Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 2, Hammond, Lake County, 19 June 1906 — Page 4

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

AN EVENING NEWSPAPER PUBBY THE LAKE COUNTY COMPANY. Terms of Subscription: Yearly $2.50 Half Yearly $1.25 Single Copies 1 cent. Entered at the Hammond, Ind. postoffice as second class matter. Offices in Hammond building, HamInd. Telephone 111. Tuesday, June 19, 1096. THE LAKE COUNT TIMES The Lake County Printing and Publishing Company yesterday delivto its waiting constituency the first issue of its newspaper THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES. We are flattered with the way it was recieved. Although the paper as it appeared yesterday was far from the meartistic and literary mark which we aim to reach, we are conto submit our case to the jury of the public at once. Yesterday's paper was purely an experiment. The lay public does not appreciate what it means to transa newspaper plant in the space of seven hours. The Hammond Triwas published for the last time on Saturday. The continuity of pubwas never interrupted while the transformation was going on and the transformation was radical. When our principal care was in the new, we bent out efforts to give the old a glorious exit and a decent burIt may seem an easy task to do two things at once but that is merely a perspective view. While appreciating the kindliness of the reception THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES was given and also the ensentiments its appearance inspired we ask simply for a temporary suspension of judgment. Wait a bit. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES of yesterday was merely a suggestion of THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES of a week from now and conveyed only a hint of THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES of a rnonth hence. We rethe first issue as purely an exThe public saw it as soon as we did. We had only a vague conception of how it would look. We saw it as through a glass, darkIt is customary when new papers are being started to get out as many as a dozen experimental editions for private circulation and private inThis was impossible in this case. The first impression of the pubwas the first impression of ourIn the production of a newspaper those who produce it are more severe in their criticism than those who read it, those whom it aims to inWe are not craving indulgence nor even asking our friends to enter ina through appreciation of the cirsurrounding the launchof a new newspaper, while prothe life of an old one. We know now what we have to do. The spirit of improvement is paramount in this establishment. We are learning and we are learnfast and the truths that come home to us from inward observation will be applied instantly. You shall see. GROVER CLEVELAND refuses to believe the howl for Bryan is anybut a pyrotechnic, display and as short lived. He expresses great doubt that the demand for Bryan is anywhere near a general call for the man, except in the newspaper colHe fails to comprehend this new arousal of interest and expressfew opinions, assumes a "want to know" attitude regarding the sitwhich he attributes to uncerof public temper. IT is always with a feeling of pity that we hear of the downfall of a man who had the training and abil ity of Tom McCoy-recently sentto a term in the Michigan City prison. McCoy was 50 years old, was a college man-having spent two years in Wabash College-and was graduated from a Chicago busischool. We can little blame the youths who grow up in the crowded districts of our great cities which foster crime, if they do not rise above their heritage and surroundings, but for a man who has been surrounded with every advantage to become so stunted morally as to meet such disis pitiable indeed. We exmore of our educated men. The temptations of commercial life are great, and require that men should Have backbone as well as brains. Even though we pity, we know the punishment is all the more merited when a man so seemingly violates all The sentence of Tom McCoy is brief, but the remorse of his crime should be for life.

WILL THE PUBLIC APPROVE?

THE public is withholding its apor condemnation of the tactics of the Saloonkeepers Association in the arrests caused by them yesterday until it is seen whether or not they are sincere in the threat they made to close everybody. Thus far every arrest made was of a foreigner, either Greek or Italian, who at the best are unfamiliar with our laws. Many other business men were as guilty as the ones jailed and fined and thus far they have not been molested. It is certainly up to the saloonkeepers committee to "make good'' or haul in their colors. It looks very pusil the arrest of a half some of them ign to caus foreigners t. The san in retal-re-act in loon men must be f iation or the pub condemnation. RELIGION AND RIOT IN RUSSIA. Russia has been made the occasion of riot and bloodshed. A bomb thrown into the midst of a Corpus Christ procession converted it into a scene of such appalling race war between Hebrews and Christians, as to make us wonder what possible reaChurch authority can extend for sanctioning public demonstration over Christ's body to the deteriment of His creatures! Christians assert that the bomb thrown by the Jews was the signal for the disaster; Hecontend that it was all a deplanned murder and that the authorities absolutely refused to interfere and gave over entire Hepopulations to slaughter and pillage; the Military declare they emevery measure to stop excesses without being able to restore order. Again we must protest that the Priests are responsible for much trouble by allowing this continuous gathering of immense crowds, where superstition is only equalled by asignorance, and the first inconverts the grovelling band of worshipers into a demoniacal mob, and the frenzied taking of life is all that slakes their savage thirst. Let us have done with show and slaughter. Not pomp and bloodshed but Peace and Brotherly Love was the teaching of the Master! THE GADFLY. Between Trains St. John Township wants a highThe appreciation of one shows the need. Hammond's postoffice will be raised to a first class office in time to meet the requirements of a first class newsState St. will prove to be another example of the well known fact that it takes less time to tear up than to put up. The price of strawberries has come down but if the bottom of the boxes keeps going up, it can soon be used for a cover. Another fact which proves that Hammond is not in the some wagon with Chicago, is the speed with which work on the federal building is going on. Another fact which proves that Hammond is not in the same wagon with Chicago, is the speed with which work on the Federal building is going on. If you and 1 and ewe and eye And yew and aye (dear me) Were all to be spelled u and i, How mixed up we would be. Cornell Widow. House cleaning has already begun in The White House. The carpets on the line is the opportunity of the Teddy Juniors to maintain the fareputation for strenuosity. The plumbers sewermen are strkfor an half holiday on Saturday. With the "banna lid" on we don't blame them much. A man's got to have some time to puchase supplies. Governor Hanley is a guest of the Michigan City prison. Of course he is treated with more deference than Warden Reed's other guests and exto be pardoned out before Thursday. in Valparaiso they have a superof schools whose name is a Hughart. He has been retained for another year, probably because of his popularwith the teachers. The story that has been circulated of late, that all the railroads running through Hammond will open a comwar in the near future in uilding the finest depot in the city A colored minister to his hearers the sentence: "The harvest is over, the season is ended

and thy soul is not saved, " put it: "De corn has been cribbed, der ain't any more work and de devil is still

foolin' wid dis community." The Valparaiso Evening Messenger says that Valparaisoans turned out in large numbers to see the cars on the auto relay run, go through. Hammond people turned out in considerable numbers to see Chicago automobilists go through their pockets at the police station. A teacher had a class of young pupils before her. The examples were in addition and the following illustration was offered by the teacher: "Now, children, if I lay four eggs on the desk and Sammy should lay three eggs on the desk, how many would there be?" The bad boy in the class who had listened intently shou"Go on Sam! Take her up? I don't beleive she can do it!" CHIGAGO GRAIN MARKET Chicago, June 19, 1 p. m. (Special.) WHEAT was very high at the opening with prices steady to 1/4 lowfrom yesterday's close. There was a little scattered selling by commishouses and some buying of May wheat by speculators. Nothing developed during the sesto stimulate prices and the market closed steady with net losses of about 1/2 cent from high figures. CORN was generally lower on rains in the middle west and selling by parties thought to be acting for cash concerns. For awhile there was good buying by the local crowd at the decline, but about noon, a weaker tone developed and the closing was but a little above the lowest of the day. OATS opened easier on the rains and some good buying by traders steadied the market for a short time. Later a brisk selling movement carprices somewhat lower. The closing was weak. The provision market opened with but few material changes from yesThe list was slow and dull. Slaughter sold pork and lard bought ribs. There was some sellby Western packers, but the market was well supported. UNDER THE WHITE TENTS OF GARY. Tom Knotts says the Farrell murder stories which have been printed in the papers give the imthat Gary laborers are a bad lot, while he maintains that they are a very quick lot of workmen. No intoxicating drinks are alin Gary. The other day a man came to sell beer but was soon fired out of town. A monster new sand shovel has just arrived from New Orleans where it has been at work on the dykes. It will be used in straightening the river. The postoffice will open this week and the 600 Garyites will no longer be put to the inconvenience of going to Tolleston for mail. Twenty new teams were added to the number already at work in Gary and the working force of men is beenlarged daily. The fixtures for the new postoffice will be of the best. It is said they will equal those in the Hammond postoffice. Saturday afternoon several tons of wire and other supplies were deliv ered to the local telephone company for the purpose of extending their service to Tolleston and Hobart with a branch line to Gary. Work will begin as soon as the poles arrive and at least fifty men will be needed to carry on the work of extension. Cruelty to Animals. Charles Mendelsohn, a peddler, was arrested for cruelty to animals for driving a horse that was hardly able to stand. Mr. Mendelsohn was faced with the necessity of securing $100 bail as he refused to plead guilty. He was discharged in the court this morning with a warning not to be seen on the streets again with his animal in such poor condition. Look for Settlement. The plumbing contractors and their striking helpers are looking forward to an early agreement. The contractors will hold a business meet ing tomorrow evening in the office of the Kleigehe Plumbing Co., where the proposition of the helpers will be considered and results the looked for next Thursday morning. Twelve men are aut on a strike and five plumbers are affected by it. The substance of the strikers de mand is 30 cents an hour instead o 25 cents as heretofore with a hal Subscribe for the Lake County Times.

The Lesson By of the W. T. STEAD, Revolution Publicist

HIRTY years ago I ventured the prediction that Moscow was destined to be the revolutionary storm center of EuThe ashes of The Tuileries were hardly cold when I hazarded that forecast. The breakup of the Russian em-

pire, as it has hitherto been known, can hardly fail to give a powerful stimulus to the movement in favor of the formation of SMALLER STATES ON THE BASIS OF NATIONALITY. The separatist movement in Hungary, like that in Norway, which has been held in check for years by the dread inspired by the existence of the Russian Colossus on the eastern frontier was left free to realize its ideals when the danger of Russian aggression disappeared. Norway is already lord in her own house. Hungary has already advanced far in the same direction. If Hungary becomes a sovereign independent state, Austria-Hungary disappears, and out of its ruins who can say how many nationalities will strive to attain their independence? The consequences of the Russian revolution and of the war which precipitated the revolution will affect America most IN CHINA. The great yellow empire, with its 400,000,000 subjects, was the prize for which Russia and Japan contended in the recent war. Korea and Port Arthur were but trifles. The dread of Japanese domination in China led Germany and France to make common cause in ejecting the Japanese from the mainland of Asia. All the European powers feel more or less that the exploitation of China by European capitalists is imperiled by the apparition of a victorious Japan upon Chinese terriTHE PEACE OF PORTSMOUTH TRANSFERRED THE OVERLORDSHIP OF CHINA FROM EUROPE TO JAPAN. The results were not long in making their appearance. Japanese miliinstructors were imported by the Chinese provincial authorities

for the purpose of drilling the Chinese troops. China also wishes to

be lord in her own house. Already the Chinese are talking about China for the Chinese, "Asia for the Asiatics and THE PACIFIC

FOR JAPAN" these are corollaries of the effacement of Russia, the significance of which Americans and Australians will be the first to discover.

Out of the welter of blind and

drifting peace and order may come. After a time, how long no one can say, after an unexampled slaughter of human beings by famine

and sword, Russia will emerge in some more or less recognizable shape and slowly begin to find her new place in the community of nations. If the new Russia, which will emerge PURIFIED BY HER

BLOOD BATH, sobered by her

tarism, abandon the fond dream of reconstructing her navy and abolthe monstrous tariff which has choked the life out of her peasantry, then the world may witness a scene of recuperation and of develop

ment such as may parallel the industrial progress of the United States after the civil war. FOR RUSSIA IS A NATION WHOSE RESOURCES HAVE BEEN ONLY SCRATCHED. THE LATENT ENERGIES OF HER PEOPLE, STIMULATED BY LIBERTY AND EDUCATION, MAY CONFER INESBENEFITS UPON CIVILIZATION AND HUMANITY. Limitation of Births Is Needed By Professor F. W. BLACKMAR, University of Kansas

HE most general as well as the most fundamental problem of charity and philanthropy is to practice the law of love and to lend aid to the helpless and the weak in such fashion as

not to degenerate the stock or WEAKEN THE SPIRIT of the individual race or destroy the social order. But there are still deeper problems to consider, and these are the restrictions of marriage and THE LIMITATION OF BIRTHS. Something must be done to stop the multiplication of THE UNFIT by heredity, as well as by environment. How this is to be brought about is difficult to say. We are steeped in tradition and convention. We have so much hypocrisy in our civilization that it is difficult to apply scientific methods. But education, legislation and radical social selection, TO SUPPLEMENT NATURE, may relieve the situation. This, with continuance of the social forms and individual characteristics, may us to eliminate the unfit. If left to herself, nature eliminates the weak and the unfit, but SCIENCE DOMINATES CIVILIZATION, and civilization must submit to the demands of science. WE MUST EITHER CEASE TRYING TO RECLAIM THE WEAK OR MAKE A BETTER SELECTION OF STOCK. IF WE WOULD ELIMINATE DEGENERACY, CRIME, PAUPERISM AND POVERTY WE MUST SEE TO THE STOCK OF THE PEOPLE.

Our People's Greatest Need Is Sobriety of Judgment

By ANDREW D. WHITE. Ex-President of Cornell Umversity HERE is but one thing, the development of better education of the people, to lift them above buffoonery, party cries and

the wiles of chicanery and

lic affair and a REALIZATION OF REPUBLICAN

IDEALS. The most important factor to develop in the majority of the people is sobriety of judgment above all bribes, trickery, hysetc. Closelv connected with the study of history in schools should be

given the elements of political institutions, studying all the machinery

of our government, and there should be steady moral development to

develop honest thinking, not for the plausible, BUT FOR THE TRUTH. The great thing needed in this country is truth. Simple ethics, the distinction between right and wrong, should also be taught. Stress should be laid upon WHAT IS BEST in history, noble deeds and sacrifices, especially those which show that the greatest man is not the greatest orator or the trickiest politician. IN EVERY COMMUNITY THERE ARE FAR TOO MANY SHARP MEN. THEY ARE A CURSE. WHAT WE WANT ARE NOBLE MEN.

bloody anarchy into which Russia is

afflictions, should forswear mili to insure a fair discussion in pub-

usiness

OF HAMMOND.

F. L. KNIGHT & SONS. Surveyors, Engineers, Draftsmen Investigation of records and examinaof property lines carefully made. Map and plates furnished. Crown Point. Ind. (Since1890 For PLUMBING See Wm. Kleihege 152 South Hohman St. TELEPHONE 61. Hammond Realty Company Hammond Building Owners of choice lots in McHie's Sub-division. Intimidation by Physician

DOCTORS are like the police for intimidation. I have lately been to France, where the police were trying desperately to keep up the pretense that there was a revolution, while the French people were obstinately refusing to revolt on any terms and had to be CHARGED BY DRAGOONS bethey could be persuaded to do so. Doctors are always threatening that if we do not do as they advise us we shall die. With regard to myself, they have warned me against my diet, and I am convinced' that when I do die, even if I should then be a hundred and ten, people will say, "That's what comes of DISOBEYING THE DOCTORS." To threaten people with death if they do not try certain cures is very lucrative. The medical profession write letters to the newspapers in which they tell us what advantages have been conferred on the human race by vivisection. It is only of late years that some people have wanted to know why it is that in spite of modern remedies there are as many people who die of the diseases against which they are directed AS BEFORE. The reply that the absolute mortality may be as great as before, but that the "case mortality" has diminished. If this is so, it shows that, although they cure their patients, TIIEY MUST CREATE THE CASES THEY CURE. When fashionable surgeons can earn in a single day from sixty to three hundred guineas, it is evident that they have a strong pecuniary, motive for mutilating their fellow creatures. I cannot help noticing that there are fashions in operations. The surgeons are always discovthat certain organs are unnecessary and ought to be extirpated. At one time it was the tonsils, then the uvula, and now no self respectperson would think of going about with an appendix. For a time formalin was all the fashion. One medical man tried it on some pauper, then on something a little more expensive-namely,' rabbits-and finally on himself. It was discovered, however, that formalin does not kill the tubercle bacillus, but, on the contrary, the tubercle bacillus has a peculiar relish for it AND THRIVES UPIT. THE ARGUMENTS OF THE VIVISECTOR MUCH RESEMBLE IN PRINCIPLE THOSE OF THE MILITANT ANARCHISTS. "WHAT DOES IT MATTER," THE LATTER WILL SAY, "IF WE BLOW TO PIECES EVERY ONE IN THIS ROOM, PROVIDED WE CAN THEREBY SETHE MILLENNIUM?"

Society at Large And the Four Hundred By Bishop W. N. McVICKAR of Providence. R. I.

S what is called "fashion" the "top" the Four Hundred! Is it best seen in the "smart set," the plutocracy, whose members dash about in their splendid carriages and luxuriate in

their gorgeous palaces, THE BUTT OF THEIR OWN LACKEYS ? It is hardly to the fashionable, the Four Hundred, those on the "top," or any mixture of such, that we should look for moral regenera-

tion. How could it be expected to punish moral offenders who upon close inspection are seen to be in large measure the LEGITIMATE PRODUCT OF ITS OWN CONDITIONS?

Society, of course, at times is able to fly into a passion over some gross dereliction of a man who stood high in its midst, is guilty of something which perhaps might land a poor man in jail and which CANNOT BE OVERLOOKED. When some man or woman who is of the "elect," who has been a leader in revels and dances and at

whose sumptuous table society guest-when this man or woman throwing decency to the winds,

name would shame the ears of decent people, then SOMETIMES society flies into a passion. If a man is to be redeemed, then society, which is after all MAN MULTIPLIED and correlated, must be redeemed with him. The question primarily settles down into a personal one. HOW SHALL I TREAT THE WRONGDOER? IS THE QUESTION. THERE MUST BE CONDEMNATION OF HIS CONDUCT, BUT JUSTICE MUST BE TEMPERED .WlTH MERCY.

Directory DR. WILLIAM D. WEIS Physician and Surgeon Deutscher Arzt Office and Residence 145 Hohman St Phone 20 (private wire) day and night service Johnson's Studio Souvenirs With all Bridal and ConPhotos 85 State St., 2nd Floor Phone 2264 Masonic Temple WM. J. WHINERY. Lawyer Telephone 2141. 8uite 306, Hammond Building. W. F. MASIIINO, Fire Insurance. Office in First National Bank Building. By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. Playwright amd Satirist has been a constant and congenial oversteps the line of convention and, contracts a relation whose rightful