Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 51, Number 2, Jasper, Dubois County, 25 September 1908 — Page 1
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mifirf Vol. 51. Jasper, Indiana, Friday, September 25, 1908. No. 2.
GOVERNOR HANLY IS THRIFTY. TN following article, haadllnes and a uppoared In the Indlaiiapojls Star . i ou 3ti)t. 10th: HANI.Y ItBCKIVBD $25 FOK AÜDKKSS TO .MANUAL PUriLO Vtnii'lHT Covering Cost to City of Com ni.'Wi'int'iit Orator (Iocs Through Controller's Hands. Tli.- fact that Governor J. Prank H..ul charged the city $25 for delivering the commencement address bef.iro the graduating class of tho Manual Training High School has come to iil.f and has caußod some comnent a'nH thi- city olllcos. Though the i,.!icy was taken from the school funds and was paid by the board of ecüüuI cumin issloners the warrant and ihr voucher for the monoy went tfn.ugh the olllco to tho city confmiifj. who Is auditor for the school liujrd It was through this channel
that i lie fact that the governor charg
ij f. .r talking to the students came to
Irlit.
Tiif governor on this occasion spoke
(' dreams that came true, tolling tho
gti.J. nts that dreams which came truo
mrc dreams born of desire. Tho address Mas delivered June S and tho $25 uas paid later in June. An. one who did not know the facts illicit think that the governor "needed the n.oney," evon though it had to cnu from tho school fund, but really he didn't. The state pays him $8,000 a w ar and gives him $1,800 additional fur house rent and maintenance." Befides he has made many thousands of dollars a year for the last two or three ears by his Chautauqua lectures. And vet. according to tho Republican state tjrgan. he took $25 from the school fund for making a little address to school children! lie seems to ho as thrifty iu his way as Joe Cannon, who has saved $50,000 a year out of his $j.uuu salary us a member of congress.
A PROTECTION TO HONEST BANKERS, The National Bank of Commerce of Kansas City was the largest hank In
tue Missouri alley. It was so largo and so prosperous that It excited the jrah.usy of all its rivals. It had about
J25.uou.000 of deposits when the Republican "flurry" came In the fall of 19m: The Standard Oil company, Jealous of its growth, started false re
ports, and caused depositors to with
draw their money. On the second of D'cfuiiier. whon the government reif was called for, it was shown that
'hesf false reports had caused a re
duction of $1G,000,000 In deposits. The
bank offlrinls did not dare to reopen fii the following Monday for fear of a run and the sacrifice of securities at
half values. So thuy "liquidated" and the stockholders and ofllcers lost largely. Had the bank been guaranteed, the onKue of slander would have been harmless. No withdrawals would hare Wr caused by false reports. The premium of one 20th of oneTper cent 'or guaranty of deposits would have 'en cheap to tho bank's stockholders. After the presidential election, when all men can think without Idas, 90 per r"M of the honest bankers outside New York will demand tho compulsory guaranty of hank deposits for the pro'wion of both themselves and of their customers.
BRYAN ON LABORERS. In a speech on Labor Day, W. R. H'Wh. who is doing what he can for Taft, said that Mr. Ilryan while a 'u-mhor of conVess, spoke of worklinemen as "public beggars." Hearst afterward hnd his speech containing "mile printed as an advertisement In r.ui, papers: As additional evidence "f '' , unprincipled character of H what Mr. Bryan really said a,,"" laborers Is set out below. It be found in a speech delivered by M( hryan In congress on Jan. 13, 1S94, aT,l Ir as follows; '!The laborln9 men of the country do t ask for benevolence. They have oeen paraded before, you as people o live by the consent of somebody they have been -set before you a c,a" demanding constant help a., JS8,8tance- 1 P1"1 gainst this ?'nder on the brawn and muscle, the 2 4and lnew of this co'untry. I
REPUBLICANS AND MONEY. Colllor's Weekly has a slgtildpant editorial in its Issue of August 2.1. entitled. "The Republican aad Monoy." It Is given herewith:
"The election and subsequent dnth '
of Mr Taft would moan tho occupancy of the White House by an official fat-fryer who has during several yearn past approached, with deferential hat in hand, the president or treasurer of most of the large corporations In the country. It was In the course of this official function that Sherman was profanely turned down by Mr. Harriman, with bitter denun
ciation of the Republican party and i
reeking messages for the head of that party, that the party and tl head of It .had not been grateful for the J250.000 will oh .Mr. Harrlamn collected and which Mr. Harriman collected and gavo In 1D04. Penrose, as one of tho executive committee of nine which is . i t. ..... i . . . 1.
I iu u u nil- num. II WUI K Ol Hit" ut'puu-
II can campaign. Is In error of taste and judgment hut not a grent deal worse With T. Coleman I)u Pont of Delaware, however, the case differ Among tha combinations now being prosecuted by the Federal Government ts that aggregation of companies known as the Powder Trust. Mr. Du Pont Is president of the fifty million dollar Du Pont Powder Compauy. president of the ten million dollar International Powder Company, director of the International Smokeless Powder Company, and vice-president nt Ihn Vi rM I n mmnanv tlin Tlnl-i.
ware Securities Company, which owns a majority of the stockof the Lafliu & Rand Powder Company. Supposo that Mr. Taft, being successful, should be approached by Mr. Du Pont thus-
'I am one of the ton men, including
Chairman Hitchcock, who have put
you over the plate. I don't want to
be reminding you continually of the
obligation; there Is one small piece of
patronage I should like, and I shan't
speak to you. about patronage again
during your administration. There Is a deserving young friend of mine
whom I should like to have appoint
ed to tho position lately held by Mr. Purdy. In charge 'of that bureau of the Department of Justice which is seeking
to break up my company, deprive me
of some of my property, and declare me a ylolator of the law Something analogous would have bean the presence of Harry Thaw two years ago on a committee of ten to collect funds
and promote the election of Jerome as district attorney. A minority plank, calling for a statute providing for publicity of campaign expenditures, was thrown out of the committee on resolutions by a vote of 52 to 1, and was rejected on the floor of the convention by a vote of SS0 to 94 Nebraska and Idaho and parts of Wisconsin and" Indiana favoring it The amount of Bourbonlsm still left In tho Republican party is far too large." "The People do rule." says Sherman, the candidate of the trusts for Vice-President. The truth is that a bill introduced for the protection of the rights of tho people cannot even be voted on In the honse where Cannon aud Sherman rule the roost.
THE PATIENT FARMER.
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Covered With Taxes, As Job Was Covered With Enib; but. Unlike Job, H . Doem't Xnow What Hurts Him.
THE SPECIAL SESSION AND THE RESPONSIBILITY
It Is bad enough, that under the dictation of the speaker and his Commltteo on Rules, labor bills are strangled and not permitted to come to a vote. Dut. worse than that, if posllble, is the fact that the Speaker
picks committees so that bills that be does not like cannot even get a hear
ing, but are strangled In committees by direction of the Spcakor. The people are up In arms all over the country, and AntI Cannonism Is growing in
popularity.
AN AUDACIOUS AND INSOLENT PERFORMANCE. (Springfield Republican.) 'If Mr. Sherman ever did anything
In public lift to attract national attention, prior to his nomination to the
vice-presidency, it was his appeal to
Harriman for campaign funds In 1908,
as revealed by the President's letter.
Harriman at that time had not be
come so notorious and so obnoxious to
the American people as he became
The Democratic party had no hand In nailing the special session of tho
legislature. It has no responsibility
for it. The public welfare did not de-i I maud iL At a cost no greater than a
small amount of interest the financial i embarrassment of the state caused by: the Republican blunder In the appro-j priation laws enacted at tho last session could have been tided over. If there is a "night rider" epidemic any-( where in Indiana thero Is already power and money in the hands of the authorities to deal with iL The Vin-j cennes claim Is a matter that the leg
Islature settled nt the last session
over the governor's veto. These are the only reasons girea by Governor Hanly for calling the extraordinary session, except the consideration of a local option law. Concern
ing this question both parties made declarations in their platforms, and the!
merits of'these respective declarations are to be passed on by tho voters at
the November election. There was no roason for anticipating the action of the people or attempting to forestall
their decision. Dut Hanly and Watson and otbor
Republican leaders and candidates got Into a quarrel. They doubted each other's sincerity. They questioned each other's good faith. Each one had a poor opinion of the other's political honesty. Tho governor wrote letters to Watson and other candidates and It Is said, affixed a special dolivory stamp asking certain questions and saying that tho responses would determine bis "personal and official conduct In the campaign." If any re-
J on the otner hand, If Watson really . approved Hanly's kind of laws his
program why didn't he tell him so
thus heading off a special session and
j saving the people much money? Why
should the taxpayers suffer bocause of
the fight botween these politicians and
their factions? It Is clearly evident
that Republican affairs and not the
people's business are at the bottom
of the trouble.
The whole thing Is an outrage on the public. AH that the Democratic
members can do Is to stand unitedly
and firmly together. They will, of
course vote to correct the Republican blunder In the appropriation laws. Af
ter that Is done there is no reason for
prolonging the session and putting the
people to expense. If more than that
Is done the whole responsibility must rest upon the Republicans and the
public will so understand. If the Democrats are forced to furtlior action by tho conduct of the Republican ma-
j Jority they can do nothing less than
stand squarely on the Democratic platform declarations.
somewhat later, yet his business char
acter and po'.t.cal standing were as Uponses were made they did not sat-
well understood in the autumn of 190 by Republicans like Mr. Sherman as
they are today. Taken In connection with the campaign fund publicity Isue, the Sherman nomination seems to be as audacious vve will not say Insolenta performance as the Republican party In these later years of its history has been guilty of."
WHY7 JUST WHY?
If your banker asks why you think your deposit should be guaranteed, ask hlrn why he thinks your note that he discounts should be endorsed or
for0.'?!.1 aflaln8t the,r bel"3 Pad' be hl.country ,n the attitude of beg
- i nev rir. not -t. i ...
do r. i. P'yi xneyrs ww" " v. m uau Zü ioLtfvh,r,ty; : backed up w,th ,ecur,ty' : uobs.
' cf- t)iA onvnrnnr nnt Itlfi fMnn A
conferonce of all the factions was afterward hold which was equally Inconclusive. The fact that tho governor's "official conduct" (doubtless with respect to (he special session) could have been controlled by aa arrangement with tho other factious satisfactory to him, is absolute and Irrefraalble proof that no real necessity existed for putting the people to the great i xpense of an
extra session and several special olec-
Cromwell's $50,003. The New York Pross, a Republican paper declared the other day that "If William N'elson Cromwell has con tributed J50.000 to tho Republican na tlonal committee, and Treasurer Shel don will not deny the report, It is due to Mr. Taft and to the public that the national committee make a complete explanation of the matter." Hut the Republican national committee has not made and will not make any sort of "explanation of tho matter." Crom well, as Harrlman's representative, dio tated the choice of Sheldon as treasurer. He himsolf is a member of Mr. Taft's advisory committee. The truth Is tha' ilarriman, the trusts, Standard Oil aud the associated special Interests ganerally are duinlng Taffs campaign sr-d they will ruu It to suit thenit . . W '".tchell is for Bryan. (John i .;l.ell to the New York Werts.) "In accordance with your Invitation, I wish totate that, in my Judgment, :he election of Bryan would be for the best interests of the whole nation. "He stands on much the better platform and wUI be guided by It In the
event of his election. Mr. Taft is !
handicapped by the zealous advocacy of his cause by the predatory rich. Honest wealth and business have itothS m t as . . I . a
Wfl io icar in uryan a cucnon.
By Dorothy Dix. However the law may regard their act, a large and enthusiastic body of their fellow citizens yearn to tender their warmest congratulations and good wishes to the Washington gentlemen who administered a beating and a coat of tar and feathers the other night to the gay fascinator who was trying to break ud the han-
tpy home of one of their number
It is not always easy to find a punishment to fit the crime, and tl has been particularly difficult to decide whatsort of retribution should be visited upon the scoundrel who cajoles a weak wife intc betraying her husband. Bloodshed is too drastic, for it is not worth while for a goortman to lay the burden of murder on his soul for the sake of revenge upon a villain and a woman who is no better than she should be.
Suing the man for alienation of the wife's affections is hideous to a man of sensitive Honor, and the money that is the price of a woman's shame smells to heaven. But there is something peculiarly approDriate in the notion
of giving the despoiler of a fireside a good, enduring coat of
tar and feathers, for the color of the tar symbolizes the blackness
of his deed, and the feathers
show what a goose he was to risk so much for so little, and to believe that a woman who is faithless to one man will be loyal to another. Moreover and this is the most important point of all Don Juan in a coat of tar and feathers
is no longer a romantic hero He is a figure of fun, a thing
lor mocKery ana gibes and n bald laughter.
No woman could look a second
time at a man who has once been
put m that ndicu ous position.
me entire ieminineimacnnation.
working overtime, could not
again fit him out in the dan
gerous trappings of chivalrv.
Henceforth and forever after he
would be so innocuous to the
fancy of the fair sex that he
might safely be emnloved to
chaperon a girl's boarding school.
It would be to laugh, and not
to elope, when they looked at
him and recalled him as the un
derstudy of the silly quankquack. For not only, clipping nut neatly manicuring the
cloven hoofs of the tempter,
wno sceais into tne domestic paradise and beguiles Eve into partaking of the forbidden fruit.
nothing has ever been suggested
that so happily filled tne bill.
and met a longfelt want, as tar and feathers.
No man's fascinations for
women could survive that cru
cial ordeal. No woman could!
ook at him without snickerinc
and giggling behind her hand
kerchier; and when a woman
aughs she is safe.
Ihe trouble with Lothario has
always been that he was pic-
uresque. That is what made
him so dangerous, and so irres
istible to women. He had a dark past, but it was veiled in romance. He was terribly wicked, but it was a spectacular wickedness that piqued the
imagination-
Uhere were tales about bim
as a heart breaker, and three
volume novels whispered of his
intrigues with married women;,
his husband lnd shot at him:
that husband had divorced his"
wife on account of him. These
stories did not warn women away from him. 'I hey simply
oled them on, for they cast the
glammor of the wickedly heroic about him.
But suppose, instead of being
about duels and affairs of honor and broken hearts, the stories, had related how Mr. Lothario was treated to a cost of tar and! feathers by the first irate husband whose home he invaded; would there over have been a; second lady fall victim to his
Charms I tramp, and ho couldn't get It to workNay, verily! The first dab of Ally sioper.
the tar brush would have put
him in the down and out class of ex-fascinators. He could not hypnotize a baby girl, for she would never see him without thinkidg how f unny he-te-he-te-'ie he must have looked when nubby emptied the sofa cushion
over him.
It is also to be said that one
dose of tar and feathers would
turn any Lothario that ever lived into a woman hater. It is one thing to risk a stray bullet -and most husbands are shocking bad shots or even a lawsuit; P i-l. I i; rr
lui me cuuuiiiiucuuon oince is slow at best, and Lothario oftener than not has no visible
assests that a sheriff can attach, anyway It is quite another
thing to chance being made a laughing stock for the balance of your life.
Aman may exhibit a wound
he has received for a woman's
sake with a degree of romantic
nride. He mav even take a
judgment against him in court
as a sort of official testimonial to
vs irresistible prowess amontr
the ladies. He may not in his
ecret soul object to havinir these
fhings told of him, but to have
been caught by an angry husband and tarred and feathered, to know that people whispered the story of it, with titters, behind his back, is more than the human vanity could endure. There's more power in ridicule than in all the ten commandments in keeping people .ro.-n straying from the straight and narrow path. A man will consider a lot longer before doing an act that will make him appear a blatant, blithering ass, than he will before doing something acutually criminal. Let a man be as deep-dyed a villain as Satan himself, and a woman will idealize him and
cling to him, but make him appear grotesque and silly, and at the first guffaw of laughter his
attraction for her vanishes into
thin air. These fundamental charac
teristics of the sex are what make the Washington recipe for dealing with the despoiler of
the home so tremendously effective. We have had enough bloodshed, enough of lawsuits
over wolves in broadcloth who seek to win weak and vain wives away from their alle
giance to their families. Let us be done with such tactics
and organize the Amalgamated Tar and Feather Brigade of
Husbands for the Discouraging
of Flirtations with iMarried
Women.
And as a discourager, it will
be all the goods.
He Knew Him.
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