Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 34, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 January 1897 — Page 4

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--*--=— She §pik» (Smnttg £}rnu>ttat nr n. Mtc. stoops. t&f* The Pike (©nut y Dpworrst ku the I»rmt rimlittn M a; Mw«up«r pskUtM il Pike Coast;! Advertiser* will make a aote of tUafaot! One Year, In advance.......$1 85 SI* Months, In advance.... —. «5 Entered at the postoffiee In Petersburg for transmission through the mails as second* Class matter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1897. Wit in Cuba Is still progressing. Hundreds of young men throughout the United States are joining the insurgents every day. Tbs gold bag “confidence*’ single stand* ard times has struck Chicago very hard. There have been several bank failures there during the past two weeks. Dark horses are now beuig talked of in the Indiana senatorial race. So far it has been barrel against barrel. The fight is getting hot as the time of election draws near. Skvk&aL of the prospective postoffice candidates in Petersburg were anxiously looking for that appointment, in their stockings Christmas morning. It failed to arrive. Hos. ChestEa Facixsee of Holton, who has been Senator Voorbces’ private secretary for many years, was run down by a street car in Washington City last Thursday, from the effects of which he died on Christmas day. lie was 75 years of age.

Congress will reassemble next Tuesday. As the republicans with their overwhelming majority are afraid to pass a tariff bill or any other measure they should adjourn, go home and give the country a rest. But then they want *« talk and let the “dear** people know they are there. Strikes are becoming numerous throughout th* U nited States since the people voted for the single gold standard ‘ ‘confidence” return of prosperity. The country is sick and the doctor seems to have prescribed the wrong medicine. In 1900 the diagnosis wilgbe changed from “confidence” to “18 If the average editor were to snap up all the inducements held out he would soon become a millionaire. If he published a paper according to the popular notion he would be in the poorhouse. If he published all the items sent to him he would be iu jail half of the time and in the hospital the other half. Tbs republicans in Indiana have much to answer for. The last legislature eaused more lawsuits in courts than any former legislature in the history of the state. The republican party again controls the legislature, and it is to be hoped that they will adjourn as soon as possible after the session commences. Congressman HtXtstsr is receiving visits at his home in RoonviUe, from Petersburg people this week, who are interacting themselves in Behalf of the twenty or seventy candidates for the Petersburg postoffice. There are several other appointments that others would like U> fall into also. It is one of the prettiest fights wen for many a'day. The Indiana legislature convenes next Thursday when the greatest fight ever known in republican circles for spoils wiil be witnessed in Indianapolis. The hungry horde of office-seekers and place-humors will be there in droves, and while it will be bard on the republican legislator it willj be a splendid thing for the soup-houses and cheap*meal restaurants.

The average republican politician is having a splendid time explaining the present crisis. “Just wait until McKinley is elected." they were went to howl, “ami the business world will move right along and the factories will ooeo up and every laboriug man will be employed at fat wages. *" What's the matter with these *'confidence’' times; anyhow? Give n« a change. WrrHiS the last two we«k« srv* ral of the strongest banks tu Illinois and Minnesota have succumbed to these returning “confidence'* times that were promised by the republican party m case McKinley was elected. Had Bryan been elected the re-j publican country newspapers would have denounced Bryan in unraewstteed tones. But their tunes are changed into applauding the single gold standard. What a I change! ._\ j The silver cause is growth from day to day. Tht> promises made by the goldite party during the last campaign have fallen ■ to the ground so far and even before the inauguration, it will behoove the gold bugs in the next administration to*'get aj hutup" on themselves and improve times. make money plenty ami prices good for ] products aiid wage-earners or the prophecies Will all fall through again. S&fs

-—-p-r------— There is a great scramble among the republican doctors of Pike etyjiity for places the btard of examining surgeons and physicians. The doctors of Petersburg want the board to meet here, while those of the south putrt of the county want the board to meet at Winslow under the incoming administration, it is rumored that Dr. Byers and Dr. Basinger of Petersburg, and Dr. Coleman of Union, are slated for the new board. The supreme court last week decided that^he fee and salary law passed by the mob legislature two years ago was constitutional. The auditors and treasurers of the state were made . to serve for fees only. The auditor’s fees in this county would not make that officer more than $150 per year, while the salary -was placed at $2,100. The coming session of the legislature. should change the law so that the officers would draw their salaries as it was intended they should. One of the laws passed by the legislature two years ago should be changed. That session made it the duty of the various sheriffs to return prisoners from the penitentiaries who had served their terms to the counties from wbemie they had been convicted. Such a law worked a hardship to every prisoner returned, as he was turned loose without a cent and is compelled to beg the tirst meal after getting out of prison. Under the old law the prisoner was given $15. Go back to the old law, it was* good enough. Captain Sasser Sullivan, representativeelect from this county, was in town Monday. The captain left on the noon train for Greene county, where he will visit his brother and a daughter before going to Iudianapoiis. He will arrive at the capitol city next Monday and be ready for work at the convening of the session, and will be at i Ids post of duty at all times. The captain ! will have the honor of being the oldest ! member of tin* lower house, having reached S his sixty-ninth year, and is a vigorous and stroug man. He is a veteran of the Mexican aud civil wars, and probably the only : legislator who has the distinction of having served in two wars. Pike county will be j ably represented lu this session of the legislature.

91 iue aeraoenwc snerm are filled with gold. Any lily white silverite who will allow that obnoxious stuff “gold" thrown right into his teeth is lacking in nerve. Populists, run your fingers through ] vonr whiskers ami set 'em to thinking.: Played thunder, haven’t you?—Petersburg Press. It is just probable that the democratic sheriff had his teeth filled with gold wheu silver was on a per with gold. At the present time there are hundreds .of people in Pike county who are unable to even fill their teeth with the necessities of life owing to the single gold standard times. Still, in muling the above item, you cau readily see that the editor of the Press has a very sore spot left since the election, and is “idler" the populists of Pike county for voting for a change in county as well as national affairs. The editor of the Press should remember that the populists of Pike county are tax-payers, prosperous farmers and men who are capable of managing their own affairs successfully, and they knew al>o that a change was necessary in the management of county affairs that they- fax* $ might be lowered. To vote their own county ticket straight would probably mean the election of the republican county ticket. But a great many voted for the democratic county ticket, and with the assistance of some of the prohibition and silver republican voters a change was made.

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Washington Letter. (From oar regular correspondent.) Washixgtox, Dec. 28,1896. Congress not being in session, the tariff barons who were in and around the ways and means committee room at the capitol, in which Mr. Diugley and his republican associates on the committee to-day began the public hearings upon the several schedules of the proposed new Dingley tariff bill, were the center of attraction. The schedule upon which today's hearings were based was that embracing spirits, wines and j other beverages. The republicans had ex- [ pec ted that the South would be largely | represented among those asking for favors j under this schedule, but they were disap- | pointed. The next schedules to^ be taken j up will be thkt of cotton goods followed by | that on sugar and molasses. • There seems to be a general disposition to misunderstand uie issue raised between congress and the president by Secretary Olney when he said that the president would not obey a joint resolution even if passed over his veto, directing him to ree- | ognize the independence of Cuba, because | the president alone had the right to decide such questions. It is not contended by tbe senators who will oppose Secretary Olney’s ; positiou that the president has not the right to recognize a new state without reference to congress; on the contrary, they freely concede him that right. They claim, however. that a joint resolution of Congress when it becomes a law, whether by ordinary methods or by being adopted by a two~ j thirds vote over the president’s veto, is just as binding upon the president as any other law. In other words, that while the president may exercise Jiis discretion as to recognition in the absence of congressional action, it is in the power of two-thirds of coagTess to compel him to obey its behests, in recognizing the independence of anew j state, as well as in anything else. Tbe j claim that congress wished to deny the

puTiunH iu act iuurpeuuvuuj it in recognizing a new state has been put forward to muddle the question. The question will noc be settled soon, anyway, as the Cameron resolution for the recogniUon of Cuba hasn’t the slightest show to ge^th rough the house, and will be fought stoutly in the senate. The announcement that Representative j and Senator-elect Money of Mississippi,who! is a member of the house committee on j foreign affairs, had taken advantage of the j congressional rn.es,; to go tc Cuba for the j purpose .of making a personal investigation of the situation, has caused much gossip in Washington. While everybody knows that i Mr. Money means well, there is a disposi- j tion to regret the publicity v hieh has been given to his trip, because it looks like a reflection upon our state department and ! its agents in Cuba. Confldential agents of the Wanamaktr! and the Choate senatorial booms have been i working on the friends of McKinley in j order to get him to. throw his influence on their side. But they have not succeeded. While there is little doubt that most of the original McKinley men would rather see Wanamaker sent to the senate from Pennsylvania than Quay’s man, Penrose, who, by the way, is beiug supported by the national A. P. A., and Choate elected senator from New York instead of Platt, but | they cannot jee a good enough chance for I either to win to advise McKinley to take a | stand that would make Quay and Platt the ! open enemies of his administration. Hon. William S. Holman of Indiana, whose familiar face and rigid views on government economy, have been missed from the present house, has - been elected a member of the’next, and is more determined than ever to live up to the reputation he made as the •‘watch dog of the treasury.” When the republicans take the first step towards au increase of extravagance by the introduction of a new tariff bill, at the extra session, that will furnish more money to be spent, it is the purpose of Judge Holman to make a speech, in which if he can no’ prevent extravitganee. he will- at least attempt to make it clear to the people that it exists under present expenditures; he will also endeavor to show that the expenditures of the government should not exceed 1330,000,000 a year, and that if they were reduced to that amount the present tariff would produce an annual surplus of $100,000,000, which could be applied, to the reduction of the bonded debt. The Pacific railroad lobbyists are so uneasy about the prospect of the funding bill to come up iu the house January 7th, that they have followed representatives out of town in order to talk to them in favor of the Kill during the recess. The ^opponents of the bill are also active, and the four days it will be under discussion in the house are uot at all likely to be dull.

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FACTS THAT STARTLE. Astounding Condition of Affairs Revealed. * $> THE 00HCE3STEATI0H OF WEALTH. Om Per Cent of me Families Hold Nearly the Entire Wealth of the Nation—Result of LegUattoo Fkrorlnc Trouts and the Demonetisation of Silver. Wealth.—“Less than half the families In the United States are propertyless; nevertheless seven-eighths of the families hold only one-eighth of the national wealth, while 1 per . cent of the families hold more than do the other 09 per cent” Incomes.—“One-eighth of the families in America receive more than half the aggregate Income, and the richest 1 per cent receive a larger income than the poorest 50 per cent. \ In fact, this small class of wealthy ( property owners receives from prop? I erty alone as large an Income as i half of our people receive from prop? ' erty and labor.** The above startling statements axe ■ taken from Mr. Charles B. Spahr’s book on “The PresentDistribution of Wealth In the United States, ’’ recently published in the Library of Economics ahd Politics. Dr. Spahr maintains that the distribution of wealth is under the direct control of laws for which the national I conscience is responsible, and that the j distribution of wealth has become better or worse precisely as the national ; conscience has become directed to 'or di- j reeled from the laws controlling it. He says, further, as to the causes j which have contributed to this astounding concentration of wealth, that unjust and unequal taxation is the chief. Among others he notes the contraction of currency due to the demonetization of silver, railroad “financing,” which | forces the people to $cy interesfon billions of dollars’ worth of securities, representing only “water” and railroad discriminationa that have built up’ large < towns at the expense of small ones and , fattened great corporations like the | Standard Oil company and Chicago Beef ; trust at the cost of individual shippers. Assuming that these conclusions are correct—and there is not the slightest , reason to doubt them—the question is. What is to be done about it? If the gov- | efnment has been so powerful for evil, j can it not be made powerful for good > also?

vjx wurgc uitj rcpijr uiia ui buiuu quarters will be the old aDd perniciously idiotic one, “You can’t create wealth by legislation. ” “You would stifle individual effort and industry, would you?’* and this sort of reasoning that deceives none but the most ignorant comes in nine cases out * of ten from those who owe everything they have to legislation. Where, pray, would our Standard Oil trust. Sugar trust, Rubber trust, Ledfl trust. Leather trust, Tobacco trust, Cottonseed Oil trust and railroad magnates be today were it not for legislation? Would there be any telegraph or telephone monopoly were it not for legislation? In fact, the consideration of the few nnder the guise of “looking after the business interests” has become such a steady and settled policy on the fart of the Republican party that today its leaders have actually lost sight of the fact that it is the duty of the government to legislate for the general welfare only. They forgot long ago that the interests of the poorest day laborer are of as much consequence in a government of tho people as are those of the millionaire. And not this alone—the true functions of a government of the people are to actually put limits on powers when they are ready to break the bounds of prosperous and beneficent competition. The 1 per cent of the families that hold more wealth than the other 99 per cent of the families of the country may see no reason for alarm. The rank and file of the party which is responsible for the reckless legislation of the past 36 years may not feci disposed to call a halt Bnt a few of the leaders of that party begin to see tbe handwriting on the waJL Senator Matt Quay sees it. The scales'are even dropping torn the eyes of that venerable and honest partisan. Senator Hoar. Tbe leaders of the moneyed wing of the Democracy, like Cleveland and Wattemm, see it. “When things are as bad as they can be, they always begin to mend,” is an old truism, in this case will they be mended by legislation that will serve to create a Wider diffusion of moderate welfare, or will they be mended by allowing the popular discontent to fan itself into a blase that * ball sooner or later consume the republic?. ,

Search the Woodpile. Senator Thurston, the representative j of the Union Pacific Railroad company, j is advising the members of the North ; Carolina legislature to re-elect Mr. j Pritchard to the senate. Mr. Thurston's suddenly developed interest in the wei- j fare of the people of North Carolina ! ought to bring about a search of the woodpile. It is barely possible there is ! an Afro-American lurking in the vicini-j ty.—New York Journal. V flw Ohio Contingent. Mr. Hanna has been given as author- , ity for the statement that there are al> | ready 8,000 applicants from Ohio for office under the incoming administra- | tion.. In the event of war President Me- ' Kinley might offer military opportunities to many of them. Now that there is no election at hand j the Pennsylvania politicians are engag- j ed in telling some very unpleasant truths ! of each other. Pennsylvania politics > needs a perpetual disinfectant |

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