Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 40, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 February 1897 — Page 4

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Skr $ik* Cmmtg gmsaat Kr t»U fact Y*e PHm Ctutjr D*atmt lu Ike tor* Oim Tear, la ad ranee... Stx Montba, in advance. II K Die red at the poetolBee tn Petersburg for through the mail* as aoaoodFRIDAY. FEBRUARY 12,1807. Sn.ru is the battle err for 1900. Tn county commissioners should fix up the court house square. Let it be by contract. The yard looks bad. Result one hundred men in the B. A 0. •hops at Washington hare been discharged. This is returning prosperity. Thk making ot McKinley's cabinet still goes merrily on. It k supposed that it will now be made up principally of millionaires. As additional force ot clerks and doot^ keepers hw been added to the house of the legislature. The ivpwbHeuns are after the spoils, do other know. The house of the Indiana legislature has employed two more clerks. Aud the work of expense goes merrily on. The boys must hare something to do. The town has been full of agents selling pictures and other articles during the past few weeks. The question now is: Do these traveling agents pay license to sell 'their goods? _ If .the majority in the legislature is through unseating democrats elected by the votes of the people, it should now proceed to business as but a few weeks is left for business. -

A xew fee and salary lav governing county officers has been sprung in the sen* ate of the legislature. It will knock out the present law and give the officers a raise In salary of about fifty per cent. Civil service eliminations will.be held at Evansville April 36th. Those physicians who are looking after jobs on the Pike oounty pensjoo board will no doubt wend their way to that city to pass muster. Tbs report of R. €1. Dun’s commercial agency for last week, says: Failures for the week have been 411 in the United States, against 334 last rear, and 64 in Canada, against 67 last rear. Tbs }Kwloftce candidates are still engaged in the fight for the plum at this place. The boys all stem anxious for the job of licking stamps, and who the lucky man will be still remains in doubt. About a year from this month the question will probably he settled. The Indiana tax law which was passed by a democratic legislature has stood the tests in all the courts The corporations fought the law to the bitter end and will now proceed to pay their taxes just the name as the common, every-day people living in the rural districts. Thebe seems to be a lovely row now on in the republican oamp in Ohio. Hanna wants to be senator to succeed Sherman, End Goveuor Bush Dell wants the same job. But if Hanna doesn't get the senatorship ha will take a cabinet position and wait two years and make a fight for the senatorship. ■55SH*^WPW5H“SH5S? Thsodoec a. Ha vimki eii tells a trust investigating uotnmiltee that he wouldn’t go into a business if he couldn’t make 13 or 20 per cent in it. Isn’t the sugar trust one of those infant Industries still clamoring for more pro trot ion 1 Its stock is only $74,000,000 and fO per cent on that sum is $14,800,000. Geoeqs W. Shaxeux. tor many years editor-in-chief of the Evansville Courier, died in Washington City last Saturday. He has been connected with the Courier since 1865. He served in the war of the rebellion, being a member of. the 43d regiment. He wae a progressive journalist, end one of the •blest writers in the west. SgrvBUcana have do longer any reason ao cry out against alleged election trends in the Sooth. In the great state of Indiana, wham one of the best and strongest election laws ever enacted, the legislature turns down man who have received a majority of the votes east. Don't say anything more •bont elections in the south, Indiana can furnish better examples. The Indiana legislature is still monkey* jng with the election lew, The amendments that are proposed will amount to nothing more thaa to confuse the voter. The law is good enough as it stands. The voter* thoroughly understand! the nse of the little Stamp, and to substitute the nee of a pencil will he only to snake distinguishing marks on the ballot. Del tike ballot law alone and get after the trusts for a change.

Tbs state legislature has only about twenty days more in which to complete its ! work. Nearly 1,000 bilk have been presented and eighteen hare passed both branches and become laws. The session j has been taken up iu introducing and talking on political measures. It is all for epoda. Petersburg can be made to boom daring the naming summer if aff the business men and all others interested in the future of the town, would go to work and hustle for that purpose. Petersburg has the class of business men who can do it if they will, and the efforj should be made during the coming spring months. The children of Petersburg should have a full days attendance at school. Six hundred dollars will make room for every boy and girl in Petersburg. Build a temporary structure that will answer the purpose until the debt of the town is decreased to soch an extent, that bonds can be issued whereby a substantial building can be erected. One of our exchanges gives the following recipe for the unemployed who were led 'into the belief that single-gold-stamlard-confidence-prosperity was what they absolutely needed: Three gallons of confidence, one quart of gold standard, seven tablespoonfuls of prosperity, two quarts of sound money and one pound of protection. Boil it with twelve months of no work for one hour, and eat while hot. A lame number of the republican papers in Southern Indiana are making a howl about the apportionment act which the present legislature will probably enact. The republicans in Daviess county have no show whatever to elect a senator with Dubois county attached, and the republicans of Pike oountycan neither elect a representative or senator, their votes will not count for much.

Gonotxo* Mot* xt did the right thing in vetoiug the bills creating new judicial circuits. The circuits were no doubt made to give some republicans a job. The govenor says the expenses are getting too numerous as it were. The republicans in the house attempted to pass the bills over the governor’s veto, but a large number of the democrats, among them Capt. Sullivan, voted to sustain the governor’s action. The democratic members of the legislature have held a caucus, decided that they would stand by the Sutton legislative apportionment bill to a mao, They will also oppose any change in the election law. The Sutton bill is ss fair a measure as could | possibly be framed and does justice to both > parties. In the senate there are twentythree republican and twenty-three democratic districts, with four in doubt, while* in the house are forty-four democratic.. forty-four republican districts, with twelve in doubt. . . I ■ i Oxe hundred and eleven millionaires f have organised what will be known as the» National Sound Money League, and will! take in all who wish to join the,m in oppos- j ing the free coinage of silver for the next. four years. It is organised by the million-! aires. There is a league in the west and ; middle states that will <vonie to the front during the next four years which will not contain a millionaire, but will be composed of laboringtneu and farmers and will oppose the single.guUl-standard-confidence-, j prosperity gang and put them to flight. When this is accomplished reductions in wages and failures will not be of an every i day occurrence. The curfew ordinance which the town, trustees adopted some months ago is one of ; a very few that has been enforced or that j Is heeded. Mothers and parents now know where their children are at eight o’clock j when the curfew is pealed forth—they are , at home where they should be. The officers have but little trouble in enforcing the ordinance, for when the bell is tapped there is a great scampering for borne. It is a great measure and should be rigidly enforced at all tiroes. There are parents in ! Petersburg who pay but little attention to ' j their children and let them come and go at ( will, and previous to the passing of the ordinance children ranging frcm *e~ to sixteen years of age were on the streets as late as ten o’clock. They are now at home at these hoars. The republican committee which is new revising and preparing a tariff till to be presented at the special session of congress will tiokie the farmer all over with its magnanimous generosity. On straw a duty of $1.50 per ton is placed thereon to keep the i foreigners from overstocking the markets j of the United States. In Pike and d; in. j ing counties thousands of tons a: s bon d j op each year to gnt it out of the way. But j the republicans mart protect the farms . j Fifteen cents per bushel will be placed on ' corn, 35 cents on wheat, S cents per head on cabbage, eggs 5 cento, hay $4 per ten, 5 cento per gallon on milk, and ao on. Mow just as aeon as this bill goes into eff; thaw articles above enumerated, accord, ng to republican methods of doing basinets should increase by adding the tariff doty .tattem-tp**. j

Tariff and Baslaea*. Bradsireet's review of trade for the first week in February went*in* a significant paragraph. It reads: The restriction of the production of cotton goods has not strengthened the market new advanced prices. The heavy increase in sales of wool, 40,000,000 pounds at Boston since January 1, against 24,000,-! 000 pounds last year, is based on the expee-j tation of a high duty on word. Here is a case where fact and theory collide. The Bryan forces, in the memorable campaign of 1808, reminded the manufacturing East that the ability of the agricultural West and South to buy was a larged-sised factor in the business situation. If the great producing sections, by reason of low prices for the products of the soil or restricted money circulation, were limited in their capacity to purchase, the solicitors of trade from the East must canvass those sections for restricted orders, and this entirely independent of the Inducements offered. Bradstreet confirms this view. “The restriction of the production of cotton goods has not strengthened the market nor advanced prices.” The reason is plain. The consuming sections of the country, threatened with a gold standard, do not see their way to more liberal purchases. On the contrary, they are compelled to curtail, well knowing that de‘bt, with an increase in the value of the medium in which the debt must be paid, means ultimate disaster. The theory in tlw case is the tariff. It has increased thus far the purchases of wool, regardless of the controlling fact that the sales of woolen goods are not keeping pace with these speculative purchases and that the investment may finally result in loss. The thiek-aud-thin friend of the McKinley schedule, the San Francisco Chronicle, gives the following reasou for the restoration of high duties: Every mouthly balance sheet of the treasury department shows the need of the early revision of the tariff which is the object of the coming extra session to meet. The public financial statement for January indicates that the deficit is much larger than- in the corresponding period of 1806. The total is $5,052,395, or, for the seven months of the present fiscal year, $43,854,782. For the corresponding seven months of 1806 it was $18,686,377. Things are thus going from bad to worse in the national finances, and this in spite of the fact that the available eash balance is still very large. But as that fund, since the 29th of last month, has mysteriously decreased by $15,000,000, and as a large part of it composed of appropriations made by congress, but withheld from expenditure by the president, it is impossible to judge from any* { thing the government has published how much of the fund is a fictitious asset or how great the actual liability is.

The federal government needs more revenue. The supreme court of the United States has decided that no revenue shall be reaped from incomes, no matter how !arge the incomes may be. Hence the only available channel is the custom house, and to swell thn retires at the ports of entry it is proposed to discourage imports by exacting front them a higher rate of duty. What will be the effect? Unless the purchasing power of the community j is so increased as to overcome the handicap j of the enlarged duties the custom house j receipts must decline rather than increase : under the proposed tariff. If this is the j result one of two things must happen: The j federal government must decrease its j expenditures or the treasury deficit will grow under the new administration muchj faster than it has grown during the last j four years. This leads the business public j to doubt the efficacy of the proposed j remedy. It gives a season for the lack of! speculative purchases in New York and i London. Dun’s trade review, in the part1 which relates to iron and steel—the' basic ] commodities—adds strength to this view of1 the case in the following: Prices of Bessemer pig and gray forge at Pittsburg have slightly advanced with r j much more hopeful feeling, notwithstand-1 ing the comparative narrowness of the j demand for finished products, and in plates and wire nails there is much more business with good prospects. Billets are quoted at $15.25 with scarcely any demand at present and rods at $21, while No. 27 black sheets are quoted at only two cents. Reports that 25,000 tons of steel plate and sheet bars have been exported to England are only indications of the temporary excess, of supply over demand in this country and j are not supposed to have realized any! profits. Yet it is stated that prices of cs~; pipe are from $2 to $S per ton lower rt New York than at Scotch works Par: a.~ ouoted at the lowest price ever known at Philadelphia, without much improvement in the demand, and steel rails are st‘” inactive and unchanged in price, the railroads waiting for a decline eormspeodng to the fall in billets. But, on t* whe’-, j tve demand for iron and steel prod- ts is slowly gaining and a eons’'erabie rroportiou of the works is fully ecr loye'\ ‘bough the gain is not yet enough f rj thoee who have takes large stocks of material or products on speett’alicn Exports of steel platee to England ar.fi j of pig lead to Liverpool and Havre lure aj tendency to weaken the demand for h: her ] tariff. If. under the present schedule enr producers can undersell the prod - -ers of Europe, what reason exists for the fe»r that our home market—the most pro”tah!e of the two—is open to invasion? Whxt i; needs is not more protection in the item of tariff bat more building ap in the factor ?f finance, to the end that values may i~creers and with them the purchasing ability a* the masses. Debts would decrease in a lik proportion, gradually removing from the land the night mare or foreclosure und min. which has been bolding sway since 18 " The financial doctors of the McKLiey

school mistake the symptoms of the industrial disease and necessarily the remedy that * needed. Failing to judge the one they are powerless to prescribe the other. The market reviews of Don and Brwbtreet reteal telling facts without intending to do so. But the good work proceeds* and when one experiment after another falls by the way side the road will be open to plain common sense and to actual improvement, the latter based upon the lessons of experience.—Denver News. Washington Letter. ; (Prom our regular correspondent.) Washington, Feb. 8,1897. I Senator Tillman has got out his pitchfork again, and he is going to nse it if the republicans try to throw out the electoral vote of South Carolina on the protest that is going to be made by Murray, the negro member of the bouse from that state, when the house and senate meet this week in joint session to count the electoral votes. Senator Tillman said on the subject: “If McKinley is going to be inaugurated on the 4th of March, the joints convention is got V> count the vote of South Carolina. If the repnblican party wants to make an attack on the constitution of the state, it must make it on some other ground or in some other maimer than by endeavoring to prevent the counting of her vote. I wish | to go further aud express my preference j for seeing Mr. McKinley president rather I than to see the presidential function exercised by Secretary Olney, as it will be after | the 4th of March, if the effort is made to deny Sooth Carolina the right to vote.*’ | The following significant language was used by Representative McCall of Massachusetts, who is a republican ^nd chairman of the election committee which has charge j of the contested election cases from South j Carolina in this congress: “It is true, apparently, that the election laws and constitution of South Carolina disbar a large proportion of the population from voting, but it seems to be the illiterate ones who are disfranchised. There is a question in the minds of many intelligent men whether this is not a wise plan if constitutionally enforced and carried out according to law. A full generation has passed since the colored men were enfranchised, and I do not know how long they can expect us to coddle them and fight to secure their electoral j rights, while they neglect to learn to read and write.”

AODody was surprised when the senators who hare been poshing the Nicaragua canal bill, have decided to give up the fightT At no time during the present session has the bill bad the slightest chance of getting through the boose, even if passed by the senate. It could have been passed by the senate notwithstanding the protests of Nicaragua, but it could only have been done by a protracted fight which would have resulted in ore^^ting action by the innate upon other legis,(»t;on. Senator Da^e’ hah made a point against the arbitration treaty which may result in arraying the silver senators solidly against its ratification. The point is that if the United States should adopt the free coinage of silver while that treaty was in force, England could put in a claim 'or the difference between the value of principal and interest of American debts held in Englaud, under the new system of a double standard and under the present single gold standard, and if a majority of the arbitrators happened to be gold men would probably get a decision in favor of the claim. A marked feature of the contested election cases decided last week by the house was that the democrats who held the seats were held by the republican majority. The democrats so honored were Representatives Swanson of V»r<*'nia. Kendall of Kentucky, aud Price and Boatner 5f Louisiana. Tom Watson’s contest has been decided by a committee against him and m favor of Representative B1?.ck, and will this week be decided the same way by the house. Canada has sent two members of its ministry to Washington to offer liberal trade concessions in exchange for duties in the new tariff bill that will not shut out Canadian agricultural products, but it looks as though they would just as well have remained at home so far as accomplishing anything goes. The republicans have already agreed to a schedule of rates on agricultural products that raises the duties to such an extent that it will bar out Canadian products. The Washington Post has been having fun with Secretary Morton. Its latest hit is too good to be overloo'ned: ‘‘The Post is under obligations to Hon. J. Sterling Mor on for bis most valuable report on ’Tape Worms of Poultry.’ By the keen employment of that twin screw aud double expansion logic for which tua lead of the agricultural department is so noted, the writer is able to show that this pest which is * n: eying to farmers and adding to their mortgages Is due dirc-tly to the constant * I tat ion of the financial question by irre;onsibL parsons who do not agree with the present admin'r ntIon.” The wearing in of Senator Kenney of Dab ware, which the mot radical of the republicans had not ths cheek to object to, after the eomnittaeo elections bed refused to re-open the DuPont claim, makes a full mate of ninety member*. There will * robobly be a break, in the ranks agnin after the 4th of March, either on account of no su&ttecc. being selected to Senator Blarkb m or be cause of a deadlock in one or more et xa which have not yet elected senators. —----— CsMuf Gristpe Cam. Dr. Meml'chall :, Cold and Grippe Core is guaranteed to cure colds, la grippe, headache, neuralgia, aching feverish conditions, pros; rations, etc. For the coog . take Dr. > endenhalTs Cough and Consumption Cu.e. Sold at the Acme Pharmacy. 85*

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