Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1912 — Page 2

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THE JIMR COUNTY DEMOCRAT F. t.BfIBCOCK, tDIIOH AMD PUBIISHtB. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made Known on application. _* Long Distance Telephone* O*™* 315 - - Residence 311. ■ red as Second Class Matter Juna ?’ i. ■ at t * le P° st oltlce at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wednesday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. SATURDAY, *MAY 4, 1912.

PEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

For Governor * SAMUEL M. RALSTON, * of Lebanon * For Lieutenant Governor * WILLIAM P. O’NEILL, * of Mishawaka * For Secretary of State ♦ LEW G. ELLINGH AM, * of Decatur * For Auditor of State * WILLIAM 11. O’BRIEN, * of Lawrenceburg * For Treasurer of State * WILLIAM H. VOLUMER, * of Vincennes * For Attorney General * THOMAS M. HONAN, * of Seymour * For Supt. of Public Instruction * CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE, * of Indianapolis * For State Statistician * THOMAS W. BOLLEY, * of North Vernon * For Reporter Supreme and . Ap- * pellate Court * PHILIP ZOERCHER, * of Tell City * For Judge of Supreme Court * First District * JOHN W. SPENCER, * of Evansville * For Judge of Supremo Courjt * Fourth District * RICHARD K. ERWIN, * of Fort Wayne * For Judge of Appellate Court, * Southern Division j_ * JOSEPH H. SHEA, * of Seymour. * —_ 4 COUNTY TICKET. " —« 11 For Treasurer < EDWARD P. LANE, < of Newton Township * For Recorder * STEPHEN D. CLARK, ■ of Wheatfield Township • t For Sheriff < WILLIAM I. HOOVER, 1 ■ of Marion Township ' For Surveyor ' DEVERE YEOMAN, of Marion Township For Coroner 1 DR. A. P. RAINIER, of Remington For 'Commissioner 2d District ’ CHARLES F. STACKHOUSE, 1 of Marion Township For Commissioner ~3d District ALBERT H. of Carpenter Township.

Another High Tariff Prop Fails.

It is said that the report of the tariff board on cotton will show that wages paid in the industry in this country are about on a par with those in England, while the cost of living is in favor of the English operatives, and that under present conditions there could be a reduction of BO per cent, in the cotton schedule without danger of disastrous foreign competition. An early movement for downward revision of the cotton schedule will be the logical result of the submission of the report

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IDLE TO DENY TARIFF MAKES PRICES ARTIFICIALLY HIGH. Protectionists Must Either Admit the Fact or Acknowledge That Their Pet Idea Is a Delusion and a Fraud. No special inquiry by the state department through its consular officers In Europe was. needed to prove that there has been a marked increase in orioes of necessaries of life throughout the world. It was a matter of 1 common knowledge. Neither will Mr. Taft’s remarks in a special .message to 1 congress about the high cost of living in Europe and the universal rest- , lessness under this condition reconcile the American people to conditions in | their own country. They are con- . vinced that the prices of many articles of ‘ daily consumption in the United States are unnecessarily and i aritiicially high, and they demand relief.

High protectionists had already preempted the general statements repeat- | ed by Mr. Taft for use in opposing the reduction of tariff duties. Senator j Lodge did it a year ago and others have imitated him, They say that I because the cost of living is high abroad, the tariff does not account for the high cost of living in the United States. But if high duties do not help to keep up prices the tariff is a delusion and a fraud. It does not accomplish what it was intended for, and is not needed. It is sheer impudence for the foes of tariff revision to say that the Payne-Aldrich rates do not contribute to the high cost of living when the beneficiaries of schedule K, ! the cotton-mill Interests, the iron and steel manufacturers and the beet sugar people flock to Washington to | tXomplain that lower duties will affect the prices of their products. | Tariff schedules that represent exj cessive and unjust taxation upon consumption and extravagance in government expenditures are two causes that I operate directly against lower cost of i living. The remedies for both abuses are in the hands of the government. | To revise the tariff, to reduce taxation and to practice economy in national j expenditures will be to take a long | step in the’direction of affording the consumers relief.. It is true that the cost of living has Increased of late years the world over. But for the administration or congress to make that a pretext for adhering to unsound and wasteful methods of government is to defy common sense.

An Emersonian.

Last year Colonel Roosevelt said of the Canadian reciprocity treaty: “I have the peculiar pleasure to say a word of congratulation to y.ou and all of us upon the likelihood that we shall soon have closer reciprocal tariff and trade relations with the gredt natipn to the north of us.” But This year the colonel jubilates over the death of the same treaty: “The reciprocity treaty is now dead. In any further attempt by reciprocity treaty or otherwise to bring about a rearrangement of the tariff, there mtist be no discrimination against; the farmer, no effort to make him pay the entire burden of reduction.” ’< So the colonel is, for it; he is also “agin" it. It is his glorious privilege to occupy both sides of the same question, whether alternately or simultaneously, as suits his convenience. ‘ “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” says Emerson. The cob onel's mind never gives it a thought? —Milwaukee Sentinel (Rep.).

Ideal Fiction

THE IDEAL attitude of the public library toward fiction should be one of severity, tempered by toleration. A public library should buy all the good novels and buy them in large numbers. The bad novels it should not at all. All a public library, then, has to do in the matter, in reference to any novel, is to discover whether it is good or bad. This is a very simple thing to state, but a well-nigh impossible thing to do. There are easy-going readers who think-there is some good in all hovels, and there are implacable haters of modem fiction who stiffly maintain that, at pfesent, no good novels are written at* all. From a committee made up of the implacables, the easy-goers and intermediate types of critics the public librarian should get varied estimates of all the novels published, and from these varied estimates draw his own conclusions. These conclusions will frequently be wrong, but he will have lived up to the best light he has. He will probably find some good novels. To deny that good novels arp written today is to make a too sweeping impeachment of our literary output. Let the librarian do his best to find these -good novels and. then duplicate and reduplicate them many times. It is undoubtedly a misuse of one’s time and a perversion of his intellectual faculties to read fiction, even of the best quality, exclusively'. ISTo one knows better than the librarian that there are a large number of readers who never do read anything but fiction. They have lost the power to wrestle with books that deal with realities. The fiction drunkard has lost the intellectual stamina needed to clutch and grip the great thinkers who write real books—science, philosophy, literature. Much fiction has made them mentally flabby-—their mental muscles are paralyzed by intellectual dissipation. They are literary drunkards, and all good librarians have an interest in their reformation. Good fiction presupposes a considerable degree of intelligence in its readers. If it deals with the eternal verities of human nature it must . k its readers interested in many and varied domains of thought. A good novel by a real thinker should stimulate its reader to broad investigations, and, sometimes, to long-continued research. It is hard for a librarian, even with the co-pperation of many helpers, to select the small percentage of good fiction from the large percentage of the bad. His action, whatever it may be in the matter, will not be without vociferous protest on the part of the public. But let him do his best and abide in com- - placent good nature.

Plan to Compel Criminals to Work

By SARAH BLUEMENTHAL

Again, there are many instances where the family of the murdered man become the charges of the public at large because the only bread winner has been taken from them. liere the convicted men are executed society is forever placed beyond the possibility of drawing upon the wrongdoers for the support of those who have suffered most keenly. i The public is put at a double expense, the expense of the prosecution and the support of the sufferers. There should be indefinite imprisonment, first and foremost for the purpose of making good to society, to as high a degree as possible, for the harm done. The work done by the prisoners should be at a living wage so that the very source of the privation caused by crime should have an opportunity to make restitution. If once the principle is decided upon the method can easily be discovered.

Too Much Emphasis on Mere Learning

By Prof. John M. Tyler,

Amh«rst College

must shift its emphasis from mere increase of learning—or memory ■ to increase of physical, mental and moral power and efficiency. Such a change will force its way here but slowly against the prejudices of parents and public, who would have even the baby devote himself to learning something “useful.” ,

Comforts for Men Charged With Murder

By Agnes Hall

A mighty few such convictions would have more effect than dozens qi convictions under the present system, where the murderer is followed to court by dozens of women.

Public Library Should Contain Good Novels

By SAM WALTER FOSS

Aside from all ethical reasons why capital punishment should be forever abolished I beg to mention a more potent one. I make my appeal now in the name of economy. W e all know that in most cases the expense in the prosecution is in direct ratio to the financial rating of the accused, but even where four men are sentenced to be hanged within two months of the date of their crime there is a certain amount of money spent by the state. It seems hardly fair that the public should be taxed for this purpose needlessly.

The school should furnish the training formerly furnished by the farm and the home, or the education of the child will be defective in the most important respects. It can no longer be merely or chiefly hn institution of learning, as it could content itself to be a century ago. It must furnish training in skill and ingenuity, in planning and doing, as well as in learning and abstract thought. It must educate for efficiency and power. W e have fine buildings, good equipment, but the system under which our teachers are working is antiquated. It

Who comforts the wife murderer? Every day we read of some brutal murder and the next day we read of the notes of sympathy and the flowers sent to the murderer by tender-hearted women. His trial drags on and on until he has been pitied by women from one end of America to the other and finally he is either an acquitted or convicted hero. Women’s influence should be exercised to make a country-wide law that would execute a woman murderer as nearly instanter as would be compatible with justice and with no sympathy whatever shown him.

THE SWIGARTTRACT and your independence. _ HAy E YOU MONEY ENOUGH to buy a farm in the Corn „ 51a0 to S2OO per acre? Would you invest at those prices when von ter P r a tP C ° f DS . lder that your money in farm mortgages will bring a better rate of interest than those farms are earning on their hiirh v«i He 5 ’ C ? rD r ßelt l f nd: 18 averaging an annuau oft 4 per cent of its valuation. There's a demand now for cheaner K that will earn as much, or the same priced land that will earn or even higher priced land that will earn two or thri as land in the Corn Belt. A farmer can’t buy $l5O to S2OO Oaf!* !“ °f Illinois and expect to make the crops pay for it° lift m the Swigart Tract, in Mason, Manistee and Lake Counties now P ° ,at “ S S ‘ Ve "" baCk ** Price’

IF YOU HAVEN’T SB,OOO with which to buy a 40-acre Corn Belt farm, but have $640 to buy a 40acre Fruit Belt farm which, with a little additional expense in clearing, will produce as many dollars per acre in staple crops, it would be a.' good purchase,, wouldn’t it? And when your Fruit Belt farm is developed in Fruit and earns twice, thrice, or even four times as much as the Corn Be.t farm does in corn, then it becomes the best land investment possible. THAT FRUIT BELT FARM is in the SWIGART TRACT, in the center and best part of Michigan's ■ rui-t Belt. Better be doing something about it while the opportunity is yours. if a man’s desire for land amounts to as much as the siiiall railroad tare and a couple of days time investigating, then we put our time against his, furnish team free, and drive as long as he likes. Farm-renters are buying here lor less yearly outlay of money than it takes to rent a farm of the same acreage in Indiana. Would you like to own a farm? This proposition brings it within easy reach. it is a proposition that is sound and of proven merit. That is its reputation. For 17 years Swigart has been acquiring the Tract, examining lands and soil, growing products, and expects to work his remaining years in the upbuilding of this district. , WHAT MAKES THE SWIG4RT LANDS SO DESIRABLE is warm, quickly producing, good soil; well drained, gently rolling and level lay of land; proper distance from Lake Michigan to get most benefit from its influence; best shipping facilities, both lake .and rail; excellent local markets, healthful, moderated climate; water pure as crystal, plentiful rainfall; pretty inland lakes and trout streams; good roads, good schools; excellent

THE NEXT EXCURSION. An 8% hours ride from Chicago puts you on the ground, where you can talk to settlers, examine soils, and verify our representations. Excursions leave ChiP Pr “°u on Tuesdays, May 7 and 21. Private car attached to the Pere Marquette train for the exclusive use of the Swigart par‘y nnlvt Xt f? i Ch f- rS ?j rain I )asses through Michigan City (P. M. depot onlj) at 1.-5 P. M. and Benton Harbor at 2:30 P. M. Round trip rate from Chicago, Michigan City or Benton Harbor to Wellston, Michigan, $6. Get tickets after boarding our car. Fare rebated on purchase., On 80 acres fare from home is allowed. Please notitj. us as early as possible so we can provide comfortably for all Good accommodations at Michigan headquarters. PARTICULARS can be had by addressing GEORGE W SWlagent ° Wner ’ 1249 Fitsi Xati °nal Bank Building, Chicago, 111., or his C. J. DEAN, Rensselaer, Indiana.

J. H. Perkins & Co. Wind Mills, Tanks, Gaso- -—J line Engines, Plumbing and Repairing. Qfflp j Give us a call i* in need of i anything in our jjpMj B line. Office and sfßfi Opposite MePhones: Office 45 •' - 407 or 261

Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of a certified copy of a Decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Dee Yeocum is plaintiff, and Chester H. Robinson ia defendant, requiring me to make the sum of Three Hundred dollars, with interest on said Decree ana costs, I will expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 25th day of May, A. D. 1912, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. of said day, at the door of tihe Court House in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, the" rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years. The undivided one-eighth (y 8 of the undivided one-third (1-3) of the following real .etetato in Jasper county: The southwest quarter (%) of section eleven (11); the south part of the east half (%) of the northwest quarter (% ) of section eleven (11); the west side of the southeast quarter (*4 ) of section eleven (11), and the south part of the northeast quarter (%) of section eleven (11), all in Township twen-ty-eight (28) North, Range six (6) west. If such rente and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said. Decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place

class of people. There is more settling, bu! tiding and developing going on here than in» any other part of the state. WHAT MAKES THE SWIGART PLAN SO WELL LIKED liberality. Terms are as low a* $lO to SSO down and $5 to sio per month on 40 acres; 5 per cent for all cash; or annual payments Prices are now $lO to $35 and on much land only sls p er acre. Swigart is financially able to fulfill his promises; ask the First National Bank of Chicago. Swigart owns the lands, gives perfect title, knows the needs of the farmer. His policy is to satisfy—not simply to sell If you should die while buying the land, the farm will be deeded to your family free. This costs nothing extra and is a protection which every careful man appreciates. V HAT MAKES THE SWIGART TRACT THE LOGICAL PLACE TO BUY is that one can pick from over a thousand 40-acre farms and many larger and smaller farms. It j 3 the largest and best collection of lands in the Fruit Belt. A number of fine new tracts have recently been added. Considering the advantages, and the location and quality of land, this is the best offer in Michigan, and promises most rapid increase in value. POST YOURSELF. Get a 38page, well illustrated booklet full of reliable, valuable > information. It shown what the average man can do. Drop a postal for it——it will be mailed free; also a large map, on request. Investigate the 10-acre model tracts for fruit, truck and poultry, near towns, also residence and business lots SSO and up in two new towns on the P. M. Ry. and summer resort dots on the Wei Ist on Chain of Lakes. Send for plats and descriptive matter of these properties also

expose to public sale the fee simple of said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to dilscharge said decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief whatever fromi valuation or appraisement laws. I WILLIAM I. HOOVER, , Sheriff Jasper County. Wilson & Quinn, Attya. for Plaintiff April 27, A. D. 1912. Notice to Heirs, Creditors and Legatees. In the matter of the estate of Henry Kupkie, deceased. ' Ij i. the Jasper pircuit Court, September Term, 1912. f„M Ot V; e ' ,S h | r t by driven to the creditors, heirs and legatees of Heriry Kupkie, deceased, and all persons- interestt m ®?. ld estate, to appear in the Q? h SP X Clr s Ul l Court ’ bn Monday, the a y,« of September, 1912, being the daj fixed and endorsed on the final settlement account of Charles Saltwell administrator of said decedent, arid cause if any, why such final ac- . should not be approved; and the heirs of said decedent and all others intersted, are also hereby notified- to appear in said court, on said dav and make proof of their heirship, or claim to any part of said estate. CHARLES SALTWELL, Administrator. Ray D. Thompson, Atty. for estate, ■— 1 ■ Order your calling cards of The Democrat. We can suit you in style of type or engraving and the price is always right.