Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 6, Petersburg, Pike County, 18 June 1897 — Page 4

) AYERS ■ THE FILL THAT WILL PILLS CURE HEADACHE INDIGESTION BILIOUSNESS CONSTIPATION tktj£ilu tfountg Hrauaxt m n. Nee. stoops. One Tear. In advance. ... ..lift} Six Moutbs, in advance . **3 Kntered at the postoflloe in Petersburg for transmission through the mails as soeondclasa matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 11,1897. Petersbcro is just novr on the eve of a great boom, and from ali indications it will not be one of that kind that springs up like a mushroom and last for a day only, but for all time to come. You will ask why will it last? Simply because it has cthe greatest fuel field in the world. There is enough coal in Pike county to supply the United States, besides this unlimited supply of cheap fuel natural gas has been found here in immense quantities. The great Jumbo gas well shows a rock pressure of 575 pounds, tin? largest now in the United States, aud where such pressure is found theft' is reason to supjosc that the field is a large and j»aying one. Besides all this Nature has endowed Pike county with wonderful resources. It is second to noue from an agricultural point of view and possesses a tine body of timber lands which still remain untouched by the woodman's axe. The county is inhabited by a hospita- ’ ble people and who w ill no doubt take an active part in the progress that will be mad? The fieople are not rich, as the term would imply, but are comfortably well fixed with this world's goods, and all has been made from agricultural pursuits anti that which naturally arrises from that brauch of the world's great industry. .Capitalists who have visited here since natural gas has beeu found wonder why the world has never known of the wonderful coal fieltls and rich farm lands. There is only one reason why and that is that the .county has never been pushed to the front like some others, the people being content with the steady natural growth, and which has made it one of the sui«stantial Counties of lmliana. But the time is m w here and the world at large now look to Petersburg aud Pike oouuty as the new ga> field and the cheapest fuel center of the United States. The secretary of the People’s industrial association is in receipt of a letter from a company of geutlemen m Belgium, who have heard that gas has been found at this j«oint. who are anxious to locate here and operate a window glas> works. Tbb will show to the geopie that Petersburg is talked of in foreign lands as well as in the United States. It behooves the people of Petersburg and Pike Couuty to combine •t< ^ ther and v >rk w ith a view of locating aud inviting capitalists to come w ithin our borders to engage in manufacturing and to help build up a city. Work together and lend your time and help bear the burden of expense of building up the town and county. It is to your interest to do this. Your lands and property will increase in value, your comfort' of life will lie increased. aud you will soon sen.* a great manufacturing city in your midst.

Wuat the 1 .a Porte Argus says Wow on thi- woo! question is equally applicable to the farmers of Pike county and we suggest they give it a careful reading and bear it iu mind for future reference The Argus skys: “The I .a Porte county wool growers should make h note of the fact wool is nowcelling in the LaPorte market for lo cents a pound. This i» under the Wilson tariff law. with absolute free trade in wool. Our taauufactnrers can go anywhere iu the world and buy wih>1 and import it free of tax, and yet home wool sells- for 16 cents a pound. This is a* high or higher than LaPorte county wool brought uiflier the McKinley bill when the tariff ranged from 10 to 12 cents a {<oand and had been in 0|*ration for three years. Any w ho grower in the county will testify to the truth of this statcoDcnt. ami from it the intelligent farmers who are growing w.^d can decide what benefit a tariff on word is to them. They also can aii testify that all wool clothing, dress goods, Witting, carpets, etc., that they bough! under fhe McKinley law cost them from 20 tolly per .cent more than the same or a better quality of g» *•*!«. cost now under free wool and a lower tariff on all wool goods. These things should ail be carefully noted at this time, because the tariff is to be increased again to the McKinley standard or above it. Wool is to be ‘protected’ again by not less than a 12 cent fax on a pound, and the tariff on all the wool goods used in a family is to be increased in a like proportion. What we want to impress on the farmers of LaPorte comity is the wisdom of their watching this wool question and carefully noting the good or bad effect the tax has on them. Of course there can be no *jnotion that the farmers and ail others who do not have sheep will tw materially- injured by any increase of the tariff on waul or woolen good*, but it i# the wool growers that we we now addressing. If the tariff works as fhe republican leaders argue, it will add 12 fWflts a {wand to the price of LaPorte

county wool, and it should sell for 35 cents a pound. If it does not. then the republican theory is false. It did not prove correct under the McKinley law, it never has proved true under any high tariff, and the Argus does not believe that it ever will prove advantageous to the American people. It is for the purpose of once more showing the fallacy of a high tariff that we invite our farmers to carefully note and compare the results of the two policies of taxation.** It is a very unpleasant duty for an editor to ask his subscribers and patrons to settle up occasionally. But it is one of the many ihiugs that he is compelled to do in order to “keep above the water.” We appeal to ! those who are in arrears for the past two or three years to send in the amounts due. as it becomes necessary for us to have a little cash in the next few weeks to pay our obli- | gatious. What is owing us has been justly earned by hard labor and we should receive every dollar in the next ten days, but we do not ask you to cramp yourself, but send in part of it at least which will be thankfully received. It becomes necessary for us to add new and improved machinery and to do this it will take money, and it stands to reason that without money these irn- ' provements cannot be made. Please give this your attention and oblige the editor. The g. o. p’s love of the farmer and j laboring man is shown in the legislation 'now Wing enacted by the United States i law makers now in sessiou at Washington I City. They have been in session for somej time past, but up to date nothing has Wen done only in favor of the trusts and the j men who put up the boodle. As one man expired it the other day “what is the ■difference between the Cleveland panic times and the McKinley confidenceprosperity times?” Echo answers what. | And yet the republican x-roads papers want | you to wait until the prosperity band wagon i comes along at a srthils. ^taee. <^citk a number of persons who have Wen in the habit of tiling claims against the county commissioners while in session | will wait until the September sessiou. The last sessiou of the legislature passed a law [compelling persons to tile their claims, with the auditor five days Wtorv the first day of the term. The law is a good one and should W enforced to the letter. The Bluffton Banner very pertinently ' says: It will W rememWred that the Mci Kinlev badges worn last fall were round ! and bright and worn on the lapel of the coat. The style has changed and now those ffnost frequently seen are square and fadetl^ [ and worn mostly at; the elbows and under ! the coat tails.

“When Fairbanks voted against the Cuban resolution," said a republican, “he had a yellow streak up his back aud failed to ivpresenMis^^^^^^^.^^ Makes Further Explanation. John Wanamaker makes further explanations to a representative of the New York Herald of his receut >peech to the busiuess men m Philadelphia. “1 chose two arguments,” Mr. Wanamaker said, “to convince them that they should "tand up, and keep on working for the public good. •‘First. because of their ante-election promising sj>eeches, which should be kept in good faith. I “Second, because uf the creeping paralysis of busiuess and bitter want of unemployed. “What 1 said was addressed to Pennsylvanians, and much of it bore solely on Mate politics. Much as 1 love quietness and peace it is not possible for me to be indifferent or silent m the present.condition of affairs. Neither can 1 take uor give opiates. “In these times, campaign speeches are | only empty shells, without kernels. How- | ever well meaning, or whoever it is who | think he does good by them, must he for- ! getting that a mritiou of workmen and | their children are huugrv. The tuau who ' looks for bread in such speeches w ill not ; have much to eat. “The public heart cannot be tired by j eloquence iu this way just now, for the ! powder of patriotism is wet with the tears ! of suffering unemployed. Clive me hold of somebody's hand who will do something, i'liot laik about it month after month. \ 4 To keep wotk for the six thousand and | more peraous in my employ and turn away : from the-several hundred »h>- apply daily | and beg for the privilege* of labor to keep the wolf from the door drives me into a fever, aud 1 must s]>eak out. Any citizen has that right. “1 cannot sit < n a fence with a sjiff wind blowing and whistling for prosperity, the vanished bird of Oeautdui piumage, to come bac k. “We ought to lave a new, a better tariff; but if we cannot get a, let us settle down on the oid one and adjust ourselves to It as best »e can. If we cannot move ; out of the old house, we might build a wing to it «>r add another story.” (This reference to the “old ^house” is a dig at President Mc Kinley, who reminded Mr. Wanamaker in a recent speech that •‘we cannot move out of the oid house until the new one is ready.”) “A republican House has been iu session since last iteceutber, and its riddled tariff bill still fo^cs ai*>ut at the other end of the Capitol. [■ “If to be impatient is unpatriotic, when the delays are so protracted and seemiugly unnecessary in adjusting these two great questions uppermost in the public mind, then 1 must ask to be forgiven for mis*? counting the pulse of most of the people that 1 meet. “There are not a few who believe that since the war no such exigency fell upon

the country as that which preceded the election of November, of 1896. *’The spirit which moved the people then is still alive. It will neither be ignored nor dallied with. The tariff, money, eeontyny of expenditures must be arranged fairly and promptly if we are to find conteutmeut or prosperity. ‘•Gathering ourselves together on the monetary question cannot be done too soon. There is no use of sending delegations to foreign nations until we have some definite j proposition to make. “Let authority be given immediately fori a monetary commission to determine what the United States wants to do on the money j question, and then let us go after it and | get it as promptly as possible."

Washington Letter. (From oar regular correspondent.) Wasbixgtox, June 14, 1897. Oh, yes, the republican senators are harmonious! So harmonious that it has been necessary during the past week to hold nc less than four caucuses, at every one of which there was red-hot talk agaiust allowing the trusts to dictate their- wishes as to the schedule of the tariff bill in which they are interested, and about other things which are being crammed down the throats of republican senators against their own wishes and agaiust the wishes of their constituents. Still they vote as a unit on the floor of the Senate. It came out at one of these caucuses that Mr. McKinley has a treaty for the annexation of Hawaii, ready to send to the Senate, as soon as the tariff is out of the way. The statement was made to stop the fight that was being made for the abrogation of the reciprocity.treaty with Hawaii. The report of the committee on contingent expenses, against Senator Tillman's resolution for an investigation of the charges that senators had been speculating m sugar stock since the tariff bill had been under consideration, attracted very little attention, because it was known that it would be against the resolution ever since the republican caucus decided an investigation to be inadvbable. The report argues against an investigation because other investigations have bem barren of results, which is .about equivalent to saying that one or two criminals have failed to be convicted. it is u-eiess to bring auy more to trial. iSeimtor Tillman has been dropping hints of sensational information in Ins possession ott this subject, and there is a rumor that he will make some charges m a public speech that w ill make an investigation >ttooluiely necessary. The minority of the senate committee on finance will have a vote on the tariff j amendment prepared by them, which provides for an mteruah revenue tax for a period of five years of g |>er cent oil all estates exceeding the value of Sko.OOO, excepting those bequeathed to religious, charitable. educational, or like institutions. It would be difficult to find an easier way to add a considerable amount to the revenues j of the country or one that would be less felt by the people, but there are no cuts in it for any trusts, so the trust-bound ma- | jority of the Senate will most likely vote it down. Nothing could more clearly demonstrate the selfishness and grab game nature of ! “protection'* as seen by the average repub- ’ lican senator, than the attempt of Senator Quay to get a good thing for two or three big concerns w hich are interested in Cuban and Nova Scotia irou ore, by offering an amendment to the tariff bill, exempting from the duty of forty cents a ton, all iron ore imported by manufacturers for their own use. What a small figure consistency cuts with f the most prominent republican senators, was shown during the debate which pre- | ceded the adoption, by the aid of two popI ufists—Jones and Stewart of Nevada—one I democrat — McEnery of Louisiana—and "J9 j republicans, of the so-called “compromise’’ sugar schedule, which is said to be even more beneficial to the sugar trust than was j the schedule prepared by the republicans of the finance committee., Senator Cafferv. who, although h.mseif a sugar planter, voted and spoke against the sugar-schedule, which he declared to uc > ireiy in the 1 interests of the sugar trust, and quoted the attacks made up u the sugar schedule of the Wilson bill by a uumber of the republican supporters of the present sugar i schedule. These men attacked the Wilson ' schedule solely because they charged it gave tlic sugar tru.-t t«o much, and now they have «.e «iIrotueiy to j ,»u‘ through a schedule that will goe the sugar trust three times as much as it secured under the Wilson schedule, or r..ther tht schedule of , the Wilson bill, which was prefmml in the i Senate and was more favorable to the trust than the original Wilson schedule. The sharp rise in the stock of the sugar trust 4feow* just what the Wall street sjs-culator thought of the “compromise” schedule. Senators Cannon. Mantle and Pettigrew and ex-Senator Dubois, have been appointed a commission by the executive committee of the silver republican party and charged with the duty of visiting Japan and China and possibly India, for the -purpose of investigating the silver question in those countries. They will go as soon as Congress adjourns. -The Discovery Saved His Life. Mr. G. Caillouette druggist Beaversville, III., says: To Dr. King's New Discovery I owe my life. W; s taken w ith la gripi>e and tried all the physicians for miles about, but of uu avail and was given up and told, 1 could not live. Having Dr. King's New Discovery in my store 1 sent for a bottle and began its use and from the first dose began to get better, and after using three bottles was up and about again. It is worth its weight in gold. We won't keep store or house w ithout »t.” Get a free trial bottle at J. R. Adams Jt Son's. 1

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