Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1912 — Page 2

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THE JISWR GOUNTT DEMOCRIT LE.BIBC6CK,EDnORJIIDP«BIIBB». OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Advertising rates made known on application. Lona Distance Telephones Office 315. Residence 311. o E ” ter ed as Second-Class Matter June 8, 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. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1912.

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DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

For Governor SAMUEL M. RALSTON, of Lebanon For Lieutenant Governor WILLIAM P. O’NEILL, of Mishawaka For Secretary of State LEW G. ELLINGHAM, of Decatur For Auditor of State WILLIAM H. O’BRIEN, of Lawrenceburg For Treasurer of State WILLIAM H. VOLLMER, of Vincennes For Attorney General THOMAS M. HONAN, of Seymour For Supt.' of Public Instruction CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE, of Indianapolis For State Statisticialn THOMAS W. BOLLEY, of North Vernon For Reporter Supreme and Appellate Court PHILIP ZOERCHER, of Tell City For Judge of Supreme Court First District JOHN W. SPENCER, of Evansville For Judge of Supreme Court Fourth District RICHARD K. ERWIN, of Fort Wayne For Judge of Appellate Court, Southern Division JOSEPH H. SHEA, of Seymour. DISTRICT TICKET. I For Joint-Senator. Jasper, Newton, Starke and White Counties PATRICK HAYS of Burnettsville. For Joint-Representative, Jasand White Counties. CHESTER A. MCCORMICK • of North Judson. —" I COUNTY TICKET. .—I 1 1 For Treasurer ■ EDWARD P. LANE, ■ of Newton Township < For Recorder < STEPHEN D. CLARK, of Wheatfield Township « For Sheriff <

WILLIAM I. HOOVER, of Marlon Township For Surveyor DEVERE YEOMAN, of Marion Township For Coroner DR. A. P. RAINIER, of Remington For Commissioner 2d District CHARLES F. STACKHOUSE, of Marion Township For Conimisks’ioner 3d District ALBERT H. DICKINSON, of Carpenter Township.

Call for Judicial Convention Notice is hereby given to the democrat- of the 30th Judicial Circuit of Indiana, to meet in delegate comvention in Rensselaer, Indiana, on • Tuesday, September 3, 1912, at 1 p. in., for the purpose of nominating a Candidate for prosecuting Attorney for said circuit. The basis of representation at said convention of delegates will be as follows: Jasper, . . ... . ... . . . . $. Newton, ’ . 6. N. LITTLEFIELD, Chairman Jasper County. 11. L. SAMMONS, Chairman Newton County.

Call For Congressional Convention. I flfaei Democrats of the Tenth Congressional district, and all who desire to cooperate with them, are Invited to meet in the delegate convention, at Jackson club rooms, in the city of Lafayette, Thursday, September 5, 1012. , for the purpose of nominating a , candidate for congress. The convention will be composed of 104 delegates—necessary to a ■choice, 53 apportioned among the I several counties as follows: I Benton, . . ,8. I Jasperß. 1 Lake, ....30. Newton. 6. I Porter 6 ! Tippecanoe 26. Warren 5. 1 White, 12. . CHARLES J. MURPHY. i District Chairman. LA FAOLLETTE AGAINST ROOSE- | VELT. ■ Robert M. LaFollette, U. S. Senator from Wisconsin, foremost republican “progressive in the upper Hanse of Congress, is against Theodore Roosevelt for a third term, because, he says, Roosevd’.t, , while president, co-operated wjh the trusts instead of co-operating with him in his fight against the trusts. i “On the day that Theodore Roosevelt was made precedent,” declares, LaFollette, “there were 149 trusts ■ and combinations in tjie United States. When he. ( turned the, government over to Taft tfyere were ' 10,020 trusts. “When Roosevelt entered the . White House the trusts and combinations were capitalized at $3,784,000,000. On the day that he turned the administration over to Mr. Taft this captaljzation had grown to $31,872,000,000, more than seventy per cent of which was water. “I do not believe that the man who was president for more than seven years, while the greatest trust growth in the history of the country took place, at the very time of all

times in the history of the Sherman law when the enforcement of that law would have destroyed the trust organizations—l dp not believe that the man who Was president during that time is the man to find the way out now. - ’

NO CHEAPER SUGAR.

The price of sugar is not to be reduced two cents a pound—-not, at least, as long as the present Republican president and Senate remain in business at Washington-. The democratic House of Representatives, it will be recalled, passed a bill placing sugar on the free list. It was estimated that this would reduce the price approximately two. cents a pound. Another bill was pa.-sed placing; a tax on incomes above $5,000. This would have m<sant, in a few words, the transfer of a portion of the burden of taxation from the breakfast .table to wealth. But the republican Senate objected to any such transfer, with the re.-ult that the people will have to go on paying an artificial price for sugar, while wealth remains untaxed by Uncle Sam.

Perhaps sonig day it will be different. But it will not be until a Democratic Senate and president are elected to co-operate with a House of Representatives that is really trying to represent the will of the people Of this C”i a fry.

Delegates to Congressional Convention.

Following are the names of the delegates from Jasper county to the Congressional f Convention whidh meets in Lafayette on Thursday, Sept. 5, and to the Judicial convention which meets in Rensselaei next Thursday, Sept. 3:

CONG. DELEGATES Simon Femdig, Wheatfield. J. B Erwin, Demiotte Joseph Nagel, Rensselaer Arthur Tuteur, Rensselaer. O. K. Rainier, Rensselaer. Frank Alter, Rensselaer. Charles E. Sage, Jordan Township W. D. Bringle, Jordan Township. JUDICIAL DELEGATES 11. E. Remley, Wheatfield. Joel F. Spriggs, Walker Township. Geo. W. Ca.->ey, Unlion TowniShdp. Eli Gerber, Rensselaer. N. S. Bates, Rensselaer. T. A Crockett, Rensselaer Da nd el O’Conner, Remington C. W. Littlefield, Remington.

Alfalfa Culture in Jasper County.

I believe from this season’s experience that under proper conditions alfalfa can be grown in this section. I find the essentials are the right kind of soil and the right time of sowing, the right kind of “nurse crop” and the right kind of Al fa-1 fa sown. As there are many kinds of alfalfa, I would advise any one sowing to get the northern grown alfalfa seed, guaranteed by several seed companies, to do well wherever clover grows well. I would advise late summer sowing, as there will be no nurse crop needled, with spring-sown alfalfa, takes away moisture from the young pl'ants..

I have found Giant spurry tcTbe the only nunse crop for good results. Sown lightly with spring sown alfalfa. Giant spurrp is 'a highly fertilizing plant and roolts deep in the soil and prepares and inoculates the soil. The soil should be a black gumbo clay or a chocolate. crumbly with clay. Those soils need no inoculation.

When I sowed a field on loose soil in the spring the alfalfa alll died out, although an abundance of inoculation was used, and I don’t believe a paying crop can be raised when crushed liimes'tone and inoculation are required. JOHN W. CLOUSE.

Do You Want Lightning Protection,? I can furnish you protection from lightning and give an insurance to that effect. I use nothing but the best lightning conductors, and my prices are reasonable. If you are interested call and see me or write me at Rensselaer, Ind., Box No. 711 —FRANK A. BICKNELL. ts Dp you read The Democrat?

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“JOKERS” HID REVISION UP

Actual Raising of Duties Effected by Payne Bill J COTTON AND WOOL SCHEDULE Both Indefensible, and President Taft Knew It—Suppression of Facts by the Tariff Board—Statistics Employed to Mislead the Public. By ROBERT KEIMNETH MACLEA. [Formerly consulting expert of the tariff board.] New York, Aug.—On not a single one of the ninety-five all cotton samples of fabric taken as the basis of the tariff board’s investigations of the cotton schedule was there an actual reduction of the tariff by the PayneAldrich law. The samples were selected with great care by the combined judgment of the board’s experts, Indorsed by the leading jobbers of the United States as being representative of all classes of fabric in use in this country, each sample being chosen because it was typical of the most used material of Its particular weave or class. Ninetyfive all cotton and five silk and cotton samples comprise the 100 thht appear in the tariff board’s cotton report. Forty-seven of the ninety-five in the all cotton class pay 33.60 per cent higher duties under the Payne-Al-drich than they did under the Dingley tariff.

Payne-Aldrlch “Jokers.” Of these forty-seven classe of material on which the tariff was Increased nine are the fancy weaves made in three or four New England mills commonly grouped as the “LlppittMcColl Interests.” This Is the clique of New England manufacturer-politi-cians who were permitted by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich to write the cotton schedule to; suit themselves. Of the nine Lippitt-McColl fabrics the Payne-Aldrlch law jacked up the average duty from 36.57 to 60.33 per cent. In other words, the promised “revision downward” on these goods was really a revision upward amounting to 64.97 per cent of the Dingley rates. The remaining thirty-eight classes of all cotton fabrics on which the duty was increased were not generally the product of the favored New England ring. Under the Dingley law these thirty-eight fabrics were assessed an average duty of 35.36 per cent. Undfer the Payne-Aldrlch law they pay 44.58 per cent. —a revision upward equal to 26.07 per cent, of the former rate as compared with 64.97 per cent, increase on the manufactures of the favored few.

On just three among the 100 samples was there a decrease In duty. These were the silk and cotton fabrics (silk mills) that pay more than 100 per cent.

FACTS SUPPRESSED AND ISSUES EVADED BY TAFT TARIFF BOARD

By ROBERT KENNETH MACLEA,

Formerly Consulting Expert of the Tariff Board.

Under the pressure of promise to fight chicanery and fraud in tariff legislation, I deem it a public duty not to withhold the facts in my possession relative to the investigation of the cotton manufacturing Industry. Regretful that my experience with the board warrants such conclusions, I am compelled to present the following Indictment:

I. That the tariff board, j n jt a report on manuSUPPRES- facturee of cotton cm SI (Schedule I) has supSION pressed findings of vital Importance to the cotton Industry, to the public and to the government, but inimical to the special privileges of a few New England manufacturers who were permitted by Senator Aldrich to write the cotton schedule' to suit themselves. 11. That the tariff board T"" 1 "" has perverted other PERVER- acts, thereby avoiding cm KI exposure of tariff injusoluN tices that have beneflt_ed the few at the expense of the many manufacturers. 111. That the tariff board has not, as stated by President Taft to congress, drawn any conclusions that would “be valuable in advising the congress and the people * * * of the changes that ought to be made to make more equitable their (she wool and cot- , ton schedules) effects.” EVASION The board did not attempt to draw conclusions, “scientific” or otherwise, from its “scientifically” collected data, but sidestepped that responsibility by arguing that such deductions as its data justified were not called for under the specifications of its employment. IV. That the tariff board’s report was arranged so as io be Incomprehensible to either legislators Or laymen; that tables were deliberately disaasociated or emasculated EMASCU- f not suppressed, and I A Tin KI that a congressman LAIIUN would require the serv- — _____ ices of a statistician and a clerk six months to make head or tall of the jumble of data presented as a basis for intelligent tariff revision. V. That the tariff board CIUADIT avoided altogether inrAVUnII- vestigating certain IQU phases of tariff graft lOIVI hidden in "jokers” of the Payne-Aldrich law. VI. That the tariff board falsely reported that it was impossible to obtain abroad

duty. On these three samples the reduction averaged 5.66 per cent on the former duty—a reduction from 116.70 per cent under the Dingley law to 110.44 per cent under the Payne-Al-drlch law. On one of the silk and cotton samples there was an increase amounting to 21.98 per cent. The fifth of the silk and cotton samples was left unchanged. On the forty-five of the ninety-five all cotton samples there was no change in duty. On the three remaining samples (completing the total of 100) no comparison is made because of apparent lack of authentic foreign prices. Mr. Taft Was Mistaken. And still President Taft said in his speech at Boston, April 25 last: “It (the Payne-Aldrich bill) was a" vastly better bill than the Dingley bill. If I had refused to sign the Payne bill it would have maintained the Dingley bill with higher rates than the Payne bill.”

When Mr. Taft made this statement he must have known that it was untrue. As for the wool schedule, he knew that the rates were not higher in the Dingley law than in the PayneAldrich law, for right after signing the latter bill did he not denounce its wool rates as “indefensible?” And, as for the cotton rates of the Payne bill, he knew they were just as “indefensible” as the wool rates, for at the time he made this statement in Boston he had the tariff board’s report on cotton before him.

It is true that the cotton report of the tariff board did not make this information available at a glance to Mr. Taft or to congress or to the public. The tariff board carefully avoided giving this information in a getatable, understandable form. Suppressed the Answer.

“Was the tariff raised or lowered?” has been an insistent question ever since the Payne-Aldrich law was enacted three years ago. The tariff board avoided answering it. In making my official report to the board I submitted a table that did answer this question in respect to each one, excepting three, of the 100 cloth samples around which our months of Investigation centered. After much sidestepping and discussion this table was expurgated and published in its emasculated form. The board’s excuse was that It was not its duty to answer the question; congress could make its own computations. Benefit Only to Privilege. From every point of view of the tariff grafter it is no doubt highly desirable that such facts, staggering as they are to the dishonest pretensions that the cotton tariff was really lowered, should be buried as deeply as possible in a mass of unexplained statistics. But it is to the advantage of every honest manufacturer and merchant who is seeking stability in business and fair opportunity to make a reasonable profit that the truth should be made known. Just such policies of official evasion and suppression have made possible in the past the juggling of tariff legislation by and in behalf of the privileged few. —New York World.

cost data on weaving necessary to enable it to make an intelligent comparison with ibi a AIT costs at home; that the I Hit AAU I board was offered opportunities for obtalnIng such data, but did not use them; that such foreign data as were obtained were in some cases suppressed and in others were Inadequate for honest comparison, although so utilized. VII. That the tariff board betrayed the confidence of American manufacturers by publishing data that should have been held iisir- a m for confidential informaUNrAIR tion °f legislators; that competitors were given thereby valuable trade secrets, while the foreign manufacturers divulged nothing of similar character or importance. VIII. That the tariff board’s nmißinr-Ai treatment of economic uISINGEN questions vitally affect11 Al IO I’ 18 ’ the relation of the UUUo tariff to the prices ex-’ —I acted from consumers was disingenuous and misleading. IX. That the tariff board has proved not to be the “nonpartisan” and scientific instrument promised by President Taft; that its members displayed inexperience In business, incompetence and extravagance. I have been forced reluctantly after a year’s Intimate association to accept the opinion that the tariff board has — been nothing more than i an effective cog in a rißn-rioAßi "standpat” political maPARTISAN chine; that some of the men who clamored most ___loudly for a tariff board and some of the men appointed thereto worked all the time complacently in the knowledge that the creation of the board was a scheme to prevent genuine tariff reform as long as possible by “gumming the cards and delaying the game,” a charge frequently made, but which I for a long time discredited. X. That such facts as the tariff board has reported sustain the charge, as to both the wool and the cotton schedules, that the conCONVICT- ias been robbed I Kin outrageously as a conING sequence of excessive duties and that the profits have not gone into the pockets of the laborer to "maintain an American standard of living." —From New York World

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