Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 11 October 1895 — Page 4

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® Jw gifct County gewoctat By M. Met. STOOPS. The Ptke Coaitjr Democrat kn the larKit etrcalatloii ot uy newspaper pabllahed la he Coaati t Advertisers will make a aote of thlafect! One Year, In advance.... . — Six Month b, in advance."r <>5 Entered at the postoffioe in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as sceondclass matter. FftlDAY, OCTOBER 11,1895. The trade reports are getting better each day. Business is improving in all directions. , The battleship Indiana will be tested next week. It Is the greatest 'warship ever*built. ar.d is expected to exceed fifteen knots dpi* hour. » —— Somehow or othor there seems to be a great deal of talk just now about Bounty politics. The. pot will soon t»Qil, then lookout for a “little fun.” The great industries of the country are moving right along and doing an immense business under the Wilson tarifl laws. The McKinley followers aradropping out of sight. The local newspaper should be found in! every home. Give your children the home paper and let them read of persons whom they meet and soon an interest is awakened which increases with every arrival of the paper. 5 The legislature of Texas was called in special session by the governor last week and 8 law passed prohibiting prize fighting. The fight between Corbett and Fitzsimmons was to occur at Dallas on the 31st. It is now a safe bet "that it will not occur in Texas. The industrial condition of the country at the present time, under the operation of the “demoralizing” Wilson law, ably and fully demonstrates the fallacy of *all fire alarm theories and the fatality ot striving to create deep distress and disaster where increasing prosperity prevails. For several weeks the pig-iron production of the United States has been enormous, the weekly output being some 10,000 tons larger than at any time under the McKinley bill. Nearly every blast furnace in the Union is running, and it is, therefore, nob surprising to learn that the one at Grand Rivers, Ky., is to be started up again.

South Carolina’s late constitutional convention decided by a vote of eighty-six to forty-nine that no divorce law should go on her statute books that divorces granted in other states should not be recognized iu that state. This leaves that state lfi the unique position of being the only one in the union that has no divorce law and never has had. Well, Indiana can make up tor it. There has not been a single national democratic convention, or a convention of the democracy of Indiana Since the demonetization of silver in 1873, that a declaration in favor of the remonetizatiou of silver and its free coinage the same as gold at the established ratio, has not been adopted. Those democrats wjto are now Advocating the gold standard are, on that question, opposing the uniform declarations of the party.—^ Plymouth Democrat.

- -—*——?-T : - Thk editor of the Press in making excuses for the extravagance of the republican officials of county affairs jumps up ami yells that tbedemocratic trustees of the couuty have raised tbeir township levies. They have and they will also give a correct re* port of tbeir stewardship in their aunual reports, showing where, and for what purpose every cent has been expended. In making their levies they probably thought to be on the safe side, as heavy draws are made ou them to pay for a part of the bridges built by the county commissioners. But while' the editor of the Press is howling about the democratic township trustees making their levies will he please elite the reasons for the high rate of taxation in the town of Petersburg, and why the school trustees raised the special school levy IS cents. The rate in Petersburg will be $2 36 1-6 this comiug year against $195 at present.

Orlando M. Packard ol'Plymouth, state national bank examiner for Iudiaua, says the banks of this state art: no tv in a tar better condition than they have been since the panic. All traces of 1893 have now been practically’ obliterated and the banks are doing a large business. Confidence has been restored and money is out in irculation. A year ago the money was tied up in the banks. They had too much money and were not making any. The reserve at that time was forty-two per cent, while it is now but half of that, fifteen per cent being all that is required. Everything is based upon confidence, and sincethe people have regained their confidence iu the banks, the banks have fetumed it, and money is now being ioaned upon collateral which one year ago could not he realized. The condition now is healthy and the banks are making money. Thk Pike County Democrat makes a jreat howl about the increased taxation. Burt the fact that the democratic trustees have all increased their levy when the republican trustees with one exception have lowered theirs is not a very goou showing for democratic financiering. The national democratic administration has given a pretty good example of figure Juggling and The Democrat would do well to study its methods.—Petersburg Press. Well, well. Why not take lessons in financiering from the republican administration of Pike county or the republican administration in Peters-, burg. It's closer “tu borne,” you know. It the republican financiering of both town and county are correct, then the editor of the Press should “take up school.” To Hon. Claude Matthews, Governor of Indiana, we extend congratulations on t he showing he recently made at Chicamauga. He is a man from the crown of his head to the sole of bis feet, and the fact that he is a democrat is probablv due to bis “bringing’ up” more than to his principles.—Petersburg Press. The editor might also have added that the governor paid all expenses out ot his own pocket, while the governors of other states made their showings on appropriations made bv the legislatures. Indiana's nmb legislature forgot all about the brave soldiers who gaye up their lives ou the Chicamauga battlefield. Commissioner of Pensions Lochren states that during the past year the names of one thousand uew pensioners have been added to the pension rolls. This is in excess of all that have died or for other causes been dropped from the rolls. An increase of pen--ioners after the close of the war to :he number of one thousand a year was not anticipated, aud indicates that the granting of new peusious is likely to go on for some years to *come. The Chase memorial fund has been completed. The sum ot $2,165 was raised for the widow of the late governor of Indiana. Mrs. Chase has decided to make Wabash her home, where a large portion of the subscription was raised.

Pike County Normal. Pike county is to have a normal, beginning immediately after the close of the Petersburg schools. Teachers desiring to attend the spring term of the high school will be permitted to attend at a tuition of $1.00 per month one-half the regular rate. Those desiring to take advantage of this should make application to the superintendent soon, for only a limited uumber cau be accommodated. The special tuition applies only to those who expect to attend the normal. The spring classes ot the high school will be as follows: Elementary grammar(l), advance grammar(l), rhetoric and com position,(1) literature,(1) general history(l), civil goverument(l), physiology (1). botany(l), phvsies(l), alpebra(2), higher arithmetic(l), Lati»(3), German. In the normal classes will beorguniged in all reading Circle work, and any of the higher branches desired.

Voorhees to Matthews. Upon the return of Governor Matthews from his trip to the dedicatory exercises on the Chicamanga battlefield, he found awaiting him the following letter from Senator Voorhees, which had been written immediately upon the reading of the governor’s speech at the Indiauit exercises bj the senator. Terre Haute, Sept. 10.1895. “My Dear Governor—I wi»h to congratulate you on your Chica-j mauga speech. I have just read it in the Sentinel. It is not only the best,] in my judgment, yon ever made, but it is far the best produced by the4 great occasion on which it was delivered. It will greatly add to your already brilliant reputation and I rejoice in my heart that the governor of the great and beloved state of Indiana spoke so well on such a notable and splendid national day. With kind regards, as ever, your friend, “D. W. Voorhees.” Governor Matthews immediately replied as follows :

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, “Indianapolis, Ind , Sept. 25., 1895. “My Dear Senator—I have read with pleasure your kifid note of the 19th and thank you for its generou* expressions. Such commendation ayours on this subject is to be highly valued. “Although our last legislature provided no means for Indiana’s representation on this jrreat occasion, l still flatter myself that we, in a mod est and unassuming way, made a fair showing. Olher states made ample provision, Ohio $15,000, Illinois and other states $5,000. Indiana, with the second largest numberot military organizations engaged, and her troops in the urns; desperate encounters on that field, through her legislature did nothing. To have not been officially represented would have been humiliating, so we d,d the best we could, and I believe Indiana held her own with other states. This is a sad commentary on a republican legislature, with all their professions for the veterans. Tht old soldiers who bore the brunt of that hard battle deserved better at their hands. “The gem of all that week waGordon’s oration, it was classic, and magnificently delivered. What an orator he is! I wish vou could have been there, too. Sincerely vours. “Claude Matthews, “The Hon. D. W. Voorhees, Terre Haute, Ind.”—Indianapolis Sentinel It May Do as Mach for You, Mr. Fred Miller, of Irving, 111., writes that he bad a severe fcindey trouble for many years, with severe pains in his back and also that his bladder was affected. He tried many so called kidney cures but without any good result. About a year ago he begau use of Electric Bitters aud found relief at once. Electric Bitters is especially adapted to cure of all kidney and liver troubles and often gives alnust instant relief, One trial will prove our statement. Price only 50c. far large bottle. At J. K. Adams & Sou’s drug store. Disease Raiupaut. Reports to the State board of health at Iudianapolis are that many cities aud towus are contending with epidemics of typhoid fever anddiptheria. The hoard has no record of all the places where these afflictions prevail and none of the total number of cases. Iu some places it has been necessary to close the public schools. Everywhere city and county boards are earnestly at work to abate the epidemics. The state hoard is lending it* aid and urging the subordinate hoards to be rigid in enforcing the quarantine rules aud thorough iu disinfecting. The progress of epidemics is too ofteu due to incomplete disinfection In mauy instances, the paper on the walls ot rooms where patients have been confined should be torn off and the walls washed with a proper'solution. A plan of disinfection that is commonly followed is to fumigate with sulphur. The state board does not thiuk that sulphur fumigates. The board is also urging that dead, victims be giveu private funerals aud defines what a private funeral is. It is not one held at a residence where the public can attend, but one that is attended only by those absolutely required to be there. It is thought that the cooler weather will aid in suppressing the two afflictions.

If Troubled with Rheumatism Read. Annapolis, Md.. Apr. 16, 1694 —1 have used Cbamberlaiu’s pain balm for rheuma. tism aud found it to be all that is claimed for it. 1 believe it to be the best preparation for rheumatism and deep seated muscular pains on the market and cbeerfiill) recommend it to the public. John G. Brooks dealer in boots, shoes, etc.. No. 18 Main st. ALSO READ THIS. Mechanicsville, St. Mary county Md.—1 sold a bottle of Chamberlain’s pain balm to a man who had been suffering with rheumatism for years. It made him a well man. A. J. McGill. For sale at 59 cents per bottle by J. R. Adams A Son. o Dr. Price's Cream Baking Powder * Most Perfect Mad* > t. <*

REED’S PROTECTION CONFESSION OF THE UNFAIRNESS OF THE M’KINLEY TARIFF. Tlw BcpvMleu Party Hm Btea UfUlallag Profit* Into tb« Pocket# of the Mun> (KtaKit Imtwd ot WigM to Votklap men—Who Gate the Swag. It now seems probable that Thomas B. Reed or some other Republican leader inspected of being opposed to McKinleyism will be the next presidential nominee of the monopoly party. Reed is said to represent that element which wants moderate protection, or, as some of the Maine congressman’s admirers define it, “a tariff which will exactly measure the difference between American and European wages. ” This, of course, is a confession that the Republican party has heretofore been legislating profits into the pockets of manufacturers instead of wages to workingmen. It is, moreover, a confession which will involve protectionists in more serious complications should they •attempt to make their “moderate” policy a permanent one.

They will have some difficulty in explaining, for instance, how the difference in wages will go to employees and hot continue to stick to the hands of Employers. There is no special law or virtue in a moderate tariff which compels the protected class to be more generous to wageworkers than when they are operating under a high tariff. The manufacturers are the first recipients of the swag, and if that swag be a “moderate” amount it is less likely to be passed on to workingmen than if it be a large amount such as McKinley favors taking from consumers. In the latter case they might be shamed into voluntarily dividing a part of the plunder with the employees, but where the amount is small the protectees would hold on to it and look for more. These moderate protectionists should also explain their attempt arbitrarily to fix a limit to American wages; If a 25 per cent tariff raises wages, will not 80 or 100 per cent duties make them higher? At what point does a tariff cease to enhance the pay of employee and begin to augment tbo profits of employer? If “protection” booms business and makes workingmen prosperous, Americans will never be satisfied with the miserable amount which measures the nominal difference between wages paid on two continents. And what is that difference? Protectionists of the Reed type refuse to consider the relative purchasing power of a dollar in America and of a dollar iu England. They also carefully eliminate from discussion the well known greater efficiency of American labor over that of Europe, a factor iu itself sufficient to account for any real difference there may be in wages paid. " The average American mechanic bears the same relation to a European worker as does a modern machine to one out of data The improved machine usually costs more than the old one,, but it is always more economical to its owner, just as the higher paid American is less expensive to the man hiring him than is the European to his employer. Farmers now use self binding harvesters to do the work which was once performed by the old fashioned cradle and manual labor. If congress, were called upon to pay to each self binder purchaser a bonus representing the difference in cost between the old and new instruments, it would be doing for farmers what for 80 years it has been doing* for manufacturers. Farmers who use modern machinery ask for no “protection” against their less fortunate neighbors who struggle along with antiquated tools. They know that if government pap should be doled out at all it ought to be given to the men who use cheap machines and cheap labor. And yet a majority of American farmers continue to believe with a religious zeal that rich 'manufacturers using improved machines (American worsingmen) ought to be protected against their European rivals using slower and less effective machines (“pauper” laborers). Tom Reed’s candidacy in 1896 will mean the emphasis of this wages lie. McKinley has not been averse to admitting that some of the tariff profits should go to manufacturers. In fact, he invited the mill bosses to Washington to write the bill which bore bis name. Presumably Reed, if elected, would invite laboring men in proposed protected industries to come to the capital and write the tariff schedules. That is what workingmen ought to insist upon doing should “moderate” protection win in 1896. But they should also make certain that the tariff profits are delivered to them direct. Manufac- | turers should not be permitted to handle the money because, according to the Reed doctrine, they have no right to it. The people from whom these profits would be filched will have nothing to do with such deals, of course, except to bear the robbery meekly and call it patriotism.—Chicago Herald.

How McKinley Stands. Wharton Barker, the Pennsylvania protectionist, writes an open letter to Governor McKinley and asks him on what side of the money question he stands. In this Mr. Barker shows hia own ignorance. Things have reached a pretty pass when an American citizen nan be found, even in the state of Pennsylvania, who does not know that Governor McKinley stands on every side that the money question has.—Louisville Courier-Journal. The Responsible PartyIt took, a Democratic administration to force a premium on gold.—New York Tribune. It took a Republican administration to begin all of the trouble by demonetizing silver, and subsequent adminis- - trations have done all the things which have brought the country to its present unhappy condition.—Hew York Mercury.

The New TarifF Price Suits ^Ca,d.e to ILxEea.su.re : ' $1®, 13, 320, 322 andTTp. Faxite l^ade to Ord.er: \ S^t, 5,-3®, 7, 3S and TTp. i -v ■ ■ i , Burgers’, Merchant Tailors

! JpCHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, PETERSBURG. IND. Prompt at’entlon given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office in Carpenter building. Eighth ami Main. pOSK 3Y A CHAPPELL. Attorneys at Law PETERSBURG, IND. Will practice in all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office on first floor Citizen’s bank building. QEORGE B. ASHBY, AttorneyatLaw PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt attention given to all business. Office over Barrett A Son’s store.'■ * |

s. Q. DAVENPORT, LAWYER, PETERSBURG, IND. | Office over J. R. Adams & Son’s drug store Prompt attention given to ,.11 business. T. KIME, Physician and Surgeon, PETf^SBURG, 1ND. Office in Citizens’ Bank building, first floor. Residence Esst Main street. rp R. RICE, Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. Chronic Diseases a specialty. Office over Citizens' State Bank. Q C. MURPHY. Dental Sui'geon, PETERSBURG, IND. Parlors over the old J. B. Young store on lower Main street. Crown and Bridge Work a specialty. All work guaranteed to give satisfaction. w H. STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon, PETERSBURG, IND. Office in rooms Hand 7 in Carpenter building. Operations firstelass. All work warranted. Anaesthetics used for painless extraction of teeth. V-ELSON STONE, I> Vs 8., PETERSBURG, IND. Owing to long practice and the possession of a tine libiarv and case of instruments. Mr. Stone is well prepared to treat all diseases or Horses and Cattle successfully. He also keeps on band a stock ol Condition Powders ami Liniment, which he selis at reasonable prices Office at residence. VOTICE is hereby given to all parties iuO terested that I wilt attend at my office in Steudai, EVERY SATURDAY, To transact business connected with the office of trustee of Lockhart township. ,AH pe rsons having business with said office will please take notice. J. L. BASS,Trustee. XTOTICE is hereby given to all parties infN terested that I will attend in my office at my residence , EVERY MONDAY, To transact busiuess connected with the office ^ of trustee of Marion township. All persons having business with said office will please take notice.' T. C. NELSON, Trustee. Postofficeaddress; Winslow. VJOTICE is hereby given to all parties eoncerned that I will be at my residence EVERY TUESDAY ’o attend to business connected with the ffice of trustee of Monroe township. J. M. DAVIS, Trustee. Postoffice address: Spurgeoc. JOTICE is hereby given to all persons oon- > cerned that I will attend at my oflSce EVERY MONDAY o transact-, business connected with the tfiee of trustee of Jefferson township. L. Ej TRAY LoR. Trustee. Postoffice address: Iva, Iud. \7 OTICE is hereby given to all parties con- I -v cerned that I will attend at my residence EVERY WEDNE3DAt m transact business, connected with the j >ffice of trustee of Madison township. I Positively no business transacted except on ' >ffice da vs. *J.D BARKER, Trustee. Postoffice address rtPetersburg, Ind. /

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