Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — Page 2

IK JISPER 60DRTT DEMOCIRT F. EBIBBOBI.IBtTOB IID PSBtISBER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. , Entered as Second Class Matter June S, 1908. at the post office at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known! on application. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 22, 1911.

SOUNDED DEEPLY NEEDS OF STATE

Real Wishes of People Served By legislature. — PROGRAM HAS BEEN WELL LAID Democratic Leaders Have Moved on the Presumption That State Doesn’t Need Many More Laws Than It Now Has, Hence the Beneficent Work of Elimination Has Steadily Progressed In Legislative Committee Rooms. Indianapolis special: The Demo crats in the general assembly, with the Democratic governor, Thomas R. Marshall, appear now to have laid their legislative program well, and to have sounded deeply the needs of the state and the real wishes of .the people. Instead of having rushed into the matter of lawmaking with the purpose of encumbering the statute books with as many laws as possible, they seem to have moved on the presumption that the state doesn’t need many more laws than it now has. and that it is up to the general assembly to see that it doesn't get them, more than to see that it does get more. The Work of Elimination. One of the leaders said today: “It will be the purpose of the legislators in the two weeks of the session remaining to prevent the passage of bills, rather than to push bills through. In the entire 1,100 and moje bills that have been introduced, there are not more than twenty, including all the Demoerate platform hills, and the apnronriariombills. which the state really needs, tThe statute books now are encumbered with laws which are so intricate and so numerous as to be confusing. y “By the adoption, the legislature has given to the state board of accounts the task of reporting to the next general session the needs of the officials of the state as far as salary and fee changes are concerned. This obviates the neccessity of passing any laws changing salaries, with possibly one or two pressing exceptions. What the assembly should do in this respect is to simplify the laws on fees and salaries, a-*1 not to complicate them, and complate them we certainly would if we were to undertake to revise the fee and salary laws with the meager data we have at hand. In two years from now. with the data the state board of accounts will be able to give us. we can work on this question intelligently. Great Bulk of Bills: Doomed. “A glance over the list of bills introduced will satisfy the average citizen that there is no need to have the large majority of them enacted into law. Of course there are some legalizing measure that ought to be looked after and it is our purpose to look after them. Then there are a few bills which ought to pass in order to simplify conditions found exceedingly intricate because of conditions unearthed by the state board of accounts. These will be looted after But as for the great ball; of the bills, they will probably get no further along than they are now." The general conditions of the assembly at this time support the statement of the leader quoted While the senate has passed approximately 15 bills, there is not a house bill among them. The house has passed approximately 100 bills, but there are not more than ten of them senate measures’. The senate is not preparing to take up house bills until Tuesday afternoon, and then it will be only such house bills as are on the program for passage according as the big program has thingslaid out. State Platform Measures. In the two weeks of the session remaining, there are all the Democratic state platform measures to be looked after. None of them have yet been passed. True, the county option repeal measure has been passed and signed by the governor, but it is to be rescinded by a subsequent measure now under way, so this phase' of the law-making situation cannot be said to have been attended to. In addition tq the platform measure, there are the appropriation bills yet to be looked after by the senate, and anyone who fa acquainted with the way things -are Am hi the general assembly know Hat He entire two wqeks easily he takes Up in consideration of these

big measures. The program as it now appears is to give the entire two weeks to these measures and close the session with the smallest number of bills passed in the history of, general assemblies for years past

Leaders Are Unanimous. The leaders ate unanimous in declaring that the enactment of a very small number of measures would be a political stroke on the part of the Democrats. A session of The general assembly is a necessity, because the constitution prescribes that one of sixty days' duration shall be held every two years. But the constitution does not prescribe that it shall ehcumber the statute books with a lot of laws merely because it has the power The practice of Republican assemblies in the past has been to put out huge volumes of acts that have been confusing to the lawyers, the courts and to the citizens, until the people have been crying for relief from so much lawmaking. The Governor’s Way Out of It. In changing the mode and determining to give them the least possible number of laws consistent with the peculiar needs of the times, the Democrats believe that they are striking a responsive chord in the popular mind, and word which the leaders have been receiving from the people back home incline them to this belief. There is no clamor for many of the bills introduced, save from interests selfishly interested in sundry measures, while on the contrary petition after petition has been received against the passage of bills.

The most important event of the general assembly thus far has been the majority caucus agreement to enact into law the changes in the constitution proposed by Governor Marshall after eighteen months of careful study of the constitution situation. The governor became impressed with the belief that the state had outgrown the constitution in many respects, but from all oyer the state came protests whenever a constitutional convention was mentioned. The strength of the corporations, the radical temperance element, the woman suffrage movement, and a score or more of other radical elements presented a danger which made the real leaders of both parties hesitate when they thought of a constitutional convention. Four years ago the Republicans, then in control of the general assembly, proposed a constitutional convention, but when it became evident that the radicals and the interests would control the convention rather than the plain, every-day citizen, the project was dropped.

Wood Not Taken Seriously. The same fear prompted the governor and those working with him when they prepared to offer a change to the people. The best way out of it. it was advised, was to have the general assembly enact a new constitution into a law and put it up to the people for ratification, and the plan was adopted by the majority caucus. Since the announcement of the agreement, Senator Wood of the Republicans has introduced a bill calling for a constitutional convention, but as Senator Wood was one of the Republicans who helped prevent a convention of that kind four years ago, his step at this time is not taken seriously. The governor has been assailed from all sides since the announcement of the move was made, but an analysis of the criticisms shows that they have come from the party press on the other side and from the party leaders of the Republican opposition. The real thinking party men of both parties and the newspapers who are not moved by partisan motives alone commend the movement as the only possible chance at this time of obtaining such changes in the constitution as are evidently necessary. Governor’s Position Perfectly Clear. The governor has made his position perfectly clear that the movement i 3 not a party movement and that it is not a one-man movement. The only force in the state that can change the constitution at all is the force of the people themselves, and the governor, in laying plan, took this into consideration. In his consideration of the changes, too, he called into conference some of the broad-minded Republicans of the state, and they aided him. The proposed changes are changes which Republicans as well i_s Democrats in the past few years have acknowledged ought to be made. They relate to the question of suffrage, the matter of adjustment of damages in personal injury cases, the matter of representation’ in the general assembly, the matter of the initiative, referendum and the recall, the length of assembly sessions, the four-year term of office and ineligibility to succeed one's self in either state or county office, and the protection of personal property save in the event of extreme necessity. All these are points on which both Democrats and Republicans are more or less agreed, and the criticisms of the opposition press, actuated by party reasons only, have not touched on any of the Items in its critiesm.

It Will Be Up to the People. As the measure has been made the matter of a caucus agreement, there Is no doubt but that it will go through and be adopted. It is to be put up to the people for ratification or rejection in 1912, and the governor will take the stump and speak in favor of its ratification. Steering committees have been selected in both the house and senate to look after the party measures which it Is desired to enact into laws. The ereater part of the time will therefore

be given to consideration of the following plitforna and administration measures: The child labor bill, the appropriation bjlls, the employers' liability bills, the Referendum for public service franchises in cities, the county option repeal measure, the liquor' regulation measure, the weekly wage bill, the workingmen’s, compensation bills, sundry 5 anti-corporation measures, the state board of accounts bill, state board of health bills, railroad commission bills, etc. If this work Is done as now planned, It , will consume the greater part of the remaining days of the session.

Plans are declared completed for the organization of a company of Cincinnatians to finance a proposed trip of dirigible balloons from Cincinnati across the Atlantic ocean.

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Friendless. * , 1 When you’re ready. January, You can slip away. On my knees I would not bend me Bogging you to stay. Not to trim it, you're the limit. If the slang you’ll pardon. And I score you .right before you As my heart I harden. By the way you act you forfeit Praise we might bestow If you were not ever ready With your banks of snbw. But your blizzard cools the gizzard. Not to say’ the heart. That's the reason, chilly season, -■ Why you may depart. If you do relax a minute It is but to thaw. Which is worse than snow and should be Made against the law. As a charmer any farmer Would not give you feed. As a winner you are thinner Than a quaking reed., Poets do not sing your praises If they’re on their job, Knowing they would have to answer For it ,to the mob No be|»dvOr wins a favor - Who behaves like you. January, quite contrary. v ’ Wish you’d hurry through. £

Farm and Garden

VALUE OF THE SOY BEAN. Not Liked For Human Food, but Growing In Importance For Forage. The soy bean, also called the “soja bean,” Is a native ofrsoutbeastern Asia and has been extensively cultivated iD Japan, China and India since ancient times. Tlie beans are there grown almost entirely for human food. Their flavor, however, does not commend them to Caucasian appetites. As a forage crop, however, soy beans have become of increasing importance in parts of the United States, especially

FIELD OF MAMMOTH SOY BEANS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

[From bulletin of United States department of agriculture.] southward. They have been tested at most of the state agricultural experiment stations, and it is clear that their region of maximum importance will be south of the red clover area and in sections where alfalfa cannot be grown successfully. They thus compete principally with cowpeas, but as cultivation is usually required they fill a somewhat different agricultural need. Their culture has greatly increased in recent years, especially in Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky and the southern part of Illinois and Indiana. It seems certain that the crop will become one of great importance in the regions mentioned and probably over a much wider area. The earlier varieties mature even in Minnesota, Ontario and Massachusetts. As a hay plant the soy bean cannot successfully compete with red clover or alfalfa. The soy bean is especially adapted to the cotton halt and northward into the southern part of the corn belt. The early varieties mature in the northern part of the corn belt, but frequently do not make a sufficient yield to warrant growing them. Farther south, where the later aud larger varieties can be grown, the yield is sufficient to make their extensive cultivation very profitable. Generally speaking, the soy bean requires about the same temperature as coni. It is perhaps even better adapted to a warm climate and does not do well in a cool climate. The soil requirements of soy beans are much the same as those of corn.; They will make a Satisfactory growth on poorer soli than corn, provided inoculation is present, but will not make nearly as good a growth on poor soil as cowpeas. Soy beans make their best developement on fairly fertile loams or clays. The Mammoth variety also succeeds well on sandy soils. Ou rich soils all varieties are apt to make a Large plant growth and a comparatively small yield of seed and on the poorer soils a small plant ..growth with a relatively large seed yield. Soy beans do not require a well drained soil for their best development, although they will not grow in a soil where water stands for any considerable length qf time. However, they are able to withstand a greater amount of moisture than either corn or cowpeas. ■ Soy beans are also decidedly drought resistant,' much niorh'so than cowpeas. and but for the depredations of Ale Bits would be a valuable crop in the semiarid west. Rabbits are exceed ! ingly fond of the foliage, and where they are numerous it is nearly use less to plant soy beans unless tbe field can be inclosed with rabbit proof fencing. The matter of variety is of special importance in soy beans, as many growers have been sorely disappointed In getting a small early variety when they desired a larger and later sort.—Bulletin United; States Department of Agriculture. Save Your Plows. To keep the plow from rusting coat the mdldboard with axle grease or lin seed oil when the plow is put away.

The conservation erf our national resources is a good policy, as we are all agreed, but the conservation of the commonly wasted resources of the farm is another policy of much grea'er personal concern to the individual farmer.

OLD TESTAMENT TIME'S BROOKLYN TABERNACLE BIBLE STUDIES

A KING SOLD HIMSELF I Kings 21- ij -February 26 "Take heed and beware of covetousness— which i» idolatry.."—Luke 12:15; Col S 5 CO King Abab Elijah said, 'Tbou hast sold thyself to work evil In the sight of the Lord." The effects of tbe drouth gradually disappeared, but It* salutary lesson remained with the King and with the people to a considerable eitent_ The true God had some recognition. Baal’s Influence was considerably broken. Queen Jezebel evidently relented concerning her threat against Elijah. He returned and founded various Schools of tbe Prophets In Israel, himself being the mas-ter-spirit amongst them. Our present lesson shows the meanness of covetousness and the awful power of a wicked woman. Ahab had two fine palaces; one of them, at Jezreel. was an “ivory” palace, but even Its possession did not make the King happy. He desired to attach to it a fine vineyard owned by

Naboth. He sent Naboth word of his desires. offering to purchase with money or to trade for it another vineyard. Naboth, asserting his rights, declined to sell for any price As a result the King was disappointed, heart-sick, vexed, pouty. He had allowed covetousness to grow in his heart. He wanted that vineyard. He was King, so it was very disrespectful of Naboth to

refuse to take a good, liberal price for IL Naboth declared as his objection that the Lord's regulations forbade that he should sell his family inheritance. Apparently It was a hopeless case and Ahab, solemn and sour, lay abed, refusing food. Covetousness In Action Then entered Jezebel the Queen, inquiring the cause of his sorrow. Hearing it she answered, I will give it to you. Forthwith she wrote letters to the chief men of the city, signing the letters with her husband's seal. With brutal frankness the letters told the select men of the city what was desired of them. (1) They were to make a mockery of religion by keeping a fast. (2) They were to act. hypocritically to their neighbor Naboth by giving him the most prominent place of honor at the fasL (3) They were, to provide two worthless scamps (presumably by bribery) who. at the appropriate time in the fast would take their places near Naboth and then, with feigned religious fervor, protest against him and denounce him as a blasphemer of God and the King, corroborating each other with sworn testimony that they had heard the blasphemy with their own ears. (4) The penalty of blasphemy was recognized to be that of stoning and the decree was to be carried out and Naboth thus to be gotten rid of. If we are inclined to feel or speak strongly of the wicked course of Jezebel, as we should, let us not forget that somewhat similar practices prevail in our day. True, no one today could be stoned to death at the suggestion of a Queen in civilized lands. Nevertheless, people have been heard to express the wish that they had lived in former times, so as to have had an opportunity for stoning those whom they disliked. But take a case in point: Suppose a man conducting a successful business. Suppose covetous neighbors set up a competing business, as they would have a full right to do. But suppose, then, that one or the other, coveting the whole trade, were to attempt sharp practises in business, selling commodities at below cost, interfering with the other's credit at the bank, or slandering the other, would not this be covetousness in action —covetousness of the same kind which King Ahab entertained? And would it not be reprehensible In God's sight? And dare any who respect tbe Lord, so thoroughly neglect the Golden Rule of hi* Word? * Another illustration: A storekeeper doing a good business was offered a certain commodity at a less price than he had been paying under a three-years’ contract. He accepted. The party who had been Belling him this commodity in the past was angry, covetous of the trade. He set up a competing business and sold goods at a loss, as he could afford to do. being wealthy, until the first storekeeper failed for lack of business. Then the new store was closed down, because it had effected Its work as a business assassin. It bad killed Naboth. Indeed, covetousness and Jezebel methods, adapted to present-day conditions, prevail much more generally than the majority of people suppose and chiefly amongst the very rich, who have enough and to spare, but who covet their neighbors' stocks and bonds, gold and silver, etc. If God denounced Ahab as having sold himself to iniquity, what would the Lord’s verdict be on some of the customs of our day, which has so much greater degree of light and knowledge than Ahab possessed?* “That Woman Jezebel” As per instructions, word was at once Bent, which came to the hands of JezebeL

Ahab and Elijah in Naboth’s vineyard.

though he did not recognize that there is a God of Justice to whom he must ultimately accounL • Then Elijah, under Divine direction, went forth to meet the King and. by the Lord’s command, said, “Hast thou killed and also taken possession? In tbe place where the dogs licked the blood .of Naboth shall dogs lick (thy blood.” And this prophecy was fulfilled to the letter very shortly after. Note, however, the King s attitude and how inclined he was, as b< fore, to ignore -4Jie Lord and to thin merely of the Prophet. Ahab accosted ,Elijah. saying. “Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?" He received the answer, “I have found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the Lord.” Covetousness is one of the most crying evils of our day. It is causing more heartaches and trouble of every kind, perhaps, than any other sin. “In palaces are hearts that ask. In discontent and pride. Why life is such a weary task, ’ And all good things denied: And hearts tn poorest huts admire , How Love has in their aid Love that not ever seems to lire— Such rich provision made.”

"Why sorrowful, 0 king?"

saying that Naboth was dead, as per the King’s wishes. The Queen then said to her sullen lord. Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth; he is dead. ■ The King seems to have had no qualms of conscience, but to have been' in some respects as bad as the Queen, but with less courage. At all events he proceeded to take possession of the vineyard — as

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Lost—Monday, between W. D. Bringle’s farm and the range line road, a black fur overcoat. Finder please return to ALPHA CHRISTLEY or The Democrat office. .f 27 Wanted—Position on farm by man and wife; good references, experienced stock man.—Enquire at this office. 2if For Sale—An “Old Trusty” Incubator.—VANCE COLLINS, Rensselaer, Ind. 18f For Sale—Wood saw and Case engine outfit complete.-—W. P. MICHAELS, Remington, Ind., R-3 18f Wanted—Situation as cattle hand on farm; 25 years of experience. BOX 44, Kersey, Ind. 22f Woodehoppers Wanted—two miles west of Surrey.—JOSEPH KOSTA, Fair Oaks, R-l. Phone Mt. Ayr 8-K. For Sale—Or might exchange for property clear of encumbrance and same value, a traction gasoline engine, fine for sawmill or plowing.— SMITH, Moline, Mo Wood For Sale —Good dry cord wood at wood yard near Republican office. $3.50 per cord at the yard.—Enquire of C. H. PORTER or phone 130. Barred Rock Cockerels For Sale —Bred from leading strains. — THOS. E. REED, Remington, Ind., R-3, Phone 79-J. For Sale—Full blood Plymouth Rock chickens.—PHONE 529-B. S. C. Brown Leghorn Eggs—For setting, 50c per 15; $3 per 100.— MRS. W. H. WORTLEY, Rensselaer, Ind., R-4. Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different parts of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my mind to devote my time to the business. Therefore if you have any farms or town property to sell or trade give me a chance and I will give you a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR, Ex-sheriq Jasper county, Kniman, Ind. For Sale—A handsome 3-lamp brass chandelier, large burners, colored globes, raises and lowers by thumb spring; cost S2O, will sell for $7.50. Splendid piece for a country parlor or sitting room. Also a fine brass hanging lamp, with Rochester burner, large hand-painted shade; cost $lO, will sell for S3.—PHONE 311, or enquire at The Democrat office. For Rent—6 room house on McCoy avenue, after March 1.- MRS. E. H. SHIELDS. ts. 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. .... • ' ■ 100 Envelopes—Printed with your return card in corner—something every rural mail route patron should not .be without—-for 50 cents at The Democrat office. Farm Loans—Jasper Guy of Remington makes farm loans at & per cent interest with no commission but office charges. Write him. ts Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up- to SIO,OOO. —E. P. HONAN. ir* : *i ; ■ ■ Linotype Borders —Cheapest and best borders a printer can use for job and ad work, in 6 and 12 point, SO'ems long, sold in any amount wanted by THE DEMOCRAT. See samples in use in the ads in this paper. No progressive family should overlook the special arrangement with the Weekly Inter Ocean and Farmer, whereby $2.00 pays for one year’s subscription to it and this paper." { Subscribe for The Democrat.