Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 January 1897 — Page 4

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Ckrf ike dauBtjj §rnu>ttat Bf Id. Met’. STOOPS. MT fke Pike lossty Demur rst ku the la»r* rat circatstioa at u; tewimer pshlUked la Pike t'aaatjr I ASrertleers will wake a aotc af this fart! One Tear. In advance....i— I1 » Six Months, In advance..... t>5 Entered at the posloffic* in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as aceondClass matter. . • FU1 DAY, JANUARY 22, 1897. Bdlls are being iutroducdd into the Indiana legislature by the cartload. What tbe people would desire most would be less bills of expense. ~~ Ixwajia republicans have decided to send a millionaire corporation attorney to the United States senate. The g. o. p. is the friend o|^the millionaires every time. Tnx poor soldier for Unit«4 States senator only eeceived six votes out of 85 in the republican caucus. • Verilyy the republican parlor is in favor of the soldier. Nit.

■* Bottles were jAem y and to spare in the balls of the 1 nil ian;j legislature one day last . week. A Tow* Haute firnf seat' each .senator and repnaiseetatiee a little bitters for their stomachs’ sake,'as it were. Depots cjounty has but eighty-three nltmes advertised in the delinquent list. The people of that county are rery prompt in paying their taxes. The list in Pike bounty is the largest published for many years. Still there were a number not advertised that should Have been. Thrkk republicans are contesting seats in tbe Indiana legislature. If they were honestly elected thev should not tie seated on technicalities.—Decatur Journal. 4 About the only technicality that exists is that they failed to get enough rotes to entitle them to seats in the legislature. But the republicans being in a majority Ahoy may possibly be seated on technicalities. “B9 Tins intention of General Gcixey and his followers to revive the Commonweal army ought to be a failure. The Commonwealers never accomplished anything further than to gain cheap notoriety for a few would-be leaders. The effort to organize bands of able-bodied beggars to roam over the country and foment discord among people who sraut to and will work if let alone should be flatty squelched. Trees are numbers of candidates for positions under tbe state patronage. Pike county has candidates for superintendent of the Evansville insane hospital, custodian of the state house, oil inspector and other positions too numerous to mention. Then* are also applications for government positions from consuelorships down to floorsweepers. And then, too, there are fifteen or twenty candidates who are anxious to bold down the Petersburg postoffiee. The subscription list of the Democrat is growing rapidly. Our friends throughout the county can help us a good deal by giving their paper to a neighbor when through with it and ask him to examine it and then subscribe. Don’t forget to tell him to sub^ scribe and get the news of the county. The Democrat give, more reading matter each week than any other publication in the county. It is well and clearly printed, giving the news of nation, state and county. During the coming year improvements will be made which will greatly increase its news service. Send in your names with the necessary one twenty-five.

Tu» present legislature will re-distric the state for legislative purposes. One of the hills introduced hitches Pike county onto the district of Vanderburg, Gibson and J?ilte for one representative and makes a sena&orud district of Pike and Daviess. This is don# with the intention of making them solidly rapubliqao districts. If that bill becomes a law the voters of the district should combine and knock out the republican nominees. And it is about dollars to doughnuts that they trill just about do it. Pike county for a number of years has had a representative and is justly entitled to one without being hosted up to two other counties. Such gerrymandering is a disgrace and Ct* peopLt of Uiis county are kicking without regard to past {tarty affiliations. Thk monetary conference at Indianapolis last week has gone the way of the winds. It was to be a meeting of th* so-called business men of the United States to formulate some plans regarding the monetary system of the country, but cropped out into a single gold standard convention. The meeting adjourned without doing anything to advance the interests of the nation. In November, 1896, the People, the ones who make the wealth, will hokia conreotiou that will accomplish something. That convention will constitute the farmer*, laborlogmen and merchants, the men who really j$ake the country what it is, and by their

votes will talk “right oat iu meetin’,” These single-gold-standard-confidence-pros-perity times have set the people a thinking as they never “thiuked” before. It now seems to be a settled fact that Senator Sherman will go into McKinley’s cabinet as secretary of state. And from now on the fight for the senatorship in Ohio will wax warm and furious. Boss Hanna wants the senatorship and so does Governor Bushnell and a half dozen others. • A boj. has been introduced into Urn Indiana legislature permitting base bafrt$\be played on Sundays in towns having more than rOO.OOO population. This will cut out Petersburg, and the lovers of base ball who have been in the habit of witnessing Sunday games wilt in all probability have to go to Indianapolis. Thb 55th Congress elect is divided as | follows: Senate 34 democrats, 45 republicans and 11 independents. The independents consist of 7 populjsts, 3 silver republicans, and 1 sjjvejr fusionist. House, 134 democrats (15 of these classed as fusionists). 206 republicans 16 independents., The | independents include 8 members' classed as | silver party. There’s one vacancy, i Missouri. , 1

Never in the history of Indiana has there been such a ^itfmberof lobbyists attending, i a session of the legislature as the present lone. Men are there buttonholing the members for all kinds qf bills. The" school supply hodses, railroad corporations, ‘breweries, insurance, loan associations and other concerns have their full quota in attendance to prevent legislation. What [.the legislators want to do is to work in the interest of the masses and make laws that | wil{ benefit the People, not the few, i, *■'' ‘ — ■ Vf, ■ “In my opinion,” says Hon." R/Q-. Bell, “the democratic party is now clearer, better organized* and more powerful, than ever before. It has got rid. of a lpt df people identified with the trusts and capitalistic interests bf the Country, especially those of New York and the eait, and New England, and it is well rid of them. No.happier j result could.be attained. For. more4 than a quarter of a oeutury these .people have Selfishly jliet.aJ.od the policy of "the party and its nominations. They wilp never be able to do so again. The .silver issue, in my opinion, will not be aliamloned. The more the question is agitated the stronger it will become until th? free and unlimited coimage of silver must and will obtain.” The article iq last week's issue on the school | question met the approval of all school [latrons, and a number have spoken to the editor on the subject They demand that their boys and girls l»e given a full day's schooling, even if they have to attend in a small frame building or any other place that can be made half way convenient. They don’t like the idea of their children ranging in years from 10 to 15, going only a half day. There is no complaint made ou the half day system should it apply only to the small children who are in the first grades. There is no question whatever but what two or three more teachers should be employed and fake part of the load now carried by the present corps of able instructors. The present corps of instructors are among ‘the ben the schools have ever bad, but they are working under a great disadvantage in Imiicg so many pupils. Some of the teachers have over 80 pupils in regular at tendance.. It is next to impossible for teachers to give the proper instruction that" the children should have. It is necessary that more room should be secured and that more teachers should be employed for the next school year. Arrangements to that end should now be commenced andfully carried outduring the coming year. *

Ixmtidoals who are all the time claraorj ing for newspaper attacks upon everything | that does uut conform to their notions, j almost icvariably belong to that class ! which seeks immunity from responsibility t for such warfare, says the South Bend * Times. “Of course 1 don’t want my name | menttone*! in this connection; yon understand.** Yes, th# newspaper man of | experience fully understands. You want j him to take the responsibility and odium of ; “pitching into** somebody against whom | you have a real fancied grievance but with I whom the editor never had a quarrel and may be on entirely friendly terms. You j want him to take up your fight; possibly I blacken the character of one against whom you have a personal grudge: involve the community in strife and contention; raise Ned generally. All this you want the ! newspaper man to do for yon, while yon skulk behind some anonymous signature, s and carefully hide your identify from pubj lie view, in order to get in your work, you , will pat the newspaper man on the back, and tinkle his vanity by privately calling ; him a fearless journalist, bat when it comes | to defending him publicly you are conspicuous only hv your absence. That's the kind of a fighter you aw. Too look upon the newspaper as being a medium for ; disseminating spite, creating strife, assail - 1 ing character, and generally doing dirty ; work that you d»n*t can to do yourself. , yon pay not fancy this plain^pfgpnent of

* plain fact, bnta few moments of cool, «alm meditation will convince you that it is right and proper to bring the same to your attention and prayerful consideration. The Bailway Age says: "The five years of financial trouble, commencing with 1892 have left a record of bankruptcies far greater than that of the preceding ten years and more. In that brief period 213 roads have been turned over to receivers with lines aggregating 56,408 miles, or SOper cent of the entire present mileage of the United Stales and a capitalization representing over $179,000,000, or about 80 per cent of the-bonds and stocks of our entire railway system to-dav. The year just closed has been one of disappointment and losses in all lilies of badness, and the railroads have painfully reflected the general depression. The promise of increased earnings given early in the^year was not sustained, and as a consequence many companies which, if good times had begun would have been able to meet their obligations, were obliged to default and turn over possession of their property to the courts. Instead, therefore, of the expected decrease in the number qf in solvencies,^compared with the previous year, we find an increase in both the number and mileage of roads placed in the hands of receivers, although the capitalization involved is considerably less. During 1886, thirty-four roads with 3.441 miles of lines and, a bond and stock capitalization of about $275,000,000, joined the list of railways operated by receivers, and in the year no less than fifty-eight roadssold lor their creditors representing 18,730 miles of lines And the enormous eapitaliza-; tion of over $1,150,000,000.” How the Trusts Work. - As a rule trusts and combinations do tend to cheapen the price of their products. Oil and sugar,toe two noteworthy instances, but every American who can read knows, that the history of the Standard oil company is ope long, record of. special rates, of unfair privileges, of cruel and relentless opposition and. that the sugar trust is offensive to the nostrils as its product is pleasing to the palate. '

But the beef trust is not credited even with lowering rates. By means of its relations with railroads, this combine is able to, fix the price at which live steers sell, and the price at which dnfssed beef goes. .The cattle raiser can take what they are giving or he can eat his own cattle or reship them to his ranch or stable them and let them eat theinselves up. he's in their hands, e So is the retail meat ^seller. lie must pay their? price or go without, and he must sell their beef or be run oni of business. There hqye been numerous instances where the local market man was forbidden to handle local beef under'penalty of having a new store started where the trusts would sell at a loss long enough to ruin him, letting the profits of hundreds of other places go against the place of maintaining a discipline and making an example. Now the congressional committee, engaged in studying the beef trust, reports its inability to reach any conclusions, as the witnesses cannot be "got. Certain people who refused to testify in the sugar cases have been told by the United States supreme court that they must go to jail. The same policy in this «ase would have been a good thing. The veiy fact that witnesses dodge and disappear and are run out of the way of the court is taken in petty criminal cases to demonstrate guilt. Of eourse, no such inference is proper with wealthy and influential people. And it is curious that thongh the beef trust claim to make almost no money and to be in business mainly for the sake of lowering prices and aiding mankind. Providence or their own luck or something has brought it about that they have made enormous fortunes, almost, as you might infer, against their desire or expectations. Now back of the Standard oil and back of the beef trust is the special rate gu the railroad. Giving one concern privileges not enjoyed by the rest enables it to kill off all competition. By and by the railroad creates a power as big perhaps as itself which it cannot quarrel with, either tor fear of loss of business or of exposure of | delicate relations that aid private bank accounts, and personal fortunes, but that are desired in print. It is facts like these, and pictures like that presented by the Pacific roads, with the bankruptcy of the1 companies and the vast wealth of their manipulators, that give people an argument for government control. They reasonably ask if any publishing house ever got a special postage rate that enabled it to cut under its competitors. The trusts, shouting so loud against government interference, are the very factors that will force the establishment of that control, if it ever comes. Senator Hoar's recent outbreak in Boston I on the subject of business morals fits well in we consideration of this subject. He

H is not strange that the people of the : new states who see colossal fortunes acquired i by forbidden wars, by the fraudulent management of grant railroads, by the perversions of corporate powers bestowed by the government for public use and for public ends, or by gambling in stocks or in th«r j necessaries of life should strive to imitate 1 the example on a small scale. It is not strange that a Kansas or Nebraska farmer, who reads the railroad history of that section of the country to which he belongs, should lend a ready ear and become a docile disciple to a plan by which he can use the ' powers of the government for his own ad- > vantage, by getting rid of the burden of • debt. It is not strange that the example of gambling by tampering with the currency | or in (die stock market, or wheat market, } should stir up the youth of the Northwest to attempt a little manipulation of the c urrency for iheir own benefit,--HartXord Cotuaat (Rep,) v . I

Washington Letter. (From o«r regular correspondent.) Washington, Jan. 18,1897. Poor Cuba! The formal announcement that John Sherman has been compelled to become McKinley’s secretary of state in order to make a place in the senate for Boss Hanna, makes it certain that unless this congress does something for Cuba, it will hare to go on fighting alone. There has been a suspicion for some time that McKinley occupied very nearly the same attitude towards Cuba that President Cleveland does, and Mr. &herman has made that suspicion a certainty by saying: “I do not believe this government should interfere between Spain and the Cubans. I do not believe this government should attempt.to settld ,the war or take any steps putting Upon us the burden of determining the nature of rule in Cuba in case the Cubans win.” As this language was used when he was just from the pjfesenee of McKinley, and after he had accepted the secretaryship of state, there isn't the slightest doubt that it is an advance statement of McKinley’s Cuban policy. It is several shades worse than the present Cuban policy. President Cleveland has at least tried to bring about peace. McKinley proposes to do absolutely nothing anil to let the butchery continue indefinitely. This may result in stirring up the friends of ‘Cuba in congress. There are now in Washington petitions signed by six hundred thousand American citizens, asking congress to recognize the independence of Cuba. ♦ It is evident that Speaker Reed doesn’t expect Representative Boatner of Louisiana, who was unseated at the last session of congress andf re-elected to fill the vacancy and for a full term beginning March 4th uext, to be unseated in the contest which is again being made for his seat. Otherwise he would not have selected Mr. Boatner, who is one -Of those rare democrats who favors protection to a certain extent, to fill'the vacancy oq tii* ways and means1 committee. Representative Bailey of Texas, who was given the vacancy on the rules committee, was, it is said, given his choice of the vacancies by Mr. Reed. Charlie

Crisp, son of the late ex-speaker, was given the vacancy on the post office committee, and Representative" Stokes of South Carolina, that on the committee of agriculture. The republican steering committee of the senate has given the Nicaragua canal bill the first place.in the order of business ofj the senate, which is merely another way of | killing the time during the four days a week the! leislurely veuatc condescends to sit during this session, is ■ they know that the bill has no chance of getting acted "on in the house. Those ^members of Huntington's -lobby, who are not regularly on his pay roll, found themselves out of a job, when the house sat. down so hard on the Pacific railroad’s funding bill. The question of legislation on the subject is still being considered, but Huntington seems at last to realize that the numerous lobby he had at work in Washington did the funding bill more harm than good, and from now on, the lobbying will not be so openly conducted. If there is any legislation on this matter it is likely to be along the line of the bill which has been reported favorably to the senate, and which is now being considered by the house committee. It provides for a commission of cabinet officials with authority to settle the whole business. If the free homestead bill fails to get through. Speaker Reed will make numerous Western enemies who will be heard from if be is again a candidate for his party’s presidential nomination. The bill when passed by the house only provided for free homesteads in Oklahoma, but before the senate passed it, amendments were added, extending the area of free homesteads. When the bill went back to the house, instead of allowing the house to vote on the senate amendments so that the bill could be sent to conference, if they were not accepted by the house. Speaker Reed sent the bill back to the committee on public lauds, and its friends are whispering that he did it for the purpose of having the bill smothered. ‘ Representative and Senetor-elect Money of Mississippi, thus disposes of a sensational story sent from Washington: “There is not a word of truth in the story that I have the slightest misunderstanding with Consul- i General Lee .growing out of* my letters on the.Cuban question. General Lee and 1 are the best of friends, and there is not the - least particle of a chance of our disagreeing. I was as much amftsed over the newspaper publication that there was to be a duel bet ween us as the General will be when he sees it.” V The much talked of bill authorizing the president to appoint delegates to any international monetary conference that may be called, has been introduced in the senate. This is a measure for which everybody in congress will vote, and which nobody, in or out of congress, believes will ever amount to a row of pins, so far as increasing the use of silver as money is concerned. i

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Compulsory Education. Mr. Charles A. Coffey, the attorney, of this place, has the following'to say on the above subject which appeared in the Indianapolis News of last Saturday: 6 “The state, no doubt owes the citizen the faculties of an education alike, as a matter of right, and for the sake of its self-protec-tion. Thus it has erected schools and colleges and furnished them with teachers andprofessors. It has provided the remedy^, now it proposes to compel the remedy to be taken. That is." it says to every one, you must acquire an education. “The constitution of this state gives the legislature power to “encourage, by all suitable means,” the acquiring of an education. Is an act of compulsion an act of encouragement? Does uot the legislature go beyond the meaning and spirit of the constitution when it attempts to coerce the citizens to send their children to the public schools? Certainly the word “encoflrage,” as used in the constitution, has no element of force iu it. No influence can | be exacted by encouragement, save that] which is persuasive. If the framers of the'] constitution had intended to give the legislature power to compel attendance, then some other term besides ‘ ‘encourage" would have been used. That it has power to coptrol the system of schools by providing the means, officers, etc., can not lie disputed, but neither by constitutional right nor by police power, has it the right to say that a certain number of persons must do a given amount of school work. An education is a private concern, .in the sense that k fits its possessor for his own individual requirements. That the state may make a system uniform does not carry with it the idea that it can enforce a uniform attendance. “Again if a compulsory law were constitutional, and the liberty of the citizen can be usurped in such a manner, there are >et other reasons why the law should not be passed. The statistics, as 1 admit, show that the greater number of our criminals are illiterate, but is not the same true where any attempts have been made at compulsory education? Then, do statistics show a better attendance in those states in which education is compulsory, or where attempts have been made to make it so? In 1892 the enrollment of Illinois as well as that of Connecticut was only 70 per cent while for the same year in Indiana it was 80 per cent of the enumeration.

“But how should such a law been form! ? j It must be so framed as to make disobedience thereof penal. Then there must be an officer who shall keep track of its violations. I Mother word-, the morning sun must reveal policemen at the door ready to snatch our children away to the state’s great work-shop. Experience with the schools shown me that whose attendant e is limited, among the poorer classes of the people—people who are hardly abl4 to drive away hunger, or to clothe themselves and children against the climate. Shall these people be subjected in fines for failing to give their children an education ? Suppose they are. They can not pay, .and our jails' yrill be erowded with people, whose only crime is poverty. If the father, or the one upon whom the support of the family depends, is thus incarcerated, the destitution of the family must call for aid from the poor fund. “Mr. Stalker, editor of the Inland Educator, supposed, too. that the system may be carried on non-politically, yet in ils very inception it depends upon a political bod*' more or less warped by party prejudice, ai d too the people of Indiana have n*>t yet reached that degree of perfection in which politics is not the prominent feature. The institution of a petty office must carry with it all the elements of party politics. The dream of universal education must await the millennium and .not the legislature." A Cart for Lame Bark. > > ‘ '« , ! “My daughter, when recovering from an attack of fever, was a gnat sufferer from pain in the back ami hip,” writes Louden Grover of Sardis, Ky. “After using quite a number of remedies without any benefit she tried one bottle of Chaniber’aiu’s Pain I Balm, and it has given entire, relief.” Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is also -a-ecfEaln^ cure for rheumatism. Sold by J. R. Adams & Son. : j The Dexockat will furnish you with ono hundred beet quality white envelopes with your name, address and business neatly printed on the upper left hand corner for fifty cents. All kinds of other job printing at equally low prices.

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