Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 12, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 August 1893 — Page 4

COL C. W. DEAN.

SUNSTRUCK IN BATTLE I DR. MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhabt, JHO.—I must say tbe Restorative Nervine and Nerve and Liver Fills have do pa me *FOR*nEARS I HAY* NOT FELT AS WELL AS NOW. The starting point of my die sunstroke received In battle before Port fludson.'LouIslana, June Htb, 1863. Pj^to the time of beginning to take Dr. -— Remedies I had had ‘ , s s SB Remedies I had had a conI n MO tlnual distracting pain In my i head; also, weak spells, and the past four 1 years I have had to give up everything - —-* ir stay the j Mm L _ ^ ! of an active eharaoter, and" house for ^| mNN months at timet UU M LU could not ross the itreet. I KNC walk as ross _.__ _ _ OW TOUR REMEDIES BAYS CORED ME, and that Use cure win be permanent. Severs) sua1thousands here are naldg your remedies, and allapeak Nall of theip. Tours truly. COL C_W. DEAN, National Military Home, Dayton, O, DR. MILES’NEBYXN* la the most certain cure for Headache, Neuralgia, Nervlesanesat Dullness, Blues, and Optus Habit. Contains oo opUtss or dar dangerous drugs, 8aM on n Positive Guarantee. pn. Ml LES* PI LLS, SO Doac«26Cm 8pfag%Count\j feraomt B) M. Mcp. STOOPS. HP* The Pike Oeoetj Demovrat hss the targest eiresUtlea1 ot any neespsper published la Pike County! Adrertlsers will make s note of this fact! Entered at the postoffloe In Petersburg for transmission through the malls as secondclass matter. FKIDAY, AUGUST 11,1893. The Press and the council are at hammer and tong?. A-MUSiN^Hign’t it. The Press last week asks the counoilmeu of Petersburg to resign. Will they do it ? A negro democrat has been regarded with a postmastership in phio, being the first colored mau appointed to such a position in that Aiale. Whex the editor of the Press gets b>s dander up lie lets go all over. The gentleman should look a little out or the .Yews may become the official organ of the city, and the job printing go to some other city. Postmastek-Genekal Bissei. has awarded to Calvin C. Woolsworlh, of Castleton,N. Y. , the contract for supplying the department with postal cards for four years. The saving for the four years by this contract is estimated at $280,000. The farmers would like to know why it is that the grain merchants are not paying as much for wheat as other localities in Indiana? Well, it is a question which they alone can answer. . Of course the grain buyers have it all their own way and pay just what they please regardless of eastern prices. State Supertniendent Vories is receiving many letters inquiring if the supreme court lias ruled'that patrons of the public schools can employ tiie teaciieisi '{'lie superintendent says that i|ie court has passed upon the question but that the decision has Wen misuudorstood. }t is he|d that the patrons can, by a majority vole, say who the trustee shall not appoint but they cannot decide who he can employ.

Tfie Brookly n ^aglc strikes a kiteshape track in the following remarks: The Leickport Journal nays: “Farmers are ■uttering hut slightly ‘from the llmvncial stringency.” In.the sanle way billiard balls are Dot complaining of gray hairs. A heated term is not attllcting the north pole. No deaf and dumb man objecting to street bands.The blind are'nobquu'rdrUng with candles and the republican parly is not embarrassed with presidential cares. “Farmers and financial stringency.” There has to be some finance to Srelude tlib financial stringency Fanners ave been as free irom money' for several years as moles are from the ambition to tty Kites • " The averago farmer would be yrotuj if he Were iii a condition to suffer from flnattciafstrlugency. The presoni’ciiy council has d°i'®. a big tiling for Petersburg during the past year or two, and don’t you forget it. The Demockat is in favor of ihe council| being elected next spring without a dissenting vote. They are improving the city as fast as I lie limited means of the city will allow. They have ordered the marshal to clean up the town an4 the marshal seems to bo getting the move ih fhat direction. Let the good work go on until the city is cleaned up and the debt removed.

FOES or DEMOCRACY. „ It has been said that the silver or* der of the India council is the most momentous financial event of the century. It has also been said that the meeting of the fifty-third congress marks the gravest crisis in American history since I860- . ?f Streaming eastward from the silver mines is an army of unemployed who can testify that the India order has touched the destinies of mankind. • At Cbjcago an undisciplined but numerous body of delegates has beeu in session to! launch }uto politics a new cry: “J^o politics, but silvetC” Its commii|ees wilt appear in Washington next week and printed copies of the speeches will be scattered over the country. What does the presence of Ignatius Donuelly, Powderly, Waite, Kolb and Taubeueck mean ? Have they and their friends gone only to say a word for free coinage of gold and silver? Hardly. They are not gold and silver men. Their mouey is mouey which has uo cost of production or redemption.

Right at the start democrats should understand that the styyer question is beiug used J>y the Waites and Weavers, as in another way it is being used by the Shermans and Chandlers, to excite discontent against democracy. All belonging to the Weaver element: at the Cbicagq assembly was there to got re-enforcements for the third party. No settlement of the doinage would please them. Not without shrewdness and ability they are getting and giving pledgts for union with the silver miuers. Th< y are holding gorgeous promises before leading democrats from states where tbe coinage sentiment is strong. By urging the most extreme and impractical measures they seek to prevent adjustment of the currency in congress, and upon the resulting discouteut they think to go into political battles of 1894 and 1896. 4.S theirs they count every democrat they cau egg on to separation from a democratic programme. Constructive politics or legislation is the thiug they fear and hate. Agitation is their trade and hope. Last week they wers in Chicago. Later they will be in the Southern and Westoru states to stir up opposition to everything that may be done in practical legislation, to sow coufusiou in the ranks of the party charged with the reform ot currency and taxation laws. It is not silver coinage they seek; it is to get power ond office by inflaming democrats against each other. These men feel that democracy is the enemy the Socialistic Populists must light. Its instiuctive conservatism, its distrust of centralized-power, its suspicion of new interference with individuals by Federal laws-^these democratic characteristics are the most stubborn obstacles before their paternalism. The democratic party has only cordial sympathy for any body of men who meet to redress a grievance. In the south and west the democrats almost to a man favor the announced object of the Chicago meeting. Upon the representatives from the south and west in Washington will fall the brunt of the battle for gold and silver coiuage. But let us not be deceived 'about friends and foes as the epoeh-makiug congressional session begins. Some of our democratic leaders in the west aud south are hearing the voices of sirens. Euvoys of the unreasonable are busy among democratic voters. While the euemy of monometalism in front and the enemy of socialistic agitation in the rear, the represenatives of southern and western democracy cannot afford to blunder. A democratic programme is alone safe. Pcmocratlc harmony and consistency will alone be strong before the people when the makeshifts of the moment have vanished, and the appeal to sober public opinion is made at the polls iu 1894 and 1896.

Suspend the purchase clause of the §herm»u act. Put that undemocratic and disturbing expendient out of the way without discussion. Debate and pass a coinage act. Substitute a revenue tariff for the McKinley law. Cflt down needless, expenses. Satisfy the west and south and all the people ^ith liberty to piake the most of opportunities, free from government meddling. This will be democratic and right. It will last aud grow In popular approval with each year of reflection. It will assuage discontent. Anything else ^8 dangerous. PJSUfSlOlTjtJi FORM. Pension Commissioner Lochren’s letter to the Rational Tribune, in which he sets forth his plans aud purposes in regard topeusion reform, should allay the fear in the mind of any man who is distressed lest the old soldier should not get his rights. Mr. Lochrcu shows that the

investigation that Is now being made ha9 to do solely with the dependent pension act of 1890. To be anre when he receives “information showing fraud in some particular case," the matter is looked into; and this has alva>s been the practice. But there ye re pensions granted under the new law through an erroneous ruling of the ponsion bureau, and it is with these that the commissioner is chiefly concerning himself. As he says. “All pensions granted under former laws are presumed to have beeu properly grauled"'; and the sapie presumption would have been allowed in favor of those granted under the dependent pension act had it not been for the mistaken ruling of the bureau. The investigation is being carefully conducted by a board of al^e and experienced men, the head pt which ia a republican, the majority of its members being also republicans. In view of the outcry that we have heard about ibe matter it is interest

lag to kuow that no pensions have been suspended so far, until such action has been recommended by the board. Wc do not thiuk there is much political capital to be made in lighting pension reform. There isn’t a man or & party in the country unfriendly in any way to the soldier. We all agree that those who deserve pensions should have them. Aud it is an unkiodness to those who are deserving to insist upon classing them with every tainted aud fraudulent claimant who may apply for a pension to which he is net entitled, aud which nevertheless, he receives because he has a political pull. There is uo chance for deception in the business. The day has gone by when people cau be hoodwinked. A man who i9 opposed to fraudulent pensions, by that very opposition shows himself the friend of the soldier. And those pdople who are shouting themselves hoarse over every fraud that is exposed are really expressing themselves in favor of robbing the tax-payer and the genuine soldier. We hope that this commissioner’s letter will be widely read, aud we are very much mistaken if healthy public sentiment is not with him in his effort to stop the abuses which have done so mush to demoralize us all.—Indianapolis News, rep. MORE MONEY. One of the sages of the people’s party in Kansas sometime ago delivered himself at a public meeting as follows: “If all the mouey that is In the banks were in the pockets of the people the country wpuld be better off.” This gooi} man was evidently unaware of the fact that the money which is in the banks does not belong to the banks, but to the people who deposited it there and can draw it out again when they please; that, meanwhile, this money is lent out by the bauks to people* who can give sufficient security ; and that, when soleut out, it circulates among the people in the channels of business, and is,-there-fore, virtually In the pockets evt the peopte. The sage had probably applied to a bank for a loan without offering sufficient security, and the loan being refused, he concluded that the mouey in the banks was maliciously withheld from the people. What he really meant to say. was, that if the money which was in other people’s pockets were in his, he would be better off. Of which there is no doubt. But this sage and his disciples will have to consider that there are but two honest ways of getting money— to sell something tor it, or to borrow it. So long as you have thiugs to sell that other people want, such as corn, or dry goods, or your labor, you can always get money in exchange for them. If you have things of value to pledge, which the lender of money considers sufficient security then he will get his money back, such as land, or wheat, or cotton, or good railroad bonds, you can borrow money. The recognition of this fact moved another western stump-speaker, who had turned the matter over in his mind, wisely to remark: **tVhat we people need is not more currency, but more collaterals”—a great truth.—Zifarn/>r’» Wealths.

Congressman Conn, of Indiana, says: “The revision of the tariff will come alter the financial issue has been met. Tj'he democratic party certainly intends to change our tariff policy. As a manufacturer, I confess that I believe In a thorough chango of the tariff policy of this country. Under present conditions the cofideuco in a a permanent home market concentrates capital, narrows the field ot American ingenuity and.allows combinations to fix prices. My idea is that the walls should be thrown down and our manuTacturing industries put npon their own resources. These are abundant and we can meat the rest of the world of competitors and beat them.” We told you so.

Jt is estimated that the decrease in the value of agricultural products since ex-secretary Foster adopted the policy of refusing to use silver a9 money has aggregated more than $1,000,000,000. The decrease iu other val.ues will tu,count *o as tqijch more. And thisenor/nous loss is only a part of the pillage Ti$e People must suffer before the owners of gold succeed in placing the country on a gold basis. When the farmer of Pike couutv ij offered only 40 cents for his wheat, he can veyy readily recall that all the republican papers and stump speakers told him that if the McKinley bill was passed and protection kept up, that it would foster a home market and farmers would get prices for wheat and everything he bad to sell. Well, we can now see exactly what McKinleyism did for the farmer and mechanic.

“Calico” Foster, ex-treasurer of the treasury of the United States, is one of your fine haired aristocratic bunkoists. “Califco” was a banker at Fostoria, phio, and being interested in seyefgl projects appropriated the hard earnings of the depositors to 'his own use. Of course it was only a small amount, being not more than $200,000. Will our republican friends pass the hat as in the case of McKinley ? The idea would make & mule blush. Auditor of State Henderson Irung eighteen crayon portraits of ex-audi-tors tu his office Thursday morning, after spending several months in making the collection. None ot the territorial officers are represented, as pictures of them could not bo obtained Those of O. H. Lilley, who served from 1810 to 1828, and H. J. Harris, •who was state auditor from 1844 to 1847, could not be found, and it is supposed that the pictures are not in existence. The portraits are about Itfesize aud are in heavy oak frames. The anuual report of the state superintendent ot school states that the new school book lawcontinues to work satisfactorily. It farther shows that the total value of school buildings and grounds in the state is $16,008,712.12, and the value of the apparatus in use, $758,791,150. There have been 243 new school housos built, valued at $513,575. The crazy partisans who made such a hue and cry in LaGrange about the law when it was first adopted have about subsided. This is a “cold era” for insane partisans anyhow. NORTH-BOUND. stations. | No,'82. | No. 32. | Freight. Evansville 9:25 ». ra. 4:30 p> m. 5:45a. m. Petersburg li:27 “ 6:18 p. m. 4:45a. m. Washington 12:15 “ 7:15 p. m. 10:00a. in. Worthington 2:10 “ . Terre Haute 4:05 p. m. SOUTH-BOUND. STATIONS | Nb. 81. I No. 83. | Frgt Terre Haute . 8:10a. m. 6:00 a. n> Worthington .10:00 *• ll:00a.m Washington 6:00 a. m. 12:15 p. m. Petersburg 6:54 “ 2:17 “ 12:20 Evansville 8:55 “ 4:00 " ....... The above Is leaving time only. For lowest possible rates on freight and tickets, call on or address E. B. Qunckel, Agent, Petersburg. Ind. ASHBY & CHAPPELL, INSURANCE AGENTS. Collections and Abstrats of Title a specialty. Pension and U. 8. Claim Agents. Cali on us. offltsi ou Upper Main street.

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