Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 29, Number 33, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 October 1908 — Page 4

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THE XAPPANEE NEWS Naffanek, Elkhart County, Ind. Entered at the Post-office; at Nappanee !rul,, as second-class matter.— A Paper For Tht People. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One copy, one year ;.$ 1 50 One copy, six months 75 One copy, three months 40 By Gordon N. Murray. HeArst is certainly the yellow streak of the campaign. Politics makes strange bedfellows is an adage holding good in’this as in every campaign. There are more voters llim-tlammed with the tariff problem than perhaps anything.used in a campaign. An editorial on I?'dry farming'’ is a reminder that there has been a little of this kind of farming right here in Indiana. The cost of living is now higher than it his-been for many years i’n proportion to the earning capacity of the wage-earner. Even Eugene V. Debs is having,lns “spectacular” in the Socialistic campaign. At a state dimrergiven to Mr. Debs by Mrs. Rose-.-Paste*-Stokes-ft! New York, that lady and others-pres-ent stripped off costly jewels and contributed them to the Debs’ cause. It is now time for efery-voter to remember that he is soon to be the peer' of every other man regardless of his station in life, and he slTO'trttf'eXercise that special pri vilege.without becoming_/rightened by anything liut his conscience which should be his guiding star in casting his ballot. Nicholas Loxoworth, objects 'to being credited with the epitaph on tlie tombstone of anybody’s presidential aspirations. Nick says lie didn’t spring it in his speech—that “rum, Romanism, and rebellion” boomerrang, by nominating his father-in-law for president to succeed Taftf Several affidavits say he did. say it. There you have it.

It is stated that before the Elkhart ministerial association one day last week, Geo. E. Hicks, superintendent of the South Bend district of the Anti-Saloon League, made a lengthy speech in which lie endorsed Mr. Barnhart as against Mr. Miller for congress in this district. On the other hand, we have the Republican statement that the report of the ministerial meeting was not true. There ■ you have it. The repudiation by the late Mr. | Cleveland’s executor and also by Mrs. I Cleveland, of the article on the presidential campaign which was recently printed as- coming from Mr. Cleveland's pen, now adds another sensation to a sensational presidential strufggle.'--That tTie’Cleveland article, i in. which the late president appeared , to favor Mr. Taft to" Mr. -Bryan, is now to be regarded as a forgery from beginning to end, must,be accepted as established, in view of,the admissions .made this morning by its original publisher's To Cob Henry Watterson* is probably due the credit for running down and exposing the fraud upon the American people.—Spriftgtield Republican; There seems to be a suspicion that the court decision holding labor unions fcg be trusts and conspiracies in illegal restraint of trade, is being studiously avoided by certain campaign speakers-when referring to organized and unorganized labor as a political factor. ("nder that decision the Hatters of Danbury, Conn., are right now being sued for $210,00(1 damages. The trial of President Samuel Gompers, Vice-president John Mitchell, and Secretary Frank Morrison,•.•ofthe American Federation of Labor, for an alleged violation of the-court's intnrjrtion, wherein the Van Cleave [Buck’s Stove & Range Cos. are plaintriffs, is another matter whichis not be- { ing made very, prominent. For Sore Feet. t I “I have found B'ucklen’s, Arnifca Salve to be the proper thing to use j for sore feet', as well .as for healing burns, sores, cuts, and all manner of | abrasions,” writes Mr. W. Stone, of East Poland, Maine. It is the proper thing too for piles. Try it. Sold uni der guarantee at .T. S. Walters’ drug i store. 25c. * R '

PROHIBITIONISTS NOT IGNORANT OF ISSUES. Good-thinking people cannot explain the attitude of some of our I’rohibitionists in, this campaign. Instead of supporting a movement which would advance temperance cause, they fought it. Whether their motive is pure selfishness or failure to understand the issues of the campaign cannot be discerned.—Nappanee Advance. The above has been quoted by a number of exchanges coming to the Nkws desk. Os all party men, Prohibitionists are certainly to be credited with the most unselfish motives. They put up their money and time on the least expectancy of political reward of any party followers from the candidates down to the day laborer who votes the ticket. If the Prohibitionists do not “understand the issues of the campaign” there are certainly no other party followers who do understand them. However, if one may be opposed to the principles and methods used as means to an end, advocated and adhered toby Prohibitionists, it will not do to fly in the face of truth before intelligent people by trying to convey the idea that they, the Prohibitionists, are either selfish or don’t know what they are talking about. In this local community the Prohibitionists never refused to assist in making an application of all the temperance laws the Sfate has. They never stood back and sulked because the Nicholson law was enacted by Republicans with the assistance of Democrats and Was signed by a Democratic, governor, but put their shoulders to the wheel, When it comes to a “show down” as a party of principles, adherence, and devotion thereto, Prohibitionists are certainly entitled on the whole, to credit for political consistency that keeps the old parties guessing for place. Some Prohibitionist should see that our contemporary is supplied with the principles of their platform that the Advance may become informed instead of “shooting at random.-” The Prohibitionists do not believe in high or low license, county or township option, because any one of the measures is simply regulative and partially prohibitive of “stuff manufactured.” GIVE THE VOTERS A SQUARE deal,.

If there is anything, which the people of Nappanee believe in it is a “square deal.” The speakers in the Republican meeting of Saturday afternoon, like politics go in these days, were talking, to make additional votes for their party on the 3d of November. They must have believed that generalities in support of what their party has done, was the best argument, otherwise they would not have used it. But, even political speakers ought to exercise care and prudence on the “stump.” It is'presumptuous for a speaker to believe that one’s audience is not informed upon current topics of the day or the political history of the Country. It ‘may be a means to an end to talk of what has, been, but the independent voter (and it must be assumed that he is the man in a collective sense to whom political - parties are now appealing) is more interested in what is, anddn that which will be. Had the first speech, that of Senator rs i E. Hendee, been eliminated from the meeting it would have bedn better, 'in the belief of the'N ews;~ The gentleman simply appealed to prejudice. He' made particular reference to the unemployed under a Democratic administration and the “sou-p house,” resulting from a panic which every man knows as a matter of history began nearly two years before a change of administrations took place—in fact, the change was largely due To the causes leading to the panic. The present panic lias its squp houses and thousands of unemployed, employees §n short hours, and at reduced wages. -Current dispatches from Wheeling the other day referred to the free soup houses in Benwood, a manufacturing jjuburb of Wheeling. The plant of the National Tube Company employing 4,000 men at Wheeling was closed about one year ago by the. trust and these men thrown on the labor market. By the closing of other mills across the river last November 2,000 merer men* were thrown out, some 500. of these are residents of Wheeling. While this is only a matter of current news it serves here as an illustration that the speaker presumed on the ignorance of the independent voter, and did not give him a “square deal.” Here it is in a nutshell: Unemployed

and soup houses under a Democratic administration vs. trusts, unemployed and soup houses at the present time. Incidentally, the Chicago press says that there are 5,000 school children in the public schools of the city who are cpnstantly hungry. These conditions call for statesmanship to solve, not politicians to juggle with.' This “is.” Not that which “was.” The independent voter wants to know: What is the remedy? If the party platforms set out a remedy, the people should hear these remedies discussed that they may intelligently choose between them. Neither speaker quoted, a line or word of a platform declaration, and only intimated that there were any platforms. In his reference to the temperance legislation, Candidate Watson claimed too much for his party on temperance legislation wdien referring to the Nicholson law, approved March 11, 1905. The truth is, the House passed the Nicholson law by a vote of 75 to 20 and it was approved by the then Democratic governor, Claude Matthews. The same House passed the Moqre bill giving cities the power to exclude saloons from the residence districts. A “square deal” is what the temperance people want, and nothing short of it will avail in seeking their votes. It is-jiot the purpose of the -Nkws to refer to the “omissions” that might have been interesting on this question of temperance legislation. Misleading statement of facts, however, is another matter. THE ADVANCE AND THE BANK GUARANTY.

The News, presumably, ought to stand squelched (?) by its contemporary since that paper threw Go.v. Hughes into the breach on the bank guaranty proposition, because this paper has always been an admirer of New York’s governor. Notwithstanding this reproduction of the Hughes’ speech as evidence, the Advance has not gifen a single reason why astatute compulsory of the bank guaranty principle would not be as serviceable both to the bankers and depositors as would a law “permitting” such a principle to be applied by any number of banks, which our contemporary endorses—because the Republicans of Kansas endorsed it. Gov. Hughes, himself, has his individual opinion only that it would induce dishonest men to go into the banking business for the purpose of anything but legitimate gain. His is only theory. But this theory is being “parroted” from one end of the country to the other as an attack on the bank guaranty proposition. It simply amounts to nothing, because there is no more reason why a banker would be granted any more clemency by the law after having robbed Ids associate bankers than lie would if he robbed his depositors. The punishment would be the same—and the chances are that such speculative bankers (if they tried banking from dishonest motives as is charged they would) would be detected quicker in the act of speculating at the expense of their associate bankers than they would if they .were “doing” the depositors while their brethren stood back as disinterested parties to the misapplication of the bank's funds. It must be assumed that men who enter the banking business are like other business men—honest men. If dishonest men would be induced to go into the banking business because the opportunity was no longex-given to rob depositors, the state, or the government, but only the stockholders, •why would nut the same kind of men enter the business now when they only have a single bank examiner standing between them and the prison door? This is the demurrer of the News tb the “parroted” statement that a "bank guaranty law 'would indfice dishonest banking. It is the survival of the fittest that the big banks reject the proposition. They wish to stay in the advantage ground. No large banking concern having Trom $50,000 to SIOO,OOO treasury deposits would “bump” the administration by advocating the bank guaranty proposition. Had not the small banks of the country combined to take care of their depositors and themselves by

refusing to pay out currency last fall, the big-banks in the money ceners wpuld have “broke” half of them throughout the country and paralyzed business much worse than it Avas para- * ¥- lyzed in the smaller Communities.

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Does anybody apprehend that such a I situation could be brought about by a chain of banks as those which tried to corner copper and brought on the panic in the most prosperous times, if they had been doing business under a bank guaranty law properly'framed? It would hardly occur, because the policy of Greed, Grab & Cos. would be supplemented by mutual responsibility in the ultimate termination of such a condition if precipitated. A correspondent of the press has stated the whole matter in a nutshell when he says: “There is one fact about bank-de- j posits that should have special consideration, namely: Every bank that receives deposits from the United States Treasury or from any treasury, under the late depository law recognizes two classes of customers. The above-named are preferred creditors, while all others are common and sec-ond-class depositors. The former has his deposit guaranteed by a counterdeposit of interest-bearing bonds, while the latter has no security whatever. The first customer carries no .risk whatever. The bonds to secure him are bought by the common depositors’ money, t herefore in the event of failure, the preferred creditors are paid first, while the common claimant pays the expenses of a receivership and after months or years of delay, takes what is left of the defunct bank. The first party' has in effect a giltedged first mortgage, while the second has not a scratch of a pen except a certificate of deposit. These are facts which neither Hughes, Taft, Roosevelt, Gannon nor any of their campaigners ever state correctly. They dodge .this.question, they dare not go against the facts. Jt is a condition of favoritism in business that is indefensible. Only a few years ago the customers of banks were on the same level. They were all treated alike, yet now it iff different, some are insured and some are not.” JOKES OF THE CAMPAIGN. The jokes of the present campaign are not all confined- to the “ordinary mortals”.’'Even a good joke some,times_points a moral and adorns,a tale. They frequently illustrate the prejudices people inculcate in a campaign—a bias which causes them’to reject everything that the opposition savs and bfa'nd it as an' lie, and to believe everything on “their own side of the 'rouse” as gospel truth no matter what it is. The moral is that it is -rrotrsafe to take everything for granted one reads or hears during a campaign. If it is a matter of interest, it is also worthy of confirmation from more than one source if not indicted in political history. - A weli known Republican picked up a,newspaper Which he supposed was the~NEws, and reading something therein turned to a bystander and said; “Now that is a lie.and Murray knew it wkeniie printed jt.’h Seeing the joke, the other man wanted to know if he was sure it was a lie. Then he told the Republican that the paper lie was reading was the Advance. Last week the Omaha Bee, whose editor, Victor Rosewater, is a member of the Republican national committee, whose knowledge of. his party platform seems to have been very limited, complained of the following found in the tariff plank of the Republican platform, because he thought that it was in a speech made by Mr. Bryan: Here it is the language of the

platform complained of: “In all tariff legislation the true principle is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with reasonable profit to American industries.” Then the editor of the Bee sat himself down and wrote the following editorial: “Nothing prettier in the catch-all line has been offered in this campaign. The most hidebound standpatter in the country can accept that as satisfactory and the rankest free trader can find delight in it. The declaration means simply nothing. An attempt to legislate along that line would simply open the way to interminable wrangling as to what constitutes ‘a reasonable profit’, for hairsplitting on wages bn one industry, price of raw materials in another, re- . bates and drawbacks in a third, and so on through the list of thousands of articles that are now on the tariff revision, at -Bryan’s direction would serve only to 7 halt industrial and com- • mercial progress and keep business unsettled during his term of office.” This, though taken as a good joke on the editor, illustrates that it does not require a Democrat to shoot the tariff plank of the Republican party full of holes. No doubt, Editor Rosewater next day'when he found what he had done, felt like calling himself a liar, if lie didn’t do so in his editorial columns. The next funniest thing to this incident was the nomination of Roosevelt for president in lilld by his son-in-law, Nicholas- Longworth, in a speech at Rock Island.. Harvey Hughes Fined at Goshen. Goshen Democrat. Officers Bertch and Elliott at 11:30 o'clock Saturday night arrested Harvey Hughes, a well known Nappanee’ young man and son of a dredge contractor there and "when arraigned before Justice Whisler Sunday on three separate charges pleaded guilty to all of them, and received total tines and costs of $42 which his father paid. The charges are public intoxication, assault and battery andr speeding an.> automobile in violation to the city ordinance. Photographs Free for 30 Days. For the next 30 days until Nov. 15,1 will photograph any and all persons 60 years old or over free of charge. No questions asked at all. We do this strictly to advertise some of our latest work. We have recently added new cameras and new lenses, and are prepared to do a class of work that never was made in -this city before. Come and get your sittings now for the holidays antFavoM the , rush, which is always on at that time, and remember if you’are 60 or more you need no money. Miller’s Art Studio. Keller Bldg. - : r~' 7 Why James Lee Got Well. Everybody in Zanesville, ■().> knows Mrs. Mary Lee, of rural route S.. She writes: “My husband,. Jamps Lee, firmly believes he owes hi§ life to the use of Dr. King’s New Discovery. His lungs were so severely affected that consumption seemed inevitable, when a friend recommended New Discovery. We tries! it, and its use has restored , him to perfect health.” Dr.. King’s'® New Discovery is the king of throat and lung remedies. For coughs and colds it has no equal. The first dose gives relief. Try it. Sold under guarantee at J. S. Walters’ drug store, 50c and SI.OO. Trial bottle free. —- —y; : —Stationery. News Bookstore. —The Laughlin fountain pen from SI.OO up to $6.00 at the News Bookstore.