Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 February 1894 — Page 4

Br M. McC. STOOPS. _• The Pike County Democrat has the Urgent circulation ot any newspaper published in Pike County l Advertisers will make a note of this fact! The Washington Advertiser has * come to oup table enlarged to the same size of The Democrat and bears other marks of improvements. Clark & Hears have also commenced the issue of a daily edition. excess, gentlemen. * >* Entered at the postoffice in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as secondclass matter.

We have had in congress the “sink or swim” oration and the fine speech about somebody’s right hand forgettiug its cunning and somebody’s " cleaving to somebody’s mouth.i Now let some eloquent senator come in and give us “Curfew shall not Ring Tonight,” and then the band might play “Annie Laurie” a few rounds. The republican cougressional convention will be held at Evansville, April 19th to select a candidate for congress. There are upwards ot forty candidates who are anxious to have their name go before the people for the sake of saying that he was a candidate for congiresk No use, gentlemen, the First district will return a democrat_■_ The McKinley bifl and other nefarious republican legislation is responsible for the late panic, and empty treasury, the bofid issue, and the necessity for soup houses; and^yet the republicans are praying for the defeat of the Wilson bill which promises relief from the terrible financial distress brought upon the country by the g. o. p. _ Assistant Secretary Reynolds has gendered a decision holding "that in claims for pensions as a dependent father, under Section 1 of the dependent and disability act of June 27, 1890, where it appears that at the time of filing his application the claimant is shown by his manual labor to earn more than is necessary ' foy an adequate support, he is not pensionable under the act.

The republican {state committee have sent out circulars to local committeemen throughout the state, instructing them to adopt the “block aud neighborhood” system for voting at the coming 6tate election. This arrangement requires that e^ch city shall be divided into blocks, and one man held responsible in each district for getting out the vote. Chairman Cowdy will visit each district and explain the plj*n of organization. The tariff bill is in the senate. It |s stated that a mouth will be given to hearing objections to the bill. Then it will come up lor debate and six weeks or two months more will he consumed. That wjjl carry it into $lay. Amendments tvill then be in orde£ and its further dragging along will be determined by the weather, the accidents of illness death, new issues, the personalities of debate, appointments aud numerous other matters. George F. Parker, Consul at Birmingham, has sent to> the State department an exhaustive report on America wheat and flour trade in English midlands. He estimates the increase in the amount of flour received from the United States in fool* years at 79.1 per cent. He says: “Nothing seems more completely established than the dependence of preat Britian upon the United States lor considerable amount of breadstuffs, and this dependence is for piore likely to increase than dimiuW’

THEY STILL LIVE! The National Wool Growers' Assoclatio has been heard from again. The people were beginning to wonder what had become of it during all the talk about abolishing the woo) tariff. Through Senator Sherman a memorial was presented to the senate on Thursday which is described as “bulky.*' Of course it was. Everything concerning the wool growers’ association is bulky, including its gall and ignorance. The memorial consisted of statistics by the bushel, newspaper articles and pamphlets by the hogshead and written theses by the wagon load. If there is any ar git men t among it ail why the people of this country should be taxed for the benefit of tlAse who are rich enough to own their flocks upon a thousand hills Senator Sherman should carefully extract and bottle it! for future use. It will not do much good at present, tor if there is any one thing which the people of this country are demanding above everything else, it is that wool shall remain on the free list where it is placed by the Wilson tarifl bill as it passed the house. Of course members of the Wool Growers’association declare in querulous tones that unless the McKinley tariff on wool is restored the wool growing industry will perish from the earth. They do not say why it will perish and the obscurity in which this point is left by the memorial leaves the whole matter in conjecture. Can it be that a wool tax has life preserving elixir in it and that if it is abolished the sheep will die? Or have the members of the Wool Growers’ association become so infatuated with the wool tax \that they will turn their sheep out on the public roads the moment the tax is removed ? In that case will not the wool continue to grow on the backs of the sheep, and will not somebody

shear and wash it and send it to market! Is a sheep’s ability to have wool dependent upon a' wool tax? Will owners of flocks kill all their sheep if wool is left .'on the free list? If they do mutton will be cheap for a tiiiae any way and there is some coBSolation.in that to a large majority of the people. The Wool Growers’ association is a gloomy sort of an institution that looks upon the world as a dark and ungenial place in which the wool, tariff was the only thing to relieve the abyssmai blackness. Like the Scotch fisherman who wrote to Sir Robert Peel that be was a free trader in everything except the tariiF on herring, the wool growers have argued themselves into believing that the only real purpose of government and even of the creation itself was to establish and maintain a wool tax. Well, the Wool Growers’ association will probably discover about a year from now that they have been laboring under a grand hallucination and that business ar.d pleasure, religion and morals, and in fact everything else remain in their normal condition without a wool tax, while the Test of us believe that all of them have been a little unsteady with the wool tax. Let the senate proceed to vote at the earliest possible moment on the the Wilson bill as it passed the house. —Evansville Courier. I

It is part of the conspiracy on the part of the bosses of protect industries to destroy organized,labor that leads them to reduce wages, nbtfear of operations of the Wilson bill although they make that the pretext. The Wilson bill not only fully protects manufacturers against differences in wages between the United States and foreign countries, but it gives raw material to the industries that mantacture five-sixths of the articles of universal cos»mption. The boss who reduces wages because of the Wilson bill is either X ignorant oris consciously making an actual benefit to him the pretext for robbing his employes. * The Chicago Inter Ocean, that great Republican newspaper, has not suffered by the recent era of financial depression but has gone right along adding to its foundation stones-a large and substantial circulation— with a stride that under the circumstances is truly wonderful. At one time additions to the subscription list were coining at the rate of 800 to 1,100 per day for the daily iss«e and as high as 1,500 per day lor the Weekly Inter Ocean. The result of this is to place it easily at the head of the list of great Chicago newspapers. It; is certainly a good, clean family newspaper of the highest order. No county officers have resigned >ince the supreme court decision sustaining the constitionalitv of the fee and salary law. They are all too j good patriots to embarrass their coutHics by giving up their offices.

JONES 01 THE TIMES The Crackt r-Jack Evangelist i , on Cornu ereial Diseases. The Country has Caught a Brand lew One, Bat it is Sow Convalscent, Though it Don’t! eem to Know It. Wise Man Teiterday, Fool Today; Uut Jonn vai “On To lt.» Sam Jottc the Georgia evangelist, whose tabe nacle meetings iu this state are till fresh in the public mind, sometimes preaches a religion with politic- in it. It is not strange therefore, 1 ai he writes of politics with a religion in it. Here is a recent letter from dm to the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times,' It was written at Nashville and bears date of January 27. It runs ibus: I have just made a tour through Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas. The patient is convalescent, though I doubt if the patient, is conscious of the fact. I mean that times are improving, though the people seem hardly willing to admit it.

mere is an easier reeling in nnandal circles, more movement in commercial cilrc is and a more hopeful tone among all classes. The southern states were last to feel the stringency, and Will be the first to recover their prosperity. Texas has suffered less than any of the forty-four stales. Her hanks are deluged with deposits, her stores filled with goods a id her traiusdoaded with cotton. The farmers are buying all they need, a£d the most of them are paying up oh. bills and paying cash for new goods. * Times are frightening. They are now hopefully better, though it’s a long ways to omplete recovery. The wise m? n who thought that the repeal of the Sherman silver purchasing act would give returning prosperity i» now m acknowledged fool. The "man tv o now expects relief from tariff tinkering, will soon have to Join in the same procession yvith the “gold btt< gery” and “silver, diggerv” crowd and lake a back seat. There is no remedy in legislation for the present stringency. « There is no manufactory* either in wool, steel rails, cotton or woodwafe, that would m t l>e running twentyfour hours a day, and every day in the j ear, if there were a demand for its products. We are overstocked. Surplus in everything but common seuse. Belgian i, Australia, Germany, China, Hawaii have not overstocked us. The United States has produced its o#n surplus—iron, flour, wools, cbtton, corn, dog fennel, etc., etc.

JL cli 111 Ull Jill JUiHCU KUUU?*, U1 low, won’t give the much longed-for prosperity. The McKinley law did avert commercial and financial disasters, and the Wilson tarifl bill will not bring back commercial aud financial prosperity. The abund: at output of iron in Pennsylvania end Alabama has made the furnaces aud the mill operatives poor. The abundant wheat harvests of the northwest have made farmers almost penniless. The abundant Litton crop of thi south has well nigh bankrupted t hi* section. The abundant outputs of woolen mills have proven their o*. n ruin. Would it be wise to burn up the surplus, or dun p it into the sea? Or would it be wise to sit down and do nothirg a year or two, and consume the surplus in i lleness? Or will it be wise for the west to continue her abundant whea harvests, at 40 cents a bushel, and he south to produce her 8,000,000 to 10,000.000 vales of cotton each year, and sell It at less than the cost c production? Or for the Alabama fu rnaces to conitinuc to make pig iron a id sell it at 30.60 per ton, etc., etc. There is now t condition of things tha! cannot be i inched and cured by the vaporizing o congressmen or the labored, well w itten articlet of the newspapers and "eviews. Our greed tor gold has run us In this hole.“It’s money in your pocket” —the race to outstrip others—to produce more and c eappr good tjhat our competitors — combinations, ^cliques cheats, rum, rase Jity amd reciprocity. Compiling w th the half-starved

labor of Europe, we grind the laborlog men and women of this country beneath the upper and nether mill stones of our greed for gold and desire to beat our compeiitojr iu the rare. This same spirit is seen in all trades and marts. Now and then you will see that the cotton planters have, in eonvenlion assembled, resolved that they would only plant half ot the land usually put in cotton, and then each farmer thiukihg, that will be the case, and that therefore cotton will be high priced, thinks he will double his acreage and thereby grow rich. And thus lit goes each year with the ‘cotton planter, and with the wheat aipl iron producers, and so with the. manufacturing interests. ’ The sugar makers in Louisana have the best snap I know of, audit the sygar bounty holds on their fortune is made. By the way, can’t the government give ihe iron and wheat and cotton and rice producers a good nice bounty? Can’t they give us preachers a bounty on our couverts, and the negroes a bounty oh their children and dogs. How I wish this government was not bankrupted! H<yv sorry I am that Mr. Carlisle is just at ihi? lime trying to borrow money at 5 per cent interest. Some of us bad hopes o borrowing from the government at 2 per cent. 1 know thatahe 2 cents per pound bounty oh sugar has given prosperity to the southern sugar planter, and if the government could cease to look to the people for its support and pilch m and support^ the people awhile, we could all be prosperous then.

me people oi hus great country never wrestled with the problems which now vex them. New and untiied problems in the commercial and financial world, like new diseases in the physical, Vex and puzzle' all ex perts and doctors. “LaGrippe,” with its ravages on the human system, and its hurtful after effects, puzzling all the physicians, finds iis parallel in, and therefore,jis akin to the disease now playing havoc in the commercial world. .No statesman can diagnose the trouble, and no remedy applied gires relief. “Time heals ail things' and time alone can give us the relief for which we ask. Tire questions of right and wrong does not enter Into the questions of the day. Commercial integrity, individual honor* and general worthiness have about played out. Money never so cheap, and never so hard to borrow. Merchants were never more eager to sell, and never so choice of their customer*. Capital and labor were never more distrustful to each otjier. Compacts gre broken,\ agreements made void, debts repudiated, until confideiiDc between man and man can no longer be based upon honor, but upon collaterals and forfeitures. ; We need moral, commercial and political legenera'ion. The work most begin in the individual. Even now. church membership is no guarantee integrity and honesty. If all? .the members of the church in this country get to heaven a fellow will have ttf sleep with Jiis breeches under his head every night. Birth and education are no guarantees of integrity. Sometimes “F. F. V." stands for “full-fledged vagaKnnH w

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