Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — Page 2

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NEWS FROM NATIONAL CAPITOL

'By Clyde H. Tavener, Special Correspondent for the Jasper County Democrat.;). j Washington, D, C., December 27 —There is one way, and one way only, for the Democrats to remain in power ; by giving the i>eople after' election what they promised before election. The people don’t want ex-i fuses; they want deeds. This is Speaker Champ Clark's idea of what the democratic party must do to make good and to be retained in power. “If there there is anything I be- 1 lieve in strongly,” said Mr. Clark, “it is that promises made to win 1 an election should be religiously carried out after the election is won.’ i “Men should say what they mean and mean what they say; and they should speak the plain language of the plain people s o that all can understand. The voters of the land have a right to be treated honestly, candidly, fairly and courageously. They are entitled to that square degl of which 1 we hear so much and see so. little. “Robert J. Walker’s report on the tariff remains to this day the greatest paper on that subject. In it he laid down, this general principal ‘The highest rates should be on luxuries; the lowest or none at all on the necessaries of life.’ 'That should be the basis of our revision of the tariff to which we are so solemnity committed. “The rates should be arranged so as to produce the maximum of reveriues, while taking from the ultimate consumers the minimum of rnPney in the shape of tariff taxes. That statement may appear paradoxical, but what it proposes is, perfectly feasible. There is a maximum of revenue producing rate on each particular item which can be ascertained, and which should be ascertained. The moment the rate on any article goes above the mamlunim reve-nue-producing rate the revenue 'begins off, and the more the rate is increased the more the revenue dwindles until it disappears entirely, and the rate becomes prohibitive. “Such is the case with blankets nine feet long, worth not over 40 cents per pound, an article of prime necessity on which the compound specific and ad valorem amounts to a tariff tax of between 165 and 182% per cent. "Without going into wearisome details, it is safe to say that threefourths of all the tariff rates of the Payne-Aldrieh-Smoot tariff bill

are above the maximum revenlueproducing rates and should be reduced at least to a competitive point.

“The truth is that the words ‘a competitive tariff’ are more easily understood than the words ‘a tariff for revenue only.’ “A competitive tariff” is one which would give Americans the American market so long as they sell at fair prices, but would let in foreign products if the Americans undertake to gouge Americans. “A competitive tariff” would in practice be "a tariff for revenue.” The revenue can be increased more frequently by reducing rates than by increasing them. ' The present tariff, if thoroughly overhauled, could be made to produce a great deal more revenue and at the same time not cost the taxpayers one-fourth of what they now pay, for under the present system where one dollar goes into the federal treasury four or five goes into the icockets of the tariff barons. The rates in a new bill or new bills should be fully as low as the rates in. the bills which we passed during, this congress, and in some cases lower. "All the talk about the democrats wanting to injure business is absolutely preposterous. “What we want to do is to give every man an equal opportunity in the race of life, and not pamper a few at the expense of many. That plan would foster every legitimate industry in the land and injure none. That is one way in which congress can aid in reducing the extremely | high cost of living, which is really the most pressing, vexatious, and important problem with which we have to deal. What, the people demand is cheaper food, cheaper clothing, cheaper necessaries of life generally, and any cuts in tariff rates which do not accomplish that are not worth the trouble and la. bor of making. > “The revision ou,ght to be made carefully, scientifically, and in mony with democratic promises.’*

High Grade Nursery Stock.

We (represent Emmons & Co. nurserymen of Newark, N. Y.; 500 acres in Nurseries and Orchards; high grade nursery stock and wheat sprayers. Thoroughly reliable. References, First National Bank and Arcadia National Baik of Newark.— SAMUEL WILLIAMS & SON, Rens-' selaer, Ind., R-2, Box 18.

FLETCHERIZATION This means thorough and complete mastication. It means digestion, good assimilation, theerefore, good health. But the above good things cannot b e done with a poor set of teeth. Visit J. W. HORTON to-day. Let him examine your your mouth and tell you the condition it is in. A lot is expected of your teeth; help them by keeping them in good condition

THE BUSINESS SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT FOR INDIANA CITIES

PUBLISHED BY THE BUSINESS SYSTEM OP GOVERNMENT STATE COMMITTEE OF THE INDIANA FEDERATED COMMERCIAL CLUBS.

SERIAL NO. 4. Publicity. In the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities 'publieity of municipal affairs is provided for in ample and multiplied ways. There can be no secret conclaves of the Board of Councilors or star chamber sessions of the Board of Administration. All meetings are open; all proceedings are of record; all voting is upbn roll call. The transactions must be transcribed in the minutes which It is the right of every citizen to examine if he likes. Monthly reports of receipts and expenditures throughout the government must be rendered arid published. A monthly summary of proceedings must be made and printed. At the end of the fiscal year there must be an audit of all the books and accounts of the city and the result must be published. From first to last, in the Business System of Government, there is publicity. The names of candidates for councilor in the primary must be published, and the names of their sponsors must be signed to their petitions of candidacy, which become public documents open to inspection by any citizen. The names of candidates chosen in the primaries must be published. All ordinances for franchises, public grants and privileges must be extensively published. Ordinances proposed for initiative must be published. Petitions for recall and elections based thereon must be completely advertised. Nothing is done in the dark. There is no shadow, hole or cranny in the entire Business System of Government that can offer a hiding place for', crookedness or a refuge for crooks. The people cannot be kept in "ignorance of what is going on in their government. They are within touch with it all the time. Any citizen who does not constantly know of the proceedings a,nd proposals in the administration and of the conduct of each official will' have only himself to blame. The char- i ter for the Business System of Gov-1 eminent, in conserving the welfare i of the city, its people and their interests, provides every safeguard that publicity can give.

The Recall. The Business System of Government for Indiana Cities gives a place of great importance to the Recall. The principle of the Recall is operative from top to bottom. The people may recall the Board of Councilors. In turn the-Board of Councilors may recall the Board of Administration. Likewise the Board of Administration may recall the officials and employes who are under it. Each element may recall the branch of government for whose appointment and conduct it is directly responsible. It all rests on the question of performance to the satisfaction of the people. The moral of the Recall is that it corrects the chronic disabiliy of our local rule, ■which, though it permits the people at fixed intervals to say WHO their government shall be, denies them afterward the right to say WHAT it shall be. The Recall is the recourse of the people between elections. The voters do not have to wait two or four years to rectify blunders made at the polls or to punish betrayals of public trust. The Recall, through a new' principle of operation in local government, has worked well. As a measure of public good it has been justified by results in those cities that have employed it. More than two hundred cities are now operating under charters which contain provisions for the Recall, yet use of it to remove officials has been made but eleven times, and of these twice each in two of the nine cities that furnish the examples. This principle of continuous control by the people has i immense virtue as a. preventive and high value as a spur to energy and a guarantee of efficiency. That is the reason it is so seldom needed as a remedy. The fact that such a power is always in the hands of the people is enough. Officials will not often provoke the use of it. That it. is neither an easy nor a cheap instrument to wield breeds practical caution in employing it. And it' will work, better as the people on the one hand improve in the understanding to use it and as officials on the other hand gain in respect for it. In the Business System of Government any ten voters may institute recall proceedings against all or any part of the Board bf Councilors by filing with the city clerk a signed request that a petition for recall be issued and stating the ground for actipn. If within thirty days 25 per cent of the voters of the city appear at the city clerk’s office and sign the petition for recall, then an election must be ordered. If within that period the petition fails tof obtaining the required number of signatures, then it is returned to the ten who requested a petition and they must pay the costa incurred, including those of publication. It is proposed in the Business System of Government to make the recall the Base resort of the people in a crisis In their home rule, not a bludgeon in the hands of the vicious or a weapon for malcontents and soreheads. It is guarded with , such checks and restraints as will counsel the people to sanity and moderation in the use of their power. The recall Is not a measure of spite nor an instrument of revenge. It is the lever kept in the hands of the people to control their government. Care is

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taken in the Business System that it shall not be perverted or abused. Each instance in those cities where the recall has been invoked and has succeeded, or where attempt made to use it has failed, shows that the people go about this business of sitting in judgment upon their arraigned officials with judicial calm and sober spirit to deal justly.

The Referendum. In the Business System of Government for Indiana Cities one of the important provisions is for the Refi ereudum. This section of the charter j provides that no franchise, grant or , other public privilege shall be valid and become effective until the people i have had an opportunity to vote on i it. Such an ordinance, after passage by the Board of Administration, must be approved by the Board of Councilors. It is then placed on file for thirty days. If, during this period of suspension, 25 per cent of the legal voters of the city petition for a referI endum the ordinance must be subi mitted to a vote. If a majority of the I votes be cast against it, the ordinance becomes extinct. It is provided, how- | over, that if after a petition for a ref- ! erendum has been filed the Board of , Councilors repeal the ordinance. : against which protest has been made, no election need be held. The Ref--I erendum embodies the right of the people to say directly for themselves I what disposition and use shall be ■j made of the property which belongs to them as the public. Under such a provision it becomes impossible for the authorities in the government to give or barter away valuable privileges upon terms that are not fair to the people. Almost every city in America has suffered Vast loss through the carelessness, in some instances, and through the corruption, in other instances, of its local government in giving valuable grants to corporations. The greatest source of j boodiing, bribery and graft in our , cities has been in the enormously vali uable rights of monopoly conferred by | councils and aldermanic boards on I utility corporations. Franchises without limit as to term and without condition as to honest restraint have in many cities exposed the people to extortion and robbery and bound them in a virtual slavery to interests that ostensibly were chartered to be the servants of the people. Without recourse, the people have stood helpless while their stupid or corrupt representatives in government gave away or, for their own gain, sold privileges of monopoly worth millions. The Referendum gives the people the means to decide in their own judgment and by their own ballots whether or not a proposed franchise is a good bargain for themselves. It is a measure of genuine democracy as well as of good business sense. It will dry the springs in which many corpotions have their source. No corporation or other interest will undertake to pay for what a local government is of itself unable to deliver.

The Initiative. In t’ usiness System of Governmen .or Indiana Cities one of the vital features is the Initiative. This is another measure by which the people may declare WHAT their government shall be. The Initiative is the complement of the Referendum. It enables the people to obtain measures of government that they want, while the referendum arms them against measures that they do not want. Under the initiative the voters have the right and the means to take the lawmakng power into their own hands should government refuse to give them what they believe they need. Ihe initiative is not a new principle of democratic action* The name and process only are of later origin. Through the machinery of the ballot is made practicable the most direct form of law-making, as when the people of a community came together in mass-meeting on the village green to pass their laws and institute their measures of self-rule Under the Initiative law-making today becomes as literally the voice of the people as it was then in the old town meeting. In the Business System of Government the method of the initiative is this: If any city government refuse to pass such a law as the people want, 20 per cent of the voters by petition can require that the proposed law be> submitted to a vote. If a majority of the votes be in favor of the ordinance submitted, it thereupon becomes a legal and binding ordinance. While the petition is pending the Board of Councilors may, if it wills, pass the ordinance demanded and thus make an election unnecessary. If the people find they have been mistaken in the value of an ordinance procured by initiative they may later repeal it; but the government has no power to repeal or amend ordinances Instituted by the initiative, though it may Bubmit to popular vote at regular elections proposals to repeal or amend such ordinances. Not more than one special election for the initiative may be held in any one year, but several ordinances may be submitted at one time, and such ordinances may be voted upon at any regular election.

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Edward P. Honan/ ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, abstracts, Real Estate Loans, Will practice in all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

>. C. Irwin, “* aw * Real Estate and Insurance 5 Per Cent Farm Loans Office in Odd Fellows’ Block RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Over State Bank Phone 16 John A. Dunlap, LAWYER (Successor to Frank Foltz) Practice in all courts Estates settled Farm Loans Collection department Notary in the office RENSSELAER. INDIANA. Arthur H, Hopkins, LAW, LOANS AND REAL ESTATE. „^V oans , on arm and City property, secarlt y and chattel mortgage. Huy, seH and rent farms and city property. Barm and city fire insurance. Attorney for AMERICAN BUILDING LOAN AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION. Office over ' Rowles & Parker Store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. F. H. Hemphill, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of Women and low grades of fever. Office In tV llllanis block, opposite Court House. Formerly occupied by Dr. HartPhone Office and Residence, 442 RENSSELAER, INDIANAS. Herbert Moore, fl. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON All calls will receive prompt attention ?‘*“t day from my office over th# Model Clothing store. Telephone No. 261. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. E. C. English, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust & Savings Bank Office Phone, 2 rings 77. Residence Phone, 3 rings 177. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. H. L. Brown, DENTIST. Office over Larsh’s drug *tore RENSSELAER, INDIANA. Dr. F. A. Tuifler OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN Graduate American School of Osteo- £ a OsteoMth** Graduate u American School T. Stm P thy under the founder, Dr. A. Office Hours—B-12 a. m., - 1-5 p. m . lnd. UeSdayS and Frida >' s at Montlcello, 1 -2 Murray Building - Rensselaer, Ind. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

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— Ch ‘ c *0° *° Northwest, Indianapolis, Ch*. cinnatl and the South, Loulavllla and French Lick Springs. RENSSELAER TIME TABLE. Effective Nov. 24, 1912. SOUTH BOUND. No. 31—Fast Mail (daily) 4.40 a _ S'Louisvifie Mail (daily) .11 09 »'s‘ No 33 t? I f ldi anapolis 11:32 a! m‘ Kn t r Limited (daily) 2:00 p.m No. 39—Milk Accom. (daily).. c-ofi „ No. 3—Chicago to Louisville! ill !o5 p! .. J T NORTH BOUND. £*°- ’ 4 —Lsville to Chgo. (daily) 4 53 a No. 40—Milk Accom. (daily)... S* « No. 32-—Fast Mail (daily).... 10*12 n* No. 38—Indpls. to Chgo (dailvi °** No. 6-Mail and Exf® (dally) Hi No. 30—Hoosier Limited (daily) 6:02 pm' Passengers for C. H. & D noint.’ Points beyond Indianapolis shoffid take train No. 37 from here as inSandl^lß D ° W the terminal for Nos. % n J'°- 4 w,n stop at Rensselaer to let off passengers frorti points south *nt Monon, and take passengers for LowelL Hammond and Chicago nowefl. Nos. 31 and 33 make direct connee. tions at Monon for Lafayette. W ' H - BEAM, Agent. Rensselaer.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS. Clerk r 9, M «yera Mar. r hai y -Moses Leopold ssss • Councllmen. 3rd ward .HanyVeS At Large... C. J. Dean, A. G. Catt JUDICIAL. Circuit Judge ....... Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Attorney... .Fred LongweU Terms of Court'—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Bour week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS. £*® r jL. Judson H. Perkins ..W. I. Hoover Audltor J. P. Hammond Treasurer A. A. Fell Recorder John W. Tilton Surveyor W. F. Osborne Coroner w. J Wright County Supt Ernest Lamfon bounty Assessor John Q. Lewis Health Officer e ; n. Loy COMMISSIONERS. Ist District Wm. H. Hershmsa 2 nd District. Charles F. Stackhouse 3rd District Charles T. Denahm Commissioners’ Court meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Trustees Township Wm Folgar Barkley Charles May Carpenter J. W. Selmer Gillam George Parker. ....Hanging Grove W. BL Wortley ....Jordan John Shirer Kankakee Tunis Snip Keener H. E. Parkison Marlon George L. Parks Mllroy E. P. Lane... Newton Isas.c Kight Union Albert Keene Whoatfleld Fred Karch Walker E. Lamson, Co. Supt Rensselaer E. C. English Rensselaer James H. Green Remington Geo. O. Stembel Wheatfleld Truant Officer, C. B. Steward, Rensselaer TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Jordan Township attends to official business at his residence on Monday of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3. W. H. WORTLEY, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Newton Township attends to official business at his residence on the First and Third Thursdays of each month. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postoffice address, Rensselaer, R-R-3. E. P. LANE, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP. The undersigned trustee of Union Township attends to official business at his store In Fair Oaks on Fridays of each week. Persons having business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Postofflce address, Fair Oaks, Indiana. ISAAC KIGHT.

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