Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — Page 2

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HE JOT GOUNTT OKU F. E. BABCOCK, Publisher. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY Long Distance Telephones Office 315 Residence 311 Entered as second class .mall matter Yono 3, 1908, at the postofffee at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the Act of March ». 1*73. Published Wednesday and Saturday The Only All-Home-Print Newspaper In Jasper County. SUBSCRIPTION |3 00 PBR ANNUM—STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. —ADVERTISING RATES—DISPLAY Twenty cents per Inch. Special position, Twenty-five cents Inch READERS Per Une, first Insertion, ten cents. Per line, additional Insertions, five bents. WANT ADS One cent per word each insertion; Minimum 25 cents. Special price if run one or more months. Cash must acoompany order unless advertiser has an open account. CARD OF THANKS Not to exceed ten lines, fifty cents; eash with order. . ACCOUNTS All due and payable first of month following publication, except want ads and cards of thanks, which are cash with order. No advertisements accepted for the first page. SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1920.

FOR JUDGE OF CIRCUIT COURT

TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF NEWTON . AND JASPER COUNTIES—I will be a candidate for the nomination for judge of the circuit court of Newton and Jasper counties on the Democratic ticket at the primary election to be held on May 4, 1920. t AUGUSTUS D. BABCOCK, # Goodland, - Indiana.

THE LEAGUE AND WAR

It may help some people to think of the league of nations from the problems growing directly out of the war, which are temporary in character, and belong under the jurisdiction of the supreme council, or what is left of it, rather than under that of the league. , Suppose these were all adjusted—would the league then be a good thing? Suppose the league had been launched before the war broke out, would it have been helpflUl? Its main purpose is, very obviously, to prevent war, or to make it difficult, in a world that is at peace. Arthur Sweetzer, writing in the New York Evening Post, reminds us of Lord Grey’s declaration that if the league of nations had been in existence in 1914 there would

Tractor Demonstration at Harry Gallagher’s place, northwest corner of town, 3 blocks west of Monon depot, Saturday, May 1, ’2O ALL DAY’S DEMONSTRATION OF TRACTOR Every farmer in this locality who is interested in tractors ' is' cordially invited to come out and see the tractor that is sold -on a positive guarantee to do the work. E. L. MORLAN Located in Grant-Warner Lumber Building.

have been no war, and if any man is entitled to speak on the subject it is the man who so ably filled the office of secretary for foreign affairs in Great Britain in the fateful days just before the storm broke. Only the other day a Frenchman said that there would have been no war if Great Britain had at once announced her intention to support France —which was hardly possible, as her government was parliamentary. But it is altogether likely that such an announcement would have given Germany a serious check. We have, it is feared, forgotten many things, but hardly the terrible shock experienced by Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg when the British ambassador. Sir Edward Goschen, told him that his government would go to war to uphold the treaty guaranteeing the neutrality of Belgium, and asked for his passports. The chancellor w’as “very agitated,” and said that “the step taken by his majesty’s government was terrible to a degree.” He was, reported Sir Edward, “so excited, so evidently overcome by the news of ouj action, and so little disposed to hear reason that I refrained from adding fuel to the flame by further argument.” This was due to the fact that the Gei\ man government had confidently counted on British neutrality. We may be reasonably sure that a blow that was recognized as so terrible would never have been invited had Germany believed, till too late to change her policy, that it would be struck.

If all this is true, the veto of the United States, Italy, Japan and 40 other nations would have been ab-> solutely conclusive against the war. In other words, what was needed in those awful days, for the lack of which the world tragedy could not be prevented,’ was something very like the league of nations to which this government has so far refused to commit itself. There was no adequate machinery at hand to deal with the emergency and prevent the catastrophe. Mr. Sweetzer quotes from a speech of President Wilson, who then, whatever may be true now, undoubtedly spoke for the American people, in which he said: I pray God that if this contest have no other result, it will at least have the result of creating an international tribunal and producing some sort of joint guaranty of peace on

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the part of the nations of the world. Those words were spoken 14 months before we got Into the war. In his instructions to the American delegates to the first Hague conference, in 1909, John Hay, American secretary of state, said: The duty of sovereign states to promote international justice by ail wise and effective means is,, second only to 'the fundamental necessity of protecting their own existence. Next in importance to their inde. pendence is the great fact of their Interdependence. Nothing can secure for human government and for the authority of law which it represents so deep a respect and so firm a loyalty as the spectacle of sovereign and independent states, whose duty it is to prescribe the rules of justice and impose penalties on the lawless, bowing with reverence before / the august supremacy of those princi£jles of right which give to the law 'its eternal foundation. The American people should try to think themselves back into the days before the war, into the days of the war itself, and try to recover something of the splendid—yet most practical —idealism that then flamed in their breasts. —Indianapolis News.

HI JOHNSON’S SUPPORTERS

In speaking of the Hi Johnson victory in the g. o. p. presidential race in Nebraska, a Washington dispatch says, among other things: The campaign made in Nebraska, by Hiram Johnson for the Republican presidential nomination was a fortunate thing for Bryan. The German vote, which naturally would have been friendly to Hitchcock in his contest with Bryan, cast their influencd in the Republican primary in order to bring about the nomination of Johnson and thus express their hatred of the league of nations. According to dispatches from Nebraska Johnson carried some German precincts unanimously. It was thus largely the candidacy of Johm son that enables Bryan to go to the Democratic convention and make a fight against a “wet”plank, which plank t is a thing greatly desired by the very influences that deserted Hitchcock for Johnson. Along the same line w the Chicago Tribune said: Reports from Nebraska say that Mr. Bryan, elected against great opposition to the Democratic nations,! convention as delegate-at-large, owes his success to the decision of the German-American voters. They are “wet,” but they are anti-treaty. They wanted to vote agaipst Bryan because he does not like beer, but they had to vote for Johnson because he does not like the treaty. They let the “dry” into the convention by turning from the Democratic contest to vote for Johnson in the Republican.

THE “RECONSTRUCTION” CONGRESS

Commenting on the proposed “joy ride” of so;ne hundred or more members of congress to Hawaii, the China and Japan, the Springfield Republican, one of the leading independent newspapers of the countty, in calling attention to the total failure of the present congress to enact any constructive legislation, says: “If this congress were to -adjourn on June 1 or 2, with every member going on a tour at the expense of the taxpayers, its labors might be brought to a fitting conclusion. Mr. Mondell, the floor leader of the house, says: ‘There is no reason why congress should not pass all

the -appropriation bills. Including the complete program laid down at the beginning of the session, and ad' journ by June 2.’ He ought to know. Its program is not so extensive as to prevent the plan from being carried out —if it can be said to have any program.’ “It' was elected as a ‘reconstruction’ congress, back in the fateful days of November, 1918. But how much are we reconstructed? ~ Congress has the nbw non-partisan railroad reorganization law to Its credit, but what else has it done that can be pointed to with pride? Isn’t it one of the worst failures, as a congress, the country has had to endure in 50 years? The senate’s chief business for a year or more has been the peace treaty, - and the senate’s own resolution returning the unratified treaty to the president specifically noted the historical fact that It had ‘failed’ to perform its function.”

PEACE RESOLUTION A SHAM

The peace resolution which the Republican bosses have directed their party’s majority in congress to pass is, as they well know, unconstiutional and must, under his oath of office, be vetoed by the president. The constitution requires that peace treaties shall be nego* tiated by the president and ratified by the senate by a two-thirds majority. Because the peace of Versalles was negotiated by a Democrat, the Republican majority in the senate defeated its ratification. Republican leaders know that the peace resolution they now plan to put through congress by “road roller” methods Is a travesty, a sham by which they hope to hide their responsibility for defeating a constitutional peace, and fool the public into believing that the president and the Democratic minority in congress share the responsibility for keeping the country technically in a state of war. To such low estate has congress fallen in its game of partisan politics.

Action of the North Carolina Democratic state convention in declaring for equal suffrage and calling upon the legislature of that state, soon to- be convened, to ratify the federal constitutional amendment, probably makes such action by the legislature certain. North Carolina, a rockribbed Democratic state, will thus probably be the thirty-sixth state to ratify. By this action, the Democratic party will be directly responsible for placing the ballot In the hands of the women for the 1920 national election. The Republican congress now proposes to investigate the federal reserve board, which is about like investigating the Rock of Gibraltar to see if it is solid. Not even the system that enabled the country to finance the greatest war of all time without a financial tremor is to escape the activities of the “investigating” congress. However, such an investigation will serve to give the congress another pretext for killing time and for not doing those things it should do.

Senator LaFollette, of unsavory war record, has effected a complete “come back” in the “g. o. p.” His ticket swept Wisconsin in the recent Republican primary. Holding the delegation from his state to the national convention in the hollow of liis hand, he will be much courted at Chicago, just as he was by his party leaders in the senate when It was found that his vote was needed to organize the senate and pack the foreign relations committee against the peace treaty. . Whether or not it be fair to criticize a Republican congress for failing to adopt a reconstruction legislative program recommended by a Democratic president, it is at least in order to criticize it for falllug to develop any alternative program and for total failure to keep the campaign pledges to enact such legislation so vociferously made to the people in the fall of 1918.

Lew Dockstader, the celebrated minstrel, in a recent humorous political monologue in a Washington theater, nominated Senator Henry Cabot Lodge for president on a “He-kept-us-out-ot-peace” platform. The suggestion is commended to the Republican national convention. Dr. Lodge’s quack prescription calling for a separate peace with Germany will not suit the body of the American public. But this isn’t his first reversal, for he once declared there should be no separate peace. As the Orient refuses to come to Washington, a lot of congressmen will go to the Orient without any warrant except one on the treasury, says the Washington Post With the government paying most of the freight, the demand for tickets for the congressional “joy ride”

WAS A SURPRISE TO FARMER BOYD

Had Been Troubled More or Less for Thirty Years—Feels Fine Since Taking Tanlac. “I was just telling my wife the other day that this is the flrat time in twenty years I have felt like making ready for an old fashioned Christmas dinner,” said John Boyd, a prosperous farmer, R. F. D. 1, Peoria, 111., while telling on December 15, in Sutliff & Case’s drug store of the - remarkable benefits he had received from Tanlac. Continuing, he said: “I have suffered more or less with stomach trouble for thirty years, and Tanlac is the only medicine that I have ever found that did me a particle of good, and this is saying a great deal for I have tried a lot of different kinds In that time. I had a burning in my stomach all the time and every few days I would have terrible spells of cramps, caused by something I ate, and I was always in misery. I had a very poor appetite and just had to force down every mouthful I ate, and I haven’t been able to eat a single meal in all these thirty years with any satisfaction. I could get but little sleep as I was so restless I would just roll and toss from one side of the bed to the other all night long. L continued to get worse untjl I became so weak and run down I was unable to work and for months before I began taking Tanlac I hadn’t been away from home, and it was all I could do to drag myself around at all. “When began taking Tanlac 1 had been in this condition so long and had tried so many different medicines without getting the least benefit from them I had given up all hope of ever getting any better; but only a few days after I started taking it I was a happy man, for I noticed I was getting better with every dose. I continued taking Tanlac and my appetite continued to improve until it was almost impossible for my wife to cook enough for. me to eat, and the best part of it all was that I could eat all I wanted and anything I wanted without suffering the least bit from it afterward. That burning in my stomach, those terrible cramping pains and the bloating left me so suddenly I was actually surprised. And sleep! Why I can-sleep just as sound as a log all night long without ever waking up once, and always wake up feeling fine and full of energy and ready for my work. I have regained my strength so I can do as much work as 1 ever could. So you see why I am so anxious to get this bottle of Tanlac, for I owe all my good condition to it, and I never expect to be without it. There is nothing in the world I would take for what Tanlac has done for me, and I intend to praise it as long as I live.” Tanlac is sold In Rensselaer by Larsh & Hopkins, and in Remington by Frank L. Peck; in Wheatfleld by Simon Fendlg.—Advt.

to the Orient exceeds the supply. The g. o. p. congress has investigated everything but the cost of its own investigations. A ~ Michigan jury performed its sworn duty in the Newberry case, but the Republican senate is still derelict in its duty. “The man who whispers down a well About the goods he has to sell, Won’t reap the golden, gleaming dollars bike one 6 who climbs a tree and hollers.” Well, I am hollerin’. I have a carload of Buggies to sell. —C. A. ROBERTS.

INSURE IN [■is Ml Imp once teKiM Of Benton, 'Jasper and Newton Counties. Insurance in Force December 31, 1918 .. $3,679,594 The average yearly rate for the 24 years this Company has been in existence has been but 24 cents on the SIOO insurance, or $2.40 per SI,OOO. State Mutual Windstorm Insurance written in connection. MARION I. ADAMS Rensselaer; S. A. Brusnahan, Parr, dnd J. P. Ryan (Gilliam tp.) Medaryville, R. F. D.; Wm. •B. Meyers, Wheatfield; V. M. Peer, Knimaq, are agents of this Company and will be pleased to give you any further information. Stephen Kohley,. Rensselaer, is the adjuster for Jasper county. <

SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1920.

- ** RENSSELAER TIME TABLE k In wfTwct March 80, 1918. NORTHBOUND. No. 86 Cincinnati to Chicago 4:84 a.m. No. 4 Louisville to Chicago 6 01a.m. No. 40 Lafayette to Chicago 7:80 a.m. No. 32 Indianap’s to Chicago 10:36 a.m. No. 38 Indlanap’s to Chicago 2:61 p.m. No. 6 Louisville to Chicago 3:31p.m. No. 30 Cincinnati to Chicago 6:60 p.m. z SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 Chicago to Cincinnati 2:27 a.m. No 6 Chicago to Louisville 10:65 a.m. No. 37 Chicago to Indlanap’s 11:13 a.m. No. 33 Chgo to Indpls and FL 1:67 p.m. No. 39 Chicago to Lafayette 6:60 p.m. No. 31 Chicago to Indlanap’s 7:81p.m. No. 3 Chicago to Louisville 11:10 p.m.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. CITY OFFICIALS Mayor Charles G. Spitler Clerk Charles Morlan Treasurer Charles M. Sands Civil Engineer . ...L. A. Bostwick Fire Chief J. J. Montgomery Fire Warden ... .J. J. Montgpmery Councilmen Ward No. 1 Ray Wood Ward No. 2 J. D. Allman Ward No. 3 Fred Waymiro At large—Rex Warner, C. Kellner •— JUDICIAL OFFICIALS Circuit Judge C. W. Hanley Prosecuting Atty...J. C. Murphey Terms of court —Second Monday in February, April, September and November. Four week terms. COUNTY OFFICIALS Clerk * ~Jes«* Nichols Sheriff True<D. Woodworth Auditor 8. C. Robinson Treasurer John T. Biggs Recorder George Boott Surveyor D. D. Nesbitt Coroner W. J. Wright Assessor G. L. Thornton Agricultural agent.... S. Learning Health Officer . ...F. H. Hemphill COMMISSIONERS District No. 1 H. W. Marble District No. 2 Bert Amsler District No. 8 Charles Welch Commissioners’ court meets the first Monday of each month. COUNTY BOARD EDUCATION Trustees . Township Grant Davisson .. Barkley Burdett Porter Carpenter Benj. F. LaFevre Gillam Warren E. Poole. .Hanging Grove Julius Hutt •- - J or®* ll Alfred Duggleby Kankakee Clifford Fairchild Keener Charles W. Poetlll Mkrton Charles C. Wood.. Milroy John Rush • ••- Newton Walter Harrington ..Union John F. Petet -.Walker John Bowie Wheatfield M. L. Sterrett, Co. Superintendent C. M. Sands, Truant officer.

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