Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1875 — The Time for Action. [ARTICLE]

The Time for Action.

The next meeting of the National Grange will be held ln thc &tyoT|Chicago. ....gj»! taJßfflftß James 0. Woodruff, an Indianapolis real estate operator » a bankrtrp'.. H» HnbiHties are placed at $658,299.84. , IIrXTTN’GTON, W. Va., Feb. 15 —The joint ballot United States Senator to-day stooiT: General Jackson, 26, Walker, 23; the balance scatter oav- '*'- A man by the .name of Whiling has been examined about the Pacific Mail subsidy business. He saidhehad re 1 o-ired 856.500 of the money, kept it all himself, and wished it had been twice as much.

The National Grange passed a resolution declaring that the early completion of the Spartanburg and Asheville Railroad, a link in the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad, is demanded by the agricultural interest of the country, and the. ryute is recommended to the favorable consideration of tlie order. There seems to be yn almost universal call for a new State House and an additional asylum for the incurably insane of our State. In view of the pressing emergency, caip not our old State House be immediately transformed into such asylum and save the cost of transportation of the poor, afflicted creatures already there? . r • • ■ ■ v..If Northern people could he made to appreciate to-day the aims, hopes, and expectations of ifro Southern States-Rigbts Democracy in the north, says the Inter Ocean?, there, would be no danger to our institutional-no reasonable fear that all the results ofi.ihe war would be reversed or overturned/, But is there not too much reason to fear that the American people will come to their senses - a year too late?- j. The Logansport Star thinks the Louisville lottery should be the subject of earnest prayers on the part of Christians. The Public Library was'‘built through its agency, ami that building is being used at present for revival purposes. It is daily thronged by metabars of the.’different churchy and o f tliers, drawn there by the e rnast preaching of D. Wj Whittle and the singing of P. ? H. Bliss, both of Chicago. -.These gentlemen are nonsectarian in" their.’religious’belief, .arid arc accomplishing a: goo< l work in a place where it isbadly needed. • . . r I ’ •' ■ r The Legislature met in joint -session on Wednesday, and; elected officers for the various State institutions as follows: Directors of ‘ N ortber rr Prison—W. T. Pratt, of Alien, H. E. Wada worth, of Laporte, and Theo. Davenport, of Kosciusko. * * Directors.of. Southern Prison—James Keigwin, of Clark, and Wm. P. Hammond, of Trustee'of Deaf and‘Dumb Asylu m— I Mil ton James, of Delaware. Trustee of Soldiers’ Orphans* Home— George W. Sandford, pf Lake. Trustee hf Insane Asylum—John T. Carroll. Librarian—Lycurgus Dalton. i v-'

. -'.f. It is autoprativ-ely stated that the back pay epidemic was not confined to Congressmen alone. The Senate is swtpt clear of al! members who took tha swag. Ten of them were too hard up to refuse the motley, and the terms of all of them expire on the 4th of March. Not one of them has been re-eleoted, and only one of them, Carpenter, received votes in the respective legislatures. The names of the deceased are Tipton, of Nebraska, Stockton, of New Jersey, Spragne, of Rhode Island, Lewis, of Virginia, .Stewart, of Nevada, Brownlow, of Tennessee, Gilbert, of Florida, Boreman, of West Virginia, Carpenter, of Wisconsin, and Flanagan, of Texas. It you are engaged in any business by which youulook to a local trade for sup .port, keep day and night actively in your service the colußfnsdf your home paper, .avail yourself of. its tireless wings tp carry your message to all to whom you look for custom; for when you speak through the of your home paper to your friends, it delivers your message faithfully aud correctly to hundreds and thousands daily; inspiring them with the idea that you are a live business man, and that you doqire their patronage, a circum - stance that Mn nine cases out of ten, brings the best class of custom ; for it is an undeniable fact, that people will trade at such are solicitous for their custom, in preference to go ing to a man w hose, silence and indifibronce is X such a character as to make the customer feel <1 VUMaVWiOD tv AUdIKV VMC UUfrUHUvi that the merchant > condescending to grant bitn a favor for which he ought so! fo.l graleful.

We have said and written much about the Chicago and South Atlantic Railroad. We have endeavored, in our week manner to picture, not in glowing but truthful colors, the great advantages to be derived upon its its completion. We have endeavored, to show the farmer that his interests especially were at stake. -- We have proven iwlthe most convincing manner, from the riatiatics that th J producer, the hard fisted yeomanry who toil in the

heat of the summer as well as in the .biting fronts of‘Printer,..as a class have su&redand are wrij suffering for the want of ’in transportation.— 'Vfe have shownjrpu time aud again that you are compelled on an average to take five cents per bushel less for your grain than they arc paying all around us.— Now let us ask you if this is not true, aud let us ask you if you can find redress save i n the direction we have named ?—• Yon can not, and that ia not the worst of it. If you let this gulden opportunity escape, a soulless -monopoly will grapple with you the more tightly. The only show of an opposition, the canal, .wh.ch was like a scare-crow in your corn field, has lost what Bttlc influence it once possessed. During the coming season it will be so useless and helpless that no attention will be paid to it whatever. It will be entirely disregarded and freights will gradually advance, and just in proportion as they advance you must expect die price of your products to decline. There is no alternative. The price which the gram merchant here offers you is less than freight to market. You can not be your own shippers, for he can get lower rates than you can possibly get, heuce you must be the loser. The very moment the ears are running from Delphi to Chicago, that moment will wheat be worth as much or more here than, it Is in Lafayette. This freight monopoly is like a twoedged sword, it cuts both ways You sometimes grumble that groceries and other goods are higher here than in Lafayette. They are just as much higher as the transportation. The merchant does not pay the fi eights. He pays it indirectly, but it is afterwards paid' by the consumer. It needs no argument to prove this position. On the three staple articles of sugar, tea and coffee, one house alone in this city pays annually S3OO in excessive freights, that is three hundred dollars more than they would have to pay if we bad this railroad for which we are working so hard. - Every time you buy a pound of sugar, coffee or tea, you are called upon to help pay that S3OO. It is the same on every article you use. The tradesman is compelled to sell just as much higher as he is compelled to pay higher freights. We stand here , cue of the most productive and wealthy counties in the State, yet we are isolated, cut off from the great markets of the world. There is but two directious’to market, the East and the West, and if we take either our produce is consumed in freights before we reach our destination. What are we to do; wear out our lives working for a monopoly who will always hold a mortgage upon our industry, or will we like freemen, throw off the yoke of bondage, open our eyes to our true situation, and vote a I death blow to railroad monopolies. We have confidence in the intelligence of the people and believe that thay realize that there is “balm in Gilead.” — Delphi. Journal. ;

• -Thr prospects that the IndianApolis, Delphi and Chicago road will be built, and that the work will be pushed vigorously ns soon as the weather becomes suitable, are becoming more favorable daily. The few persons along the proposed line who have opposed it, a-e beginning to seo the importance of the road and the increased value it will give to property in the section of country through which it passes, and are taking . hold us the matter earnestly. The commissioners of Carroll county have ordered that an election be held in the several townships through which the railfoad will pass, on Saturday, the 6th day of March, 1875. The amounts to be raised will be prorata, and are as follows t Deer creek township, $45,00(1; Tippecanoe township. $11,000; Jefferson township, $7,000 Clay township, $5,000; Madison township, $5,000, making a total of $70,000, and other counties are making similar movements.— lndianapolis Journal.

A real old-f-ishioned “spellin’ skule*’ will be inaugurated next Friday evening at the Second Preslnterian Church, when an opportunity will be given the old hoys and girls to show how the thing used to be done in olden times. They will choose sides, and one will endeavor to spell down the ether.— There will be' plenty of amusement, and those who go Will uqt regretit. An admission fee of fifteen cents will be charged, and a prize awarded the best speller In the house. ’Riis will no doubt be the moat terrible spelt we have had this winter.— Logansport Star. .■■“■i- I—gg : According to the Logansport Star, Torn, Scott, he of the Pennsylvania Railroad, hM< invs of the National Ct r ' g . c on . ngc, now in aesston, a resolution calling on Congress to M-anY'onvernmpHturt'tn vt utitvMi wtu tu iu, laivot mi U;BuTexas Facific. < J