Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 June 1894 — Page 4

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Every democratic congressman froih Indiana will vote against any increase of tariff duties, but on the other hand will vote to decrease them, standing by the pleges made to the People in the campaign of 1892. When the senate bill is reported back to the house the sugar and all other jtrusts will receive a black-eye. When speaking of the low prices of farm products, and the general depressson of business* Republican orgaus seem to forget that the McKinley la w is still in force. It is to the discredit of a few democrats in tire United States Senates that the law has not beeu repealed, asuwell as to the entire Republican party who scarcely hold to McKinleyism. William M. Reed, editor of the Morris, Illinois, Sentinel, has been appointed postmaster of that place, jt is a just recognition of his services for the party during the several years which he has dona'ed to the cause in that republican stronghold. Mr. Keed is an old friend of the editor ot this paper and we wish him success abundant in his official life iu Uncle Sam’s service. The decision of the Supreme Court in the Indiana tax law cases puts the republican platform in a very dilapidated condition. This law which the platform denounces as “infamous,” provides enough revenues from corporations alone to nearly defray the entire expense of state government. The decisiou makes available in December l|2,500,000 of back taxes which the railroads of Indiana have been dodging for three years.

Thk democratic party promised tb.it it would take care of the laboring man, it the laboring man would only give it a chance by electing tbe party to pov\4r. What do the cbal miners ot this county tbink of the manner in which the democratic party is looking out for their interests.—Petersburg Press. Probably tbe editor of the Press yrill hear something drop at the November election, 1894. Some of the republicans have gone back on the miners in Pike county, and they will change the vote of 1892. Do you see (he point. "(Ve cannot afford to he to loud in ^sseyerntiug that foreigners are the bone aud sinew of Coxeyisra and Socialist agitation. We native Americans can he as restless, as lazy, as eager after new iancies as the foreigners. Coxey’s crowd had few immigrants. The greater part was composed of yiiiage loafers whose grandparents were Americans. Nearly all ihe Anarchists are foreigners. The Americans is seldom devlish. But there is * remnant of American life which is fickle,'adventurous aud foolish. It is thoroughly in evidence when a Coxey or Kelly army comes along. No law ever met a more hitter political opposition than the new tax law of Indiana'. As soon a§ the legislature adjourned the republican palters. which had opposed its passage, began denouncing it in the most exaggerated terms, and the uext republican convention “arraigned the democratic party of Indiana for enactir.g an e^ual aud unjust tax latv,” and pledged the party to pass a law “which shall place a just share of the

public burden on capital and incorporate property.” In every way the republican managers endeavored to deceive the people as to the effect of the law, even going to the extreme of increasing local taxes, wherever they had control, to an aggregate amount of a milllion and a half of dollars, and claiming the increase was due to the tax law. The recent state platform also condemns the law, and on behalf of the democratic party we accept the issue most heartily. The democratic party stands by the tax law.

TJ»e Kokomo Dispatch says; That “infamous” tax law is “one of the best things whatever happened” to the honest tax-pavers of Indiana. The tax law, the lee #11$ salary law and the anti-monopoly school book law were given to Indiana by the Democratic party. They have all been venomously assailed, and all have been triumphantly vindicated. Democracy is a tax—ou chronic tax dodgers. Thk Press believes that the American producer and laborer should be protected by a tariff on foreign imports aud the American laborer should he protected by the exclusion of pauper immigration from foreign countries.—Petersburg Press. For thirty years the republican party had full swing of the governmental affairs and yet they never passed a single law againstJmmigratlon, but instead encouraged aud welcomed “pauper labor.” In all these thirty years there was not a single law passed to protect the American laborer. Not one. Our republican friends are very desirous of letting local politics drop out of sight, and why shouldn’t they. It Is reasonable to suppose that they do not want the records shown up. Let’s see. Dpring the lightest taxation this county ever had, thanks to a democratic board of commissioners, there was something like 124 000 in cash on the first d^y of June, 1892. On the first day of June, 1894, with a high rate of taxation, there is % little oyer $17,000, With a low rate of tax ation $24,000, with a high rate of taxation, $17,000. That’s a difference of $7,000. At that yate it will only be a few years until the surplus in Pike county will be sunk. That’s local politics, afid right here at home.

The Press brought to light once more its wheat article which has been explained from time to time. The Democrat will renew its proposition to the editors to explain the decline of wheat from |1.0Q per bushel to fifty cents during the Harrison administration. When this is explained then the decline of five cents since the fourth ot March, 1893, will be explained. This has been the hobby of the Press. Will it now explain? The price of wheat was reduced iust one-half during the four years reign of Ben Harrison and so far under Cleveland it has fallen five cents, which has been.due to the harrier ot high protection thrown about the United States. This is what has kept wheat from being exported and nothing else. Ip the democratic party is in any way responsible fbr the present hard times as they are called, it is only so by allowing the evils of the republican administration to go unsmitten, The evils that beset us now cannot be atributed to something that has yet to be done. We are suffering from the effecjs of that* which has already been done. .The inquitions laws governing finance, tariff, etc, that were passed by republicans, and that are still upon tlie statute books, are the cause of our troubles, which are likely to continue until they are repealed. The past debauches of criminal legislation are the sources of trouble, and the sooner we get down to reform and reformation the better. It is as foolish to lay the present difficulties to laws which may be

• "fcwJKf ;' All Is not go)4 that glitters, but we give you bejow some prices that glitters. By paying * cash you can save from 10 to 25 percent on your money. The following are only a few of our low prices. Note the difference between Cash and Credit: w • ON TIME Beans,per pound ... ..—‘ 5c Bice, per pound .................... 10c Byrup, per gallon ............ .. §0c Virginia Sorghum, per gallon ... —... 85c Bacon, per pound....... ... ISg^c ... . Tomatoes, per can....:..».....:. 10c Best born,per can.............— 12&c Rolled Oats, per box..... 12’ tc Goal Oil,’per gallon....... 15c ^otatoefi. per bushel ..«. |1.00 Star Tobacco, per pound .... 50c Sledge Tobacco, per pound..— 40o Babbitt’s Lye, per can. 10c Granulated Sugar.....18 lbs for $1,00. 20 lbs for $1.00 Light Brown Sugar . 19 lbs for 1.00,21 lbs for 1.00 Teas, 5c 15c reduction per pound. V. We intend to do as nearly a cash business as possible and thereby give you the benefit of a large reduction in,prices by paying cash. Bring your money, gi*» us a trial and we will make you heppy. 1 Respectfully, T„ BE. VIEHE <£z CO., FOR CASH, 4c 6>*c 25c 30c 10c 8,Sc lie 11c 10c ^0c 4ac 37c 8>sC tors of the Gold Mine Grocery. Petersburg, Indiana.

passed by the democratic party sometime in 'he dim future, as it is for some men to get up in the morning with a btg head and lay it on to the cold water lie Is going to drink that day instead of the champague and whisky he drank the night before. Next Tuesday the republicans of the First district will make a second attempt at Ml. Vernon to nominate a candidate for congress. It yeill be remembered that at the Evansville

convention somettnue since that hotly adjourned without makiug * nomination after seventy five ballots had been taken. The fight is still on between Twineham, Hemeuway and Posey, with, the latter gentleman slightly in the lead. The convention will be a stormy one from start to finish. How can the democrats explain the present labor troubles. During republican times the laboring man and the capitalist bad protectmu. Factories and mines were in operation and laborers had employment. But now democracy holds tbe reigns of government. Factories and mines are closed.—Petersburg Press, j This is just the size of the average republican paper. The greatest strikes ever known has been • under the high protection McKinley tarift. From the beginning of the time when it become a law has not there been strike after strike. That tariff law was made at the instance of the piillionalre manufacturers, who promised increased wages to their workingmen. This was the ope strong plea of the barons. Did they do it? No. Their first act after the bill became a law was to reduce the yvages to pay the assessments made by the national republican coruipittee to carry on the campaign. The money due the laboring mep was used by the committee to carry the last presidential election, but it failed to materialize. The strikes now pending are the net result of that scheme. The millionaire coal barons want their iqoney hack with interest aud to do this they reduce the wages of the meu who work in tbe mines. In the above it wil| be noticed that “during republican times the laboring men and the capitalist had protection.” This sounds well. Wherein has the laboring men of the United States one iota of protection ? Is he protected by the McKinley bill aud the Winchester rifles? When and where was it. The laboring man has no protection only that that ho gives himself and nothing more.

Outlived Its Usefulness. A matter of mueh comment is the future of the republican party. Tilt beli f that the party ig going to pitces is increasing daily among the m<>st observing people. The LaPorte Argus says “if the party attempts to rally again under the flag ot high protection it will probably receive its dual quietus the first chance the people get at it. The Populists are as much opposed to protection as the Democrats, and they can be depended on to fight the republicans on that issue as lot g as it is presented. The united Democratic and Populist vote is £80 overwhelmingly in majority that the Republican opposition will be so manifestly futile that it cannot be held together. A party cannot be held in line on an issue that is certain to lose, and as the republicans have nothing else to hold them together uow that the cohesive power of public plunder is taken from them, the chance seems to be that the party will soon dissolve and reform into some other organization.” The republican organizations, held together for two campaigns by shameless fakes and ‘fajsfi. pretense, has simply outlived what usefulness it ever possessed and is going the way of the mauy similar parties that preceded it.

They are Peisou. We publish the following from the Logansport Pharos for what it is worth, although we are skeptical as to the truth of the statement: There are a few people in Logansport, perhaps, who have not seen the hundreds of large bugs which gather around the electric lights every evening of the wedk, and little attention is paid to them. There is something in connection with these bugs however, with which few people are acquainted. It is not generally known that they are capable of iuflicting a stiug almost as poisonous as that of au adder. The bug is a species of the tarantula, and its sting is as poisonous as that of the latter. They seldom sting any one, and never do so except in self defense; but people should be careful about handling them. At Tipton, recently, a young man lost his leg from the sting of an electric bug, the physical! being compelled to amputate the young man’s limb in order to save his life. This Is a splendid time of the year to cut the wftjbds and-clegn up the town in sreneral. The streets and i alleys should be looked after and all 1 rubbish removed.

BLAINE’S PBOPHECY. FOREBODINGS OF EVIL THAT HE PROBABLY DID NOT UTTER. jPNnataff He DHL the Conditions He Claimed Weald Brins Waiter, and Uke Camei Which Are Brlnclng UgM Out of Gloom Are Completely Reverted. The organs of monopoly axe giving currency, with reverential and sympathetic comment, to what purport* 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 some moment of despondency when his faculties were not at their best The prophecy is in ports or chapters. Chapter 1 in a jeremiad. It foretells rain 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 for bread; that the day must come when the great factories and manufactories of this land will be shut down, and where th&e 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 by “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 asms 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 hut educated” villains of the play, who will be bound for a thousand years, while 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 dramatio prophecy is now brought to the fore as well advanced toward the fullfilment of chapter 1 and fast approaching the fulfillment of chapters. 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 came 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 as 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 the dismal prophecy of evil, we are seeing more and more convincing proof that thq^predictions of the prophet were no less false than gloomy.—Chicago Herald.

landing 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 of 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 38 cents per bushel. The crops of 1892 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.—-Chi- j eago Herald. { ■:;> . • - *

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