Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 June 1896 — Page 5

gSttggggggJJJLJI 1 TIME OF TROUBLE.' BRIEF HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF M'KINLEYISM. P«a UnU of not F«rM 0«n Mot Tot ,r>wt Away — lad as trie* Longa Uh *4. 0mA tHfcoo god TaraoU Were of Daily Ooaaraoaea Bmrplaa OWpotod. If in November next the people shall fail to appreciate the presidential merits , at either Major McKinley or any other representative of the policy with which his name has become associated, it will not he because the advocates of that * policy are lacking in audacity pr are troubled with scruples of conscience about the making uf false statements, for they seldom hesitatR -to bolster up their cause with downright lies or false inferences drawn from distorted truths. At every protectionist gathering and in every protectionist organ assertions are constantly being made about the effects . of both the McKinley and Wilson tariff laws in which facts are either wholly disregarded or are so manipulated as to mislead all who may be induced to place the least faith in them. For instance, nothing could be more audaciously false than the general asf sumption by protectionist writers and speakers that the people at t-lnt United States were never so prosperous as during the years when McKinleyism was in fall operation. This statement has been repeated over and over again at Republican gatherings, and even an the floor of congress, despite the fact that every parson who has arrived at the age of discretion knows that it is not true. Not even the better times which were inaugurated by the repeal of the Sherman silver purehcse act and the passage of the Wilson tariff law have sufficed to make people forget the misfortunes which befell them under the regime of the allied protectionists and ail writes. The scars indicted in the memorable conflicts of that time are not yet healM, nor have the lamentations which then filled the industrial world with the sounds of wot* as yet wholly died away. But while there is little danger of people being deluded into a belief contrary to their own experience, it is, uev-; erthelesa, worth while to take a retrospective glance at some of the events which occurred during the closing year of the Iiarrison administration—that being the time usually selected by th< spellbinders as affording the best examples of the happy contentment with which the McKinley method of making people rich by taxing them inspired its beneficiaries.

* This nrach vaunted system of producing peace and plenty had then been in full .'wiugfor two years; besides which the government, in obedience to other Republican legislation, was still baying silver at the rate of 4,500.000 ounces a month, if a tariff verging on the prohibitory could have brought about beneficial resets, the year 1892 should have been a year of incomparable prosperity. The actual facts, however, show quite the contrary. The remembrance of the „ conditions which really prevailed must j be far from reassuring to those who on' now being called upon to support a policy that would rv-establish them. In 1892 the surplus which was in the treasury when President Cleveland vacated his office in 1889 had entirely disappeared, while the national revenue from 1889 to 1892 had fallen short of the expenditure by nearly the same amount, and it was only by seizing the trust fund of #54,000,^)00 which had been deposited by the national banks to secure the redemption of their notes that Secretary Foster was enabled to avoid an issue of bonds. The importation of the raw materials necessary to the successful conduct of the busiBMaof tuauu-! factoring had become difficult and expensive and in some case* impossible. Distrust was taking the place of con- j fidence, and the industrial as well as the financial condition of the country was growing worse from day to day. From the consummation of the bargain between the protectionists and the silver men which had rendered possible the passage of the Sherman and McKinley laws wages had been steadily going down till, in the latter half of 1892, the discontent of labor had become so fierce i that in many places it amounted to insurrection. In June of that year the Iron league discharged 1,500 men because they were • Knights of Labor, and the Homestead Steel works closed, throwing 8,000 men Out of work. In July an attempt was made to land Pinkertou men at Homestead. Several of them were killed, and on the 10th the national guard of Pennsylvania was called out On the 11th there was a battle between union and nonunion miners at Coeur d'Alene, Ida., and a number of men were killed. Martial law was declared, and on the 16th President Harrison, by proclamation.

called on all persons in msunvctiori in Idaho to disperse. On the 18th warrants were issued for the Homestead leaden charged with the murder uf Pinkerton guards. On the 22d the iron workers at Duqut'sne struck, and ou the 30th troofis , were summoned to that point. Ang. 1 the building trades in New York went on strike, and all building in that city stopped, bnt lack of funds and the vast number of idle men ready to take their places compelled many of „ the men to return to work, and the strike failed. On the !3th the miners in eastern Tennessee rebelled against the com- i petition of convict labor and liberated the convicts in order to get rid of them. ^ On the 14th the switchmen on the Lehigh Valley railroad struck, and daring the next two days troops were hurried § into Buffalo. On the l »th the strike extended to the West Shore and New York, OeotraJ switchmen, and more troops were called out On the 19th and 20th 1,000 Tennessee miners attacked die militia at Coal Creek and defeated them. On the 23d the switchmen on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad and also on the Buffalo, Rochester and JPitttstarg railroad ttraak. These strikes j QnOct 13 the yardmen of the Big

Four railway struck, and on the S7tb another hundred armed deputies were ■rant to Homestead. On Not. 5 a general strike against a reduction of wages was ordered by the Amalgamated council of New Orleans. It failed on the 11th. On the 17th and 18th 1,500 men abandoned the strike at Homestead and applied for reinstatement. They were taken back on signing an agreement not to join any labor organization. The month closed with the strike of the electric wire men and the failure of the Stone City (Ills.) hunk for #500,000. The most significant event of November, however, was ti>e election on the 8th, when the public discontent was expressed by the casting of 1,500,* 000 votes for absolutely new parties and principles. Daring December the telegraph operators on the Rock Island railway system struck, and 5,000 men were discharged from the Chicago packing houses, oaring to dull business. There were heaver shipments of gold and a fall in the price of industrial stocks in the New York market Here is a very incomplete account, much curtailed for want of space, of the condition, financial and industrial, of the business of the country daring the crowning year of McKinleyism. Bat 1892 was not the only year of trouble and disaster. The evil effects of Republican policies, financial and economic, were felt both before and after that year. The culmination came in the panic ol 1893, and it was not until confidence had been restored by the repeal of the Shennan law and industry relieved by the abrogation or redaction of the duties on raw materials that business began to resume its normal condition of prosperity. That condition has now been almost reached under the beneficial influence of a more liberal tariff and an administration resolute to maintain the public credit, and while enjoying it practical people would do well to re- j member that like causes produce like results everywhere and always, and that what McKinleyism did in the past it will certainly do in the future if they shall suffer themselves to be deluded by the lies and sophistries of its advocates. —-Philadelphia Record.

AN EMPTY ,DEMAGOGUE. Money of the Tariff Barone Mahoe Their Tool, McKinley, Popular. The popularity of McKinley among the Republicans is one of. the astonishing features »f the c:unpuign. He has not the ability of the average schoolboy, and he knows no more about the tariff than about the currency, which is to say he knows nothing at alL Yet all over the country the Republicans are yelling themselves hoarse for him. Persoual magnetism cannot be the secret of his success, for those who know him pronounce him cold and selfish, ▲nd the 89 votes out of 165 he received in the Republican caucus for the selection of a speaker in 1889 show pretty clearly |hat he has no hold on the men with whom ho comes into daily contact. No statesmanship can be claimed for McKinley. His record in congress was a constant succession of blunders and straddles. And he stands before the people today not knowing or caring to ask himself what he thinks about the currency question. : Protection is McKinley’s watchword. Yet he knows nothing about the tariff. He had never demonstrated any knowledge of finance when chance made him chairmau of the house committee on ways and means. And though he fathered the iufamous McKinley act and now really thinks he made it lie was simply a tool in the hands of the protectionists. The true secret of the popularity of the empty demagogue lies iu this very fact that he is a tool for the tariff barons. It is they who are furnishing the money with which McKinley enthusiasm is being manufactured. It is they who are furnishing the political skill for making use of this enthusiasm, and rendering the nomination of McKinley almost as certain as that the convention will meet. The trusts and tariff barons may well spend their money on the “Canton major. ’’ It is a business investment, and though the risk of losing makes the venture a daring speculation, yet the vast fortunes to be picked up if McKinley should win are tempting. The trusts are pounng out their money like water to elect McKinley, but they calculate to repay themselves by robbing the people. It would be strange, however, if the people forged their own chains by elect ing the doable faced demagogue to the presidency.—Kansas City Times. People Arm Not Decolvod. The attempt to deceive the people into thinking the Wilson tariff produced the haul: ~uptcies and general hard times is an insult to the intelligence of the people, who know that the panic came upon us in 1893 while the McKinley act had still a year and a half to run.—Exchange.

Not*la* Um Matter With Hum. The Republican east want* to be Hared from MrKinW. The Republicans of the west want to be sared by him. It is a aad stale of affairs, but Mark Hanna is happy. —Atlanta Constitution. Aid Make Thom la Cm* McKinley may be * ‘Prosperity ’s Adranee Agent,” but if precedents mean anything, it is the manufacturers of the land who will hare to make the admane*. —Philadelphia Record. Imlt ASM to lejanr. Perhaps “the most unkindest cut of all” was found in the Jeer* and derision with which Mr. Hanna’s Indiana hired men greeted the picture of Mr. Harrison. —Washington Post ▲ FtoiMi l»>limttm. Perhaps the fact that McKinley's financial views are unknown has something to do with his availability.— Cedar Rapids Gaaette. . Hat a Mr DmL As Harrison signed the McKinley bill, it looks as if all the fat should not go to Mdginley.-wdt. Lot^is Pust-Dis j ■ .

PROFITS TOO SMAXE GREEDY NAIL TRUST WANTS MORE PROTECTION. J Am—it— Mails Are Said Ml Par Keg I— la fwdgl Than la Horn* Markets Cheaper to Bap la Germany aad Pay Freight Twtoe Aerona tha Praam. In speaking of the exports yesterday The Times remarked that American made nails woe selling abroad at $1 a keg c heaper than at h ome. It is generally known that the iron and steel trust has succeeded in raising the price ol waila,, or rather continuing the raise. For since last May the nail monopoly haa been steadily at work. j The Iron trust has raised the price ol bessemer pig iron from $11 in May, 1895, to $18 in May, 1896. The Nail trust, however, has carried the priqp ol out n^ls up from ?0 cents to $2.30 a keg and of wire nails from 85 cents to $8.55 —that is, while raw material has been advanced 18 per oent in price. Wire nails have been advanced 800 per oent and cut nails 228 per cent! The exports of nails from this country have been large. Even under the McKinley act in 1898 we exported 17,904,848 pounds. In the years under the Wilson act we have increased our exports enormously. In 1894 they were 19,970,419 pounds, iu 1895, 21,262,695 pounds, and if we Judge 1896 by the exports ol 2,973,280 in February, we shall this year sell the foreigners. 35,679,360 pounds of nails. In view of the rise in price this large export trade is remarkable. The explanation, however, is furnished by the protectionists themselves. For, says the Pittsburg Commercial-Gazette: “The long and short of it is, according to the present prices of the nail pool, that a man using American nails in Germany can buy them almost $1 cheaper than he can buy the same nails with

which to build a house in Pittsburg, where the nails are made. “As a natural result, American wholesalers began to find it cheaper to buy American nails in Germany, pay the freight back home and resell them here. “Thescheme was operated as follows: The New York firm would ship the nails to a Hamburg hardware company or to some other foreign port Instead of being unloaded the cargo remained intact and was sent back to Baltimore, Philadelphia or Boston, consigned to a jobbing importer. He would then dispose of the nails to American wholesalers at a price below that asked foi nails for domestic use. As the nails were made by American factories, aud bulk had not been broken on the oth.u side, no tariff was collected when they were brought back. “Wire nails are quoted in the German markets at $1.54 to $1.60 at the mills, and the freight to the seaport would make them Jiigher there. “American nails were sold to the exporter for $1.45 (price now to people ol the United States, $2.55), and it costs 20 cents to scud them across the Atlantic and 20 cents to return them. They were landed back in America for $1.85, per keg. Allow ing for stevedore charges, they probably cost about $1.90 net. Hud the nails been bought for domestic use they would have cost $2.45 (the price is now $2.55 at Pittsburg and $2.70 at New York), which gave the exporter a margin of 53 cents. ” This is not the first time such a thing j has happened in this country. In 1869 congress raised the duty on copper ore. The mines on Lake Superior were the richest iu the world and could easily have supplied the United States more cheaply and abundantly than any othet

country. As a result of the ‘‘protection, ” how ! ©Ter, the companies which =controlled the copper mines formed a combination: and pat up prices outrageously. At the same time they shipped copper abroad at prices far below what they charged at home. Indeed, the combine occasionally found competition in their own product returning from abroad. Their profits were enormous, and the -people had ample justification for regretting that the miues were not in Europe instead of in America The case of the Nail trust is similar. It fixes home prices at $1 a keg above its prices to foreigners. It finds its own products returning from Europe and underselling it Its profits are enormous, one concern making profits of 27 4 per cent on a capital of $4,000,000 in 1895 and 30 per cent this year. Bnt these profits are not enough for the greedy trust. It wants more “protection. ” It must have more protection or it will fail to make 50 per cent on its money. It sent abroad 2,973,280 pounds of nails in February, but it must be protected so it can continue to charge $1 a keg wore to home dealers than to foreigners The protection it wants, however, is protection against itself and the people.—K nnsas City Tunes. Opposed to s Straddler. Major McKinley's flat refusal to com few where he stands on the money issue elicits pointed commentaries from the financiers of New York, Boston, Chicago and other great business centers. The consensus of opinion is visibly adverse to the nomination of a straddler at a time when plain speaking is of vital importance. —Pittsburg Leader. Orest KiyeiitiHtee The Republicans are predicting a tesff»n of unprecedented prosperity with the election of a Republican president. It is the great party of auti«^.Uiou. j Probably it does a larger discount business than any other organization in the world.—Boston Herald The unimpeachable testimony of Senator Teller that the Sherman act of IWN) was a bargain to secure the passage of the McKinley act shows that in the Republican party two wrongs axe supposed to make aright —Kansas City

*1 IN A MISFIT NIMBI K • Disillusion When the People See McKinley Without Hie lalot It is said that Benjamin H irriaon has given expression to the opin on that if McKinley should be elected to the presidency ho would not be succe eded in office by a Republican. This opinion is nndonbtedly shar'd by a large number of other prominent Republiema. Hie imaginary and entirely mythical McKinley who is now being so enthiusiastically boomed throughout the country is not the real McKinley at all, The real McKinley is an amiu&d man, a statesman of one idea, and reputed to be a man of very poor executive qualities, The imaginary McKinley cannot bo elected president because he does not i exist If the real McKinley, however, should chance to be elected (an improbable event) he would present such a contrast to the imaginary individual that one of the greatest reactions that have ever occurred in American politics would sorely result If the American people once catch s glimpse of McKinley without his hale on, there will come a national disillusion such as the country has not often seen before. The McKinley boomers have concealed the real features of their candidate by arraying him in a misfit nimbus. They have enveloped him in an aureole that is too large tax him. But the people are likely to see through this iridescent envelope the real form and features of the man during the campaign. Democracy will dc its best to clear away iho glamour through which the Ohioan is seen by certain Republicans. It is more than likely to succeed. If elected, McKinley would probably prove a weak and powerless president, both on account of his lack of natural endowment for the office and ou account of his ante-election pledges, which, it, seems, his managers are making indiscriminately. There would consequently be sure to follow a tremendous political reaction. General Harrison was not talking through grandfather’s hat when ho isaid that McKif ley could not be succeeded' by a Republican president—Boston j Globe._ DESIGN FOR A M’KINLEY BUTTON. Speaker Reed’s Idea For a Suitable Ed blem of the Ohio Napoleoa. Speaker Reed as a wit has been ir eclipse for months, writes a Washington correspondent of the New York! World. As. a presidential candidate h« i has been forced to restrain his predjdec-1 tion to jok~ and to let fly all st rts of sarcastic qu’pa. Perhaps i;he McKinley wave which has swept every thing be

CAMPAIGN E\1BL£M SUGGESTED BT SPEAKEB HEED FOR M’KIXLET. Straddle bus, n., a sort ot' tumblebqit: a •cnr.-ibaccd txjetle with long l» gs of the gentu c&nthon (U. S.J.-Cantury Dictionaryfore it has brought the reflection that he’s not in it this time. And peril ape the McKinley triumphs hn.ve been taken as a release from this restraint sofirrifating to a man of his effervescent nature. At all events, he couldn’t- iMst the temptation to make this comment: on McKinley’s evasive ’attitude On the financial question. In discussing The! World’s attempt to get a straight for- i ward statement from McKinley oh his money viev s, he said: “McKinley doesn’t want to be called a goldbug or a silver bug, so he has compromised on a straddle bug. ” A McKinley campaign button, made on the line of Reed’s idea, might resemble somewhat the above picture. The bracketed (U. S.) means that this bug is peculiar to the United States. A Double Jointed Affblr/ California is for free silver and McKinley. Perhaps the Reeds and Platts and Quays can now see that pur ex-gov- j ernor was wise in not allowing himself to be forced into the eastern gold trap. McKinley on a gold platform in the east and on a silver declaration in the west doesn't look precisely consistent, but there is the tariff to bind him to both places. No other Republican has a dou- ■ ble jointed machine like McKiuleyfs.— Cincinnati Enquirer.

Donat Say a Word. Ik would be easy for Major McKinley lo write or to say, “I am in favor of maintaining the single gold standard of value. ” But he doesn't do it.—Philadelphia Record. Mot So Expensive as ISM For Algor. General Alger is a delegate at large, this capacity he will be able to see the fun without putting out so much bis boodle as usual.—Boston Hetald. : McKinley's riaaaetal Views. , That ant my financial views? Why am 1 asked that? Any one who knows at all Knows I’m standing pat. * i What am my financial views? That is plain as day. They are merely what 1 think Is the better way. What are my financial viewe? j The-—what’s that yon say? Political, not personal, la what yon want today? 5 What are my financial views? Hay. this is rather tame. Oar baseball club is going to play; Come oat and see the game. What are my financial views? That’s what you called abontf Why didn’t you my so before if f So I could help you out? jj What are my financial views? I’m glad you asked me that. And since I’ve told you* won't yoa tall The people whets I’m at? ^ -hew York So*, j i l

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Public notice is hereby given that on VV EON EBDA Y. J C LY 29. 1*96. At the hour of 19 o’clock a. m., the undersigned executors of the last w ill and testainent of John IX GiUett, deceased, in pursuance of the powers contained in said will, will sell at public auction on the premises hereinafter described, for cash in hand, to the highest and best bidder, tbe tallowing" described real estate situated iu Pike county. Indiana, to*wit: The southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section eleven fUJ; the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter,tbe south*, east quarter of the northeast quarter, the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter, the southwest quarter ot the south -as.1 quarter, und part of the northeast quarter of the soutii west quarter, in section twelve [12], and ail be ins iu town two [‘Jj south, range seven |7] west of the second principal meridian. Also the uudlvlued one-half ;t§lof me the southeast quarter of the northwest quarter and *he undivided one-half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter ot section seveu t"} ; being st» 50-109 acres more or leas I, the uortti side ol the southeast quarter, [99 acres more or leas', ami the undivided onehalf of the south sSldeot the southeast quarter ,$Vacres more or less] In section eight (8], the iuidivided one-halt ol the north half ofthe northeast quarter of section seventeen [17], .40 acres more or less], and the southwest! quarter of the southwest qqurter of section nine 19], all in town two 1‘south, range six ‘ft] west ofthe ‘2d p. m., all of said anove described land lj Ins and being In the county of Pike and state of Indiana The above described land is situated chiefly between Winslow and Yeipen und the rail-, road runs thr »ug*i a portion of the land and j a‘I of it is contiguous to the railroad. These lands are all supposed to be underlaid with valuable coal deposits There are some val- i liable timber on the land and that portion ; which is in cultivation is fairly good land 1 tor agricultural purposes. The land will be j oifeied in forty acre tracts and Mils taken ; and retained tor same, and will then be of- , fared in a laxly, and Incase it shall -sell for: more in a. body than is offered for it in separ- , ate tracts, it will be sold in one body to the' highest and t>est bidder. Those desiring to purchase are requesterTto j make such investigation and examination a< they may desire, and tor that purpose they > shall have the right to go upon said laud. I Signed, JnHN P. *jILLICIT, RICHARD I. OGLESBY, ! DAY IDT. LlTTLKR. Executors of the last will and testament of John 1>. Gillett, deceased. , Dated June6. A. 1>. lSkti. G-ft Administrator^Sale. Notice is hereby given tbat tlie undersigned administrator ol the estate of George Whitman, deceased, will sell at the late residence ot said George Whitman, iu Patoka township. Pike county, Indiana, three miles east of Oakland Pity, on SATURDAY JULY. Ilth. 188*. , all the personal property left by deeedent. not taken by Hie widow , which property consists j of one colt. bogs, cattle, mules, sheep, hay. corn, farming implements, household and kjtchcn furnitute and other artScles-«»a» numerous to mention Said sale will be at public auction, and wilt commence at teu u’ciwfe a. m. on said day. relots of Sat.r—Oil all sun's over five dollars a credit of nine months from date of sale will be given, the purchaser giving his note tin- refor, with good and sufficient %q**ty to. Hie approval of tlie administtati^tasniqug six percent interest from marurtty. and attorneys fees, due nine month*Horn date^of sale. On aHauius of rtve dollars and under that amount, cash must be paid on date ot sale. DabicsCL Bakkktt. 8.0 Davenport, atty. Administrator, Notice to Non-Resident. t he State of Indiana, Pike county in the Pike circuit court, August term. 1SW». Mary M. Stafford i _ vs. > Complaint No. 2S*. Albert R. staflord. » Now comes the plaintiff, by her attorneys, and tiles her complaint herein, togetlier with au affidavit, that tlie defendant, Albert B. Stafford, is not a resident of the state of ludiNotice is therefore hereby given said defendant, that unteas he be and appear on tht first day of tbe next term of the Plkectm.il court to be boWen on the third Monday ol August. * D., I8WS, at the court bouse in Petersburg In said county and state, and answer or demur to said complaint, tbe same will he beard and determined in his sis In witness whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court, at Petersburg. this lath day of J ne. A. D., 1X96. ,V4 J W. BRCMKIELD. Clerk.

Notice of Administration. Notice bfitbxttvMi that the undersigned has l.eeu unpointed by the clerk of ihectrrnit court >f pike county. <tnte of Indiana, a.Ituiinstmtor ot the estate of George Whiiniaii. late of Pike county, deceased. Saul estate la supposed to be solvent. DMICKt'. Bakkutt. June 4.1996. Admit*Istrator. S. (i. Davenport, any. Notice of Final Settlement of Estate. In the matter of Uie estate of Elizabeth Sor*in*, deceased. ' In the «*1kecireuitbourt. May term. 1>»» Notice ia hereby gtvvn that the undenM<t»ed as executor of ibe estate of Elizabeth sorgius deceased, has presented an.l Hied his accounts ufid vouchers In final settlement •»t said estate, and that the same will come up for the examination and action of said circuit court on the *JiHli day of June, 1*«. at which time ail persons interested in sal* estate are required to appear in said court, and show cause, if any there be, why said aeonui'tsand voucher* should not be approved And the heir* of said estate, and ail others interested therein, are also hereby required at the time an<* place aforesaid, to appeal and make proof of their heirship or claim t* any part of said estate GKOKGE .SoKGttJs ' May 21st. If®*. * Executor RlchuiCsou 4 i'ayior, attorneys. ■ ■ . -. ■ j*.. 1

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