Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 June 1894 — Page 4

—- gnu gifef County democrat Hr Hc€. STOOPS. By The Pike County Democrat ha» the lar* teat circulation of aajr newspaper published la Pike t'ounly! Advertiser* will make a note of tklaract: Entered at the postofttce In Petersburg for transmission through the mails as seeondcluss matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 1.1894. Senator Vorhees introduced a bill last Saturday iu the senate that all persons who receive pensions rated by the existing laws at less than $12 per month shall have their pensions increased to that amount. No widows’ pension shall be less than $12. High taxation in Pike county must cease and the rate must be cut dowu. Extravagant expenditures should be cut off and the affairs run on au economical basis. All contracts should be given to the lowest responsible bidder, who can turnish bond for the faithful performance of the work.

The validity and constitutionality of the law passed by the Indiana legislature in }891 providing for the appraisement of railroad property by a state board for that special class of property were sustained by the supreme court of the United States in an opinion delivered by Justice Brewer. ' It is not a question of national affairs that rule the destinies of Pike county. The people should have and will have capable and efficient officers. Loq*l affairs will have much to do in the November election, notwit hstanding the leaders of the republican party of Pike county are frying to smother their home affairs. The people will not be misled. The tact that the republicans are finding so much fault with the sena'e tarifl bill should in itself in a measure p reconcile democrats to it. It is not all that was hoped for, it is true, but after passed through the conference committee, where the concessions to trust will be eliminated, it will be such a measure as all democrats can endorse as the deathblow to McKinley ism. The Pike Countv Democrat entered on its twenty-fifth year, Friday, May 18th, 1894. It is one of the best weekly papers on our exchange list, and Mr. M. McC.Stoops ks|able editor deserves the thanks and praise of tfie Democracy of Pike county for his earnest effort in the great cause of the common people. Every democrat in Pike county ought to take it, and aid Me in his good work— Boonville Enquirer.

The Rock port convention was the largest political convention eyer held by the democrats of the First district outside of the city of Evansville. The appearance among the delegates aud the old,-time reliable workers of the younger generation of democrats, active and zealous, was exceedingly gratifying in itself, but especially for the reason that it is the premonition of certaiu victory in this district in November.—Evansville Courier. Col. Oliphant, town treasurer, handed us an itemized statement last week of the town’s business. It shows that there are bonds to the amount of $10 350 outstanding; four orders to the amount of $2,000, and % town orders outstanding to the amount of $575. To this is added the interest, $428 85. total, $13.354 25. Deduet from this the school house bond and bond fund on hand, $459.46 and it leaves a debt of $12,894.79 according t,o the figures as handed to The Democrat. The Press and its svsmpathizers are making, great efforts to relieve themselves of the miners strike in Pike countv and lay it a(l at the door Of the democrats of this county. To be short in the matter it is a lie, manufactured out of whole cloth. Who and what party has exaggerated the affairs of the strike? No democrat has sent out the telegrams to pity papers" telling the people of the world a* large what a horrible set of people Pike county contains, and wbat monsters these miners are, who Would kill and de#roy property. .The article in jthe Press sounds well, but down deep in his heart the editor of the Press knows full well just why Jthe article was^written. Certainly Jie does. It is dollars and cents to Join at this time. If the, lying re ports sent out from this city were suppressed not half the trouble iit Pike county would have taken place. The Press should take a hold stand Jo suppressing this matter. 'lhe joiners at Littles want no trouble but v ant the s'rike adjusted agreeably Jo both, the operator and the miners, is reasonable to suppose that

the operator does also. The democratic party of Pike does not seek to injure anyone in this matter whatever, and has taken no hand in the trouble, and the less said by the Press on the subject the better for some of the members of its party. To make ! political capital out of these men who are out in -sympathy for the other mining seotions and for the scale price would bean act of ingratitude from any political party or set of men. If there is politics in it such papers as the Press are the first to raise the cry and lay the blaine on another’s shoulders. It will not work.

Local Issue* will not cut much .figure In Pike county any more than they have done elsewhere. Local will be overshadowed b.v national issues. The cry of. the people Is “Down with democracy.”—Petersburg Press. The above is only one of (he few Uems which the Press is now using as a means to save the republican 1 party from downfall in this county ihis fall. “Local issues will be overshadowed.” Well, will they? The people know* when they are paying high taxes and what party made them. Petersburg has a big debt and so has Pike county, and the republican party made it. Pike county is now controlled by republicans. Instead of decreasing the rate ot tax ation it has been increased, and at the next September session the rate will certainly hnye to be increased. If it is not increased it will be solely for political effect, and county orders will once more bear the inscription oil the back “Not paid for the want ot funds.” These few words have been written oh town orders for some time past, and yet “local issues will be overshadowed.” The editor of the Press can rest assured that “the people of Pike county are intelligent and widewake,” and they know when they are overburdened with high taxes. During the republican ad ministration of affairs in Pike county, it has been one continual drain upon the county treasury, and the peoof Pike county are getting tired of ke'epiug a lot of looking-for-sotl-job-snaps, and at the polls in November will set these fellows adrift to look out and feed themselves. The allowances made by the board of count) commissioners during the past few years will tell the coming year. Docs the editor of the Press desire to defend the act of the boaid of commissioners and republican officers as a whole? It will have the grand opportunity in the very near future.

The complacency wi.h which a few bankers ami commercial men assume to themselves alt of the wisdom upon the coinage question would be amusing it its consequences were not so injurious to the general welfare. We suppose any man who reflects and thinks will see at once that the interest of the bankers is to have just as little competition in the business of selling money or metal uWl as money as possible,. We might as well expect to receive wise counsels from the stockholders ot the Sugar Trust on the tariff' question as to expect wise counsels from baukerson the money question. Both are monopolists of the most offensive kind. It is impossible for either to cousider any ques.ion except frotfr+fie point ot view of their pocket interests. Therefore any fiscal policy advocated by the bankers should he looked upon by all rational people with suspicion. They will no more abandon their power over the currency until they are forced to do so bv the votes of ail the people than the Sugar Trust will abandon its system of robbery made possible by the tariff laws. Neighborhood- gossip is about the worst pest that a town or community can be infested with. It causes strife and hard feelings among neighbors and friends, and keeps up a continual annoyance in the community. Good friends and neighbors can be wrought asunder and the bonds of friendship biokeirby this seemingly involuntary tongue wrgging. But it seems that some people are never satisfied, and think they have not done their part in this world, until they hare told someone all they know about another —and some times more. They seem to be like a little rubber balloon; when they get so full of news, they have to tell someone else or they will explode; so B is with the little balloon, when it gets so full of air it has to find some means for it to escape or it will burst. “The first virtue, if thou wilt learn, Is to restrain, and keep well thy tongue ” Oakland City has a metropolitan correspondent as well as Petersburg, who is on the sensatiou order. Last Thursday’s papers contained big accounts of there being a terrible riot at the Little’s mines and three me*) killed and several severelv injured. The facts are that there were two or three fights between the non-union and union men, hut nothing of a serious nature. These twenty-five ceut liars should he suppressed.

BLAINE’S PROPHECY. FOREBODINGS OF EVIL THAT HE PROBABLY DID NOT UTTER.

rnwmln[ He Did, the Conditions He Claimed Weald Bring Disaster, and the Causes Whleh Are Bringing Light Oat of Gloom Are Completely Reversed. The organs of monopoly are giving currency, with reverential and sympathetic comment, to what purports to be a prophecy uttered by the late James G. Blaine at some time not stated. The prophecy carries internal evidence of forgery, for Mr. Blaine, with all his faults, was master of a tolerably correct and vigorous style. But possibly it is genuine. Mr. Blaine may have uttered it in same moment of despondency when his faculties were not at their best. The prophecy is in two parts or chapters. Chapter 1 in a jeremiad. It foretells ruin and desolation. Chapter 2 is jubilant The owl and the bat fly away, and all is sunshine and prosperity once more. In chapter 1, after describing the happy state of the American laborer, the prophet exclaims: “I shudder, however, at the thought that the time must come when all this will be changed; when the general prosperity of the country will be destroyed; when the great body of workingmen in this land, who are now so prosperous, will hear their wives and children cry far bread; that the day must oome when the great factories and manufactories of this land will be shut down, and where there is now life and activity there will be the silence of the tomb. ” This must come to pass, the prophet exclaims, because the people, led astray hy “visionary but educated men,” will put the Democratic party in power with free trade instructions, and that, too, “in the very near future.” Then the calamity cloud will burst Business men will decline to engage in business. Mills will shut down, and workingmen will be thrown out of employment and misery will everywhere abound. But (chapter 2) in the midst of their wretchedness the people will suddenly see a great light They will see that in the mountain high taxes of McKinley lies their only salvation. They will fly to the arms of the Republican party, put their trust in Bill McKinley, Tom Reed and Ben Harrison, and find relief and plenty and unalloyed happiness forevermore. And so ends the prophetic melodrama, everybody delighted except the wicked and malevolent Democrats and the “visionary but educated” villains of the play, who will be bound for a thousand years, whilo the virtuous will wax fat by robbing each other and everybody else, with none to molest or make them afraid, all the days of their lives, and their children and children’s children will do likewise. This highly dramatic prophecy is now brought to the fore as well advanced toward the fullfilment of chapter 1 and fast approaching the fulfillment of chapter 2. But if one will take the trouble to look at it a moment he will perceive that all the shutting down of mills and factories and all the consequent loss of employment c*une while the McKinley tariff, the highest and most “protective” we have ever had, was in full force and effect. He will also perceive that as the prospect of a much lower tariff grows brighter and the time for it to take effect draws nearer the mills and factories are opening again, and the indications of renewed and increased prosperity are appearing on every hand. Instead of witnessing fulfillment of tho dismal prophecy of evil, we are seeing more and more convincing proof that the predictions of the prophet were no less false than gloomy.—Chicago Herald.

Invading the World's Markets. While some of the “conservatives” in, the senate are afraid of free iron ore, The Iron Age and other trade journals are discussing the capacity of our iron manufacturers to invade the markets of the world with their wares. The Iron Age, which is a stanch protectionist journal, said on March 29: “We are sure that few Americans familiar with our'resources and our methods are not convinced that the manifest • destiny of the United States is to become the greatest manufacturing country in the world.,, What we have accomplished in some branches of agriculture and of industry is merely a forerunner of the great achievements which the next generation will bring. ” The editor thinks our prices will, after one more turn, be “on a parity with the industrial market, ” and that then, with better banking facilities, better consular service and more attention to foreign trade, we may expect to hold our own in the markets of the world. We are now, in fact, exporting millions of dollars’ worth @f iron and steel products — agricultural implements, stoves, sewing machines, saws, axes and nearly all kinds of tools, locomotives and, within a few weeks, pig iron from Alabama to England. It is, then, no wonder that even protectionist journals are waking up to the fact that with free raw materials and our protection bands removed we can challenge competition from all quarters in all quarters of the earth. Potato Protection. The organ of the American Protective Tariff league gives prominence to the statement that the price realized by farmers for last year’s crop of potatoes at a New Hampshire shipping point has been 87 cents per bushel, against 70 cents for the crop of 1892, all owing to the Wilson bill. The McKinleyites must be desperately short of points when they claim that the Wilson bill, which will not be a law before next July, reduced the price of last year’s potato crop 33 cents per bushel. The crops of 1893 and 1893 were both alike protected by the McKinley tariff. The fall on last year’s crop merely shows how the McKinley tariff does not protect the farmer.—Chicago Herald.

AMERICAN WOOL IN ENGLAND. With the Kemoral of the Iteiff the Home Product Wifi Advance In Price. The political woolgrowers who still proclaim that higher duties on wool are needed to bring back higher prices will hereafter produce but little effect upon the common sense real woolgrower. In addition to the fact that lower prices have followed higher duties, we have at last, under the highly protective McKinley duties, begun to export wools in considerable quantities, showing that I the prices of our wools are new not only | as low as but a little lower than the prices of similar foreign wools. On April 8 the following report was ! sent out from Washington: The American consul at Bradford, England, reports to the department of state that an endless amount of gossip has been caused there during the last six weeks by the offering for sale of large quantities of American wool. Several lots of Ohio wool, aggregating 50,000 pounds, were reported among the purchases. One Bradford firm, which bought 5,000 pounds, paying for the various grades from 223^ to 26 cents per pound, said the wool gave perfect satisfaction, so much so, in fact, that it was | holding it for higher prices. The purchaser explained to the consul that the American skin wools were es- ! pecially adapted for hosiery yams and were equal to the finest English crossbreds, the only thing that has kept their | price down being, in his opinion, the fact that American manufacturers have not i fully mastered the manipulation of the skin or pulled wools which are taken from the sheep after death. As a general thing, the prices of American wools of all grades are now practically the same as those of the similar English grades. The’manufacturers in Bradford assert that the moment the tariff bill becomes a law the prices of American wools will revive, and several of them are so strong in this belief that they have.made large investments in wool now held in Philadelphia and Boston. They insist that the new impetus given to manufactures by free raw material will cause larger quantities of the United States grown article to be mixed with the fine foreign wools, and that the demand for American wools for hosiery purposes will im-. mediately set in on the English market It is already proposed by wool dealers in England to exchange the grades of wool ! more suitable for dress good and cloths . for the American wool adapted for hos- [ iery and other purposes. They argue | that this will at onco bring about re- ! newed activity in the trade and raise ■ prices. Over 250, 000 pounds of AmeriI can wools are now offered in tho Bradford market at prices which cannot be accepted until there is a prospect for disposing readily of the manufactured product

Protection and Distress In France. Three years ago the French proteci tionist Meline betrayed parliament into the passing of a law as destructive as the McKinley robbery. Anarchism had no name, no adherents, until the industrial torture of that law begun to madden the proletaire, for in France, ..s in the United States, it is the rich who benefit by the tariff exactions. In all thw industrial towns of the republic tha same results are seen that followed the McKinley law. The favored few prosper; the millions arc without work. The proletaire—the workmen — always easily misled, were the first to hail the tariff as an instrument in their favor. They are now realizing the actual effect. While work was abundant and well paid under a nominal tariff, work is at an end, and idleness holds seven-tenths of t%3 industrial ranks in starvation. The tariff has obliterated a great percentage of the export trade with the rest of Europe. Wailing and despair are heard from every province. Yet Meline has just carried a law to add an additional tax on grain to protect the farmer. Trade with Spain is almost extinguished. Swiss trade with France has fallen off one-half. Italy and the rest of Europe are cutting down every day the importation of French handiwork, and yet the McKinley spirit is defiant and aggressive. It is the confusion of the uneducated million therefore that gives apparent strength to the anarchist group, for the proletaire, having been assured that protection was going to give him work and high pay, concludes that the present condition of society is all wrong when the laws he has been made to believe favorable to himself only end in giving the bourgeoisie bigger profits and labor less recompense.—New York World. Protection and Plutocracy. Until the civil war brought upon us the series of high tariffs that began with Morrill’s and ended with McKinley’s the wealth of the United States was pretty evenly divided not only as between north and sonth, east and west, but also as between the two great interests — agriculture and manufactures. The Democratic party had been in substantially continuous ascendancy in the government from the inauguration of Washington to that of Lincoln. Its leadership and legislation were all that time untainted with the corrupt influences of the great ve'sted interests that1 are nowadays based on the protective system, and which, as Senator Voorhees justly said in his speech opening the debate in the senate, have succeeded in placing it “under the duress of a small majority” of that body. —-Baltimore Sun. Senatorial Insincerity. Referring to Senator Allison’s opposition to free wool and the proposed reduction in the duties on woolen goods, the Savannah News (Dem.) says: “Why is it that congressmen are not sincere in dealing with great pnblic questions? Senator Allison knows that his constituents favor duties that will enable them to buy clothing at lower prices, and unless his views have undergone a great change in recent years he is also in favor of such duties. He upholds the high protective system of his party, however, and he does so because he lacks the courage of his convictions. ”

Special Sale for 15 Days! The Rodgers Shoe Company has been overstocked with $150,000 worth of Shoes and Slippers

And a part of this immense stock has been shipped to Petersburg and placed on sale at i And will be sold to the people oi this section at the lowest possible margins. This great sale begins May 19th and will continue for fifteen days only. i AMONG THE BARGAINS YOU WILL FIND 177 pairs Ladies’ Pateftt Tip Slippers, 74c. 98 pairs Ladies’ Fine Slippers, 99c. 278 pairs Ladies’ Shoes, 98c. 89 pairs Ladies’ Fancy Shoes, $1.38. 300 pairs Children’s Shoes, 24c. I 124 pairs Children’s Shoes, 48c. . 1 84 pairs Men’s Buckle Plow' Shoes, 98c. Jim Corbet Shoes, 99c. ’ - I And so on through the entire line you will find bargains. These goods must be sold and the above prices cannot bei duplicated in Petersburg. Look for the 2few York One: Price Store. MAX BLITZBR, Proprieto

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