Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 18, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 September 1894 — Page 3

1 —- JHu §? ifet Cotmitj §n>wmt M- McC. STOOPS, Editor and ProprietorPETERSBURG. - - INDIANA. TOO LATE. J^ey strewed flowers so thick above his grave There was not room for more; Unstinted were the words of praise they gave. And many wept him sore. Yet he had lived among them many years. Nor had he ever known The oft-desired sympathy of tears. Or the inspiring tone. " They had been very Quick to note the flaws That-marred his daily life. .▲las! they seldom sought to know the cause. Or aid him in his strife. "What did it matter that he nightly grieved O'er faults that yet were strong? Or that against great odds he still believed In right, instead of wrong* j What though he hungered for some word of praise? And longed for loving smiles* r Unhelped they let him climb life’s steepest ways. And grope through weary miles. But when his ears were deaf, and hli nd his eyes, Then did they speak him fair: Did all their wakened kindness could devise. And left love's tribute there. • O friends, if in your hearts there is to-day Some little love for me. Wait not to speak it o'er my coffined clay. When I shall heedless be. Give me while living of the love I crave. And if ye must condethn. Speak your harsh censures o'er my open grave When lam dead to them. . I shall not need your praises then, but now Even a tender touch. Although I may not know just why or how. Hath power to help so much. Bury me if you will in poor estate, I shall not count it wrong; 1 But give me love in life, nor let me wait In loneliuess so long. —Robert Wittaker, in N. Y. Evangelist.

7l,lrw£ \ ^•OUR or five of us were in a ■ private parlor j in the Palace £ hotel, San Francisco, and

,'the most silent fellow of the party was Maj. Hilton, who had rarelv opened his mouth unless to moisten it with some beverage. “Major,” said Bob White, as he extended to him a box of cigars, “have a weed, and then tell us how you happened to leave Nugget City.” The major selected a cigar, lighted it, took a fresh drink, and then graveljj/told the following remarkable story; i “Nugget City had sprung up immediately aiter the^bpnstruction of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. It had become a place of note even before a plow, drawn by a yoke of steers, had -done marking out the principal streets, and the first office building, made of unplaned pine wood, boro over the narrow entrance the following information: ‘Geo. W. Hilton, Attorney at Law.’ “The blacksmith’s shop, the nucleus round which the country town usually springs, had not been built when-J wrote that sign with blacking and a paint brush. * “A stranger, in commenting, in' a : good-natured way, upon the seeming haste in setting up a lawyer’s office, said: „ “ ‘I always thought that the lawyer was a sort of unavoidable evil of the -old settlements; and never before had -cause to suppose that he was a necessity to an embryo community.’ “•‘That’s all well enough,’ a lank fellow leaning against a tree answered, ‘but mebby you don’t know these here fellows here like we do. We know mighty well that there's goin’ to be a .good deal of cuttin’ an’ shootin’ here before many houses are put up, and as we air a law-abidin’ set of folk, we’ll want the lawyer to git us out of scrapes.’ “Well, one house went up after an•other, or, if you will, one house went *up before another, until Nugget City • -had the appearance of quite a settle- -—_

“WHAT CAN I DO FOR TOl'?” smeitt. The blacksmith pot down to his work, the justice of the peace stacked up his worthless books, and I pleaded the cause of the miscreant. I •grew with my surroundings, and soon -held a mortgage on a pretty fair crop •of potatoes, grown by the mau that had dug the town w^U, and who had, at an idle and dull time, stabbed the fellow that had stood on the top and received the buckets of earth. “A courthouse was built, and other lawyers came and reared their edifices, and the scent of much necessary litigation was sniffed in the air, but no attorney, however aspiring he might 4m, tried te place himself upon a li bi

gious par with your humble servant—I ranked as the William M. Evarts or Joseph H. Choate, of Nugget City. “One day, while the town was fitfully dosing under the glare cf a mercilessly hot sun, a great commotion arose in the street I sprang up from my pine table and hastened to the door. Here I was confronted by a party of noisy men. Some were declaiming in high tones, some were muttering, and all were swearing. , “ ‘We want to come in,’ said the leader of the gang, addressing himself to me. ‘“All right, gentlemen,’ I replied, stepping back and bowing; ‘you are all welcome—that is, as many as can get in.’ “The men eagerly pushed their way through the door, and the room was soon filled. “ ‘Now, what can I do for you?’ I asked, when with d*®culty I bad found room enough in which to turn about and address the crowd.. ‘But before you proceed to explain, let me tell yon most emphatically that I cannot consent to become a candidate for office.’ “Here I stopped and anxiously scanned the faces about me, and Dick Munday hastily declared that no one was thinking about asking me to run for office. “ ‘We have come on a more serious business,’ Munday continued. ‘A feller comes to town this mornin’ an’ claims that he has a deed to this °here land, an’ that we’ll hare to be driv off after we have built up our homes, an’ we don't intend to do it, that’s all. We don?t intend to shed nobody’s blood, but we don't want to give up our rights without some sort of a fight; so we thought that as you air interested along with the rest of us, an’ knowin’ that you air the best lawyer anywhar about, we come to you an’ ask you to put the thing in the court for us, an’ sec that it goes through all right.’ “ ‘Gentlemen,’ I responded, making as much of a bow as the limited space about me would admit, ‘I thank you for the confidence you repose in me. and 1 assure yon that it shall not be misplaced. “ ‘I thought that our titles to this land were perfect, and 1 believe now that they are. At least we shall see. Be assured that 1 will do everything in my power to protect your homes. By the way, who is the party that sets up the claim?’ ‘“He is a dudish-lookin’ feller from Lawson, Mo.,’ Munday answered. ‘“All right; let him or his attorney confer with me. I will show* him what it is to attempt such wholesale robberv.’ “That night a great indignation meeting was held. It was known that 1 had undertaken the fight of protecting the rights of the people, and a sort of song, not unlike a campaign hymn, was sung in praise of the champion. “The next day while I was sitting in my office, feeling thankful that I was soon to' become the leading man of that part of the country, a portly, well-dressed individual entered the apartment ‘“is this Maj. Hilton?’ the visitor asked. “ ‘You have hit it the very first shot’ 1 answered. ‘Sit down.’ “The visitor sat down, and taking out a packet of papers, looked over the documents for a few moments, and then said: “ ‘I was not in thil part of the country when your town was laid out or I should have given warning that this land was not in. the market I have a deed here which I don’t imagine can be disputed.’ “ ‘Oh!’ I exclaimed. ‘You are the man that has brought about all this trouble, eh?’ “‘I hope that I have not brought about any trouble, but I am assuredly the man that will bring about a decision of justice. I have often heard of you. You came here from Marion county, Ky., I believe?’ “ ‘Yes, sir,’ I assented. “ ‘I thought so,’ my visitor continued. ‘I say that 1 hare often heard of you, and I must confess that from what I heart! I was hardly prepared to find you so reckless with regard to the rights of others. I was told that you were a man of fine judgment, and that you stood a chance of oue day occupying a place on the supreme bench of the state. “ ‘But I see that I have been wrongfully informed, for, instead of finding you a man of judgment, I discover that you have taken a case that you cannot hope to win—a case in which justice will oppose you. What is your house and lot worth?” “‘Oh,’ I began, slowly scratching my head, ‘I should think that if we get another railway—and another one is talked of—my property here ought to be worth fifteen hundred dollars.’ “ ‘Cost you two hundred and fifty dollars, I suppose.’ “ ‘Well, y—yes.’ “ ‘Now, I’ll tell you what I’ll do. I could get aqy lawyer in Colorado; but the fact i6 I want you—want a man who Is identified with the place; so, if yon will take up my oase, I will agree to give you fifteen hundred dollars for your property, and in addition a handsome sum when t.he case is won. What do you say?’ f “ ‘What is your name?’ I managed to ask. ‘“John Denslow,’ my visitor answered. ‘Some people call me Silver ,John, but that’s no matter. What do you say to my offer?’ “ ‘Come back to-night’ *‘ ‘Very well,” said Silver John, ‘but in the meantime please do not mention the fact that I have called on you.’ “There was no danger of my mentioning it I went out after the wealthjr man was gone, and strode along the street After all, why should I stand by the people of the town? What had they done for me? Did not I have to buy land, the same as the rest of them? By defending the town’s people, I could at best save only my home; bdt by gaining the case for Silver John I could sell my home for a good figure, or retain it just as 1 liked, and, besides, secure a large sum

In cash. I was a lawyer, and was look* lag1 for clients. And I had found on a. '‘Silver John was in time that night, and all the arrangements for the suit were made. “ ‘Now,’ said the client, rising", “I shall have to go, bnt 1 will, see Jon again soon. Good-night,’ “Yon can imagine I did not sleep that night for dreaming of money and high places. I could tell the people that my regard for justice had driven me to the extremity of opposing them, and I felt that when they hadothought over the situation they might not hold me in a loving grasp, but that they would not choke me in revenge. I had gone to bed, but was still musing, when I heard a great tumult in the street. “ ‘I wonder what that means?" I said, getting up, hastily putting on my clothes, and going to the door. Looking out, 1 saw a dark, moving mass. “ ‘Come out of thar,' a voice shouted. “ ‘That you, boys?’ ** ‘Yes. Come out here.’ *' ‘What do you want?’ I asked, in tones that trembled, for a half-sus-pected fear had seized me. “ ‘Want you.’ “The mass came nearer, and by the light shining through the doorway X recognized some of my neighbors. “ ‘Hello, boys, what can I doforyou?’ “ ‘We don't want you to do nothin’ for us. We want to do somethin’ fur you. We ain’t got time to explain much. You have sold yourself to the enemy, and " e air going to hang you’ “ ‘Great heavens, boys—’ “ ‘Grab him! Hush your hollerin’, or we’ll gag you.’ “They took me down by the spring, where an oak leaned over the stream. “ ‘String him up here!’ “ ‘Hold on!’ commanded a big man with a slouch hat drawn over his faoe. ‘I am an officer of the law and want this feller—want to take him back to Kentucky. Let me have him, I say.* “The men fell back, and the big man, taking hold of the rope that had been tied about my neck, led me away. We crossed the clearing, passed through a skirt of woods, and then walked on, neither of us speaking. “ ‘What are you going to take me to Kentucky for?’ I asked, breaking the long silence. “ ‘Hush!’' “On we went, and the darkness deepened more and more, as if black curtains had been drawn to shield from sight the birth of a new day. “ ‘Sit down here,’ said the big man, pushing me toward a log. Then I sat down, and the big man stood with his back to me. An owl scrambled into

“THE BIG MAN LED ME AWAY. his hole, a bird twittered; it was daylight. “The big man turned toward me, as he said: “ ‘You don’t know me?’ “ 'No, 1 don’t believe Ida* “ ‘Dan Moore!’ “That made me start. “ ‘If you are Dan Moore, why did you wish to save my life? I once drove you out of a Colorado town.’ “ ‘Yes, and I have driven you out of Nugget City. 1 am also Silver John, unwhiskered. I have never had any title to that land, and I merely started the report to stir up public feeling; I knew that I could get you to take, up the case, and I also knew that those fellows would hang you, but I felt sorry for you at the last moment. “ ‘I saw that you had become the leading lawyer of the community, and as l am somewhat of a lawyer myself, I thought that I would like to take your place. But I couldn’t run you out as you had run me, so I had to resort to a little trickery. “ ‘Trickery is permissible in law, 1 believe. Now, you may go; but if you come back to Nugget City, or even settle in the neighborhood, I will make those fellows hang you. I have already made a settlement with the man who claimed their land,’ he added, with a chuokle. ‘“1 hope you will have a pleasant journey. The weather is pleasanter than it was when I left a town at the muzzle of your pistol, listening to the howling of a hundred ruffians. You quite understand, I hope, that it will be safer for you to give this place a wide berth in the futune. Don’t let me detain you. Good-by.”' The major had finished his story. We thanked him solemnly and refilled his glass. But we never believed a word he said after that.—N, Y. Weekly. Desperately Overflowed. In Washington county, Miss., which is liable to annual inundation from the father of waters, dwells did Jesse D-v On one oceasion he was a witness in a case, and prefaced his answer to every question with the irrelevant remark: “Wa’al, 1 war desp’rately overflowed that year.” Annoyed by the constant repetition of this remark, the examining counsel finally said, in a rather sneering tone: ‘‘Mr. D-—r, will you please state to the court and jury what you mean by being ‘desp’r* ately overflowed?’ ” Straightening himself up to his full height, six feet three, and with a drawl of corresponding length, he replied: “Wall, sir, I mean thar war too much water for wagonin' and not enough for boatin’." The counsel gave it up.—San Francisco Argonaut*

REED’S ROCKY ROAD. IX* Will Find th* People Skeptical on th* Blesninc* of Hlgk Protection. Tom Reed says that the republicans will have nothing to do in the next campaign but read the testimony of j Mr. Cleveland’s letter upon the tariff bill. , There is something more. Reed will find that the very foundation of protection has been shaken by the contest just concluded. For the first time the voters have learned by direct observation that protection is synonymous with corruption and fraud. Before this time the majority believed that there had been fraud and corruption in tariff laws. They are at last convinced that when taxation departs from a revenue purpose and begins to be used for the benefit of private corporations, inevitably corruption is the beginning of the departure and fraud the constant accompaniment. Millions of Americans have read daily how senators demanded and received concessions to the sugar trust, to the iron interest, to the cotton mills, to the glass and pottery makers. None of these senators argued for the public welfare. The argument was in each case for the “interest.” Mr. Reed can give in his speeches a few extracts from Cleveland's letter. Then some American citizen will ask him why, if manufacture is the great end of national effort, free choice to raw materials for staple industries is denied to our manufacturers. And unless he elects to be a willful public | liar, he must reply that protection is a pool of interests in which not AmeriI can industry, but American “pull,” creates the scale according to which legislative favors are granted. It is true that a few democrats have been traitors to their party. But the j people have seen in that perfidy the | working of the republican system of high protection. In their treason these men have been republicans and protectionists. What they have done has been in the usual republican and protectionist way. True of one, true of all protectionists. Protection goes to Washington to get favors; not to honestly govern honest freemen. Every favor it gets is a lever with which to get another. Protection always favors higher protection and will spend money to buy an advance. Protection is against anything short of prohibition and a' monopoly of the market. It is against extending manufactures. Its plan is always to limit production and secure scarcity prices for monopoloy. That it does not succeed is due to the opposition of the democratic party and the American spirit of competition. Another obstacle will arise before Reed. The business wprld, whose indisposition to approve changes has done more to intrench tariff robbery than anything except the lobby's, manipulation, has perceived that constant and feverish uncertainty is as inseparable as corruption from the protective system. There can be no permanent tariff schedule when it is designed for protection, because new conditions of production are continually Arising. There can be no perpetuity in a protective system while it embraces foul* or five thousand articles which a few wish to sell at abnormal prices and the many* wish to buy at natural prices. Th© only.system of reasonable certainty is a revenue system, and the plain business men have grown sick of tariff tinkering. Protection is inseparable from fraud. It is inseparable from tariff tinkering and uncertainty. When Reed takes out Cleveland’s letter he will read it to a public opinion which has been educated to the folly of protection by the circumstances which called forth that document. In 1888 tariff reform s^med radical to scores of business men in Reed's New England, to whose ears free trade has now rather a pleasing sound. Tariff reform has had its day in the west and south. Free trade and taxation for revenue only will be the western and southern platform henceforth, and on it will be found crowds of business men who have been calling themselves moderate protectionists. It is coming to be understood that Christian honesty and a protective tariff are incompatible.—St. Louis Republic.

THE REAL DEMOCRATS. They Deserve Credit for Wresting What They l)i<l from a Hostile Senate. Tne democrats in both houses of congress, with but few exceptions, are entitled to credit for doing all that it seemed to them possible to do toward ♦he fulfillment of the pledges with respect to the tariff which their party made in 1893. They have made an honest, earnest and persistent attempt to obey the pop-* ular mandate delivered when the'present democratic congress and president were elected. They are deserving of great praise for wrestling what they have wrested from a protectionist senete, and their holding out so long as there seemed to be a ray of hope against the protectionist amendments which that body thrust so plentifully into the Wilson bill. The democrats of the ways and means committee labored with great zeal and industry, and finally produced a bill which was fairly acceptable to those who meant what they say when they voted for a tariff for revenue only. They did not produce a perfect bill by any means. They did not produce a bill whieh was satisfactory to most of their own number. But they did produce one on right lines, based on right principles, and making a long step toward the final i goal of commercial liberty and the ultimate abandonment of the entire policy of supporting and enriching favored industries by levying forced contributions upon others. They went as far as they believed it possible to go, in view of the known character of the senate, toward the total abolition of the republican system of legalized robbery. The house, led for the time being by such men as Tom Johnson and DeWitt Warner, went further than the committee and voted for free coal, iron and

■agar and the immediate stoppage of the McKinley sugar bounty. A majority of the democratic senators stood ready to go even farther than the house, making larger reductions on manufactured goods and going farther in the directum of the ad valorem rates. But presently they found themselves confronted not only by the republican senators in solid array, but by this body re-enforced by enough senators calling themselves democrats to defeat any bill not acceptable to them and the interests they represented. The question of the loyal democratic senators then was not what they wished to do but what it was possible to do. They contested the ground inch by inch, and yielded to the renegade senators no more than they were forced to yield. The result was a badly mutilated bill, but it was that or no bill. They had saved much that was valuable. The bill, bad as it was, was still vastly better than the McKinley monstrosity, and they accepted it as better than nothing. The house has at last done the same, but not without making prolonged and heroic resistance. The house conferees, headed by Chairman Wilson, struggled long and manfully against the bad amendments, forced upon the bill by the senate renegades, and their democratic associates in the house supported them without wavering until they became convinced that the choice lay between the mutilated bill and none at all. The majority of the democrats are entitled to high praise for making a courageous and determined fight in saving the bill from wreck. It is not their fault that the bill is not far better than it is.—Chicago Herald. NOT A WALK-OVER. The Republicans Will Not Have Everythin* ! Their Own Way at the Fall Election. The republicans foolishly imagine that they are going to have a walk-over in this fall’s campaign—that no democrat will dare to debate the tariff question this year. Perhaps. But imagine the following dialogue between two debaters at a county fair, j Republican—You free traders have at last succeeded in reducing the tariff. Democrat. — Wasn’t that what we promised to do? Rep.—It was; you kept your promise, but see the consequences. Demi.—Did not the republicans promise to reduce the duties in 1883 and 1890? * e Rep.—I’ll admit that they were expected to reduce them. Dem.—Did they keep their promise? Rep.—They changed their minds after they had got to Washington and had studied the tariff question. Dem.—You mean that the arguments of protected monopolies overcame them. Rep.—Not exactly that, but they saw the tariff question in a different light after the manufacturers had placed the facts before them. Dem.—But the people didn’t get any of this new light, for they . concluded in 1890 and in 1892 to discharge the party that had been unfaithful and to try the democratic party. It has succeeded in doing what the republicans were unable to do—reduce duties. It has shaken the hold of protected trusts upon this country. Rep.—Behold the consequences! Dem.—Are n«$fc the times improving? Rep.—They couldn’t always remain as bad as they have been during'the past year. Dem.—What tariff bill has been in force during the past four years? Rep.—The McKinley bill—the best, one ever made. Dem.—Then why isn’t the McKinley bill responsible for the wage reductions, strikes, riots and hard times? It certainly was, in so far as we have been affected by tariff bills. It seems to me to be a good omen for the new tariff bill that the times began to brighten as soon as it was born. Rep.—Wait until you hear from the people. Dem.—You count upon the people being fools; we give lhem credit for considerable intelligence.

Misstated Gov. McKinley said of the Wilson tariff bill that it is “returning^ what Buchanan left us.” As he presumed upon the ignorance of his hearers this sounded all right. Of course he knew that the tariff of 1857, which “Buchan* an left us,” originated in and was passed by a republican house of representative. and received the support of Charles Summer, Henry Wilson and N. P. Bank, of Massachusetts, William H. Seward, of New York, and William A. Howard and Henry Waklon, of Michigan. It reduced the duties levied under the Walker free trade tariff of 1846 one-quarter. The early republicans were in favor *f freedom of trade as well as the freedom of men. The average rate of duties under the tariff of 1857 was less tha». 80 per cent. This was the tariff “Buehanan left us.” and it was a great stride towards free trade when compared with the Wilson bill, which proposes S3 per *cent. on dutiable foreign imports. The modern tariff-for-plunder republicans do not appear to good advantage when compared with the great founders of the party, who were opposed to commercial slavery as well as to negro slavery. The McKinley tariff of 1890 is 850 per cent, higher than the republican tariff of 1857—the one “Buchanan left us.”—Jackson Patriot. WkgM in Cotton Mills. The wage reduction at the New Bedford mills, which has led to ° great strike, is . not warranted by anything in the new tariff. The new cotton schedule was made to suit the republicans, and Senator Aldrich pronounced it “the most scientific tariff on cottons” ever devised. Our cotton mills need no protection whatever. Their raw material is a home product. Secretary Blaine certified that the labor cost in American cottons is less than in those of England, The wages were not raised when the McKinley bill passed, and their reduction now is as bad policy on the part of the mill owners as a strike with violence is on the part of the op* eratives.—N. Y. World. ' a

professiomal am J. T. K3MB, 1L Dl, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG. INR in Bank balldiag, first fionr. WII fte tound at office day or night. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT IAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Siren to all Btuines* 09-Offiete over Barrett A Son's store. v. Fiascis B. Posey. * Dewitt Q. CBimu POSEY A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Ind. ' Will practice in all the courts. Speelal at* tention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Sjf OfficeOn first floor Bank Building. E. A. Elt. S. G. Davbnpoe* ELY & DAVENPORT, LAWYERS, Petersburg, Ind. aj-Office over J. R. Adams A Son’s drufl •tore. 1‘rompt attention given to all bust* ness. K. P. Richardson. A. H. Taylor RICHARDSON * TRAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, v Petersburg, Ind. Prompt attention given to all business. A *- Notary Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter Building, Eighth and MAifl. DENTISTRY. TV. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentist, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms 6 and 7 in Carpenter Building. Operations first-class. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. NELSON STONE, D. V. S. PETERSBURG, IND. i Owing to long practice and the possession of t fine library and case of instruments, Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all Diseases of Horses and Cattle STJCCESSF'TJI-JL.Y. He also keeps cm hand a stock of Condition Powders and Liniment, which he sells at reasonable prices. Office Over J. B. Young & Co.’s Store.

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twr to W. J. BOKSK, ruMHkw, 3 But IMS 31, 3«w York. cr>'<i» THU FAPSH.wj tax TRUSTEES* NOTICES OF OFFICE OAT. NOTICE is hereby Riven that I will attend to the duties of the office of trustee of Clay township at home on EVERY MONDAY. All persons who have business with thw office will take notice thet I will attend to business on no other day. M. M. GOWEN. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all parties interested that 1 will attend at my office in Stendal, EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with tho office ot trustee ot Lockhart township. AH persons having business with said office will please take notioe. J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. OTICE is hereby given to all parties concerned that I will be at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY; To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Monroe township. GEORGE GRIM. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given that I will be at my residence EVERY THURSDAY To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee ot Logan township. ASF-Positively no business transacted ex* cept on office days. SILAS KIRK. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby given to all partial oo** - cerned that I will attend at my residenes EVERY MONDAY To transact business connected with th« office of Trustee of Madison township. 49-Positively no business transacted except office days JAMES RUMBLE. Trustee. NOTICE is hereby sriven to all persons interested that I will attend in my office in V elpen, jjvERY FRIDAY. To transact business connected with the office ot Trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with said office wilt please take notice. W. F. BROCK. Trustee. XT OTICE Is hereby given to all persons IN concerned that I will attend at my office EVERY DAI To transact business connected with th# office of Trustee of Jefferson township. R. W. HARRIS, Trustee.