Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1911 — Page 2

Liberty Is Essential to Growth and Development

, By Congressman E. D. CRUM* PACKER of Indiana

CHE Declaration of Independence proclaims that ALL men are created equal and are endowed with certain INALIENABLE rights and that it is the paramount duty of government to safeguard the citizens in the enjoyment of those rights.

There is a latitude of liberty that belongs to every citizen in virtue of his manhood that no power on earth can justly take from him. THIS LIBERTY IS ESSENTIAL TO HIS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT AND TO THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT DESTINY WHICH IS APPOINTED TO HIM BY THE GOD WHO CREATED HIM. Government and laws and institutions are ordained for the PROTECTION of the citizen in those fundamental rights. It is as great a wrong for the government itself to INVADE those natural rights as it is for the assassin or the highwayman or a band of conspirators to do so. Those rights do not emanate from government, but it is the vital purpose of government to protect the citizen in their proper enjoyment. It is as great an OFFENSE against manhood and civilizatjpn for those rights to be INVADED or destroyed by a majority vote in a democracy as it is to .invade or destroy them by the edict of an ABSOLUTE MONARCH.

Obstacles Which Retard Progress of the Nation

June 6 Cardinal Gibbons Wes the Recipient of State and National Honors In Baltimore In Recognition of His Fifty Years of Priesthood and Twenty-five as Cardinal and Archbishop. President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt Attended the C^abration

1 CONSIDER the republic of the United States one of the most PRECIOUS HEIRLOOMS ever bestowed on mankind down the ages and that it is the DUTY and should be the delight of EVERY citizen to strengthen and perpetuate our government by the observance of its laws and by the integrity of his private life. If our government is destined to be enduring it must do away with the following obstacles: f DIVORCE. WHICH STRIKES AT THE ROOT OF THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY. . THE IMPERFECT AND VICIOUS SYSTEM OF EDUCATION. WHICH UNDERMINES THE RELIGION OF OUR YOUTH. THE DESECRATION OF THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH. WHICH TENDS TO OBLITERATE IN OUR ADULT POPULATION THE SALUt TARY FEAR OF GOD AND THE HOMAGE THAT WE OWE HIM. THE GROSS AND SYSTEMATIC ELECTION FRAUDS. lastly, The unreasonable delay in carrying into effect THE SENTENCES OF OUR CRIMINAL COURTS AND THE NUMEROUB SUBTERFUGES BY WHICH CRIMINALS EVADE THE EXECUTION OF THE LAWS. To one of the fire obstacles or vices I have just enumerated may be traced oor insatiable GREED for gain, the co-existence of colossal wealth with abject poverty, the extravagance of the rich, the discontent of the poor, onr eager and impetuous rushing through life and every other moral and social delinquency.

Future Wars Will Be Decided Upon the Sea

By BEEKMAN WINTHROP. Assistant Secretary of the Navy

CHOUGH we are all most desirous that war shall not CHECK the peaceful progress of the nation, we must recognize that ■' this country since its inception has NEVER enjoyed forty years of peace uninterrupted by war. The average period between wars of this country has been only a few months over twentynine years, so if anything like this ratio is preserved in the future our soldiers will probably soon see active service. I am most desirous of continued peace and sincerely trust that the agitation for arbitration 'treaties and an international tribunal with adequate power to enforce its ordained decrees will BEAR FRUIT, but he who believes that international peace has arrived and that Uo more wars will occur enjoys an optimism greater than I can acquire. THE CONTROL OF THE SEA WILL, IN MY OPINION, BE THE CRUCIAL TURNING POINT OF ANY WAR IN WHICH WE MAY BE ENGAGED. It is therefore evident how incumbent it is upon the navy to maintain the material and personnel allowed us by congress that it may always be at the HIGHEST point of efficiency.

By CARDINAL GIBBONS

Senator William Paul Dillingham, chairman of the special committee to investigate the fraud charges in the election of Senator William Lorimer of Illinois, is classed as a pro-Lorimer man. He is chairman of the senate committee on privileges and elections, but was not a member ot the old subcommittee that conducted the previous inquiry into the Lorimer affair. Messrs Dillingham. Gamble. Johnston and Fletcher voted for Lorimer in the last session, and Mr. Jones voted against him. The three new members of the committee. Messrs. Kenyon. Lea and Kern, -are all supposed to be antiLorimer. it will require all summer for this committee to get the facts and ma te its report.

Congressman Courtney. Walker Hamlin of Missouri, chairman pf the committee on expenditures ih the state department, is one of the busiest of -investigators in Washington just now. Investigations, by the way. are the fashion, no less than fifteen inquiries into public departments and their affairs being under wav. Among the revelations to Mr Hamlin’s committee was an admission of Dr. Jacob H.

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W. P. Dillingham, Head of Lorimer Committee.

Photo by American Press Association.

A native of Vermont. Senator Dillingham is sixty-eight years old and has served in the upper house of congress since 1900. wbeu he was elected to till the unexpired term of the late Jnstin S. Morrill. Since then he has twice been re-elected for full terms. Before going to the Senate he dad served in the state legislature and was governor ot Vermont from 1888 to 1890. He Is a lawyer by profession and Montpelier is bis borne town.

A Missouri Investigator.

1911. by American Press Association.

COURTNEY W. BAULK Hollander that he received money from both Santo Domingo and the United States while acting as special agent for the latter. Mr. Hamlin is a native of North Carolina and is Bfty-three ytars old. While still a lad his pa rents removed to Missouri, where, the embryo statesman grew tip on a farm. He was educated in the common studied law add was admitted to the bar in 1882 Before to the Fiftyeighth congress as a Democrat he had never held public office Be was not retarded to the Fifty-ninth, but since then has been regularly re-elected-

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NOTICE. Notice is hereby given by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer that the waste of city! water such as has been gonig on for the past few months must cease. at once and forever, and that any ] person who violates any of the provisions of the city ordinance in regard to the use of water will be prosecuted to the fullest extent. This action becomes absolutely necessary for the reason that more water is wasted than is actually needed, and it is impossible to keep a sufficient water in the tank with the pumps working all the time in insure safety to property in case of Are. With the pumps working all the .time on Thursday night the water level in the tank was lowered twelve feet and the fire department would have been unable to do effective work had a fire occurred. The ordinance regulating the use of water will be rigidly enforced froiii now on and any person who is caught wasting water will be fined not less than SI.OO nor more than SIOO.OO. —The Common Council of City of Rensselaer, Indiana.

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Personally Conducted Excursion to Niagara Falls VIA Chicago, Indiana & Southern R. R. Wednesday, August 9,1911 Round Trip Fare, $8.50 especial train, consisting of Pullman Standard and Tourist sleeping cars, high-class coaches, smoking and baggage cars, will leave SHELBY at 4.07 p. m., and run through solid without change. Stop-overs allowed at Toledo, 0., Cleveland. 0., Erie, Pa., Westfield, N. Y. (for parties desiring to visit Chautauqua Lake), on return trip. Tickets limited to 12 days, including date of sale, affording ample time to visit Niagara, also make such trips as are afforded from Niagara Falls to Toronto, Thousand Islands, Highlands of Ontario, Montreal and Quebec. The most attractive and inexpensive vacation trips of the season. For complete information apply to nearest ticket agent, or write to the undersigned, who will mail you a beautiful booklet, ‘’Niagara Falls,” and other matter describing the advantages of this excursion. J. W. DALY, J. P. HAGERTY, Passenger Traffic Manager Traveling Passenger Agent CHICAGO

NOTICE TO CUT WEEDS. Notice is hereby given to the landowners of Newton . tp., to cut the grass at 0 weeds alotn; the highways abutting, their property, as provided by law. They will be credited on their road tax for the time actually employed in doing such work. E. P. LANE, Trustee. PARKER’S | HAIR BALSAM Clemiuea »nd beautifies the bait. Promotes a luxuriant growth. Kever Fails to Bestore Gray , Hair to its Youthful Color. Cures scalp diseases & hair jailing. SOc, and gUM at Druggists

Glasses flitted by DR. A. G. CATT ■**- Optometrist f Rensselaer, Indiana, Office over Long’s Drug Store. . , Phone No. 232.