Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 September 1897 — Page 5

This U the cradle In which there grtww That thought of a philanthropic braiat A. remedy that would nialTc life aew For the multitude* that were racked With paia. Tea* sarsaparilla, as madecyoa kaow •y Ayer, some 50 year* age. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla ■was in its. infancy half • century ago. To-day it doth ‘‘bestride the narrow world like a colossus." What is the secret of its power? Its cures! The number of them! The wonder of them! Imitators have followed it from the beginning of its success. They are still behind it. Wearing the only medal granted to sarsaparilla in the World’s Fair of 1893, it points proudly to its record. Others imitate the remedy; they can't imitate the record: 5o Years of Cures. special Announcement! Paving purchased the Photographic out - |l ut Mr. ft. 0. iiichanlsoo, l beg lease to sniisnace that l sin tn»w ready fur hu>mess wild e»rdia!ty invite the public to call and • xattitiN* my line of *S>F=»HOXO©<5Fi >i-hed in Enamel and Mat Surface. 1*1*.v*. ta*en night <>r d tv. T*iin»rndu-< ttiy work. I offer .*»> mi inducement »o every j>ci>oi* ordering One iXiZHi i'hi«t<**‘, l wiji g v*thnr stv*»diit«dv free III other word* | you wiii i**o- iva15 Photo* for 12.

■5>A. l_. EDWAFRDS<r Smvesst*r tu 11. l>. Uichjurd>«n. BigBankrupt «TOTK or HOES! $5,000 Worth of Shoes i lit* being a stock fa*"* a large city «*-:» shows art m making. Every v. iHu~t lie son! regardless «»f eiast. The . . ?>rv Min k nui't go. Som UkT away »ll ivu*t be s<ud at some |>ri«-e„ Lay in yi ur wintiv >ln*e* now. We'll only la? with u« ^THREE WEEK©«r Bun oniae early, as the l*est things are | * kud our early, M*» v pairs Uadie*' fine Kid Patent Tip idee.-., worth #1.30. for only per pair.' TWtr*»tne patr, worth for 74c. i'WMren’a Shoe# at S5<\ ttoe, 40c an l 50e I-alie** t/arfst S,.|>f»rs at £&.•. Mod's < an»et Slij<f*er> at 33r. Metre $ ». iO and #H 00 Sfe-es for $1.49. It is no use to enumerate the matchless j bargains we h»»eto give you. The court nivs; * Sell the goo.!^,” So we must do. j | > ear.lv.. There goods are for sale at •t! e < S«l John Vtarug stand, next dour to it. Ritkrich. ' j The Bankrupt Shoe Co., yxrYxtRsaatrrRa-. xxrs. VIDOt'REK Ejufty, Quickly, Permaeatly Restored.

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THE TRUST INCUBUS Corporations Are Invading Individual Rights. CRU8HUTG OUT ALL OOMPETmOH. TV* Atfmsieiu of V««ltk H»t» • 9*How Menace to the Ferpetmtt? of Onr Inetltattohe—Mast Be Driven Back to Their Froper Boundaries. At the recent convention of Republi- | can league clubs held at'Detroit H. M. I Duffield, replying to strictures made ; upon corporations by Governor Fingree. i said, “Corporations are good things, and this country could not get along without them. ” Mr. Duffield has begged the question and dealt in sweeping I generalities. When conducted with proper limitations, ir cannot be denied that corporations are good things. In the modern method of conducting business and industrial operations on a large scale they have grown to be important, almost essential. factors in the carrying out of enterprises too vast for the scope of individual effort. They are the creation usually of general or specific laws and should be ooufined within the terms of their respective charters. When so operated, they are not necessarily inimical to the public welfare. It was not against corporations conducted after this legitimate manner that Governor Pingree inveighed. His condemnation was directed against those combinations of capital which transcend their delegated functions by invading the rights of individuals and usiug their wealth and the iufiueuces it brings for crushing oat competition, damming the chauuds of public policy aud destroying the opportunities that lie open to private enterprise. That the more powerful corporations all over the country have sinned in these and in numerous other ways is a truth that is too plain for controversy. Their aggressions have been increasing as their wealth multiplied daring the past quarter of a century, until the task of driving them back within their proper boundaries has become a necessity if this government is to be perpetuated according to tbe plan of its founders. These creatures of the law have grown to such threatening proportions that they have assumed to defy and override the power that created them.

Armed wu* tno power or enormously accumulated capital, they have goue into the legislatures of the states ami into the balls of oougress, and by the employment of money and the ageucies which it controls they have caused to be enacted laws which have legislated millions into their already plethoric treasuries. Millions of acres of the public domain have been given them without a cent of consideration, taxes have been indirectly levied for tbeir enrichment, and bonuses have been voted into the pockets of their stockholders. These undeserved and unearned bounties have been used by them in the oppression, impoverishment and robbery of the sovereign people who granted them a right toexist. They have placed their agents and their servitors in the chairs of governors, in the houses of representatives. in the senate chambers, in the state legislatures, iu the cabinet, in the presidential chair and even in those inner sanctuaries of a people's rights, the worts of justice. Oue of these corporations, the Sugar trust, held the federal senate and the house of representatives at bay. demanding that they should not adjourn until they had passed a law antheming it to take millions of dollars out of she pockets of the tax ridden consumers. Another of them, the Union Pacific Kailroad company, marshals the support of nearly half the senate of the United States in its effbrts to evade the payment of the vast sums it owes the government, while more than 100 of these corporations await like birds of prey with sharpened talons ana whetted^, beaks the signal that the tariff iufatnv has been consummated, so that they may begin to devour the substance of t ho rawr.Ih

Until the voters of America have delivered the deathblow to this hydra headed corporation monst-r this will not be the government of the people, for the people and by the people for which Washington fought. Jackson battled and Lincoln died. This task is a herculean one. But the principles of liberty and equality which stood behind the bayonets at Bunker Hill, shotted the guns that flashed above the cotton bales at New Orleans and breasted successfully the battle and the storm during the four years of our fratricidal civil strife live in the hearts of the Arneriaau people yet. These principles will flame into action in good time and with the power of ballot sweep away this iucubus that has lain ao long upon the hearts and paralysed the energies of the producers. Kingly rule has been driven from our short* Black slavery has been abolished. White slavery and commercial servitude are the twin oppressors whose yoke the people are called upon to throw off. The struggle will be fierce and long, but the right is sure to tri-umpli.—-Kansas City Times. Takas Cara ot tha Traata. Senator Teller, who has been something of a pro tec Boom himself, says of the Ding'cy bill: "In my judgment it is the worst tariff hill ever passed. The rates are exceedingly high. It takes care of all the trusts in the coautry, and, 1 say it without offense, the trusts and combinations and syndicates have had too much to do with this bill" We never understood what real pathos was until we took to reading Lyman J. Gage's appeals to prosperity to come on back. « j*- . ’

A GOLDBUG ENLIGHTENED. Qb«T mm to What a Silver Republican Ii t Readily Answered. The Hartford Conrant., Senator Haw* ley’s newspaper, wants to know a few things, and, as such a laudable ambition should be encouraged, we hasten to give The Conrant the desired informaj lion. It asks: What is a “silver Republican," anyway? Who cad expound to ns the cat of his jib? How did it happen, and what’s he like, and where is he at? why do the Washington press agents and newspaper correspondents persist in tag* ; ging the Republican label upon persons who : took a public, formal and decidedly theatrical I leave of the party a year ago—to its great relief j mad benefit—because of their avowed hostility to its principle* and policies? If tb^ Hartford Courant will refer to the Republican national platform of 1892, it will find a declaration to the effect that “the American people, from tradition and interest, favor bimetallism, and the Republican party demands the use of both gold and silver as standard money.” A silver Republican is a Republican who is so thoroughly American that he stands by American traditions and American interests. He stood upon the Minneapolis platform’s financial declaration and refuses to step down at the bidding of foreign bosses, who think nothing of American “tradition and interest” It is a pleasure to be able to enlighten an earnest seeker after knowledge, and, therefore, we are pleased to inform The Conrant that a silver Republican is a Republican wbo is so thoroughly American that be believes that a nation that can make and enforce a tariff policy without the aid or consent of any other nation can make and enforce a | money policy without the aid or consent of any other nation. If the Hartford Courant is not satisfied with the definitions above given. The World-Herald will take pleasure in quoting some more. Many quotations ! can be made from William McKinley, ' ! John A. Logan, John M. Thurston, i William B. Allison and others who are now or have been leaders of Republic-j an ism. But the chief characteristic of ! a silver Republicat? is that be persists in thinking for himself.—Omaha World- j Herald.

A POLITICAL BIGAMIST. NtSlntv; Ftml* Himself In the Predica mrnt of » Mon With Thrw Wive*. Imagine the embarrassment of onr president when called upon, as he now is, to redeem conflicting promises made to opposing parties to secure votes for his election, says the Cincinnati Com- i mereial. First and foremost he is pledged to whatever Wall street finan- j ciers want They want the gold stand- j ard, ami want it bad, and want it right now. True, they agreed to allow the Republican platform to favor international bimetallism subject to British consent, but they say that was the merest play and that now the election irover such uousenso ought to be dropped. They want “currency reform” which will abolish silver dollars and greenbacks and substitute for them the i “sound money” of private bank notes, 1 with gold only as a legal tender. Those silver Republicans who staid in the party after Teller and other leaders had left on account of the betrayal of the cause of bimetallism want the president to keep making motions toward au international agreement Hence the presence of Senator Wolcott j to shake a foot at the shindy in Back- j ingham palace, where he met the1 Priuee of Wales and other friends Then there are the rag money freaks ; of the Indianapolis convention. Our j obliging president tied himself up to > their committee by a pledge to send a 1 special message to congress asking that j body to abdicate its powers and author- j ize him to appoint a little tin congress j on wheels, composed of niue of the freaks, to enact a law for the inundation of the land with irredeemable bank notes. The president is like a man with three wives, each of whom believes \ herself to be the only one and all of j whom persist in beiug taken to the the-1 atcr by him on the same evening. j Oh. what a tankini web we weave When first \vv practice to deceive?

PROSPERITY NOWHERE. i Xom bat BeufSelvlM of the New Ter iff kt Contented. There is scarcely any doubt at all that if a congress- car a president of the -United States were to be elected this year the Republicans would be defeated, i Not only have the business interests and the workingmen been woefully disap- j pointed by the nonarrival of that moch promised wave of prosperity, but the farmers report bad crops, so that they will he no better off than the rest of ns, despite the assurances of McKinley and Hanna to the contrary. The department of agriculture, which is now in charge of a good Republican, has just sent ont the figures that be has been able to gather, and they show that both the coni and the w heat crops, by far the two most important, show a falling off from last year’s average, and the only consolation is that other countries are doing no better. Those farmers who, on account of the disorders in Cuba, turned to tobacco as a gocd crop to plant will be very much disappointed, too, in the yield, which is reported to be 90 per cent below that of last year. From all this it is clear that no class of people will be contented next November excepting the beneficiaries of the new tariff.—Exchange. Of course it was all right from a Republican standpoint lor the transmississippi congress to express its respect for William McKinley, bat it was rank partisanship to do the same toward • William J. Bryan. Ohio is the solar plexus of the Republican paitj. Now w atch the bimetallists land a knockout blow them this fall j

THE NEW TARIFF LAW. False In Design and Will Oppress the People. REVENUE NOT ITS REAL PURPOSE. It* Object Is to Accumulate Treasury Notes and Retire Them From Circulation—Raables One Class to Collect Tribute From Another. Representative Joseph W. Bailey of Texas, Democratic leader of the boose, rams up the new tariff bill as follows: The pretense that the new tariff bill is designed primarily to increase the pnblio revenues is a false one upon its very face, because if that had been the object it could have been accomplished without disturbing all the business interests of the country by a general revision of our tariff duties. A slight change iu the existing law would have sufficed. An amendment substituting the sugar schedule of the peudiug bill for the sugar schedule of the existing law, with the differential duty in favor of the Sugar trust entirely eliminated, would have increased the revenue at least $21,000,000, and the substitution of the tobacco sohedole of the pending bill for the tobacco schedule of the existing law would have added over $7,000,000 more, making a total increase by these two amendments of $3,000,000 above the deficiency of the last fiscal year. Revenue for the government, ‘however, was not the real purpose whioh the framers of this bill had in their minds. They desired to collect more money, it is true, but their purpose iu doing that was almost wholly apart from the support of the government. On the first page of his report the distinguished chairman of the committee on ways and means shows that the difference between the government’s receipts and expenditures during the fiscal year of 1896 was less than $26,000,000, and toward the conclusion of his report he declares that this bill, as originally reported to the bouse, was expected to raise $113,000,000 more than was collected under the present law during that time.

we caurgwu uiat tneiruujecw in creating that enormous surplus was to accumulate the promissory uotes of the government in the treasury and to hold them there, thus effectually withdrawing them from circulation. ' ~~*'~'vav6 repeated that charge in the most specific mauner, and no Republican with authority to speak has ever made a specific answer to it. N' * only is it true that protection dimiin>w^ jOur wealth by abridging the freedom of international exchange, bnt it is also true that it diminishes our wealth by fostering those combinations of capital which are formed for the purpose of limitiug production in order to maintain prices. Trusts are the legitimate and unavoidable outgrowth of protection, aud both aim at the same end. Each is intended to enable the manufacturer to escape competition. Protection is designed to protect domestic manufacturers against foreign competition, but does any man suppose that when our manufacturers have learned how profitable it is to be relieved from foreign competition they will suffer a diminution of their profits by competing against each other? We stand upon the broad aud unassailable ground that taxation can only be justified when it is levied-for the purpose of supporting the government, aud that all tasatiou which is designed to enable one class to collect tribute from other classes is a legalized robbery. If the manufacturers are as selfish and as prosperous as we have been taught to believe, it is an uupardonable crime to exempt them from taxation and thus iucrease the burdens of the patient aud unnumbered multitude. I cannot find language strong enough to deuouuce a policy that would lift the burdens of this government from the great rnauu

iaerurmg establishments ana Jay it witn crushing weight upon the farms. 1 know the agricultural people of this laud, and I know their unselfish devotion to their country. I know, too, that it is as true in the economic as it is in the physical world that all things rest upon the earth, and when those who cultivate the soil are made to suffer the nation must suffer with them. The farmers «re the most useful and the most conservative of all onr citizens. I do not plead for special privileges for the farmers. I only plead in defeuso of the Democratic party fcr having said that in dealing with this question it will keep its pledge that none shall enjoy a special favor nor shall any suffer a special burden, bat that all shall stand equal before the law. To establish and mamtaiu the equal rights of men was the great mission to which its founders dedicated the Democratic party 100 years ago and to which we recousecrated it last year. If we adhere steadfastly and faithfully to this, the most vital of all our principles, the American people will reward our fidelity with their confidence, and we can reward their confidence by perpetuating forever and forever more this, the greatest, the freest and therefore the best government that ever rose to animate the hopes or to bless the sacrifices of mankind.— New York Journal Tlw Sugar Trutl Victory. No further proof is needed of the Sugar trust’s victory in the final revision of the new tariff bill than the rise of its stock in Wall street. Instead at faring worse than it did in the senate schedule, it is the opinion of the expert speculators that it has oouae out of the conference committee far better, and the result is the raking in of millions by those “on the inside” from the market fluctuation* alone.

^HEADQUARTERS F*OF*<*& LIABLE GOODS! We hare made extensive purchases of Fall and Winter Goods, and it’s easy for von to fie satisfied when you come to us to buy, for you will find our stock in the lead. Everything substantial, well made and stylish. Qualities the best and prices tmf lowest oil reliable goods. We have just received Fifty Dozen Pairs of the Fatuous

^Bull Dog Jeans Pants^ They are the hest made Pants in the whole world for workingmen. They eonsist of j three grades, $1.00. $1.25 and $1.65. Every Pair warranted not to rip. The school bells will soon ring and your boys will want School Suits, and you will find us headquarters for CLOTHING! Come, giro us a look, for we appreciate a look as well as a purchase. Boy’s Suits for 43e. Just in. Latest styles and figures. Iluntingburg Blankets, Jeans and Yarns a specialty. Come and glance your eye over our Furnishing Goods Department. W. L. BARRETT, i Successor to S. G. Barrett & Son. Petersburg, tnd.

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Funeral Supplies a opeciaffy. We keep on hand at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found In the city. Bedroom and Parlor Haiti a specialty. In fnnerai supplies we keep Caskets shrouds. etc., of the best make. 27th ANNUAL Oil!! FI Sept. 26th to Oct. 2nd. | Carnival of education and entertainment. Equal in every way to all former expt'sitiotis. Everybody commanded to come early. ; Xe«r ieatures every day. Soldiers Day, Wednesday: Even- veteran and wife free. Able speakers will talk to “the boys.” Old Peeples' Oay Eve All vehicles free this year. The display ! will I* magnificent this rear. Xo improp- ' er enlcriainmet t allowed. ltaces everyj day. For particular, address. JOHN BURKE, Sec. A- -- Railroad Election. Notice in hereby give that tbeannuai ineetindof die mock liti'Jerii of the Kvan^vllle «Sr Indianapolis railroad company for Ibt pur1 os-- «t electm* director* aud tmo-arting any business wtiVh >o«y come before it. will j beheld at the ofiice of the Secretary in the ' city,of Evansville. Indiana, on Monday, *>“-« ; iStii day *»( October, iS>7. tetween the b*«ur* | or 10 o'cha-k a. in. and 12o’clock, noon. Wittics* iuy band ika 2»s* day «>■' September. Wfl. i tili.heur S. W KIGUT. Secretary. f lilfEGTiCiS'dC • t«eiw».a j NVVCnilvbllW tlaaitM'.crotSMiemu ! «* tpaes wMn in Chicago, an*' tied it‘an fjs.r'l

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