Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 July 1897 — Page 4

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Aju> the republican Congress still wrestles with the tax tiff bill. In another year they will find out that they have been thrown down and out. The Press should name the dale for the return cf the confidence-prosperity. Ti.» people are waiting for the show to arrive, it nas now been advert ised for over eight months. Ik our citizens could but manifest a little more public spirit ami a d—-d sight less of the spirit of selfishness the town would |iriisj**r more.—Petersburg News. Get in the wagon. Thi: friends of free silver will have a .chance to help the cause a year fjom mit November. Th n will 1<* elected a uow Congre>s. Then let tr.e campaign cry be. nisol, “Return to Congress none but silver r men, tried and true.*’ The eonntry carried for the single gel J standard at the last election, but up to the hour of going to pr- we hav-tf*-failed b hear of any Pike county citizens being overburdened with any of the yellow metal. Put it in circulation an i let the people see the color of it , you guldites. Tue silver c mentions which have been held in several states have been the largest political gatherings ever assembled. Ohio’s convention was the largest and most enthusiastic ever held, and by the way it looks like the democrats will make a sweeping victory in that state this fall. Forty thousand jieopje own more than one half t e money of the country. They have a grip on things, haven't they? Want to shake them ojff. do y.-u? Alt t ight, that's a good idea, (io ahead and issue more tuoney. Then they wilt let go ©if their’s. The people will get the benefit of it. The ©peuiug of the ramt&lo the free and unlimited coinage silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 is the safest way to issue more money. ■.■■■ ..1,1 The fact cannot be lost sight of, says the Kansas City Time, that the republican party is inanity responsible for the plight of 873,000 striking miners. They, like thousands of workingmen in other liues of labor, were told last year bv the prosperity pronusers that if they voted for McKinley their wages would lie raised right away. They were lowered instead. Now they have peacefully decided that it is Utter to starve idle than to starve working. The country will h.del the republican party responsible for the deplorable state and the, consequence* it may entail. Steve Crane, the lurid, is now out of a jol> aud might come to Petersburg and write up our gas well. He would find Sletity of material here f©r awe-inspiring esc notions. For instance, he might describe the gaseous, effervescent Stoops. Kero of the well, son of Heairu and benefactor of the human race in these parts. {See any rec nt issue of the Pike County Domocrat.—Petersburg Press. The above might be termed the parting shot of the soon-to-retire editor of tinPress. Our editorial friend is a little bit jealous of the suciysss of the Democrat's efforts to build up the town and county. For several years past the Democrat has advocated drilling for natural gas. while the Press remained silent as an oyster.

— .. By reason of u> exjH^ur*stif the workings of the emit home nag of Pikl couuij mm) the ousting of that ring from power, the Petersburg News has been of more real benefit to the ivuutv than all the newspapers there. But'it >»s*rns that the {ayor t hat had the n.ojf*l towage t<- spe-U-ou; agauist the machinations of the ring is receiving soant substantial recognition from the county government and the community it has benefited. By all principles of right the Sews should receive at least half of the eoaete prioimg. if there is left & t rojer sense of gratitude in the breasts of those wfipm that paper has made and helped to food, fat offices.-—Washington Advertiser. Well, now that is right. The News should have received half the county print* * ing from the republican party for years. It • mads the principal fight for the republicans In lt*92 and 1S&4 and m made an especial fight for Congressman H emeu way. As a republican paper the News should be entitled to some of the patrouage. The News should pal the Advertiser man on the back and return the favor.

Thr Democrat has repeatedly given the people warning in the matter of leasing 'their lands io parties or companies who have no other motive whatever than to pipe gas from the Pike eounty gas field to other cities. We wish to reiterate the statement that it will be a detriment to Pike county to have gas piped away. If the land-owner has any desire whatever to increase the wealth of the county and his own property interests he will not lease to auy person unless a clause is inserted that gas found on jhe lauds shall not be piped away from Pike county. This is important to the landowner and to the people of Pike county. If natural gas is piped away then all the wealth of Pike county will follow and it will remain in the same condition as before this great fuel was uncorked from the bowels of the earth. The editor of this paper fully understands the importance of keeping the gas confined to Pike county, having formerly lived in the Central Indiana gas belt, knows to a certainty that the piping of gas from the several counties has been a great detriment to the people and the manufacturers. Is it any wonder now that manufacturers, are seeking this new gas field? The gas in the Central Iudiana gas field is fast failing and they must find new locations. They all say with one accord that the piping of gas from that field is fast destroying it and they must go elsewhere. IK) the land-owners wan* the same conditions to exist here? If not they will not lease their lands unless the clause is inserted that no gas shall be piped from Pike county. In the first place the people should know who they are leasing to. it never pays to tie vour lands up to persons whom you know nothing about whatever. The land-owners should consider this matter well before they sign their names to a lease which will not only be a detriment to the county, but in the end will decrease the i price of lands. Investigate these matters for yourselves, talk it over with your neigh-i-ors and if you desire more information write to your friends in the old gas belt. The Democrat stands for the best interests of the people of Pike county, and it has always favored any enterprise that would increase the valuatiomof property interests aud build up the county. It was the first newspaper in this section to strongly advocate drilling for natural gas, oil or other, minerals, and now that natural gas has been discovered it sin uld be confined to

the comity m order to buiki it up and make it the manufacturing center of Indiana. Mr. Landowner, your interests are too •great to surrender them to some other city and county. First, build up your own county where yohrhave lived all your life, when that is accomplished if there be anything left |»ass it around, but not until then. lx its numerous write ups about Petersburg and Pike county and the great advantages of this locality the Pike County Democrat telis how contented, happy and prosperous the fanners of this county are. while m its editorial columns il leaves the irnpre-sion that we are starving to death. This contradiction of itself may be easily explained. The local or news items of the J paper are.independent and as a ritie truth--; 'jjJ. white on toe editorial page the editor i> entirely unable to lib&ate himself from the cartlina! principle of democracy—that is. the free aud unlimited coinage of lies without regard to age, color or previous condition of servitude.—Petersburg Press. Sounds splendid. The prosperity which will come to Petersburg and Pike county will m,t be due to the efforts of the Press x>r the present administration. Not- at all but will be entirely due to the efforts of the gentlemen who are developing the greatest : natural gas field in the world. That there is gnat unrest among the people of the country is shown by the dispatches in thej leading city dailies. Pike county has a chance to overcome the hard times in the great discovery of uatural gas, and the efforts of all citizens should be in that direction. Hard times ha\e visited the; people of this sts. tion, but uature has endowed Pike county with resources which are being developed that will in probability lead to a great blessing to this community, j About the next tbiug the Press will lay claim to is that the republican aduiinistra-; tion has brought this era of pros|<erity to Pike eouuty. The several editors of the; Press are getting extremely funny these’ days.

Monday of last week was the last day for the registration of physicians who wish to comply with the new medical law and from reports «!<out as many have failed to comply as have complied. Hereafter each doctor will have to .present his diploma and pay a fee of $t>. The fee up to Monday was $1. The state board of medical registration and exam mat ion met Tuesday to consider the appiicatk-ii* of th who have resisted and send out certificates. It is estimated that 3,000 certificates were issueil iu two days. The board also discussed means of going after doctors who have shown a disposition to disobey the law. Kern mind tin larill. That is not the. main question before the people. What is now demanded is a return to the money of the constitution at a ratio of 16 to 1. That is the only issue that is now agitating the minds of the voters of the United States, and in 1 and 1900 they will show their colors. Many states at the last election cast their votes for the single standard, and had they now the opportunity, of casting that vote over would do so for 16 to 1 and without the consent of any foreign nation or power. ArPiinru there is no law in this country strong enough to catch and bold a trust magnate. Searles, like Havuneyer, goes free. But Debs went to jail and Covey's people ha<i to keep off the grass.—JohusIowa Democrat.

The country is being blessed with that promised prosperity so much talked about during the last campaign—result, a big strike among the; coal miners for living wages. ■ Oca neighbor-dowu-the-street has it in for the democrats, populists, silver republicans, aud Jim Hemenway. The latter failed to give him the postoffice and the former carried Pike county by a good majority. Is it any wonder that our neighbor has that tked feeling? If Oom Jim has returned to Washington. D. C., we would like to kuow it; no record of his return can be found in any.of the papers. —Petersburg Press. Only a few months ago the Press noticed every movement of “our Jim.” The tune is now different. Cause—failed to get the postoffice appointment. See? Prof. Andrews of Brown University, in answer to a query as to his observations while abroad of the growth of bimetallic sentiment, says: “Owing to the manifest strength of the bimetallic interest in America there is actually considerable prospect that France will agree beforehand to open her mints to silver. If we reopen ours, j even without such an agreement, France is certain to follow the United States. In case France and the United States proceed, or either alone, Great Britain will heartily co-operate to the fullest possible extent short of coining full tender silver at London, the ludia mints will reopen, the bank of England will lay in a silver reserve and perhaps half sovereigns be withdrawn in favor of silver certificates. Further than ‘this Englaud will not go. European bimetallists nearly all think American I initiative the sure wav to international j bimetallism.*’ .. ■■

j Nvmesous reasons can be given why | natural gas should not be piped from Pike I county, but one among the best is that by reason of piping this great fuel toother points would lie to build them up to the detriment of Pike county. That is uot all. By leasing lands to pi{*e gas away valuations are added to the tax duplicates of other counties instead of where it should naturally, belong. By leasing lands to companies that will consume the fuel iti Pike county will add several millions of dollars to the tax duplicate aiul it will als. give the farmer a better market for his I product ions. If the gas is pifH'd away he 'Till have the same market as at present. I Every farmer realizes that by building up | his county it will give him a better market for his produce. If manufacturers can be induced to locate in Pike county there1 would be an increased demand for lalor. I There are hundreds of idle-men in Pike county who would then have work the year round instead of only a few months at a time. It can be'easily seen that It will be a detriment to the people and the real estate holders to leas** to parties who onlyhave one purpose in view and that is to pipe the gas away. The first thing to do is to Jcapw who you are leasing to, and the next and most important is to not lease uulos a clause is inserted stating that no gas whatsoever shall be piped outside of lhke county. If gas will build up other cities it will build up the towns in Pike county. The Vinci ones Commercial hi commenting on the advisability of gas for that city has the following, and which would indicate that gas would be1 a mighty good thing for Pike county towns: Employment in laying mains would be furnished to hundreds of more men and tlKiusauds upon thousands of dollars would be brought to Vincennes. While the natural gas plant is not promised as a definite thing, the prospects are exceedingly bright—for even if gas is not found in Knox county, the company proposes to pipe it herefrom Petersburg. This would not only give the city good, clean, cheap fuel, which would induce other capital and factories to come here, ami thus furnish more employment and place more cash into circulation, but would give Yioeenes a boom that she has never lie fore felt.

Plain Talfc on the Tariff. There are a good many things titst the tariff is; there are a good many things that it is not, and there are a multitude of things that it ought to be, observes the Chicago Dispatch. The tariff is undoubtedly a tariff to increase tbw wealth of those who manage trusts. It is a mea-ure to protect industries that hare long since outgrown the need cf pro-tect:->n. It is a tariff to discourage commercial relations w ith foreign countries. It is a protection of the f>-.. and a menace to the many. It is a tax on the poor and a giver of good gifts to the rich. On the other hand, it is not what its sponsors claim that a tariff should be. It is not a producer of revenue. It is not a protect;- n of infant industries. It is uor a measure through which the foreigner is compelled to pay the tax. It is not in the interests of the laboring man. It is not fair in its discriminations, nor is it boned in its schedule*. •' Again the tariff is very far from being what if should be. If this country tuu-t have a tariff, there are certain lines along which it should .be constructed. It should be a tariff for revenue. It should tax luxuries and not the necessities of life. It should proride a wise and efficient excist* tax. It should levy a reasonable tax on incomes. It should so arrange its schedul - as to pat money in the treasury and not n» the trusts. There is one thing that the tariff is. It’s a failure. II. U. Ttsiow. jeweler and watchmaker Petersburg. All work guaranteed. ■ £8* #

Washington Letter. j (From oor regular correspondent.) Washington, July 19,1897. The unexpected has happened. The re- [ publicans of the tariff conference committee have agreed to cut out the Senate sugar schedule and insert the House schedule | with several changes, of course, in the in- | terest of the sugar trust. The result is just as 1 stated it would be. It is heralded as a I defeat of the sugar trust, and the agents of the trust are doing their best to look disappointed, while they are entirely satisfied, as the amended Diugley schedule gives ; them a little more than they expected to get, although, of course, not everything they wanted; they want the earth and the I fullness thereof, Now that the farcical fight in conference has been concluded, there is very little doubt that the conference j report will be accepted and the bill sent to Mr. McKinley duriug the present week, There may be a little delay in reaching! i a vote on the report in the Senate, as a number of senators wish to express their opinion of several bunco' schemes which t ore worked in the conference, notably the restoration of the $2.00 duty on white pine | lumber, which will put a tax of something j like $10,000,000 on the people for the benefit of the white pine combine and the replacing | of cotton ties and bagging on the dutiable | list. ■ ®Mr. Terrence V. Powderly, the ex-labor | leader, has received his rdward for making McKinley campaign speeches last year, by having his nomination to be commissioner general of immigration seat to the Senate, j I Terrence was on the anxious bench for I quite a while, and in fact he had a very close call, owing to the opposition of the labor organizations to this appointment. ! “Why doesn't John Sherman resign’:'' ! asked one Ohio man of another, after he | had been listening to some of the eurreut [ talk a Unit the manner in which the old [ gentleman is slighted and humiliated by Mr. McKinley. That question has become one of the conundrums of the day and it has been discussed more frequently sinee the publication of the instructions given to Ambassador Hay, concerning the seal

usnenes negotiation. Aittiougn those 111si ruction? were signed ‘‘Sherman." there are few who believe that Secretary Sherman wrote them, and s me who openly express a doubt as to whether he ever even saw them previous to their publication. There is nothing objectionable from an American point t f view in the facts upon which those instructions are ba-ed, but the language is not that which one who has been so long connected with things diplomatic as Mr. Sherman has been, by reason of his service on the Seuate foreign committee, would be apt to use. One gentleman whose long and dose intercourse with Mr. Sheruian has made htm thoroughly familiar with his style of expressing himself, said: ‘‘I will stake my existence that-Sherman neither wrote nor was given an opportunity to edit those instructions; also that he knew nothing of the intention to,have them published." In view of this sort of talk, is it any wonder that men are asking whv Sherman doesn't resigu'r Assistant Secretary I>av has had charge of all Cuban and Spanish matters ever since he came to Washington, and he is the man credited with having written the Hav instructions; also the man slated to be secretary of state i after the Ohio elect ion. when it is believed j to be the intention to use pressure to force I Sherman out of the Cabinet. Mr. Sherman isn't the sort of man to have made warm friends, but he has well-wishers who would like to,see him upset the MeKinley-Hanna-Day arrangement by resigning now and telling why. But official title is dear to Mr. Sherman. What has the Carnegie armor plate trust done to the Senate? While democrats are glad to see even one trust hit. they are at a loss to know what it was that caused the Senate to limit the cost of armor plate to $3U0 a ton and senators to inform members of the House that it was useless to add a cent to that limit, because the Senate had fully determined that no more should be paid. Republicans friendly to the Carnegie trust made a hard fight foi an increase in the House, but failed, and the trust will have to make armor for that price, or wait until Congress authorises the pay meat of more. Mr. Carnegie should apply to the sugar trust for pointers on how to manage Congress. Jerry Simpson say> that Carnegie is being punished because of his lack of lib-ta lit y m contributing to Hanna's cor-, ruptiou fund in the lust campaign. ,. . i

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