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J. E. McDONALD, Editor

Published every Thursday and onieroa in thepostofMoe, Ligonier, Ind., as second-clas matter . 4 ‘PHONE No. 18.

Why Society Should Pay

: Society requires certain dangerous employments. Society has to have railway train service, for example, even though men may be injured or killed in the work. ’ .

Congequently. society should take upon itself the risk of the employment, and society should compel the reduction of the risk by every consistent precaution.

-~ Workmen’s compensation laws, the abolishing of the doctrine that the workmen assume the risk and similiar right legislation and proposals of legislation are based on this obligation of society. If the employer—that is, —the business itself is charged with deflnite industrial liability, the cost of accidents will be insured against and added to the cost of production, and thus.it will be placed upon society—where it belongs.—Kansas City Times. : : :

Next Thursday January sth the legislature will be called to order ang for the first time since 1893 the Democrats will be in full control of: both branches of the General Assembly. The whole responsibility for legislation will rest with the Democrats and ,upon the record made the party must go to the people 1n 1912, The democratic state convention made specific promises that must be carried out and the legiglature must also elect Jonn W. Keérn to the national senate and re-district the state for legislative purposes. Among the things that the Democrats have promised are: To charge the unit of local option from county to city, township and towuship outside of city. To provide for better maintenance of turnpikes: To prevent child labor evils. For better sanitary conditions in workshops. For a weekiy wage law. To consolidate the offices of factory inspector and labor commissionerinto one office, and to call it the state bureau of inspection. To provide for the appointment of the state mine inspector by the Governor. Co-employe’s liability, Torequire arbitration of all disputeg between capital and labor. To shorten the hours of labor. To prevent competition of prison made goods against goods made by free labor. Registration of voters. There are other important matters to be considered, such as a new road law, amendments to the ditch law and other minor statutets. If Governor Marshall has his way the legislature will make but few mistakes and break no promises. :

The teachers of Indiana have again expressed themselves in favor of pensions for aged and worn -out teachers. Teachers are in position to comprehend what it means’to devote a life time to;the work of teaching under present conditions, and that explains their attitude on the pension proposition. Nine out of ten people will be found against the proposition of a pension system for teacners or any other class of people following ordinary avocations. It is andoubtedly true that teachers are better paid today than they ever have been in the past, and if they are not well enough paid or can not save from their salaries anything for a rainy day, they shoiild be better paid or get out of the procession and engage in some calling which wquld, compensate themn more fully for their efforts. The pension plan would be an inducement to teachers to waste their substance in their youthful daysrather than to husband it and provide for their declining years, The trouble with the proposition is, it opens the way for other demands of the same kind in various lines of activity and there would be ao end of it, and besides it is antagonistic to the idea that the people support the government not the government the people.—Columbia City Post, '

If Governor-Elect Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey is able to lead his party away from the election of James Smith Jr., the millionaire candidate. for the national senate, he will have done one thing that ought win him the plaudits of every good Democratin New Jersey ‘and the nation. ‘Smith was a senator from New Jersey during the Cleveland administration. He was classed as a Democrat but voted most of the time in the: interests of the system. He had no respect for a democratic caucus, refused to abide by its action and generally found some good and sufficient reason to oppose Pregident Cleveland and his party leaders. The election of Smith would be & political blunder and an outrage and we admire Wilson’s nerve in his protest against it, ’ 2

It is & noteworthy enterprise that incorporates for $lOO,OOO. to cultivate fruit in Indiana. Apple and peach orchards will be established in southern Indiana, where modern methods of intensive culture and scientific direction will be applied. . There is hardly a question as to the results that will follow. Indiana can grow just about.as good apples as any region of the country. It is our shiftless way of caring for orchards, not Boil or climate that has been at fault in our fruit culture. It has been demonstrated that by real and careful cultivation the rewards are great, and it seems to us that they are of a kind peculiarly to our benefit. We have become so fixed in this country in our notion of developing -‘infant industries’’, meaning manulactuers, and 8o prepossessed with the desire to increase oity population which manufactuers bring that we have in our calculations so much neglected a greater and more stable source of wealth—that which comes directly from the soil. There is nothing truer than that the territory that feeds people will have asteady prosperity when that which furnishes tools or even to a degree, clothing, may suffer periods of great depression. There is no source of wealth at once 8o constant and so certain as the raising of foodstuffs. The development of scientific fruiog culture would add vastly to Indiana’s riches and better growth. It is believed that we can, fair_ ly speakifig,- raise as good apples here as can be raised in Oregon and we are in the midst of & market for them instead of hundreds of miles distant. We can wish the new enterprise all success, —lndianapolis News.

Several of our over ardent temperance workers are out with petitions asking the legislature to continue the present local option law. Thev will be able to get a goodly number of signatures because there is a certain class of people‘who dote on signing any old thing as long as it does not cost anything. The petition will be presented to the legislature and then the legislature will do just as it is expected todo, repeal the law, and put something better in its place. ' - -

- The man who dotes on signing auy and all sorts of papers and petitions is in his glory right now. The particular petition we refer to will have 'just about as much effect upon the parties petitioned as water on a duck’s back, Majority rule is the basis of our government and the voters of the state have spoken,—Syracuse Register.

The editor of the Register takes the right view .of the situation. The Beveridge Republicans might with the same propriety, get up a big petition asking that party promises and party ioyalty be forgotten and that Mr. Beveridge be given enough democratic votes to return him to the senate. The Democrats in their state conveniion were as definite in their declaration against the local option law as they were against the re-election of Beveridge and there is no more excuse or reason for a member of the degislature to break faith with the party upon one question than the other. The voters have declared that Beveridge must go, so must the Hanly local option. : : f |

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The Ministers and Politics. It is not easy to define the proper relation of preachers in polities. But there are certain general principles which it seems to us are clear enough. The first is that the chureh’s main business in this world is to develope Christian character. Of course, this often involves the bold rebuking of vice, and it may involve the support of certain specific legislation. In the matter of temperance, for instance, if nen were a 8 good and as strong as they ought te be,, fhere would be little need for any legislation at all. But they are weak many of them are sinful, so it becomes necessary, as far as this can be done, to save them from themselves The church, however, has a greater and a far more important duty than that, and that is so to train and develope men, 8o a 8 to flll them with new and divine life, that they shall be able to save themselves.

Another general principle is that the church ought to treat all forms of vice and lawlessuness on the same basis. And this brings us to the remarks made yerterday by the Rev. G. E. Hiller before the Methodist Ministers’ Association. In particular do we desire to commend the following paragraph: ; _ We can accomplish more by confining ourselves more strictly to teaching God’s word. If we try to get laws passed, we are taking on ourselves responsibilities not commanded by the Master. The trustsi are breaking the law, and so are the gsaloon keepers and the brewers. Many Christians who vote against the saloons but fail to return their full property for taxation, and church members are breaking the laws in various ways. Under these conditions, it is amusifig to the prince of darkness for us to be continually shooting off resolutions against lawbreakers. We are like Martha; we are loading ourselves down with many things that God has not commanded us to take up. God will hold the lawmakers responsible for their acts, and he will hold us responsible for preaching His word. e It greatly weakens the influence o the minister. to denounce- sins to which neither he nor those who hear him are prons, and to be silent in regard to those to which both are, or may be prone. And that is precisely the course which many ministers take. The -<churches are, as Mr, Hiller intimates, the homes of very many men whonever think of mak—l ing an Lonest tax return, who actually commit perjury to avoid paying their just dues to thestate. The sins of the rich have been very vigorously exploited in the last few years, but the church -has ‘had little to say about them. We would not have the ministers join the muckraking brigade, but surely they should do gomething in the way of applying the ‘eternal law to the lives of their own members. The great trusts are, for the most part, managed and controlled by men who call themselves Christians, Mr. Ryan for instance, is a member of the Roman Catholic church; Mr. Rockefeller is a Baptist while Mr, Morgan is often referred to a 8 ‘‘the most conspicuous layman’’ of the Protestant KEpiscopal church, These men, and otheils like them, would be none the worse for a little closer spiritual oversight on the part of their respective churches.

1t does not require any considerable courage to attack the saloon. It is even now a sort of outcast. But the saloon keeper is not the only law breaker; not' in ‘our opinion the worst or most dangerous law breaker. Indeed there are worse people than even the law breakers, namely those who legislate for their own interests, and pervert the law to their own advantage. Politically the worst thing about the liquor interests is that they do just that. What we have to-fear in this zountry is, not so much that one class will prey oun another—for something of that there always will be—as that the people will lose all respect for and confidence in the law. Therefore the main effort nowadays shouid be, not to get new laws 80 much as to see to it that those which we have are honestly enforced and loyally obeyed. We need a change of mind and heart such a change as to make us to see that a violation of the anti-trust law is at least as great a sin 28 the selling of liquors after hours. Thatmen do ‘not now see this is largely due to the fact that moral standards have been lowered and morai perceptions dulled. Only the other day the attorney general made his annual report‘and in that he showed what. an amazing amount of rascality there had been in -the past year. Fraud and stealing have been sgeen everywhere. After reading that report many people must have asked themselves whether we really ure a nation of scoundrels. And yet this is a Christian land. Has the church lost its power? This i 8 &’ question, which must, we think, cause much searching of heart among the ministers. - 1

It seems to us that Mr. Hiller spoke with great wisdom. As we have said, it is no easy matter to Bay precisely what should be the relation of the minister to politics, to the actual business of legislation. Butone thing is clear, and that is that the ehurch will not win back the confldence which it has to a certain ex- ‘ tent lost as long as it refuses or fails to put trust lawlessness in the same category with saloon lawlessness. Rerorm ought to begin within its own household. When it has cast the beam from its own eye it will be able to see clearly the mote that is in the eyes of the people outside. It is no bad idea to look outside of ourselves for what is good and inside: of ourselves for what is bad. The contrary method is too often the onel that is followed. The question is not

whether or not a minister shall be | brave, for the coward has no place in a Christian pulpit. The question! is a 8 how to make the influence of the minister most helpful and effective. If christian people would both | preach and live ‘“‘the word of God”,i most of our problems would disap- | pear. The trouble ie that we are so much given to trying to impose on others our idea of what the word of God is.—lndianapolis News .

Will Not Take Active Part To Preven

Option Repeal

Former state senator, T. T. Moore of Greencastle, who has represented the joint district of Marion, Morgan and Putnam counties in séveral sessions of the general assembly, and who is‘?he author of the Moore remonstrance law, declared yesterday that he has ‘‘cold feet” on the temperance question. He is not enthusiastic concerning an effort now being made to prevent the repeal of the county option law. ‘*“The people elected the present general assembly, which they knew was pledged to the repeal of the county local option law,” said MY Moore, *“The voters certainly knew what they were doing, and I believe it the duty of the state legislature to give them what they asked for when they elected a democratic house and senate,” : Mr. Moore said he had been asked to co-eperate in a movement started at Greencastle to prevent the repeal of anti-saloon legislation. ' _“I told the people of Greencastle that I probably would sign a petition if it were presented to me, but I also told them I would take no partin the campaign,” Mr. Moore declared. “I am not sure that the movement is quite honest. I beleive the people ought to have just what they want. I've seen petitions by the score tosseG about in the general assembly and I know with whatregard a petition would be received in the present case. When the. liquor program of the democrtic party has been enacted into law and has been given sufficient trial the peuple than can say. which policy they favor.’— Indianapolis Star.

Good Sound Common Sense

The board of education at Sagmaw] Mich., has become suddenly famous by issuing an order that the dresses of the “‘sweet girl graduates’’ shall not exceed a cost of $5 and the graduates are to make their own gowns. This may be an extreme limit as to cost, but there is a principle involved that should not be lightly passed by. The facts are that too much money and too much time have been devoted to.this phase of the graduating season. It has come to pass that more time is devoted to fashion plates, styles in fabrics, and the fitting of costumes than is devoted to the cause of education in rounding out a commendable grade at the close of the High School course. The evil of it is that parents who have strained every effort to pay tuition and books are unable to compete with their wealthier neighbors without going into debt and frequently ill feeling and animosities are engendered because of the strife, not as to ‘who shall be the best educated or haye the highest grade, but rather who shall dress the most fashionable and attractive. Hence it becomes a burden and sometimes a discouragement for worthy young people to complete the course kuowing the financial embarrasment that is llkely to result when the commencement geason is at hand. It is time at least to conserve the energies in this regard and if the Saginaw board of education shall succeed in setting a pace for better conditions their efforts will surely be appreciated by a large number of parents who are deeply interested in the proposition. —Waterloo Press.

Maine’s Democratic Governor

In the great political overturns of last fall the Pine Tree State led the way, and in Human Life for January John Clair Minot tells the story of KFrederick W. Plaisted, the man who led the state which led the way, and who thereby became a figure of national prominence. Every good American citizen interested in the causes beneath the surface that are changing the political facs of the ‘country will find this story of marked interest. - Mr. Minot writes: ‘“Before he became mayor in 1906 he had been in turn a defeated candidate for the common: council, for/. mayor, for sheriff and for congress. But those early candidacies were before he took the thing as seriously as later. It was when the Maine Democracy was unorganized aud hopeless, and when the republican organization had not made itseif vulnerable by internal dissensions and tactical blunbers. : ‘‘He was as unruffled over those earlier defeats as he was cool and self-controlled in his later victories ‘and he always slapped the back of the man who beat him and assured him vhat there was another battle coming. ; {

~ “There is in his veins the blood of pioneers and fighters and men who do things,—the blood that tells. He can trace his ancestory in the Plaiated line back seven generations to Capt. Roger Plaisted who came to Berwick, Maine from England in 1650, and who was killed by the Indians. If the governor-elect had been in the place of Captain Roger, he would have wob the good will of the redskin and that night they would have slept as brothers beneath the same blanket.” ~

Do not miss the band fair. There 18 plenty there to interest you.

A Uniquely Practical School . Outin the little town of La Porte, Ind’, is the Interlaken School, an institution which is so uniquely practical in its scope and aims as to be unusual. Edward Buckrum writes of this unusual school and its unusual head, Dr. Edward A. Rumelr, in HUMAN Lire for January. Dr. Rumely is no mere theorist in education, He is. a keen, alert, up-to-the-minute man of affairs, Besides being a graduate physician; a -graduate of Germau universities, the founder and president of a successful and unique boarding school, he is an officer in active control of big affairs in a million dollar corporation. The purpose of this school is to train boys in worthy and self-reliant character; to make them sound. and vigorous of body and Boul, practical and skilful in. work, able to think clearly and express themselves cogently; to develop in them truth, helpfulness, courage of will—in short to train the sons of the directing classes of our civilization to become flt leaders of men in this industrial republie. ‘ 1 ‘‘Keener and keener has grown the demand,” says Dr. Rumely, ‘for schools that will prepare our boys for the practical things of life. The men who are great things.in the nation to-day were not reared in a city flat. They were trained, most of them by hard work on a farm—in the open, teeming fields, driving the pa-tiont-toillng horses, caring for cows, ducks and chickens, doing the manual training of chores, and playing hard when they had a chance.” Just how this clear-sighted far seeing educator is carrying oat his theories, and what kind of boys are the product of hie training is made apparent by the writer of this very readable article. Would there were more Dr. Rumelys at the head of American institutions.

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Where Irrigated Farms Await You

The settlers who depended on government canals for water during the past season leaned on no broken reed. They got the water and the crops, Uncle Sam still has some four hundred irrigated farms awaiting the settler. They range in size from twenty to eighty acres, and frequently include 160 acres of grazing land besides. :

These farms are under reclamation projects in South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Oregon. Water is costly—s3o to $6O per«acre—but there are ten years in which to pay it, without interest. Once paid, the settler is sure of a good supply for generations, except that he pays the annual cost of keeping up the works. These lands are in demand, and citizeas who wantto make homes on them should lose no time in openg ing negotiations with the interior department at Washington. National irrigation is one of Uncle Sam’s enterprises whiech promises to pay large dividends of contentment.-— Jackson Citizen Press. !

Noble County Farmers Institute

The following sehedule of Farmers’ Institutes has been arranged for Noble county for the year 1911. LaOtto Jan. 24, Cosperville Jan. 25, Cromwell Jan. 26, Kimmell Jan. 27, and Wolf Lake Jan. 28. These institutes' are under the auspices of the Purdue University School of Agriculture. The farmers and all who are interested in farm problems can not afford to miss the opportunity' of hearing the trained and practiced speakers the state has sent into the country this year, :

Without doubs thousands of dol lars will be lost to the farmers of Noble county because of their failure to heed the advise of the Purdue school relative to the time of sowing wheat last fall. This is but one of the many helpful hints that make the success or failure in farm operations

This school is maintained at considerable expense to the state and if farmers knew what they were contributing in the way of taxes for its support they would be more anxious to get the benefits. "

Try and arrange that you may hear Mr. Lewis Price of Lagrange and Mrs. Laura B. Leonard of Indianapolis at some of the above dates. Full programs will be announced. Mrs. H. FAVINGER, Pres, LEWIS RIMMELL, Sec.

Fallacy of Large Farms

~ An lowa farm of eighty or one hundred acres, intensively cultivated, will return as satisfactory an income all things considered, as & farm two or three times as large. But these facts are not generally accepted, so in lowa, as in other states, nien set their ambitions on cultivating over large farms. There willbe no permanent increase in rural population in lowa until men are educated out of this tendency and taught the desirability of cultivating small farms thoroughly instead of large farms indifferently. — Des Moines Register and Leader. ‘

Rudeness In Cities.

One does not have to search far in any of our large cities to find examples of gross discourtesy and rudeness. There is, of course' a large body of persons who never forget the consideration due to others and who are unfailing in their attitude of politeness at all times, but we have many whose churlish incivility and lack of courtery shows a sad degeneration from the sauve manners of yesterday.—Chicogo Tribune.

To The Housewife You have noticed that in ever sack of our flour, whether it be ‘‘Lyons Best’’, ““Clipper” or “Good Luck” there are flour coupons which may be used in part payment on al torty-two piece china set. “We wish ! to say that we have made arrange- | ments with one of the largest pot-| teriesin this country to furnish us/ with these handsome dishes in ca load lots of eight hundred sets each at the very low price of $2.98 seach delivered. We offer a set of dishes| £o any customer using our flour at at this price, together with eight flour } coupons. These dishes are of the| very best quality, beautiful in design l and bandsomely ; decorated. We | have two designs, one a blue for-geti me-not pattern and the other a pink l rose. This arraugement will enable ’ you o secure a very Landsome seti of dishes at the carload cost price per | get—#s2.9B, together with eight cou- | pons from our flour. We have a l sample of these dishes on display at | our office and you should not fail to | see them. We should be pleased to | furnigh each of our customers a set. l LicoNIER MILLING CoO , Ligonier Ind. ’

Rests with Fogarty

The late warden of the northern Indiana penitentiary, James D. Reid

was one of those conspicuous in the nation for his eminent fitness for the place and the marked success of nhis administration. Not only was there no suspicion of, graft, favoritism or extravagance in the routine business, but there was intelligent, resourceful and constant effort to improve methods and conditions. In fact the northern penitentiary came to be recognized throughout the land as a model penal institution.

The new warden’s task will be less in the line of improvement than it will be to maintain the high standard set by his predecessor. Like exMayor Fogarty, Mr. Reid had had no -previous expervience along this line. But his was one of those cases too rare in public Bfficials, in which natural qualifications of mind and h~art combined with aptness in adaption to make him the right man for the place. It isthe wish of every right minded citizen that Fogarty may likewise develop the qualities for success, and keep the penitentiary administration on the high plane where his predeceéssor left it. For the good of the state, the credit of this city and the reputation of the new appointee the Times sincerely hopes this wish may be realized. Whether it shall be rests with Warden Fogarty himself.—South Bend Times.

U. B. Notes

The Cantata was rendered last Sunday evening to a full house and in fine style the Choir was in good shape and each one played their part in a complimantary manner, There is no discount on the U. B. singers and when needed they can furnish the goods. » The pastor and family are oudt of town this week, Harry and. Frank going to Fort Wayne to visit their grandparents, the rest going to Galvestou Ind., when the pastor officiates at a wedding Wednesday evening. They will return Saturday evening. Don’t forget the special meetings begining next Sunday On Monday evening Rev. K. P. Overmeyer will be present and help in the meetings. We hope to see évery member preseut.. THE PASTOR.

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