Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 28, Petersburg, Pike County, 19 November 1897 — Page 5

THE PRICE OF BREAD. Some Reflections on the Recent Rise In Wheat. HOW TEE WQBKMAH IS AFFECTED. While the Coat of the Prime Article of Food WUl Be Doubled the Leborer's CwupsBMiioa Is Not. Increased—Both Must Rise to GiTe True Prosperity. While the gold organs are shooting themselves hoarse over dollar wheat it is perhaps well to call their attention to some considerations tbut will presently become important, says the Atlanta Constitution. In the first place, it isj well to remember that the increase has been so sodden as to dare even the j speculators, an that it is open to doubt whether all the effects will he wholesome. We rejoice in the increase so tar as its effects on the fanners are concerned, but we question very much whether the effects will be as healthful or even as profitable as they would have been an- j der a gradual rise iu price, a rise steady enough to improve the condition cf the farmers and yet slow euougii to permit all interests to adjust themselves to the new demands to be made on their resources Our meaning will be clear it the reader will bear iu mind, that it is no light thing iu this country at this time to have the price of a prime article of food supply doubled in a night, as it were, and without compensating conditions While we are congratulating the farmers ou their sensational stroke j of good'fortune we must likew ise have an eye to the necessities of a very large : class of our poimiatiou—namely, the j working men and w .men, the wage j earners of the country . No reflection is needed to perceive i that the Midden doubling > >f the parse* of wheat must ueeessariiy result iu a ‘ similar increase in the price of flour and bread The difficulty is .that the wage earners of the country are* in no better condition now than they were when wheat was selling tor 60 cents instead of f 1. 10 a bushel There ha? hen no lucivase in their wages, and there is net likely to be any increase largo enough to compensate them for the increased tolls they must pay for their bread. Looking at the situation from this peiut of view, it is impossible to resist a feeling cf contempt for those gold organs which, form tUng that they are op* u advocates cf low prices, are upw gloating over the fuct that wheat has doubled iu price without any compensation whatever to the most dependent class of our population. If there are those who would twit us by saying tiiat The Constitution has all along favored a rise of prices, we reply that They Constitution has been and is now in favor of raising prices by gradual but substantial additions'to our volume of money. This would mean not only a gradual increase in the pnc*> cf the products of labor, bat in the wage rate, and it would mean a perm uncut state of affairs, whereas, as matters now stand the good fortune of the wheat growers must necessarily prove embarrassing to them workers who will pet uo increase of wages Moreover, th- re is every probability—almost acertaimy—that the present high price of wheat will stimulate the world with increasing its wheat acreage next season. the result of which, even with average nops, will be to rend the price back to til* lowest notch it has ever reached. ‘

In short. we cannot depvmi on *non foreign crop* for th> prosperity of our farmers The Democratic policy of cur reucy reform stand* for pt rmaneut proeptr:tyto all classes The Republican pi.iu. whatever it uiay be. cannot provide for a succession of short crops j abroad and good crop*. at homo. Even j tin* glorious gold standard cannot promise that We say. therefore, that we are j depending on a rotten crutch if wo are ! to tiud prosperity only lu the nnsfor- j tunes at foreign wheat growers. Meanwhile the people of this country are certainly entitled to any and all Uuefiis that may be derived from the rise iu vrb>*at. and, though the rise is not permanent and has not up to this moment added a dollar of foreign gold to our store, let us take heart aud hope for the test while urging upon the people the necessity of placing in opt ration the Democratic plan of reform, which is at ouce simple, complete aud efiica clous. Gold Urnorntu. Of cocrSe since the gold forces under ilauna bought up the machinery of the Pcpuhst state convention those who are ostensibly at the bead of tue gold Deni ocrattc movement cannot escape suspicion. They helped McKinley all they Could last year, aud their object in lbi?7 is to help Marcus A. Hanna to the senate Many of these gold Democrats are well known, aud those w ho know them kuoiv that they do nos work in politics for nothing The mau who is yelling fur separate action on the part of the gold boilers from the Democratic party is pretty sure to have Hanna money in bis pocket, if be has uot already shoved it across the bar. —Cincinnati Enquirer ▲ Little Kbaumattr. The Chicago inter Oceau makes allowance for prosperity os if it were an old ramshackle newspaper that had received a few unexpected remittances from do linquent subscribers. It says, “Prosperity is here, but tho people will hav© to wait a spell to uilow the fellow to get bis joints to working and his muscle* limbered up." The ForvifBM l'ajr* Xlt. %sider the benign influence rf the tariff, consumers will be glad to note that there is a steady climb in *be. prices Crf all staple groceries. The foreigner pays tbs tag—nit.

~ THE DINGLEY DEFICIT, R«eelpta Mor« Ttuui StS.000,000 Behind KxpMiUturM In n Stable Month. The receipts of the United States treasury on Aug. 21 were $623,985 and the expenditures #797,000, making a deficit for the day of #178,104. says the Cincinnati Enquirer. The deficit for the month is $18,298,755, and for the fiscal year to date $24,372,300. How is this, under the operation of a tariff law that has been extensively exploited and bragged about as a measure to restore prosperity to the country by securing enough revenue to pay the expense of, the government? In the first mouth under the new bill the treasury runs behind over $13,000,000. What a puny and contemptible performance has been that of the present administration aud congress so far) There was a persistent attempt to hnmbug the people with the claim that the hard times were doe to the fact that the public revenues were less than the expenditures. There was much lofty ringing of the changes ou the proposition that everything would be wrong till the government was run on “business prin- ’ ciples,” till it was ruu on the business idea of making both ends meet. So Mr | McKinley called congress together to ( “even up” things. No attempt was made to do this by cutting down ex travngunt expenditure's. The appropriations were kept at the top notch, though the people by the stress of the times were obliged to curtail in everything but their taxes. The whole scheme was a humbug, though the pitiful politicians who are now iu charge of the public establishment, and who probably think they are statesmen, may look upon their work profoundly The government is not a busmtss establishment. There is comparatively little resemblance between the public aud private business affairs. Th government has no income, properly speaking. It earns no money. It is merely supported by the people, and it is the duty of the people’s agents to make the burden of that support as light as possible. If the treasury runs behind iu any given year, the people an* good for the deficit There is no panic, no distrust The shortage is sure to be made good. However, u the theory that the government is “in business” and that it must be considered in the light of a. private citizen engage in trade, what a stupendous failure has been the administration effort! Thirteen millions of dollars behind in a single month! \Ye trust for the sake of the peace of mind of President McKinley that ue docs not nad the newspapers during his gay summer outing and that the military base! will play Wagnerian music when anybody attempts to tell him about the distressed condition of the treasury. Iudeed tii's new law resembles the old McKinley law It was nuder that delectable measure that the receipts of the treasury began to run behind the expenses. A REPUBLICAN ON TRUSTS.v He Views With Alarm the Growing IpSuence of (Torn binat Ion* of Capital. All readers of The News are aware that we seldom find cause to approve of the pul l:c acts aud utterances of Republican leaders, while we are aceustomeu to use the utmost forbearance toward Democrats whose conduct may not strictly accord with the just and upright principles of their party in some particular, says the Now York News in a recent editorial. Iu other words, charity toward friends und frank hostility toward opponents is the' rule. Probably The News has never said a good word for Hon Benjamin H. Butterwortb, now commissioner of patents, throughout ail his public career, aud probably, tew, it never spoke otherwise than kindIvof Hon. Roswell P Flower, until his

diatribe against our principles and party lately filled us as well as all tbe world with disapproval But ineu, after all, are of secondary import, while principles are vital,. and the auswer Burteyworth makes to Flower at least deserves quotation in our Democratic columns, siuce it comes uearer to our idea cf popular rights and principles than does the speech of the man whom we helped to make the governor of this state. Mr Buttvrworth. according to one of our rout* mporaiies, said, after reading Governor Flower's remarks: 1 do nut need any one's opinion on the bene fit of trusts. Any one who has spent a atason In Washington. as i have done this past year and for many season* before, cannot but lock with horror upon the growing lufluenoo of thene mighty combinations and aggregations of capital Every Inxly kcowa he w congress waa simply b*. by the trusts duriu* the Lest session It came to be that the representative* of these great combinations merely said. “You shah do this, and you shall not do that. ‘ and It was done or not done, as they commanded. The claim made nowadays is that there be war because war will necessitate the issuing of bonds, and there have been Km* recent instances when this sentiment Tory nearly predominated. 1 am opposed and bitterly oppos'd to all, this sort of talk. Shall we create war- to make a market for bonds? Shall we wi rifice human life that some one may cut ivui'jiu payable in tho blood of our children and Our chudren s children? What shall be said. too. when it comes to pa** that one man xa tout city of New York can fil the price of anthracite coal for the At lantic seaboard? 1 do uot know whether 1 am differently constituted from other men or not. but my blood boils when i contemplate the growing power of corpora** wealth over tbe legislation of this country Wark of the Coal Trask. There is every reason to credit the report that tbe great coal strike was deliberal iy caused by the operators. They knew the price of coal would be raised by tbe Dmgley tariff, ao they required gome effective mean* of reducing the surplus coal in thtjAarket and canceling contracts for delivery at old prices. There is nothing too infamous fur tbe Hanna-Hobart-Morgan Goal trust. Kcpnbllcsa Prosperity. Low wages for the working people and bigger profits for the trusts—that is what tbe Republicans mean by prosperity.

A* Old Book. A book called “Geography Made Easy,** owned by J. M. Francis of Sheridan, Indiana, is a good deal of a curiosity. It is a small book enough to hold iu the hand. It was printed in 1817 at Troy, an l is called “A Second Troy from the Sixteenth Boston Edition.” It is an abridgement of the “American Universal Geography, to which is [*refixed Elements of Geography for the use of Schools and Academies.” It is by Jedediah Morse, D.D. One of these pages bears the certificate of copyright by William fl. Shaw, clerk of the District of Massachusetts. which sets out that on the 20th day of April, iu the thirty-third year of the independence of the United States of America, Jedediah Morse did. etc. The preface is dated at New Haven, 1789. A postscript is dated Charlestown, April, 1811. A specimen of the contents is given below: 1XDUNA TERRITORY. This territory Ties between latitude 37:15 and 41:50 N. and between 82:42 and 85:45 W. longitude. Its length is about 270 miles and its breadth a Unit 130. The number of square miles is not far from 35,000. It is bounded cast, by the state of Ohio: south, by the Ohio river; west, by the Illinois Territory: north, by the Michigan Territory. This territory is divided i ito four counties and tweuty-sevcn townships. No. of No. of Counties. towus. Inlmb. 0. artiorn_ » 7 .."it) Clark .. 6 SLS70 Harrison 3 S.3t»5 Knox S> 7iHs Chief towns. Clarksville Harrison St. Viueeimes Total ...... ST 21 .*9) This territory, till January, 1801, formed a part of what was called the Northwestern Territory. "At this perh*d it was erected by Congress into a territorial government, with usual powers and privileges. This territory has a tiue soil, adapted to corn, wheat, rye, c^ats. cotton, hemp, tobacco and other articles mentioned in the account of the state of Ohio. Its natural productions are also similar to those of Ohio. It is watered by several fine river.-. The Wabash empties into the Ohio by a mouth 27 U yards wide, 1.020 below Fort Pitt. It is passable with batteaux 412 miles to Outatauon. and for large canoes 107 miles further. Vincennes is the capital of this territorv, the seat of government and the center of commerce; it stauds on the bank of the in 1810, 893 inhabitants. The fort stands on the east side of Wabash river. Not Always Understood. A fact often overlooked, or not always understood, is that women suffer as much :rom distressing kidney and bladder troubles tis the men. The womb is situated back of and very close to the bladder, and for that reason any distress, disease or inI convenience manifested in the kidneys, back, bladder or urinary passage is often, by mistake, attributed to female weakness i or womb trouble of some sort. The error is easily made and may be as easily avoided by setting urine aside for : twenty-four hours; a sediment or settling | is evidence that your kidneys and bladder |'need doctoring. If \ou hav*» j<ain cr dull aehmg in the back, pass water -too frequently, or scanty supply, with smarting j or burning—these arc* also convincing proofs of .kidney trouble. If you have dmooivd without, benefit, trv Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great kidney remedy. The mild and the extraordinary effect will surprise you. It stands the highest for its wonderful cures. If you take a medicine you should take the best. At druggists fifty cents and one dollar. You may have a sample bottle and pamphlet, both sent free by mail. Mention the Democrat and -end your address to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,' Dinghimpton, N. Y. The proprietors %f this paper guarantee the genuineness of this offer. a

Indiana's Assessment Roll. The state auditor has completed the footings of the assessment of ail classes of property iu Indiaua this year. There are i 22.433.ltv2 acres of land assessed at '$453,1487,733 as kgrtinst 22,402.613 acres-assessed at. $433,153,559 last year. The average | valuation an acre is $20.21, as against } 20.22 last year. The improvements on ; the laud are assessed at $83,898,561, as ; against $82,798,'Til last year. The lots of i the state are valued at $130.21>.22u, as against $130,101,5u5 last year, and the improvements on the lots are assessed at ! $162,892,389, as against $156,282,730 last ! year. The personal property is valued at $278,-; 334,983, as against $277,983,992 last year. * The total value of lauds, lots, improvements and personal property is $1,128,621.886, as against $1,120,302,020 last year, i The state board of tax commissioners as- j stssed the property of railroads, telegraph and telephone companies sleeping car companies and express companies at $160,369,827, making a total value of property for the purpose of taxation $1,289,191,713. The valuation is the highest in the history of the state. __ It Hits the Spot. When suffering from a severe cold and your throat and lungs feel sore, take a dose of Foley's Houey and Tar, when the soreness will be t-at once relieved, a warm grateful ’ feeling and healing of the parts ® affected will be experienced and I__ you will say: “It feels so good, IT HITS THE SPOT.” It is guaranteed. Bergen & Oliphant. n Yon Can't.Afford to C hante It. A heavy cold may lead to pneumonia or consumption. Foley's Honey and Tar, taken in time affords perfect security from j , serious results. Bergen & Oliphant. n { v

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