Ligonier Banner., Volume 25, Number 42, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 January 1891 — Page 4
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THURSDAY. JANUARY 29, 1891,
REerorßMs are as often defeated by the indiscretions of extreme champions as by the numerical strength of determined opponents.
SouTH BEND has a second permanent democratic organization called the Tilden Club, which will give a banquet on Tilden’t birthday, Feb. 9.
SpeAKER NIBLACK, of the Indiana house of representatives, continues to prove himself the right man in the I right place. Heis the worthy son of a worthy sire—Wm. E. Niblack, one of the safest and soundest Democrats in the state.
SENATOR ORVILLE H. PLATT was re elected by the Connecticut Legislature on Tueaday of last week for a term of six years. He received the votes of 141 members, who represented 73,144 voters. He was opposed by 134 members, who represented 195,840 voters. This in itself is a conclusive argument in favor of electing U. S. senators by ;1: direct vote of the people. -
DuriNg a period of forty-five years the state of New York has elected only two Democrats to ths United States Senate— Francis Kernan in 1875, and Dayid B. Hill in 1891. Andyet, since the year 1862, the Empire state has been carried by the Democracy about sixteen times. . A democratic legi_slature was secured in 1874 through the superb leadership of Samuel J. Tilden. and a similar result, but under more difficult circumstances, was brought about in 1890 by Tilden’s pupil, David B. Hill, now universally acknowledged to be the most skillful political tactician in the whole country. :
ONE of the most grotesque absurdities of the period 1s the demand of the Ohio Farmers’ Alliance that letter postage bereduced to one cent. The post-o flice department is not entirely ‘self-sust aining, ahd the deficiency has to be made up by reaching into the pubilc treasury yet these misguided Alliance men de-’ liberately resolve that one of the m‘gent needs of the hour is the reduction of th® price of postage stamps. What a broad grin. this action must have brought forth on the countenances of bankers, merchants, publishers, manufacturers, ete., who send out 500 letters as against one sent out by members of the Allance. Verity, some people have queer ideas about reform.
EVERY TIME there is a rumpus in the house of representatives, and these occur quite often, Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, advertises his total unfitness to ; . be 1 any sense regarded as a leader. | He gets clear besides himself on the slightest proyocation. It 1s the veriest nonsense to consider a man of his uncontroluble temper in connection with the speakership, a position requiring the utmost coelness and self-control
under the most preplexing and aggravating circumstances. The right sort of material for the speakership is to be found in such men as Judge Holman of Indiana, Daniel N. Lockwood of New York, Crisp or Turner of Georgia, MecMillan of Tennessee, and Quthwaite of Ohio.
EMERSCN ON FARMING.
That prince of thinkers, Ralph Waldo Emerson,who had the wonderful ability of glorifying any subject he touched with his pen, said some pithy and beautiful things in an essay on farming. It seems strange that so much can be said in praise of this prosy old business. Let us quote a few of his sentences: “The glory of the farmer is that in the division of labors, 1t is_his great part to create. All trade rests at last on his primative activity. : “The farmer times himself to nature and acquires that livelong patience which belongs to her. Slow, narrow man, his rule is, that the earth shall clothe and feed him; and he must wait for his crop to grow. His entertainments, his liberties, and his spending must be on a farmer’s scale, and not a merchant’s.. It were as false for farmers to use a wholesale and massive expense, as for states to use a minute economy. v : “The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centers of energy, the driving= wheels of trade, politics, or practical arts, and women of beauty and genius are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the é’nei'gies which their father’s hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows, . in poverty, necessity, and darkness. _ “Who are the farmers’ servants? Not the Irish, nor the collies, but geology and chemistry, the quarry of the air, the water of the brook, the lightning of the clouds, the casting of the worm, the plough of the frost. A “Nature, like a cautious testator, ties up her estate so as not to bestow it all on one generation, but has a forelooking tenderness and equal regard to the next and the next, and the fourth and the the fortieth age. “See what the farmer accomplishes by a cart load of tiles: he alerts the climate by letting off water which kept the land cool through constant evaporation, and allows the warm rain to bring down into the roots the temperature of the air and of the surface soil; and he depens the soil, since the discharge of this standing water allows the roots of his plants to penetrate below the surface of his sub-soil, and &:fih&im&ifiz ‘of his crop.”
SENTIMENT BEHIND LAW.
Governor Burleigh, of Maine, makes some pertinent remarks in regard to] prohibition, in his message to the legislature. He says: ‘lt cannot be denied that the law for the suppression ef the liquor traffic is violated, and that officials charged with its enforcement are frequently derelict in duty.” But he does not call for more stringent law, he simply states a great axiomatic truth when he declares the need not to be more laws, but a strongerfpublic sentiment to sustain the present laws. He declares that, for ghe highest success of prohibition, ‘“‘there must be in every community a strong temperance sentiment demanding a yigorous enforcement of the law and sustaining the officers in their efforts to secure it.”’ He clinches this statement by saying: “When the sentiment against the liquor traflic is as universal and emphatic as against other forms of crime, the violations of the prohibitory law will be no more numerous than those of other penal enactments.”” 'The foregoing causes the Indianapolis News to say: «“This principle is universal. The laws follow, they do net lead, public senti‘ment, and something more than an }cmergenuy clause is necessary for ‘their enforcement. It is the universal condemnation of a crime that compels its punishment and this is a' matter of growth. In the early development of a country’ crimes of various sorts (lourish unchecked. Increasing civilization draws the lines more tightly. Public sentiment is becoming educated to oppose the liquor traflic. It has reached the point where it demands many restrictions not imposed upon other kinds of business, but not unti! the majority of this sentiment demands prohibitory laws they cannot be obtained or, if secured, will prove ineffectual because unenforced.”’
CAUSE AND EFFECT.
*To the man who does not see politics in the sun as he rises in the morning and politics in the stars as he lies down at night,” Philosopher Applegate writes in the New Albany -Ledger, “the efforts of republican and democratic writers to charge each other’s party with the responsibility for the recent panicky cendition of affairs in the commercial centres, is sometimes amusing and at others disgusting. Every ene who knows anything about the exciting order of things knows that ithere has been a great speculative fever in the commercial, or more properly speaking, financial world during the past few years. It wasespecially rampant in England. Fleet street sent its millions everywhere. Bank notes went out on the four winds like leaves in a November blast. English syndicates were scattered all over the world, buying everything that was for sale. The principal investments were in America. The United States came in for a large share, but a far greater number of poun(;s went to South America, where all manner of investments were made. The cedula craze became nearly as great in England -as once 1t was for Dutch bulbs, or South Sea bubbles. The Argentine baloon collapsed, cedulas went flat and the pinch caught Barmmg Brothers. At once this country was called on for money; our bonds of all kinds came home; the immense debt created in buying goods in advance of tariff legislation had to be paid, and scme New York firms failed; everybody commenced tightning the purse strings ; concerns with weak props went down and a general overhauling and accounting bagan. The McKinley bill cut a slight figure, it is true, but the result would have been about the same had the bill never been heard of. ‘
““Politicsis a big thifig in this cohntry, but it don’t rule the sun, moon and stars, nor even the financial world.”’
SENATOR INGALLS
Among the most interesting and picturesque characters in American politics must be reckoned John James Ingalls, senator from Kansas. He is in many respects the most wonderful man now engaging popular attention. His command of the English language is something marvelous. ~ His style of speaking and writing is entirely different from that of any other member of congress in either house. In controversy it is wonderfully vigorous, racy, pungent. In argument it is plausable and forcible, though sometimes strongly tinctured with sophistry. In his eulogies he is sublime. Then again, he can lampoon an antagonist in the most polished language conceivable, seemingly without effors. !
Politically he is a flat contradiction. He is a stalwart Republican and at the same time a radical dissenter from modern stalwartism. He regards negro suffrage a stupendous folly and utter failure, and yet he mildly aided in forcing negro suffrage upon the country during the reconstruction period.! He has liberal views on the tariff, and yet he voted for the McKinley high protection bill. He}is in favor of more liberal financial policy,and yet he has steadily given aid to the party which from time to time has caused needless and extremely hurtful stringencies in money matters. e P Some time last summer Senator Ingalls made certain expressions that have given him considerable trouble. Here is an extract which shows what a contemptable opinion he has of medern politics: : ‘‘The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. Government is force. Politics is a battle for supremacy. Parties are the armies. The decalogue and the golden rule have no Elace, in a political cam‘paign. The object is success. ‘T'o defeat the antagonist and expel the party in power is the purpose.
In war it is lawful to deceive the adversary, to hire Hessians, to purchase mercenaries, to mutilate, to kill, to destroy. The commander who lost a battle through the activity of his moral nature would be the derision and jest of history. This modern eant about the corruption of politics is fatiguing in the extreme. It proceeds from the tea-custard and syllabub dilettanteism, the frivelous and desultory sentimentalism of epienes.” Lately in speaking on the silver bill and for the benefit of the Kansas legislators who were charged with the duty of electing his successor, Mr. Ingalls claimed that in this interview he was stating the existing condition of things rather than giving his own views. Besides, he claimed that he was not accurately reported. As he has previ ously stated that he had been correctly reported, and as the interview shows that he was stating his own opiniens, ‘these evasions will not save him. He is condemned out of his own mouth.
It will readily be conceded that there are things that speak strongly against the brilliant senator from Kansas. Now here is one very muck in his favor. Ingalls left Washington Wednesday night for Topeka. Before going, however, he did the most creditable thing he ever did in his life. He declared that he was opposed to the gag rule and to the force bill, and paired with Allison of lowa on both questions. The pair is a rigid one, and the democratic whip, Senator Faulkner, was instructed by Ingalls to see that the conditions of the pair were always observed, for if he were present he would vote against the gag rule, and would vote against the force bill. . i
The farmers of the Kansas legislature, by-the-by, have announeed themselves as opposed to the Hoar federal election bill as well as the Aldrich closure rule, cutting off debate in the senate.
FARMERS, BEWARE!
Don’t Allow Yourselves to be Bamboozled by Visionary Demagogues.
The Patrons of Husbandry organizations that are being formed in this county do not differ materially from the other farmers’ organizations known as the Farmers' Alliance, or from the Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association. The objects are about the same in /_all these” organizations, and they are likely to ‘be consolidated if they continue to exist any great length of time. It is not generally known, ‘but it is a fact that there is a Grange organization in this state. In certain localities the farmers found the old Grange societies that flourished fifteen years ago sufiiciergtly useful to keep up the interest in them, and they are now working in harmony with the . I's the . B: A.'s and the F. A.’s. If they all pull together they will make a strong team and may accomplish: much that will benefit the farmers, but there is always a danger that featherheaded statesmen and ambitious demagogues will get at the head of such organizations and run them by their impractical and visionary ideas. I'he Grange movemeat was ruined by the fiat monoy demagogues who got to ‘the front, and the present farmers’ or--1 ganizations will be fortunate indeed if ‘they escape a horde of fanatics who ‘will have a plaster and a panacea for every ill known to mortal man. Ninetenths of such reformers are simply aiming to repeat experiments that have been tried and failed repeatedly, but in their zeal, not to say ignorance, they are supremely unconscious that it has been demonstrated time and again that they are simply pounding their heads against a stone wall by ‘trying to accomplish the impossibie. Much good may come out of the farmers’ organizations, and the Argus 1s glad to see them formed, but our farmers will do well to avoid the rocks om which similar organizations have split, and make no effort to accomplish what repeated demonstrations in various countries haye proyed to be either very unwise‘ or entirely impossible.—La Porte Ar-‘ gus. ' :
HOW TOO KILL A TOWN
}Explicit Directions by One Who Understands the Situation. Buy of peddlers as often and as ‘much as possible. ; - Denounce your merchants because ‘they make a profit on their goods. - _Make your own town out a very bad place and stab it every chance you get. Refuse to unite in any scheme for the betterment of the materal interests of the people. Keep every cent you get and don’t do anything of a public nature unless you can make something out of it directly. ' Tell your merchants that you can buy goods a good deal cheaper in some other town and charge them with extortion. If a stranger come to your town tell him everything iz overdone and prediet a general crash in the town in the near future. s Knife every man that disagrees with you on the best methods of increasing business. When you have anything to say of your town say it in such a way as that it will leave the impression that you have no faith in it. Patronize outside newspapers to the exclusion of your own, and then denounce them for notjbeing as large as the metropolitan papers. If you are a merchant, don’t advertise in the home papers; buy a rubber stamp and use it. It may save you a few dimes, and maka the paper look like it was printed in a one-Eorse town. If you are a farmer, curse the town where you trade as the meanest place on earth. Talk this to your neighbors; make them think the business men are robbers and thieves. It will make your property much less valuable, but then yeu don’t care. A : - Pianos to Rent. , * Second-hand pianos to rent at $3 per month. Rent to apfily on purchase if desired, e E. LOCKHART. \1
A Banker’s Opinion. -
The agitation of the free coinage question has awakened considerable interest in all parts of the country. In many towns and' cities the bankers have been interviewed and, as is to be l expected,, they take a decided stand | against a double standard or an equality of silver with gold. Thinking titat ‘it would be a matter of local interest ‘we reproduce from the columns of the Minneapolis Journal of a late issue an interview from Chas. E. Braden, a former citizen of this place, but now cashier in one of the leading banking institutions of the Northwest. Mr. Braden is strengly opposed to free coinage. Hésays: *‘The opponents of free coinage say that it would send geld out of the country, while its friends argue that it will not as long as there is a balance of trade in favor of this country. But let us look at the figures as to this balance of trade and see whether that has any effect in keeping hack the gold from export.. Our exports for the year ending October 31, 1890, were $£860,000,. 000, our imports $817,000,000, leaving a balance of trade in our favor of $43,000,000. During this year we shipped $23,000,000 of gold, and $29,000,000 of silver, or a total of $52,000,000. There was shipped in during thia time $15,000,000 of gold and $23,000,000 of silver, or a total of $38,000,000, leaving a-balance of gold and silver shipments against us of $14,000,000. The balance of trade in our favor then does not mean a balance of gold shipment in our favor, and it certainly would never mean it, in my opinion, with free coinage. Foreign countries will not allow us more than a thing is worth. We pay 80 cents for the Canadian silver dollar. Why? Because it is not worth a dollar. Foreign countries would not treat us in the same way. ‘We can take 80 .cents worth of silver and call it a dollar, but England, France and Germany will not accept it as such. They will want gold. But why guarantee a silver producer more than the market price for his product, and not the farmer for wheat? The government says you bring us a dollar’s worth of silver and we’ll give you 8 dollar and a quarter for it, but the foreign creditor will take that dollar only at its market value. We might as well guarantee a laboring man $2 a day for work, as to guarantee a silver producer a sum above the market price for his bullion.”’ -
Reform »n Taxation.
There is a general concurreace in the .opinion expressed by the Indianapolis News that the tinancial condition of the state, of many ceunties and of all the cities, shows the necessity for a radical change in the methods of our taxation. Real estate has to bear the greater part ot the load. Necessary increasé caused by growth and changed conditions, therefore, will bear harder on it than any other species of property. Our methods of taxation are crude and old-fashioned, ill-fash-ioned, too. There should be a change. Taxation has almost reached the rank of science, yet we cling to the styles of half a‘century ago. To the query, what should be done, the News thinks a commission should be appointed to make a thorough inquiry into the subject and report to the next legislature, deeming it of too great importance to be settled without thorough investigation in all its bearings.
People Who Save-
In Boston a five-cent savings bank has 116,000 depositors. The deposits on a Saturday night range from $4,000 to $lO,OOO. Another bank of the same kind has 80,000 accounts, 90 per cent. of which belong to. working men or women. In Massachusetts 992,376 depositors hold $67,609,338 in the sayings banks. Nearly half of the population of New Hampshire (159,782) has $67,727,019 in the same kind of banks. These are wonderful figures, eloquent of the economy, thrift and reasonable wages of the working people of New England. _
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PHOTOGRAPHY IN PRINTING. A Process Which Does Away With Much ; Trouble and Expense. A new departure is the application of photography to the work of the letterpress printer. A machine is now used pither for the production of book illustrations, or for turning out a complete {llustrated newspaper, and is capable of printing 10,800 impressions an hour. A panoramic machine camera is used in conjunction with the printing machine. This camera, which takes pictures continuously at the rate of four a second, is capable of producing street scenes with all their life and motion, or a long procession from beginning to end. This printing machine is likely to do away with all the tedious sketching and the troublesome block process which occupies so much ¢ime and which costs so much. A well known person’s photograph, with his letter, could be copied by photography and printed by light -much more quickly than you could set up type for the letter, let alone making the block for the likeness, which would take days. It would notthen ®e so perfect as it would come out when printed by light alone, for the texture and detail which could be secured by the new process would be impossible by the block pwocess. The machine prints upon bands or webs of sensitized paper, which passes under the negative, a momentary pause being made while the light is acting. Only gaslight has been used to print with. heretofore, but it is expected that with the electric light a much greater speed of operation can be attained. After the bands leave the neg‘ative they are quickly passed through the necessary developing, fixing, washIng and drying operation. The heavy cost of the sensitizing silver salts requipite to the successful workings of a machine of this nature has hitherto i been a serious obstacle, but a substitute has now been found in a form so cheap that the preparation of the paper will cost but little, and the possibilities in the way of printing by photography will be largely increased.—Chicago Daily News.
SAILING ON THE LAKES.
The Dangers Surrounding the Fresh-Water . . Tar.
Captain C. H. McConnell, an old lake seaman, in conversation with a Star reporter said: ‘lt is rather the fashion to talk about the race of the American seamen dying out,” he said, ‘“and to point to the disappearance of the whales from the Arctic seas as the cause for the decadence of the Yankee tar. As a matter of fact there are more seamen, and better seamen, sailing out of Chicagithan ever left New Bedford or Marblehead. The dangers of the ocean are nothing to the dangers of the lakes, where a lee shore threatens, no matter whence the wind blows, and where the nature of the cargo is peculiarly dangerous. The great article of lake commerce is wheat, and a man who sails on a ship laden with wheat in the bulk takes his life in his hands. There is no known method of stowing it securely. A day or two of rough weather will cause it to settle, and leave a large space between the flooring and the cargo. When this is the case, the danger is imminent. Whenéver a heavy wave causes the vessel to careen sharply the cargo is apt toshift. This nearly always results in a wreck. By changing the center of gravity the shifting cago prevents the vessel from righting, and, unless the storm ceases, she is sure to fill and go to the bottom. Any one famiiiar with the manner in which this peril, ever present, is faced and overcome will never say that the American seaman is degenerating. With all his skill, the death rate on the lakes is fearful. For business reasons this is concealed from the public, but last over year 2,000 sailors lost their lives on the lakes, a greater casualty than the entire British sea~ going mercantile marine can show.”—N. Y. Star. - COURTSHIP IN HOLLAND. The Manner of Making Engagements in the Land of Dykes. In certain parts of Holland, when a young man thinks he has found his affinity, it is customary for him to ask for a match to light his cigar at the door of the beloved one’shouse. This little subterfuge is intended to arouse the parents of the girl to the fact that something is in the wind. .
If a second call with a similar object is made soon after, no doubt is left of the young man’s intentions, and the parents proceed to investigate the young man’s character and antecedents, with a view of ascertaining his eligibility as a member of the family. When he calls a third time, always for a match to light his cigar, they are prepared to give him an answer.
If his suit is regarded with favor he is politely requested to step inside for the first time, and is served with a light. If he is not accepted, he is refused a light, and the door is shut in his face without further ceremony. But, having prepared for this contingency, the downcast suitor will, in all probability, light his weed with a match from his own box, and walk away musing on the transitory nature of all earthly things. When the accepted suitor is invited to enter the house, he, as a matter of course, informs the parents which of their daughters has captivated his fancy.
When this is settled, the young man steps forward and they join hands. While the engagement is by no means a settled fact, yet it is stated as a truth that when, on the occasion of the young man’s third visit, his inamorata has offered him a second cigar, which he had smoked in their house, the engagemend has never been cancelled.—N. Y. Presa.
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