Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 October 1894 — Page 5

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“DEMOCRATIC TIMES.” Republicans Appalled bj the Business Revival. Their Organ Refuses Longer to Print the News. Bat ltwrAilw the Boom In Mannbetorinf Industries Goes Merrily Alone — Thousands of Workingmen Once More Employed — Unanswerable Arguments Tor the Calamity Shrlekers to Meet—Republican Testimony Proves the Return of Prosperity. "Democratic times” has become a phrase which Republicans no longer delight to use. In fact they don’t like to hear anything about "Democratic times” these days. "Democratic times” are right at hand and they are just wliat everybody wants — prosperous times. When the Indiana Republicans opened their campaign they couldn’t talk long enough or loud enough about the disasters that would follow on the enactment of the tariff law. Bnt a Democratic tariff law was enacted and immediately business began to revive in all quarters. The revival was not a spasmodic’movement, either, bnt has continued until trade in every line may now i>e said to be booming. For weeks, in fact ever since the passage of the new tariff bill, the Indianapolis Journal has on every Monday morning been refating calamity statements of its editorial columns by publishing a department of industrial news treating of the business situation in Indianapolis and vicinity. This department has been carefully prepared but evidently has not passed beneath the supervision of the political editor. Week in and week out this department has

told of reviving trade, of factories starting up, of extensions being made in every line of business. This department has been to the party managers what the traditional red rag is to the sanguinary bull. They have labored with the management of The Journal to suppress the department or “cook” the news so that it would give a semblance of truth to the calamity howling of the orators and organs. The managers have protested and complained and threatened. But still the news in the industrial department of The Journal has continued to herald the return of prosperity. At last, however, the state central oommittee has triumphed; the news instincts of The Journal management has given way to the political desires of the A proprietors and the industrial departpatent of The Journal, which has been one of its leading and best features for many years, fails to appear this week. It is also to be observed that Republican papers all over the state, presumably by the direction of the state central oommittee, are giving no prominence whatever to announcements of resumptions of factories and other evidences of the-restoration of business activity. The action of the Indianapolis Journal in suppressing this valuable department of the paper is the best evidence possible that Indiana has at last fallen on “Democratic times;” and “Democratic times” means prosperous times—means Democratic victory in November. REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY. Manufacturing- Institutions Running to Their Full Capacity. But the fact that Republican papers in Indiana refuse to print news of the revival of business doesn’t prevent the revival from going right ahead, just the same, and a few Republican papers are honest enough to tell their readers so. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette in its Sunday issue has the following items of interest in connection with the resumption of business: In General. The Chattanooga plow works will enlarge its plant and double its force of 230 men. The Globe woolen mills, Utica, N. Y., resumed with 80 more hands than formerly. VMill operatives are looking forward to an advance in wages at the North Adams Manufacturing company, whose mill is at Braytonville, Mass., and which manufactures high grade woolens. A redaction of 10 per cent was made last March. The manufacturers of Chicago are gradually employing more men and are slowly getting back into the condition in which they were prior to the hard times. It is certain oo-operative sleepingcar works will be built at Hiawatha, Kan. The Pennsylvania steel works, Steelton, resumed with a full foroe in all departments. A new bicycle factory of large proportions is soon to be erected at Weatherly, Pa., and when completed employment will be given to several hundred men. The Cleveland Twist Drill company, Cleveland, O., is now running full capacity and 10 hours a day, with an increased force of men.

Pullman is to nave another formidable competitor in the Goodwin Car Manufacturing company, which has just been incorporated at Des Moines, la., with an authorized capital sfock of $2,000,000. Employment will be jjiven to 3,000 men^ The silk industrial awakening is being strongly felt in Allentown, Pa., where the Adelaide mills, employing more than 1,000 hands, has restored the old rate of wages, which were reduced last winter. Another silk mill hi in oourse of erection. The Barbour threadmill has recently resumed operations with several hundred hands and iiicreased wages. The Montour Stojfcnud lion company of Danville, Pa., is still running all departments of its works to the fullest capacity. The foundry, machine and blacksmith \shops are busily engaged ‘working full time. i The Lima (O.) Steel Casting company opened its new works on Oct. 1 and gave employment to about 60 men. The Lakeside nailmill, Hammond, Ind., started up last Monday on full time. , The 25 potteries in East Liverpool, O., are all Leing operated with greater a© jtmty^thaa at any time probably in thei)

The iEtna Standard iron and steel works, at Bridgeport, contemplates erect* ing an additional galvanizing works. The Wheeling (W. Va.) Pottery oompany is turning; out more ware than anw time in its history, and the Warwick pottery, at the same city, is away behind with, its orders. September was the best month of the year with the West Virginia glassworks at Martin’s FeiTy, In Indiana. Greentown, near Kokomo, has two new factories in operation—a pressedbrick works and a tableglass factory, the latter employing 300 hands. All Kokomo factories are busy, and there are no idle men in town. The McBeth lampchimriey works at Elwood has pnt on its night force, now running day ;utd night. There is no thought of a cut in wages. At the McLcy factory, Elwood, lampohimneys are being turned out at a rate never before equaled in the history of the factory. The Elwood steam forge works has started up with 300 hands. The Elwood windowglass works has started with a full force. The iron works and radiator plants at Elwood report increased activity. The Diamond Plateglass plant at Elwood is working fullhanded. The new glass factory, to employ 150 hands, at Windfall, is completed. At Alexandria the Depauw glassworks started Monday with 300 hands. The glass strikers in the Lippincott works, Alexandria, gained their point. Every windowglass plant in Anderson is in operation today for the first time in the past nine months. The wire making record at the American wire nail works of Anderson was broken last week. During the six days’ run of 24 hours each 925 tons of finished wire were turned out. The plant is in full operation., and has 700 men on the payroll. Ground is being cleared this week and excavations made for the new Wright shovel works in North Anderson and the Riverview Agricultural works in

Irondale. Three hundred pressers at Ball Bros.’ fruit jar factories at Muntie resumed work Thursday, but not at a reduction of wages. They have been idle several months, and the firm several times announced that they could not resume at last year’s wages, but they did. On last Monday morning the Indiana Iron company started all departments of the big mill, and now this company has ovejp 700 aam.es on the payroll. This is the concern that moved from Lancaster, O., to Muncie. JUST TO THE SOLDIERS. The Grand Army Gazette Praises the Ad m i n Is t ration. This administration, and Judge Lochren’s bureau especially, has done everything for the veterans that honor and justice demanded or could ask. If it set aside some unworthy pensioners, it gave the best of reasons for so doing. These reasons were not hearsay but official government records showing that the grossest favoritism in rating and rerating had been practiced by the Tanners, Baums, Squires and others, and the action taken in those cases should have been approved by the Grand Army encampments, not condemned as showing “hostility to Union veterans.” We confidently predict that the administration Of the pension bureau under Comrade Lochren will stand forth in history as one of the wisest and fairest and most just; that it will never be smirched as were those two that preceded it, and that so long as such official action is continued at Washington it will be deemed an honor to be on the pension roll of the Union.—Grand Army Gazette. , THE FIRST A. P. A. He Was Benedict Arnold of Unsavory Memory. * When General Benedict Arnold, lured by British offers, sought to betray into the hands of the enemy the important strategic point which he commanded, and fled to their lines, he addressed a proclamation to the officers and soldiers of the continental army in which he holds up to reprobation the conduct of the body governing the republio, saying: And should the parent nation (England) cease her exertions to deliver you what security remains to you, even for the enjoyment of the consolations of that religion fof which your fathers braved the ocean, the heathen and the wilderness? Do you know that the eye which guides this pen lately saw your mean and profligate con gress at mass for the soul of a Roman Catholic in purgatory and participating in the ritqp of a church against whose antiChristian corruptions your pious ancestors would have witnessed with their blood?— Benedict Arnold, Oct. 20, 1780.

TAXING GREENBACKS. * !' ,» rl_ What the Failure So to Oo Has Cost Indiana. By reason of the’ Republican law exempting greenbacks and other sorts of money from taxation, to say nothing of the cumulative method erf greenback taxdodging, the state of Indiana alone has lost, since the laws went into effect, the enormous sum of ! ‘ $6,630,000 in taxes. And this enormous steal was upheld and sanctioned by Republican administrations, and would have continued if the Democrats had not got oomplete ooutrol of the government, and especially if Congressman Cooper had not seoured its repeal by his persistent efforts. The repeal or this law ^ will save on an average $221,000 in legitimate taxes annually. — Columbus Herald. __ OO NOT MOVE, * If You I>o You Will. Probably Lose Your I Vote. Democrats should make it a point not to change their place of residence until after ejection day. The election law of Indiana requires that a voter must have resided previous to the election day six months in the state, *30 days in the township and ; 80 days in the precinct in which he is to vote. It will, therefore, be apparent that if a man has changed his place of residence from one township to another sinoe Sept. 6 he has lost his vote, and that if he changes his residence after Oct. 5 he will also lose his vote. Democrats should therefore make it a point not to change their place of resi , mm t*U iftfF election 4ay,

Invaluable Service to the People by the Democratic Parly. History of the Tax Law of 1891 and i Its Beneficent Results. i | A Barbarous System Replaced by a Just and Equitable Code—Burdens Equalised and Taxes Proportioned to Possessions — Illinois and Indiana Contrasted—Former Still Complaining of Partiality In Exemptions and Favoritism to Corporations—latter Favored at tbe Expense of the People—Facts and Figures In Illustration—Superiority of the Indiana Plan—Democracy's Great Triumph. For many years the necessity for reform in the system of taxation was one of the most pressing questions in the ; state of Indiana. It was recognized i that the prevailing system was unjust, : vicious and oppressively unequal in its I operations, but every effort for a change long proved abortive. Under the old laws prevailing in the state up to the year 1891, the corporations always managed to evade payment of their just proportion of taxation. The corporate influences appeared to be in complete control of the machinery for levying taxes, and for years, by means known only to themselves and the revenue officials, shifted almost the entire burden of taxation to the shoulders of individual property owners. While only a small per cent of the taxes were paid by corporations and railroad interests, their holdings largely exceeded the total assessed valuation of the entire state. Hundreds of thousands of individual property owners throughout the state were for years assessed at from one-third to onenaif the actual value of their possessions, while the corporations were either entirely overlooked by the local assessors and state board of equalization, or sue—

oeeded in having their aggregations of wealth listed at one-tenth, or even onetwentieth, of its value. Nor was this all or the worst. Many rich corporations, such as the Ptdlman Car company, escaped taxation altogether. Though doing business in the state on a large scale, enjoying the protection of her laws and getting the benefit of her rich resources, they returned not a dollar to the treasury in compensation. The attempts to remedy this iniquitous system long proved vain. The Republican party, though often in power, refused to do anything. The demands of the people were unheard or unheeded. The old code, out of date and unjust to the last degree, was allowed' to remain on the statute books. #u Buch was the situation when the Democratic party assjuned oontrol of the legislature in the winter of 1890-91. The leaders of the party had determined to make a sweeping change in the whole system of taxation and the session was largely taken up in framing and passing the new law. It was carefully studied and framed on scientific principles, in accordance with the views of the most enlightened and progressive students of political economy. Its passage was op posed at every step by the privileged corporations, backed by the Republican party. It was only after a bitter struggle that the measure finally became a law. The Republican press and" speakers assailed it with utmost virulence, attacking both its principle and details, and oalling upon the people to defeat the Dcmooracy and restore the old system. In fact, opposition to this great law was made one of the cardinal Republican tenets in 1899, and had that party been given power there is no doubt that it would have been repealed. Every device was resorted to to prejudice the people against it. The operation of the law was obstructed in every possible way, payment of taxes was resisted and suits were brought to declare the law unconstitutional. j The basic principle underlying ’this law is that all persons shall pay taxes in proportion to their means. While none are allowed to escape, they will all be assessed equitably. The wealthiest corporation must bear its burden equally with the small farmer or householder. While aocording equal rights to all, special privileges will be allowed to none. How unjustly the old plan operated and the inestimable reform that has been accomplished by this great Democratic law may be judged from the single item of railroad property. The total ^assessments of railroad properties in the state of Indiana for the year 1890, under the old system, was $69,763,676. For 1891, after the new law came into effect, the assessment of the same properties was $161,039,169. For 1892 it was $160,695,802 and for 1898 it was $159,248,873. It will be seen that the aggregate for these three years was $480,888,844, as against $209,288,028, which would have been the assessment during these three years on the basis of 1890, showing an excess under the new law of $271,595,816. But while railroad property, being the largert item, attracts the most attention, the operation of the law worked a similar reformation proportionally in all kinds of corporate property which had theretofore escaped taxation in whole or in part. This enlargement of the list of taxables, while greatly increasing the state’s resources, also operates to relieve the smaller taxpayers of the unjust burdens put upon them by the inequitable operation of the old method.

.remaps no Denser way can oe employed to bring into bold relief the pubno benefits conferred by the great Democratic reform law of 1891 than to contrast the present conditions of the two neighboring states of Indiana and Illinois. In the latter the old system still prevails, the tax law there being very similar to the one in operation here up to 1891. The state boards of equalization of the two states have been in session during the past two weeks, and the merits and demerits of their respective laws may readily be compared. In Indiana no complaints are heard except from a few big corporations, ^vho are begging for a lowering of assessments on account of hard times and bad business. The people generally are satisfied, understanding that they now have a law that is perfectly just in its provisions nhd crnly needs honest and few*

less administration to accuse ideal results. In Illinois the complaints are loud and deep and a demand comes up from every quarter of the state for the passage ox a tax law similar to that in Indiana. The records in Illinois show that more than $100,000,000 worth of railroad property does not pay a cent of taxes, while every acre owned by the farmer is assessed to the fullest extent. The same records show that the colossal corporations of the state, with capital stock reaching into the hundred million figures, pay taxes on bat $5,868,947. It goes without saying that such a condition of affairs constitutes a crime against every individual taxpayer in the state. It is wholesale robbery of the people by thp trusts and corporate monopolies, aided und abetted by officials chosen by the taxpayers to secure an equitable distribution of the burdens of taxation. Farming lands throughout the state are assessed at from $12 to $50 per acre, while a corporation like that of the Pullman Palace Car company, having a paid-up capital of $36,000,000, owning a city m itself and possessed of assets valued at $50,000,000, is permitted to pay taxes on less than $2,000,000, or about 4 per cent of its real value. Owners of humble homes worth from $2,000 to $5,000 are assessed at from $1,000 to $2,500, or half their

real value, while railroads owning $20,000,000 worth of property are allowed to escape on an assessed valuation of less than $1,000,000. Real estate experts estimate the value of railroad property in Chicago at $600,000,000, yet the state board of equalization places the assessed value at less than $13,000,000 and in the entire state of Illinois at $82,000,000, although known to be worth $1,000,000,000. In other words, the individual taxpayer has to pay taxes on about one-fourth the real value of his property, while the big railroad corporations escape with assessments of from one-tenth to one-twentieth of the real value of their holdings. The $30,000,000 paid-up capital stock of Pullman’s Palace Car company is assessed at the pitiful figure of $672,346. This same company has never paid a dollar of taxes in Indiana until the present year, which is the result of a law passed by the last Democratic legislature of Indiana. It has made millions of dollars in the state during the last 30 years without returning a single dollar in taxes. The remedy for this glaring abuse is due solely to the Democratic party. Last year the total assessed value of property in Illinois was $847,191,616, of which $760,837,855 was placed on real estate and personal property, $79,531,738 on railroads, and $5,363,947 on capital stock corporations other than railroads. This tells the story of how the people pay the taxes while the corporations, which have the people by the throat, escape the burdens pf government. Precisely similar to this wore the conditions prevailing in Indiana until the legislation of 1891 pluoked up the abuse by the roots, made mandatory provisions for equal and just assessments and compelled all classes of property to bear their fair share of the taxation. How it has operated as to tk<3 railroads is illustrated in the figures above given, contrasting the assessment of 1890 with subsequent years. But it is not simply necessary to have a good law to insure justice to the people. To the Democratic party of Indiana belongs the credit of first enacting the tax law and then enforcing it with vigorous impartiality and stem justice to all. The administration of the law was resisted by one of the most powerful combinations ever formed for such a purpose. All the railroad companies of the state united in refusing payment of taxes and in a suit to declare the law unconstitutional and void. This litigation involved more money than any other tax case ever before tried in the United States. How it was fought through for the state and finally won by the Democratic attorney general; how the railroads were compelled to come to time and settle their long withheld dues, are matters of recent history and form one of the proudest triumphs of the Democratic party. Valuable as was the service to the people of enacting such a law, the honest and fearless enforcement of its provisions constitute a still stronger claim for public approval and public gratitude. REPUBLICANISM AND DEMOCRACY,

Look Upon This Picture and Then Cast Your Eye Upon This. As another campaign is on, it is well to contrast the records of the two great parties now contesting for supremacy in Indiana. During its tenure of pott er at various times in the last decade the Democratic party has done these things: It passed the mechanics’ lien law. It passed the law giving laborers a lien upon the product of their labor for wages and material furnished. It passed the law protecting labor organizations. It passed the law providing for the safety of miners and the proper ventilation of mines. It passed the law constituting eight hours a day’s labor in public employment. • It passed the law prohibiting the blacklisting of employes. It passed the law prohibiting “pluckme” stores. It passed the employes’ liability law. It passed the law prohibiting the importation of Pinkerton detectives. It passed the law against the importation of alien or foreign laborers. It enacted the school-book law. It enacted laws to purify elections. It enacted the Australian ballot law. It devised and passed the present tax law. It passed the new fee and salary law. It enacted the Barrett improvement law. * It passed the state board of charities law. The Other Side. Every one of the above mentioned laws, now admitted to be valuable, was opposed to the last by the Republican party. It fought the school book law with utmost desperation. It arrayed itself against the labor reform laws. It opposed the 8-hour day law. It was against the employes’ liability bffl. It was the ohampion of Pinkerton detectives. It fought all the laws to purify elections It arrayed itself like a stone wall against the Australian ballot law, winch it regarded as an attack upon its inalien-! able right to buy votes. If was savagely against the present equitable tax law and fought it at every I stage, and if returned to power is pledged j to repeal it and go back to the old system of corporation favoritism. It opposed the fee and salary law, j

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