Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 41, Number 5, Jasper, Dubois County, 7 October 1898 — Page 1

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Wrxklii QTourtrr'.

VOL. 41.

JASPER. INDIANA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1898.

NO.

I U'tLISIIKIl KVKUY KKIDAY, AT JASPER, DUBOII COOaTTY, iM'I.vna, nv CLEMENT l IANB. OFFICE. In Couniaa ll itw ) Warr M ra BnuwtT. PRICE OV ITBHCBIFT1ÖBI, Par Y.'ar, .'.J Numbers, lontail. $1 Sh rter time in proportion. g i n-.s OF kDVEBTWING. For !er:il advertisements legal ratfi-; It) lilies fd.i for tirst insertion ; ,.

each anbaaqnaal LaMrlaoo. Fir yearly ftdlftltifteinenttl liberal contracts will Ut made t regular advertiser. COMMERCI ih AM JOB WORK Of all Kinds Proaaptly and Neatly executed at i.ihkku run km. We invite ins lion and business.

STATE DEBT FINANCIER

Democracy Has Saved Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars to the Taxpayers of Indiana. i

PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. M. MMHi riN. M . 1. SWKKNKY. till III H A ftWKKNBY, Attorneys at Law, JAIPKR, IM).,

li.tiiht ra, .i )i H' Imi, It ill t . t, I ri CMMHiiMI S4 Ill" V-Ubjr COS vll,!l lu l,ir lle-ir slur,- mi Ihm -...- Cinl.,.- I'lider tlio I , ritt ic I ax Litw.

tin- Gn.iiidsl condition nf ln'!i.m: v.-ui.i -.how ui.x.-,. vfr lsiMiof y;s,prior 10 iv.'l iM R source of alarm to 111, and far 1898, (078,511. its tfeoogbtfal dliMBBi a condition re- TM figure- thus abow that the in-w fulfin fr iu the simple fact that the revenue law paaaod by tha fctnooratk financial resource of the state if re not pVtT bM added to tho revenue jf the mil i T..v ,i. . - ,,. ,.,.i late as billows:

iiju.il f i expenses, hut was grossly in- ,M,,.4 e.juifah:.'. net only ticcanse assessments M:t W re cn.at 1 T helnw cash values, hut in addition failed utterly to reaofa millions IH:,;i if property waten eoatribatad norer- JH,,7 nue at all to the state. To remedy this j,., evil an I thcrchv sccuro ample revenue

facts, make- the reproduction ftf the W -marks of Mr. Fairbanks strikingly OD . tit ii ti. -, baoaaaa they briaig lato tho boiih st paaaibla nrmiilniiioa too well founded lit 1 1 -1 that his railroad llictuieiiis and hi- btfV fa s a u railroad

attorney Btomptad his hostility to ouo law." .,1 KM Hiatal bMra that ever found a Siiire Hn the Democrat ie tax law"

plaoa upon the .tututo LiHiks oJ the ntuto. has discoverrd and put ujku the dupli

onoo ratlnuwl proprty of tho stato, amounting to '.)4.H3,H71, whieh proviously lmd -i npd tax itiou, and it is trail widafatood that tMa a t of justice to the j.eojile war- the cause of Mr. Fairbanka1 boatility to the "Danotvatie faa

W. C. T. U. COLUMN.

In the c iuri! oi his rotuarka, Mr.

Fuirhuuks said; "The js-ople of Indiana BXpOOt us to relieve them from tlMOfael and unjust iNtfdt a imposed upon tie by tho 1 democratic tax law.

"TheV Well undel stand that win II

cate, L ink property to the amount of f l.'J'Ui.'MI. It has discoTerod corporation proparty aaaooatlttg to $118,800 and talepbooa, tatocnapb and acptaai property amounting to 5,242,UU2, a totul (if 17,089,048, and if to tatia sum is added

ever Democracy has beeu mvestod with the railumd property that had escaped power iu Dm state, the QObt has b;eu taxation, S'!J,874, a huui total of uiotoaaad an til aba burdou lawtoMM 10I,888,411 bi placed to the oradil of the

1,4I,7TN 1,461,101 sua. tu : 1 1 i.aai ar,ai i 99 n 1 1 a7K..-.n :i7H..-.t i

uni" arable.

"liiey have no conli lcuce iu Deioooratic tinain k riuy, and wll fouuded ia their distrust. "The creating of a del t in this rich and iplndid state of upward of t!i,(X)'),IXW is a flagrant abuse of power. "Tlie peojile will always loyally

port the state and pay tn tuxes n,ces utsiu the rank and hie of Um

sury to iieiray ine exjietises or in erumeut honestly and economically incurred, und any party that recklonsly increases obligation, should be r. pu ii-

ated at the pull-.

ntute and to the wisdom of the Deuiocratic party in shaping tiuanci il lctfislatioti. Dal now, when Mr. VWlrtMWkl und the Keublicaii jiarty dare not MaajtlOal the "Uemocrutic tax law" to Catch the

aotoa ot fane rs or jjractice dujihcity

pi iple.

when under the operation of tin- "Demo

cratic tax law" and the sinking fund

CONDIN : ED BY Mies. ff. j.. BOBBI.

Bj in, w. Hm't s v -

1 be I. vcr. Retninisccnres of the Late War.

ii. i.uu, Ooenoral "V i'tu (o n. - o inn's old raaiaaiiat,

Win (her on the tented Held, (r in Die battle! ibtht. Tin ttti, -t lilac ioi mail to die I- w here he dies lor ritflit. When I rec all to memory Um!08I of tbi tlfttr lindhers, from the reh ill - of thf late war; when I behold Um rouodcd, blseding, dying ootav :.: - -tnwn all ovei the buttlt'lield ; bear the btlfle'a sound, the eanDOn'l rortf, the aWatkM'l rattle, the "nip"pltlg minie, the shrieking nhell; when I aee the bonort of a bloody battlefield, bear the agonizhfz ( i;e and gioant of those who

have loot an arm, leg, hand, foot or

law, the debt of the state i- disappear- . . maimed and cnpped for life

tnc FairhaiiK- and the K -publican

to pay the expenses of the state BJOVOm BMW t, aad reduce t he foreign nidi ibfad

II ,,,(,., la the Oonrta I fhiboli and ness of the state, was the jirnne oij. ct ,.il. ...int.-. rartlealar aawmtlon (H h, Th w when the Detuocratlo Uciatav rn ti- coli.- Ill. tn. i i . i Jnefcaea .,.,ii ti.- tare passed thruct cone, ruing tav.iti n,

On I "(lilt y li.lll.

. a "v.

aj.jir. s.sl March II. ls:M. It 1- not required tha

W. E. COX, Attorney at Law, IA8PER. IMIIANA,

nuaaaallM ttteroeytnt the nth Jodiciui ing and the assessment of the property

Tie nreaout odious tax law is a

Total h. Mite.. 1 to reeew SA, 00,471 DaillHiiatiC measure p.is-ed to rescue The -Hiking fund law passed by a the financial credit of the state.

"The state was runniiifct in debt at the rat., of nearly 8900,000 per annum. "Th. eastern holders of the hinds demanded their interest when it wa- due. "Current CEtieuaea had to be mot, and the DetBMMTBMa legislature passed tho j.re-.-ilt tu law as the best expression

Para ouia tit legislatora levied tax or .1 rents on tlie jioo and went into operation in 1VM A Otntojl thai the tax dupluute for

1801 and 1806 will be in amouiit eijual the nnmerons to the duplicate of 1S1MJ. the revenue de-

party, with inipudence as thick as the ariuorplate of a battleship, are claiming that the Repabttaea party is radoxsing the debt ol the state, when If Fairbanks

with their ghasTly fotTBI Mretched out in :t dying condition, hear their petitions to heaven for mercv with

their last "farewell" to mother, sis-

a a a .At a -.i.i

and the Republican party could have"' - ""iner or BWWtuean, WllD UMf had their way. the fiuuucial allairs of t'h-.-v i v. - turned heuvenward a.S tie- atoao would be in a more deplorable they breathe their last; smell the condition than in 188ft -torch of their dead bodiea as they

Kepublioana Joyously refer to William an" " r""n int' !1 PU " "r marked

provisions of the law nhnuld ls either rived from tie -lnktii fund tax will bo of it- linancial wisdom

mentioned or discussed in tjus connoc. as follows:

turn more than to say that the revenue power of tho law provided for th find-

i.lrcuit. ana will carefuiiv aenu to any c.tii Qf the citizens of the state at

...i . .., eniru-i. .i 1.. 111. 11 1 . . 1, 1 1 .' . .1. ... tile 1 rt-.i It. otti 11 apayd's bnlMlag n PaMta s.imre It, f. t. -'1 Iv

is': si.. 'lit;. :iio, -,(( is'u i,os,Me,a&e taaw t,aaa,oaa,ati is i'i ueoa,434t,asi

A. I , 1. . W Sj. II , I, r

PRATL08 & HUNTER, Attorneys at Law,

Us "tru.

value" and the provision of the law to enable the assessor to ascertain the cl.mest approximation of "true values" and the uct went into effect from and aftet its passage." To show the immediate ben. lits accruing to KM state bj the enactment of the law tv a Democratic

Ahhuiu'iI ihos

I. : 1 :. (141,:17 1. ra J.U41,J7

I misinterpret the signs ..f the times

if tie pfeoplfl do OOl repudiate the law and the Dein s ratic jiarty at ahiut one and the same time in November next. "N law ever rested more unequally ujvui th .se who should bear the burden, than does this.

"The people alreadv heavy laden with McKinley

a.aaa,4ifl anjnsi taxes ire ootnpeued toaabaut to -. aoeiata additional exactions.

"runners have leeti comptdled to pav

.1.... ..,., I'.rvnn .''.Inart nohtician Pru v n' 'oi.'V.r llll-ecn 111 lliH

- ' 0:1

giaa,aoa aaaiaai aaukaifl :w47,:im BOT.Ttl BOV,7M

5 , :

bet th. v will find him, A. D. 1900, the "" "J "ii-paiiioim or irietius, mm li..i r,,r... thev ever s:.v. 11,1 heüdstoiie erected U) merk their

JAhPRK, IMHANA,

Witt

j, . Mltf C. Ml II 1 I.

r-' Otlre over HiiIm.h COiu.tv "tute Itmi k . a aril H. Vi. Ii KUNO BIJKTTNER, Attorney at Law. And Notary Public, I VMI'KH, INDIANA, Still prsetlet- la tie- Courts of Dabolaaml i r .'..unties, Indiana. Jan '. lvl. F. E. WOODS, D D. S , OPERATIV K DENTI8T, JASPER, INDIANA. H.oo aer of retrx. sa.oo

i. i i i r. .n n.i Bii-t m rk OaM PlWea not included

apn-ixItT l.tl mtli..t tttoiin xrt.n.-ial t. lh AH irrrfs (aarMI4 Tron K...iil l oillc - rm aal UWSj'l HtJwr nur. mm u,isas--iy

Total from - ..i.i..k FiiikI lul il ISM i of lioriiur

(iraiul toi... 8ftCiTveee on their farms and iiiij.r .v. n- nts, and In this is seen an increase of revenue hous. holders mi their lets nud houses almost aoajkl to the foreign debt of the neyond all reason and right, all of which ittata in 1BW0 -v"u shon'd r-meiiiber is the enforced ti. . Y a

III is!) the fere,,-,, debt Ol the state -o . . tiie w..,. sra. ic par, V

INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS

li'irlslittnre the following i Hieinl liiiirt s

" " - - - - r - IU Ilir iiiinyu unji 04 lue -ill.- it . il. i . . , ... . ,, . . iaao ..... m. ? "How long will the natie.it ixsiple en

prsctiee in II . oaita of Illinois and suuiiui iv.i, K1V,UK uaou s nir. muuinuu K. ?..,o.()l.i. lt. 11 UOW dure t h.-e t ht llgs

and ui is;.; , and aw iWlBg that und. r t lie amounts tu f.t,'Jl'..UI.) r.'. showing a r )j ,w Inn. vvjn ,j,PV (i,.(.t j ),,,, r.,ni. op ration of the Democratic revenue ductiou of 88, 880, 00ft every dollar of members of the legislature Vrh do unt legislation taxable iucreased i:il '.nio,-i UH' reduction U-uring irrefutable evi- j..s-. -s the diw umiuating ability to

jiia. e tue nnancial aiiair-ol the -tat. on

WM as follows: Increase from IMhi t. 1KU1, 1881.881,811 from 1H01 to 1891, fia.is2.027; from 1H'.2 to 1S:, t3l.s72.lWi. and from 1 188 to 188ft 88,880,108; a total of f451.22fl.5fiH F'or the years 8!l and is5 the taviblea on the duplicate decreased !'. -7IH, leavin a net increase over IV.HJ of tav - amounting to IH I. !';;. i

deuce of the wisdom of Democratic liuau-

a broad and conservative basis and who

It, .. . A ..

H. n lers.. ti. auditor of V M"1 more car-ruiiv legislate in tie-

much money is wasted in prolli

da! legislation. Hon .1 (1

tHt. iu hia renort of ivr' f.iks n.. inttrtat of the people f

J. S. STEWART,

RESIDENT DENTIST, South side of I'll Idle Sijiisre, Spsyd lllock. JA9PBB, - INDIANA Operation first-class a recommended -all work trn.iraiiteed. Sja-cialist on down aad Bridge work.

. a S". y. DENTISTRY

4ggaV

lr. I). A. MOSIIV Resident Den ist,

hun rriTNiii:i. i:ni.

mom. tugu.ng ti.efigarea showing tho R;l. ;U1(, a(1,lllutratlou i;( 1 ... a ...... .... 1 ....... 1. . .. . . . . . , ... t L - , .... . .

no a,,, us,- ii-uri.i- ,e im. iK iu ine st.no this state ai a r. aall Of Daflaoonatifl 8nandal tofia ,.. ,.. ojr are paying too dearly for latum, to -;iy: the nnviiege- they eii)..y. but -o kaag tt-s "The first y. ar'- operation of the m w the Dem.MT.iflc legislature is in autbortl venue law has viuthcated the wisdom ity th, y are jn.werless to escape. of lis li:t:,Lre 4 fhotiiioit f..!,! unH f Iw, ' 'I ' i . o . Ii. iivim tv.il In ,o,ri. thi. luv

The abstract of taxable-for l-:; and win. leaonie results attained proclaims it law, and that i-to radically revise it. is" has not been published, hOBOO an v ut once the :n -t ..juitahie and the "The ine.jiialities i-un be etl'ectnaliy pain or lo- that may have accrued is soundest tarn naaura ladiapa has ever FOXBOVed la that Way.

Known, r t.r the nr-t tune in the nis- .inn it sn ni:d te so revi-ed tnat it

lorv i 1 1 f II, .rthti- t lo. in i rf l,u ri rt rivitli . Wll ( 'Vi ... :i:i . I - ... v, , T It,, f .1 rtmr. it o. 1

In 1888 the rates of taxation upon th. j. tairlv and eijuitably t .rue. ft tM householders fr.itc the present grievous : three principal items of revenue were . i.- first lime in our history tax dodging is bafdeCW ao anMtly iBBpoaad. " follows: (reiieral fund 12 cent-on tlie But only diarepQtads-lc, bat a kanng but Mr. Fairbanks mamtestlv drew his i i it.1. j i M a i a.

in ., iiiueeti, an iinsssii.if nusmess a msjurat ion tr.mi his corisiration a-- - th. taxiog awthori ties j.ossess the abili- ciation and hi- d -ire to r-n ler them ty courage and honesty to do their aonriea bv dodging taxation. ;'T,V- f ii"1"' ,"' Z"1?! Nor was the convention, over which search light of the new law. i.iop. rtv , , , se, st. rat. ... both a dangerous and h Pasted, in de fortunate in its ttoobv u difflcull tiling. ration It s,.iik'ht to secure the In. ml"Never before in the anna'a of the "bip of those who for vears had .-cjuesstaf. has potporate wealth laen com- tared the taxabl s, and daolaredl

pell od to beur its just share of the public burden. "Tod v f hrt dollar of the rich man. of the bank, t aggregated capital, is compelled to contribute to the public treasury eq aally with the dollar of the

humble citizen.

How to Mark Ballot

DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

f00; state school. Id; benevolent instituti. '-, 8 total, S4 Thest. w.-re the rates for l' 1 and h2. In lvi:;,, reduction of rate was BMMfft, Aa follows: General fund, P; atata aehooi, 18' .; ba ncvnleiit institution. 8;tOtaJ '.,,; tofnl reduction. 5' edits on the f I . T i s. rates prevailed for Iba jreaw 1881 uid 1884 In 1888 the nMa nf taaal m ware far fher redll e '. i s f I . V s ; ( ', i . ,1 f uild. 0 reo on ' . til); st.it . i Reboot, II; ihuevolciir tittotia 5; Intal, ?S. Anr flu ... MOT -v 1 1 . .1 lor tile voir-

IHM.

8!.", I"

Is is.

Thetatu1 l too ir is.n ununited to iu 7. 17 t SI '. frme w bi. h the revenue ti ibi three item na aadeaaeeaitod leffttfo oi In isii the tiix.b'e-amounted to!.2oi.2.rii.i):iH, the rate of taxation bcinc the anie as in Is'id, b it f be revenue de-

"VVe arraign the Democratic partv of

badiaaa fof nwanllnjl an unequal and unjust tax law," The declaration of the Fort Wayne convention and tie apaecib of Mr. Fair-

banks constitute a remarkable blending

mm.

ri m

Id M.

1 i.e new tax law is founded on the of ""'P'dity ami cupidity, for which Ke-

sotind d.i 'rin.' of hon 'st, full value up- publican platforms and Republican Bf iaamept. One dollar is taxed at 10O sj.eak.i- have won a wide r. Cognition.

lents, whether it be invested in lands, jirodu. ts, bank cajiital, factories or luxaffa - "I nder the benign ministration of thia measure millions upon millions of projierty heretofore sequestered has

been jilared on the tax duplicate."

In ISM2 the taxables ainonnfcd to i 1

887,488,088, the rate- being 'he same aln IV.HJ and 1WM. The amount of r. ve

Tenden Ba profeaalonal -ervic.-s t. all nn d, rived ainonnfed to l,:o,.i,jsn, ;l n ..... ... ...l . i... .I........ Ii... .....I

."iR ni.JT ,'. Ill lite I, i.ii., i,i.. brotniaa t ive it in- elonal aMentioB. Bok" pi .tu wtirs s.eeiKll noh. ited. und all iinoii. d Apr. IU, 'SM.

nftinbrldfr43 Township Truxt''s Nolli'e. The underigned, Truaiee of Rain1'ndge tt w nahiP.Duboia ooaaty. w ill at

tend toTowtiabip tajaineaa -n Saturday notwithstanding the reduction

fry weea , at r rani new omce on -tes

'Till Main street, I ict cell l.lglllll lllnl Ninth, in leeeae, The Townahip U brary and Indiana School hooks are ut amoptaee. Wttxiaa Saretia, Trustee. Aug. Hi, 18117- y.

gain over IS!K) of 1, 8l,18f, Iu INUM the taxables amounted to$l,I0f,8tftt80 Iu this year the rate of taxation had Is en reduced on the three Items named 1028 cents on the f 100. a reduction of n'B cents on the 1(K). The revenue derived amounted to 81.111,884, an en-ess over 1HU0 of 8xl'UW2.

of the

Nor is tiie UapadatMx of th.. puny laei

pronounced, for now tlu v are claiming

to have reduced the ,j,.ilt of the state, 'f you want to vote a STRA'GHT but 111 so far as it has been reduced, DEMOCRATIC TICKET make a DetBOOTmtit legialattotl baa eujipllfd the croaa thus, X. within the largo clr-

mean- by which the reduction has been cle containing tho ROOSTER at the!

And this additioual jimperty. as the accompli -li d top of tho ticket. If you mark In the

tux duplicates -how, aggregates 8 Hit,- lln '''' ' ," l'll';0ly sliown in tho otli- , i-AHtiB UH..Lt you must not make

a mar unywnere also on the ballot or you will lost your vote. If you want to voto a mixed tloket, you must not mrk within the large circle, but must mike a cross thus, X. In the SMALL 8OOARE opposite

the nnm i of each person, for whom

; J in " " ".s;,o. and thus the revenue derived 'M r- lrea.lv prodaoad, but in Z a ',1. : ' ., , from it amounts to fä. !. Mil. 47.. vi,'w of declaiatmns of Mr.

It was this measure that at once solved the financial j.robl. ins which confronted the state. It ajBaiicijxitcd the state from its financial trouble and anxiety and substituted confidence for doubts. It was as Mr. Fairbanks said at Fort Wuvne, a "Democratic measure" evincing that the Democratic party had clear

rairlianks, it seems . xii -dient to add

few more official tignr. - to - till further dene. nstrate the wisdom of tlie "Democratic tax law. " This Democratic tax law, which Mr.

Fairbanks denounced in his Fort Wayne you desire to vote.

sjM-ech, and which he declared had im Vou must not mark on the ballot p. -. d "unjust burdens" upon the poo- with anything- but the BLUE PENple, sought tirst, to find "the true cash CILKlvenyou by tho poll clerk. If

I'oncejitions of the sujiitdii.. needs of the viimeoi iroj., rty, aim second, to bud you by mistake mutilate your ballot state and tlie ability to afford the relief nullum nf property in the hands of return It to tho poll olerk and get a required This eminently wise and )u- corporations, which paid nn tax at all, new ballot. ilieuuis revenue law which Auditor ul,d pi ice it utioii the tux dujilieate. ! You must fold your ballot before Hen let -... said 1:1 his rejiort had "viiuli- 1,1 lauuable .urposes were attained comln out of the booth bo that the fJBtodtfc wisdom of its passage a thou- and no uiju-tice was don,, any citizen of face will not show, and so that the and fold" was vindictively opposed, tD Initials of the poll clerks on the baok from Italnefpieucy, by the Republican Mr. Fairbanks daolated that RMpOBs wlllahow.

jde 01 Indiana "have no coiitnleuce m

Thii Silver Dollar.

.N 0CCA5IDNAL

-AND AN OCCASIONAL MEAL Ar.. .Mike in that Neither Do -Very kfaeh GrOOd. CONTINUOUS REGULARITY tSTHI RULI FOR BOTH.

Ill 1!4 the taxable ItnOUtat to 1.881, 108,418, the rate being tht same ain iv:;. and the revenue amounted to t:i. ")'.. 1 . i.vi .., ,0 till ti... r.iV.iiinn ,f

luiui A 1.1 aaa Dartv and this onnoition has been

t-Vmm7 . . , . .... maintained at every step si nee 1801 to Democratic financiering" and this, he

fu her r ed -e, , h V I P"' "'"' wlfh P- m'X' rtt tt """ Nvl' " " ' v h , h e lei at "". " "'T blind as b.,.try and aa relentless a Otortog" bud added to th. tax duphcate, There 1 not a voter in Indiana who l hl I " I n . ..I "r lnn . : corporation gr 1. ' taxabl.-s amounting to il.7.oS1.5ol. teat not know that mt -ndard silver oTTiu tl . ,W As an evidence of the implacable hos- """" l-rtisanisn, at dto .b.llar Is sound money. The total taxable, of I8N amounted i hlt, v ' 'lnM-assessments fottod aii rial ... and Prtl "s judg- Tll,r ta Mt V()ter ln IndllMia who

m ai s.i o-.o mi ..ioi (I, . j and taxation, it I oury required to pro- " 1 " iw ss 1 ; . ; oi , ft'',r'V,'m,r ''" luceth, declara.i.mofO. W. Fair'; inks. Mfatdttti '.re r.dat.ng .0 rile.l amouii'ed to fsl.Slln. Uli, mi excess . , w,.lf.irii of the ,tnt th.f ,.;(. ever 1880 ol 8807 ON u h""' 1'-'. one year subs, .,ueut ;'" .we"-'" ", ' " M' " th'lt ' Ratify The ax.l;,- .1 lvi.1 amounted Mil to the time w he t w Democratic ,l"-v ,h" I, K t. o ', 1 l,,m!h' revenue laxv went into o..at,ou. the " l-r-.v. b- am .-one of the ,- . rat. - laiation l.ng th. --.v H-.ia ifsi fsttat c-uven 1,1 ,,al" Indiana, and this, 1 v..ea..,ou,...i 1. u ujn part, . Id its sta , ,,,,. ti t . x l.,w worked anv to 88,881,808, an iiiereaae ovei 890 ol Mon at h,,r' wl,t u.i the iiou. U. T' , asWaii W. Faircaiiks. now In.fd State sen- Jeioa to a3 II Ml tn Indiana, but s'h.,s be. ,, stated th. re , m t,,r- l,r M U" deliberations, and "' D.ouo ratic tax la w. by incal . h c . ,r v . ,d -.s , , upon a,,,,.,,,,,.!., l,onr of the poatttol M,,al,ng r.gnte..,, p... u.gs. nnWhich he refer e.l to the new revenue of vi hieb s - 1 - -t, ring, for Btaai Tearisenn.d to isjaj. bene Uw j.ass.sl by a Democratic legislature. , This tax appears from tbe record. Yh the revenue derived by the state in 1S97 The present, iu tho hht of all feto Ux Uw wUcod UÜOU tb0 hca at

(last silt Dl rest in place on rartli. I

Mark Han .a, the I s corruptioniat, can i:f phuddftT fet the awful t alamstill maintains hi- poatttaA) of bosom jlv Gf VNiir; can l(1)t WH,p oyer th(J friend ami boon companion of .Major ,'..Vt. ,).. ,i, ;ir depatfted dead

who gave their Uvea tbat tbeir coon iry might live and to perpetuate her glory and virtue for tlie living, to think t. at the government for whioii they Mtcrtfieed home endeeiuieiili and comfortf, jrea life, is now being converted into a net ion of debenoh .rv. licentiouaneai and murder by the legalised traffic ol rum. Where are the patriots of the patd to-tiay? Tlnir hands are stained with a brother's blood, murdered

by rum. The heart? of the youth

DO hinter beat 111 a true patriotic spirit ol defence against the rtd-

blooded .-lave., v Of the rum curse of our nation, as did those immortal dead heroes of the late war to free their country from the slavery of the south. And why not? Ik our country 1. dear to us now than then? Let every father, mother, sister ! brother, or ohHatian friend of our nation renew their obligations .uid gratitude tor theae dear departed hena s of the late war, and reSOlve in tlo ir hi aits, that the country tor which these immortal heroes surrendered home and life, shall be forever freed from the blighting curse of rum. Let the hornet of theae deluded rum victims lie consecrated with a temperance pledge, a Christmas

and New Year's dinner, and tokei.s

d kV8 and devotion to their wives and little ones, and let not the whi.-ky jug or beer keg darken their homes again to murder tin ir wives

and suffering children, and then indeed, we ens boaal of the land of the free and the home of the biave;

iiitl mi our n. xt national memorial

lay, while we are bedewing ard be

let king the graves of our heroic

L ad soldiers with tears and How-

am, let us not forget to place ft tent

perance t-anner of pure white over the drunkard's grave, as a warning against other! tilling like graves over the mm curee, In ( losing this sad article, as an old soldier .if the late war, let me appeal to ft very christian or tempermce organisation and worker, and Comrade fc of our land to arise in their might and power and declare

that thev will never cea.-e an etern

al warfare ngain-t the rum trallic till it censcH to exist in this (Jodgiven land of ours, and then, and not till then, let us inscribe over the graves of our heroic dead, these words: "Fresh and fragrant lie the Howera that Uoom above the graves d theae heroic .h ad." And while wc thus remember tin se noble dead, Ictus not forget to love and honor the few surviving, gallant soldiers of the late war, and vote and pray that the awful rn in curse may cea.-e. P. S. Tu 1 11 old comrades, (i. A. R, mem be IT, and friends of the temperance cause: PleatM subs. tibe for this paper and help the CftUee along. Michigan City, Ind.

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1 .11 rdr lif StAle, s A MUEI. M. H.U.STi S. F-.r Audl'or at st.it, .ions ay, MiNon. For Tr'.sure! of Stats, in . ui i minima I f. Ft.r Attorney liiera', Jons n. afelffJTT. Fur Clerk Supnme Court, MI.NKV vTARRVM.

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do. not know that the standard nlver dollar is a legal b nder for all debts, principal and interest, public and private. There If uot a voter in Indiana who does not know t. il ths man who seeks to discredit the standard silvor dollar is a knave, and working lu the interest of the money power and against the interests of the producing classes. eeri-ubHcribe for the Coubibb.

TAMH SKVRKA L TUISTWOHTII V tV i' re hi- in this state t. manage our business In their own nod nearby en... .ties, It - iiihiiiI office work conducted at home. nlnr Itraighl t'flO a year ami expeiisi's di iitote, lainaflde. no more, so leas nslary. Monthly ITS. References. Knelose self audit ttalnped . nvelt.pe, Herbert K. Iless, tftosi ucpt. M Chicago. p ,