Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office

IF YOU ARE ILt from any disorder of the STOMACH, LIVER 01 KIDNEYS, or if your bowels are inactive at times, or you should suffer from headaches, get a 50 cent bottle of SEVEN BARKS of your druggist. If you are run d&wn and don’t feel as young and chipper as you used to, give SEVEN BARKS a fair trial; it will purify youi blood, clear your system and brain, and make life worth living. It is absolutely harmless, is highly palatable, and will not disturb the most delicate stomach. For sale at druggists at 60 cents per bottle. Don’t fail to try it. Address LYMAN BROWN, 68 Murray SL, New York, N.Y

FARMERS' MUTUAL INSURANCE ASSOCIiATIION Of Benton, White and Jasper Counties Represented by MARION I. ADAMS Rensselaer, Indiana CYCLONE INSURANCE Am also agent for the State Mutual, which insures against cyclones, wind and bail.

WHAT HAVE YOU TO SAY ABPOT THIS?

To the People of Jasper County: " _ "THIS TEKLEPOST MUST BE CRUSHED OUT, REGARDLESS Oh THE COST.” In these words a piominent Wail street hnanc.er announced that the Interests had declared war on us and on you. Why he wished .to crush it, —the many attempts to ruin it, —why they failed, —the great benefits of the Telepost to you and to the entire country,—-and how, with your co-opciaticn, it can never be crushed, — prompt me to ada:ess you. It concerns you. It is your fight as well as ours. The Telepost is an independent telegraph company owning a system of automatic machine telegraphy recognized as the highest development to date in its field. It is in active commercial operation between Chicago, St. Lotus, Indianapolis, Louisville and other cities of the Middle West, with the lowest rates and best service ever given in the United States. Its purpose is to extend these advantages to all parts of the country. It gives a fiat rate, regardless of distance, of one-quar-ter cent to one cent a word, according to service furnished. It sends i,coo words a minute on one wire and allows telephone conversation over it at the same time. By all other methods it requires irom seventeen to sixty wires to do what the Teiepust does on one. For over thirty-five years there ha a been no real competition in telegraphy. The Interests behind this utility control it more completely than the Steel, Beef, Tobacco and Oil Trusts ..control their respective lines and products. By means of “Gentlemen’s Agreements,” admitted under oath to the New York Legislature, they have stifled competition, extorting, according to former Postmaster-General John Waqamaker; 5i00.000.000 from the people in exorbitant charges'for an indifferent service. The purpose of these “Agreements” is to maintain present high charges, and to block the introduction of any better system by others. The methods employed to destroy the Telepost..have been notoriously unfair, and un-American:—Spies dogging the footsteps of visitors to our offices: men of prominence, associated with us, threatened; employees bribed to betray us; timid shareholders stampeded into sacrificing their shares; our wires mysteriously cut, and our customers urged to leave us. Periodicals, and other publications, in alliance with the money powers behind the telegraph interests, have maliciously at-' tacked us in order to discourage popular support for our enterprise, in much the same manner qs they did Alexander Graham Bell when he introduced the telephone. 1 v f With the low rates of the Telepost, the wires will be used almost as freely as the mails. We plan to build a line from our terminal in Chicago to New York, having secured entrances into both cities and practically all of the right-of-way. This line will pass near your town, with which we shall ultimately connect it The New York-Chicago line will put the Telepost on such a solid and big dividend-paying basis that extensions to all parts of the country will rapidly follow. The opposition has declared that it will make it impossible for us to build this extension by PREVENTING OUR GETTING THE MONEY NEEDED. In this they do not reckon on your having anything to say, and seemingly forget that the original telegraph lines were built,— not by Wall Street,—bet, with profit to themselves, by the merchants, farmers and small investors of the country who were independent of capitalistic