Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — Page 2

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The New York Progressive state convention has gone on record as refusing to endorse Hughes for President.

The federal reserve banks law triumphantly stood the first test that was more severe than it will ever again be required to meet, except the general assault that is being pre pared on it in the standpat camp this fall. If there were no other issue the Democratic party upon that one fact of constructive legislation would be able to met i s opposition unafraid and. to come off the field of battie -his fall with a great victory. —Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette.

Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, recent Bull Mobse candidate for governor of Indiana, who went from one end of the state to the other, in the la-“ two campaigns telling what an ornery bunch of grafters, highwaymen and horse thieves the Republicans were, has now come out in an indorsement of Hughes for President. He will even take the stump for Hughes; it is said, and go up and down the land eating crow. There is a strong suspicion that Albert Jeremiah wants somethin’.

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER

(By Willis S. Thompson)

Indianapolis, July 26.—Says Chair man Will H. Hays: “That aristocracy of intellect and character called the Republican party of Indiana.’’ Here is the Republican party oi Indiana, look it over—Jim Hemenway, Charlie Fairbanks, Joe Kealing, Jim Goodrich, Jim Watson, Harry New et al. Add to these, one Murray Crane, Boise Penrose, Joe Cannon, Bill Flinn and Reed Smoot and you have the Republican party of the nation. They are just now hiding behind Hughes and calling upon

progressive, thinking men to vote them into power and office because they “can be trusted to serve ajl the people and to advocate and secure progressive laws for the people's good.’’ The only argument they use aside from picturing their own superior goodness and their hunger to get their individual noses into the public trough, is their proclamation tha “Wilson’s Mexican policy does not suit us.” They do not say specifically why they dislike it, nor do they tell us what should be done. In any event is it not a wonderful argument to intelligent voters to place this “aristocracy of intellect and character’ in charge of the government and the public treasury? It is not.- ' . - ’

The signing of the Moss rural I credit bill by Woodrow Wilson wa' the consumation of another of the truly constructive and progressive steps which makes the administration Stand out conspicuously as one of the most substantially progressive in history. No better piece of legislation was ever enacted than the federal reserve. ’ The nature of the opposition which it encountered in the fight through the congress and senate was its strongest recommendation. “That aristocracy of intellect and character called the Repub lican party,” of which Hemenway and Kealing and Watson and New love so much to boast, was arrayci against the bill to the last. They had opposed any such legislation for years, while that boasted ••aristocracy” was in absolute power. Wa” street and the powerful interests had opposed it, and with men like Can non, Hemenway, Watson, Smoot and their sort in the congress and senate, what Wall street wanted was what became law.

Today the federal rose ve, the currency legislation that is panic proof, the currency legislation that make? it no longer possible for two or three men to sit in the Morgan offices and make milliohs by “declaring” a money panic and robbing the people of the country, the legislation that has made legitimate business safe and beyond the crushing power o: the bad liver of some individual banker, is credited absolutely to the Wil-on administration. Businessman and the bankers who have been treed from the dictation of Wall street gamblers know the value and force of the law and are not going to vote a lot of highbinders into public office who have always been opposed to such forward steps. The Republicans dare not. criticise this law and are not honest enough tc commend it. .

The rural credits will be just as popular, and in fact is the essential rounding out of the system. Indiana has placed her name conspicuously in these enactments. Ralph W. Moss, Indiana’s congressman fijom the Fifth district, was .the author of most of the essential provisions of the rural credits. * * * Each week the volume of business completed through the free federal employment bureau, which was es wblished at Indianapolis through the efforts of Senator John W. Kern grows larger. Several hundreds of men have been brought into contact with jobs within the past 10 days or

two Weeks. Several hundred have gone to other, cities, having transportation paid and con tracts as laborers at 25 cents an hour. A woman's department is soon to be established where women and girls may file their applications for local positions, or for positions in other "cities where similar bureau? are operated. Senators Kern an<> Taggart are both urging this new department.

State Treasurer George A. Bittier has been making a trip over the state visiting the smaller" communi ties and farming districts especially He reports that there seems to be an obliteration of party lines when it comes to the support of Woodrow Wilson. He declares that the farm ers are all so well pleased that they resent the idea Of any change, whether they are Republicans, Progressives or just plain Democrats The Progressives especially are com ing to Wilson because of the presumptuous attempt to deliver them to Hughes and to drive them to the support of the Republican senatorial and state ticket, on which every name is peculiarly obnoxious tc everything for which progressivism stands.

Vice-President Thomas R. Mar shall is going to have plenty of live campaigning on his hands as soon a.the senate adjourns, for he is no only the vice-presidential candidate of his party, but he is one of the best campaigners in the country. He has made a special request of the Democratic national committee that he be allowed to come’to Indiana for at least one speech in each of the 13 congressional districts. No doubt his request will be granted. It is also assured that there will be an abundance of good speakers from al] over the country. While every indication is that the Democrats will carry Indiana by a very large majority, an effort will be made tc make that majority so large that th present Republican bosses of the state will be forever swept aside. As bosses they have made themselves obnoxious, and as both bosses and candidates for all the offices, they are most eminently; distasteful to the voters.

With the state not a penny in debt, with nearly $4,000,000 in the state treasury at the close of business July 15, 1916, with the state banks carrying deposits of $30,000,000 more than 10 months ago, with the reserves of the state banks $33,000,000 in excess of a year ago, with 30,000 more automobile, owners in Indiana than there were six months ago, with all the people in the state working at some useful and well paid employment, with farm crops looking fine and prices all that any good farmer could ask, with Tom Taggart down in Washington declaring he will not quit his fight until he has forced the congress and senate to cut more than $200,000,000 a year from useless public expenditures, why in the world shouldn.’t Indiana people be happy. What an awful job Republicans are going to have to convince the people they are not satisfied, simply because we have not gone to war with Germany, or invaded Mexico to save the property of certain large Wall street gamblers who have holdings* in the southern country, and for which they would like to spill the blood of some American boys—but never their own.

The newest thing in knockers, say.-. Abe Martin, is the prosperity knocker. Kin Hubbard usually makes Abe say something with a worthwhile thought in it. Really it is wonderful to see how Republican officeseekers, including Hughes and Roosevelt as the knockers, supreme, can be so sore because the prosperity of the country is the greatest in history. They wish that 100,000,000 people were in free soup houses and bread lines so a few Republican bosses, like the Indiana 1 bunch, might be shunted into offices. But t

Democrats have forever wiped out the free soup houses and bread lines, which prevailed in Republican times, when panics were the playthings of a few gamblers who operated in Wall street with the money of the United States treasury—See acts of Theo dore Roosevelt “spilling the United States treasury into Morgan’s lap” in the made-to-order money panic of 1907.

JAMES J. HILL

(By Walt Mason.)

Jim Hill is gone to his repose, out where the weeping willow growls. While on this earth he asked no rest, this empire builder of the West; through all his years he strove and fought, by night he planned, by day he wrought. Men aged to say, “Where'er he goes, he mages things blossom as the rose; along his track the cities rise, and chimneys point toward the skies, the forges blaze, the hammers' ring, and bouyant workmen smile and sing.’’ He was the captain of a host, but;

slaying men was not his boast. His armies stormed no so-t or town, and tore no famed cathedrals down, and where his mighty legions swept, no widowed women wailed and wept. It’s good to contemplate Jim Hill, the general who did not kill, now t.:a- the world is roaring mad, from Mexico to Pet’ograi One hour of Hill is better far than 50,000 year., of war. This mighty captain lies a: rest, his monument the whole Northwest.

No Ptomaines in Berries.

The death of Chester Daub, a 155 ear-old boy, is ascribed ii? a report to “ptomaine poison caused by eating wild blackberries.’’ It is stated that after having indulged in wild blackberries while upon a bicycle trip to the country the lad became violently ill. His death resulted soon afterward. Ptomaine poison_is found in decomposing meat. It is a cadaveric poison. Ptomaines not vegetable alkaloids. The careless use of “ptomaine poisoning’’ in accounting for death or iljness caused by overeating or eating something unfit for consumption is frequent. Whatever the real cause of death in this case it was not ptomaine poison caused by eating wild blackberries. A tin of decomposed meat bought along the way might cause ptomaine poison, and the illness might be ascribed mistakenly to indulgence in fruit. Unripe blackberries might cause serious illness, but not ptomaine poisoning.

Wild blackberries which are ripe are as wholesome as any other fruit. At this time of the year they constitute an important factor in the food supply of thousands of families. It would be unfortunate if theie snould get abroad, among the-ignor-ant and among the poor, to whom the blackberry season is a boon, the idea that wild blackberries are pos sible conveyers if ptomaine poison. About 30 years ago some one started the report that the locusts had laid eggs on ‘he mulberries ana made them poisonous. Mulberries—not as widely found or as much used as blackberries—were avoided generally. -About the time the mulberry season was over the report got around to scientists who made, and caused to be published, the statement that the mulberry crop had not been poisoned and that the report was groundless. The cabbage snake story, which wept all over the United

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States about a dozen years ago, 13 well remembered. It is said to haw originated in the mind of an inventive resident correspondent of a newspaper who conceived the idea of killing a few sticks of space by killing off a fictional family in a remote neighborhood and giving the cause of death as the cooking of a small snake which had secreted itself in a head of cabbage. The cabbage snake a distinct species, found only in cabbage heads, became the garden dragon all over the country. Ever, educated and intelligent persons ate cabbage with m’sgivings, and many families let their table supply rot in the patch. Of course, the cabbage snake had no more existence in reality than -the horsehair snake which, as every old-time plantation negro believed firmly, comes into being whereever a Lair from a horse’s mane or tail is dropped in a brook or pond.

No matter how purely fictional and how obviously untrue, in the view of the few who have knowledge of the subject, any fantasic story about a newly discovered deadly danger in some variety of food is likely to travel far and receive general credence. It should be understood that nobody has ever suffered from ptomaine poison as a result of eating blackberries, wild or cultivated, and that blackberries and blackberry cob. bier are just as healthful this year as they always have been.—Louisville Courier-Journal.

Says Fish Can Talk.

Stephen Decatur Bridges of Verona, near Bangor, who is known as the salmon and alewife king of the Penobscot, is positive not only that fish have brains, but that fish reason and form dislikes and tell their opinions to each other. Bridges explains the disappearance of salmon from the Penobscot in two ways—either “salmon tell other salmon how dirty its waters are and how it is not fit for any respectable salmon to live in,” or th fish resent it because at the hatchery in East Orland they are taken from the water and stripped of their eggs.** “The fish resent that because it is against nature,” Mr. Bridget asserts. “They decide they are not being treated right and stay away.”—Bangor (Maine) Cor. New York World.

Rensselaer Chautauqua, August 10 to 15.

fesifietO 2 for sale For Sale—A Cole-30 automobile in good condition, newly painted; will demonstrate to prospective buyers.— G. H. BROWN, Kniman, Ind. a 4 For Sale— An oculist’s trial case, containing full set o f lenses, tools, etc. Cost $l6O, but will part with same at a very low figure.—C. H. VICK, Rensselaer, Ind. ts For Sale— Red, white or bur oak lumber, sawed to any dimension desired, $lB per thousand for all building material; 4 miles west «f Rensselaer, on county farm road. A. M. YEOMAN, Rensselaer, R-3, phone 87-G, Mt. Ayr; or see John Zellers, sawyer. ts

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