Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 45, Hammond, Lake County, 9 August 1912 — Page 10
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THE TIMES.
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MASONIC CALENDAR. Hammond Chapter. No. 117. meets second and forth Wednesday of each month.
Hammond Commandery. No. 41. Reg
ular meeting first and third Monday of
each month.
RELIGION AND ROOSEVELT.
This Is to be a campaign in the bull loose party of emotionalism
hysteria "slug - em - over-the-ropes
style according to a leader of the bull
loose herd.
Hymns are to be sung, prayers said
and blessings asked. Politics and
religion are to be hitched up double
and trot along together.
The Armageddon stunt is to be
played till the cows come up. All the people who can't be reach ed by sane argument and logical rea
soning are to have their hears etring3 played on by the singing of religious tunes. So that a mighty interesting
campaign is in sight.
We may confidently expect to hear Apostle Roosevelt after launching a fiery diatribe against the man whom he put into office four years ago and
calling him a- thief and a liar ask
the congregation to join him in sing
ing "Bringing In The Sheaves" or "There's A Land That Is Fairer Than
Day."
Then he will proceed te lambast tho republican national committer
and knock the stuffing figuratively
speaking out of everyone who does
not agree with him, impugning their
honesty, casting slurs on their sincerity and telling his auditors "to
slug-em-over-the-ropes." After which
another hymn will be sung probably several stanzas of "Though Your
Sins Be As Scarlet."
It is going to be a great campaign
and the bull loose party is going to
tread mighty near the verge ot
blasphemy.
SOME people actually thought that when Roosevelt was nominated
there would be a great physical
catacylson or a few meteors would drop out of the heavens. Oh no
nothing like that. Everything a
going on just the same.
THOSE $20 seats at the Coliseum were finally occupied by throwing
open the doors and admitting any. body. Who's going to pay you Mr
Ferkins for all the money you are
putting into this campaign?
YOU, ALDERMEN READ THIS!
Yesterday THE TIMES pointed
out the need for the adoption of the
boulevard lighting system for Ham
mond a business district. Today
will answer the flimsy argumen that are advanced by the nouocilme
who oppose the lighting, in suppor
of their stand.
It is argued that the taxpayer in
the residential districts does not re
ceive any benefit when he is taxed
for the lighting of , the business
Btreets of the city. This is further
proof of the Incapacity of these m
to represent a city the size of Ham
mond.
i. mis tax amounts to just two
cents a month for each person in
Hammond.
2. If Hammond has an attractive
business district people will want to
live here. They like to live In a city
where there Is life and activity.
3. The more people who live in
Hammond the higher will be the valuation of Its residential property.
4. A city is known by its business
district. Every person In the city ought to be willing, as a matter of
pride, to contribute towards making it attractive.
The only other argument that has
been raised; an argument that is as senseless as it is malicious Is that the property owners in the business district of the city do not pay their
share of the taxes. It is argued that
valuations of business property are too low.
1. Is the city of Hammond going
to don sackcloth and ashes for the
next five years and mourn the fact that its business men are not paying enough taxes while other cities are making their business districts at
tractive and are growing and prospering.
2. Is Hammond going to listen to
a few of its narrow-minded council-
men who say: ' Trogress must stop until the citizens go after the board of review and the board of review goes after the assessor and the assessor goes after the down town property owners and the assessment
is raised?
Preposterous! This street light
ing question is an issue in itself. Unprogressive eouncilmen can't throw dust in the eyes of the people by attracting their attention to assessment evils. What the progress peo
ple of Hammond want is street
lights. They want them right away and they don't want to listen to this cant about inequal taxation. That 13 a problem that must be solved at the polls and independent of the street lighting question.
You eouncilmen who are listening
to a few ivory heads whom you think
represent real public sentiment 4n
this community are going to be asked, when you come up for re-election: "Where are our street lights?"
And no halting apology about low
valuations in the business district or the excuse that Mr. Backwoods, the owner of 50 feet of property In
Homewood, kicked is going to
square you with the progressives who
are going after your goat.
Friday, August 9, 1912.
THE English suffragettes who
threw a hatchet at Mr. Asqulth were
each given five years In prison.
Luckily for them they stopped with a hatchet and not a hat pin.
THE county board of commission
ers have to work these days to earn
their salaries. Used to be a snap to be a commissioner but quoth the raven "never more."
ONE reason-why so few respectable people get elected to office Is because a man can't go through a cam
paign without losing considerable of his respectability.
SHOULD HE BE BETRAYED? There seems to be some hesitancy among the republicans of the Tenth
district to nominate a candidate for congress on the progressive ticket
and they have good reasons for their hesitancy. The first thing that they will do In the event of such a nomination 13 the playing into the hands
of the democratic free-traders who
will of course put up their Btrongest candidate. He will be John B. Peterson of Crown Point who on the
strength of the theory that a third
party candidate will be named for congress has signified his intention
of again making the race on the
democratic ticket. It will be a misfortune for the republican party if the friends of Roosevelt play into the hands of the democrats in the matter of a congressional nomination. When Roosevelt was president no farmer friends in administration circles were to be found anywhere than Judge Cnimpacker and Mr. Roosevelt. Indeed when the president bade his friends goodbye on the eve of his departure for Africa, he warmly congratulated Judge Crumpacker for the splendid help he had been to him during the seven years of his administration and expressed in typical Rooseveltlan phrases hi'3 indebtedness to Congressman Crumpacker in an appreciation of his friendship. As far as true progressiveism is concerned no man in congress has shown himself a truer progressive than Judge Crumpacker at
all times and he firmly believes that the republican party is the party of progress. This is generally recognised over the district by hii friends and in fact every member of the party who is not seeking his own private ambition and has become disgruntled because he has been unable
to use the party for his own stepping
stone. Republican success means more to Judge Crumpacker than his
own career. His record in congress has shown that. He has been sent
back to congress many times and is today the only Indiana republican in either the House or Senate. . In fact
he is the only representative of the republican party from this state at
Washington. We believe that Judge Crumpacker if he could be convinced
that a true representative of the peo
ple of this district In both the repub
lican and third parties could be found satisfactory to both factions
would relinquish the nomination giv en him at' Hammond and gladly re
tire to private life.
While Judge Crumpacker has been in congress from this district for many years, there has never been a single aspersion brought against his name. He has given the beet part of his life to the service of the people of his district. His honesty and integrity is a by-word. Had he been practicing in the profession in which he Btands so pre-eminent in this
growing region all these years, he would today have been a rich Instead
of a poor man.
The republicans of this district
who are asked to betray their honor
ed representative at Washington
should consider these facts profound
ly before it is too late.
WHEN a fellow is charitable peo
ple say he is easy, but It i3 better to
be a little easy than to be so close that your clothes fit you like a wet
bathing suit.
WEST Hammond warrants are gain worth 100 cents on the dollar.
Whom do you owe that to Mr. Tax
payer the evil resorts in your fair
city?
BY the way who is putting up for
this man Edwin Lee and his cohort-
ers? Don't hear of any common peo
ple subscribing to any fund?
AS WAS TO BE EXPECTED. "A grand total of $47,000 for the
Mercy hospital building fund was -
ported last night by Chairman H. II.
larries, of the club hospital commit
tee.
"Chairman Harries read a report
which summarized the work of the hospital committee since the cam
paign for the hospital was takvn up
August 2, 1911, following the ap
pearance of an article secured by the
Tribune, in whlcli Jt was pointed out
that unless the ho&pital received ail.
it would be removed from Gary."Gary Tribune.
As usual Homer takes the credit.
He started the thing in bis mind's
eye and the 250 committeemen and
6,000 contributors and the other
newspapers who made the fund i success deserve condemnation for
trying to hog the credit. Homer started It. Let the billet mill roll a big tablet comemorating the fact and
let it be nailed up over the Pioneer
club.
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WHEN a bunch of women get to
gether in a parlors, you can lay a
few wagers that they are not chirping about the weather.
AS we remember it Adam had
nothing to do all day long and hence
must have been happy when Eve
came.
COL. Bryan says that "dawn is
here for democracy?" Yes and it Is
quite a foggy dawn isn't It Col.?
SOME PROGRESS, EH? Everybody might not Bee It, but it
is a fact nevertheless, that Petersburg Is steadily making a bigger and
better town.
The tannery has started up at last.
and has a pay roll of something like $425 a week, which will become larger.
The town, council is busy laying a
long stretch of concrete walk along
Main street, and making a fill at the Pond bridge where they expect soon to erect a concrete bridge.
A-new livery Is every day furnish
ing the best of teams. The barber shop, which by the way is the pride of the town, has in it two expert artists, who are kept busy from Bun up until a late hour at night.
It all means that Petersburg is
moving forward. Grant Countv
Press, Petersburg, W. Va.
THE question of the hour: Will Gary succeed in holdjng first place
after next Sunday.
LEAP year is over half gone and just look around you at the lot of eligible bachelors.
TRUE faith is believing a dentist when he says it Isn't going to hurt you one bit.
HAMMOND'S picnic season seems to be running to seed.
Isn't on a Vacation Ho is on the job, as busy as ever, and working overtime to make the second week of our great Semi-Annual GREEN TAG SALE the greatest Mid-Summer event in the history of our institution. Never before, has the SPIEGEL Organization given such a demonstration of buying and selling power. No matter whether you want a single article or a complete home outfit, you can own it so easily now, that you will be simply delighted. LOOK FOR THE GREEN TAGS. Every time you find one, you find a snap. And best of all, our usual liberal credit terms prevail during this sale. This is Spiegel's Sensational Dining Chair Value, each
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1.95
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9.45
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5.95
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