Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — Page 8

HAPPENINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORING VILLAGES

ROSELAWN Oscar Harlow was a business visitor in Rensselaer Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Horton had company from Rensselaer Sunday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Baxter Friday night, October 27, a girl. H. H. Nelson and brother Fred were Lowell visitors Friday on business. A. J. Lework and James Ross were Rensselaer visitors Monday on business. G. H. Jonas, Fred Nelson and many others attended the Guilford sale Tuesday. Dorothy Rodgers, Mary Jane Phillips and Jeannette Crooks were Rensselaer visitors Saturday. Miss Mabel Nelson is home from the hospital and is getting along fine, and will soon be able to resume her school work. Preaching next . Sunday night at 7:30 o’clock by the pastor, Rev. Whare. Sunday school at 10 o’clock every Sunday morning. Otis Phillips and wife were Sunday visitors at the home of Mrs. Phillips’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Makeever, near North Star. Miss Pearl Best visited relatives In Chicago last week, and on her return home stopped off in Hammond and called on Mrs. Born, who Is at a hospital with her son Robert. You ought to have heard Colonel Gephart laugh when he worked J. W. Crooks for the cigars Monday, hut then it was worth the price, Crooks thinks, to hear a real, good fellow like “Gep” laugh. “Dad” Best and several others from Rosplawn attended the Republican speaking at Brook last Saturday night. “Dad” is a pretty live Republican and he is no spring chicken either, being over 80 years old.

J. R. Mulder and son and Miss Maggie autoed to Hammond and called on Mrs. R. C. Born, who is with her youngest son Robert, who is being treated for spinal trouble. The little fellow has been in a critical condition for several days, but is better at this writing. . C. R. Osborne of Brook was here last week and arranged to hate Mr. Bernie, state secretary of Sunday scools, to speak here Friday night, November 3, in the interest of Sunday schools of our county. Mr. Bernie comes from Indianapolis and is said to be an able worker in the Sunday school and church and a pleasing speaker. Let every one interested in the Sunday school and church come out and hear and learn and then try to build up oux Sunday school to where it ought to be. At the church Friday evening. Come if you possibly can.

POSSUM RUN

Golda Hurley called on home folks Monday morning. William Hurley called on Clyde Davisson Sunday morning. Miss Orpha Parker did work for Mrs. George Davisson Friday. The Stockwell hoys spent Sunday afternoon with John Price and wife. Dal Ropp and Clyde Davisson were callers in this vicinity Sunday. Mrs. Theodore Smith called on Mrs. Jasper Cover Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Cover attended church at Gifford Sunday night. 4 Walter Conn was seen going north Sunday morning and looked awfully lonesome. Mrs. Jasper Cover and Mrs. Brouhard were Newland callers Friday afternoon. Mrs. John Warne has been spending the past week with her mother, Mrs. Doan. Mrs. T. J. Parker spent Sunday night and Monday with S. L. Johnson and family. .Mrs. William Hurley and children spent Friday with Mrs. T. J. Parker and daughters. Earl Parker and family spent Saturday night and Sunday with John Parker wife. S. L. Johnson and family and Miss Eva Creel and Nile Britt spent Sunday with T. J. Parker and family.

SPECULATE IF YOU WILL

But invest your clothes money with Hilliard & Haraill and you’ll get a big interest return in satisfaction.

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GEORGE E. HERSHMAN

now of Crown Point, who is the Democratic candidate for Congress from the 10th Indiana District, is a Jasper county boy and was born and raised in Walker township. He is a good clean young man and is deserving of the support of every voter who wants to see this sort man sent to our national congress. Especially should Mr. Hershman receive a good big vote in Jasper county, which has not had unrepresentative in congress for nearlyv twenty-five years.

_ Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Spalding of Lowell celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary last week. Mrs. Mary Fairbanks, mother of the Republican vice presidential candidate, died very suddenly Monday evening at the family home in Indianapolis. She was 87 years old. The Ohio utilities commission has ordered an investigation of the car shortage in Ohio, which is said to be responsible for the high price of coal and the near coal famine in the domestic supply. Seven inspectors employed by the commission will investigate the subject and make a report to the utilities commission. Abe Martin says: “Th’ old fashioned boss trader that had a runaway hoss any woman could drive now has a son who wants t’ sell a practically new car that has only gone seventy-five thousan’ miles. ‘There haint nothin’ as disappointin’ these days as catchin’ up with a girl an’ findin’ out she’s an old woman,’ said Lase Bud t’day.” Johnny Aitken of Indianapolis, added to his laurels as a speedy automobile driver by winning the gold trophy race at 100 miles on the Sheephead Bay track Saturday. His time for the distance was 56 mindtes, 37.65 seconds, establishing a new American record, and is only seven seconds behind the world’s best time. Aitken’s average was 105.86 miles an hour.

GRIDIRON NEWS OF INTEREST

Famous Pine Village Team Met Their Waterloo Sunday. The St. Joseph college football team played the Hammond Maroons Sunday afternoon at the college grounds, defeating the visitors by the score of 13 to 7. The game was a good one throughout but the , college boys gave evidence of their j superiority at the very beginning and kept the visitors on the defensive all along the line. A gang of Germans from Cincinnati under the mask of an Irish monicker, the Celts, invaded the Pine Village football camp Sunday afternoon and defeated the Pine Village gridders for the first time in thirteen years, and gained the distinction of being the second team to cross the Pine Villa'ge goal line in the same number of years. The final score was Celts, 9; Fine Village, 6. It was an excellent exhibition of the popular fall sport and the game was hard fought every inch of the way. The Celts scored a touchdown in the second quarter, on a peculiar, and antiquated, “on side” kick, and scored a drop kick in the third period. Pine Village scored in the last quarter when Eli Fenters skirted his left end for a 55-yard run for a touchdown. A large number from this city went to Pine Village and witnessed the game. Pine Village will play the Wabash A. A. at Lafayette on November 12. A thrilling battle was waged on Stuart field at Lafayette Saturday in the presence of 6,000 spectators between Bob Zuppke’s Illinois Suckers and Cleo O’Donnell’s Purdue Boilermakers, the latter going down to defeat after bitterly contesting every inch of ground gained by the victors. The final result read, Illinois, 14; Purdue; 7. The old gold and black was outplayed, but not outfought, succumbing to defeat because of Illinois’ superior all around ability. Captain Hake of the Purdue team had his collar bone broken in the fourth quarter ancj will be unable to play again for several days. The South Bend high school football team defeated the Hammond high school team Saturday 19 to 7. Kentland high school was defeated by Kirklin high school 33 to 26. When ready to start fall housecleaning don’t forget that The Democrat sells a big armful of old papers for only five cents.

FIRMER REAPS GAIN BY EIGHT-HOUR LAW

Prevented Tying Up of Crops Valued at $6,000,000,000. BY FRANK G. ODELL Editor Nebraska Farm Magazine. The New York Sun quotes James Wilson, of lowa, former Secretary of Agriculture, as saying that the farmers were hit hardest by the Adamson Eight-hour Law, which stopped the threatened general railroad strike. According to The Sun, Mr. Wilson said: “The farmer has no eight-hour day. Should that number of hours become general in all occupations, including the farm, the prices of food would rise still higher than those current." The logic of the venerable ex-Sec-retary is bad. The farmer is not worrying about the high price of food. He raises his own food. He grows food for sale. That’s his business. If, as the ex-Secretary says,—the eight-hour day will increase the cost of food, — the farmer has everything to gain. And “Uncle Jim” has overlooked the fact that the fanners of the United States had not less than $6,000,000,000 worth of products practically ready to send to market when the strike crisis was imminent at the first of September. The threatened strike would have paralyzed the farmer's market and stopped the wage of the worker in every industry. Incalculable losses, running into hundreds of millions, were averted when the strike was prevented. Woodrow Wilson did it. “Tama Jim" was Secretary of Agriculture through four Republican Administrations—sixteen years. These were sixteen years cf monopolistic control of the farmer’s market. During this period, these great combinations, which have stood between the producer and the consumer, reached the zenith of their power. Greed and extortion ran riot.

During this period, the farmers of the country complained continually of capitalistic extortion. They held conventions throughout the great grain and live stock belt to voice their protest. They sent deputations of able men to Washington. They sent their appeals for justice to the Secretary of Agriculture and waited at the door of the White House during the administrations of McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft. They asked for bread and received stones of indifference. They demanded justice and received platitudes about “prosperity,” “contentment," and “making two blades of grass grow where one grew before.” Then came another Wilson—Woodrow Wilson. Things began to change. David F. Houston was made Secretary of Agriculture. For the first time in the history of the Government, the business problems of the farmer received the attentions of his Government. The Office of Markets and the Bureau of Rural Organization were created to help him break tile stranglehold of entrenched monopoly. The epoch-making Rural Credits Law was passed by Woodrow Wilson and a Democratic Congress. The power of the usurer and extortioner was broken when that Act was signed. The farmer has a good memory. He does not forget his life-long battle with entrenched privilege—organized and grown purse-proud during forty years of Republican indifference and misrule. He will not forget that it was WOODROW WILSON, the People’s President, who saved his market from ruin on Sept. 2. 1916. The special pleadings of Republican defenders of special privilege and monopoly will find the farmers ready on Nov. 7.

CEMENT WORK OF ALL KINDS Including sidewalks, cisterns, basement work, foundations, building blocks, etc. Let me figure on your work before you place the contract elsewhere.—E. B. SMITH, 'phone 490-Red, Rensselaer, Ind. o-25 *************** * DEYERE YEOMAN * * has served one term as county * * surveyor and for business rea- * * sons at the time declined a * * second nomination. Even the * * opposition conceded that Mr. * * Yeoman was one of the most * * capable county surveyors Jas- * * per county ever had. He is * * young and energetic and pushes * * work right along. The office * * of county surveyor in Jasper * * county is an important one in- * * deed, and we should have a * * capable man in this place. • * Vote for Mr. Yeoman Novem- * * her 7. * **•*••*•••*•••» PUBLIC NOTICE Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at my office until the hour of 2 o’clock p. m.» November 16, 1916, for the one-room school building at Virgie, and the coal house at Parr. Bids on school house to be accompanied by SSO check. Bid on coal house to be accompanied by check of $lO. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. G. H. •HAMMERTON, Township Trustee Union Township, Jasper County, Indiana. Dated October 26, 1916.

SHOW BIG SAVING IN STATE EXPENSES

Annual Report of State Auditor Makes Showing of Business Economy. - FIGURES ARE FROM RECORDS Not a Penny of Debts, No Advance Call on Treasurers of Counties First Time Since the Civil War —Democrats Did It.

BY WILLIS S. THOMPSON

Indianapolis, Oct. 23.—The state of Indiana spent $324,766.54 less, to run its entire government, institutions included, in the fiscal year ehding September 30, 1916, than in the preceding fiscal year. These figures are from the annual report of Auditor of State Dale J. Crittenberger, who will turn over to the public printer, the first of next week, the copy for his printed report. The report further shows that the general increase in the cost of living, which has had its effect in every home in the country, has been felt by the state in the way of increased institutional expense. But the increase is much smaller than would have been possible, except with the best of management and most rigid economy. The gross increase in expenditures in the Benevolent Institutions fund for the fiscal year just closed, over the previous fiscal year, was only $294,328.09, for the entire group of benevolent, correctional and penal institutions of Indiana. In the fiscal year ending September 30, 1915, the expenditures from the Benevolent Institutions fund of the state totaled $3,160,691.43; in the year ending September 30, 1916, the total was $3,455,019.52. In the General fund expenditures for the past year, however, the proof is extremely strong that the democratic administration is living up to its promise of economy. The General fund is the fund from which salaries are paid, also general departmental, board and commission expense. It is the so-called “political” fund. In the fiscal year ending September 30, 1915, expenditures from the General fund totaled $3,873,282.99.

Careful handling of departmental, board and commission business resulted in a remarkable decrease in General fund expenditures in the past year, as compared with the preceding year. In the year ending last September 30, total General fund expenditures of the state were only $2,241,169.53—a decrease of $1,632,113.46 compared with the preceding year. This remarkable decrease was made, too, with the smallest general fund levy since the present constitution of Indiana was adopted in 1851. The present general fund levy is only 7 cents on the SIOO. It has been that low since the Legislature of 1913 reenacted the tax levy law. That this decrease in expenditures in the total funds of the State and in the general fund was not due to the fact that the State did not have the money to spend is shown by the fact that the total receipts for the past year were $217,098.01 in excess of the receipts for the preceding year. The money was there to spend—and the Democrats saved it, instead of spending it. At the end of the fiscal year, Sept. 30, 1916, there was a cash balance in the treasury of $2,149,765.26.

MR. WILSON'S PASTOR

He Praises the Character and and Public Service of the President. Washington. Oct. 13. 1916. To the Editor of The New York Times: “I hare read with great interest the article of Professor Stockton Axson entitled “Mr. Wilson as Seen by One of His Family t?ircie,” which has just appeared in The New York Times, and I write to express my hearty commendation of the article. During the time that it has been my privilege to be the President’s pastor in Washington. I have had opportunity to become acquainted with both the church life and home life of the President and also to know him more personally. His church life has been consistent and his regularity in church attendance an example to others. I do not believe that I have been in a home where I have been more impressed with the devotion and confidence of the members of the family and where there was snch genuine affection and unselfish concern as in his home. Professor Axson has faithfully described this. President Wilson has accomplished much in the interpretation of Christian principles as applied to nations, both in respect to their thought and conduct. His achievements for humanity have been conspecuous and far reaching and have laid Christian people under heavy obligation. His resolute determination to save this nation from the curse and horror of war should meet with prompt and unstinted gratitude from every one who believes in the Christian principle, “on earth peace, good-will toward men." JAMES H. TAYLOR.

LOOKING FOR THE KAISER.

Hr. Hughes’ choice es war lord as he would appear la full regalia as secretary of state.

WAR LORD’S VIEWS.

Theodore Roosevelt apd Justice Hughes malignantly criticise President Wilson as ignorant and incompetent. Mr. Hughes’ detraction seems but a copy of that of Roosevelt. However, Mr. Wilson has escaped much of the venom of like assaults made by Roosevelt in his “Life of Governor Morris” on presidents whose memory is revered by all patriotic Americans. In this biography he said of Washington: “As a mere military man, Washington himself cannot rank with the wonderful war-chief who for four years led the army of Northern Virginia.” (Lee.) Jefferson, the immortal author of the Declaration of Independence was disposed of thus: “He” (Governor Morris’ “despised Jefferson as a tricky and incapable theorist, skillful in getting votes, but nothing else.” At Madison, framer of the Federal Constitution and president for eight years, he throws this bouquet: “Excepting Jefferson, we have never produced an executive more helpless than Madison, when it came to grappling with real dangers and difficulties. Like his predecessor” (Jefferson) “he was only fit to be president in a time of profound peace.” Monroe, author of the Monroe Doctrine, is thus stigmatized: “Monroe was an honorable man with a very un-original mind, and, he simply reflected the wild, foolish views held by all his fellows of the Jeffersonian democratic-republican school concerning France.” Wilson is indeed fortunate when compared with the Fathers of the Republic! Of course he has not gone to war and that makes him unpopular with the Colonel and C. Hughes.

WHY IS HUGHES?

Just a Few Things That People Are Seriously Considering. The Springfield Republican, one of the most influential newspapers in the country and always independent in politics, says editorially: Some weighty reasons for defeating Wilson might be summarized for business men in this style: During his administration, approximately speaking, the population qf tbe United States has increased from 94,73G,000 to 101,300,000. The national wealth has been increased by $41,000,000,000, or 21.9 per cent. The American debt to Europe has been reduced from $6,500,000,000 to $3,160,000,000, a decrease of 31.4 per cent. Gross annual bank clearings have mounted upward from $166,408,000,000 to $224,335,000,000, a gain of 34.9 per cent. Total bank deposits have increased by about 6M> billions of dollars, an increase of over 33 per cent. The stock of gold in the United States has risen from SI,SIS.GOO,OOO to $2,439,000,000, a gain of 34.1 per cent. If more reasons for defeating Wilson be desired, they may be found in the following facts: In this administration the total foreign commerce of the United States has increased from $4.27.8.000.000 to $6,331,000,000, a gain of 52.7 per cent, Tbe balance of trade in favor of the United States has bounded up from $551,000,000 to $2,136,000,900, a gain of 257.0 per cent. Manufactured exports have risen from $1,020,000,000 to $2,600,000,000, an increase of 155 per cent. If the foregoing reasons for defeating Wilson are not enough, three more may still be adduced: Wages paid in manufacturing industries have increased during this administration from $3,760,000,000 to $5,320,000,000, a gain of 41.5 per cent. The value' of manufactured products has been augmented by no less than $9,400,000,000. an increase of 41.2 per cent. Capital employed in manufacturing industries has risen from $21,000,000,000 to $32,200,000,000, a gain of 30.9 per cent. Every business man. farmer and wageearner will see the point. Everything Wilson does is wrong. Whatever happens under his administration is a national calamity. Down with Wilson!

Harry S. New, by grace of the Republican machine of Indiana and as a reward of his excellent services in chasing Progressives from the party in 1912, candidate for United States senator on the Republican ticket, is doing his little best to imitate Col. Roosevelt by declaring war on the Southern States. He should remember the Indianapolis Star has already called attention to the fact that it is unfair to class Mr. Hughes as the equal of Abraham Lincoln. Still, if we can’t have war with some foreign power in case of Republican success, the next best thing will probably be a civil war.

PEACEOR WARTHETSSUE

Speaking at Battle Creek, Mich., September 30, last, Theodore Roosevelt sale}: “I have been asked what I would b*ve done had I been President when the Lusitania was torpedoed. “I would have instantly taken possession of every German ship interned in this country and then I would have said: ‘Now we'll discuss, not what we will give, but what we will give back.’ " THAT WOULD HAVE 1 MEANT WAR! It would have been a challenge to the German nation to a trial at arms. It would have been' a violation of every principle of neutrality, and at a time, with all Europe under arms, when this country was the trustee of and the only nation capable of upholding neutral rights. The seizure itself would have been an act of war, just as the seizure of German interned ships byi Portugal was regarded as an act of war and was followed by an immediate declaration of war by Germany against Portugal.

Following the same line of war talk, speaking at Lewiston, Maine, August 31, last, Mr. Roosevelt said: “The policies of Americanism and preparedness, taken together, mean applied patriotism. There should be correlation of policy and armament. * * * America, which sprang to the succor of Cuba in 1898, has stood an idle spectator of the invasion of Belgium, the sinking of the Lusitania, the continued slaughter of our own citizens, and of the reign of anarchy, rapine and murder in Mexico.” These are the deliberate declarations of the men with whom Candidate Hughes has said, “I AM IN COMPLETE ACCORD,” and Hughes has publicly congratulated Roosevelt for what he said.

From their public statements the conclusion is inevitable that if either Roosevelt or Hughes had been President when the Army of the Kaiser invaded Belgium we would have had War with Germany; that when the Lusitania was sunk that we would have had war with Germany, and that now we would have instant war with Germany over the submarine raids in the Atlantic ocean off the Massachusetts coast. Must we not agree with President Wilson when speaking at Shadow Lawn on September 30, last, he said: “Am I not right that we must draw the conclusion that if the Republican party is put into power at the next election, our foreign policy will be radically changed? “I cannot draw any other inference. All our present foreign policy is wrong, they say, and if it is wrong and they are men of conscience they must change it. “And if they are going to change it, in what direction are they going to change? THERE IS ONLY ONE CHOICE AS AGAINST PEACE, AND THAT IS WAR.” No other conclusion can be drawn. What is YOUR conclusion, thoughtful citizen? In the last analysis, the election will be decided by ttye farmer vote. And so on the farmer is the responsibility of whether this country shall have peace or war. The only assurance that the country Will not be needlessly plunged into war is for YOU to vdte for Woodrow Wilson. FOR PEACE OR WAR your conscience and your vote must decide.

T. B. RECEIVES FROST, DESPITE POLICE AID

Wilkes-Barre Miners Strong for Wilson—Others Bolt the Republican Party. “If you love me, vote for Hughes,” is au injunction that proved too hard a strain on the liking that the 75,000 miners of the Wilkes-Barre district once had for Colonel Roosevelt. He tried it on them, in wliat was intended to be the biggest labor meeting of the Hughes campaign, and the result was a frost. Not only did the crowd listen to the Colonel’s speech in stony silence, but Wilson enthusiasm threatened to become so boisterous that Mayor Kosek called out the State Constabulary to guarantee Mr. Roosevelt a courteous reception. The Mayor had denied the miners a permit to give a Wilson parade on the night of the Colonel’s visit, and, when they attempted to violate his order, directed the armed and mounted Constabulary to drive them from the streets. Colonel Roosevelt’s closest friend in Wilkes-Barre, Father J. J. Curran, went out with a reception committee to meet the visitor, but announced that, friendship aside, he had left the Republican party, and was supporting President Wilson. Another Indication of the popular trend in the anthracite coal region- is given in a statement by Stephen J. Hughes, city clerk of Hazleton, and a delegate to the Republican national convention in 1912. “Concerning the unauthorized use of my name as a member of the reception committee for Colonel Roosevelt,” says Mr. Hughes, “I wish to state emphatically: I was a volunteer in the trenches in 1912; the war is not over; I have not been taken a prisoner, and I refuse to surrender; I still am fighting for social and industrial Justice,and I purpose to fight so long as j live.”