Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 25 June 1897 — Page 4

Skrfik* County Qtmccat Hr M. Mc€. STOOP*. One Year. in advance. - ...J. $t » Six MontUs, in ad vance.—. . #5 Entered at the po*toffloe In Peters bent for transtuisalou through the malls as eeeoudelaas matter. FRIDAY, JIKE 25, I8H. That little bnneh of prosperity and confidence that the Press talked so much about previous to the election has been sidethaeked somewhere between Washington, D. C.. and Indiana, leastwise it has not reached the people juf this state. The republicans of Ohio are having a parrot and monkey time. The factions are fighting each other and the end is not yet. The election returns in November will no doubt show that Ohio has gone democratic by a large majority. Is this issue of the Democrat will be i found the annual report of County Treasurer Smith. It gives a detailed statement of the funds and for what they were expended during the past vear. The treasurer has taken up quite a number of the floating orders during the [«ast few months. Senator Tiimas of South Carolina, startled the Senate one day last week while that body was tinkering with the tariff ami giving some of the states a large slice of “protection” by making the following statement: “And I say plainly, if we are to have this -stealing, I want my share for South Carolina." It required just five hours to arrest, try. convict and imprison an Ohio postmaster who was short in his accounts. The facilities for locking up the small thieves are unsurpassed, but when it comes to imprisoning thieves who steal large amounts j of money it takes years to convict them, and in nine cases out of ten they are pardoned after a short stay. Co.ngress. that is the present body, which is composed largely ol republicans, is still in session doing nothing kuit monkeying w.th the tariff. That body sb* uid adjourn and give the people a rest at least during the summer months. What the people want is lees tinkering with the tariff ami more work on the money question, which should be settled before anything else is done.

That the new tariff bill is to be the most vicious scheme of federal taxation ever devised in this country is becoming more apparent each day. One schedule after another has be«m frame*! m re.-ponse to and at the dictation of powerful private interests. It is simply a oili to pay off campaign debts. That the ttoi,.- rou* perversion of power involved m the measure will add to rather than relieve the disorganization and degression of industry is certain. Whatever of recovery the country may experience must come m spite of such legislation. Ir is expected that ou July 3rd Petersburg wiil entertain the largest crowd of strangers ever seen within her borders. To give them » good impression of our eity and the people as well it wuuid m... be out of place to have the -treels and yanls put in ftrstclass condition. The weed.- should be cut down in the residence portion of the city and all barrel- auu other rubbish removed flora the stree s and sidewalks. | Take a little pride nr the matter and show | the strangers that you ate up-to-date and! on the move in the new gas city. It won't j take but little time and little money to do this. i citizens of Petersburg will ever have to help, build up the town and county is now at hand. Strangers are here every day looking over the town and county with a view of locating and making the* th* ir home and doing business m our midst. Men of capital are abo looking over the situation with a ] viA of making investments and to locate j large fac tories that will work hundreds of > men. This cia# of men should be welcomed. They come here to engage is a legitima’e bustm-se and to help build up a city. This is the das* of men that is needed.. _<______ Tbs De voceat ask> “How can any farmer or workingman vote the republican ticketSimply by the exercise of ein-ugh sense to distinguish between the proud American e»g(«- and a bantam rooster and ! by making a cross mark withm the circle about the eagle. All farmers and workingmb have this sense bat to a perfectly natural that a democratic organ should ask such a question.—Petersburg Press. In WMMMi counties in this section of Indiana the farmer and workingmen did] not rgfte the republican ticket, and they are powerful glad of it. ami when and 1D00 arrives there *til be 3,0001**) or 4.000,000 more who will arrive at the same couelusion wheu they cast their ballots on election dav. Thousands of voters were fooled last fall into voting for General Prosperity and Miss Confidence, bat they will not be fooled a Mooed time. See. j

Til Hawaiian treaty cedes to tie United States all the righto of sovereignty in the Hawaiian Islands, and makes the Islands an iijjftrgral part of the United States. Thgjufmfo have a territorial government, and until tiH^can tie organised the present laws of Hawaii are to be in force. The Hawaiian debt of $4,000,000 Is to be assumed by the Un ited States. The coal miners of Ohio are in a starving condition and this is in the home state of the advance agents of confidence and prosperity. Mark should at once open up his big coal mines and pay the men reasonable prices. Ohio is to elect state officials this fall and also a legislature to elect a successor to Mark Hanna, chairman of the national republican committee. The confi-dence-prosperity gag will not work in Ohio this fall and it is predicted that the democrats will carry the state by a rousing majority and with it carry the legislature which will elect a silver man to the U. S. Senate. Their Mistake Recognised. One of the most interesting episodes of Mr. Bryan's visit to the East was his reception at the manufacturing town of Cohoes. It is thus described in a special to the New York Journal: Poor Cohoes, dominated by mill owners, rose eu masse this afternoon to greet William J. Bryan. Hungry operatives, who, spurred last fall by the promise of better times, shouted for the “advance agent of prosperity,’* today shouted for Mr. Bryan, llis popularity was attested today by the glad shouts which met him. Factory workers, shop keeper- and citizens dropped their tasks and hurrahed as Mr. Bryan was driven through. Oct his way, Mr. Bryan remarked: “This great mill is marked as having been built in 1857, Then the Walker tariff law u- in op* ration—that was a low tariff. The mill was successful for many years under it.” 0 Hundreds of men and women here are waiting for other mills to open and pay the wages of last year. Promises of McKinley prosperity deluded them for a time, but the delusion has faded. Bryan was greeted as the advance ageut of prosperity four years hence. “<>ir next president!” many shouted. *Ali rushed forward to press his hand. No event in years has created such enthusiasm as did Bryan’s visit to Cohoes today, and Cohoes is a manufacturing town. It is absurd to suppose that these men and women would have so completely changed from their sentiments of a year ago if the prosperity which it was claimed the election Of McKinley would bring had actually arrived. But the idle machinery all around them, the short hours and poor wages that those who are employed are compelled to accept are a cruel realization of the hopes of a year ago. They have teamed that wrangling over a tariff law made for the benefit of trusts and the enforcement of a money standard in which the value of the unit is constantly increasing as the value of oil, r kinds of property and the wages of labor decrease are not incentives to pre-perous conditions. They know that the larder;of their h rues and the clothing of their wives and children are constantly decr.a-uig m abundance and that the tide cannot turn so long as money continues to grow scarcer and employment mure difficult to secure. The workingmen of Cohoes made a ibistake last November bui they will not do it again, neither will thCir comrades in other laboring centers of the country.—Evansville Courier.

JieteS 09 ti-l*. The Petersburg gas well is still a great attraction ami visitors fmin different parts ot the country arrive in the quiet little eapitol of Pike county; every day to see the great flow of natural gas and note the wonderful change that has .come over the people since their own late discovery. For it is true that local enterprise and local capital made the venture that has resulted so favorably to Petersburg. The little party of men who visited Petersburg last evening were given a royal reception by the citizens whom they met during their brief stay and were shown every courtesy by Fleming Bros.. Mr. Jacob Sehurz, and others who chaperoned the Vincennes party over the new addition that has beeu added to the town, to the new well that is now being drilled, and rounding up by lighting the now famous “Jumbo'' that continues to excite the wonder and admiration of ail comers. It is claimed by parties who are m a position to know that the Sow of gas is not only all that has bee® reported through the Sun but even more and the pressure is now over 5b5 pounds to the inch. Value in realty has increased and Petersburg is on a genuine boom.—Vincennes Sun. Two car loads of drilling tools for sinking the Davis a label gas well arrived Wednesdav. The well will be sunk one mile south of the city but the exact spot has not been decided on. The contract has been given to L- A. Parrault, an experienced driller. Mr. Parrault and his assistants arrived here Monday. Work will commence as soon as the council committee returns from the gas fields of Central Indiana.—Washington Gazette. Cp to the hour-of closing the Journal's forma the cm drilling machinery Sa aet arrived. It has been expected on every train fee- several days but seems to be tied up some plant. The limit forcbtnmrtwmg work expires to-morrow. A trhgram wan receiveri from the contractors yesterday stating that the tools were shipped on the 15th.—Oakland City Journal.

{From oar regular correspondent.) Washington, June 21,1897. The sugar trust is playing a shrewd tariff game to get what it wants while pretending to the contrary, and it is bound to win. The original Dingley sugar schedule, which gives the trust an increase of four cents on each hundred pounds over what it now receives on ninety-six degree sugar, is all the trust expected to get from the beginning. In the first Senate schedule, the increase was made nine cents and in the schedule which was last week adopted by the Senate, the increase was put at tea cents a hundred pounds. When the bill goes to conference, the House will insist upou its sugar schedule being adopted,with the chances in favor of succeeding. Then it will be announced with a great flourish of trumpets by republicans that the sugar trust has been knocked out, while the members of the trust will chuckle over having got as much as they expected to get, besides having made a lot of money by speculating in sugar stock while the several schedules were pending. That's the game. Of course the trust would gladly take the ten cents a hundred increase given in the Senate schedule, or anything between that and the four cents of the House schedule that the House eonferees can be persuaded to give it forty - one cents a hundred. As its profits have beeu #25,000,000 with thirty-seven cents, it will be seen that it is not playing for a small stake even to get the increase of four cents a hundred. It will probably be the middle of July or later, before the country is allowed to learn officially what the McKiuley Cuban policy [ is to be, as it is now stated that the new j policy is to be inaugurated by negotiations to be opened by general Stewart L. Woodford, the new minister to Spain, as soou as he arrives at Madrid, and he does not expect to start until after the first of July. Before he gets to Madrid, ex-Cougressman Aldrich of Illinois, the gentleman who, j notwithstanding the backing of Czar Reed. I has been turned down by Mr. McKinley in I four or five instances, will be uoruinated to succeed General Fitz Lee as consul general to Cuba. If there be any truth in current I talk, Mr. McKinley's policy will be more j popular in Spain than in Cuba, j There was some t^ak of a caucus of democratic senators to adopt a resolution to oppose the ratification of the treaty for the I annexation of Hawaii, but so many democratic senators have said that they would not be bound by a caucus, because they intend voting for the trea'v. that the idea has oeen abandoned. There will be less democratic opposition to the treaty wheu the senators have had an opportunity to learn the seutiiueut ui their constituents. The democrats won a tariff victory, although it will probably be only temporary, when Senator Vest's amendment putting straw tn. ting. plain jute fabrics, burlaps, and cotton bagging on the free list, was adopted. j Senator Morgan, continues to lake an | occasional shot at Czar Reed's idlers. His j latest was a pointed reference to a ‘Segisiaj live body that used to sit at the National I capitol. about two hundred feet from us.'' He added that the members of this body j were now men of- leisure, meeting only I twice a week, in accordance with a rule of [ their own adoption and in defiance of the I constitution.

buildup company at Portland, Oregon,who is now in Washington, says of the political situation m his section: “If an election 1 were held now for president, the whole Pacific slope would vote for Bryan over any man the republicans could name. It was a hard struggle to hold Oregon in line last year, but ttalar it would be#nipossible." The civil service commission is investigating charges preferred against Public Printer Palmer, who has been making removals of democrats and in every case, giving their places to republicans. Inas- ‘ much as Palmer would not have dared to ! act without the consent of Mr. McKiuiev, | at whose pleasure the civil service commisj siouers hold their places, there is Little i probability that the investigation# will amount to anything practical. 1 After the acquittal of the sugar trust \ kings by Washington courts, nob* ly was I surprised that the two newspaper correspondents who were Lau.r indictment for coutempt, were also in fact, the only surprising thing about the whole business was that Broker Chapman was | oouvkted and uomjielled to serve even his I easy sentence in Jail. It is difficult for the lay mind to compreheud how he could be guilty and all the others innocent. I fettimoni InIwmj. Charles B. Hood, broker and manutieturer’s agent, to! ambus. Ohio, certifies that Mr. King's Sew Discovery baa no equal as a o*ush remedy. J. D. Brown prop. bf. James hotel. Ft. Wayne. Indiana, {testifies that he was cured of a cough of two years standing, caused by la grippe, by Dr- King’s Sew Discovery. B. F. Merrill. Baldwtnsville. Mass., says that be has used and reeomended it and never knew it to fail and would rather have it than any doctor, because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming of ±±2 E. 35th St. Chicago, always keeps it st hand and has as fear of croup, because it instantly relieves. Free trial bottles at J. R. Adams A boa’s drug store. The gas and oil fever has struck Bickneil and a company will be organized at once. Bickaett is one of the bast towns in the county and when her people go after anything they generally tucenwi.—Vincennes Sun. Petersburg has gas, Loogootee and EInora are drilling, Washington will soon commence, and we—have quit talking [ about it.- -Montgomery Monitor.

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