Ligonier Banner., Volume 45, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 4 August 1910 — Page 4

H Poem for Today - INDEPENDENCE BELL, JULY 4, 1776 By Willlam Ross Wallace *' _ ‘

HERE was a tumult in the A city, . e ' ? In the quaint old Quaker town, s And the streets were rife with people S - Pacing restless up and down— People gathering at the corners, . Where they whispered each to each, And the sweat stood on their temples With the earnestness of spzech. As the bleak Atlantic eurrents Lash the wild Newfoundland shore, ‘So they beat against the stat'ehouse, So they surged against the door, And the mingling of their voices Made a harmony profound Till the quiet street of Chestnut Was all turbulent with sound. “Will they do it?’ *Dare they do it?” _ **Who is speaking?’ ‘What's the . news? Leely k ~“What of Adams?’ ‘“What of Sher-,. manz . *O God, grant they won't refuse!”’ “Make some way there!* “Let me nearer!” : T am stifling!”> “Stifle then. When a nation’s life’s at hazard Welve no time to think of men!” So they surged against the statehouse, While al solemnly ingide : Sat the *“‘Continental congress,”’ * Truth and reason for their guide. O'er a simple scroll debatiag, Which, though simple it might be, Yet should shuake the cliffs of Eng- . land : ‘With the thunders of the free. ; Far aloft in that high steeple “Sat the bellman old and gray. :

~ @ - e The Ligonier Baunner. ‘, ~J. E. McDONALD, Editor l~’ub.llshed evary T‘hnruday and entered in 7»hepol£omoe, Ligonier, Ind..bal gecond-clas matter . ‘'PHONE No. 18.

‘ “Illegal, Corrupt and Rotten” There is a signiflcance in the fact that the defense of the present supreme court and its technical findings come exclusively from corporation attorneys and railroad officials. The criticism of the court by the Indianapolis News is being met by many apologetic letters from railroad lawyers who see nothing wrong in the position of the court and its findings. The people can put a stop to such decisions by carefully scrutinizing :their party tickets and voting against any candidate who may be suspected as leading towards ccrporate interests. < : RRE BRE The demozratic county commissioners over in Elkhart county, the first year in power have reduced t.‘il.xat;ion from 40.65 cents on the $lOO yaluation to 32.65 cents,or a reduction of nearly twenty per cent. Kconomy has been the rule when extravagance ruled before. The bridge combine has been brokenh and business like methods are savifig the taxpayers many a dollar. ° This is a good record and should mark democratic administration everywhere. ; ' e L BA S ans “The corrupt practices in Lake county in the last campaign are still fresh in the minds of the public. It was ptoven that nearly 3,000 foreigners. ware illegally voted in Lake county, men who had not been in this country long enouagh to be naturalized, : *‘The tremendous republican majority which that county gave and which saved the republican state ticket, was illegal corrupt and rotten to the core; and it is to the shame of the republican party in this state that it ever defended the voting of 'a herd of foreigners less than six months away from Castle Garden, men who could not read or write or understand the English language.”—From editorial in' Indianapolis Sun, Rep. ® % 3% 8 : z . The weekly reports of both Bradstreet and Dun show decided im provement in business conditions. Thescattered rains have been sufficient to'improve a large part of the crops, and the collapse of the bear movement makes a'better feeling in the stock market. The only persons who lost by the latter were those who had bought on margin for gambling purposes—and when two men gamble one of them gains what the other loses —the people atlarge are not affected. - ; L ’ ®% P @ 2w : . The worst of the trusts which have grown up under the unwise policies of the republican party is the food trust, It operates between the producers and the consumers of foodstuffs. Its members grow constantly richer while those who produce make little profit and those who corsume pay enormous prices. In no other country on earth are the food supplies suffered to be monopolized as'they are in the United States. Meats, fish, fowl, eggs, butter, vegetables and fruit —in fact all of the vital necessities—are controlled by the packers and cold storage people and doled out to the people at their own prices. As the Indianapolis- News says; ‘‘When thereis a drop in the prices of raw food the consumer does not get the beneflt. Karmers are getting one-fifth to one sixth less for cattle and hogs than they got last-winter, but the consumer has had no reduction. Milk gres up in price at the time of year whsn ic should be the cheapest. Kggs present the same condition. The conclusion is that there is so much money in handling food and se little money in raising it thata skilled, rich and powerful class of food middlemen has developed.”” They have not only developed, but they run things their own way without any, real effort being made to prevent their exactions.—Decatur Democrat.

*¥® ® ¥ B In the Indianapolis internal revenue district, comprising 56 counties the United States government’s revenue from whisky increased over $350, 000 during the last fiscal year.. During the last year, on the other hand, Indiana counties, cities and towns lost about $220,009 in revenue on account of the suspension of licensed dealers. All this, be it understood, *with the county option in full force, More whisky is being consumed and the United States government is getting its tax and license fees, but the Indi ana municipalities, which carry the burden, are getting none of the benefivs, ‘ ' TRE 2R : Mr. Beveridge has made another call upon Roosevelt. A dispatch says that ‘‘Senator Beveridge told the newspaper men that he had just run in» ~ from Indiana for a few moments and was going back right away.’”” This is misinformation. Mr. Beveridge did notrun in to Oyster Bay from Indiana. Sometimes he runs into the state ‘‘for a few hours” and then goes ‘‘back right away ™’ but it is never the.other way about. He may be a legal, but he is scarcely an actual resident of the state. ’ ‘ . * e RPN : Mr. Bryan made an appeal to his party in Nebraska that they adopt the county local option plan of settling the liquor question and he was bad- | ly beaten. The platform sustains Governor Shellenbarger, who has been ‘instrumental in passing temperance legislative that provides for high license, early closing of saloons, and a strict supervision of the business. Mr. Bryan proposed to go further, but many of his old political friends refused to follow and made a strong protest against this radical step, defeating the proposition after Mr. Bryan had been given ample opportunity to - present his side of the question. This is Mr. Bryan's first defeat in his own state convention. His ideas have prevailed heretofor and he expected to win this time but the tide was too strong. - He will accept the action of his party and support the ticket. ® 2R 2R L s g The superintendent of the Indianapolis city schools has asked the school board for a $40,000 increase in the appropriation for the pay of teachers during the next school year. A principal reason for the increase is the "high cost of living. Capable teachers are heeded in all of the schools of the state, and they must,in the nature of things, be paidsufficient wages - for their living expenses and to encourage them to do their best work. If the payment of such wayges leads to higher taxes, the blame must be put - where it belongs, and that is upon the party responsible for the policies and ~ legislation which have brought the tremendous increase in the cost of living. The party, as every intelligent person knows, or should know, is the republican party. In bestowing favors upon a few powerful interests it : h’a.s*givei: them both opportunity and authority to fix prices of the necessaries of life to suit themselves, with the result that thev are constantly _ augmenting the cost. If the people do not want increased taxaeion, they should vote with the Democrats. . ‘

He was weary of the tyrant And his iron sceptergd sway; S 0 he sat with one hand ready On the clapper of the bell When his eye could catch the signal The long expected news to tell. See! See! The dense crowd quivers * Through all its lengthy line As the boy beside the portal Hastens forth to give the sign. With his little hands uplifted, Breezes dallying with his hair, Hark, with deep, clear intonation, Breaks his young voice on the air! Hushed the people’s swelling murmur While the boy cries joyously. “Ring!” he shouts. “Ring, grandpapa! Ring!- Oh, ring for.liberty!” Quickly at the given signal The old bellman lifts his hand; Forth he sends the good news making - Iron music through the land. How they shouted! What rejoicing! How the old bell shook the air : Till the clang of freedom ruffled The calmly gliding Delaware! How the bonfires and the torches . Lighted up the night's repose, 5 And from the flames, like fabled 2 Phoenix, P Our glorious liberty arose! That old statehouse bell is silent; Hushed is now its clamorous tongue, But the spirit it awakened Still is living, ever young. : And when we greet the smiling sunlight On the fourth of each July We will ne’er forget the bellman ‘Who, betwixt the earth and sky, Rung out loudly, “Independence,’” Which, please God, shall never die!

Food Profits And the Farmer. In a recent editorial in these columns on the cost of living the statement was made that‘‘the Fifth avenue and Broadway hotels make more profit off the sale of food than all the farmers of all the countries between New York and Albany.” A comparison of market and restaurant prices printed in Collier's Weekly illustrates in detail the enormous appreciation in value which takes place in the transit of food from the farm to the hotel table. The capon, for which the guest is charged $6, is wocth $l.BO to the farmer and $2.10 to the marketman. For the six-pound planked steak served for $4 the retail dealer receives $1.38, the wholesale 99 cents.. A portion of two lamb chops, worth 7 cents at wholesale and 2 cents on the hoof, costs the guest 50 cents. Kor ashort pint of rasberries he pays the shipper’s price of five pints. His $1.50 portion of asparagus could have been obtained on the market for 26 cents and from the farmer for 19 cents. A cucumber worth 215 cents increase to 30 cents by the time it reaches the restaurant patron. Grapefruit appreciates more than 500 percent in transit, 800 if comparisons are made with pricee at the docks. If farmers were paid for their potatoes at the rate charged on certain hotel bills of fare, they would receive $96 a bushel The costatahigh-classrestaurant of a single egg—transformed,. it is true, by all the chefs’ art—equals the cost of adozen in the market. It is estimated that an entire eef carcass yields an average return to a Fifth avenue restaurant of $1.50 a pouud. The utter disproportion between the producer’s and the hotelkeeper's profit from food is only a minor phrase of the cost-of-living problem. Baut it affordsa striking illustration of how, under the presentsystem of dealing in commodities, the production of food has been made commercially the least important of all the processes it undergoes from the farm to the consumer.—New York World. ’

' Why Mills Are Idle. ‘Having been in effect less than a year, the Payne-Aldrich tariff has probably not yet bad a chance to fulfill the expectations of its friends. According to very high authoritv, it was the best tariff law ever enacted. According to protectionist theories, it was going to increase prosperity. It was going to demonstrate anew the theory—self-evident to protectionists—that we become wealthy and increase our purchasing power simply by taxing ourseives. : But here is the New York Journal of Commerce—well informed, congervtaive, cautious—saying that onehalf the looms in this country for the the manufacture of worsteds and woolens are idle; that fully 50 percent of the cotton machinery is shut down; and that only 45 percent of the silk looms are busy. : Cotton manufacturers lay the blame on high cotton ; woolen manufacturers say the trouble arises from the high cost of wool and an abnormally light demand; silk mauufacturers complain that fashion is against them. No one maintains that there has been over-production to any extent. If the trouble does not lie in overproduction, it must be found in underconsumption. The tariff increases the profits of the manufacturer. No one disputes that. But proof that it also increases the purchasing power of the consumer i 8 not yet manifest. Perhaps, however,vthe tariff has not had & chance to show what it can do.—Evansville Courier. Troubled Conscience. - - That man Rawn, who, as president of the Monon railroad, drew a salary 10( $20,000 per year, was not happy. ‘There was something on his mind ‘that depressed and made life unbear‘able. There are too many men’ who ' needlessly burden the mind. The burden usually comes from a desire to get rich quickly by questionable means.. The man who can muster the means to support himself and family decently, is happier than the high-salaried man who has something on his mind of an accusing nature. A-man who possesses much self-respect dislikes to be troubled with an accusing conscience. Such men are not happy, although one may not know it from outside appearances.—Logansport Pharos 2

Defects in the Supreme Court. The Indianapolis News, in a series of articles, has shown how the Indi ana supreme court, which has been solidly Republican for many years, has by technical construction defeated the purposes of many important acts of the legislature. One of these laws, known as the factory act, was passed by the Democratic legislature of 1893. It limits the hours of labor, prohibits the employment of children under the age of 14 years, pro--‘vides for the inspection of elevators and for the cleaning of machinery, prohibits manufacturing in tenements, provides for proper ventilation in factories and for the inspection of factories by public officers. This law, according to The News’ articles, has been practically wiped out of existence along with others affelting labor.—Deeatur Democrat, Grafting Must Be Eliminated. The Pharos ventures to predict that under the new accounting law the books and accounts of every township trustee will hereafter be kept in strict conformity to the law, and that supplies will hereafter be purchased from the lowest responsible bidder. This is what the law contemplates shall be done.—Logansport Pharos.

Charley Landis Retires From Newspaper | ‘ ' Business. , Charles B. Landis has sold the Delphi Journal to the . Mayhill brothers of Flora,and will probably quit the newspaper field for all time. He is a pungent writer, and for a long time made ‘“Thei Man on the Corper’'.an interosting feature of The Journal. He foolishly went to congress, turned standpatter and wound up his political career in chaos. He saved up enough to buy a good farm, to which he has retired and surrounded himself with the beasts of the field and the fatof the land. He will raise his own chickens, cure the hams of his own corn-fed porkers. eat veal cutlets carved from calves of his own growing. drink milk produced by his herd of Jersey’s, and will use honey produced by his own bees to cover the spread of yellow butter that adorns his hot biscuits. The general verdict will be that -Landis = has chosen wisely. He should be admonished, however. to ride a horse that does not stumble. A stumbling standpat steed has dismounted many an ambitious politi cian the past few years. Joe Cannon is riding to a fall—Logansport Pharos. : Moses Richer, the Fiend Coroner A.J. Kesler, of Allen county, has completed his inquiries into the death of little Charlie Coats, the orphan. boy who died from the effects of wounds inflicted by his foster father, Moses Richer, now held in the Allencounty jail on a charge of murder, and has filed his verdict holding Richer responsible, with the clerk of the court. The official verdict is accompanied by three closely written pages describing the five hundred or more wounds” found on the boy’s body and by the evidence of Mrs. Judith Richer. wife of the confessed murderer, who was the only witness to the husband’s brutalities. The story of Mrs. Richer, signed and attested by her, is but a repitition of the statements made by her. There are a few statements, showing that Richer was possessed of all the cunning of the most heartless savage in inflicting torture on his victim. Biting chunks out of the lads quivering flesh, stamping with his heavy hobnailed shoes on the little fellows bare toes, holding his body against a red-hot stove, choking and beating his head against the side of the house, culminated when the fiend bit pieces from the lifeless corpse in his wildest excess of fury.

Hypocrisy Scored. Hypocrisy and ingratitude are closely related skeletons of evil, which are abhorrent to every honest, comscientious mind. The hypocrite who poses as a saint and defrauds the innocent, is despised of men wherever known npon the earth. Even the Indian, the aborigine of America has a keen dislike for a deceiver, and when once deception is disclosed to him the guilty man is marked and never forgotten. Walking with the dry bones of the hypocrite can always be found the shade of the ingrate, whose personality is no less hateful. These evil elements are to be found in every walk of human society—~—in the church as well as in politics. In the latter realm these entities thrive best, and ply their arts to sting and sear. Itis common for men to win and: then turn to smite the hand that fed them, and it is just as frequent that the hypocrite will pose as a benefactor wheu he is really a shyster.—Rochester Republican. = : Has Come Back When Geo. V. Hobart swung into | the limelight several years ago by writing his now famous ‘‘John Heunry" éeries he made the other American humorist git up and take notice. He took hundreds of thousands of readers, “Down the Line” with John Henry and further engaged their risibles when he followed with, *‘lt’s Up to You'” “Back to The Woods’’, *Out for The Coin’’, and “You Can Search Me.” Mr. Hobart has come back and he has brought‘John Henry” with him. He has written for the Indianapolie Sunday Star, a funny series of funny yarns about “‘John Henry’s’' courtship, marriage, honeymoon, his flathunting and the other joys and troubles which come with the matrimonialstate. The flrst of the stories will appear Sunday, August 7, and there will be one each week until the geries is exhausted. .

: The Fight Fraud. . The fight pictures, depicting what was to be the pugilistic contest of the age, whatever may be said of the propriety of that form of entertainment, throw a curious light upon the whole prize fighting enterprise. They show as perhaps no other evidence could, that one of the most gigantic frauds of which there is any record in pugilism or any other activity was perpetrated upou the public. The epigram of Lincoln, to the effect that you can't fool all the people all the time, may express the truth; but for many months it plainly appears from the photographic flims, the whole American public was grievously fooled, and in all the ‘multifarious avenues of intelligence there was no one to give the public a glimmer of the truth .—Kalamazoo Press. | Farm for Sale o ‘The Harvey Hull farm 1 1-4 miles south of Cromwell, in splendid condition, high state cultivation, well improved, contains 80 acres, 156 acres of splendid timber including a fine SUgAr grove. - ' This farm will be sold on reasona. ‘ble terms. Will give possession in ‘time for full crops. Call on or enquire. FRANK HuLL 3w Ligonier, Ind

: Honor for A Jew l Influencial American Jews are agi tating for the formation of an association which will raise funds for the erection iu the city of Washington of amopument in the memory of Haymn Salomon, who lived daring the time of American revolution. Salomon was a good and loyal friend of the struggling colonies. His contribations to the success of the war of ine dependence were of such a character a 8 towin the recognition and commendation of Gen. Washington, and? they should never be forgotten by the American people. When the Continental Congress had reached the end of its rope the two men who replenished the depleted treasury were Robert Morris and Haym Salomon. Haym Salomon wasborn in Prussian Poland about the year 1740. He came to America shortly before the breaking out of hostilities. With the genius of his race for making money it was not long before he had amassed a considerable fortune: He added to his wealth as the war went on, but before it closed he had given nearly all that he possessed to the cause. The country was wretchedly poor at the end of the contest and for many years afterward, and neither Haym Salomon nor his decendants were ever fully reimbursed for the advance made by him. But Salomon never complained He bad given his money without security, for he loved the cause of freedom. Perhaps Salomon had the prophetic vision and foresaw that the day would come when the members of his race would find a haven here, then denied them elsewhere. in the world. But however that may be, Haym Salomon was a good man, a strong and selfsacrificing friend of human liberity. So, while monuments are being erected tq the heroes of manv lands at Washington, let one be placed for Haym Salomon. He gave of what he had freely, and did all that he could to establish Americanindependence. He acted unostentatiously while assisting the struggling colonists. and set up no loud voiced claims for recognition and honors after the war. He continued to walk his way quietly in private life, and when he died had the respect of the entire people. In brief, his services to the United States of America were of the highest order, and as a man he was a credit to his race and adopted country. American Jews cannot do better than to aid in retaining his memory in bronze or stone at the nation’s capital.—lndianapolis Star. :

Married at Goshen Dr. Anna G. Kaufman and W. H. Kreager of Cromwell were united in marriage at 3:30 o’clock (Saturday) afternoon and following a five course dinner left for Chicago where they will spend their honeymoon at the Anpex.. : Sixteen guests witnessed the ceremony which was performed by the Rev, E. A. Vannuys of the First Presbyterian church at the Kaufman home, 216 East Lincoln™ avenue. In about three weeks Mr. and Mrs. Kreager will occupy their fine new home and hospital at the corner of Lincoln avenue and Sixth street.— Democrat. ' Cannon Is Doomed. The next speaker of the national house of representatives will not be Cannon. Nor will he be Represéentative Smith of lowa. nor Payne of New York. nor Dalzell of Penusylvania, nor Tawney of Minnesota, He may be a Democrat, and it would not be surprising if he should be; but even if he is a Republican, he will not be Cannon nor any of his chief lieutenants who have been leading the losing fight against the progressives. It is not probable, of course’ that even if the next house should be Republican, a majority of its Republican members will be avowed progressives, But the number of progressives will be increased, and so will be the number of Democrats. The defiant regulars will get such a drubbing between the midsummer primaries and the fall elections that the lesson will finally be pounded home to the party leaders in general that something is going on—something they have tried to kill with bluff and sneer, with arrogancy and defiance, but have only stimulated with greater energy by their flagrant and fatuous servitude on behalf of the special interests.—Kansas City Times. : : Model Roads in Kosciusko County. Speaking about good roads and practical good sense in road building, we think Milo Maloy, road supervisor of Kosciusko county, should have the medal. His roads are as hard and as smooth as a floor. In talking with Mr. Maloy he told us that in the springtime after a rain he takes drags and goes over his entire road system. In this way all little depressious and chucks are fllled and his roads are always smooth. He will not allow a foot of gravel placed on the (oads after Jan.l. We doubt if there is a toweship in the state that has a better lot of roads than Mr. Maloy’s. He takes a natural pride in his roads and has the proper system. When passing Mr. Maloy’'s house the tourists all doff their hats to him.—Marion News-Tribune. Will There Be Any Place of Safety. The Toledo Blade is always figuring upon stirring up trouble in wet and dry communities. Tt says: ''The temperance movement will get a fresh start thronghout the country when empty beer bottles begin to drop from the aeroplanes.” Come to think of it, won’t it be a funny sight to witness an aeroplane staggering through the air under the hand of a Vsoused” aviator?—-—payton News,

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Expenditures and Tax Levies for the Year 1909 The Trustee of Elkhart township, Noble County, ludiana, proposes, for the yearly expenditures and tax levies by the Advisory Board at its annual meetings, to be held at the school, district No. 8, in said township, Sept. 2, 1910, at one o’clock p. m. the following estimates and amourts for said year: 1. Township expenditures, $9OO and Township tax, 7 cent on the hundred dollars. . | 2. Loca! Tation expenditures, $49 00, aud tax, 22 cents on the hundred dollars, : 3. Special school tax expenditures $4.,800, and tax, 30 cents on the hundred dollars. 4.; Road tax expenditures, $2,000, and tax 15 cents on the hundred dollars. 5. Additional road tax expenditure $l2OO, and tax 7 cents on the hundred dollars. . . 6. Poor expenditures for preceding year, $120.60, and tax 1 centon the hundred dollars. Total expenditures, $13,950.60, al library tax of 1 cent on the hunded dollars, making a total tax, 83 cents on the one hundred dollars. Signed GEORGE G. KELLNER : Trustee. Dated August 1, 1910. W Hemenway Making Hay. { Ex-Senator Hemenway, it will be remembered, was made a member of a special committee—at a salary of s7soo—to show the goverrnment how to economize. In view of the failure to economize it looks as if thissalary at' least might have been saved.— Indianapolis Star. e N

Buy Your Ceal Now! We have our bins all full of coal. Four kinds or sizes of hard coal, six lines or varities of soft coal. We cannot buy more until we sell some of this out. We must have the room to store, and the. money to pay for it, before ordering more. Our men and horses are idle a part of the time. We are now begging for your order, why delay the orderings. Put not off until tomorrow what should be done to-day. Don’t deceive yourself thinking you can get your coal cheaper and better later on, for you will not. Sixty days hence, now idle cars will be 1n use, mine operators will be sold ahead, we will have - our ‘hands full and youmay be disappointed in getting the kind of coal you would like and at the time you want it, if youdo, don’t blame us. Our coal is as good as the best and- better than | the rest. Our motto, ‘A square deal” | ‘‘Full weight”, and ‘A fair price.”” Give me your order. e : W=HIR & COWLEY. Ninty Million Enough. } Judging from all appearances, the national population will be some-.l whatbetween 91,000,000 and 95,000,000. There i 8 no likelihood of it reaching 100,000.000, as has been lately: s_ug-i gested by enthusiastic students of the count. Nor is there any particular reason to wish for that ﬁgm’e.i This is a growing country, and its attainment of the 100,000,000 mark will very soon be reached, perhaps too soon for the good of the nation. The chief problem of today is to affect a more even distribution of the population.—Washington Star. : :

Cost of High Living. - Ex-Governor Dauarbin contributes a léong dissertation on public extravagance to an Indianapolis newspaper, and he attempts to call a halt in the munificence of public expenditures in both state and nation. Morsover the former governor concludes it is the cost of living that ails the country. There’s no question of the public extravagance, but the prices you pay at the butcher’s, the baker’s and all the rest are no myth to be dissolved by theories and abstract conclusion. Thirty cents a pound for ham is more than- twenty cents a pound. The ninety-nine out of the hundred would like to be toted away from the fact, but it is inescapable.—Fort Wayne Sentinel. et .

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