Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 2, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 May 1897 — Page 4

Philosophy. | Of taaUsg many pills there it no end. Every pill-maker says: “Try my pill," as if he were offering yon but beets! The wise man finds a good pill end sticks to it. Also, the wise man who has once tried them never forsakes >i Ayer’s Cathartic Pills.. tin fife 6<nmtg$fauaat Br B. Bet. STOOPS. One Tear, to advance .. Six Mouths, iu advance ... fl IS ... «5 Entered at the poetofta* in PWereboig for tran*mK«iou through the mails as secondelan matter. FRIDAY, MAY 21,18W. » The Louisville Dispatch of last Sunday contained a two-column write-up of Peters burg and its famous Jumbo natural gas well. The Dispatch has over 100 subscribers in this place ami is a fine newspaper, and gives good telegraphic service.

Pkte&sbi'Kg will not increase in papulation and factories will not locate here so ■kmg as the land owners hold their property At such high figures. Lower your valuation and give ail a chance to buy and make you some money and also improve and build up your city. Now is your opportunity. ■ ■ 1 .——— On of the gre atest needs that is now demanded is more bouses to rath There are m vacant houses at the present time and mechanics and others who come here all inquire after “houses tor rent.” It would pay some of our capitalists to build forty nr fifty houses withiu the next sixty days to accommodate the people who are desirous of moviug here. Thxre is no good reason why Petersburg should not have a population of a,000 within the uext year. . If the people will but do thier duty this will la* accomplished and in the next ten years a city oi 2“»,000 should he the result of the discovery of natural gas. Another railroad or two will be built and in ail every motetneut should be encouraged | that will promote tin- city and comity. Ir you have any pride in your home and native town put your shoulder to the wheel and help along m the great work that is I now at h..nd and build up Petersburg and j make it the manufacturing city of Southern Indiana. With natural gas ami coal it has the advantage over any city in Indiana or the west, Do your part in the matter. Don’t let any town get ahead of you, bat stand in the front rank and at the head. Said a prominent gentleman who was in the city last week: “Your laud-owners are bolding tlieir lands entirely too high. They must let down the fences and let people in who will invest their money and locate factories.” That’s to the poiut and Is just what should be done. He further j said that if land could not be purchased near town that men would buy lain! a few j miles distance and build a new- tqwn and locale factories there, just as has been done in the Northern Indiana gas field. DmcttBUox of the new law concerning ten has brought to light that the average price of tea imported into the United States is between 13 and 14 cents a pound, while the average price of the tea imported into0real Britain is 20 cents a pound. Uncle Sam : has been consuming an inferior article! while John Bull has displayed his usual: tender regard for his stomach. But since the retail price of tea in this country is always very much uu>re than 14 cents a j pound, setifroue has been making a tremendous profit Ten days ago a law went! into effect inquiring an official inspection of all tea and we may get less weeds and j Prussian blur coloring and more of the ceuume herb.

Mcee exports of gold were reported Sat. i lirday. Every »< llar that went out reduced the volume of busk money in the country,j Mid the smaller this volatile grow# the greater becomes the value of the dollar and I the lower the prices of commodities and labor. Hits country U now twodinu abroad agricultural products and manufactures far j in exce>* of its importations, and oe top of j tills great balance iu our favor, millions of gold must also be added. The time was ! wheu the exportation* by reason of rela- j ti-wly high prices, offset the annual foreign debt of the country fairly welt, but since j the treasury refused to accord to silver its right a' redemption money, failing prices have www|«nk-tl a«ld exportations, and the lower prices fell rta srreater the quantity of export* necessary to meet yearly charges I abroad. Mow it svenis impossible to export | sufficient to meet those charges ami the deficit must be made up in gold.—Indian* apolts Sentinel. The Plymouth Deramcrat p tblisBed a list fit aspiring republican editors in that district who have recently been turned down | nncrreniouiwudy by the powers that be, and Comments »s> follows.: So far, we believe, not a single republican editor in this district has received any peeognization whatever. Wuy this should be so. of course we have no means of knowtug. Iu a general way it emphasizes* the fact which has been ini readng year by year for .the past two decades, that politicians fiaye tome to look upon editors of the party

papers as scavengers to do the dirty work! fur the party ami for individuals as m matter of course, amt are unfit to do any other j kind of business. The oaty way editors, j both republican and democrat, who seek and are entitled to recognixation, to do, » to get together,—form a ‘“trust” or ‘“combine,” and give candidates and party managers to understand, that, if they want the Influence and'support of the party organ, they must give assurance that they will reciprocate by giving them a fair share of the ‘“spoils of the office.” Editors are no better nor worse, than the average active politician, butt be does ten times more for the success of his party than it is possible tor any one else to do. The work of the chairman and members of committees, speakers and other active workers, ends with the closing of the polls on election day. Not so with the editor. He must at once buckle on his armor and go to work and continue it for the purpose of keeping the party in tine for the next campaign. There is no rest for him. He doa^t even get a j breathing spell, and nearly always, as it is j the case with the republican editors above ' named, he is left out in the shivering cold i while the other fellows who did the least for party success, are enjoying the usufruyt j and basking in the smiles and favor of ; public officials who owe their positions to ] the editor they turned down. * . ~ ■ .—..

The Democrat has another word to say on the mat estate question is furtherance of what has been saki in previous issues, and which has been approred of on all sides. There is uo denying the fact that lands, have increased in price since natural gas been found in this locality, but they have not increased to the fabulous prices that have been placed on them bv the holders. That is ail a mistake. There is no land that is worth the prices asked. If you can realiae a fair price over and above what von have asked for the last twenty years, nB it and buy more, and then sell and buy again. The change in real estate is what will bring up the price. A suitable factory location will perhaps sell your land to a greater advantage, but to secure this factory, you will have tot donate land, gas and a money consideration. Wiil the land owner do this, or 'fill he expect the gas companies or private citizens to buy his laud and give it for the use of factories. The land owner that has this kit a in his head will get left as sure as the sun rises in the east. The town will grow just on the other side of town ami he will perhaps get to keep his lands as an heirloom for the future generations that are to follow. Another thing that the citizens of Petersburg and Community must consider sooner or :ater and that is, that if they intend to keep strangers out of the city the town will never grow. The fences must be let down somewhere for real estate dealers, factory locators and men who desire to locate here and engage iu the manufacturing business. Manufacturers must have land on which to erect buildings and operate. If you want these factories you will be required to give them free lands on which to locate. If you have a desire to sell your lands at a fair and reasonable price name yoor figures and vuu may Hilda ready purchaser, but at the figures whk*h some laud owners ask for farm lands, they cannot hope to sell, at least not for some years to come. No farmer ean afford to till lauds that an* held at these fabulous prices. It don't pay. Take off the fictitious values and name a fair prk-e and let the boom proceed vvithout delay. It is to your interest, the town and community iu which you reside, where you have gained all your worldly possessions. It is time to thaw out. Resolutions. We, the undersigned committee appoint-! ed by Pike knlge No. 131, R. and A. M., to t draft resolutions of condoieuce in remem-; brance of brother P. C. Hammond. Sr., who departed thus life May 15, lb&T, respectfully submit the following: I Whereas, Gbd w hi> providence has seen ! fit to remove brother P. C. Hammond, Sr., from among us, and Whereas, As a true and lawful brother he was ever faithful to the trust placed in him: t herefore, be it Resolved, That we accept this dispensation in the spirit of submission, and that we hold none but kind and pleasant" recol- I lections of our departed brother. Resolved, That a copy of these resolu-1 ti .mis l* furnished the members of the family aud that a copy be given the Press, i Democrat and News for publication, and | that they be spread on record upon the minutes of the lodge. JaresSuawhax, Finis Hor.vady, John Whit rax.

A Farmer's Reverie. it's scarcely any wonder that line# are on iny brow; it# hard to make a living as things are going now. 1 plant nice potato** and sit down to watch them grow, then come* a frost a-whoopiug and lay# the blamed thing# k»w. I plant some little seed lets to raise some succcotash; my neigh-; bors' hen# come calling and knock them all to smash. 1 had a pretty arbor in which to J snocm and rest; a flow came in and climbed j it and rent it galley west. 1 bought a! duaen egglel# (they cost so much I cried;) \ thev hatched a lonely chicken—it went ] away and died. The iusect#ate the cabbage, the worms have nailed the com; roy sheep j are wild and wooiy, and my cow has lost a horn. My pig has got the measles and squeals unseemly tunes; my geese are hunting water and 1 am full of prunes. . J A Warm Friend. Foley's Colic Cure is very hot, but when diluted it is a warm friend indeed to th<«e suffering from bowel complaints, it never ails. $Sc. and 50c. Bergen A Oliphanu m

Washington letter. (From oar regular correspondent.' Washington. May 17,1897. What made Mr. MeKmley lose his nerve? Thai question has been asked many times within the last two or three days. Last week Mr. McKinley sent for the members of .the Senate committee on foreign relations,. and after laying before them official communications from Consul-General Fitzhugh Lee and other consuls, showing a horrible state of affairs in Cuba, announced that he had made up his mind to send an immediate message to Congress, recommending action for the relief of starving American citizens in Cuba, and incidentally for the .uid of Cuba. Before the great rejoicing that followed this announcement had a eh&nee to get fairly started, Mr. McKinley telephoned to the Capitol that he had changed his mind ami would defer the message until this week. What brought about that sudden change of au'iul is not positively known, but inferences were drawn from a visit to the white house of Mr. Atkins, a wealthy Cuban,who makes his home in Boston, and who is credited with having shaped the Cleveland-Olney Cuban policy, latter Mr. McKinley had a conference with the Spanish minister, ami is said to have asked him if his government would object to our sending aid to starring Americans in Cuba, iust thioi. of that. And that is ail he now recommends. Senator Morgan was one of the members of the committee who went to see Mr. McKinley. He will not, of course, discuss the conference for publication, but he tua^es it plain that he doesn't think Mr. McKinley intends taking a vigorous stand, uuiess he is compelled by Congress to do sc, and expressses his opinion of this man Atkins and his efforts in behalf of S{»ain iu unmistakably plain language. He adds that tt is his intention to endeavor to have Congress bring the administration to a point where it will be eoptMKd^ir'tio something, and teat "Presnieot^^Kinlee must either fi>h

or cut bait ftr-rrgnrd to Cut*a.“ Senator Deboe of Kentucky, seems to be really grateful to Dr. Hunter for having given way for him and then helped him t* , get elected to the Senate. Knowing that Dr. Hanter's eontest for a seat in the House had nothing more substantial to stand uj»on than the partisanship of h tna jority of the Home, .Mr. Ifeboe has secured the premise of a good appointment for Mr. Hunter from Mr. McKinley. Ex-Congressman 8. 11. Mallory, who has been elected by the Florida legislation to till the vacancy in the Senate from that s ate, which has existed since March 4th. is welt known in Washington as a gc»ni fellow and a good democrat. He will be cordially welcomed by his democratic colleagues, attd he will add one more vote to the silver majority already existing in the Senate. The talk of senators on Senator Allen's resolution asking Mr. McKinley not to pardon Chapman, the broker, who was sentenced to a month's imprisonment for refusing to tell the names of senators wh-> speculated in sugar stock, reeuted in a ehauge of program. The sugar trust, as well as its friend' m the Senate became thoroughly alarmed and decided that Chapman should serve his term in jail. hoping thereby to hush the talk about a new sugar investigation in the Senate,.; Tlje menders of the sugar trust who are under the same sort of indictment will trust to their money aud pull to escape jail by legal methods. The past week has been a bail one in other respeeis for the sugar trust. It has been demonstrated that the sugar schedule, which the trust had attached u> the Dinglev umf bill cannot possibly be gotten through the Senate, not to mention t lie House. These things have resulted in greater activity on the part of the big sugar trust lobby aud money will be spent freer than ever to Secure a sugar schedule in the tariff bill, as it finally jiasses, that will be fairly satisfactory to the tract. Ante-election promises have some of the most prominent republicans bound ha ml and foot to the wheel?of the sugar trust chariot. The second tariff comparative statement, prepared by treasury officials for the republicans of the Senate finance committee, is a little better than the first one, but it is full of inaccuracies, and the charge has been .made that the sugar schedule has .been purposely mixvd up. The democrats will l<e prepared to point out the badness of the bill, as wail as the errors of the comparative statement by the 24th inst., to which date the opening of the debate was voluntarily postponed by the republicans.

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NEBRASKA AND CHICAGO. B» WHA E3w4 Rcpadtetioniste tolmdt the (Heelfel City mi natwnqr. An editorial in the Chicago Dispatch, ; headed “Nebraska Threatens Us,” says: [ The anarchists, repudiation ists, bomb throwers and bewhiskered hayseeds •who compose Nebraska's, Populistic legislature hare designs oo Chicago. They threaten us. Raring read in the public prints of the general distress here, which local capital is alleviating only in part, these conspirators have concluded that now is a good time for attack. Their generalship, to say the least, is commendable, and stamps them as stategists of the first order. Last summer we might have been able to resist, for so many good citizens were suspecting that the Goths and vandals of the prairies were about to march on ns that we were prepared. Now we are merely cold and gryThe chief conspirator seems to be one Senator Canoday, Kearney county, who introduced a joint and concurrent resolution in the state legislature calling upon the people of Nebraska to lead with expedition and hurry to Chicago with dispatch a trainload of provisions. Gentle and confiding reader, this trainload of provisions is not to be a commissariat for the sustenance of an invading army, as you might suspeet. It is intended for ourselves—for ocr poor—and, as we understand it, it is not to be tied at either end with red tape. The resolution provides that the provisions be consigned to the custody of “the patriot and friend of the people— John P. Altgeld. ” It asks the railroads to transport the contributions, and in the preamble sets out that the existing condition of distress has been brought about by operations of the infamous financial policy inaugurated in this couutry by fraud and treachery, and perpetrated through fraud, treachery, brib

u»g, limmuK'.non and mtsrepnese motion. The resolution is expected to meet with ready responses, as many farmers are unable to dispose of their enormous com supply. Many art' burning great stacks cf it fcr fuel, while others ar* leaving it in the field. King unable to find cover ft r so great a yield. On western piairit s com is so plentiful that it uoesn’t pay to harvest it; in eastern cities children are dying for want of food. Why this parados? Because an appreciated dollar and fixed railroad tariffs forbid the farm * to seek a market. Having no market, b~ has no cash and cannot, therefore, buy the products that steadily employed city folk would scud him. He keeps bus com, burning it or letting it rot in the field. The urban artisan is thrown out of werk and famine in the midst of plenty results. Meantime, however, let ns doff enjr hats to the noble sous of Nebraska. They’re all right. It Suits Entland. A London letter, published by the Chicago Tribune, says that the selection of Lyman Gag;' as next secretary of the treasury is well received by the financk rs of that city. This is net surprising in the least, for undoubtedly Mr. McKinley was fully advised on this point before he decided on making the appointment. Loiplon financiers and their agents in New York have dictated every ttet of financial importance in this country for a long time. They have had almost complete control of every department of our government ami dictated the nominations of the two old juirties for years. London financiers have been perfectly satisfic'd with every act since the one brief period of independe nt, patriotic action which cost General Garfield his life. Most assuredly the appointment of Lyman Gage is satisfactory to London financiers. If it was not agreeable to them, it wonld not be made. 4 The man who will not shrink from the most infamous crime to crush out the true spirit of American independence proves himself just the man, according to the London financier, for the most responsible position in connection with the American finances. The ability displayed by Lyman Gage in the late affair ‘which drove W. A Hammond to suicide and wrecked the only thoroughly substantial bank in the city of Chicago whs doubtless the act which placed him in such royal favor and secured for him this position in McKinley’s cabinet London financiers are happy, for the American people are willing to remain good, obedient slaves fur at least four years more. - • McKinley has demonstrated his loyalty to these British goidbugs by consulting their every interest in every selection for a cabinet position. Certainly it suite England.—-Chicago Express.

Th« Katortec Wwice, The practical impossibility of adopting the best possible monetary system while a large portion of the people look upon the precious metals as money and do not know that it is the law which authorises the stamp of the government which makes them hga’^t mkr mos^/ ought to be g sufficient reason for taking one step at a time We hare often heard it said by men who are deeply versed i in the principles of scientific money that silver is the only entering wedge which can be used to free the people from the intolerable calamity of the single gold standard. Besides, if the mines would furnish an adequate supply of gold and silver so that general'prices would remain stable, there would be no need of substituting any other material upon which to express the mandate of the government. The mines are now reasonably productive, and the use of both metals would give immediate and •pbetaatjal relief.—driver Knight.

Lear? (Jpor) tylq jftnj), . ' . \ fleet* ty{ott)er, And go wish me to Barrett's Store*, that Okl Reliable Stand, where I ©an get a Spring Suit rightly made anti ready to wear. They offer a good Business Suit, well made ami durable, for $3.34. At £4.98 they offer Men's all Wool Suits, of Hack aed Blue Cheviots. At $f*>.34 they offer Men’s Suits of all Wool Double-and'Twist Scotch Plaids: also of ail Wool Black and Blue flay " orsteds. I can keep trying them on until we find the color, cloth and fit

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Men of good judgment are taking advantage of this unsurpassed offer, and we must do likewise. Suits huilt to measure by the Jacob Reed's Sous of Philadelphia. Goods of the very best quality* fit aud workmanship guaranteed. If they can t please us no one on earth cun, and it will pay us to go where $tqle ot)d Qaalitq is jftssared (js. Their Spring Block and Colors in lVrhy, Alpine and Straw Hats in all of the latest styles, are ail marked at * Ooe.foortl) ef tljeir j^eol ^oloe Three shelves and counters art all loaded with the choicest of Dry Goods and Gent's Furnishing Goods. and it’s only such occasions as this that we can lake the opportunity to buy. So let us go to W- L- 8GrreU's(Successor to S. G. Barrett & Son,) PETERSBURG INDIANA.

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