Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Page 4

EPITOME OF A WEEK'S HEWS

Most Important Happenings Told in Brief

Washington By & vote of 70 to 62 the Democratic members of the house in caucus decide 2 to oppose the authorization of any battleships at the present session', cf congress. ' ~ . '■ th' The sundry civil appropriation bill, carrying approximately $116,000,0c0 for the support of various bureaus and brp^-®; a r.f :? * gnvr- rn m ent, Jigged the United States senate. It contains increases cf about $6,000,000 over the approp--.at;?ns authorized by the house. '■ The Alaskan civil government bill, establishing a legislature of one house in the territory, with authority to enact local laws, passed . the. senate in Washington with practically no opposition The house has passed the bill, but a conference will be necessary to adjust differences. • • • John Mitchell, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, was sentenced in the District of Columbia supreme court to nine months’ imprisonment for contempt of court growing out of the Bucks Stove and •Range- company case.. • • • Judge Cornelius H. Hanford of the United States district court at Seattle, Wash , whose conduct on the bench has been under investigation for nearly a month by a subcommittee of the house judiciary committee, has tendered his resignation to Presidept Taft. Judge Hanford gives ill health as the reason for his resignation. •• - • Former Senator Nathan B. Scott of West Virginia told the United States senate committee investigating campaign funds of 1904 and 1908 that no contributions were made to Colonel Roosevelt’s campaign by corporations, by Henry Havemeyer. the sugar king, or by any representatives of the International Harvester company, so fur as he could recall.

» • • • In a strong arraignment of the United States government for "its failure to secure redress for injuries resulting from the Mexican revolution and insurrection. Senator Albert B. Pall of New Mexico declared in the senate that this country would not regain its prestige in Mexico in fifty years; • • • Domestic The steamer Old Colony of the Metropolitan Steamship line while turning the Battery. New York, on her way from Boston, crashed into the yacht Idler, which sank almost immediately. The passengers on board the Idler and the yacht's crew were taken off by tugs before the boat went down. ' • • • Peary’s arctic ship, the Roosevelt, was sold under the hammer in New York for $35 200, to H. E. J. McDermott, representing a concern, the name of which he declined to give. • • • Dynamite placed on the rails exploded under a street car in Boston, wrecking the car. injuring two passengers and frightening 30 others. • • • Flying at the rate of 100 miles an hour in an untried monoplane, which had cost him three years’ work and SIO,OOO in money, Edson F. Gallaudet crashed from a height of 400 feet to the new field near Westbury, L. I. The aeroplane was utteriy demolished. Gallaudet was painfully but not seriously injured. • • •

Nearly a score of persons lost their lives by drowning and lightning, property was damaged to an amount approximately 53.000,000 and two hundred or ndore passengers marooned by washouts caused by devastating floods and cloudbursts that struck sections of western Pennsylvania. West Virginia. Wisconsin and Michigan. The greatest loss of life was in the Superba coal mine, near Uniontown, Pa., where 12, miners, caught by an overwhelming flood of water, were drowned. • • • After having climbed nearly four miles to the steep sides of Mount McKinley, to a polht within 464 feet of the summit. Prof. Herschell Parker of Columbia and Belmore Brown of Tacoma gave up their efforts to reach the goal and are bn their way home. • • * • . ' ■ ■ r' ■ Engineer William Schroeder and Flagman Edward Lane were held responsible by a coroner’s Jury at Corning, N. Y., for the recent wreck on the Lackawanna in which 40 lives were lost. - The ahnual session of the national grand lodge of the International Order of Good Templars of the United States began in the old capitol in St Paul. Minn. Large delegations from all part* of the Union and from Canada were present. ,

PLEAD “RIGHT” TO TAX

REPUBLICAN PARTY STILL STRONG FOR PRIVILEGE. I ‘ ' ' '' Chairman Hilles, in His First Official Document Pleads for the Trusts Against the interests of All the People. Charles D. Hilles, the newly chosen chairman of the Republican National committee, as his first official act sounds a defiance to the enemy. The Democratic platform begins with recognition of the notorious fact tha£ : the Constitution does not’ authorize the laying of tariff taxes for the protection of manufactures. Says Chairman Hilles: j “It I the Democratic platform) de- ' dares as false the vital issue of the ! constitutional liberties of the individual • • • it would leave the in- ; dividual defenseless in the protection !of those rights declared inalienable • under the Constitution.” It might be just a.g well for us to get clearly In mind exactly what "right of the individual” Chairman Hilles is defending. Jt is the right of one man to tax another for his own benefit. That is what: protection mea.ns. Under the Payne-Aldrich tariff there is a heavy tax on gloves Mr. Hilles, •like all good Republicans, stands for the “right" of ex-Congressman Llt-

tauer of Gloversville, N. Y„ to tax the working women of St. Louis by exacting a higher price for Inferior gloves than good ones would bring if sold in competition with the open market. I nder the Payne-Aldrich law articles manufactured of rubber are protected by a heavy tax. Chairman Hilles stands for the ‘ right” of the Aldrich rubber interests thus to tax American consumers of rubber for their own profit. Under the Payne-Aldrich law there Is a heavy tariff on steel rails. This enables the Steel trust of Mr. Gary, Mr. Perkins and Mr. Morgan, which makes steel so cheaply as to sell tens of thousands of tons each year in the foreign market in competition with the world, to lay a heavy burden on the purchaser of steel at home —a burden which forms part of every railroad rate and is one factor of the high cost of living in every home And Mr. Chairman Hilles stands fo’ the "constitutional liberty” of Mr. Morgan and the steel magnates thus to tax the rest of us in order to mak«more Pittsburgh millionaires and pi".® up more cash and securities in tbe vaults of the Steel trust banks' The Democratic party asks nothing better than the opportunity to join battle with the Republicans on the "right" to tax everybody for the profit of somebody.—St. Louis Republic.

Proper and Improper Tariffs.

Daniel C. Roper, chief clerk of the and mean-; committee of the house, statistician and tariff expert, says: “The Democrats have clearly shown that there are two kinds of tariff ; one for revenue, and one for protection; that a revenue tariff is intended to produce the necessary money to support the federal government; that a protective tariff is to tax the people to raise revenue for private packets. As the tariff wall of prohibitive duties is increased, just so are trade combinations fostered and the people required to pay exorbitant prices. Prohibitive tariffs prevent relief from without the country, while combinations plunder the people within the country. Again, as the revenue for private pockets increases, that for the public treasury diminishes, because of the high and protective wall created against imports.”

Can Reduce Cost of Living.

The promise to reduce the cost of living has been held out so often and so fruitlessly by seekers after office, during the past few years that the • wonder is that we should hear it again. When Governor Foss was i elected for the first time two years j ago it was on the platform that his election would cheapen commodities to the people of Massachusetts. He is now well in his second term and the cost of living is higher than it was at the date of his first inaugural. A gov- ; ernor of Massachusetts has no real power to reduce prices directly. A : president of the United States, standing on a sympathetic national platform, can initiate legislation and gen- . eral policies tending to wipe out some 'of the factors of excessive prices, not high prices. His, platform has behind lit the pledge of legislation to put it in ' operation. .

Verdict is Against Taft.

He has been tried. The verdict of the big majority of his own party, the unanimous verdict of all other pasties is; that William Howard Taft is unfaithful, unreliable, unfit.

Duty of the Democracy.

The task now before the Democracy is to revise tite tariff in the Interest of the people and not of the plundering barons of the steel, wool, cotton and rubber interests, to Infuse earnestness into trust prosecutions, and jo reform the currency laws. We want to put a Democratic president at one end of Pennsylvania aveneu and a Democratic senate at the other, so that when Champ Clark lifts the gavel over the new Democratic house the best chapter in the history of legislation at Washington will begin.

LA FOLLETTE WOOL BILL IS PASSED

Senate Defeats Cummins’ Plan and Penrose Compromise. RECORDED VOTE IS 39 TO 27 Measure Introduced by Wisconsin Senator Is Put Through by Coalition of Insurgent Republicans and Democrats. f Washington, July 26.—The senate, after setting in committee of the whole, defeated the Cummins’ wool bill by 34 to 32, adopted the Penrose compromise measure and finally passed the La Follette wool bill of 1911, the Democrats and Insurgents voting together. The La Follette bill was adopted by a vote of 39 to 27 less than two hours after the Republican leaders had achieved what they believed was a victory when a compromise submitted by Senator Penrose was passed in the conihiittee of the whole. The Cummins’ substitute wool tariff bill which represented the views of many of the “progressive" senators was defeated when it came to a vote in the senate. Practically all Progressives, voted for. it. The measure was defeated, 57 to 14. The senators supporting it were Borah, Bourne, Bristow, Clapp, Crawford, Cummins, Gronna, Jones, Kenyon, La Follette. Nelson, Poindexter, Townsend and Works.

Democrats Aid Slaughter. All Democrats and the balance of the Republicans voted against the Cummins bill. The defeat of this substitute had been anticipated, and the knowledge that a compromise measure had been prepared by the Republican leaders, to be offered as soon as the Cummins bill was disposed of, aided in preventing the so-called regular Republicans from supporting the Cummins bill. Senator Penrose, acting on behalf of the Republican members of the finance committee, offered the Republican substitute as soon as the Cummins amendment had been voted down. It was the bill that had been prepared by Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island. Senator Penrose made a formal statement as to the effect the new bill would have if adopted. He said It would make many Important reductions in the present tariff rates on wool and woolen products. Bill Was Passed in 1911.

The action of the senate undoubtedly means that another wool bill will be sent up to the president for his signature or veto. The La Follette bill, as adopted, is identical with the one passed by the senate at the last session. The Democratic wool bill passed by the house at'this session is word for word the bill which the Democrats adopted in the house last year. When the senate and hohse conferees meet on the La Follette and the Democratic bill, they will have to consider the two same bills presented to the conference committee in 1911. At that time, after prolonged discussion, La Follette made concessions and the Democrats met him half way. The result was that the wool bill was vetoed by the president on the ground that there should be no tariff legislation until the tariff board had made Its report.

GIDEONS MEET IN ATLANTA

Christian Travelers’ Association Is Holding Its Annual Convention in the Georgia City. Atlanta, Ga„ July 26.--The Gideons have possession of Atlanta for three days, for the annual convention of this association of Christian commercial travelers opened today in the Piedmont hotel and it has attracted a large attendance of the members from all parts of the country. In the thirteen years since its birth in Boscobel, Wis., the organization has grown to a membership of more than ten thousand. This morning, after a cabinet meeting and reception, the sessions were opened with President A. B. T. Moore serving as moderator and Louis C. Stumps of Missouri leading the devotional service. Business occupied the time until four o’clock, when the members went to the Cold Springs Cue dub grounds for a bjarbecue given by the Atlanta camp. Tonight, when Jerry M. Porter of Kentucky will act as moderator, the welcoming addresses will be made by Mayor Winn, W. S. Witham and Rev S R. Belk. ‘ ■' 1

U. S. MARINES LEAVE CUBA

Navy Department Confident Trouble Is Over, Orders All Except 100 to Return Home. Washington, July 26.—Confident the troubles in Cuba are at an end the navy department gave orders that all marines at Guantanamo; with the exception of 100 which will be maintained there as a permanent garrison, be returned to their home posts in the United States. It is purported to keep 100 marines always on the island to cope with any sudden outbreak which may occur,

Mine Owner Is Dead.

New -York, July 26.—Homer Pennock, owner of large mining properties in Colorado and Alaska, is dead at his home in New York, aged seven-ty-two yews.

I Store open I *■ - *ll sai.. I ■ T« 30 ii v iiii n.Y I I __ Wl ■ s wUlllllv "• Re “ nds I I Without Parallel or Precedent comes this I I RECORD-BREAKING, SPECIAL I 15 Day Shoe Sale H Having purchased the Entire Surplus I Stock of the Columbia Shoe Store, conI siting of Men’s, Women’s and Childrens’ ■ I P W Shoes at 20 cents on the dollar, I am / j® V able to make Prices never before offered, t \ft only a few of which are quoted below: ' \ .. . I - I I X lot No. 1 LOT No. 2 K<X/ L 100 Pairs of Men’s Ox- 500 Pairs of Ladies' Wk fords, small sizes worth Shoes and Oxfords, ft ft U P to Special 89c small sizes, $2 to $2.50 I 1 LOT No- 3 values -- -29 c ■ ftk ° 300 Pairs of Misses' LOT No. 4 II and Childrens’ Lace 200 Pairs Boys’ Lace S 1 Shoes and Strap Slip- School Shoes, sizes 3’s pers, sizes up to 2’s, to ss, $2.00 and $2.50 $2.00 valve -98 c values - - -98 c 1 3,000 PAIRS MUST BE SOLD 3,000 I ■ Extra Special Remember— I I While it Lasts every pair at a /vBK, I I 2 tence.itbox- Special Price. I I I es of Shoe Come early and --W®. I I Polish -15 c get first choice. I I 4 for - -25 c Prices will be % I S -—— reduced every W I I Limited, one week until en- Bfcj I ■ purchase to a tire stock is | ■ customer. closed out. ■ j Opposite Court House, West Side of Square | hbbbh

Ileal Estate Transfers.

Charles W. Coen to Jesse L. Brady, July 9. pt nw, 17-31-6, Walker, SSOO. Mary F Griffin to Lida A Milner, June 16, Its 4,5, 6, bl. 1, Remington, Bartoo’s add., SI,BOO. James T. Randle to John A. Randle, June 10, e% ne 5-29-5, 105.95 acres, Barkley, $10,500. James T Randle to John A Randle, June 2, pt w% ne, 5-29-5 23.39 acres, Barkley, $1,500. Mary V. Hammond to Oren F Parker et ux, June 13, Its 1,2, 3, 4,5, 6, bl. 21 Rensselaer, $3,000. Commissioners of Jasper County to Oren F. Parker et ux, July 1, Its. 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, bl. 21, Rensselaer, $ , q c d. Mathias Zehrden to Anna Wagner et al, July 10, Its. 9, 12, bl. 9, Rensselaer, Leopold’s add., SI.OO. O. Rowles, et al, June 18, pt w% William H. Barkley to William sw, 12-29-6, 50 acres, Barkley, $6,200. Joseph Szarzynski, et ux to Emmet L Hollingsworth, July 11, w% ne, 20-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, $4,800. Benj J Gifford to William A Steveson. July 12, .It 27, bl 1, Kersey, S2OO. Jesse L Bradj' to Timothy J Harrington, July 15, Its 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, bl 23. Rensselaer, Weston’s 2d add, $16,000. David T Halstead to Emma C A Cox, Meh 4. pt It 1,4, bl 44, Rensselaer, Weston’s add, sl. Stanislaw Prowiez to Matej Pergl et ux. Nov 27, ne ne, 1-31-5, 40 acres, Walker, sl. George J Lawton to James B Fitch. July 15, pt n% sw, 26-32-5, Kankakee, $5,000. I J Rosenberg to Rudolph J Schwab, Feb 10, s% ne, 34-31-5, Gillam, sl. q c d. Rudolph J Schwab to George D Prevo, July 8, s% ne, 34-31;5, 89 acres, Gillam. $4,000. Arthur H Hopkins to Katharine R Shields, July 15, Its 4,5, bl 2, Rensselaer Riverside Park add, S6OO. George E Hosmer to Milroy School Tp. July 8, pt se, 15-28-6, 1 acre, Milroy, $35. Mary S Center Heiss to John W Harris, June 17, It 6, bl 10, Remington, SSOO. Emmet L Hollingsworth to Thos Davis, July 16, w% ne, 20-31-6, 80 acres, Walker, $3,600.

Buy your box stationery and envelopes at The Democrat office.

MKUMA. [Under thia head notices will be published for 1-eent-a-word for the Snrt insertion, %-cent per word for each additional insertion. To save Writ irnep Ing cash should be sent with notice. Ne notice accepted for less than XS cent*, but short notices coming within ths above rate win be published two er more tlnfes, as the rase may bo for 26 cents. Where replies are sent la The Democrat's care, postage win be charged 'or forwarding such replies to the adver -Iser.J FOR SALE For Sale—A good team of young work horses.—GEO. LAMPHIER. Kniman, Ind. a 6 For Sale—New Cable Pianos at bargain prises and on easy terms Come and examine the pionas at my home.—HARVEY DAVISSON. For Sale—One 15 H. P. double cylinder Master-Workman gasoline engine on skids; in perfect condition. Price $225. Call or address JASPERSON BROS., Tefft, Ind. al For Sale—B-room house 1% blocks from court house, 2 lots 50x150 feet., lots of fruit, excellent well of water. Price $1,600, small pajment down, balance like paying rent. Address Box 493, or phone 499. For Sale—l 6 town lots in Kersey, one with house, barn, small fruit, etc. Also have 15 acres of land adjoining town of Kersey for SSOO. Will sell all together or separately.—W. A. STEVENSON, Kersey, Ind. sls For Sale or Exchange—Will accept part exchange for one of the best manufacturing businesses in Central This property includes 32% acres of land inside of city of 3,500 population. Address —L. B. 236, Paxton, 111. Farms For Sale—l have a number of farms for sale in different paru of this county and adjoining counties, and I have made up my min ’ to devote my time to the business Therefore if you have any farms c’ town property to sell or trade givme a chance and I will give yon a square deal.—JOHN O’CONNOR Ex-sheriff Jasper county, Kniman Ind. For Sale—Three 40-acre farms, good soil and good bcildings; orchard. fine grove Of timber on each and 2 miles from railroad towns.

close to school, on gravel road, phone and R. F. D. Are extra fine truck, poultry and dairy farms with good marker. Will sell separate or together on payments to suit purchaser. C. L. PARKS, residence near Surrey. P. Q. Rensselaer, Ind. FOR RENT. For Rent—The third floor hall in The Democrat building, 25x75 including two ante-rooms at rear. Fine light room suitable for lodge purposes or for light manufacturing, such as shirt, overall or sunbonnet factory. Will lease for term of years.—F. E. BABCOCK. WANTED Ranted—To correspond or meet a widow .lady , about 40 years of age who wants a good home. Object matrimony.—R. F. WILLIAMS, Virgie, Ind. al Timber Wanted—Standing timber suitable for mine props, timbers, and hardwood lumber. Must be near railroad station. Address COVEY-DURHAM COAL CO., 203 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. miscellaneous. Storage—l have rooms for light storage on second floor of The Democrat bunding.—HAßVEY DAVISLadies, Attention—“ Salome,” the wonder of the 19 th century lor washing, can be had at Long’s drug store, or of the agent, Mrs. W N Henkle, R-2; price 10c a bar or 3 bars for 25c. For washing bedclothes it has no equal.. agio financial Farm Loans—Money to loan on ln any sums up to SIO.OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Hint ihnf WitlloUt Delay ' I nil Illi VVithout Commission I Uvl 111 Without Charges for UftUFV I Maklns or Recording Ml Hll I Instruments. IrlullL II W. H. PARKINSON. 7 Gleaners Twine. The Gleaners, twine is all sold. It is giving such good satisfaction with those who are using it that we cpuld have sold twice the amount. FANCY PRODUCE MARKET.