Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 January 1896 — Page 3

file (Emrotg graunat M. MoO. 8T00P8, Editor tad Proprietor. PETERSBURG. - - - INDIANA BUSINESS TRANSACTION. BY A. P. INGBAX.

ZRA GIJASSN ECK! Ezra Grassnecjd! Ezra Grass neck*! !** Thus trumpeted the sheriff from the courthouse, door, a little louder each time, and with his chin whiskers making one. long and two short beats at each repetition. Then, slowly

turning, he shuffled back into the courtroom, gave the clerk an expressionless glance, glided silently tQ his little desk, end bowed low over the cuspidor. Whereupon the, clerk proceeded to write in a j>onderous reeord book something to the effect that the “plaintiff being thrice solemnly called came not, neither came anyone for him." etc., and ' the judge said: “pismissed. Plaintiff's , costs. Call the next.” 5 * ^ The defendant's counsel passed out, leaving only the unsatisfactory explanation that Ezra had had enough and had made up liis mind to quit. That was all, and the facts*in the case of Grass neck vs. McTagg et al. were btiried in the oblivion of “professional confidence” and “privileged communications.” An unusual interest in the case had been aroused by the’incredible rumor that old Ezra Grass neck had been caught napping, and had permitted himself to be defrauded out of Still, worse, had actually been fool emu; 'll to sign bis name H|* papers, which latter act is considered the. ex-hk-me of folly in his neighl»orhood. I Accordingly on the morning set for the trial the little railroad station was deserted, the seats in Long's emjiorium vin- cold and vacant, and Tucker’s tonsocial parlor was silent and empty. Three-fourths of the male inhabitants half “ 'lowed they'd go to court an* hear this fere ease o’ Grasxneok's." Th# parties thereto wt*:e all well, though. ]>erhaps, not very favorably, known to their neighl>ors. As to thts chief defendant, Morgan McTagg. owing to a curious popular prejudice against him, it is hartl to obtain an unbiased ace unit, lie had Kelt a resident of the county seat but a few years, having come from t hit-a-pt*, where he had met with disaster :n a small manufacturing business. Bacon, in the ripeness of his experieme, has said; 'The^jvyays to enrich are many,• and most of them foul.” McTagg once remarked: -“The takes Seem to pay In st, and I guess I’ve beei\ a producer long enough." In his,recent location his ostensible business (had been brokerage iie oil nmh gas lands, but his actual employment is Lest defined in a general' phrase, as the making of ingenious and coiriplicatvtl trades in property which he doe;, not own; yet which, by some clever method, not-involving the payment of money, he manages to possess legally. Ezra’s attorney, young Mr. Archibald Face, had instituted this action against McTagg and Hockensmith under an ‘imperative instruction and against his ln*>{ judgment, and it was not until the week before court convened that the*, attorney succeeded in persuading, his client to yield to adviCei , Mr. Face® had been retained because h« w as cheap,1 nnd Ezra's confide nce in his ability was, therefore, not quite frin.' At last, almost >>n the eve of th-' I trial, he consented, reg-.rdless of ex-j-u.'f. to'take the opimui of that im-sic. c»- the circuit; e&aJ-tnigc J. Billings Cavte, and agreed to disposed thecontroversy as .1 udge ,T. "Billings Gayfe in l.is wisdom might decide. An nppointluent for an interview w as accordingly ip ude, and Ezra anxiously, but hope-" •HI 1

■ . liu ' **1 UK Alt 'TorV* MAP SOME WITH M’TAGG?*’ . f lullv. awaited the day whom the law on his ease should lx* deli* eyed from tl.<* pr'-_'nait>t bn* in of Jud-re tiayt-. i “Well, T^ra.” sai l thejuupnby way d opening the consultation: “ldnur VfU’ve had some little trouble w ith Me- j lain:” “I have.*' said E/m. “He’s a tricky, unscrupulous rascal, and. I think, a pretty hard tudn to get the Inst of.” ' . “I ain't tried to get the best of him. lie s pot the best o’ me. and now all I'm ' aimin’ to do*s to pet my xuouey back, tsy nothin’ ’bout the interest, thouph. of course, if 1 can pet the interest, it lightly belongs to the. Think Til win it, jcdge?” “We’ll talk it over and see what we ■can do.” *lt seems like a plain enough case and I guess you’ll say so yourself, when yon hear about the whole transaction.” "You mustn’t feel too certain, of win

nlng. Tve had enough experience to know there's no sure thing’ in law suits, and, besides, Ezra, Fve been talking this matter over with your attorney, Mr. Fare, and I'm afraid for you that his advice has been sound, as it usually is." Mr. f ace gave a nervous cough and a delighted squirm in hiswchair and then put a deep, thoughHtnToSlT'tm his blush-inflamed features. Praise from Judge Billings Guy to is praise, indeed. i “Well," said Ezra, with an attempt I to appear resigned. “I s’pose we all ! leurn some ev'ry day, an’ if you say I ! can’t get my rights out o’ McTagg, I’ll ’ have to grin and bear it, though it | don’t seem right. . « “Before I can say anything further," [ proceeded the judge, dropping the cordial manner with which he had begun the interview, “I must hear your entire story, and you must bo careful to include every detail, no matterhow.discreditable to you it maybe; and. F.zra,” added the judfre, impressively, “you will find it to your final advantage to stick close to the exact truth, as we are bound by the law to preserve our clients’ secrets.” This seemed somewhat short of the deference customarily. paid to a wealthy farmer, capitalist and ex-jus-tice of the peace, and -Ezra at first thought of an indignant reply, but the | judge's steady gaze silently command- : ed him to proceed with his statement • of the case. ^ „ “Well, judge,” he began, “what I wanted to know is this: S’pose a man's give up $1,006 good mqncy jus’ to help a trade through an’ make a little commission for himself, canft he sue the men that got his motley when he finds I ouf it was a swindle and a deliberate robljery?” : “It’s not necessary to suppose a ease. ! When we have an actual one to deal with. Now tell me how you got into this tangle with'McTagg and young Hoekensmith.” “Well, accordin’ to my notion, it was alt planned out when 1 traded'them 40 | acres joinin’ my farm to Joe Iloeken1 smith last October. You see. he’d been pa-dinging me for some time to make a trade with hhu, an’ I knowed he’d l>een e.deulatin’jo put in some oil wells, an’ so l held off: till hn’ly the upshot m it was,'we agreed tiie larul’was worth o. That’s what they call *u tradiii’ | figtrer.~;tui’ Joe give me a piece o’ city ■property in Chicago worth $2.0(0. too, I he said| but that was also *a tradin’ | Jigger.’ “cause it was 16 mile from the | eouirthouse, an’, allmnder water when ; 1 sec it-after! the trade vv;is made.’’

Jwactjy. “Well, 1 didn’t say nothin’ when 1 see 1\1 been'beat. hat while 1 w as Wonderin' if Joe actually thought there was oil omthat land, ’long comes this ’ere MeTagg, an* flays: , p “ *Mr| (Irassneck. T hear you've sol’ that .40'Stents joinin’ your place.’ “'Yes,' says 1, ‘I’ve sol’ it. Wan* to buy it ?' “’Say.* says he, ‘is f a? a strt-ight sale, or have you gbt a string tkvl onto it?’ , ■ ” 'Mr. MeTagg/ s-'ys 1. ’the land’s tntirely out Tb my hands. Was you lookin’ to buy it ?* ** ‘Say/ says he, *T wish you’d tell ne the truth Ub-uit this'Vrtssaie, Vaus-vif you do. yoju'll likely njakeTsmue moa-y out of it, an’ if you don’t, you won't.’ “Then I says, “M:. MeTajgg. I ain’t got time to talk to men that doubts my word/ Jus’ like that. “Well, we had some more o' that kind o’" :talk, an’ he wants to know if .Joe Hoekensmith ’d like to sell, which I lenoWe-d h- would, fenu-e he’d been askin' mo/to ’ctfv it back at a small *igg«. r. so 1 tokt MeTagg ff be .wanted the iarid to go See the owner. Then he says: > ' "’It’s like this: I’m authorized to make a mighty goo/ . r for that kind, lut: 1 got special reasons for not ♦antin’ to (leal with^oe IT ckensmith. I gut good advice i can’t make no trade with him nohow, but- a man like yu ought to make a pretty fair bargain—that is. if our scheme ain’t leak'd out/ “I a-t him vvhgt sell* me he was a rede ri ing to.’an-he says: *You^ll hear o.f it as soon as anyone.’ ” “Whi- h you have found to Ik* true, | eh?” said the judge. » ' “Then,” continued Ezra. hot noticing the interruption; ‘I ast him how much ! he’d pay for t he land, an’ w liat terms he j w anted, an’ bow much 1 get for making j the trad - an* all that, an’he says: ** T come to you ’cause I can’t make j this trade myself, an’ xou bein’ aChristiiin loan. 1 known! I cor.hi trust Uvj you# honor. Now 1 got to get that land. | an’-I ought to have a contrac’ to-night, j It ain’t for me. but the con tracks to Lv j in 'my name for obvious reasons/ I think that’s what he said. ■“‘Now/ ho continues, ‘we want that land as cheap as we can get it, but we want it bad. an’ if you do your best an' get me a eontroc’ for it for the lowest ligger Joe Hockensmith ’ll take, theu’s a hundred an’.a half in it for you. As to the terms/ says he, ‘you can r> ad this, but don’t say a word about it to noUsly/ “Then he fhovrs me a telegraph that says: ‘Make a control,* at oneet. If | Tie -I ssary, M>I?er $>.«*■-T, $;.,KO down, balance -0 day s’ tad it was signed, *J. L Mason. Superintendent/” “sHYudered Oil ccmjanj ?” asked 'ne j judge: “Yds. Then, thinks 1. I can e-e 'through this scheme, an’ I aimed then an’ there to make up what 1 lost oeiltn’ out so cheap Go l says: ‘I’ll do it if I can. Mr. MeTagg/ an’ he says: ’it’s a1 go/ /- 1 “Well, I didn’t have no trouble gett*n‘ Joe Hockensmith To agree to give me half o’ what he gets over an’ above $2.*K>0 for linduoi’ i buyer. Fact is, I came near buyin’ it olT him right then an’ there an’ sellin’ it to McTagg myself, I wqs that trustin’ on* easy deceived. i»ut, thinks I. that ain’t hardly honorable, so I fixes it with Joe. Hut it seemed Joe needed money right smart an’ had to have it right off an’ says the trade's got to go through in five days or he’d sell out to a man from

-:- Pittsburgh who’d offered him $2,000.” "What was the name of the Pittsburgh ma n T* interjected the judge. “He didn't say. Does it make any difference?” , "Proceed” “Well, I done my best to talk him out o’ that live-day business, but it was no use. So I gdbs-hnek to McTagg an* tells him I can buy the land for $8,000. that there was a man from Pittsburgh wantin’ it, and we’d have to be liberal with Joe to get it.. Course this mayn’t have been strictly true; but you know, in ordinary business transactions a man’s apt to forget himself." "Yes. quite often," acquiesced. the judge. 9 “Then McTagg says: ‘I’m glad we got the laud, but I’m sorry we have to give so much.’ ‘Whjvman a1 he,' says I, naturally mistukin’ his intentions, ‘for your business you've got a rare' bargain.’ ‘Well, mebby so,' says he; ‘let's .have the eontn«c*.’ Then f tills him about Joe wantin’ two thousnn’ dollars in five days an* savin* the trade’s got to go through in that time, r.n’ McTagg says: ‘He’s got to give up that notion, or keep his land, ’cause I ain't got more’n a thousan* for him, and 1 can’t get any more inside o' 30 lays. You see,' says he. ‘if I send for .more now, they’ll think I want it myself.’ " ‘Can't you borrow the money?* say» ^ > s.. > “ *1 won’t.’ says hq. “ ‘Can’t \ ou think of no way to fix it?* says I. I * "‘There ain’t' no way but ,the way h said.’ says he; onle.ss.' says he, *vou want to take my thousnn’ and put a thousan’ with it, an’ make it in your own name for security,* says he, an’ w hen I pay you the inonqy you can assign to me. That ought to fix Jce all right.* ' , j • “Well, thinks I, if McTagg puts up a I thousan’ on this, I can risk a thousan’ b—an’ I done it." “H*m,” grow fed the judge, "is Jhis the contract you made?" 1 “Yes. that’s it," said Ezra, inspecting the document handed to him. “O’ ! course, though. 1 had a private, verbal understand in' that this wasn’t to be the price o’ the laud to me." / “H*m,” “Then in a couple o’ days 1 gets the abstae’ an’ takes it to McTagg. an’ he sit\ s: 1 guess we won’t need 4 hat now. \Ve’\e changed our plans an’ decided

THAT FORTY “I llKAIt YOtfVK BOLD ACRES.” not to tab* the land: but you’ve got a rare bargain, Grassncck,’ sns he, ‘an’ I wish! you’d find it handy to j ay me, the thcusun* I advanced you when'you bought the land, ’cause I’m' needin’ money soon,’ ” “Exactly,” remarked the judge. ' “Then he gets in his buggy and drive t pfi\ an* I ain’t had a ehanee to get a* him senee, except by bringin’ this lawsuit.” . , "Then 1 understand.” said the judge, “that you’ve made a contract wCi^Jo* Hockensmith to purchase this land from him at $•'.000. and that you and MeTagg have each paid a thousand dpi iars on the purchase pride’*” ‘ That’s the way i: looks—only—** “Is the, land worth $s.000?” "That’s it—et ain’t worth ?-h0.” “So 1 thought. And you therefore infer that MeTagg’s thousand dollars were returned to him and yours divided ’between the two, and Joe has your contract to buy the land f<jr $8,000, less the two paid.” - , “Jedin*.thereain't no doubt about it.’ “•No. doubt at all. How abou* the : letrtam, Mr. Face?” “it wa-; probably,” replied the oChet lawyer, “a* genuine one referring tv ether lands that MeTagg actually bought for the slandered Oil company.** ^ . ’• . ,7 ! “Now, K/ra.” resumed the judge. 1 “matters stand this way: You warn i your contract canceled and Voujr money refunded- MeTagg claims an action ] t!gainst you for a thousand dollars lent i > • 'U, and Joe Hockensmith threatens to ! ue you on your contract for 8^0/- sti ijl ] due. You understand' the situation ' .We’ll not need you again until morn- i :ng. as Mr. Face and 1 require the res: i of th« day forc6nsaltation.” “That all?” pijved Ezra, dolefully. “That’s all. Call to-morrow morning ; at 9:30.” “Weil, good day. You’ll do your j “Face,” queried the judge, as tTer^oo>- i lainmed, “they have the documentsj “Enough to w in any kind of an action 1 at Jaw.” ■ > ■ '‘Our client’s hands are not quit* : clean enough for eqtiitable relief, eh T~ “They look a bit soiled.” T'You’ve examined thebotitract ?*’ “It’s perfect.” h “The title to the land?” “Flawless.” “H’m bright feliow — MeTagg! We’ve got to settle it.” It Fat settled, add MeTagg dictated the terms.—Illustrated American. -—Certain & thought-: are prayer*. There are moments w hen, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul it on its knees.—Hugo. ~r~ j—Trust God for great things; with your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to !eeu thousand*.— Horace BushnelL

AN INCAPABLE CONGRESS. IMftrasing Incapacity of the RepiahUcaa 'loose. __ |t ■ , The president urged congress not to take a holiday r ecess without making provision for a p: easing financial emergency: Congi%ss did not adjourn. It recognized the | eed of action at once if thi-rc was to |>e action in time to do any good. The house passed a tariff bill and a bond bill, neither of which was of any use whatever for the purpose of meeting the emergency. V Now we are to! d, after all this show of alacrity on ti e part of the house, that “senators fe* 1 there is no necessity ( for them to make haste,” because “neither of tliess measures can pass^ , for many long weeks and perhaps months.”-. There ore senators proceed in the most-leisu rlv way to complete the organization of their house as a "republican body and then talk of adjourning for a week without attempting to do anything in response to the president’s apnea#. >• Thus we have a complete and distressing demonstration of the incapacity of either house of the present congress to act i-ationally in a situation which demands prompt action. The ope thing to be done was to provide for the maintenance of gold payments at u time when the gold reserve was liable to be exhausted in the absence of powt r t- > replenish it at once by borrowing . The ] president asl^ed authority to borrow on the most favor- . able terms and o protect the reserve against furth r raids by canceling the redeemed legi 1 tenders or at least holding them in t ie treasury so they couFd not be used iga n to empty the gold vaults. The house responded by passing a tariff bill, knowing perfectivewrell that | it could not be passed and put into efj feet in time to do any gtxxl, even if it.j | would bring i t any gold when in effect. , [' and knowing just as well that it would ! bring no go It: into the treasury except 1 what wa|> dr wn out in exchange for j ■ legal tenders. It also responded by i passing a bond bill depriving the presi- ! | dent even of lu\ power he now has to j sell bonds for gold tRuiwn from soetces ; outside of th ■ treasury.' In short, the j house passed wo bills'to embarrass the | treasury, not’to afford security. And the senate confessed its utter incapacity by placidly organizing as a republican silver. body and goii sleep with the president’s alarm boll ■ ringing in its *^irs. What sort .of a congress is this to den! with a state of affairs under which ‘t may become necessary to raise large sums of money?- Fuppo e war should ■ suddenly break out between this conn- j try ami Gfett Britain, how would we J fare financially? New loans would have to be authorized, for the treasury department 1 as no authority to issuebonds for vvar [purposes or for any purposes not sp iHiled in the resumption j act. But no reasonable loawact could j ! be bad from this congress. Even if I the house should develop sense enough | to authorize a gold bond the senate I would have none of it. If war should break out now about I the first thing this yengress would do War would be a double calamity with such a congress in the saddle., With the possibility'.of war confront-, ing them' people ought to be able to see the importance of a sound and solid monetary system: They ought to see | that the government never should oxer- j vise the powef to issue legal tender | notes exe«': t to i: met* some great exigenejr, and even then should exercise it so sparingly as not to cause depreeiation. They oughi to see that such i notes, should be withdrawn completely j at the earliest moment after the pass- I ing of the exigency. Rut this congress j sees nothing of thy kind. It is far less , capable of enact ing wise financial ineas- f tirefc than were the war congresses of 1SC1 and 1>o3.—Chicago Chronicle.

Protectionist Trickery. There is much talk if- the organs of the “revenue emergency bill.* as the proposed revival of MeKinleyisitv .on a moderate scale is called; and there is an apparent belief on their part^tlhat the president can be cajoled or •bulldozed into signing the bill—if the senate should pass it—on the ground that it is what he asked for. If it really were what he asked'for there w ould be some ground for the belief; but it notoriously is not. Calling it an “emergency revenue bill.” no matter .how joften repeated, cannot blind the intelligent public to the fact that it is nothin? of the kittd. There is not the slightest reason—beyond Dicgley’s grandiloquent proclamation—to suspect that it will ever be a revenue producer; and the grandiloquent procla- ' motion is not supported by a sitlgle fact. It is absolutely certain, ! over, that if it werf to become a law within the next six months its first effect would be to reduce revenue instead of increasing it, because just as soon as it seemed in any degree prol - able that' it would pass, the market would 1h“ gluttt d with all the article s upon which the duty is inereayd. I* is about :w naked a bit of protectionist trickery as the country ever yitcessed. ar.d it has kvitnessed a good many in the past 30 years.—Detroit Free Press. , -Mr. Dingley’s gro* s blunder :n the : preparation of a new tariff measure which he makes an abbreviated bob- ' tailed McKinley bill is gross even ia a matter of detail. Mr. Dicgley, chair- < man of the committee on ways and means, ought to have been well enough informed to save his committee from a blunder which designates the act as ] tho act of August IT. 1S91 —rChieago ( Chronicle.

TRANSPARENT SHAMS. The Scaly Schemes of Republicans foe Relieving the Treasury. Some of our republican friends are ■till trying to delude themselves into the belief that the aetion of congress was a prope r response to the presidents request to do Something to Relieve the treasury. “The house.”- we are told, “prepared and passed a bill to increase the revenues Of the government, taking at once the* sure way of affording the gold reserve protection.” Dit| it ? On the republican theory the only trouble with the treasury was a Jack of revenue. The Dingley bill was Offered is the remedy. “It will add 1400)00,000 to the revenues at once,"said Mr. Dingley. Well, that is more ’ban enough revenue required if the republican theory were correct. If the only trouble . was lack ofi revenue, and tins bill supplied tha^ lack, what more legislation; is necessary? -j The republicans, however, give the lie to their own professions by immediately proposing and passing through the house a bond bill for the very purpose that the first bill was said: to be for. Hut neither the" increased tariff bill r.or the bond bill will accomplish the relief of the treasury. The one is a sham 1 measure, designed to restore a portion of McKinleyiSm under false pretenses. The other is an alleged improvement on the present law authorizing the issue of londs to protect-the gold reserve. But the prospect o? the benefit that might result from-a proper law authorizing a bond issue is swept away in advance by the provisions of the bill. In deference to-the populist* element in the republican party, the provision was inserted for the payment ojf the bonds in “com.” instead of in gold; Another clause forbids the retirement of the greenbacks. The former provision will prevent the sale of the; bonds for a Ifrgh price. The second: keeps xip the “endless chain.” The president has investigated arid finds *;kat there is no prospect of-any helpful legislation whatever. The house is simply trifling with a growing sanation : the senate, organized as it.is,can-* not be relied upon foranything. Therefore. the president wifi proceed to usethe means that the law authorizes, tu* maintain the credit and integrity of this country, as he has done since March 4. 1 >94. when the republican administration handed o\er to him a bankrupt treasury. There; will be an* issue of bonds soon, we are tol l, under the law of 1S75, to protect the gold reserve. The republican eongress slimply passes two sham measures, to relieve I the administration.—Utica Observer. A ROBBER TARIFF.

uingicyiim uwijrns to iwrend tho American ’Pfoplf. Tim Dingley robber tariff bill (this title almost rhymes with the “McKinley robber tariff bill”) which the republican house passed by an almost unanimous party vote restores wool to j the dutiable list. The proposition is to again tax the people’s clothing ami blankets—one of the most outrageous taxes that can be inliicteil upon the eo|isumers of the land—and all for the benefit of’a few raisers of fancy sheep | in Ohio. The people have been fighting for j free wool for* many years, and, now that-, they have secured it, they will nbt wiliirigly surrender the boon. The pwpl^ declared for ur.taxed wool after a long and careful investijgation, and there is no reason to suppose that they have charged their views. The attempt of the republican congress to re impose an outrageous tax on wool will result in tlyj repudiation of that party at the polls next fall.-j Why did the republicans provide for a heavy tax on wool and woolen clothing in this Dingley bill? The real r.lieep raisers of the country did not ask for it. It will--not benefit /hem. It will probably benefit? a few men who are engaged in fancy; stock raising. and who will thereby!be enabled to rob the public of vast sums of money. Rut the general run of farmers who raise woo! for the market will not onlv not be\bcnefited—they will be injured by this outrageous tax. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter gave an interesting review ol the woolen trade of the United States It showed that* during the. past yeai the sales of raw wool in this country aggregated <> 86,000,000 pounds more than the sales of the previous year; it showed that American wool had in-> creased in price during the same period, precisely as the,advocates of untaxed wool had predicted iff would; it showed, too. that a remarkable development of the woolen industry had taken place since raw wool was placed on the free list. Good all-wool clothes are cheap now. cheaper than ever before, notwithstanding the increase in the price of native wool. This is accounted for by the fact that the foreign wool which yfters into the .goods is obtained without mpy tax. It has been demonstrated that a cheap coat does not mean a ^■heap man under it. No good reason car. he assigned, why the American people should wish to go hack to the days of taxed wool. The wool tax is an outrageous one. Dirgleyism appear^ to be only Me* E\in ley ism behind a new mask.—Illinois State Register. . -JL*r!ess the president's advice, is taken jrn the financial question, the re- j uiblicprs will find themselves face to j 'ace with a situation that wil) appall ibem. ! Can they be so blind as not to -ee that in the present:emergency ffhe irst thing to be done is to make the -redit of tins country free from every suspicion, and to make our currency such that no man need look at the coalition of the gold reserve the first thing a the rooming? The republican congress is playing a dangerous game.— Jtica (N. Y.) Observer. --Since it has been placed astride !he old tariff issue Mr. McKinley’s boom ms enjoyed something if its former exicllcrat health and chipper disposition. —Chicago Record (lad.). [, » ! , "r.

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