Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 44, Petersburg, Pike County, 16 March 1894 — Page 4

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Pefibe Counts fttmimt Br n. Mcc. stoops. *»“The Plhe bounty Bemoernt hesthelarceetetmlatton ot any newspaper published In Pike County l Adrertisers will make a note of this fact! Entered at the postofllQe transmission through the class matter. in Petersburg for mails as sceondJTltlDAY, MAKCH 16.1894. ' Thebe's a wail going up. ,Aud the voters will have sonie fun at the city election. , The Press failed to send us one of their ‘.‘fire-arms ’’circulars last week. But well overlook the matter this time. _mm± At the coming city election a big ’ fight will be waged to reform the town and put it upon an economical ^ jjasis. Walk up to the treasurer’s office and pay your taxes, and then ponder over the high rate of taxes you are paying. , - Tpa Democrat office has been crowded with orders for job printing during the past week from the business men of Petersburg. Firstciass work and good stock guaranteed. At the last meeting of the town }>oard there was no business transacted except as. to allowing bills to the ^mount of $313 78. And still*the sidewalks pf Petersburg are in a deplorable condition and In many places none»at^n^^^^^^^ pH, my l listen to the song of the republican feandidate for city office. No democrat can be elected, they think, and a great hurrah is going on. And the town treasury is empty and orders are still being floated. There’s nothing like it. The mass convention of our republican friends to nominate candidates for town officers will occur Monday evening, April 9ih. The fight is a mer- . ,.y one and there promises to be plenty pf fun and several scalps taken. Candidates for marshal are springing up every day from every quarter; The song of the republican candidate is that he has served his party well for years, gave freely of his bardparned money to help the cause along; neyer bees a candidate before and should have a return for his time and money spent in years past and gone. Certainly give them all a nomination and let them circulate a littlle more among the boys.

' The trouble will end Thursday evening, May 3d. That is the republicans jyili hold their primary election on that day to pominate candi^©8 for county offices to be slaughtered at the November election. The numerous candidates are working like beavers and some very slick work is going on, Kpep you% ears open and listen to tliemu^ic. r Thk farmer buys just as much today with ^ bushel of wheat as tyjeyefdid In his life. Supply and demand regulates the prices ol all commodities.—Thk DemocratHow many farmers believe that? For instance, wlll one bushel of wheat at 50 cents pay as rpuch taxes as one bushel at a dollar, which wa?the price p|r bushel the democrats promised? Not a bit pf it.—Pr^^s. a Well, of course, in Pike county it is somewhat different. Republicanism seems to be $ tax, and Jhe dear people must pay it. The levy was raised since the democratic party let go in this county, and more than that it will be raised again in September. Remember that republicanism in ■ pike county is a tax. Nothing else j peed be said on the subject than to pead the allowances made bv the board of commissioners of Pike . iwvMj

USE COMMON SENSE. Both houses of congress will incpr just reproach unless something is done to check the practice ot filibustering. The senate has, with what to the plain people closely resembles Stupidity, dropped the subject since 'the silver debate. The house is apparently inclined to make no preparaturn for another situation like that of the seigpiorage bill. The senate needs a new rule. The house needs nothing but a commonsense interpre;atiou of rules already in force. In t he house the trouble arises over a quorum. The federal constitution J and the rules set forth in the plainest language how even small juniority ! can compell the attendance of a quorum. But right here is a strange hiatus in the practice which has obtained. From the first congress it has been held that the house has a right to have every member present:? It is ridiculously illogical to leave' that right so imperfect. There is but one purpqse in compelling the presence of members, and that is to insure j the transaction ot business. If after the hopse secures a quoruiq it can take no cognizance of the presence of a quorum, there is no earthly use in the barren right of enforcing attei dance. \ .

Mr. Johnson of Ohio made last week the poiut of order that certain members were present, and i asked permission to send to the desk and have read a list of mejpbers who should be-recorded as present. The speaker ruled that it could be done only by unanimous consent. We cannot believe that the speaker had fully considered the point made by Mr. Jopngpu. If a member desired to be excused from voting because he had a personal interest in the question; or it another member made the point ot order that he had an interest and should be excused, there would be no! controversy over his being recordedj as present and not voting. * J It is clearly within the province of j the house and ol the present rules for' the house to take cognisance of the presence of a quorum. Members present and not voting are violating the rules. They can be punished even by imprisonment it the house chooses 10 proceed to that extremity. Surely the milder course of putting on record for the purposes qf a quorum the presence ot all members in the hall is easily the right of the house. It is not necessary to begin a roll call de noyo to ascertain the presence of a quorum. The rules already admit that a call can be continued when the interim is so slight that no dauger of confusion will arise. Mr. Johnson had the right fo call the attention of the house to the fact of the presence of members not voting, an.d tne house had the right to have the fact recorded. If the practice of the house has not established a precedent, the time has come for the establish moot of a precedeut to fit the occasion. r Will both houses blindly go on until emergencies call out the dangerous and arbitrary intervention of the speaker and the vice president, to accomplish in the wrong way what the houses themselves can do peacefully and logically ? The senate is about take lip the tariff bill—-unless it i$ sidetracked by its enemieg. The. house may at any time get into a conflict with a filibustering minority of non-voters. There shoulcf be ample preparation for securing a progress of business—not by arbitrary devices of presiding officers, but by action of etfch house itself. As Speaker Crisp has stated, the presiding officer is the servant of the house and the mere administrator, of its rules. It Is the business of ttife senate to give the majority power to transact business by bringing a question to vote under proper safeguards^ It is the business of the house of representatives to take notice of the presence of quorum when the quorum is actually present. ■ \ '■

Unless the Americanism has been lost in the tangle of red tape, the members of both houses must realize something of the disgust which pervades the country over the wretched delays which have beep allowed to stand between the will of the people and the accomplishment of results. If the situation of the country demands a session of congress at all, it demauds action. It demands that the senate adopt rules for action, and that the house nse the rules it already has adopted.—St. Louis Republic. Week by week the list of mills which have resumed work grows longer, and before the dasies bloom it will be difficult to find an idle mill. The scare was a big one and it took a long time to shake it off, but common sen^p has come to the rescue and it is now almost gone.

A G11E4T BLESSING, tMOW THE GREEDY SUGAR TRUST PROTECTS THE PUBLIC.

It Maintain* a Bieh Price For Refined Eaptr While t te Raw Material Declines. Consumers Fl eeced, Labor Tyrannized and Legislators Bribed. We have often heard of the blessings of trusts—how they pan cheapen the selling price of articles by practicing the “economics of production,” which can only pome from the concentration of capital; how t iey can make better and purer articles by gaining control of patents, etc.; how they can regulate supply so as to preven t the terrible evils (to the constituents o the trust) of “overproduction,” and how they can accomplish many other n arvelous and beneficent things. But upon close investigation all of these theore ical blessings vanish, and the trust is seen to be a selfish, greedy aggregation of capital bent on ruining competitors by fair or fool means and t- on fleecing producers of raw materials at one end of the line and consumers of finished products at the other end. It checks or prevents the natural decline in prices if it does not advance them, often considerably; it becomes the chief buyer of raw materials and can dictate prices for them; it can, by means of rebates and other forms of bribes and penalties, compel its customers to purchase only of it; it is the only employer of labor in its line and can arbitrarily fir the rates of yrages and the houre of labor; it can close up half of its mi Is and throw labor out of employment in order to “regulate” prodaemon and ‘sustain” prices; it pan appropriate a 3 percentage of its millions of capital to “influence” municipal, state and national legislation; it can evade state corporation tgxes and at the same time secure federal (tariff or excise) taxation worth millions to it; it can water its stock to many times its actual value to make it morp attractive to Wall street speculators; it can sell cheaper to unprotected and untaxed foreigners than to protected md taxed citizens. All of these things and many others just as crooked can the trust do, and it usually does them to the full extent of its power. The old fashioned corporation was heartless. The modem trust is both heartless and conscienceless. When it camot make its own laws, it breaks the laws of the people. It is at once a tyrant a robber, a traitor and an anarchist of the most dangerous type. But now wt hear of a really good trust —one that is performing a most useful function during these hard times. We ijuote from W Lllett& Gray’s Sugar Trade Journal of Aug. 17: “From what we have said aboukraws it will be noted that the production is being adjusted to demand. Europe goes up and down in prices as speculators make the moves; but as refined was not advanced on “he last European up movement from 15s. 6d. to 16s. 6d., so there is no occasion for reducing prices on Europe’s decline again to 15 shillings. Under the present nervous strain in all commercial business it is indeed a blessing to find one article that does not make violent fluctuations. Grocers can order with confidence such an amount of refined as they can readily dispose of with out fear of suffering loss while in process of distribution.” What a blessing to be under the protecting wings of a powerful trust which is able to overcome uncertain fluctuations, and y hich, assisted by a duty of a half cent per pound on refined sugar, can guarantee not to reduce prices of refined, no mattep what may hempen to raw sugars at hpmeor to prieesof refined sugars abroad. Observe the beauties Of steady prices! The price of granulated sugar on this date—Aug. 80—is 5.09 cents. It has not changed since July 27. For raw sugar (96 degrees centrifugal) 8*50 is asked, but “the offering seems indifferent,” says The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, “the buyer making a standoff with apparent intention of weakening the value line if possible.” The samej ouraal says: “Refined, it is believed, would find a very full and even an interesting demand if worked down to somewhere near a parity of raws. Even as if is, apd while paying an immense tribute into the coffers of the combine, buyers are taking hold with some freedom hi meeting their absolute wants.” On June 22 the price of raw was 4-50; of granulated, 5.27. Willett & Gray’s Journal, a semiofficial organ of the trust, then said wamingly: “Production of refined will continue on a smaller scale than heretofore, independent of the question of supplies. Any further difficulty with workmen might even induce a temporary closing of some refineries, although this is pr°h»hlynpt contemplated new.”

At the time of this threat a striae was pn in the Havemeyer refinery, in Brooklyn, where the men refused to work 12 hours a day during summer in rooms heated to 150 degrees. The previous Summer 500 men had been carried from these rooms, several dozen of whom died. This year, when the same stewing process began, the men objected to bping offered up as a sacrifice to the greed of the trust and petitioned the great Havemeyer to grant them shorter home. “I’ll be daunted if we will do it!” said the sugar ling. Since then the trust has had closed for a part pf the time nearly all of its refineries. On A ug. 20 the New York Press said: “Several thousand hands in the sugar refineries in Williamsburg have been laid off since Tuesday. Excitement prevails among them, and they say starvation stares them in the face. It is said that before the coming week has passed all the refineries will be shut down. The wages j&rned by the men, who are mostly Pole3, vary from $ 1.25 to $1.50 a day. On this small income many keep large families. Each week’s earnings are entirely consumed, and as a result the suf

fering among them will be very great, as no definite time is given for the refineries tQ start np again.” This is the way in which the beneficent trust has been able to steady the price of refined sugar so that in more than two months it has declined less than one-fifth of a cent, while raw, thanks to the '!$tandoff” qualities of the trust’s buyer, has declined fully 1 cent. It costs less that nine-sixteenths of a cent per pound to refine sugar. We consume an average of 70 pounds per capita. Hence at present prices the trust is making at the rate of about $50,0Qb,000 profit per year on its capital, watered from about $50,000,000 up to$T5,00Q,000. A most beautiful arrangement for the refineries! But they cannot maintain so wide a difference between raw and refined sugars forever, for foreign refined can be profitably imported at 5.09 cents aftei; pairing the duty of one-half cent. If it were not for this duty, granulated sugar could not sell for more than 4.50

cents. This duty was given to the trust by McKinley and Aldrich in consideration of a prospective financial aid to be given to the Republican party. It has been openly charged by Colonel McClure that the trust fought the battle in Rhode Island that re-elected Senator Aldrich, and that it contributed to the national Republican campaign corruption fund in 1892. Probably it did contribute $100,000 or $200,000 to aid its friends. But what a bargain! The half cent duty is worth $20,000,000 a year to the trust. We wish to call the attention of Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee to the great fortune which the trust makes each year out of this half cent duty and remind him that it is paid by the 65,000,000 unwilling subjects of the trust jn this country. We would remind him that they prefer fluctuating and low prices to steady and high prices; also that the tariff in this case has become what the New York Tribxjne calls an “instrument of ^extortion” not only from consumers, but also from producers of raw sugars and from laborers in refineries. It is the duty which gives life to the trust and enables it to choke off competition by bnving up new refineries at exorbitant prices. & Because the trust is the only buyer of raw sugars on this side of the Atlantic it dictates prices so that, while refined is always higher, raw sugar is invariably lower here than in Europe. And when the trust has to purchase in Europe—as it does every year—it always pays more than the American price for the same grade of raw sugar. We have seen how the trust, being the only employer, can tyrannize over laborers. It is omnipotent. Workingmen who arfe not fortunate enough to know another occupation must either starve or submit to its terms and be roasted alive. We wish also to remind Attorney General Olnev that the trust is a most .flagrant violator of the federal antitrust law, whiph makes illegal “every contract, ppmbination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy in restraint of trade or commerce among the several states or with foreign nations.” Not only does this own 90 per cent of the refineries east of the Rocky mountains, but it has for some time been a joint owner with Spreckels of the two refineries on the Pacific coast. It conspired to obtain coptrol of. the Spreckels refinery in San Francisco by offering Spreckels a big salary and half of the profits if he would combine his refinery, with 1,600 barrels capacity, with the trust’s refinery there, with 2,000 barrels capacity. He accepted and is now manager of the Western Sugar Refineries company—the western end of this Sugar trust. It is such a vigorous end that it never sells for prices lower than those in the east, and at one time (July 8,1892) its price for granulated sugar was 5j when the eastern price was only 4J cents. Messrs. Wilson and Olney, don’t forget this most beneficent trust I Byron W. Houf, Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder Most Perfect Made.

Administrator’s Sale of Personal Property. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned administrator of the estate of George Willis, Hr., will offer for sale at public auction at the late residence of the deceased in Madison township. Pike county, Indiana, on FRIDAY. MARCH 23d, 1894. All of the personal property of said estate consisting of one mare, cow, wagon, household and kitchen furniture and other articles. Trrms op Sale.—On all sums of five dollars and over a credit of'six months will be given, the purchaser givingnote with approved security, bearing six per tent interest after maturity and on all sums of less than five dollars cash on day of sale. Sale to begin at 10 o’clock a. m. Geobob W. Shoultz, 43-3 Ad unnistrutor. Richardson & Taylor, Atty’s. Notice of Administration Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed by the clerk of the circuit court of Pike county, stku of Indiana, administrator of the estate of George Willis, Sr., late of Pike comity, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent March. 1,1891. Gjsokgb W. Shoultz, 42-3 Administrator. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. In the matter oP the estate of Sarah Ferguson, deceased. In the Pike Circuit Court, Mi rch term, 1894. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned as administrator of the estate of Sarah Ferguson, deceased, has presented and filed his account and vouchers in final settlement of said estate, and the same will come op for the examination and action o ' sain Circuit Court on the 16th day (f March, 1894, at which time all persons interested in said estate are required to appear in said Court-, and show cause, if any there be, why said accounts and vouchers should aot oe approved. And the heirs of said es tate, and all others interested therein are also required. at the time and place afo -esaid, t< appear and make proof of their heirship oi claim to any part of said estate. WILLIAM H. THOMAS, February 28,1894, Admialstrator Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria.

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Castoria. « Castoria is an excellent medicine for children. Mothers hare repeatedly told m» olf ita good effect their children.'* .if- Pa Q. C. Osoooj, ’ Lowell, lias?. M Castoria is the best remedy for children of which I am acquainted. I hope the day is not far distant when mothers will consider the real interest of their children, and use Castoria instead of the various quack nostrums whiah are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful Agents down iheir throats, thereby sending them to premature graves.” Da. J. F. Einchxlos, Conway, Ark.

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