Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 32, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 December 1897 — Page 4

8fcr fibr County flmortat nr n. tici:. stoops. Out Year, tu advance Six Mouths, iu advance II *5 05 Rnterevt at the poxtofHcv in Petersburg for tran.siuist.iou through the mails us secondclass mutter. FRIDAY, D^CEMIiKK IT, 1S9T.

Indiana was admitted to statehood eighty-one years ago. During that period she has made rapid strides and is away up among the leaders in every respect. Thk deficit in the United States treasury continues to increase under the Dingley tat ill laws. It i^ time to make a change and make the government self-sustaining. Ik the single standard is a good thing why is there not gold dollars in circulation instead of silver dollars? There is but little if any gold in circulation in this section of the United States. Tut: cause of bimetallism is growing in favor every day among the people of the country. The laboringman knows full well that the trusts have knocked his wages down time and again. McKinlky seems to realize that the only way to maintain the gold standard is to go into debt liv borrowing gold. Still he recommends that further power be given the men who own or control the gold of the world and appreciate its price. Mi>. M< K’NU’Y. the aged Another of President .McKinley, passed away Saturday night after an illness of three weeks. She suffered from paralysis. The president and family have the sympathy of the nation in their sad bereavement in the loss of their mother. Sheriff KtlHiWAY continues to reduce the fees for bailiff* in the circuit court. At - the November term with the grand jury in session for three weeks, he total expenses was $176.50, l*eing over one half less than at some previous terms of court. The Press will please inform it- readers that the exjeus* - arc t>eing reduced. Why is money issued by the government and which tin government undertakes to redeem on presentation better if called ttanking cunv.n-y than it would U- if itj bore the vulgar name of greenbacks? Because it is necessary for the government to have the sanction, if not the indorsement, of some corporation, in order that the mouev which it issues and redeems shall be safe and sound currency. Wheat f>0 cents. corn 35 cents. Hoosier potato - 5(*»cut'. Farmers should compare these prices with (letse they received under the la-t democratic administration,—liockport Journal. Say. Chewning. tell your readers about cloverseed boiiig worth only $2 25, hogs $8.00 and horses lower in the markets. Tell your readers about the rise in woolen goods and the raise in price of sugar. In fact give your readers the prices of articles that have gone down iu price. And say tell them of the strikes and decrease in iaboringtnen's wages. A few years ago we were told by the democracy that tin plate could not b# manufactured in th - country. Now it is being shipfied to England and sold in com;«etition with their product. This is only one of the few instances wherein the deiuocracy have been mistaken.— Princeton Lc.c.er. Good. If the tinplate manufacturers can export their goods to England why put on the tariff. If the manufacturer of this country can qoiujkU» with the pauper labor of Europe then lantf put on goods of that character is a baud and goes into the coffers of the manufacturer at the expense of the COD'D me r> in the United -States.

The ocwl miners of pike county are having a p.x»d run of work at the present time. This was caused by the low water in the Ohio river and the great strikes iri the Illinois coal fields. The Pennsylvania coal could not be freighted down the river. This gave the Indiana^ coal operators a good chance in the market to make contracts and the opportunity was seized, thus giviug steady employment to the miners, All the coal shipped from this county goes to St. Louis and Chicago. McKinley's prosperity did not eause the steady work, but the conditions as above stated. The Press* attemj»t to hoodoo the miners with such silly twaddle as (be pros{«eritv aud confidence racket is very stale. The miners of Pike county are thoroughly posted on the tjuestions in the line of their work aud understand the {•mwe that give them a steady run of work

Thk Democrat in its issue ol December 3rd eon tabued the following editorial: ’During ttie coming year it is expected that the floating debt of the bounty will be entirely wiped out. The'bxpeuses have been materially reduced since the last election, which is due in a great measure to the officials elected last November that have resumed their respective offices. The county was badly iu debt and it will take the uext year to pay off the floating debt of over 410,000. Expenditures should be reduced to that extent that the floating debt may be paid off aud interest on the orders stopped. The Press of last week attempted to answer the above article on county fiuanees, but utterly failed in every particular, and took as a defense township affairs. The [editor of the Press while about it should also have included towu affairs. The artitiele wholly alluded to county affairs, ami now to uutke the matter a little more explicit we want to show right here that in lfcOl the board of county commissioners was democratic and the auditor's report iu lSt)2 showed a cash balance in the county treasury of over $17,000. Thai’s correct. The auditor's report in 1890 showed that there was a floating debt of over $10,000 in county orders bearing 6 percent interest. The surplus had been swallowed up. Since the democratic couuty officials have assumed their offices the expenses have been reduced in several instances. The board of commissioners is uow democratic—two democrats and one republican. That body will reduce the expenditures as far as possible iu order that the floating county ( | orders may be redeemed and stop paving 1 interest. Economy is needed and the com-j misstouers will do what they can with the help of county officials to lower the expeuses j and pay off the floating debts aud at the, same time keep up the credit of the county j and the necessary repair's to bridges, roads. j ana public buildings. When Robinson and j j Rumble retire from office there will- U^iio i more floating orders. Stick a pm there Before two years roil around llicre will be a surplus in the county treasury and every ; county order redeemed. Stick a piu there. !

Hov B. F. Shively ot South Bend, democratic candidate for governor last yv.tr, said at the bimetallic league meeting at Indianapolis last week: ‘•The events of the j>as? few months have empinyizcd anew the sharp distinction between the two great political parties. The powers conferred m trust on the federal government have been traded right and , left for party support and iu reimbursement for campaign contributions. The prostitution of the taxing power in the enactment of the lhngiey law has fastened on the country one of the most monstrous charters j | of taxation ever consumed by the human j brain. It is producing a deficiency for the j government and a surplus for the trusts, j But k*ack of and bovoud the abuse of the , taxing | tower continues the suppression and | perversion of the coining power. This j abuse of federal power has produced and j continues to produce a constant derange-j merit of prices and disorganization of industry and multiplies on the country the bur-lens of vicious taxation. Against these [evils the democracy occupies safe historic ! ground. To reojien the mints to bimetallic ! coinage is to repeal vicious legislation and restore the coinage act of the Andrew Jack- j >on admini-tration. Ill pursuance of its j jm-lit y the republican party has farmed out j the taxing j*ower, the federal revenues, the! public lands and the public credit to private ; [ interests in return for party support. It i would farm out the power to declare war j and make treaties of peace to manufacturers fof gunp-wder and firearms but for the fact j that such grant would depose its other less apparent, but no less vicious, perversions of federal power. "But where stands tin1 administration at Washington on the financial question which j McKinley and his secretary of the treasury insist on agitating- The president has apjareuth assigned to a private commission of professional financial exjterts who study j the money question from the same side that J the burglar studies the trade of the lockj smith, the task of persevering and making j permanent the gold standard. And to ■ prove his good faith he appointed another I 1 commission and sent it abroad to secure ■ the abolition of the gold standard and the - restoration of bimetallism. The message of yesterday reassures uubody. Due half of t* is impracticable and the other half impossible. “But what of thetfuture? We should first scrutinize closely our local organization. The temptations of last year's campaign soou developed weakness in our state organization. But how many undiscovered weaknesses existed in our local organization we will never know. With integrity of organization the path to democratic success is au Open course. Many who, m the swsft adjustment of parties to new issues last year, were swept off their feel aud fell among strangers are with us again. I speak uot of those pensioners ou llanna's j campaign fund, but of sincere men who j , were stampeded from the party by false I and furious clamor about national honor > and party perfidy. A review of last year' reassures democrats everywhere. We know j that the entire corporate power of this state * was massed against our party. „ Such mere-1 triciou* influences never before appeared in j American polities. And the zeal, courage aud fortitude with which 300.000 plain men

in Indiana fought on against this combination is absolutely without a parallel in the history of this or any other eouutry, in this or any other age. You know that within sixty days after the national convention the enemy was routed. In the intellectual and argumentative phase of the campaign they were w hipped horse, foot and dragoon. As a last resort they brought into action their artillery of coercion and terrorism, which they worked from ambush and in the dark. This influences no argument, no appeal to I intelligence and patriotism could meet.

But the heroic straggle made against all these odds shows what a party can do when enfranchised with a good cause. The best politics for our party is to prove worthy of the confidence of those 800.000 men.” Tens Petersburg Press of last week comes to the front with an article on township finances and proceeded to roast the democratic township trustees, but never a wcrd about the republican trustees, about the tax levies as made. Below will be found a table of the rate of 1896 and the rate which has been made for 1897, and which includes state, coupty and township taxes. It shows that every republican township trustee has raised his levy and only one democrat has raised the levy over last year. Four democratic trustees decreased their levies from 4 to 30 cents. Besides this the levy for county purposes was reduced and each township was compelled to raise a levy for the poor in accordance with a law passed by the last legislature. The table shows the decrease and increase. Read and comr pare the figures. The average levy for the five democratic corporations is $1.60.and the average levy for the six republican corporations is $1.74. The table is as follows: I>e- Iutss7 crease crease Jefferson. .. $1 65 $1 60 5 Washington — IS? t »2 13 M adteou _1 i TO 10 Clay . 1 55 1 65 It) Patoka . ... 1 00 165 5 M<>nroe.. 1 55 l 51 4 Logan. 1 43 1 45 2 Lockhart ... 1 H* 1 5U SO Marlon. IT* 1 Tu 5 Petersburg 2-" '2 51 14 Wlusiow. 2 10 1 <3 27 Four republican trustees raised their levy 30 cents. Four democratic trustees reduced their levy 44 cents and one raised the levy 10 cents. This is a very good showing for the democratic trustees. Taken as a whole the democratic tru?tees reduced their levies. On the other hand the republicans raised (he levy. _

* * * More money has been paid to the laboringtneo of Petersburg since the election of McKinley than during a similar oeriod of King Grovers reign.— Petersburg Press. Correct. There has been more money paid to the laboringmen of • Petersburg during the past sis months than during the same length of time for manv years past. And it wasn't caused by McKinley confidence or prosperity that anyone knows of, but to the gentlemen who put up their money to find natural gas. After natural gas was discovered a building boom begun and a number of residences were built which gave employment to a number of men. The natural gas plant was put in w hich gave employment to a large uuuibet of men in digging the trenches and laying the mains. Gas fixtures were put in which gave employment to a number of men. If McKinley was the cause of prosperity in Petersburg then let the good cause go on. If prosperity gave the citizens the Jumbo gas well it failed in the next two. Sav. professor, don't jolly the people so much with that old chestnut of prosperity and confidence. The report that Czar Reed is hi sympathy with the fight on civil service reform, because he recognizes in it a means of lessening Mr. McKinley's chances for a renomination, was partilly confirmed by the attendance at a caucus of republican representatives called to consider ways and means of fighting the present civil service law, and bringing al>out its modification or complete repeal. In view of the absolute control Mr. It ed has over the republican members of the House in about everything else, it does not seem likely that as many as seventy-two of them could have been persuaded'to take part in this .move unless they knew that Mr. Reed had no objection to it. The average democrat never favored the civil service law. with its one part real reform to nine parts of the most arrant humbiiggery, so it will uot be surprising to see them vote with kicking republicans, if their kicking goes as far as a vote. Tub House banking ami currency committee is laboring hard to produce a financial bill, but it is only another case of “much ado about nothing,” as there are about as many different opinions m the committee as there are members, and each opinion is represented by a bill framed by its owner. It has been said that Czar Keed, in selecting this committee of cboecn men whom he knew would never agree on a bill, and it looks that wav. The Dingley bill has the deficit colic and has it bad. Poor thing. Bobbed the Grave. A startling incident of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows; ‘‘I was iu a most dreadful condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and side's, no ap-petite—-gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying Electric Bitters, ami to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. 1 continued .their use for three weeks, and am now a well man.. I know they saved my life, and robbed the grave of another victim.” No one should fail to try them. Only 30 cents per bottle at J. R. Adams and Son's drug store. Osgas voa Sals.—A firstclass organ for sale; been used about a year: good as new. Call at this office at once.

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HOLIDAY < While looking around to select suitable presents for your relatives and Iriends, why not give ^ them something nice and useful as well as ornamental? To do this at the least cost, you should i inspect the holiday novelties that are now ready for the buying public at i And then call and see the new goods—with the biggest and best stocks to select from—at the lowest prices. Handkerchiefs of every description, from 2 cents upward. Ties of all kinds, latest designs. All kinds of Men’s Gloves, from the cheapest in price to the best in quality, style and finish. Ladies’ Fascinators and Wool Shawls, very suitable for presents to lady friends, can be had at the lowest prices. r ^Table Linen and Towels^ Can be found at the New York Store in all the qualities, from the cheapest to the best. Those in need of such save money by placing their orders with us. OVEECOATS AAISTID CLOTHHTG-. If you are needing an Overcoat or a nice Suit of Clothes, just call on us, as during the next two weeks we will put the prices down to suit you in order to reduce our immense stocks. Call and inspect our lines in these goods, and we will make die right prices to all customers. A suitable present for a gentleman friend is a Hat of the latest design. We have them in * all styles and prices. Just Bear in Mind we have only a few days left before Christmas to do business in and we desire to please. So if you will call at the New York Store we will convince you by our quality of goods and extremely low prices that we can save you dollars and cents, as we will offer you better inducements to give us your trade than can any other store in Southern Indiana. Proprietor Xew York Store. Petersburg, Ind.

I HEW* PLANING i MILL and LUMBER YARD | Located at Hie foot of Main-st. I*eterslmrg. ! With a complete line of machinery, we are Letter prepared than ever to do all kinds of twill work, making Flooring, Siding and Ceiling, . Window' and Door Frames, Veranda anil stairwork. Also inld siaes Sash and Doors a specialty. Wp also keep a full hue of all kinds of Lumber and Shingles. W ill guarantee all material tola' up to grade and workmanship as good as the best, fall and see us belore buying elsewhere. E. H. Goslin & Co. COFFEE AND TEA STORE. The undersigned would invite all lovers of good t’offer and Tea to eal! at his Store, one door above the Miss blocks millinery store. Fast Main Street, and examine Ills stock of I Coffees. Teas. Spices, Extracts and Baking Powder. We offer you free with each potfnd a beautiful premium. Our stock of Coffeeooitfkti Ol Ulos, Santos. Guatemala. Mexicans, .lavas and Mocha. Kmpress Blend Teas. Mixed Teas. Black Teas, t-olong Knglish Breakfast. Ceylotis. Green Teas, Japans, Gunpowder, Imperial, Young Hysm, Old Hyson, Tea Dust. Black Japan, Green Tea Dust. Call ami see me. L. R. HARGRAVE. «<PRED SMITHS Deaier in all kinds of FURNITURE I i

Funeral Supplies a Specialty. W’e keep on ham! at all times the finest line of Parlor and Household Furniture tit he found in the city. Bedroom and Parlor Butte a Specialty. lu funeral supplies we keep Caskets, Bhrouds. etc- of the best make. CUBES AU ELSE FAILS. [ Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Uat SoM by linitqtisM. wm hMsmnia

> Fall and Winter Suitss* All the Latest Patterns and Styles to Select from. Suits, $16 and up. Pants, $4 and up. Call and See our Piece Goods and Trimmings. G. A. Burger & Bro., Merchant Tailors. « Jbe f[crf)e pbartTjacq J PAUL BROS., Proprietors. pare Qrags apd Jyfedicipes^ J ► ► ^ Fancy and Toilet Articles, Brushes. Perfumery, etc. | ► ^ ' 4 ► prescriptions CareJollij C^^p^aodcd. 4 Give ns a call at the old Acme Pharmacy stand. ► PETERSBURG, INDIANA. 4 4

Looi&yille, Evansville & St. Louis C. Railroad Time table in effect Nov. 28,1*17: st. Louis Fast Kxp.j St. Louis Limited. 8:00 a.in. 10:45 a.m. 11 :m aan.f 11:22 a.in.j Stations. 8:00 p.m. Leave . Ixmlsville .arrive ll:4»p.m. Leave.Huntiugburg.... arrive 12:01 a.m. Leave __Velpen...... arrive 12:14 a.m. Leave . .Winslow .arrive 11:3S a.ia.f 12:30 a-tu. Leave . Oakland City...arrive 6:20 p.tn.i 7:12 ajn. Arrive. .St. Louis* . ..Leave Louisville Louisville Limited. 7:00 a.in. 4:25 a.m a.m. 3:52 a. in 8:37 a.m. 9:15 p.m. Fast Esp. 5:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m. 2:30 p.m. 2.16 p.m. 1:57 p.m 7:32 a.m. Night trains stop at Winslow and Velpen on signal only. K. A. Campbell. G.P.A., St. Louis. J. F. Hurt, agent. Oakland City.