Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1919 — Page 2

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If there is anything under God's heavens that would make sensible people opposed and disgusted to the granting of equal suffrage to women, it is the damphool antics of the bunch of female propagandists holding forth in Washington," who have done more harm to the ca/use they claimi to be working for than all other opposition that has developed. Their (picketing of the White House, burning of the President in effigy, carrying of obnoxious and disloyal banners and other disgusting methods intended by these misguided zealots to influence public opinion, has had its result in turning such opinion against their “cause. ’’ The leniency shown by the courts- to this bunch of criminals when they have been arrested Tor some of their more glaring violations of the law, has seemingly only emboldened them to go still further and has had a tendency to disgust people In general with the courts and create disrespect far the law. They should have been dealt with the same as any other criminals who violate the laws of the land. It is no wonder that we have a considerable Bolshevik spirit in America when, we permit these and other glaring infractions of free speech and acts to go unpunished. A special t|£ain carrying 64 I. W, W. leaders passed through Chicago Sunday night, under a heavy guard, on Its way to an Atlantic port for immediate deportation from Ellis island of these undesirables, who are mostly from Seattle, Washington, where the entire business of that city has bee* paralyzed for the past several days by a, general strike brought on by I. W. W. agitators and their ilk. This strike also partially tied up business M Tacoma for a few days, but was not nearly so paralysing as at Seattle, and was practically ended Monday. The Seattle, strikeit was expected, would end at nopn yesterday— rat least the delegates

from 130 local unions voted Monday to (resume work at 1 o’clock 'yesterday, and called the strike off. A general clean-up to rid the country ’of aliens with criminal records or who are regarded as a menace to the nation, is said to be under way by federal officials, and within a few days another bunch will be taken from Chicago for de-j portation to the countries from which they came. A better way, perhaps, of dealing with these radical disturbers would be for the allies at the peace conference to decide upon some desert island to' which the chief agitators could all be sent to work out their salvation 1 by exterminating each other. This class of anarchists are the greatest menace that the civilized world faces today, and they should be thoroughly exterminated, both root and branch, and that, too, ip. d. q

ASKS GOVERNOR TO EXPLAIN

By Felix F. Bruner.

Indianapolis, Feb. 11. —Desperate attempts to. explain are being nyide following the publication of a letter written- by Lieut. Gov. Bush to Governor Goodrich; demanding an explanation of his action in accepting a compromise whereby he'- virtually made a present of $3,200 due the state to Vernon E. Knight of New Albany, a member of ins staff. During Gov. Goodrich’s illness in 1917, when Lieut. Gov. Bush was acting as governor, Knight approached Bush with an agreement drawn up by Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman, then state chairman, whereby the state was to accept $5,000 as settlement for a' $8,200 judgment rendered by the Clark county circuit court against the heirs of the Depauw estate for delinquent taxes. Bush, according to his letter to Gov. Goodrich, called in Eie Stansbury, attorney general, who advised him against accepting the compromise. Bush irefused to accept the compromise, but when Gov. Goodrich returned to office the compromise was accepted. Bush did not learn of the acceptance until recently when he talked about the matter to Stansbury. He immediately wrote Gov. GoSSrich and demanded an explanation. Gov. Goodrich is still trying to explain. The letter written by Bush folIowa: “Gov. James P. Goodrich, City. ' “Dear Governor —At the time you were in the hospital and I was in the governor’s chair, sworn to perform my constitutional duties as acting governor, I was approached by Col. Vernon E. Knight of New Albany, Ind., a member of your start, and I was importuned by him to compromise a judgment for SB,200, said judgment having been rendered in the Clark circuit court against the Depauw estate for delinquent tax. “Cob Knight was financially interested in the result of the judgment, having married one of the Depauw heirs, and his contention was that I accept $5,000 in lieu of the $8,200. “He presented to me at the tim§ a blank form of agreement to the compromise which he said was prepared by Will H. Hays who, he

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said, waa very anxious to see the compromise allowed. * , "I sent for the attorney general, Mr. Stansbury, and he advised me that there was no warrant whatever In law or fact justifying acceptance of a less amount than the face of the judgment, and cited the following statute, which seems very plain: "Durns’ R. 6. 1914, section 9287: " ‘Compromise. No claim in favor of the state shall »be compromised without the approval of the governor and attorney general, and such officer* are hereby empowered to make such compromise, when in their judgment It Is In the Interest of the state so to do.’ “As the time elapsed before I left the governor’s chair for allowing this compromise and as my official act was so well safeguarded by law, I naturally supposed the matter had been closed up. Despite the fact that you expressed to me the morning of your return some displeasure at the fact that Col. Knight had not been allowed the $3,200. “You can readily imagine my surprise when I learned today from the attorney general that immediately upon your resumption of the duties of the governor’s office you sent for the attorney general and asked him to change his ruling, which he did, and you allowed the compromise. The statute of course remains In effect. “Will you kindly infm*m me what warrant there is inplaw or fact for your -procedure. I Tbelieve, in all due respect, such an explanation is due me, as my official act was performed in good faith, under the advice of the constitutionally elected adviser to the’ governor; the statute was followed to the letter and my action was calculated to save the state $3,200.’’

PHILOSOPHY OP WALT MASON

Since first the kaiser donned his crown his talk had been of swords; he gloried in his war lord frown, and dreamed of marching hordes. A sword is hut a useless tool, used in no honest trade; and no one but a knave or fool prefers, it to a spade. There is no sane, uplifting job in which a sword’s required, and any fiery sword-struck swab is sure to make me tired. Hjid Wilhelm clamored for a hoe, when he secured bis throne, he might not now be clothed in woe, an outcast, sad, alone., Instead of sending submarines to show new curves in crime, he might have hoed his stringless beans, admired in every clime. Behind his Potsdam linden trees he might have had a patch of stringless beans or early peas that would be hard to match. By toiling for an hour or two, each morning, briskly, there, he might have won the ribbon blue at state or county fair. Had he insisted on a saw as emblem of his power! But no, he must-have sword to draw, and flourish by the hour. He did not wish to hew the elm in useful two-foot length; the sword must advertise his realm, its majesty and strength. And now he has no realm to boost, he cannot use his sword; he’s perched up on his lonely roost, dishonored, weary, bored.

LOOK AT THIS AS IT IS No man likes to plow where there are many stumps. He Is likely to get out of patience and swear. This is the way to stop the swearing: Buy a stump puller —a one-man puller, that will pull any stump in Jasper county—and one man is all that is needed. I can furnish the puller. Who is the man that wants to pull the stumps? Land is worth too much these times for nothing but stumps to occupy soil. Some one that wants to make good money, call on C. A. Roberts for the puller and he can furnish a party who wants 20 acres of stumps pulled and is willing to pay a good price for the work and apot cash when the wOTk is done.—C. A. ROBERTS, Front street. Rensselaer, Ind. ts Every farmer wno owns his farm ought to have printed stationer; with his name and the name of his postofflce properly given. The prln* ed heading might also give th< names of whatever crops he special lzes In or bis specialties in stock Neatly printed stationery gives you personality and a standing with an; person or firm to whom you writ* insures the proper reading your name and address. Purchase your calling cards, correspondence cards, correspondence stationery and envelopes from The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. We carry the most complete line to ho found outside the large cities. COMMUNITY SALE A community sale will be ' held at Parr on Friday, February 28, 1919. Those having anything to sell please list, same with W. 'H. Myres at Parr. —Advt.

America's Need of a Merchant Marine During die Transition Period

for the operation of these ships, so long as they are operated economically and so long as the expense of operation is not borne by any one or few but by the whole people. No American shipbuilding can be profitable or successful or enlist private capital today as shipping is now operated. I do not care in what form the people pay the bill. If the government operates the ships themselves and operates them at a loss, the people pay the bill. If the ships are operated by private concerns and a loss accrues that is made up in some form of subsidy, the people pay the bill. Ido not hesitate to say, however—not as a politician, because in that I have never had any part —that the real development of any great enterprise depends on the individual initiative of the American business man. I do not believe that we will ever get the full economical development of any great branch of American industry that is not developed under private enterprise and by private capital. Our great outlet for all manufactures must be foreign markets. _ How are we going to get into the foreign markets? The shipyards of the United States during the year 1919 are capable of producing with ease and economically between eight million and ten million tons of ocean shipping. The total ocean tonnage which the United States will possess at the end of that period will, if properly and economically operated, furnish a merchant marine that should make our industries secure in this transition period.

“Me—und Gott”; Why the Former Kaiser Called Upon His Gott in Vain

While the ex-kaiser was insisting upon his partnership “Gott*mit uns,” “Me und Gott”—the German army was performing deeds of cruelty and barbarism which are unparalleled in history. And we know that these deeds were performed by the soldiery under strict orders from the high command. How are we to reconcile these two apparently irreconcilable factors? At first sight we seem to be in a madhouse, dealing with Insane persons. It may be objected that the kaiser was merely posing—that he was not sincere. His religious convictions, however, appear to be genuine. Me can only suppose that, believing in his divine right, he believed he could do no wrong; nothing mattered so long as Germany conquered. From fhis'viewpoint we can understand “terrorism/ The divine German right to subjugate the world explains it. This was the view of the kaiser and the German aristocracy, without a doubt; and we can at once see that from this standpoint a man might be at once deeply religious and extremely cruel. ’ But what kind of a God can this man have? Surely not a God of love; it seems rather a God of hate, an angry, wrathful*-and revengeful monarch, a partisan of war, strife and might. He is a medieval, anthropomorphic Deity, corresponding to the older Teutonic conception of Thor. In short, the Gott of this man Hohenzollern was the product of his own brain, of his own imagination. William II created a being, whom he worshiped and admired, which was a more or less counterpart of himself—more glorified. The God which.the kaiser worshiped, to whom he prayed, is absolutely different from the being worshiped by the allies — as different as light from darkness, love from hate, sympathy from destruction and fear. The kaiser’s Gott was, in fact, a typical God of hate—as opposed to the spirit of love, peace and justice.

Sherman Law Is Out of Business in Reconstruction of Railroads

We must take government control of the railroad aa now in effect as a fact—and let that be our point of departure. And we must agree that the present system of operation has in it certain merits which must never be sacrificed. Most of them, indeed, embody reforms for which railroad officers hase clamored these many years. First and foremost the Sherman law is out of business. It was tossed out of the window by Fairfax Harrison and the railroad war board as soon as war was declared; but President Wilson and Mr. McAdoo chloroformed and embalmed it on the 28th of December, 1917. Let us briefly suggest the other obvious blessings of the present regime: 1. The pooling of equipment and terminals. j 2. The elimination *of unnecessary trains and duplicated servio®. 3. The more economical loading and routing of freight. 4. The unification of passenger ticket offices. 5. The elimination of the frills of the business, such as observation cars for which no adequate fare was paid, etc. 6. The frank recognition of the necessity on the part of government, which adds to the expenses of operation, to find the increased rates and fares with which to pay those expenses. These are great gains, and it is the duty of every railroad man to see to it that they are brought clearly to public attention. We must face the fact very frankly that the decision of this momentous issue is absolutely in the hands of the public. As one with practical railroad experience and as, an observer of government operation throughout the world, I am convinced that the most economical operation can be attained under private ownership. And the gains we have obtained from government operation can all be retained under private ownership.. •

By CHARLES M. SCHWAB

We may construct one hundred million tons of ships, but they will have no value to this great nation of ours unless we do what ia more important than the construction of Bhipe, and that is to devise the ways and means for their operation. A great merchant marine is essential to the United States. Its successful operation is not for the benefit of any one man or class of men, or for any one branch of business, but it is for the good of every individual citizen of the United States. I do not care what plan, in the opinion of our great legislators at Washington, may be best

By HEREWARD CARRINGTON.

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. -CITY OFFICERS Mayor Charles G. Spttter CJerk Charles Morlau Treasurer Charles If. Sands Civil Engineer... .L. A. Bostwlok Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden J. J. Montgomery Councilman Ist Ward Ray Wood 2?d Ward Frank Tobias 3rd Ward Fred Waymlre At Large, Rex Warner, C. Kellner JUDICIAL Circuit Judge. .Charles W. Hanley Prosecuting Atty..J. C. Murphey Terms of Court—Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICERS Clerk Jesee Nichols Sheriff True D. Woodworth Auditor. J. p. Hammond Treasurer Charles V. May Recorder George Scott Surveyor E. D. Nesbitt Coroner W. J. Wright County Assessor. .G. L. Thornton County Agent. .Stewart Learning Health Officer.,..F. H. Hemphill COMM IBBIONERB Ist District H. W. Marble 2nd District, D. S. Makeever 3rd District Charles Welch Commissioners’ Court' meets the First Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees Township Grant Davisson..... Barkley BTirdett Porter Carpenter BenJ. F. LaFevre.. Gill&m Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Huff Jordan Alfred Duggleby Kankakee Gllfford Fairchild «...Keener Charles W. P05t111.........Mari0n Charles C. Wood Milroy John Rush Newton Walter Harrington Union John F. Petet Walker John Bowie Wbeatfleld M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendent C. M. Sands, Truant Officer

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