Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 October 1897 — Page 5

Our I’s are fast as strong as they were fifty years ago, when we have cause to use them. But we have less and less cause to praise ourselves, since others do the praising, and we are more than willing for you to see us through other eyes. This is how we look to S. F. Boyce, wholesale and retail druggist, Duluth, Minn, who after a quarter of a century of observation writes: “I have sold Ayer’s Sarsaparilla for more than 25 years, both at wholesale and retail, and have never heard anything but word* of praise from my customers; not a single complaint has ever reached me. I believe Ayer’s Sarsaparilla to be the best blood purifier, that has been introduced to the general public.” This, from a man who has sold thousands cf dozens of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, is stri ng testimony. Bat it only echoes popular sentiment the world over, which has, •‘Nothing but words of praise for Acer’s Sarsaparilla.” Ar.r doc tit about Kffkmd for“Cr.r*book“ It kHlt aoiiliU usd core* doubters. Address J. C. Avr u Co., lasreU. Msu.

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PROSPERITY’S PRICE. It Is the Poverty and Degradation of the Toiler. CAPITAL WANTS LAUGHS PB0ITTS. ! -

T^illiH Republican* Ape* TKst a R*«tnl of BusIimm la Impossible Until . Wap* An Further Reduced—Strange Doctrine From the Workman's Friends. The gold organs and the Republican editors axe sounding their tamtams and announcing with load cries that prosperity has returned. This somewhat violent demonstration has for its basis two conditions, both in their very nature temporary—namely, the increase in the price of wheat and the upward tendency of speculative stocks, says the Atlanta j Constitution. The rise in the price of wheat is due to conditions which may not find a repetition during the next 50 years—the comparative failure of the wheat crops in Europe, in Russia, in Argentina and { in India. To base permanent prosperity on the probable or improbable failure 1 of the wheat crop abroad is to raise ' false hopes in the minds o£*tbe people. The rise in the price of speculative Stocks is due partly to the increased business of the granger railways, due to the extraordinary foreign demand for onr wheat a ad partly to the belief that the new tariff law will revive business. The Constitution will not be found | denying the return of prosperity when i there are any substantial evidences of | its arrival. That is what i* is striving for above all things. To secure general and permanent prosperity for the masses as well as the classes it would be willing to surrender any political theory or admit the truth of auy argument which it has been opposing. The first indications, however, of a return cf genuine prosperity will be (1) a general increase in prices of products, promptly followed by (2) a general increase of wages. Jusf at present the I tendency of general prices is still down1 ward, and it would probably be no exaggeration to sav that not a business firm iu the United States has increased wages since the electiou. On the other hand, the reduction hi t wages has been steady and continuous, j The few mills that have opened up have done so on lower wages, and the ; cutting down is still going on. It is notoriously true that the miners are not striking for fairwagts, but for wages ! that will keep them and their families from starving. Those who fail to com sider and weigh these things cannot have a cj*. ar coir-* ption of the situation. Meanwhile it is worthy of note that, simultaneously with the clamor of the gold organs over the return of prosperity, the most thoughtful Republicans are takinr pains to show that, low as wages are, we cannot have a revival of busi- : ness on a safe basis until there is a still further reduction. These arguments in favor of lower wages art- addressed to thoughtful business men. They are te bo found in the editorial columns of the New York Evening Pest, the Xfvr York Journal of Commerce aud.atQfr high class newspapers. Senator Elkins, a prominent Republican leader, manager of at least one Republican campaign, a farmer member of the cabinet and now a UnitI ed States senator, heartily agrees with this demand for a reduction of wages, j He puts the whole matter briefly and tersely. “Wages in America stand : against a revival of business.” That is hi» declaration, and it is indorsed by ' every man who upholds the gold standard. The price of prosperity is the poverty and degradation of the wage earner. In other words, the prosperity which the Republican leaders and gold organs demand is not the prosperity of the people, but the further enrichment of the capitalist. unton’s Magazine, which reprodaces this portion of Senator Elkins’ interview, denounces it as ‘‘distinctively barbarian.” True, but what would you have? What could be more distinctively barbarian than the worship of the gold fetish? Senator Elkins simply announces what he knows is sure to come. There is more poverty and degradation among the wage earners in this country today than has ever been known. In order that the capitalists may continue to remain at the highest level of prosperity the poverty and degradation of the wage earners must ba increased. Surely this is strange doctrine to fall from the lips cf a Republican leader and teacher. It is in marked contrast to , the declarations made by Mr. McKinley when he was a candidate. From his front porch he told thecargoes of workingmen who were earned to his door that the mission of the Republican party was to open the mills to labor and increase the wages of the workingmen. Thus far the mills have not opened to labor, and now the Republican policy, according to its most thoughtful leaders, is to lower wages. Why? Because, as Senator Elkins declares, “wages in America stand against any revival in business.” And this declaration brings ns once mors face to face with the solid and solemn fact that if the common people and workingmen of this country accept the European gold standard they must inevitably accept European wages, and they must accept the mewrare of European prosperity, which is increased luxury for the wealthy and increased poverty and degradation for the toiling masses. We are enjoying a taste of this sort of prosperity now, but we shall never see all its beauties until, as Senator Elkins says, American wages are brought to a lower level.

Money Talks. A Cincinnati Hanna organ is ranch distressed over the inability of the Democratic candidate for senator in Ohio to talk. No distress on that score can be felt over Hanna as long as his moauy holds oat.

GOVERNMENT BY COURTS.

I«dml Judiciary Viupiu *M P«ople*« SonreJftt Power. Ia commenting upon the injunctions issued against the striking coal miners, the New York Evening Poet, which is perhaps the strongest American champion of corporations, observed that where these orders were aimed at unlawful trespass they might be legal, yet there was no reason why the ordinary police could not prevent such wrongs as were alleged to he contemplated, says the Kansas City Times. That latter phrase expresses the situa- ! tion exactly. Our political system, from the earliest common law down to the latest statute, provides for the enactment of laws by one body, their interI pretation by another and their euforce- ! meat by a third. We have always before this decade considered it the function of the legisi lative branch to make laws and the 1 province of the police to prevent their infringement The courts were to right wrongs and punish wrongdoers. It has : never been demonstrated that the judiciary has the duty of making laws or of taking police measures to prevent its arbitrary injunctions from being ignored. When the acts against which the fed- : eral judiciary issues injunctions would be illegal, there is no reason why the police should not be left to keep the peace as usual. Especially unwarranted is the assumption by a federal judge that men acting with such splendid orderliness as has characterized the coal strike are about to break laws. To arrogantly prohibit law abiding men from law breaking is an insult. To put them on the defensive, to consider them as criminals when they have shown plainly they are loyal citizens is an outrage agaiust justice. When, to cap the climax, a federal judge, at the behest of a rich, anarchistic corporation, issues an injunction depriving law abiding men of the rights of liberty and free speech, he is guilty of a despotic usurpation of power. And to complete his arrogation of absolute sovereignty it is only necessary that he imprison without trial those who dare to assert their rights as men in defiance of his imperial mandates. The federal judiciary does not appear now for the first time in the role of a usurper. From the beginning it hits steadily striven for more than its due share of power. Now boldly, agaiu craftily, it has reached out to grasp the supreme sovereignty. Foreseen by Jefferson, watched with apprehension by later patriots, this process has gone on until in our own time^he federal judiciary aims daringly at open government. This is not its function. It is a small body of men, appointed for life, not subject to the people, but protected from the consequences of their acts by their position as interpreters of the law and their assumption of power to enforce their capricious decrees. No such body should be permitted virtually to make laws, to suspend the rights of trial by jury, habeas corpus, liberty of action in the limits of the law, free speech, and access by state or individual at all times to the courts. Nothing could be more antagonistic to the sacred principles upon which our government is founded than the pretensions of federal judges, favorites of a president but subject to no earthly power, to the unlimited and arbitrary control of the American people. EFFECT OF THE HIDE TAX. The Packer Gets the Increase, While the Farmer Gets Nothing. Some uf the effects of the new duty on hides are already manifest. Though the prices of hides and leather have risen there has been no resultant increase in the price of cattle. The packers give no more for cattle on account of the advance in hides. They simply pocket the booty themselves. The tribute of millions must be paid by somebody. The packers, of course, make the tanners pay it in the first instance. The tanners put up the price of leather and so pass it on to the manufacturers of shoes, harness and leather articles generally. The manufacturers in turn raise their prices and compel the people to pay the tribute. Thus the people are forced to pay a heavy tribute on necessaries of life. The bounty goes to the great packing houses. The farmers are burdened, therefore, with another series of exorbitant prices. They gain nothing from the duty on hides. It is simply another device by which the Republicans, while pretending to benefit the agricultnral workers, saddle them with new burdens for the further enrichment of great monopolies that have contributed heavily to Republican corruption funds. High prices for grain, due to the failure of crops abroad, should not blind the farmers to the fact that they are paying tribute to tariff trusts and getting nothing in return. Nor should it be forgotten that present prices of wheat are temporary. They cannot continue when Russia. India, Australia, Argentina and Egypt resume their heavy harvesting. Then such taxes as those on hides, clothing and implements will again make existence bitter for the j fanners. There is no permanent relief , except in an equitable readjustment of ; tariff duties.—Kansas City Times, Stop thm Uaiubag. Somebody should notify our traveling i bimetallic commission that their pay i will stop at an early date. If our people must pay for their humbug, it should | be so close borne that all could enjoy it. i There is do use of paying for a Luna bug I we cannot see.—Cedar Rapids Gazette.

Iqjofinx Good Tti— Thousands of half starred people father sightly at the back doors and windows of the bakeshops of New York to gather the scraps that are left over. Bat what of that? Isn't everybody enjoying the Republican brand of prosperity?

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Cotton Jeans, extra heavy, i2cj£c per yard. Huntingburg Jeans, all Wool, 35c per yard. Shirting, extra heavy, 4c per yard. Good Toweling, 4c per yard. 10-4 Cotton Blankets, 48c per pair. 10-4 all Wool Blankets, $1.74 per pair. Ladies’ fine Ribbed Vests, 15c each. Huntingburg Blue Mixed Yarn, 60c per pound. 2 Spools Clark’s Thread for 5c. .

We have the greatest, the finest* and the most beautiful assortment of * Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Clothing® Ever brought to Petersburg. Don’t forget where to find the famous Bull Dog jeans Pants, the best Pants in the whole world foe working men. Our Shoe department is new and clean. Remember, it’s a pleasure to show these goods whether you buy or not. ' W. • L. * BARRETT, ^PETERSBURG, INDIANA^

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Funeral Supplies a Specialty. We keep on hand at all times the finest tine of Parlor and Household Furniture to be found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Su::* a Specialty. In funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Shrouvls. etc., of the best make. Stelliflgs and Ketcham. Agents for Sewing machines WHITE NEW HOME and other first-class machines. Best grades and lowest prices. FBOM $25.00 UP. Exp« r’ Sewing machine repairing done and satisfaction guamutced. ^ERI DIMIO Dry Goods, Boots aid Shoes, Pars the highest market price for Coani try Produce of all kinds. Keeps a general stock of merchandise. Glee him a call.’ '•* 1 ^ Hosmsi, lad..

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I have some of the best pigs on hands now that I ever owned. I have 12 gilts and 4 males that are tiptop, sired by my great show boar, Boone, No. 2095. Among the lot are two extra December l*oats that are large enough for service. Prices reasonable. M.L.Heathman, Glezen.Ind

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