Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 42, Number 31, Jasper, Dubois County, 6 April 1900 — Page 3

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t. HO.l.M:, I'ul.uiixr JAKWB I INDIAN WHERE GENIUS THRIVES. II urteil to write with a hold r or rod And S i"lnt thut surely wus mid, Ami hi npjr wus purple und lln -less in sic.ni of thS foolscsp paper of old; And tili 'lr.sk wui u tmiUWi from silver HtUlliP CUH To a pi arl-luld paper-knl.V blade, And Iti' fOOt of hl lump wan a bronze IlilP'H fin e, While u dragon encircled the shade fjg Ht ird'd to write, but he halted right i here; He oottltol tb muaea in vuln. III fingen plowed furrows through hie poetk hair Ami a mountain aeemed weighting his brain. Desperate. Indeed, ho smote the Inkstand and kicked the dealt Uke a mule; Ht. v..n thai display had bridled his hand And luxury BBSda bin a fool. Eo he picked up ht.H hat and went with a leap To tin simp that trades for your dime, gad he I might a i ant pen ui,il a piii r pad i lle.ip. Tu :- i .Mile his meter and rhvme; Th' ti up In a Karret, minus ollar ai.d coat. Ha si .1 hi i i Im Udo to common a . nd then on a 1 .1 1 . 1 lie Wrote nd he wrote, II wrote, and he really wrote sense. i 'hi ago Dolly Wow t, Three Robbers in a Car I'hr sli " I ) runnier Ti!. of n n A ' em;l u v Money t Traveling 1 l M. THE mbjecl whs railroad fares and triivrlinp expenses in general. Well, for mj part," aaid the shoe drummer, "costly us it is tad if ;he mouej came out of my own pocket, ; should always prefer to pay my i.iii- or a!k, rather than try to bent my way. I had n Uttlo experience on in riding cheap, ami it w is enough to last me the PCgl of tny i.'. it happened about two yearn Hi-". I was stuck for Sunday in a Biaall junction town not far from Buffalo, and there 1 fell in witli Tom ol Ina, who a now in whole.-ale grw t, Cries. Dan.' said he. 'there's a hip wn ck down the line. Shell we po and see it?' "I wn for it. of course. So Tom Went down in the railroad yard am! Axed it with the comluetor of a v recking train that was about to i.iie Half an hour latOI we were in tin- caboose jolting down the line on a 50-mile speed order. The wreck was h bad one. Tom and I found all we cinil. I du helping to pet out the injured and looking up their property with the deteetirea, .ml by tin time we pot thing into some kind of Bhnpr it wus siv o'clock. Then wt learned that the wreeker wasn't to return until midnight. There wag a pat tiger train due at nine, hut that was two hours late. I w .is jual preparing to settle down in tin- station nil go to sleep when alonp eatne a freight, T.et's taki it,' said Tom. it's a eiaeh, All you hare to do ia t get into a lox ear ami ride.' "This Bounded reasonable, so once tore I Stayed. The train WU moving Blow ly because of the wreck, and we d by the track ami WStched for an mptj ear. Pretty soon one came long with the door open about a foot. We dog-trotted along beeide it ami ii :n aged to increase ihe opening wide enough to climb In, and very abort ly We Wetl bowling toward home about SB easily Med inexpensively as we came. It was a warm nipht, so Tom d I -.it down in the doorway with our feet hunpinp outside. The car "as pitch-dark inside ami it didn't ride just like a sleeper. e:ther; but we weren't making any COBSplaints. o snt there gmoklng and rhatting for some distance, and then tin- nimm came up and threw a patch of light onto the ear floor behind us. T un had just started in to quote BOtM eulogy on the Queen of Nipht. when suddenly out of the dark recesses of In- ear behind us there came n voice: "but that door!' "We pulled our legt inside the car and itarted to onr feet. Scared 1 "crtahtly iv.is. and I doubt if Tom was an) less no; hut he was the first to peak, "Who are you?" lie raid, addressinp darkness. There was no answer 'of a mintlte, Then we could hear a noise as of some one movinp about in he rear end of the ear. "We Blood in the patch of licht from the door st mining nur eyes into 'he darkness, when Ihe voice came ' "on "nntls up. penis: juu'rc cov cred!' "loin and 1 hnd both seen enoneh 'f the west to know whnt that meant, en We elevated our diiits wirVnit a 'oni There was plenty of light in 'In- doorway fur the gneeen director the proeeedlnge to nee that his order was obeyed. " 'Now, penis.' continued the eoiee, I inns' BaJl nu to remove the watches n"d money from your persons ami lay 'hem in the light on the floor, one at time. Don't either of you attempt 0 pull n pttn. however, for if you do "iv pals at the other end of the enr nay forget thengeelrei and shoot. Ant ' right Hill, .lim V ' Dead ripht!' enme n second voice, this one from Ihe forward end of the sr; then Mill another from nearly the unnie direction nflirmed: 'That's what!' "There waa no help for It. Tom and I "ere fumbling in onr pockets for ear wealth, when maidenly nn idea '"me to both of ua at once. "'Needn't put It all out!' whispereil T0m 'nmi wo onprlt t0 BaTe Ä kt one of our watoheg.'

"I took a pood share of mv mone

lud valuable cad piled hem In a lib tie heap on the floor, Thea Tan follow, i m Kample, undei express ot Ucii fluni tag voice und trying karg1 to make u few one .1. ,1 !a r bills look life .1 nie roll. Hut nil the luuc 1 kept thinking that there wan something: odd about the situation, though I OOUlda'l tell what it w;:u. On such Ooeaelona u man doesn't think with that brilliancy that the Reinitiated might expect Hut the difficulty predated it' If alter awhile. "'loin,' said I. under my breath, 'this ggmt looks queer, Why doeea't one of them seerch us?' "'Shhh:' said Tom; ami 1 knew he was thinking of the name thing. "'Now, gents,' resumed the lirat voice, when Tom hud unloaded, "there ain t room for all of us here. Being as BM and gay friends were here flrgt, we'll bgvg to ask you two to get off the train. Now, Hurry, picas. ; jump tralght out, and you probably won't pet hurt.' "We were running at 25 milea an hour, so, of course, a jump was almost certain death. Bui Ton waa as cool as ever. Re muttered to me to keep still and wait, and theu he laid aloud - "'What will yoti do if we refuse?' "'Dor't gei gay, now." answered the voire. 'I'll shoot, ami you know it.' "'Will Hill shoot, loo?' asked Tom, carelessly. "'I will that,' ramc Hill's voice from t he f ront end of t be car. " 'And .lim?' Voii bet!' said the other voice up for, aid. "'I thought so.' said Tom under his ireath. Iben he stretched out his hand and caught mine like a vise as thOttgb in a silent farewell. "'Do as I you, now!' he whispered, 'and don't fail for your life. Walk up to the edge of the patch of light as though you went going to jump. When I pull your arm dive into the dark end of the car, flat on the Hoor. Do you hear? Then roll as far as you can; anywhere, nut keep still.' "'AH right, my friend.' he continued aloud, nddreaaing tin- voice again, 'You've pot the drop on us; hut let me tell you this, distinctly: We've both kept our gttna, gad if von didn't have your friends with you we'd shoot this panic to a finish.' Then before any of them could speak in reply ho said to me; (innil-liv, old mau; I wish you luck.' At the same instant he stepped to the edge of th.- lighl pace and tightened his grip on my hand. "'Now,' he said, "be sure and roll, and keep st ill.' "With that he gave me a pull that sent me sprawling to Ihe floor seeral feet be von, I the doorway. Hr struck the tloor near me almost u. the same gsoment, and we both rolled in opposite direct iona. "Strange to say. no pistol shot followed us at least I hadn't heard anv VK SAT Tl I ERE BMOKI NO AND CHATX1NO. ao I lay there and waited further deVelopmettta. And I want to tell you I've experienced pteaaanter sensations than those of the next flvg mintltea when I lay there wonderiiip what part of my body the bullets were going to strike and from which direction to expect them finally I couldn't stand it any longer, so I bepan to crawl in the direction Tom had taken. " 'Keep quiet,' said Tom, when I had reached him. 'I want to hear what he is doing.' "'Bttl his frienda,' I whispered gggreely moving my lipa. 'We must he close to them.' " 'Dan.' said Tom, 'there's only cue of hiin. that's plain. And further. gv grything goes to show that he is not armed, .lust keep quiet and wait.' "W'e lay 1 here for perhaps half an hour, but there wasn't a sound from the other end of the ear. I knew that Tom had planned g way out of it, but his next move surprised me. The train had just begun to slow for our station when he jumped to his ffCf and cried out : "'Now. my friend, we will IfWUbhl you to come out of that and get oil this train Hurry, now. you've covered." "Then there was a scraping and a shambling from Iba darfcnesa, and the voice, now changed to a pleading whine, saidi 'Don't ghoo,, genta; I'm Coming right Otlt.' And he did; ami there never WM a sneakier looking MOUndrel dropped off a freight train. "Now. that's all there is to that, story," concluded the shoe drummer "hut it pes to show that time nnd money saved by beating one's way may gOffietlmea be false economy. Hut if, nevertheless, you should ever lie persuaded to try it, remember one thing: Hewnre of the box car with the partly opened door; it's almost sure to be inhabited."--N. Y. F.un. Impnrlaat Lettre. N ia one of the most important letters in the alphabet. Any man, unless he is blind, can see throuph a window, but few men are able to see through g wiudow. Chicago Daily News.

THE HANNA-PAYNE BILL. Masamutli Fraud IMannrd b Ibr Hepublican Hum mail III Hsaehina . The most iniquitous and barefaced raiil upon the I gl ted States treasury up pears in the Ranna-Pgyuc shipping lubaidy bill now being pressed for jmsegg in goagn gg, The bill pretends to be one "to gCOgBOtg the At lunurce and increase the forcipu trade of the Dai tad State-.,," and provides for the payment of "com penag I ion" for i.'0 yeurs to vessel owners, whether of American or foreign-built vessels, tlie total annual "comjieii sat ion" not to exceed 9,0On,OM, There is a tremendous opposition to this bill, which is declared to be be defenalble, an opposition, which, says the Boa ton Bergld, "grows out of the firm belief that, instead of pnoinp of assistance in the upbuilding of a prrat merchant marine for this country. Will be a decided hindrance. Already." continues the Herald, " he irreat shipbuilding concerns of tin- Atlantic sea board bars arranged the preliminaries for a trust, into which their interests are to be merged as s.mpm as this subsidy bill becomi I a law ." The Ni'v York Evening Pi it adds its testimony to the bums) i I i rideaee going to show the utter shntm lcssncss of the promoters of this scheme, "It Is an open seeret at Washington that a Combination has been formed between the Uanna-Parne subsidy ami

the Eflearagua canal. Senator Banna bad ggreed to await the report of the! Isthmian commission, and the presl dent had acoordingly i eeonniu-nded j PORTO RICO-I THOUGHT I delay on the canal bill for that purpose, but there has been a sudden change in both ipiarters. Mr. Magna has put his name to the report for immediate action on the canul hill, and he thinks that he has secured a Sufficient number of votes for the shippinp subsidy bill." "The magnitude of the fraud sought to be perpetrated upon the taxpayers of the United States." hays the Host (and the Chicago Tribun - looks at the subject from the same point of mcw"). "can be best understood by making a Comparison Of the sums actually appropriated by tirent Britain gad those proposed by the Hann i-l'ayne bill." During the leal year the Hritish government paid 1830,000 Bubvgntion for 11 vessels as reserve merchant cruis- ! ers. and $900,000 for carrying the I mails from the United Kingdom to New York, a total outlay of $73u.W0. But. under the Hayne-Hanna subsidy bill this International Navigation company (British) will get ewer $3,000,000. "Various foreign residents, lining business In New York." adds the Post, "hnve tiled notices wdhin the prescribed time Which Will enable them to comply with (he stipulations of the bill in Wearing subsidy payments on n still greater amount of tonnsgg now in course of construction to be put Into the American trade Inter. Time, the estimated 10,000,000 for snbstdy appropriation i likely to be fully used, the lion'l gharg going tO the International Navigation oompany and other owni rs of vessels which are foreign built " Well may the Chicago Tribun- ask; "Why is it sggnttal that vessel owncry, should be (riven a bounty of $0,1 010 a year to develop foreign trade?" To which may be sdded tha query: "How nre the American shipping Interests to be elded by giving foreign M el owners 0fl foreign bottoms, $o -000 .000 Of American money per annum?' The th fa i otg Of the republican party, of the trueta, syndicates, combines, banks gad money lenders twist their rubber m-cks awav from justice, equity nnd liberty, and. while their mouth- spout the smoke of virtue, morality and patriotism, the gagtrk juice of their stomachs the only hearts they possess - drivels with the McKinley II nnna-Bockefcller nutriment Illinois State Ilepister. Hereafter Mr. McKinley will do vrell to catdtuH with TTanna nnd the sngnr trust before, rather than after, forminsr nn OpitttOfl ns to "our plsin duty. Albany Argus,

FACE THE ISSUES. Ttaae fur thr llt-iuaerai (o Colic wag Maid Tngillirr wllb the l'eole. it is not the time now to fritter away the opportunities fur throwing off the yoke pressing upon the necks of the people b) the republican party with Mr. .McKinley, the trusts and the buukinp syndicates upholding then,. There never was a time in the pie Uttegj history (,t the I'nited States when all of the i.-siies vital to the people should Im more rigidlj adhered to than now. There is not a single one which may be abandoned with safety, for all of them are national, none of them local. There are in my right-minded people, men who stand upon justice and right, who lone disinherited them" s. Ives from the republican party; repudiated the loaves and tidies which lead . ineiitni degradation, tin- re pud let ion of t uteri can manhood, and the denial of the principles which have made the nation great. W behexe that all these right-minded people are. in truth and in fact, the real republicans, end the party, at tinbead of which Mis McKinley, are the renegades, in that tense, the demo gratia party is in thorough accord with them, for the issue- and principles they adv.. ate nie the cer living principles upon which the democratic party stands with more persistence than ever before, because the gravity of the situation is greater t ha n ever before. There are. however, matters of de

tail which impel some to stand aloof BELONGED TO UNCLE SAVI. from n united resistance to the domination of tin- people by an grrogaat Aaaaoie) and imperialistic system. One of these so-called details is the silver issue. On that, tin say: "W'e cannot stand." Why not ? Is it not the financial issue? Does it not lie at the base of plutocracy, imperialism, trusts, the enslavement, of a free peonle? Because the democratic party deems it an--indeed, the essential -issue, inasmuch gg it is the foundation of nit the others, must the other vital issues be allowed to fall throuph abandonment or by failure to defeat William McKinley, the apostate republican complained of? That would be mere lip service In S good cause, and nn intent to assert pernicious principles denounced for their danger to the people nnd the welfare wf the Bgt ion. The people cannot, must not evade one single issue, and no leaders have the power to grade any of them, because they nre all issues pertinent to the welfare of the people, and are issuch which the people have most nt heart. To repudiate any of the issues before the democrat ie party would be to betray the people themselves, for party lenders hove no existence except throuph the pt nple, OPINIONS AND POINTERS. Mnrkllanna tuny this year learn to his cost that the agprcpate wealth of the syndicates be represents is not sufficient to buy the peopb '-. betrayal of American faith St. Louis Hepublic. 1 the farmers of the country once take up the cry of protection V om ehenp foreign lahor. the "pfViteer.on" principle on Nhich wi have been fed will plague us gnlghtily. The agri cttlturietg certainly have the same right to "protection" that manufacturers have. -Indianapolis ev Whether there shall be free trade or taxed trade between the people of the I'nited BtatOT lud these of Porta Rico is Mill nn open question. The supnr trust is on one side, fourtifths of the people of the eo intry nre on the other side, nnd President McKinley i on both sides. Philadelphia Hi cord. The American people may poa ? i lily be mistaken in their idens of justice to Porto Kieo, hut thev enn never be convinced of their mi.-take by the methods of Senator llr: Tin Voters whose "onscieneen hnve hc-n nrous ,' nre not to be converted by the I'annn style of bargain Chicago inter Ocean (Rep.).

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LThe Monetary Problem.

A HISTORICAL REVIEW. the 1'ublie Welfare froaa Tlaae laaaaeauorlal. "The monetary tsystems of the present day Ml an historical development," k:i,s Alexander Del Mar, in Ml new work on the "Uistory of Money in America from the Earliest limes to the Establishment of the Conetltutioai" they daeeend from the principles enunciated in the great mixed moneys case of 1004) the eircuniHtancea connected with the Spanish eonqueol Od America; the Spanish free aataage gel of WW; the itritish tree coinage act of 1GCG. and the invention of the coinage and printing presses. It would, therefore, seem necessary that writer on the subject should possess some familiarity with these topics. Hut though the author of the present work has eongulted many treatises relating to monetary systems he has never yet tnet with one which evinced the least grasp of these various historical elements. Some of them contain information relativ to the details of monetary issues. These, when carefully collated, are of value to the historian, legislator and commenta tor, Hut. for the most part, books on money are filled with doc; rii.es, or worse yet, mere dilutions of doctrines, without history or experience to support them doctrines based on WOrdg, on definitions, on tigmentg of the mind, false, worthless, misleading, mischievous and hurtful. "The legal, political and social charact, r of monej ; Its Influence upon the public welfare: the prominent place it occupies in the annals of the past; thO countless experiments that have been made in the fabrication and emission of its symbols; the civic struggles that have centered upon its control, and the learning that has been devoted to its principles by philosophers, legislators und jurists Surely claim for its historical treatment some better preparation than doctrines. The father of the inductive method was born more than three centuries ago; yet it is only now that his method is being applied to the study of money. "Th mixed moneys case decided that money wis a public measure, a measure of value, and that, like other measures it was necessary in the public welfare that its dimensions or volume should be limited, defined and regulated, by the state. The whole body of learning left us by the ancient and renascent world was invoked in this celebrated judgment. Aristotle, raulus, Hod in and Hudelius were summoned to its support; the Roman lsw, the common law nnd the statutes nil Upheld it; it demonstrated thst the state alone hnd a right in issue monev and to decide of what substances its symbols should be made, whether of gold, silver, brass or pewter. Whatever the state deluded to be money was money. That was the pist of it. "This decision greatly alarmed the merchants of London, und for more than half a century after it was enunciated they were occupied with efforts to defeat its operation. In MM they succeeded in getting the matter before the star chamber; but their plans were rejected. The revolution of 1C4S postponed their projects. The restoration of H00 revived them. Their final success dates from 1CCG." Although he autlurr does not discuss the politics of money, but confines himself strictly to its history, yet, says the National Watchman, the principles laid down in the h -orated mixed money case, to which he frequently adverts, and which he rcgnrdl as sound legal doctrine, not to be overthrown, render it evident that the atrocious act recently passed by the house of representatives and the senate ia in its essence unconstltetiona and void. It surrenders both the issuance of money and the retirement of money to the banks. It pledges the national treasury, ami. after it. every Individual and corporation in the country, to the payment of its indebtedness In gold metal, whether the same is current in coins at the date of payment or not. In Other words, it makes all contracts payable In money of the day of con tract, instead of in money of the day of payment. This principle ban been the subject of discussion for upwards of IMQQ yearn, It divided parties in Rome during the commonwealth; it divided them durinp the empire; it divided them durinp tha middle apes; it divided them durinp the renaissance ; it divided them durinp the last Century; and it divider them yet. Hundreds' of work have been written on the subject and none more learned or more repb'c with BOUtsd doctrine than those which were written durinp the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this period many legal decisions wure rendered) on the subject, sll of them laving down the principle In unmistakable icrms; that eontrsets were only equitably pnynhle in moneys of the dey of pgtj nt, nnd that all lawn w hich be und the debtor to any other terms Wtn in principle unjust and Impracticable of fulfillment. Several of the popea of Rome Issued decisions to the name effect. The courta of Itsly. France. England nnd Germany all decided the same way. Ihe lesrned doctors of PologFia, Pndua snd the Sorbonne sll nppre.ved the same view; and whenever the subject wss brought to the test of

rcuson or legality, the decision was always in favor of permitting the debtor to pay his debt in the money which happened to be current in his gauntly on the day Iiis debt was due. The preut writers of international law, (irotius. Puffendorf und Yattcl all held similar views- that debts were only equitably payable in money of the day of payment. Notwithstanding thi- opinion of the patriotic, the politic and the learned, there has never been Wgn ting en avid class who have sought to pin down the people to the payment of specific moneys, and this class has from time to time secured such nets of legislation as temporarily gratified their unjust demands, until the scene closed, ns it invariably did, with general bankruptcy und ruin. BANK PROFITS

I nder Monetary lllll Why the Conn. try Ilriiuintl far the Uonda la So KtrrDDUDi, Why government bend prices have advanced sharply recently is explained by the showing made in a circular addressed to the national banks by Harvey l';-k & Sons, of New York. This circular says reparding the pending currency bill: HXmong its other attractive featun s the bill provides for the issue of two per cent, usyenr pold bonds, the reduction of one-half per cent, per annum in t' tax on circulation w here secured by t In se bonds, the issue of notes to the full face value of tho bonds di posited and the ripht to increase circulation at any time, by the repeal of the restriction which hag heretofore prevented its increase until the expiration of six months from the last decrease in circulation. "Many banks have already increased their holdinps of the old issues which are to be refunded into the new two per ccnta., snd while there has been a material advance in the prices of all government bonda durinp the last few days, they are still obtainable at prices makinp the new twos very attractive as a basis for circ nation. At present prices every dollar invested in circulation will realize over 20 pi r cent, per annum, a no other way can such rates of Interest, absolutely free from risk, be secured; and it behooves the banks to act promptly in order to secure the full ndventageg of the transaction." The circular goes on to explain that an investment of $100.000 in $100,000 of the bonds is really an Investment of $6.000 only, since $100,000 of circulation can be taken out against the bonds. The 20 per cent, profit is on the $fi.0O0. With the outstanding three per cent, bonds nt 111.98, the fours of 1007 at 11T.S0. ex-April interest, and the fives at 110.68 the cost of the twos will be 106. At 106 the profit on circulation would be 21.55 per cent, a year with money at four par vent, and Jl at five per cent. The profit from the twos at lOflf would be 18, 21 per cent, on the actual cash invested with money at four per cent, nnd lS.5i with money at five per cent The profit at 10S with money nt four per cent, would be 15.71 per cent, nnd with money at five per cent. 16 per-cent. There were predictions in Wall street that the price of the new twos would reach 110. National Watchman. OUR PLAIN DUTY." Ilaa n Flrslhlr Meaning In the Mlad of Onr Wobbly Frroldent Rlaht Makea Mtabt. Only a few months apo, the president in his messape to congress declared that "our plain duty is to abolish all customs tariffs between the I'nited states nnd l'orto Rico, and give her producta free access to our markets." Now a "plain duty" involves an obligation; it has to do with justice ami right; it touches the conscience. Abraham Lincoln declared that "right makes might;" duty wee such an important mutter in his eyes that he was prepared to follow wherever it led. "Let us to the end," he said, "dare to do our duty aa we understand It." Congress, however, at the bidding of our protected interests, has seen proper to measure our dnty by the tariff schedules. "Let ua do 8i per cent, of our duty," say the republicans of tne house, "and leave the rest to the sugar trust nnd the growers of Connecticut tobacco." W hat Mr. McKinley regarded as a "plain duty" ha.-t resolved itsi If in a duty of li pgr cent, on the products of Porto Rico entering our markets.--At laut a t onstit ution. Affect Rent F.atnte Valnea. The growth of trusts and the elimination of the it dividual from the field of conipct it i e enterprise Is ulrendy injuriously effecting the value of real estate in our laipe cities. As the profit, of baduetry po into fewer and fewer pockets the number of those who can live in elegant homes correspondingly diminishes, entailing a terrific destruction of real estate values. Morttrnped real estate In our cities ie already becoming a bunfen to it nom innl owners, and the day Is not distant, under the trust regime, when the poor will lose their sarinps that are infested by savings banks in city mortgage, nnd the cities will be owned by tha bankers snd trust msgnates. Xatieav el Watchmsn. A Matrimonial Hatto. Cstch-ss-cs.ch-can Is the tnstrl moninl motto of grme tjirU. Ch'.ci Daily News.