Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1912 — Page 4

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News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Fumuhed by Our Regular CorreipondenU

WOLCOTT.

(From the Enterprise.) Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Will Duff, Monday. September 23, a son. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Otto Jarrett, Monday, September 16, a soil. Charles Kendall shipped his household goods to Conrad Monday where he will work on a ranch. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles A Ison, Wednesday, September 25, an eight pound daughter. Misses Angella Kolhoff and Edna Robinson of Rensselaer are visiting Theresa and Rose Wagner. , Mrs. John Greisner of Reynolds,' anl Mrs. Frank Fleeger of Lafayette, spent Wednesday with their aunt,' Mrs. Amanda Kerlin. Mrt. and Miss Viola Goodacre went to Kentland Thursday morning to begin a protracted meeting with the Pleasant Grove church. Miss Helen Eck went to Remington Tuesday evening tb spend the rest of the week with her parents l , Mr. and Mrs. George Eck. M>r. and Mrs. Robert Conn and children of Delphi, who have been visiting Mr. Conn’s sister, Mrs. Minnie Parsons; returned home Wednesday. Joseph Brenner, a brother of Mrs. Ed. Blume, accompanied by his wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Burt of' Cisna Park, drove over in their automobile Wednesday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blume.

MEDARYVILLE.

(From the Advertiser.) Johin Lanam, of York, Nob., is here on a visit with his phrents, Mr. ana Mrs. Brooks Lanam. Dr. D. F. Moss died at his home in Wjnamac, Wednesday, Sept. 18th. at the age of 66 iyears. Heart trouble was the cause of death. iMiss Martha Kennedy a graduate nurse from the Home Hospital at Lafayette.* is attending Mrs. Frank Rowe in her very serious illness. Mrs. Olive Kain and little son have returned from Evansville after a several weeks visit with Mr. Kain, who is employed on a dredge in that locality.

The Dull Scholar. Many a so-called “dull scholar” is so because of some defect of the eyes. Don’t neglect the eyes of your chiMre®. Glasses worn a few years In youth may mean freedom from them in after yeans. For careful Scientific esaminatioin and proper glasses come to DR. ROSE M. REMMEK Harris Block, Phone 403

flteun of Interest ’ from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to th« Jasper County Metropolis

Two harvesting machines. idf-n* : cal in all respect®, manufacture! by -the C hicago Harvester Company, are on exhibition in. Texas; one bought in Germany for SBO and the other in Illinois for $125. There will be reams of “explanations”—and just one reason.

When Mrs. H. G. Farnsley returned from church last Sunday she j found the house occupied by her children and grandchildren and the table loaded with all kinds of good things to eat. No need of saying that she was agreeably surprised. The occasion was her birthday anniversary. Mrs. Ella Knotts and daughter Susan, wife and daughter of Mayor Tom Knotts of G-any, In'd., visited with the former’s sister, Mrs. Charles E. Robinson, and family, recently. They were accompanied on their return home by their relative, Mrs. W. S. Stevens, who was their guest for a week. Charles E. Robinson has been confined to his home this week with illness. While on ore of bis trips through the hay region north of San Pierre last Monday, lie was suddenly taken with chills, which compelled him to return homeward. Arriving at the neighborhood of K. B. Clark's he became so bad that he had to turn at that hospitable home, where he was taken care of over night. Next i morning he had sufficiently recovered so that he could be removed to his own home. At this writing lie is reported to be considerably better.

GOODLANI)

(From the Herald.) Mrs. George Johnson is reported very low, being a sufferer of dropsy. Mrs. John Frohreieh and children returned Monday evening from a visit at Mishawaka, Ir.d. Harold Dickinson left Monday morning for Franklin, Ind., where he will enter Franklin college. Miss Ella Brook and Katie Hogan attended the close _ of the Forty hour devotion at Kentland Tuesday evening. Isabella King, who has been employed at the George O. Bales home for several months, returned to her home in Winamac, Ind., Monday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Bittinger returned to their home in Kokomo, Ind., Tuesday, after a short visit with their daughter, Mrs. Warren Wilson, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Gaston and children of Wakita, Okla., came Tuesday for a short visit here with Mrs. Gaston’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilson, and family. Mrs. Harold Minaker, nee May Skiff, came Tuesday afternoon for a two week’si visit herb with her mother, Mrs. Skiff, who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. L. Houk, for several weeks. Mrs- Josephine Weidenbaker, who has been taking treatment at a Chicago hospital, returned to Goodiara last Friday. She was~ accompanied home hy her daughter, Mrs. Fred Lupien, ,of Kankakee, 111., who visited her until Tuesday morning. Mrs. Albert Pugh, of Rochester, Ind., and Mrs. Delia Davis, of Michigan City, Ind., came Wednesday to help the former’s mother, Grandma Kitt, celebrate her eighty-eighth birthday on Thursday. A birthday dinner was given at the home oi Mtb. Henry Downing in honor of the occasion.

Mrs. M. R. Carlock returned to her home in North Vernon Saturday morning after a short visit here with her son, T. C. Carlock, and family. Her daughter, Miss Iva, who Has been here during the summer, and Mrs. T. C. Carlock and baby returned home with her to be present at the Fall Festival at North Vernon during this week.

To Remind My Customers. I am on my wajy and am making my regular rounds with the Rawleigh goods. Remember and save your orders for me, as I will make it worth your while to do so. Anyone wishing goods between trips can get them at my reeidenec, four squares west of the depot, on Vine street. Yours for business, O. N. HILE. . Phone 4 64. West Vine Street,. Rensselaer, Ind 320 Acre Farm at Public Sale. The 320 acres of the Maines estate, lying 1 mile north and 1 mile west of Rensselaer, one of the finest improved, best drained; as good quality of soil as any land in Jasper county, will be sold at public auction to the highes bidder, about the middle of October, the date and terms will he given in a later issue. This farm will be shown by either Judson Maines or Fred Phillips to prospective buyers.

WICKERSHAM IN ERROR

INADEQUATE DEFENSE OF TAFT’B TRUST POLICY. Decision in Northern Securities Case Affected Only Forms, Not Substance, of Control. Attorney-General Wickersham is out with a defense of the Taft policy of dealing with the trust question. He recites what has been done by the present administration in the way of prosecuting offending corporations under the Sherman anti trust law, pointing to the court decisions secured in favor of the government, as if that were all that need be said on the subject. Mr. Wickersham cites the decision of the United States Supreme court in the case of the Northern Securities company. The holding corporation that was formed for the purpose of taking over the ownership of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads, built as competitors, was not allowed by the courts to go ahead with its program. However, competition between the two companies was not thereby restored. The control of the two properties is still substantially the same as it would have been under ownership vested jo the Northern Securities company. The two railroad systems are operated in harmony. In commenting further on the situation Mr. Wickersham naively remarks; “It is true that the stocks of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroad companies sold in the market after the dissolution at higher prices than before, but the peril that was averted was the effect of the power of a few men over the transportation facilities of the country. The decision also established as a legal proposition that it was a violation of the Sherman law or of any other federal statute for the same individuals to be owners In like proportions of the stock of two cbmpeting companies.”

Only the forms of control—not the substance —-were affected by the decision in the Northern Securities litigation. As is inevitable in the case of public utility concerns, the railroads are coming into more harmonious relation with one another every year. Rate wars are scarely mentioned any more. While the railroads thus act in harmony public control over them is far less effective than it would be made if their business were frankly recognized by the government as a natural monopoly. Mr. Wickersham fails utterly to draw a distinction between public utility concerns like railroads and other business undertakings that are supposed to be conducted on a competitive basis. If congress were to legislate anew on the subject today it is impossible to believe that it would fail to draw this distinction.

The error made by Mr. Wickersham is not in defending the litigation carried on by his department, but in assuming that more litigation of the same kind offers a solution of the trust question. It was well enough in the past to conduct prosecutions, in order to discover jvliat useful qualities this procedure might develop. But in the light of experience thus gained it is folly to maintain that the Sherman anti trust law is all right as it stands and does not require modification.

’•I We are paying for Butter fat this week 31c WILLIAM H. DEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana

SOLD OUT FORA SONG

PRIVILEGE OF EVERY KIND ON BARGAIN COUNTER. Cost of Living Rises but License to Prey on the People Is Becoming Dirt Cheap. In an era of high prices how dirtcheap some things are! The cost of living rises, but the price-marks ou privilege of every kind are low and the tendency is downward. We read of sums that seem large paid annually to the police system of New York for licensing and protecting vice and crime. Yet what a beggarly valuation is $2,000,000 or $10,000,000 for tSie right to prey upon a city of 5,000,000 people, containing property assessed at eight thousand millions! We read of Mark Hanna campaign funds of $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 used to cajole or corrupt voters and carry elections. Yet what bagatelles are these when compared with the things that they bought, such as the passage of laws and the suspension of laws in a nation of 90,000,000! We shall never know how cheaply we have been sold by the police system and the extortionate tariff system until we apply the rules of merchandizing and put prices and commodities into contrast. We are not only sold out and betrayed municipally and nationally, but we are also shamed in the knowledge that our liberties and estates have been bargained away for a song. »

It has recently appeared that Standard Oil contributed $125,000 to the -Republican campaign fund in 1904 on the understanding that the money would be “gratefully received” and “appreciated.” It was asked for another donation of $150,000, which was refused. Here we have Standard Oil’s idea of the market value of the favor of the United States government. When Standard Oil declined to pay more, it is now admitted that the Steel Trust made good the deficiency. Both of these great combinations owe their lawless lives and most of the hundreds of millions that they have rolled up in a tariff-cornered market to the favor of the United States government.

Daniel C. Jtoper, chief clerk of the ways and iheans committee of the house of representatives, estimates that the tariff tax averages $l2O a year for everyVamily. Of this sum only sl6 goes into the treasury. The remaining $lO4 is absorbed by the protected interests. He believes thEft an honest tariff levied only 1 for public purposes would save the people nearly $2,000,000,000 a year. With this colossal plunder in mind, what is tfc be said of Standard Oil haggling over the price that it was to pay for the lion’s share of the graft? \\ hat of Steel’s willingness to make good the deficiency? What of the contemptible $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 raised by the system to continue in power the party that gave the United States government into its control? If the privilege of taxing the people $2,000,000,000 In the interest of a class were put up at auction we believe that even Standard Oil would increase its bid. If the privilege of suspending the anti-trust law so that it might absorb its rival, Tennessee Coal and Iron, were put up at auction we believe that the Steel Trust would show even greater liberality. Thanks to the Mark Hanna system, the prices of everything that wo eat, wear and use are rising. It is only the things that should be priceless, such as light, liberty and justice, that are on the bargain counter or hawked about the streets.—St. Louis Republic.

LOOKING AHEAD

“Reserve a Lower Berth to Washingt on on November sth."

No More Make-Believe.

We must speak, not to catch votes, but to satisfy the thought and conscience of a people deeply stirred by the conviction that they have come to a critical turning point in their tnoral and political development. We stand in the presence of aii awakened nation, impatient of partisan make-, believe. —Governor Wilson.

He Stands Alone.

Gov. Wilson, alone among the candidates, offers a sane, workable program for reducing the high cost of living. Gov. Wilson, alone among the candidates, is pledged to uncompromising warfare on those tarifT grafts and “Jokers” which gather the earnings of the many into the bloated fortunes of the few. Gov. Wilson, alone among the candidates, Is trying to end the regime of government privilege. Instead of trying to “regulate’ and pepetuate it

GRAND MILLINERY OPENING Friday 3 *' l October Saturday | ** & • * A fine display of Trimmed Fall Hats, and competent milliners to make up your hats to suit you. Remember the dates for the Opening and come in early and see my line. Mrs. Mary Meyer-Healy

PROGRESSIVE PARTY NEWS, (Continued From First Page.) 5. The adoption of the proposed amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people, and in the meantime the adoption of a law similar to the Oregon law, by which the legislators elected by all parties shall be bound by direct preferential vote for senator. 6. A preferential vote for candidates for President and Vice President. 7. The adoption of a more effective and economical registration act and a corrupt practices act which shall comply to all elections and primaries, including the election of officials of party organizations and of delegates to all conventions. 8. Equal sufferage for women on all questions. 9. A minimum wage for wopien wage earners. 10. Efficient child labor laws, national and state, and the rigid enforcement thereof. 11. A decided change in state education which shall prepare youth to engage in life work through trade schools and widespread industrial and agricultural education and free school books for children in common schools. 12. A public utilities commission with the power to regulate rates, service, capitalization and issuance of securities! of public service corporations and to make physical valuation of the property of such corporations, and compel the production of books and records. 13. An act prohibiting corporations from the issuance or sale of watered stock. 14. A workman's compensation act for industrial accidents under settled upon a scale fixed by which establishment losses shal) be statute, the worker to have his alternative to pursue his remedy in court.

15. Home rule for cities, with Power to adopt their own charters. Uinttil this can be accomplished by constitutional changes we favor the passage of an act granting to cities and towns the option of adopting commission government in lieu of remaining under the present cities and towns act. 16. The application of competitive merit system to the civil service of the state and of the citie® and counties thereof, and the adoption of the federal registration rules for the labor service. 17. A reform' in court procedqre whereby technicalities in pleadings, in trials and on appeals shall be eliminated, so that justice shall not be delayed or denied. 18. The creation of a state conservation commission embracing the work of the state geologist, the state etomologist, the bureau of statistics and the state board of forestry. 19. The erection of a state libray and archive memorial building in celebration of the centenials of state in 1916, thet state having now no adequate place for its priceless historical documents and library. 20. A national income tax, and a state inheritance tax; and in connection with these an expert investigation, followed by a complete reformation of the tax laws of the state whereby such outrages as are now committed in working out the corporation highway tax shall be rendered impossible; and we hereby small properties shall cease to bear more than their proportion of taxes; hnd whereby as new taxes are added present direct taxes shall be di-‘ minished. 21. A revision? of the road laws, along the line of state aid and state control of main roads. 22. Liberal pensions ito soldiers. , 23. Federal regulations of cor

porations doing an interstate business under the supervision of an in>dustrial commission with power similar to those of the interstate commerce commission. 24. We hold that the liquor traffic is a moral question and that its solution rests wholly in the moral and religious attitude of the people themselves; that the moral and religious attitude of the people of Indiana can and will be honestly expressed on the liquor question only when it is wholly divorced from politics. As a permanent solution we agree to enact the initiative and referendum through which method a vote of the whole people honestly expressed, without bias or predujioe of party politics, may be had. In the meantime we favor county local option as a temporary relief. 25. We favor a tariff measured by the difference between the cost of production here and abroad. This is fair to American manufacturers; less than this is unjust to American laborers; more is unjust to American consumers. We demand the immediate creation of a genuine permanent nonpartisan tariff commission, with ample power and definite duties fixed in the law iteelf; meantime we demand the immediate revision of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law along the lines of honest protection. 26. We favor the calling of a constitutional convention by the next Legislature, the delegates thereto to be chosen by the direct vote of the people on a nonpartisan ballot.

Big Time At Virgie.

Saturday, October 5, at night, big time at Virgie, celebrating the 48th birthday anniversary of John Reed. Speeches, entertainment and dancing. Special engagement of W. H. Groendyke, independent candidate for state senator, will address you, his subject being the “Agricultural ascendancy and Justice to the Farmers.” Professor J. H. Barnum, the world’s greatest magician and ventriloquilsit will also entertain you. Will close with a big old fashioned barn dance. This will be the biggest time ever held in Virgie. Remember the date, Saturday night, Oct. 5. xx The Democrat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer or the St. Louie Twice-a-week Republic, only $2.00 per year. This applies to both old and new subscribers. Phone any little item of news you may have to The Democrat. It will be appreciated.

We all admire beautiful teeth ' . '" A good set of teet'h are a joy to the owner, and a thing of beauty to all beholding them. They are the best part of a man’s or woman’s feature?. See J. W. HORTON let him advise you about your teeth, he makes no charge for this, REALLY He invites you to Ids well appointed dental office FOR THIS VERY PURPOSE