Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1914 — Page 2

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THE BIG DOG GETS THE BONE

It is passing strange that there is not a more fraternal spirit prevailing aniong the farmers and the consumers, and between the two classes. Because of their lack of organization they are being daily plundered by the robber middlemen and trusts —scientifically PICKED TO THE MARROW. Did you ever throw a bone out to a little dog and then watch a dozen big dogs pounce upon it? And did yea take note of the little fellow’s pained look as he watches his meat fade away? ' The consumer and the farmer are in much the same position as the little dog and its master. THERE ARE TOO MANY BIG dogs Aiiorxn, In other words, instead of having farm products take a short cut from the producer to the consumer, either direct or via the retailer, they pass through the hands of numerous middlemen, all of whom slice off abnormal profits and boost the price sky high before the consumer ever gets a taste.

Middlemen will have their pound of flesh, whether the producer and the retailer get anything or not. And often produce junkets around from one big dog to another until the price mounts so high the robbers must get additional plunder by lopping off the legitimate profits that are due the farmer.

Too much big dog and not enough bone! The average farmer is keen upon chasing the big dogs away from his little one, but through force of habit he just about lets the middlemen and the trusts rob him of even the socks he stands in. He has been soaked and gouged and fleeced so often and so much he would feel lonesome if £ome one didn't hand him another wallop. And he will continue to be gouged and fleeced and swindled and plundered until some one comes along with a sane plan for kicking the buzzards into the discard and marketing his products without trebling and quadrupling, their cost to the consumer. DOWn among the Florida fruit growers the big dog got the bone for a good many years, until some fellow with brains advanced the idea of a fruit growers’! organization. Of course, like everything else new, it was poo-hooed at first, but now the members of that organization are getting good prices for their fruit, their crops are marketed by the organization, they are sure of their

money, and the consumer gets his fruit at a reasonable price. MANY LITTLE DOGS CAN LICK A BIG ONE, and in like manner CONSISTENT ORGANIZATION CAN DO WONDERS FOR THE FARMER AND THE CONSUMER. and trusts are DIG DOGS. They are hungry— ravenously hungry- and will continue to gobble everything in sight until the farmer arises in his might and thunders a mighty “No!” W ith the right kind of organization among the farmers the big dog mill cease to exist. But until such an organization is an accomplished fact he Will continue to get the bone.

REGISTRATION OF LOBBYISTS.

There is no doubt that the people of Indiana demand that the legislative lobbyists step up and register. 1 he articles that have been appearing in 1 lie News this week on legislative lobbies, their operations in Indiana, and the restraints in other states, show that Indiana has become conspicuous in the failure to bring her lobbyists under control. The report of the Marion county grand jury, and the operations of the lobbies in the past, make the situation notorious. it is remarkable that the people of the state should permit any men to try to influence legislation and the enactment of laws of a public nature without asking those men, and the interests behind them, to declare who and what they are, and why they are interested. It seems reasonable to many other states, also, to require them to state how much money they are spending.

The demand for such declarations is not impracticable—identification " orks in other states. It is not a new idea, to be applied by the state. We have only to turn to the safeguards which the state throws round the courts. Lawyers, for example, coming into court, must have been admitted to practice, and it is known for whom they do appear and for what purpose. If a lawyer violates the rules he is debarred. This is what Massachusetts, Maryland, Wisconsin, Ohio and other states are requiring oi lobbyists, and what Indiana should demand as one of the remedies for her bad legislative conditions. Registration and similar laws affecting lobbyists, are designed to raise such employment to the dignity of a legitimate calling, and to eliminate the crooked elements. Persons or interests affected by legislation, have the right to be heard, but the peopje have the right to know who is trying to affect their legislation, and the methods employed. The legislature wil have to face this issue when it meets in January, it can not be dodged, as in the past when the lobby has defeated all measures to control "it.—lndianapolis News.

Poor Betty, How Funny Her Effusions Were.

Democratic editors of Indiana will certainly appreciate and enjoy the following satirical comment from the Tippecanoe County Democrat on the punk sent out by the democratic press bureau during the recent campaign. Bro. Isherwood’s estimate of the value of this stuff is shared by

at least 99 per cent of the democratic editors of Indiana, . who, as a rule, didn’t even take the trouble to blue pencil it, but after glancing over the slush, fired it into the waste basket. Here is what Editor Isherwood says of tihis punk;

The post man comes regularly but he no longer brings the large fat envelopes on which there were generally 2 or 4 or 6 cents postage due, and which bore on its face in large red rubber stamp type “Rush, Important News.” These envelopes usualy contained the effusions of one Betty Blythe and came from the democratic state central committee. They were glaring, glittering, gushing.

Had the democratic papers of the state published them verbatim there is no reason why the republicans shouldn’t have carried the state by 100,000, or even a million. But the democratic editors of the state bought blue pencils by the gross, and what they did to Betty Blythe’s effusions rhade them look like the progressive party looked on November 4th.

One of Betty’s earliest literary gems told the gasping, wondering world, what a handsome man Homer Cook was. He was a perfect darling, a modern Adonis, and if “us girls” should only vote —.’ Please pass the pink tea and orange marmalade. Then came one extra fat parcel (6 cents postage due) which we opened with wild expectancy. Betty had taken Bernard Korbly, her boss and paymaster, as a text. “What did Chairman Korbly want?” That was the Jeep, dark mystery which » baffled even the astute and blithesome Betty. About seven columns of space was consumed in telling a -wondering and excited populace that Mr. State Chairman Korbly w r as deserving of anything the President could give him, but the President didn’t have a big enough job at his command to fit the immense political proportions of the state chairman. Gush and slush, Marked “Rush.’

If Betty knew—and we have no idea that the poor, sweet, deluded little soul did know—that Mr. State Chairman Korbly had bartered his high position of state chairman for a mess of lobby pottage, she knew what he should get and probably what he will get. The democrats will probably bust that $6,000 legislative lobby ring at whose head is Mr. Korbly—and that is what they should do. Mr. Korbly will undoubtedly get to put the “ex-” as a prefix to his official title. Then on Sept. 29th came the capsheaf, the crowning glory, the greatest literary production the world has ever known. It was not flashed like lightning from a clear sky; the trail was blazed; we were prepared by a letter, part of which said: “I am now' preparing you a little story that I wrote especially for two or three gapers of your district.’ Stop and think of that!

We were especially favored# Do you get it? We had the edge on the other fellows. This work of art was constructed for us and by Betty’s own dear little hands. Proceeding in her letter which paved the way. Betty said: “I would be glad if you could find space for the character es-

timate of Chairman Murphy; even if you cannot use the entire story. We think it important that the people of the state understand something about the personality of the men wiho are leaders of the party.” We judge by the election returns from the Seventh and Tenth districts that the people of the state did understand some things about the leaders. And probably to the fact that we did not publish this remarkable character study is due the excellent results for the democracy in Tippecanoe county. The ‘‘character study” ended thus: “There is one quality that he (Murphy) possesses that there is no discounting and that is— Courage. If I wanted something difficult worked out; a job that seemed a little too big for one man to handle—why I’d put it up to him. I never knew such a prodigious appetite for work—he fairly gobbles it alive. To be sure he can’t do a single thing until he gets a poor, abused hat rakingly cocked over one ear and a horribly strong cigar about as big as a barrel clinched between his teeth. Keeping his cigar lighted is a kind of a pace maker for his energies. Surely his matchbox gets plenty of exercise—l’ve wondered if he runs a little private cigar factory some place or other. , BETTY BLYTHE.” Wasn’t this a telling, effective, irresistible argument for voting the democratic ticket?

While the postman no longer brings the Betty Blythe bunk, the democratic papers go right on using their columns for the benefit of their party, hoping to elect men who will make records that will enable other democrats to be elected. They extol and defy, explain and defend, while Betty takes employment in some other sugar taffy factory. The democratic editors of the state are organized and are soon to have a meetin. One of the things ..they ought to discuss is the next press , bureau of the democratic state committee. They should have the running of it. These editors demand that their advertising columns be kept clean — they should also see to it that their editorial columns are kept high minded and truthful.

Common sense is a good thing, but not all of us know aj-good thing when we see it. An idle horse is a poor investment Ditto man.

Yuletide Thoughts

CHRISTMAS! Does’the word hold special significance for you? Does it mean more than just the day on which Christ was born. . And does it occur to you that because of the birth of Christ the world has emerged from darkness into the civilizing light of humanity^.and Christianity ? And do you remember on this day of universal giving that the Child of the Mafiger was the greatest of all givers? 1 hat he offered up the only thing he had to give—his life? And if Christ could .give HIS LIFE that we might have joy in our souls, could we not give JUST A LITTLE that some one less fortunate may taste of the blessings of this day ?

ONLY A WORD! ~ So little, and so easy to give! And yet that word, if spoken, might bring cheer and a little brightness of the life of some lonely person this Christmas day—a day which to them may hold little of joy, may even be but an empty name, a tantalizing phantom of the brain. f Shall we pass beyond the beaten track and speak that word ? Shall we make just a little effort to radiate the sunshine of our existence yet a Tittle way beyond our own firesides? Shall we devote a few minutes of the day to the gladdening of the heart of some wanderer who has no husband, no wife’, no children, possibly NO HOME? Only a word! But there are times in our lives when even a word is more precious than gold.

And the little ones ! Did you ever pass a child on Christmas day and forget to extend it greeting? Pro'bably you have —we all have. And little children are so appreciative on Santa’s day! They like to be remembered—4o feel that they are of some use in the world—that they are of sufficient importance to command recognition from their elders from “grown ups.” You was a child once, with the same sensitive heart that beats in each little breast, and you will remember how pleased you felt when some man or woman patted you on the head and gave you a kindly wiord. Are YOU going to remember the little ones on this day this day that should be joyful to them, as well as to you?

P ERHAPS there is some one in this community who 'has no relatives, no close friend, no one to extend them the greeting s of Christ’s day, no one who cares if they be as the sheep that is lost from the fold. Most likely there is. And quite likely in the enjoyment of our own blessings we will be forgetful of the fact that close to us' “some one” is spending a sad and lonely day—that “some one” has not received the message of good cheer—.that “some one” may want for a crust of bread—that “some one” may eveh wonder if God ever intended that Christmas should be for them I But it is the way of the world today. And we are of the world, and of today, and forgetful. It might be different. It COULD be different. BUT WILL IT?

HOW MANY TIMES have you passed an acquaintance or a stranger on Christmas day with but a perfunctory “good morning,” or a nod of the head? And how often has the same courtesy been extended to you? “Merry Christmas, George!” “Greetings of the day, stranger!” How much different these would sound, and what a smile of pleasure iit would bring to the stranger within your gates. But we are worldly, and think mostly of self, and of the pleasures WE are to derive from the day. . • And the stranger passes on, with a little tightening of the heartstrings at hardness of? the world. It might be different. But it isn’t.

WHAT WILL this Christmas day be to us, anyway? W ill it be just a day of rest—of turkey, and of cransauce, and of all the numerous gifts which our relatives ana friends will shower upon us? Mill it be just a WORLDLY Christmas? Or shall we set asjde an hour or so to the memory of the one whose birth we celebrate, of the one who parted with His all wiithout a pang of regret? Shall we.listen to the soft toned words of the minister, as he tells-the marvelous story of the Christ—of the man of all men—of the one whose memory and whose deeds live from the manger to the end of time. Shall we? ’ . And shall we.ask a friend to go with us? Shall we ask the stranger within our midst? Christ gave much for us. It is the least we could do for him.

CHICAGO, INDIANAPOLIS & LOUISVILLI RY RENSSELAER TIME TABLE In Effect May 3, 1»14. NORTH BOUND No. 4 Louisville to Chicago,... 4:59a.m. No. 36 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 5:27 a.m. to Chicago.... 7:30a.m. No. No. 38 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 3:15 p'.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago.... 3:44p.m. No. 30 Cin. and Ind. to Chicago 7:06 p.m. SOUTH BOUND No. 5 Chicago to Louisville... .11:05 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Ind. and Cin. 11:20 a.m. No. 33 Chicago to Ind. and Cin.. 2:01 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette.... 6:12p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Ind. and Cin.. 7:41p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville... .11:10 p.m. No. 35 Chicago to Ind. and Cin. .12:15 a.m.

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