Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 24, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 January 1882 — Page 3

WEEKLY COURIER.

V. IM..rK, PublUM.r. JASPKKi INDIANA. t enuM tut tlMi UUim Year, mr, mm mm Mew Tear MMM DM MM SMttta furtfc socttajr tm 4 Mar Um fcer. tt Lfttte Yum, MNW MM MSHW HHtAnd wMUtturlutl orfiCSr SSaw w? tor. , The seat from out hi tiwisuni A MMMwromwauH wut. And ugm we'd sused him on Ms wajr At MMtttafct tsJnu- Mmhm, t aurrr iwHMid Um world; my. XBW TEAK! CALLS. " Wish you a happy Kw Year, boys!" " Happy New Year!" reeponded three clear trebles, and the loudest of Utm " Going to nuUce culls to-day. Uncle Fredr" " 0 course I am, Johnny," responded the rosy, frosty-whiskered, nuddta-aged gentleman they went talking to, m he opened the door of hi carriage. " What are you and your friend going to do?" " We're going to make call, too," tti out one of Johnny's comrades " iid I and Tracy Plumb." ' " hj g Tom Fitch going with you F wnra re jjnsj going to calif tKre9?rlM;lf '"sturdily replied Tom Fitch, with a hltoh at j,w neck-tie. " All around the block." " Yon are, are you! Hare vou n. cards, for places where they're not nt Homer' " Yes, sir, we're cards for everybody." " Indeed! Let me see them." Uncle Fred's good-humored face was all a broad grin as beheld out his hand, for the two smaller boys could not have been much more than eight rears old, and Johnny Cook himself, their bead matf. was barely ten. " I wrote my own cards," said Johnny, with proud self-sat isf action, as lie dragged a handful of bits of white pasteboard from bis coal-pocket. "Tip-top!" exclaimed Uncle Fred; " only you should always spell your nam in one way. J-o-n-n-l isn't nearly as good as .I-h-o-n-y, and thai one's J-o-n-e. But they'll alt do." "Mine are better than his," said Tom. "Mother gave me some of her old ones; and so did sister Belle; and Tracy Plumb has some of his own father's. Show 'em to him, Tracy." "That is grand!" said Uncle Fred. " Now you must always send your cards in ahead of you, so they'll know who's coming." He was getting very red in the face Inst then, and the boys did not hear dm mutter, as he hurriedly stepped into the carriage and. drove off: "Mustn't let them see me laugh. Might scare 'em out of it and spoil the inn. But shouldn't I like to bo somewhere when those three come in?" There were no signs of laughter on the faces of Johnnv Cook. Tracv Phuub and Tom Fitch. It was decidedly a serious business for them, and they marched steadily away up the street. "WbereUl we call iirt?" aid Tom. " Let Johnny tett lie knows," said jLxacy. "Them's a backet on Mr. Jones1 door-bell, boys. We'll go there first That's to pot our cards in." Up the steps they went, and the belt was duly rang, but it had to be pulled again before any one came to the door. "Well thht, what is HP What doyis wantP" "Why, Biddy," exclaimed Tom, "we'ni callmgi Didn't you know it wasNewYeaPsDayr " ft's cnlbV y art? An' didn't ye Mi t3w basktt? Mrs. Jones Isn't at heme the fcm" "Ohf sum Johnny; 'Hme's out makmg her own calls. Give Wddr your earners. " HewW on, thin, hwy wan of yta, till I show her tlicm cards." " I thought yon said she wasm't at home?" 44 'Dade and she Isn't; but I'd ralber lose me place than not have her Ink at tfcmu Shtand where ySx are till I eome." xne woaes tamtiy were too near netghJjw for Biddy not to know those three Tmg gentlemen; and in a moment ft nice-looking; lady up-stairs was to herself: "AT-Jf Johnny, Oo-o-k-e, Cook, oeun itca and Mr. Martna11 .Miree b'res, mnmT' exh Knth her plump sides ' "Sure, an1 Wa calbj whs? sratfwy-.v". WUI t m 2fe be seated, Mr. MmW 1i;JjM,l?itr0?l,,,,w the (mlsnt fciSl miA fW yon nugti m theht come In." ittr vmmm b oosen SsafBRtsafh'SWs

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et." And so be did; but it was a good while before Mrs. Jones got through asking them about their plans for the day, and after that it was hard work to keen Ben Jones from coins: with them. In fart. the moment they were out of doors again, Ben sat down in a corner and began to howl over it, so that be had to stay in the eorner till dinner-time. Where'il we go now, Johnny?" " J udge Curtuvs is the biggwt house on th; bhiek. beys, and betasn't any cWldrfi." ' ' That's the place. They'll have icecream there, see if they don't." But the moment the bell of Judge Curtin's door was pulled, the door swung open wide, and there stood his big waiter, in a swallow-tailed coat and white cravat, looking down in wonder on his diminutive guests. It was in vain for Johnny Cook to look big and hold his head up as he handed out the cards, and Tom and Tracy edged a little behind him. " Vot is dU? You poys want aonteUngsP" " New Year's calls." explained Johnny. " Are the ladies at homer ' "So? Verygoot. Valk right in. I dake in dose card, too. De madams vlll be proud to see you. Valk in." H Johnny knows,"' muttered Torn to Tracy. "They'll have cream here." " May be some candy, too." But the big waiter was bowing them Into the parlor now, where. Mrs. Curtin and her grown-up daughters were entertaining Quite an array of their gentle men inenas, ana Johnny whispered back: " Hush, boys! There's a table, and it's full." A very large and stately lady was Mrs. Curtin, and it seemed to the three newcomers that everybody in that room "mi at least a siae or two larger than common Unt Johnny Cook led them on bravely, and all the ladies bowed very low when they said: " WUh you a happy New Year." " I am acquainted with Mr. Cook, ' said Mrs. Curtin, as she held out her hand to him; " but which of you is Mr. Marmaduke Plumb?" " That's my papa, ma'am, and I'm -TsTttcv "Oh, you are making his calls for him?" ' No, ma'am, he's out, too, but I use some of his cards." " Exactly. I we. And this ismMiss Arabella Fitch r " Please, ma'am, if vou 11 give me back Belle's card I'll give you one of mother's," said Tom, alittlc 'doubtfully. " Oh, this is just as good. But I must introduce you to the company while Pierre is getting you some refreshments. Plenty of cream, Pierre, and some confectionery." "That's it," whispered Tom to Tracy, and the latter answered: " Hush, Tom! Johnny knows." It was remarkable how very polite were all those tall ladies and gentlomen. One great, thin, yellow-whiskered man, m particular, kept them so king with his nueations that Tom at last felt compelled to remark: " Don't talk to him anymore, Johnny; the ic-cream'!! be all melted." So it will." said Mrs. Curtin. " Do let them oft. Mr. Grant Were you never a boy? l mean, a very young gentleman.'" "ever,-' said Mr. Grant. 1 was always old enough to want- to eat my cream before it melted. Come, boys, I'll je vou through. I like to ataociate with fellows of my own age. Cotm' o i." He was very grave and digni lied'" about It, but between him and Pierre and Mrs. Curtin, Johnny Cook was compelled to say to his friend: "" We must stop eating, boys, or we can't be polite in the next house." But he made no objection to Mr, Grant putting confectionery in their Kckets, and then the whole company wed. as Pierre showed them the way to the front door. They wondered what, be meant, as he smiled in their faces and said: " JBtmJotir, mes tttfemW " What's n bunjerr" asked Tom. " Johnny knows," began Tracy; but their leader was thinking of something ehe just then. " Can yon eat any more, boys? I can, ifwewidkattttie.'' They said they monght they could. ' "Then we'll go to Dr. Mkklw's. He tended our baby when it had the "Do doctors hare any New Year's Day?" "Don't yon s'pnee Johnny knows, Tom?" said Tracy Phtmo. "Of course they do." The doctor Bred in a bfar brick bouse on a comer, nearly two blocks beyond Judge Curtin's; but the boys were only halfsure they were hungry when they rang the bell. The door was opened by n gentleman with a coffee-colored face and curly hair, and who could not have been more than twice as old as Tom. Is dcy anybody took sick at your "Sick? No," said Johnny. "It's New Year's calls. Take our eards to Mrs. Mteklin." She knows my mother," Tom had said to Johnny, "and I'll send In her card instead of Belle's." Mrs. Mieklin was a Btrde, black-eyed woman, with a nose that was almost too sharply pointed, and when the eoffceeokHred ymth handed her those three tnK her first remark waa: Julius! Julius Cswmrl How often I forbidden yon to hmnk in that way when you cowe htto mr preeencef Mit. Fitth On NewYearsDay? Why, winiit can hare hiUNtenetfl And Mr. Marmniitike Plumb

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stop that giggling." She had nouncwd from her chair was smoothing the folds of her silk dress, nervously, as Julius Caesar chuckled his way hack to the front door, and just at that monseat a whole slrigh bind of ticker ealkms came hurrying up the steps. "Wish you happy New Year!" " Happy New Yearr' Happy New " Hanpr New Year, Johnny," said Mrs. Mkklin. "But, Tracy. wheVs your father? Tom, why does not your mother eome in? I Udd Julius " "Why. Mrs. Micklia," said Tom. " it's only the cards. We passed 'em at Mrs. Jones' and at Judge Curtin's. Only I sent Belle's there instead of mother's." Why, you mischievous boys! And here you've frightened me so! 1 thought something dreadful had happened " But at that moment the other visitors came pouring in. and Mrs. Mieklin had to say " happy New Year" to them, and shake hands and smile and talk, and the three boys were almost pushed on of the way, while Julius Csasar stood at the parlor door, and seemed to be trying to laugh without making any noise. "Julius," whfeperedTfrtn. as he edged near him, " where' s the ice-cream?' But Tom's whisper was loud enough to be heard by everybody In the room, for it seemed to slip into a quiet Httle Since in the eonversation, and so did turns Caesar's reply: " Dah aint none." Mrs. Mieklin blushed, and one of her ran tinmen guests suddenly remarked: "My dear Mrs. Mieklin. I'm delighted to see that you have ioined the reform movement. You won t ask your friends to stun themselves." And she said something in reply, and the others said something; but Tom Fhch put his lips to Johnny's ear and said, pretty loudly: "Let's go. There's nothing In this house but meoTcine." "Bow to Mrs. Micklia before you go," said Johnny; but everybody in the parlor, excepting the doctor's wife, was laughing about something or other when Jnuu Csssar opened the front door for those tnie boys to go out. " Where'il we go now, boys?" said Johnny, when they react4 the sidewalk. "There isn't any other place so good as Mrs. Curtin's," remarked Tom. "Can't go twice to the same house," said Tracy. " Can we, Johnny?" " No, Is' pose not But we ve plenty of cards. Let's try that white house over yonder." " Who lives there?" " I don't know. But we can find out when we get in." It was a very nice house, and there were three young ladies in it, and one of them was at that very moment standing by one of the front windows, all hidden among the heavy curtains, and another was saying: " It's just too bad, girls. Here it is two o'clock, and we've only had rive callers, and one of them was the minister." " Ami nobody has eaten anything." Hush, girls; what can those three boys be coming here for? F re seen one of 'them befoiv. They're making calls!" " Tell John to snow them right in." Ami John did, although Tom Fitch insisted that the cards must go in ahead of them. "Happy New Year!" "Happy New Year!" Three on each side, and then the jrirls talked right on, so fast their callers bad no chance to correct the names. "Johnny, you'll have some cake?' " Marmaduke, I must give yon some ice-cream." " Now, Arabella, sotueeJricken-eahul." "My name's Tom. "Your card says your name's Arabella." " Here's mv other card," "No. my dear, you're not a married lady. And you must bare a cup of coffee." "Very hospitable, indeed, were the three young ladies, and by the time they had helped their young callers to several times as much as any three boys could eat Jenny was -able to remark: " Now. girls, the table begins to look as If somebody' d been here." "But I think we'd better go now," said Johnny Cook. " I can't eat any more." "Oh, very well, my dear; and Arabella, too, and Marmaduke," " That's my father's name, and mine's Tracy Plumb." " Jut as good, Tracy. Wontyon eat some more cream?11 "No, ma'am. Johnny says we'd better go." The girls were in high glee over their young gentlemen callers; but when the latter reached the sidewalk. Johnny Cook remarked: "I guess we won't make any more calls. I'm going home,1' "So am I," said Tom. "But Pre four more cards." "I've more'n that," said Tracy; "but I don't want to go anywhere else. I couldn't be polite' Not one of them could have been polite enough to eat another mouthful, and that oraomethmg else made them a very sober-looking lot of New Year's DaycaUers, as they warned on down the street Tom and Tracy were not heard from again that day: but Johnny Cook wondered, when Uncle Fred came home that night why he wan eompelled to give Q caretut an account of thing. "Yc ou were verrpoMte, everywhere?" "Yes, Uncle Fred; and at the last place Tom Fitch forgot to bow when he came out and I inane him go 'way back Into the parlor and do K." " That was right M there wis any other place where he fomot ft, he ought to go back there next New Tenr'sDay and bow." But Johnny only asU: "I don't tldnk I want to eat any jsmstt ut-nlgbt tin

One of the propositions which the adroeatos of proUntiou are excMliugly anxious that the people shall admit without dbtcusrtiou is that duties on imported article do not operate as a tax upon thoae who purchase soeh articles fur consumption or use. This propiwi. Uon they know to be false, but as the whole syMtem of protection is based upon fallacious premises, they are driven to the adoption of deception as a means of advancing the interests of the favored few njouopoliaU against the welfare of the people generally. The impression is sought to be made by these proteethinit that tariff matters are of such a recondite chars -tor, so obscure and mysterious, that only monopolists and their apologists ban understand them, and, therefore, all the people have to do is to pay and be silent and satisfied. But the people, fortunately, are becoming entirely competent to comprehend the elementary principles of political economy, and are therefore aatbned that tariff duties upon imported articles are nothing more nor less than taxation burden bound upon the backs of the people to enrich the fewand that the entire theory of protectionists is a mass of duplicity. The more the subject is discussed the more emphatic will be the condemnation of a tariff for protection. What the people now want are "bottom facts.' First, then, we have a Government: a Government must have revenues money. Ours is supposed to be a Constitutional Government and the Constitution of the United States empowers Congress to lay and collect an impost duty for the Krpose of revenue, and it is well said a contemporary that "to lay that duty for protection or prohibition would not only be s violation of the extent of the power, but in practical operation would be destructive of the very object for which it was granted. To make protection the chief object of a tariff, and revenue an incident, would be a total perversion of authority and policy, andean be supported only by the graspinsr monooohst'' Bnt dismissing such

reflections as somewhat foreign to our present purpose, we come directly to the point, and assert that tariff, or impost duties, is a tax upon the artkaes tmportea, which is psna by the consumer, Bnt since revenues must be had. a just tariff is probably the least objec tionable lorm of taxation. Itat the present tariff is not just, it is not Constitutional, and it is neither in the interest of the people nor the Govern ment It levies the most grievous and Iniquitous tax upon the people, not for the benefit of the Government, but for i we nenem ox a iew monopolists. i.t t sa . . m a. This is not mere assertion. The proof is overwhelming. Tariff prop erty means schedule of duties :catalogue of articles upon which duties -impost, tax, toll, tribute are levied consequently steel rails are required to nay a duty of 28 per ton; they are taxed to that amount, and the purchaser must pay it we nave hitherto shown in these columns that the average price of steel rails in London was recently $32. AO per ton, while hi New York steel rails were selling at an average price of 60.75 per ton, a difference of Jtt7.S5 per ton in favor of London quotations. If the impost tax of 928 were removed steel rails could be sold in New York for at least $40 per ton, yielding a saving of $20.75 per ton on 'every ton used for the railroads of America. What is true of farm and steel rails applies with equal force to every other imported article upon which a high tariff taxis levied. It is well said by Prof . Perry that "the sole object of protection is to increase artificially the prices of certain selected manufactures in the country br keeoins" out of the rmmtrv Mm. sponding foreign manufactures bv means of a heavy tax. This tax is called a protective duty. If the foreign goods are wholly kept out by tax, which is the perfection of protection, no revenue is at all received in consequence of the tax, and the home manufacturers have a complete monopoly of the market. Government gets nothing, and the manufacturers get all they can extort, having succeeded in cutting off competition by law. If some foreign goods soil come in and pay the tax, Government gets something In the way of revenue, but the protected manufacturers still reach their end, because the foreign goods can only be sold with the tarii added to their natural price, and the home manufacturers carry up the price of their goods as near to this combined price as they can." And to the extent that the tariff excludes importations it reduces the revenues, and hence is injurious to the country, and since by prohiMting importations comEtitkm ceases, the home manufacturer, ring a monopoly of the business, advances prices to suit his purpose, and the consumer must pay it since protection refuses him the privilege of purchasing in the cheapest market It is for tins reason that monopolists who control manufacturing enterprises etamor for protection, demand the tax, and it Is for this reason that the people with united voice demand that the present iniouitous tariff shall be modified and the tax reduced. htditma Sink Sennac. YWery or Defeat! The Mahone victory over what he cells the Bourbon Democrats Is heavily handicapped with the odium of repudiation. Senator Mahone and his Adminbrtratkm backers and apologists already begin to feel the weight of this dangerous drawback upon the momentary victory over honesty and decency in the conduct of public affairs. Mr. Mahone' s wtumph is not a trhnup m any just

ered in the Hght of a surely pelitical success, ft lathe reaction that Mr. Ma

hone has most to fear, and he Is already? devisinsr wars end ansnns to nvest mr almost certain ( insr a draenet over ' and communities to find pretexts for repuaiation in hts own. For fifteen van? It has been the bur den of Republican asanders upon the Southern people then they did not msintain their credit and lake ewe of their faith with those whose money they borroweo. This sons was sunn tor many J ears to enable Republican numagersto II their campaign purses with Northern p . - as a an money to maintain tneir nonoaui new on power. And what do we sss now? The whole strength of that wielded in favor of onen and repudiation of one-half of the State debt ofTlrginht that Mr. MsJsone, who was elected to the Senate on a false pi itsnsi, and determines Its majority by patent bargain and sale, may stows down the men of real character in the State, who propose to pay iu honest obajgaHnssj aneording to the conditions atyuhited in the bond. The question of vietotry or defeat in Virginia is not yet fully answered. Fearing coming disaster, Mr. Mahone Is even now throwing out Bnss upon which be and his deluded following may sail into safe harbors because he sees a oomlmr storm. His fin demand is that the Republican patty shall change its name. Mr. Mahons is fecUy aware that he can never i ehnnge fcs7 tL its character. In other champion of repudiation in openly confesses that the question of ultimate victory or defeat will depend entirely upon the action of the Bapnblieans of the Northern States in celBng their next National Convention under n new name and a new banner. Omesn Um Hew Treasury nVsenu Judge Fohrer has commenced the work of purification is his own office by turning out Lampbere, the Appointment Clerk, long notorious as a jobber, and by sending adrift John Sherman's private secretary, who had been bequeathed as a convenient legacy to his successor. This is a good beginning, and it gives promise of other reforms that are absolutely needed to break up the corrupt ring which has heretofore run the machinery of the Treasury. The Assistant Secretaries and the Chief Clerk, who hold the most confidential relations to the bead of the Department have been publicly charged with collusion in transactions that unfit them for any responsible trust In the cases of Upton und Power especially, the testimony in the Windom investigation, which Mr. Sherman caused to be suppressed, reveals enough of complicity in the Custodian's venal dealings to exclude them from confidence, and to show that they were beneficiaries of a fraudulent system, organised to steaL Anew Secretary, without previous training in the departments, has either to be dependent for routine business upon the officials whom he may find around him. or be must grope his way m comparative darkness until he lesrns tne methods ana precedents. these alternatives he senerallr the former as the more easy forMmsth and thus establishes relations (Hihcolt to sunder afterward. The result fat that the Uptons, Bowers, Lampheres, Pitueys and tbaJffim, become fastened on the service, asm are the actual dispensers of a harne patronage with which they never should have been trusted. A sharp and unscrupulous manager like John Sherman, who had his own interests to serve, knew how to utilise these iustramento by allowing them free run in the jVeanury. They worked together hmnwrnhniaiy, and with redprocal profit Vhty kens each other's secrets. The surroundinsrs of Judee W toiger idtbe must make bun unomfortatie, and easiest mode of relief in th hg run hi to get rid of them at one- He wfll be compelled, sooner or bter, to take that course for selfand hence he cannot decide npon too t Unttt are atethese enromo placed, the keys grant abuses and wfll not be found. iong-ntdden ny tne of power 1 ertbey have suborulnates ex over which would were turned come the day they Judge Folger has experience in the only had s Treasury, but alert and astute mind has already important discoveries. which will him in other i tions soon to undertaken. He has in i the to unearth e frauds, and to sa pose the of Republicans who held the h in toe tiovemroent while a t President oe copied the Hayes hnuself was a ben tatheMinkruMss. besides having the open rewnrder of the perjurers. rs. tnummnsni nS PVVflnmuSuulBsF and scoundrels who s for him in 1876. A'. Just how soon can-repudiation alliance move on the national pledged to annry the glnia readjustment to the1 nations of tne f ederal Uov we don't want them to besrin the i too soon. It Is a movement that soon end, and we should esneciauV ' to nave aeiavea until the eve of next Presidential election, so it could be mane a Matting issue in that campaign, fit JLones JtenwMfcsN. i President Arthur's rineerityjnithn Star-route business hi being snkjunjp questioned at Washington. The way m which his acting Attorney-Gensrslob Donor's orders to shone off tWJIltl eofl of A. M. Gibson gives oomnlmnpsB

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