Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 18, Number 30, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 7 October 1896 — Page 4

NAPPANEE NEWS. Natpankb, Elkhart County, Ind. A PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE. iimii ■> MiiiJiim <■; Ml 'I"-* 1 1 By GORDON N.MURRAY. Party Platforms. * . REPUBLICAN PLANK. Tlie Repetilican party is unreservedly for sound money, Ucaased the enactment of the law pro Tiding for the resnmption of specie payments in .... 18.9; since then every dollar ha* been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our enrreney, or impair the credit Os eur country. We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nation* of the world, which we pledge oorselve* to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency now in circulation must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United State# and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened • nations of .the earth. __ , DEMOCRATIC PLANK. We are unalterably opposed to monometallism, which has kicked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It is not only un-American but it is anti-American, and it can be fastened on the United States only by stifling that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political independence in 1776, and won it in the war of the revolution. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be a full legal tender, equally with gold, for all debts, public and private, and we favor such legislation as will prevent for the future the demonetization of any kind of legal tender money by private contract. The truth is only harsh to those who will Dot accept It. It will soon be time to teiysn how to stamp and fold their ballots. Never mind, when it is all over with, everybody will be neighbors and brothers once more. An Indianapolis brewery exploded last week. This will be a fair warning to beer drinkers. Straggling apologies are yet coming in for the Yale students who disturbed a political meeting. Here is anew version for the small boy: Hocus, pocus, Watson, Sewall; one, two, three, out goes he. You’re out!. . There has been a change In the ownership of the Middlebury Independent. The new firm name is Rheubottom & Eldridge. In less than four weeks from now there will be thousands of people who will wonder why on earth their political foresight was not as good as hindsight. All railroads lead to Canton these days. But they can do what it is almost impossible for any other kind of business to do, and that is a cash business. There are very few bets made by Nappaneeites on the results of this election. There would still be fewer bets if the statutes were read more carefully. Even the Indians made a “kick” against the conduct of Yale students. That’s nothing, though, for even a wooden Indian would protest against such ill-bred mannerism attributed to Yale students. If the silver mine owners will have their property enhanced 100 percent in case bimetallism is adopted by this country alone, what percent would be to their advantage under bimetallism by international agreement? When you hear the statement that this, that, and the other state, is a “dead sure” thing for any candidate, watch and see if the expenditure of money isn’t on the increase to make it “doubly” sure, don’t you know. Tns News has no apology to make for calling especial attention of its readers to a portion of an article In this issue that was written by Hon. O. Z. Hubbell only two years ago. For a bimetallist, that’s hot stuff. The greatest plan ever sprung on a people is that which shows how a mine-owner would get a 100-cent dollar out of his silver bullion under free coinage, and the wage-earner would get a 53-cent dollar. It has been v illustrated in colors—highly colored. — lll ■ "■ i. it TnE portraits of the presidential candidates are very fine works of art for the most part, but the “poster” work of this campaign will go down In history as the work of those who could not illustrate subjects without injury to the subjects illustrated. *—Many of your friends, or people whom you know of, have contracted consumption, pneumonia or other fatal diseases by neglect of a simple cold or. cough. Foley’s Honey and Tar, a safe sure and pleasant cough medicine, would have saved them. It is guaranteed. Henry Fischer, druggist.

The Lagrange and St. Joseph county fairs were both failures from a financial standpoint. It is the most foolish thing In the world to run a “show” against the agricultural class*w under the preseat conditions of things. The pumpkin show will have to drop out of sight until things change from what they are now. Owing to the stringent times, superinduced .by the use of campaign funds and the agitation of the free coinage of silver, scarcity of red fire and liquor, the flying machine at. Miller’s station could not get the right flop, and its wings have been silently folded about it, and it has been packed away with camphor balls—it will come again in the spring, or words to this effect. There has been little said in respect to the personal qualities of the aspiring candidates for president, up to this time, all being considered worthy from this standpoint. However, it has remained for the same jackass who fought against placing the Marquette statue in the capitol building, to break this record. But nothing better can be expected from the A. P. A. to which this man Linton belongs. There has been a time when people held up their hands in holy horror when a preacher brought politics into his pulpit on the question of the liquor traffic. Even now it is true in many places. There isn’t much 6aid about the preachers, though, who are now falling before the “god of money” and who get at least one “ringer” in on the money question during a Sunday sermon. It makes jsome ferencc whose ox is gored, don’t you see?

The file of the first newspaper printed in South Bend, 1831-2, is on exhibition in the public library there. The publishers were John D. and Joseph H. Defrees. The relic is the property of the latter’s family at Goshen. Both publishers reached considerable prominence in public life. John D. Defrees was afterward publisher of the State Journal at Indianapolis, and still later was government printer. His brother Joseph represented this (the ol{J) district in congress. The very interesting theme of Rev. Wooten’s sermon last Sunday evening was “death in the pot.” Among the many points made was one referring to an everyday matter which people ought to hear more about. That is, the too often prevailing notion, especially among young men, that, there can be no fun extracted from this world’s storehouse of pleasure unless the process be accompanied by sin. Everybody likes pleasure, but there’s death in the pot. Someone must get loud, another one must swear, still another smoke cigarettes, etc., etc. Mr. Wooten made some telling points in this as in other similes.

It is proposed by the free coinage of silver to make the bullion in the silver dollar worth 100 cents instead of 52 cents as it now is,—measured by gold. Then it will no longer be necessary to issue bonds for the millions of dollars to get gold into the treasury with which to keep up the parity of 16 to 1 in the silver and gold coined by the government, and to keep at the same time, the silver and gold bullion at 32 to 1. Under the coinage laws existing prior to 1873 the bullion in the present silver dollar was worth the face of the dollar instead of 52 cents as now. In fact, it was worth more as a commodity compared with the gold than it was for legal tender. llon. S. St Shutt, of Garrett, is a director of a bank there, and has an interest in institutions of that kind in Auburn and Ft. Wayne. In a speech recently made at Garrett, he is quoted by the Herald, as saying that “his bank stock had increased until it was worth a premium of 50 percent while his farms and other labor employing interests had depreciated 50 percent. He said that while he could make more money from his banking interest under the present contraction policy of the government, yet a continuance of it would pauperize industry and future generations would sink to the conditions of the serfs of Europe, and he thought more of children and grandchildren than he did of money won at the sacrifice of the honest producers and property owners of America.” Editor of the Graphic, Os Campbellsburg, Ind., writes: “I will carry your ad at price named. Our druggist don’t handle Syrup Pepsin, and I want some of it myself. I have taken two bottles and it did -my stomach more good than any medicine J ever took, and I want more of it. . I had a bad case of dyspepsia.” Jr S. Walters.

I* The SttpieaM Coert Infallible. There are quite a number of speakers In this campaign who need to post themselves on the every day history of their own country, as it has been or within their own life time, perhaps. They assume that the United States supreme court is infallible; that Its work has never been questioned individually or politically. It makes some difference what political party is effected in a constitutional construction by the supreme court. Witness the decision in the matter of the income tax law. Os course, everybody submits to that decision as a duty. The supreme court is the court of last resort, the highest tribunal of our institutions. It is necessary that, under our form of government, an equallizerbe maintained against possible errors and assumption of the legislative portion, and we have it in the form of a judicial body—the supreme court. We are writing of the United States supreme court. But with the states 1 supreme courts the same things will obtain. With this thought in view it must be remembered that the supreme court is man—nothing higher. Therefore, the court is just as much governed by the time in which it exists, and the environments, as is a legislative body, or an individual. But they say, the court gets its inspiration from the ever unvariable constitution on the subject mentioned. Admit that it does, what then? Is not the thought of the present generation largely governed by our present environments? People of to-day construe the “has beens,” the “isers,” and the “will bes” by their own time and surroundings. They have no other way of construction. They never have and never will live in any other age of the world. Then what can be tenable in the argument that, a decision of the final tribunal by men of mature judgment, in this day and its thought, will always stand? On the contrary, there is every reason in history for believing that the opinion of the supreme court may change as often as the personnel of that body changes and injects new thought into its work as may present itself in future years through the changes of public opinion constantly re-occur-ring.

It need not be a surprise to us (comparatively) youngsters to look back at the time when the supreme court in the Dred Scott case declared that a negro could not sue in the United States courts and that congress could notprohibitslavery in the territories. The now middle age of this generation would describe the protest that went up from the northern people then, as “jumping onto the supreme court with both feet.” Why was this “jumping” process? The court bolstered up a political idea for the advancement of the slave power. Judge Stephen A. Douglas, of Illinois, held up the supreme court as something sacred, which to resist, he claimed, was anarchy. That great Democrat used the term anarchy, though he did not apply it to the Republican party, as a party, which was then doing the principal resisting, assisted by a large number of Democrats. It was about that time when the late lamented Lincoln was gaining national prominence. In his speech at Springfield in 1857, Mr. Lincoln met the renowned Douglas with the proposition that the opinion of the supreme court, though final in the day it was rendered, could be changed by public opinion. Mr. Lincoln said: “We believe as much as Judge Douglas'(perhaps m,ore) in obedience to and respect for the judicial department of government. ***** But we think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.” Herein is the best evidence in the world—a historical fact, that the supreme court has not been looked upon as an infallible branch of government. It is signlffcant, that those who go before the people to teach them upon questions of policies of political parties, often rest their case on the supposed lack of information and party bias of their hearers, rather than upon the information which they, the teachers, ouglft to possess, or possessing it, do not wtsfh to give it up., Eld ITon Evr Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for your troubles? If not, get a bottle now and get relief. This medicine has been found to be peculiarly adapted to the relief and cure of all Female Complaints, exerting a wonderful direct influence in giving strength and tone to the organs. If you have Loss of Appetite, Constipation, Headache, Fainting Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless, Excitable, Melancholy or troubled with Dizzy Spells, Electric Bitters is the medicine you need. Health and Strength are guaranteed by its use. Fifty cents and SI.OO at J. S. Walters’ Drug Store.

Mar* About That London Financial New* Article The South Bend Times, with a view of getting at the truth of the statement that a certain article credited tn tha . T - n <l n Winnnrinl. News BMI forgery, by American papers, went about to investigate the matter to set its readers right—the Times having hlso published the article. Here is the reply the Times received on Monday morning: Durrant’s Press Cuttings, W. Durrant, Prop’r, 57 Holbiirn Viaduct, London, Sept. 24th, 1896. Dear Sir:—l have your favor and copy of the Cincinnati Enquirer of Sept. 10th, containing a facsimile of a clipping sent out by me and taken from the Financial News of 30th of April, 1894, about the authenticity of which you are in doubt. I now beg to certify that I have referred to the file of this journal for the year 1894, and that the article appears upon the day stated, and the publication is correct in all particulars. I am, dear sir, your obedient servant, W. Durrant. To J. B. Stoll, Esq., the Times, South Bend, Indiana. This letter may be accepted as Anal, on the subject In question, as a “press clippings” institution maintains its business by its accuracy. A London cable to the New York Evening World (anti-Bryan and antisilver) of Saturday last is as follows: The World correspondent examined to-day a file of the Financial News In its office here and found the following statement in an editorial in its issue of April 30th, 1894 l □ “There can be no doubt about it that if the United States were to adopt a silver basis to-morrow British trade would he ruined before the year was out, for American industry would be protected, not only at home, but in every other market.” The News will again allow its readers to be the judges as to whether the Chicago Inter Ocean editor or the London Financial News editor lied. Mother and Babe, Both equally benefited by the use of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. Is the baby constipated? Then try this pleasant liquid laxative, both sure and mild, and pleasant to the taste. Has the mother indigestion or sick headache? There is nothing so effective. In 10 cent, 50 cent, and $1 sizes of J. S. Wallers. Real Estate Transfers. Jas A Rice to Andrew Row and wife land in Concord tp SI4OO. Nancy N Heaton et al to Geo Milburn 8 lots in Bristol S7OO. Isaac Harshman and wife to Franklin Paul land in New Paris $250. Sophia Jackson et al to Wm W Jackson land in Jackson tp5797.33. John W Fieldhouse and wife to Wm Morrow and wife lot in Elkhart $970. Mary L Beckley to Samuel Sanders lot in Bristol sl. Eliza Stutsman to Delbert H Fuller lain Concord tp SIOO. Co-Operative Savings and Loan association to Louis M Simson lot in Elkhart $847.92. Louis M Simson to Peter C Anderson and wife lot in Elkhart SIOOO.

Fred A Young and wife to William Barker lot in Elkhart SSOO. Ester A C Goodenow and husband to Chloe A Shick lot in Elkhart $750. Gilbert W Voorhces and wife to Martin L Hussy land in Benton tp sllsO. Franklin Peflly and wife to Chas B Peffly 160 acres in Union and Jackson tp SIOOO. Cyrus Seiler and wife to David M Best lot in Elkhart S3OO. Mrs Josephine Waller Mack to Ellen Jane Waller land in Middlebury tp $l5O. . Lucy P Webster to John W Fieldhouse 31 a in Osolo tp S2OOO. John W Fieldhouse and wife to Rosa Ellen Steffen lot in Elkhart SIOO. John W Fieldhouse and wife to Lucy P Webster lot in Elkhart S2OOO. Lefenas Lister and wife to Lewis W Blough lot in Middlebury SSOO. Andrew Row and wife to J Addison Rice 4 lots in Elkhart S2OOO. Abraham Hoover’s heir to Eliza F Lutz 40 a in Clinton tp SISOO. Henry B Sykes and wife to John A Fisher part of lot in Elkhart slls. Eliza A Arnold to John Y Packer and wife 18 a In York tp SSOO. David M Best and wife to Elton G Killinger et al lot in Elkhart $2250. Susan A Jones and husband to E O Davis 69 a in Concord tp $75. Jennie Clay and husband to Joseph H. Lesh 54 acres in Elkhart tp SIOOO. John B Willard to William Brown 20 a in Olive tp $905. John Gingerich and wife to Christian Gingerich J lot in Elkhart SIOOO. * Louisa J Chapmau to Tobias E Mann lot in Hncltlen’a Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world- -for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay re quirod. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box., For sale by J. S. Walters. —For first-class job work call at the News office.

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