Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 January 1895 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. NAPPANEE, ELKHART COUNTY, IND. A PAPER POIi THE PEOPLE. Uy GOBDON N..MUKRAI. In many instances the new leat had hardly ceased to flutter ere ’twas soiled past cleansing. The trouble with the alleged HillQuay anti-income tax Senatorial combination islack of followers. The man. with al‘pull” will be just as strong in New York as he ever was. The only change is in the “pull”. Bad as well as good examples arc contagious. The meat trust has followed the sugar trust in cutting wages. It is the old story. The wickedness of the other fellow horrified us to such an extent that we cannot see our own. Oun old friend Cal Sinninger is astride the tripod at Warren, this state, .and is getting out a good paper in the Independent. Somebody has discovered that bad water drives more men to whisky than trouble does. The same fellow probably considers all tjjjater bad. A on eat many people can not get rid of the id o ea that, the Lcxow committee stopped as soon as it got high enough to uncover the |jreat big rascals. To charge a man with the intention of evading the income tax is to charge him with being a thief, although some people do not seem to recognize that fact, ~ ' Col. If keckin hi doe's attempt to catch American dollars on the lecture platform bids fair to be as great a' failure as his recent attempt to catch { Kentucky votes. . These is great' danger that the +r[ . shortage in accounts disease may become epidemic. A man is almost afraid to turn down his balance sheet lest he uncover anew case. It almost il' not quite makes one thankful tiiat one lives in the civilized part,of the world, after reading of tiie horrible lmtehcry of those men, women, and' children, in Turkish Armenia. It isesti.mated that some 15.00b perished.

Gedkiiia nuil Alabama negroes arc going to Mexico in considerable numbers. This will probably be a good thing for all concerned. The states named and a 'number of others can easily spare a considerable portion of their negro population. From all accounts in the newspapers. it appears that Mrockinridgc is not: a drawing card in tlielcctiirc Held. Even curiosity to siic the man, does not seem to he sufficient to give him a rcspectible sized audience, to say nothing of the' ealibre-.of people who turn oiit to hear him. Tin: Albion Democrat refers to an old-time custom try saying that, “a good many printing offices run hills at the stores in order to force them to take it-out in,trade." This was one ot the methods introduced with the Washington hand press, hut no longer prevailes to any extent: anil where it does, the editor and the paper do not snrvhe any length of.time. The Indiana Legislature convenes to-morrow. .Notwithstanding,that it was supposed thdSthajorit.v in the Legislature would do as little as it could, aside from thevapportionment matter, that little promises to-be trig-enough for all practical purposes. It would he strange, if there was no effort made to improve on several of the most marked among the Democratic measures, such as" the ballot law, schoolbook law, tax law, etc. The labors of .the'national committee of the People's party, which met in St. Louis recently ended with their , labors completer firthtlr report They outlined tin' following policy: They adhere to the Omahh platform: insist upon the coinage of gold amLsilvor as • It was fir Tor to ratio of 10 to 1, and that too, without regard to any other nation. That all money should he issued by the government without the intervention of hanks of issue, apd the same to he a full legal * tender. They also.denounce any further issuance .of interest-bearing bonds. / BCuclilen’M Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Itheum, Fever Sores, Tetjter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is sect satisfaction or monev'pifund&d. Price 25 cents per box. For-sale by a. S. Walters. „

The Washington correspondents struck it rich last week.- It was all on account of Senator Hill’s visit —as the Senator said, a “social" visit with the President. Os course, it don’t take much to stir Washington people, especially in matters that may have a political-significance: Well, the two great leaders of the New York Democracy have smoked the pipe of peace (cigars) together, and presumably buried the hatchet. Now what? is the absorbing question. The answer will probably interest the two, themselves, more than the people at large. The Warsaw Daily 'Limes and the Indianian-Republican, published by Williams &• Son, are out with “new dresses." The Messrs. Williams have changed the name of the weekly publication to the Northern Indiunian , its original name before absorbing the Republican. Warsaw ought to “brace up" on such handsome publications, and let people know that there is such a trading point. For its size, Warsaw is about the deadest town for advertisers in this part of the state. In fact, if it were not for its newspapers, people would perhaps mistake Milford for the county seat. Fob the first time for nearly a quarter of a century New York has a mayor who is not of the Democratic faith, William L. Strong, the reform mayor, will probably he confronted with conditions which will he surmounted with difficulty, if at all. Best advices indicate that Mayor-Strong will he as helpless to combat corruption in the departments of city government as it was with those who preceded hi hi, unless the now proposed scheme to enlarge the power of mayors is carried out by the legislature. The new state constitution, which last week' went into effect, prohibits every species of gambling and makes it a criminal offense. This , very thing in itself is enough to give file office of mayor any thing hut a desirable cast, because it will be tile next thing to an impossibility to enforce the law, and tile chief executive, however much lie would see the reform' progress, will find himself-the target of adverse public opinion. There is hut little doubt that Colonel Strong will have an opportunity to do more than to draw his salary.

Thebe promises to be ,another Interesting skirmish over the fee and salary law. It now appears from reports to that effect that Gdv. Matthews and Attorney-General Kctcliam have discovered that the fee and salary act of 1801 was constitutional as it passed the legislature. They charge that a fraud was perpetrated after the act had been passed, by some one substituting an unsound section for section (iff, the. one fixing Ihe salaries of the auditors, treasurers and recorders of Shelby county. It is cha’gcd that representatives of the County- for the purpose of making the. act unconstitutional, managed*in sonic way to get a fraudulent section enrolled. The clerk who enrolled the bilk now lives in Warrick county and he will he called upon to state what lie knows, don't you know. The. courts aid wjll lie invoked it.i a matter of inquiry, which, if it results in sustaining l the allegations, will knock some county officials’ calculations into smitherS. Those officials who were interested in having the act declared unconstitutional can now. exclaim: What fun \yc arc having at our house, anyhow! It may not be true as a rule, but it seems that two-thirds of the people, when they wish to economize begin by cutting off their local paper. It usually ends'with that effort, too. Not one of a possible * hundred other things—real extravagances, arc in any danger whatever from the man who begins at the newspaper to practice economy. Os course, some people take their home paper for several years together with smue metropolitan sheet, and they.paylfrtythc latter and not the former. To most country jHiblishcrs, it is far more prcfcriible that a subscriber, who owes. several years for I)is paper, pay up and have it discontinued than to continue to' take it without paying. _ Some people when they get nngry at-something they read in their paper lmgin a boycott by having it discontinued. There is where they fail in their efforts to hurt the publisher. But should they just -continue td take a paper for several years without paying for it, they have produced a greater boycott than by the former method. Tt may not he' politic to say so, but the truth is sometimes revealed where silence might have been golden. The News is reminded.of these things by the many curious replies to statements sent out. However, it is -mot all on the dark side that these replies come, for not a few send along

with their/Vemittance a tford of good cheer—words of commendation for the paper and its accomplishments, not unfrequently stating that they would not do without it. These help to brighten the pathway of the country publisher—and this is written in a general sense, because all have a like experience. Last week the News said that a Chicago grand jury would soon be as great an attraction as any dime museum in the city. According to the belief of our people here, Elkhart county is in no immediate danger of losing any laurels to Chicago in that respect. The jury system furnishes many amusing incidents, and is many times the butt of deserving ridicule, and suggests, to use a borrowccFcxprcssion, that the devil who gathers up wooden Indians for firewood has not as yet reached all parts of the country. sAo-Auburn paper says that “one of the best posted men in county affairs said that he never wanted to serve on a jury again. He had been there once and had one professional juror keep the jury out all night in order to get in two days’ work.” We recall a story, which was told the writer by a well-known Judge once on the bench in this county. It was used as an illustration 6f the useless waste of classic language by attorneys when addressing a jury. The Judge stated that he was schooled to a simplitlcation of the use of English by an incident that once happened while lie was on the bench. A case” came before him involving the illegal transfer of property, so alleged, to defraud creditors. The case hung on the one point as to the priority of the debt or of the transfer. In giving his charge, the Judge used frequently the word “prior”, inconsequence, in laying down points of law. After the jury had brought in a verdict and the case settled thereby, the Judge asked the foreman how they got along with the case. The individual answered first-rate as it was a clear case, hilt the only thing that no man on the jury could determinewas, what in the d —i-l that word “prior" meant. That, however, didn't interfere in the feast with returning a verdict. There arc many things which go to make up the work of juries that almost impels people to laugh and cry at the same time. Take for instance, the 'last tribunal of inquiry at Goshen. Two men went before the grand jury, who were officers at the time they had caught a man in the act of burglarizing a business room in Nappanee, and yet the evidence was hardly clear enough, it seems to return an indictment. <■

Frost-llllleii l-'lorida and Her Poll Tax “Collar” I —Freij>;li t Kates. • Orlando, Florida, Jan. Ist, I.Slid. Editor New’s: —On the night of Dec. 28th, 1891, was inaugurated one of . the most withering storms that lias passed over Florida within the memory of its earliest settlers. The 'mercury here went down to nearly, if not quite, fifteen (15) degrees,above zerohanging at ttii.s point until late on tin* morning of the following day. After a careful survey of the Mile-spread devastation, it was found that Ihe heavy orange crop on tlic trees had formed complete halls of ice, having been frozen from the rind to flic con-, ter of the fruit. This means a loss to the people of the State of Floridafully one million and a half of dollars ($1,500,000), and this is placing It at a low estimate. The people of Florida may bend to a certain extent under this pressure, hut you can’t break them (financially speaking). By- the 10th of May (corn planting at the North) vegetables of all kinds will have matured. Oranges do not .constitute the life-blood of Florida's system, by any means; antfe the sooner the people of this section are made aware of the fact, the better it will be for them. Oranges are a luxury, not a,necessity, in any sense of the term. What we want, is lower ratgsmf freight for shipment North. pis fr&fcze may prove a blessing in diAuise—a ( s the writer of this verily hellfev£s_it-will thus result- It will bring Kouthcrfi transportation companies to terms. This disaster will hear the heaviest on them. . The grass will now grow on their rail-tracks Until another crop of oranges matures, unless they open their roads at fair rates to vegetable shippers. This chastening hand points to a more liberal administration of the laws—a removal of the bars to the halt lot-box, and the wiping out of the fa.rious per capita or poll tax law that now disgraces' the State, which deprives three-fourths of her citizens from voting. The invited new comers to thig land of plenty—made so through industry—“don’t want to be presented with a poll

tax notice on emerging-froin the cars, accompanied by jR threat of disfranchisement if not paid at a certain date. The voter must approach the polling place with this degraded collar around his nee# (“poll tax paid”) otherwise he will have to stand back of the crowd. Florida must, be known as a demo-cratic-republican State—where its people know no North nor South, hut a family of freemen 'voting on the day of election as they deem proper. Seneca. Travesty on Justice. Young Corns, who has been in jail during the past ninety days on the charge of burglary at Nappanee, was to-day released from custody. No case was found against him. —Goshen News. The general tenor of public opinion in Nappanee is, that the work of the grand jury in the above mentioned cause was a travesty on justice—an outrage on the public. AVhile the community in general has more or less sympathy for those closely related to the young man, no such work of a prosecutor aud grand jury will go with this people, so to speak. Sympathy is not here nor there. The simple fact that Corns was taken by two officers of the law while in the act of burglarizing a place of business, is evidence sufficient in itself to put him on* trial where he could have an opportunity to prove his innocence or lie convicted. No technicality, as to the methods by which an individual may he apprehended by constituted authority while in the very act of stealing, can he brought to hear to sweep aside the responsibility which the prosecutor and a grand jury owes the public. The criticisms of this people is unquestionably, based on the assumption that - the late grand jury had the wiiotc truth and details of the capture of Corns from Constable Johnson and Marshal Brown. The News is not informed as to what evidence these officers gave in to the grand jury, hut there is no reason to believe otherwise, than to suppose that it was what they related at the time of the capture. At frequent, intervals, and’ up to that tim.i'V there had been numerous attempts made on resideriees of the town by unknown parlies, and the officers were on.the alert. One day A1 Lehman approached Constable Johnson, and after a preliminary skirmish of words, stated that Corns had made him a proposition to lap the meat market till. Stilting in effect, that if the officer now wanted to get him (Corns) they would go on w.itli the job, providing that lie (Lehman) would not ho held responsive— (Lehman was tlien claiming to. he nffisug for a dr-

tectivc agency) 'i’hc night was set when the tiling was to go off. The officers were on hand, and so were the men; hut some One passed in front- of the market, while they were attempting to gain entrance lo the rear of the building, and they tied. Lehman next morning explained, and stated that the job would lie attempted that .night. The writer was informed of the entire schcmTthah morning, sis it was thought best by’the officers to keep any reference to it out of the print. That night Constable Johnson, Mar-, slial Brown, with assistants, laid in the market, and the two men succeeded In forcing their way in. Corns was the one to'tap the t(jl, as in* had, as alleged, informed Lehman that lie was onto the combination, and had carefully surveyed the interior. The latter was borne out by the fact that the proprietors had noticed Corns being in the market a few days previous. After gaining the rear room the rest, was an easy . matter. Lehman remained back, and as Corns, in his Stocking-feet, came through the partition door his eagle eye caught sight of an officer, and a “grand rush" followed. Jint he (didn’t go far before he was taken. When tie found his “pal” gone, he surmised he had squealed, and swore vengeance against Lehman, intimating that he would a “tale unfold, etc.and that Nappanec would learn a thing or two. But he didn’t, lie 'was probably advised to “saw wood”. Anyhow he did, and everybody knows the result. The News refrained from telling the story at the time, though possessed of the details, becajise it did not want to interfere in any way with the matter that would prejudice the cause before it came up. This is the whole story, and the ground work for the adverse criticism of the public. —— —Those merchants and . business men who are using Man!? paper to write business letters on, ought to conic to the News office and get their letter heads, envelopes, statements, bill heads, cards, etc., nicely and cheaply printed.

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