Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1914 — Page 2

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THE JASPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT f. S BABCOCK, fDITOR AND PUBIISHER. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. , Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Advertising rates made known on application. Enteitd as Second-Class Mall Matter June s, 1308, at the postoftice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March 3 1871# . Puoilsr.ed Wednesday and Saturday Wednesday Issue 4 pages; Saturday issue 8 pages. SATURDAY, DEC. 12, 1914.

Republican papers are trying to make political capital out of the foot and mouth disease, laying the blame onto the democratic tariff bill. The statement is made that the dis? ease was brought from Argentine in a consignment of hides, and that these hides would not have been brought in had it not been they were placed on the free list by the democrats. The only trouble with this statements is that hides were placed on the free list by the Payne-Ald-rich bill in 1909. and up to date no' body has accused the democratic party of being responsible for that measure. If free hides are responsible for the foot and mouth disease, then the blame for this plague is'to be laid at the door of the republican party, which gave the country free hides.---Pulaski County Democrat.

PREPARING FOR WAR.

it is hard to understand why anyone should be surprised, much less shocked, to learn that this country is not prepared in the accepted sense of the word—to repel a large invading army. For it never has been prepared. No investigation is needed to prove that it is not so prepared today. The fact is obvious, and admitted. Why, then, this sadden outcry over our supposedly defenseless position? The question really i-, whether we shall surrender oitr Ideals, and de s part from our century-old tradition. Never was there less reason for doing so than today. There is not a nation ip the world that could attack us at the present time. Nor is it likely that any one would think of doing so after the present war is over. We could hardly have a better guaranty, of peace than the impoverished and enfeebled condition of the great powers when they emerge from , this awful struggle in which they are now engaged. Not one of them would go to war with us unless

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we forced it to do so. Indeed, it would be no easy matter to drive them into war with the United States. This country has never been invaded but once, and that was a century ago. Never was it safer than it is today. There is a great obligation resting cm the people of the United States that of pointing Europe to rhe better way. Our very oinpreparedness—so called—is of itself an object lesson. The peoples of the old world who have bankrupted them s Ives in preparing for war can not ■ >. be impressed by the spectacle of a great republic trusting more largely to moral influences than to battleships and armies. Instead of naturalizing militarism here we should do everything in our power to redeem the world from its clutches. That is our mission at the gresent time, and none could be nobler. We can best serve humanity by being true to our own ideals and traditions, which are all unmilitary, ft is admitted by all that we are likely to play an important part in re-establishing peace. But no peace is of much value that does not grow out of a peaceful spirit. We must do what we can to change men’s minds, to alter their point of view. This we can not hope to do if we enter the peace conference, panoplied in armor, or in the midst of hysterical preparations to repel 'invasion.” We are glad to believe that the President has been utterly uninfluenced by the wild talk that is now going round. Vor is there any evidence that the people have been impressed. On the contrary, they seem to be quite calm. Perhaps they are somewhat suspicious of the sincerity of the demand nor a great strengthening of our armed.power. Certainly it came with surprising suddenness.—lndianapolis News.

THE LEGISLATIVE INDICTMENTS.

li it is true, as the Marion county grand jury reports, that there is no ■ i.itute under which any one can be . I'osecuted lor signing or causing bills to be signed which have not been passed, it is a singular defect in the laws of the state. Eor, while it may be the case that this particular onense ha; not been brought to the attention ol the lawmakers, there should be mws against fraud and malfeasance in office that would apply to such cases. Thb jury found that bills not passed were put on the statute books by officers of the last legislature, but no indictments were brought for the reason’ above stated and because of the difficulty of fixing the blame with exactness. This failure to Identify the guilty men is a pity, for the offense against the people of the state in that matter was much more Serious than the waste of the taxpayers’ mdney, scandalous as that was. The two bills were salary-grabbing measures, but the fact that individuals ■can make laws in this ’ way is the .serious and significant thing, -since other than salary bills may be slipped through. " - However, Hie grand jury did a good job, not only in showing that at least one of the bills in question was crookedly .manipulated through the use of money, but in uncovering

SOME STRIKING SENTENCES FROM WILSON’S MESSAGE

I*resident Wilson, in addressing congress yesterday, said in part: “We are the champions of peace and of control, and we should be very jealous of this distinction which we have sought to earn. “If asked, ‘Are you ready to defend yourselves?’ We reply: ‘Most assuredly, to the utmost,’ and yet we shall not turn Amer, ica into a military camp. “We will not ask our young men to spend the best years of their lives making soldiers of themselves. “The United States should be ready, as never before, to serve itself and to serve mankind; ready with its resources, its energies, its forces of production and its means of distribution. “We shall not alter our attitude toward our army and navy lidcause some among us are nervous and excited. “While we have worked at our tasks of peace the circumstances of tiie whole age have been altered by war. “A powerful navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defensd, and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. “We have grossly drred in the way in which we have stunted and hindered the development of our merchant marine. “Our program of legislation with regard to the regulation of business is virtually complete. The road at last lies clear and firm before business.

the reckless and criminal squandering of public funds in needless salaries paid to superfluous legislative attaches —a sum more than $36,000 in all, for the sixty-day session. It is a disclosure that should have a wholesome effect, whether the indictments eventually result in convictions of the indicted persons or not; for a public sentiment will be created that will hereafter restrain presiding officers of House and Senate and other legislative leaders from the bold disregard of law indicated by the proceedings set forth, and from the free disposal of public money as if it were their own. It is not a new offense, this payment of party debts from the public treasury by the employment of a gang of supernumeraries about the legislature, with nothing to do but draw their salaries. All persons familiar with the operations of the general assembly know that this sort of abuse has long been practiced, but this circumstance only makes it the more objectionable’. Probably it was never so brazenly carried through as at the session of 1913, however. The democrats had not had so free a hand in a long time and were so reckless that they seem to have cast all discretion to the winds and overreached themselves.

But it is not a pleasant thing for the people of Indiana to know that indictments of so serious a character have been brought against their lieutenant-governor and the man who was speaker of the house and is now a state officer, to say nothing of eleven other prominent citizens. The grand jury arraignment shows a situation that reflects on the honor and good repute of the state. It is not a matter to be treated lightly, as certain Marion county officials and certain of the indicted men seem disposed to treat it. The good name of the' state calls for something more than a “whitewashing" trial, and it must occur to the leaders of the party directly involved that such a trial would be the worst sort of policy on political grounds and that the party can best be commended to the people by a prosecution that plainly means to get at the truth, no matter who is scotched.—-Indianapolis Star.

There is more catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be ihcurable. For a ‘great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cute, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally. It.acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to dure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO. Toledo,. Ohio. . Sold by druggists, 75c. Take Hall’s Family Pills for constipation.

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“Give a larger self-government to the people of the Philippines. “The country has been misinformed; we have not been negligent of national defense. What is needed shall bd adequately done. “Of course we are not ready, on brief notice, to put a nation in the field; a nation or men trained for arms. We shall never bd in time of peace, so long as we retain our present political principles and institutions. “We have always found means to defend ourselves against attack and shall find them whenever it is necessary, without calling our peopld away from their necessary tasks to render compulsory military service in times of peace. “And especially when half the world is on fire, we shall be cardful to make our moral-insurance against the spread of the conflagration very definite and certain and adequate indeed. “We must depend, in every time of national peril, in the future as in the past . . .. upon a citizenry accustomed and trained to arms. “The national guard of the states would be developed and strengthened by every means which is not inconsistent with our obligations to our own people or with the established policy of our government. “It is our dearest present hope that this character and reputation (as champions of peace) may presently bring us an opportunity such as has seldom been vouchsafed any nation—the opportuinty to counsel and obtain peace in the world.”

My Auto! My auto ’tis of thee. Short cut to poverty— Of thee I chant. I blew a pile of dough For thee two years ago. And now you quite refuse to go. Or won’t, or can’t. Through town and countryside, You were my joy and pride; Ah, happy day. 1 loved thy gaudy hue. Thy nice white tires so new, But now you’re down and out for true, In every way. To thee, old rattle-box, Came many bumps and knocks; For thee I grieve. Frayed are thy seats and worn, Badly thy top is torn, The whooping cough affects thy horn, I do believe. Thy perfume swells the breeze, W hile good folks choke and w’heeze, As we pass by. I paid for thee a price Twould buy a mansion twice, Now everybody’s yelling “Ice.” I wonder why? Thy motor has the grippe, ’ Thy' spark plug has the ’pip; And woe is thine. I too have suffered chills, Ague and kindred ills, Endeavoring to pay my bills Since thou wert mine. Gone is my bank roll now, No more, ’twofuld choke the cow, As once before. Yet if I had the yen. So help me John—amen, I’d buy' syself a car again, And speed some more. ,—Mai Rose.

Hammond Men Arrested for Sunday Hunting.

A. F. Knotts, former mayor of Hammond, Attorney Geo. Mcßoberts of Hammond, and Earl and Ed Hall of Kouts, the latter keepers of a resort at the Kankakee river, were at rested Sunday by Deputy Game Warden Stansell at the river charged with Sunday hunting and shooting quail. The' two Halls were fined $20.50, including costs, Sunday night in Justice Louderback’s court at Valparaiso, and Knotts and Roberts w’ere given fines and costs amounting to $21.15 each yesterday morning;-! Tuesday’s Hammond News.

Prompt Action Will Stop Your Cough.

When ypu first catch a cold (often indicated by a sneeze or cough) break it up a t once. The idea that “It does not matter” often leads to serious complications. The remedy which immediately and easily penetrates the lining of the throat is

When the Kaiser has swallowed all the rest of the earth the Belgians might retire upon Naco, Arizona. It is possible now for a Mexican president to resign before being assassinated. . Some people talk a little and say a lot. Others talk a lot and say little. Yep! You bet! Peace is in sight in Mexico—when the last dog. is hung.

A Fetv Chrirtmcu For the father, a pin For the mother, a brooch For the son, a watch For the daughter, a ring For the uncles, aunts, cousins and friends, an an elegant selection of useful gifts are displayed for your inspection. ?. W. CtarK,e Jetveler

EDWARD P. HONAN ATTORNEY AT LAW Law, Abstracts, Real Estate Loans. Will practice In all the courts. Office over Fendig’s Fair. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. SCHUYLER C. IRWIN LAW, REAL ESTATE & INSURANCE 5 Per Cent. Farm Loans. Office in Odd Fellows’ Block. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. F. H. HEMPHILL PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Special attention given to diseases of women and low grades of fever. Office over Fendig’s drug store. Phones: Office No. 442; Resl , No. 442-B RENSSELAER, INDIANA. E. C. ENGLISH PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Opposite the Trust and Savings Bank. Office Phone No. 177. House Phone No. 177-B. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. JOHN A. DUNLAP LAWYER (Successor Frank Foltz) Practice in all Courts, Estates settled. Farm Loans. Collection Department. Notary in the office. Over State Bank. Phone No. 16. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. F. A. TURFLER Osteopathic physician Graduate American School of Osteopathy. Post-Graduate American School of Osteopathy under the Founder, Dr. A. T. Still. Office Hours —8-12 a. m., 1-5 p. m. Tuesdays and Fridays at Monticello. Ind. Office 1-2 Murray Bldg. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. H. L. BROWN DENTIST Office over Larsh & Hopkins’ drug store. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. HORTON DENTIST Office opposite court house square. RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

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CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLI RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect May 3, 1914. NORTH BOQND No. 4 Louisville to Chicago.... 4:59a.m. No. 36 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 5:27 ami. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago.... 7:30a.m. No. 32 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 10:46 a.m. No. 38 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 3:15 pun. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago.... 3:44 pun. No. 30 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 7:06 pun. SOUTH BOUND No. 5 Chicago to Louisville... .11:05 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Ind. and Cin. 11:20 atm. No. 33 Chicago to Ind. and Cin.. 2:01 pun. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette.... 6:12 pun. No. 31 Chicago to Ind. and Cin.. 7:41 p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville... .11:10 pun. No. 35 Chicago to Ind. and Cin 19-IKtyrn

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICERS Mayor. Charles G. Spitler IJ Clerk Charles Morlan I Treasurer ..Charles M. Sandfc I Attorney Moses Leopold 1 Marshal W. R. Shesler I Civil Engineer....W. F. Osborne 1 Fire ChiefJ. J. Montgomery I > Fire WardenJ. J. Montgomery 1; Councilmen > ’ Ist Ward..... Ray Wood 2nd Ward Frank Tobtaa i 3rd Ward Frank King » At Large.. Rex Warner, F. Krester ; » JUDICIAL ' ! Circuit Judge.. Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Att’r.. .Fred Longwefi ' Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September ' and Nevember. Four week ! ’ terms. ) COUNTY OFFICERS ! I £l erk -• • • Judson H. Perkins i! Sheriff W. I. Hoover Auditor J. p. Hammond i! Treasurer.... a. A. Fell Recorder George Scott SurveyorDeVere Yeoman Coroner w. J. Wright I Co. Supt. Ernest Lamson ! County AssessorJ. q. Lewis ! Health Officer F. H. Hemphffl < [ COMMISSIONERS |®t •• • -W- H - Hershman ’» 2nd DistrictD. S. Makeever ij 3rd District Charles WeISJ J Commissioners’ Court meets the ' 1 First Monday of each month. , 1 COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION ; ! w L ru,t S?! Township ' I Barkley > J.^W 8 s“m y er ! . llan f lng^Xn ; Tunis S Snl’n r Kantekte i H w ’••••••Keener ■ H. W. Wood, Jr., Martan Isaac Kight UAtan ’ W X a hTu?n\\\i: a TnX r ' [ w. O. Nelson WheatfloM I ! E. Lamson, Co. Supt.. .Rensselaer > Truant Officer, C. B. Steward ! Rensselaer

TRUSTEES’ CARDS. JORDAN TOWNSHIP rtJ£ he n- under l s . igned trustee of Jor- ? a h_ Township attends to official Hrsi neSS ,j at ., I 1 * 3 residence on the and third Wednesdays of -2ub th ‘ Pers , ons having business with me will please govern t^ nise^ves acc ordingly. Postoffice a ddress-Rensselaer, * Indiana, R-T w - H- WORTLEY, Trustee. UNION TOWNSHIP .The un<J e r . sl &ned Trustee of Union 1 ownship attends to official no s j ness r _ at his Store in Fair 2 ak ?’ tod., on Fridays of each ISAAC KIGHT, Trustee. NEWTON TOWNSHIP The undersigned Trustee of Newh?iii„ r ° wns ?ip attends to official F?^? ess ml? residence on the First and Third Thursdavs rtf neco m ?J?th. Pers ons business with me will please govern themselves accordingly. Poftoffice -—DEALER L s&_ TrUSteeaddress—Rensselaer R-3.

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