indiana Association of Brewers, designed to take the saloon out of politics and to provide stricter regulations, Introduced by Senator Stephen B. Fleming of Fort Wayne, president of the association, and the other is the platfoi m measure amending the county option law. Introduced in the senate by Senator Proctor of Elkhart, and in the house by Representative Keeney from Rising Sun. The Fleming bill was introduced In the house by Representative Adolph Set densticker of Indianapolis, chairman of the house committee on morals, to which both the amending measure and the Fleming bill were referred. Meetings of the committees will be announced for not later than the middle of the week, when all persons interested in the bills will be asked to come forward and make the objections or their arguments in favor of the bills.

While the platform measure is called an amending measure, its effect will be to amend the county option law out of existence, while conserving to communities where it has been employed the protection of the law for the two-year period following elections where carried by the anti-saloon element. Thus where a county has voted dry it will remain dry for the twoyear period, regardless of the passage of the Proctor bill.

The brewers’ bill, which has been given in good faith as an honest effort on the part of the better class of brewers to clean up the bad saloon conditions in the state, is expected to be amended in a great many instances, but none of the amendments as proposed will affect the general regulating conditions imposed in the bill sufficiently to defeat the ends aimed at by the association members. The bill will be made so as to conserve the Moore remonstrance law and the Nicholson law, except where provisions of the latter are taken up and made even stronger by the sections of the Fleming measure. In effect, the bill is designed to revise all the general saloon regulation acts, from that of 1884 up to and including the acts of 1909.

The Senatorial Election. For the first time in the history of Indiana general assemblies, the majority members will go into the joint session on Tuesday to vote for a United States senator without having previously held a caucus. The state convention last April, when it indorsed the candidacy of John W. Kern to succeed Senator Albert J. Beveridge, settled the Democratic senatorial situation, and nene of the Democratic majority have even thought seriously of going back on the convention indorsement, There has been some talk of a caucus, but the leaders held that it was unnecessary, and even objected to it, as in their opinion caucus would reflect to a degree on the honesty of the Democratic majority, ’ “who were elected under a pledge to support Kern. It is understood that Kern expressed a wish that a caucus be held and an open ballot taken to determine how the majority members stood on the senatorial question, but no report to that effect was made in either the house or the senate. Senator Bernard Shively of Marion and Representative Clore of Franklin will make the speeches nominating Mr. Kern. The branches will meet in joint session on Tuesday at 11 o'clock to hold the election.

With the election of Kern and his acquisition of the office on March 4, Indiana will have two Democratic United States senators, for the first time since 1897, when Daniel Voorhees and David Turpie were in the senate together. Voorhees was succeeded by Charles W. Fairbanks in 1897, and Turpie by Beveridge in 1899. Since then the representation of Indiana was Republican until March 4, 1909, when Benjamin F. Shively, Democrat, succeeded James A. Hemenway, and the representation was divided. The election of Kern will oust the Republican representation until at least 1915, when Senator Shively’s term expires.

Good Roads Legislation. The organization known as the Indiana Good Roads association, headed by Clarence A. Kenyon of this city, has a prptty stumpy row ahead of it, it now appears. The organization has a bill in both the senate and the house providing tor a state highway commia-

sion and fbr the payment of all free gravel road taxes by individuals and corporations, in cash, whereas now the land owners and corporations are permitted to work out their tax under the direction of the township road supervisors. Farmers from all over the state are opposing the measure, on the theory that the organization is backed chiefly by automobile manufacturers and road material men, who are trying to put the bill across for personal reasons. Many of the farmers who oppose the bill explain that if it becomes a law and a highway commission is established,, the commission will give Its attention to main roads only, and that the farmer living on a byroad will be left out In the cold entirely, with his chances very slim of ever having anything done with the highway In which he is personally interested. The theory that highway taxes should be paid in cash is acceptable to many farmers, if surrounded with proper restrictions. Representative Guild of Medaryville has a bill which provides that all taxes amounting to more than >3O annually shall be paid in cash, while the taxes under that amount may be worked out, according to the present law. Many farmers have placed their O. K. on the Guild measure and will work for it, in preference to the bills introduced at the request of the good roads organization. Representative Guild has explained that his bill will prevent the outrgaes which have followed the farming-out processes which have obtained in road tax Matters by railway corporations. Two contractors, the Tripp Brothers, of this city, have made Independent fortunes out of railway tax contracts in the past few years. They take the railway taxes at 90 cents on the dollar and let them out to sub-contractors at 60 cents, and the sub-contractors work out the tax on that basis. A result has been that the township roads are benefited only to the extent of about 50 cents on the dollar of railway tax. One representative who is a farmer in the north part of the state, told of his letting his team and man out to one of the contractors at $8 a day for eight hours’ work on the roads, hauling four yards of gravel in that time- The work thus cost the township >2 a yard, In addition to the cost of the gravel. That >2 a yard for placing gravel on a highway is an outrage, few farmers will question. The representative himself said it was an outrage, but that he didn’t intend to let his team and man out for any less than the subcontractor was getting. The Guild measure would retain to the farmer and small landowner the right to work out his tax on the road in which he is personally interested, but would compel the railway corporations to pay their taxes in cash, to be disbursed through the board of county commissioners as highway commissioners, as under the present law. Workmen’s Compensation Law.

Some sort of workingmen’s compensation act is certain to come out of the present session of the general assembly, but just what the provisions of the act will be, no one is at this time able to see. Four bills covering the subject have been introduced thus far, and two more will be Introduced this week, it is understood. The governor is very much in favor of the enactment of some such a law, but none of the bills thus far introduced have met with his entire approval. The governor is understood to favor a measure containing a mutual Insurance provision, according to which the manufacturers and other employers of labor shall pay into the company an annual fee which shall build up a fund for the relief of persons Injured at labor, or for the relief of families of men killed while following their pursuits. The purpose of the proposed compensation act is to reduce the number of damage suits in the courts, and to provide for injured workmen speedy compensation for damages sustained. The workers and the employers of workers are agreed on the general conditions of the proposed act, but differ on a number of the details. A general meeting in which all sides to the question shall be discussed fully and freely is to be arranged.

Democrats For Economy. The Democratic economy plan for the general assembly has been introduced and is working in splendid form in both the senate and the house. The number of employes has been greatly reduced from the number of two years ago, and expenses for supplies, printing, eto., have been cut very largely. It is estimated that the session will pull through with an aggregate expense of some $25,000 less than that of two years ago.

y® Virtually all the Democratic platform bills have been introduced and are making headway in the committees. No opposition of serious nature has sprung up In either house, except as to details, which there is evident a spirit to shape about to suit the majority. At this time it looks as if the platform promises would be redeemed in every Instance early in the session. It has been a long time since the workingman had as much promise of recognition at the hands of the general assembly as at this time. The Democratic platform declared much in favor of the worker, and an honest attempt to redeem the pledges is being made. The compensation acts, the employers’ l liability acts, the school Inspection acts, better housing laws, greater care . in the preparation and distribution of ’ foodstuffs, regulations for the employment of children, and the regulation of cold storage plants in order to prevent the control of food prices, regulation of loan sharks, and the weekly wage law are some things in which the workingman is vitally interested, and these are all receiving attention.

ANOTHER HUMMER! Fresh Bread, 1 c. a Loaf Another Money-Saving Combination Offer. Everything Reduced. 3 Loaves Fresh Qukffir Bread . . 3c, regular 15c 1 Can Extra Fine Teider Sweet Cen . . . Bc, regilar 10c 1 Can Palace Drip Table Synp ..... Bc, regilar 10c 1 Can Fancy Pork aid Beans ..... 12c, regilar 15c 2 Packages Hippo Wasting Porter .... Bc, regilar 10c 1 Package (6 large boxes) Matches .... 21c, regilar 25c 1 Package Quaker Toy Oats ..... . Bc, regilar 10c 1 Can Best California Peaches, very fine. . . 28c, regilar 35c Sale Price .... 96c, regilar 81.30 A Saving of Over 30 Per Cent. Give Us Your Order This Week. 5 per cent of our Cash Receipts go to the Monnett Orphan’s Home Home Grocery Growing Better Every Day

Woniefl Ms tai Fie [Under this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the flrst Insertion, %-cent per word for eact additional insertion. To save book-keep-ing cash should be sent with notice. Ns notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coming within the 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 for forwarding such replies to the advertiser.] For Sale—Two good milch cows, will be fresh soon.—ARTHUR H. HOPKINS. For Sale—A lot of nice solid boxes of different sizes—O, N. HILE, "the Rawleigh Man. For Renti —Four roomed house, newly papered—AßTHUß H. IJOPkins. ? ' For Sale— 75 tons clover, and a few Pekin Ducks Ieft.—VICTOR YEOMAN, R-2, Phone 521-G. Jersey Cows—Having an over surplus of Jersey cows, I Will sell a few head at reasonable prices.—W. H. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. Dairy Farm For Rent—36o acres, 160 in cultivation, rest pasture; well fenced, two good barns, cement floor and 19 stantions in one. Cash or grain rent.—FRANK FOLTZ, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—Or might exchange for property clear of encumbrance and same value, a traction gasoline engine, fine for sawmill or plowing.—LEWIS SMITH, Moline, Mo

100 Envelopes—Printed with your return bard in corner—something every rural mail route patron should not be without —for 50 cents at The Democrat office. Linotype Borders—Cheapest and best borders a printer can use for job and ad work, in 6 and 12 point, 30 ems long, sold in any amount wanted by THE DEMOCRAT. See samples in use in the ads in this paper. For Sale, Rent or Trade—Two houses and lots in Rensselaer, one a 3-room house, other 5 room.— JOHN SCHANLAUB, R-3, Phone 535-B. For Rent—6o acres of land in Milroy tp., 6 miles north of Wolcott. J._A. TUNE, Forest, 111. For Sale—Mammoth pure bred Bronze turkeys. Also pure bred Plymouth Rock Chickens. —McDONALD SISTERS, McCoysburg, Ind. R-l. j 25 Registered Shorthorn Cows—Will be fresh soon, and 30 tons of good timothy hay in mow for sale at my place near Foresman. —J. W. SAGE, Brook, R. F. D. Farm Loans— Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN.

Waited Stock Hogs—From 40 to 100 lbs. to run after cattle. Write me what you have.—BOX 48, R. F. D. No. 3, Brook," Ind. Wanted —Woodchoppers to cut cord wood and fence posts.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Kniman, Ind. Wanted—All Your Classified Ads. When you want to buy, sell exchange anything, put a notice in this column,—THE DEMOCRAT. Farm Loans—We are furnishing the money.—DUNLAP & PARKISON, I. O. O. F. Bldg, Rensselaer, Ind. Fann For Sale—6o acres, all good land in cultivation near gravel road, free mail route and in good neighborhood, near school. This farm has good house, stable, for horses and cows, grainery, cribs, large poultry house and other outbuildings, all new. This is a nice home and good piece of land and can be bought at right price and get possession this spring. Terms very easy.—G. F. MEYERS.

Bull Terrier for Sale Female, brindle and white, royally bred — 12 months of age January 9. BOX 504, Rensselaer, Ind. Hay for Sale — Mixed clover and timothy, mostly. clover, in stack. —FRANK L. HOOVER, Rensselaer. Two Farms for Rent^—One 180 one of 200 plenty of pasture on each; good buildings, Water, windmills, etc. —W. P. GAFFIELD, Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. Clover Hay— Fifteen or 20 tons, for sale in stack. —GEORGE POTTS, McCoysburg. FOR SALE. 21 acres five blocks from court house. 25 acres, five room house, on easy terms. 160 acres, Polk county, Ark., will trade clear and pay difference for land or property here. 80 acres on pike road. R. F. D., telephone line, one-fourth mile from school, has five room house, large barn, other buildings, fruit and good well. A bargain at $37.50. Terms SI,OOO down. Possession given. 180 acres ail good land, 100 acres in high state of cultivation, 80 acres pasture. Large seven room house, fine orchard, good well and steel tower wind mill. Price will be placed at a bargain. Terms $1,500 down. Possession given. 161 acres all good land, well located, good four room house. Price right. Will sell on terms of SI,OOO down or take trade as first payment. G. F. MEYERS. TWO OF A KIND. Pillsbury and Gold Medal. These two brands of flour are more widely distributed than any other dozen brands. Do you know why? Buy a sack of either, at McFarland’s and the question is answered. We now have an arrangement whereby we can get the car rate, therefore exh sell as cheaply as _ any other nouse for the same grade.

If housekeepers were shrewd they would try to give some class to kitchen work and so create a demand for positions in the kitchen. Pay For Hie Work. “Do you know whose dog you kicked?” “No, 1 don't.” “That is my dog.” ~ “Glad to learn it I will send you a bill for the educational treatment, and be sure to let me know if he needs another.” ■» The. Simplest Job. “I bear you want a private secretary,” said the confident young "x. woman with a >. classy hat and /CtJX \ a general air of CF—I getting what she I wanted. \ / “Are you a stenographer?” asked the fat / j I business man. [ I fv J “No, sir.” , > “Can you op- >• erate a type“I never tried.” “What can you do, then?” “Oh, run the business.” Point of View. “Guess what I dreamed last night.” “Can’t.” “Dreamed I was eating turkey.” “How extravagant!” “Extravagant—why? I didn’t eat it I just dreamed it” “But I never think of dreaming anything more expensive than pork and beans.”