Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — Page 4

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The New Nationalism.

It is a strange thing that the doctrine of the new nationalism should have such a lure for people who ought to know better than to he beguiled by it. But this only makes clear the importance of fighting it, no matter in what form it reveals itself. Here, tor instance, are certain democrats, among them Rep. resentative Hay, of Virginia, chairman of the military committee of the house, actually favoring the militia pay hill, which would be, if it became a law, ore of the most deadliy assaults on the principal of state rights. Under this law the federal government would become the paymaster of the national guard and the President would become its -.comanan der-in-ch ief.

This proposed law ought to l>e especially objectionable to people of Indiana, since it is ini Hat violation of their Constitution, which provides “that the Governor shall be com-mander-in-chief of the military and naval forces,” and gives to him power to “call out sudh forces to execute the laws, or to suppress insurrection, or to repel 'invasion." That is a power that he ought to have. Yet under the militia pay bill the President could call out the militia of Indiana, not only in time of war or when war threatened, but in every grave emergency when troops in excess of those constituting the regular army were required. We do not at all subscribe to the extreme southern view of state sovereignty, nor to the New England view, as recently formulated by a distinguished man, who said that If the' question had been presented to him that had been presented to Lee he would have decided it 'in the same way. As we see it, the nation and its flag are supreme over all. But, nevertheless, the very existence of the nation depends upon' the maintenance of the rights of the states.. And the states ought to control their own military forces. There is, it seems to us, a special reason why the Democrats should oppose this measure. They intend to stand for economy. I ’

Yet the chairman of the house military committee—himself of Virginia—is said to favor ,a bill which will call for $8,000,000 <a year; "and this is just a starter. We know how greedy men become when once they find their way into the public treasury. > In short, there are no limits tx> the demands that might be made—that would be made—should this vicious bill become a law. The, Democrats profess to be very strongly opposed to militarism, and yet some of them are supporting a measure the effect of which would he to create a great military machine compared with which the present regular armiy machine would amount to nothing. The bill thus antagonizes three fundamental principals. It is opposed to the economic administration of public affairs, to gtate rights, and to the supremacy of the civil over the military authority. Also it is entirely unnecessaryThe national guard is doing very well as it is. We have done much to relate It to the regular army,

and have provided for its instruction and there is no need to go further. We can have a trained citizen soldiery without creating a great army subject only to the will of the PresL der.it. The nation has never lacked defenders, and it never will lack them. It is the duty of every citizen who is true to the old ideals to stand firmly against this form of the new nationalism. There is no more dangerous form of centralization than the centralization of military forces and power. The military bill should meet a crushing defeat. —Indianapolis News.

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POULTRY NOTES

Keep something ip the grit box. Poultry keeping is business of quick profits. Suggestions of fall weather are reviving egg prices. Plowing up runs and yards is a seasonable job any time. All the milk they will consume is a help to the molting hens. Corn makes fat. and heat. Oats, wheat, bran and middlings make eggs. Not a bit of decayed food of any kind ever ought to be given a hen or chick. Too many birds in a house simply can not do so well as they would otherwise. Before the ropds get frozen, scrape up some dust for winter use. Put it in a dry place. Ten hens that have room according to their strength will bring in more money than fifteen crowded. When we get a good many chicks on hand there is a temptation to crowd them during the winter season.

Glasses flitted by DR. A. G. CATT Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office over Long’s Drug Stem. Phone No. SSS. •“*'* ' "i

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. G. 0. P. COMMITTEE IN SESSION Party Affairs Are Discussed and Plans Laid to Keep State Organization Active During Next Two Years.

Indianapolis, Dec. 27—The Republican state committee is holding a meeting this afternoon for the purpose of discussing party affairs and laying plans to keep the organization active during the next two years. All of the members are present. It rVas given out before the meeting that one subject to be considered was Whether a Republican lorve feast Bhould J>e called, and It was understood that the committee would decide that question at this meeting. If a love feast is held It Is said it will be some time in the spring, after the adjournment of the legislature.

Arrest Teacher in Church. Bloomington, Dec 27.—While attending church services in Polk township, in the extreme southern end of this county, Ira Burge, a school teacher of Terre Haute, was arrested on a Charge of wife and child desertion, and was brought to jail in this city. Burge formerly lived in this county, and during a session of the Monroe County Teachers’ institute attained considerable notoriety because of his alleged obnoxious attention to girls on the street. His wife and three children have been receiving aid from the township trustee of Polk township, but were sent to relatives of Mrs. Burge in Winchester this week. Mrs. Burge made out the affidavits against her husband.

Interurban Car Kills Boy. Columbus, Dec. 27. —Earle Owens, thirteen years old, son of William Owens, a farmer living near Amity, was struck by a Seymour limited car on the Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern traction line, and died an hour and a half later from his injuries. The boy was lighting fire crackers in front of the Amity station and throwing them on the interurban track. When he was struck he was stooping with his back toward the approaching car. peering at a cracker to see why it had not exploded. The car hurled the boy a considerable distance, breaking one of his legs and crashing his breast.

Farmer Shqots Wildcat. Nashville, Dec. 27. —While returning from a coon hunt, Porter Deckard, a farmer living south of here, killed a large wildcat. His dogs, which had been ahead of him, returned and refused to leave his side. He looked ahead and saw the cat about to spring from the limb of a tree. He fired twice, the second load of shot hitting the animal in the head. There are indications of several of the animals in the neighborhood.

Three Hurt in South Bend. South Bend, Dec. 27.—While driving an automobile Christopher Reese and Elmer Geyer, both of Buchanan, Mich., were given an impromptu bath, in which they also sustained serious injuries. Their machine became unmanageable and plunged down a forty foot embankment int othe St. Joseph river. When her electric collided with a street car, Mrs. S. D. Rider was thrown to the pavement and severely bruised. United After 39 Years. Laporte, Dec. 27. —Joseph Stape of Redfield, la., was re-united at Plymouth with his sister, Mrs. Martha, J. Kelly, each having mourned the other as dead for thirty-nine years, though on each Christmas day for many years the sister had not failed to pray that she might find her brother. They became separated ip childhood and both are now heads of families and in affluent circumstances. Takes Dose of Chloroform. Anderson, Dec. 27.—While returning home after spending an evening with his fiance, Roy Hoppes, twenty-one years old, swallowed a quantity of chloroform, anjl is in a precarious condition at St. John’s hospital. A passerby happened to see Hoppes stagger and fall along West Sixth street and hurriedly called an ambulance. No reason is known for the act. .- i • Quarrel Leads to Murder. Sullivan, Dec. #7.— Homer Shepherd was instantly killed by Lee Vanj dergriff, in a saloon at Caldenia, a mining camp three miles east of this city. Vandergriff escaped after the shooting and has not been located. Both men are married and are about thirty years of age. The shooting is said to haVe been the result of a quarrel while drinking. Family Away; Home Burns. Vincennes, Dec. 27. —While A. C. Bell and family were visiting relatives in another part of the city, their home caught fire from an overheated stove,and house and contents were burned to the ground. The home of Jacob Kraft, next door, was damaged SSOO. Beil’s loss is $2,500, with $1,200 insurance.

START FOR STAUNTON

WILSON AND WIFE ARE TO VIBIT GOVERNOR'S BIRTHPLACE. President-Elect Has Recovered From Blight Cold Which Threatened to Develop Into Grippe. Princeton, N. J., Dee. 27.—President elect Wilson had practically recovered from the slight cold contracted on his automobile trip to and from Trenton on Tuesday when he and Mrs. Wilson left Princeton for Staunton, Va„ the governor’s birthplace, at 10:30 this morning. Mrs. Wilson said that the governor had be§p somewhat annoyed at the exaggerated published accounts of his illness. i “It is really not serious at all,” shej said. "On Tuesday night we called' the doctor merely as a precaution against disappointing the people of Staunton tomorrow. The doctor found that the cold had not attacked the governor’s bronchial tubes or his lnngs and that it had affected' only his digestion. The doctor remarked that the governor has great physical elasticity. Grippe had been threatened, but the governor had thro%n it off without trouble.”

Mrs. Wilson added that the symptom that caused her to summop the doctor was fever. The physician on examination found the governor’s temperature to be 101. This was not high enough to be alarming. The governor remained in bed only because he wanted to get as much rest and store up as much energy as possible. If he had not been ill he would have spent the better part of the day in bed. The governor’s intestinal trouble was relieved by a diet of broth and eggs.

OIL STOCKS TAKE BIG LEAP

Shares Rise 105 Points on Rumor That Standard Capital Will Be Soon Doubled. New York, Dec. 27.—Shares of the Standard Oil company of New York made the phenomenal rise of 105 points, thereby increasing the paper value of the stock $15,750,000. Th* capitalization of the Standard Oil company of New York is $15,000,000. This extraordinary rise was said In Wall street to be due to rumors that the stock will soon be increased to, double its present issue, thereby giving stockholders the right to subscribe.

OFFERS STOCK TO EMPLOYES

U. S. Steel Corporation Workers May Subscribe to Both Preferred and Common Shares. New York, Dec. 27. —The United States Steel corporation, pursuant to its profit sharing plan, adopted in 1903, will offer to its employes next month the, privilege of subscribing to preferred and common shares on the basis of $lO9 for the preferred and $66 for the common. A year ago the subscription prices were sllO and $65 respectively.

THE MARKETS.

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Dec. 27. Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. esL lng. Dec 86% .86% .86% .86% May 91%-% .91%-92 .91% ,91%-92 July 88%-% .89%-% .88% .89 CornDec 47%-% .47% .47% .47% May ....48%-% .48%-% .48% .48% July 49%-% 49% .49% .49% Oats — Dec .....32% .32%-% .32% .32%-% May 33% .33% .32% .32% July 33% .33% .33 .33% FLOUR—Sprnlg wheat, patent, Minnesota brands, wood, [email protected] to retail trade: Minnesota and Dakota patents, $4.00(34.20; Jute, straight, [email protected]; first clears, jute, [email protected]; second clears, jute, [email protected]; low grades, jute, [email protected]; winter wheat, patent, jute, [email protected]; straight, jute, [email protected]; rye flour, white, patent, jute, [email protected]; dark, standard, jute, [email protected]. BUTTER—Creamery, extra, 35c; extra firsts, 33c; first, 30@32c; seconds, 26@27c; storage, extra, 31c. EGGS—Cases returned, 23@24c; cases Included, 23%@24%c; ordinary firsts, 23@24c; firsts, 24@25c; checks, 17%@18c; dirties, 20 @2lc. LIVE POULTRY—Turkeys, 15c; chickens, fowls, ll%c; roosters, 9c; springs, 12c; geese. 13c; ducks, 14c. New York, Dec. 26. WHEAT—lrregular, dealings inactive; No. 1 northern, spring, 98c; No. 2 red, $1.08; No. 2 hard, 99c; No. 1 Manitoba, 99%c; No. 1 macaroni, s].o4%c; December, 95%c; May, 97%c. CORN —Weaker, business limited; No. 1 yellow, 68%c; No. 2, 56%c. OATS—Steady, limited business; No. 2 white, 40c; standard, 39%c; ungraded, 37% 42c. BARLEY—Quiet; malting, 60@68c. Live Stock. Chicago, Dec. 27. CATTLE—Good to choice steers, $9.25© 10.50; fair to good steers, [email protected]; common to fair beeves, [email protected]; inferior killer? [email protected]; canner bulls, [email protected]; fair to choice vealers, [email protected]; heavy calves, [email protected]; feeding steers, $6.0007.25; Stockers, [email protected]; medium to good beef cows, [email protected]; common to good cutters, $3.00© 4.00; inferior to good canners, [email protected]. HOGS—Good to prime heavy, [email protected]%; good to prime butchers, $7.42%@7.66; fair to good packing, [email protected]; rough heavy packing, [email protected]; light mixed, 170@200 lbs., $7.1507.30; choice light, 170@200 lbs., t7.20@'7.40; pigs, IK> lbs. and under, $5.00© 6.50; pigs, 110@140 lbs., $6.25©6.75.

East Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 26. CATTLE—Market active and stronger; prime Bteers, $8.75©9.25; butcher grades, 4.0008.60; calves, cull to choice, $6,000 12.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS—Market, lambs active, 10c higher, sheep slow; choice lambs. $8.7509.00; cull to fair, $5.0008.50; yearlings, [email protected]; sheep, $2.0006.16. HOGS—Market active, 25c higher; Yorkers, $7.8007.90; pigs, [email protected]; mixed, $7.86 @7.90; heavy, $7.8507.90; roughs, $6,500 6-90; stags, $6.0006.25.

AIL STAND FIRM ON PEACE TERMS

Both Turks and Allies Say They Cannot Recede. PROPOSALS ARE RIDICULED Balkans Insist Adrianople Be Included in Territory to Be Ceded Victors in Conflict—Envoys ", Meet Saturday. London, Dec. ,27. —Both the Turks ’and the Balkan allies are standing by their guns on the peace terms. Both assert that it is impossible to recede from their positions. Nevertheless, those who think they know what is going on behind the scenes still believe the probabilities of the conclusion of peace are greater than of the resumption of the conflict. The exchange of cipher dispatches between the administration at Constantinople and Rechad Pasha continues, but the chief of the Turkish plenipotentiaries declines to divulge the nature of the reply he will present to the allies Saturday, when the conference reassembles at St. James’ palace.

Allies’ Terms Absurd. “While I cannot discuss the reply of the Ottoman government,” said Rechad Pasha, “nothing prevents me from saying that the terms the allies have proposed are simply absurd. They have produced this impression wherever heard, even outside of Turkish circles. It was never known that after the conclusion of an armistice one belligerent party could ask the other to concede territories bravely defended and still resisting with heroism. “Turkey was induced to accept an armistice only on the advice of the powers, in order to avoid useless carnage on both sides. The same humanitarian considerations led the Ottoman government to ask for the revictualing of the besieged towns and might induce the government to yield certain conditions for the sake of peace. - But there is a limit which the allies have far surpassed.” Allies Give Their Side. The allies, on the other hand, assert that the armistice was arranged to give Turkey an opportunity of making peace terms without suffering further losses in the field, and they characterize Turkey’s talk of keeping Adrianople, Janina and Scutari and regaining Salonika as simply laughable. General Danglis, the Greek chief of general staff, said: “Let them come and take Salonika if they can. Even the dust of our ancient heroes would rise up to defend our rights.” Report Peace Concluded. Belgrade, Dec. 27. —According to a private telegram from Sofia peace has already been concluded between Turkey and Bulgaria, not in London, but in Constantinople as a result of direct negotiations conducted between General Savoff and the porte. The telegram says nothing about peace between Turkey and Servia, Montenegro and Greece. Political leaders here do not credit the report.

TAFT SAILS FROM PANAMA

President Arrives in Florida on Sunday—Expresses Great Pleasure Over His Visit. Colon, Dec. 27.—The United States battleship Arkansas, with President Taft aboard, sailed from Colon last evening for Key West. Colonel Goethals, the chief engineer of the canal work, boarded the battleship Delaware, which accompanied the Arkansas. The warships are expected to reach Key West Sunday and the president is due in Washington Tuesday. President Taft expressed great pleasure over his visit to Panama and said he would appoint the civil governor and subordinate officials on his return 1 to Washington.

TRY TO STOP SUGAR HARVEST

Cuban Anarchists, Whose Number Is Increasing Rapidly, Hold Meeting For That Purpose. Havana, Dec. 27. —A number of anarchists held a meeting here and, it is said, formed plans to stop the sugar harvest. Although the meeting was called ostensibly for the purpose of planning for better schools in Cuba, it is known that the matter of education was not considered. The government has yet shown no disposition to take active measures against the anarchists, whose numbers are increasing rapidly.

BIG STRIKE ON IN MEXJCO

Thousands of Employes in National Railway Shops Walk Out When Their Demands Are Refused. Laredo, Tex.,«Dec. 27.—1 n addition to the troubles imposed upon it by the revolution, the Mexican government was called upon to face the greatest strike in its history when thousands of men employed in the shops of the National railway went out because their demands for an Increase in pay had not been granted. - In addition to an increase in wages, the employes asked some time ago sci the eight-hour day.

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