Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 August 1893 — Page 4

COL. C. W. DEAN. 8UNSTRUCK IN BATTLE I OB. MILES MEDICAL CO , Emchakt, lap.—I must Ray tbe Bestorstin Nervine i and Liver Pills have done me YEARS I HATE NOT FELT AS WELL AS NOW. The starting point of my disease was a ■unstroke reoelved in battle before Port Hudson.Louisiana, June 14tb, 1863. Up to the time of beginning to take Dr. Miles' ~ Remedies I bad bad a continual distracting pain in lr.y ' the pa ..... and the past four years I hare had to give up everything head; also, weak spells, yean I have had to gl of an active character, and house for ^I inrft months at h time; vUriLL/ ooldd not walk across the strevt.I KNOW YOUR umranns HAVE CUBED ME, and that the cure will be permanent. Several ftSS T H O USA NDS here are using your remedies, and all speak . well of them. Yours truly. _OOL C^W. DEAN, National Military Home, Dayton, Q. DR. MILKS’NKRVINX is the most certain cure for Heedaehe. Neuralgia, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness, Spasms, Sleeplessness. Dullness, Blues, and Opium Habit. Contains no opiates or dangerous drugs. Sold on a Positive Guarantee. D*. MILES’PtLLS, 60 Do»g« 26 CT*

{Hr gikt Cflmtttj gmowat By M. fllcC. STOOPS. The Pit* County Democrat has the largest circulation of an; newspaper published in Pike County 1 Advertisers will make a note of this fact! Entered at the postoffice in Petersburg tor transmission through the malls as secondclass matter. 8 FUIDAY, AUGUST 4,1893.

THE HARD TIMES. To rail, to nag, to 6neer at governwent is the privilege of the opposition. A useful privilege of the opposition, indeed a right, is the right pf tree, honest, and intelligent criticism. . . The govermental situation in the JJnited States differs to-day from that which obtained a year ago only io two particulars. The laws are the same; congress has not changed them in one iota. But the personnel of administration is different, and there is a purpose in all departments to bring about that economy which is mani-' festly needed by the stringency pf the times, and ought to be the ruig. under all circumstances, for gojefnpieht ought not be a devoured jtjjpthe substance of the people, $r tae-ia*te it more exactly, governmeh^biight not to ask in taxes moi^ money than is needed for an economical administration. , Democrats have been in possession of .the. administration of the United {states since the 4th of March last, puring all that period, b»t particularly for two or three mouths passed, there has been widespread stringency pf the money market, resulting in business depression, wdereupon with almost unanimous voice the republican press of the country indulges itself in the cheap reflections that thev ju their prescience told the country so, that the prosperity which republicans assured them is not given by democrats, that hard times result necessarily from democratic administration of affairs, and that if Harrison had been re-elected everybody would he qn the high road to prosperity. Of pourse there {s no specifications warranting this criticism. It grows out pf the broad fact that, unquestionably the times are hard. John Sherman psed to claim that the republican party was th(e author of bountiful props. He would never assert the converse of the proposition, {hough, that when crops were. poor there was responsibility on the republican party. Ah administration, save as it is extravagant or economical, can have very little influence upon husiness activities of the United St ates. Legislation, which np>re than the administration, for it is eougress and the executive together, can legitimately do no more for the business of the .country than to -giyeit a stable purreucy.Congress has not hep a iu session since the advent of Cleveland, put business distress, money stringency, is qot peculiar to. the United State*. All civilised countries are Buffering because of a rebound from extravagance, speculation, overproduction, and wild dissipation. The business world has slowly wakened pp from a period of debauch' to take * the inevitable consequences of a sick ^e|d$?h* and a remorseful disposi

lion. The first check, the first realization of what was coining, was the announcement nearly two years ago of the Barings failure. It was followed upon the part of prudent persons by retrenchment, by failure to egteud credit save where credits were deserved. Anjl. .though there was but momentary check in the Uqited States, yet as it was slowly followed by a policy soon becoming apparent of requiring from the United (States gold payments, confidence was slowly undermined in this country. The process commenced during the administration of President Harrison, lie was not responsible for it, save as his signature to the Sherman law had its bearing, and the situation which has been finally attained has been reached the quicker less by occurrences in the United States than by events beyond its jurisdiction. Australia gave police of the storm. So did India. The prudence of Washington, the vigor of Jackson, the patriotism of Lincoln, not all the virtues of the best of presidents would in the slightest change that distress in the United States which has been produced by a series of exeuts of world-wide occurrence. In the vulgar mind the opinion fostered by parties of more in*elligence for party ends eharges upon the party in power all responsibility for an unhappy business situation. But is as certain as the day that the situation would not as to the United States be changed in the slightest

were Beniamin narrison, uoi urover Cleveland, president of the United States; indeed, it might he worse, because it was apparent that under Benjamin Harrison there would have been none of that government retrenchment which must result in reduction of taxation upon a people who are less able now to pay it, or think themselves so, than they were a jear ago. Some of tfte republicans of today who charge the stringency of the times upon the national administration were in 1873 republicans who asseverated with tremenduous^mphasis that the mere fact that Gen. Grant, a republican, was presidert of the United States had nothing whatever to do with the panic of that year.

BAD BANKING. The numerous bank failures in various parts of the country have probably done more,than any other single cause to delay the restoration of confidence. It is important, therefore, to note-to what extent these failures have been due to a departure from conservative methods. The remark does not apply to the cases of suspension of perfectly solvent banks in couseq ueuce of local panics that cause runs upon them. These suspensions ■Kray be followed by considerable temporary inconvenience and incidental losses, but the depositors will ultimately be paid m full. Of failures proper among banks it is to be noted that the greater part of them were caused by errors of management or by gross misconduct on the part oif officers and directors. Many of them were interested in “booms,” or speculations of various kinds. In some instances the funds of the banks were largely used by the officers or directors who used them to float various questionable speculations. In other cases bank funds have been freely employed to support local projects of too dariug a nature for the resources of the projectors. The existiug monetary disturbance has been used to account for many bank failures of this sort, though it is clear upon investigation that the real cause of the trouble is much more remote. With more prosperous times the evil day might have been postponed, and in some cases, under improved management, disaster might have been entirely averted. In auy event the origiual cause of the trouble was in 'the management, and the monetary stringency simply supplied the ocoasion which brought the inherent weakness to light. It is important to take note of these facts because thereby we get a more correct view of the extent of the trouble that is really due to the stringency of money. The iujury sustaiued in this way is great enough without Charging it with disasters that had theircorigin at times when money was in excessive supply, and when its abundance fostered the spirit of speculation, which is always active in flush times. The misfortunes that have overtaken financial institutions that were grossly mismanaged do not furnish the slightest ground for distrust of those that have adhered steadily to sound and conservative methods. It is also worthy of remark that the better class ot banks have recently been the object of much undiscrimiuating abuse, because they have not been willing to reduce their, reserves below the point of safety ip ord?r to

foster the speculative schemes of people who desire to borrow money. The progress ot events, however, has fylly vindicated the wisdom of a conservative policy io this respect. Those banks that have confined their efforts to supplying the demands of legitimate business to a reasonable extent have had abundant reason to congratulate themselves upou the course they have elected to pursue. A SOBERING VIEW. As the financial situation continues to await the healing of time and the coming of congress, there is perhaps less partisan misrepresentation concerning it. We are all beginning to realize that it is a common affair. We are all in for it, and what caused it is becoming of less importance than the fact of its existence, says the Indian-, apolis jVe*>*. This natural development of aftairs has tended somewhat to allay the partisan misrepresentation that tried to take advantage of it. This is well for ns all, and whatever will help along is also well. An exchange contributes to this process of brushing up memory as to the condition of things a year ago. A year ago, this partisan advocacy has asserted, that everything was prosperous. A year ago memory recalls, the militia was in arms in three states to put down revolts of labor on-account of a reduction of wages. A year ago, July, 1892, the exports of gold wero over $10,000,000.

uumig me ivruiur luuumsuaiivu, prosperity under which . has been cited by partisan advocacy as proof that the verdict at the polls last November is the cause of the present depression, our net loss of gold was 1122,624,000. In 1891 the loss was $68,130,000. Then there were collaps* es of various trusts and corporations beginning with the Heading and ending with the Cordage, involving a loss of hundreds of millions of follars to investors and speculators, 'file Sherman act, about which there is a common agreement that it is one of the most active causes of the monetary distnibauce was passed In 1890, and what the same partisan, advocacy, that is now attributing these hard times to a chauge of parties, thought of the Sherman act in tlnsr region, we quoted the other dav. As for the tar'ff, it is perfectly well known that no change has been made aftd that no change that can be made will go into effect for a time yet distant. As the country is generally recalling these things, and partisan advocacy is ceasing, and an attempt is being made io deal with business facts rather than with partisan theories, it is to be hoped that congress will be inspired by the same tendency, and that when it is called to act in this crisis, it will drop politics and attend to business.

The state of affairs which will face congress when it assembles the 7tl* of August will be indeed grave enough to dispel from the minds ot patriotic men the thought of partisan advantage. Peace, hardly less than war, though not so often as war, has its sui preme momeuts; and this seems to be oue of them, commanding of the better elements of political society every where patieuce, moderation and unity of purpose. Evils, wrought by years of shortsighted legislation and reckless imprudence in business methods, can not be remedied in a week, or month, or by any single measure of public policy. Congressman Lane, of Illinois, has stated that he will introduce a bill in congress, making a law compelling every bank iu the United States to keep an advertisement in a newspaper in or uear the town in which the bank is located, giving the true assets and liabilities of the same at all times, sworn to by the president and cashier ot the bank, and the officer certifying falsely to be subject to imprisonment in the penitentiary. G»>od scheme. Senator Sherman is strongly in favor of the repeal of his own law. If we start at repealing Sherman laws why stop at 1891 ? Let the work go back a quarter of a century. If nearly all the Sherman laws can be repealed, everything will settle itself to the general satisfaction of the oountry. _ Congress meets ot* 'next Monday. About the first steps taken will be to repeal the purchasing clause of the Sherman bill. Just what substitute, if any, will take its place remains to, be seen. Joseph Newkirk was at home over Sunday. Joe is still engaged iu selling horses from the arHd ant wooly west and says they are going like hot cakes at a fair. Be is at Morgantown this week Captain Sweeney, U. S. A., San L||ego, California, says: “Shiloh’s Catarrh remedy is the first medicine j I have ever found that Would do me : any jood,” Price $0 cents, 33*

ROfillSOS’S WORLD’S EXPOSITION Notably Anffineuted tor the Present Tenting Season. Probnblv the most colossal as well aa the most nervy |^nu-ement venture of the day is that inaugurated this season by the man - agement of ibe John Kooinson show—u venture requiring an expenditure so enormous that a statement of the amount would scarce ly' be credited by the general reader. We allude to the production on a scale of magnitude and opulent splendor never-pre-cedent of the new biblical spectacle of Solomon, his temple; and the queen ol Sheba, a spectacle prolific in gram} scenic effect, impressive in pomp and pageantry, realistic in its reproductions of the patrUrchial era, sacred in its biblical associations, and en ■ trancing in its ballets, poses, marchings and grouping. The visit of the queen of Sheba to King Solomon’s court, with her immense and richly costumed retinue, the judgment of Solomon, the sacrifices in the temple. Solomon’s seven hundred wives, the grand processional pageant to meet and welcome Sheba’s lovely queen, the walls and city of Jerusalem, the inner court of Solomon’s temple, the great throne of Ivory the sacrificial ceremonies, the sacred art of the covenant, the bewitching ballets of lovely cresset girls, add myriad features that can not be given in detail, are the attractions this spectacle presents.' With such a iesirkble feature added, to the adiniarable circus, the vast menagerie, and the royal Roman hippodrome, the many canvasses, spacious as they are, should and will be packed from center to circumference by eager and gratified spectators each afternoon and eveuing. The show will exhibit at Petersburg, Tuesday, August 15th. The fatuous white cap cases which have beeen pending iu tlie Dubois circuit court for the past two years, are uow on trial at Jasper. Mauy score of witnesses have been sumjiioned.and the lion. Thomas Duncan, ol Princeton, has been appointed special judge. The defendants are Thomas and William Richfield, John H. Brown, Levi and James Ellis and tflenry and William tjpltot'. They stand indicted as the principals in a brutal affair by which William Coffee and wife were dragged from lied ai d whipped. W. E. Cox is is the prosecuting attorney.

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