Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 39, Petersburg, Pike County, 4 February 1898 — Page 7

A BLASPHEMOUS PARTY, At Stock la Trade of Roe tins Republican*. The republican party has always assumed to be in partnership with the Almighty and in the minds of earnest republicans the party is the senior member of the firm. The idea has been exemplified times innumerable. “The party of God and morality,” “the party nf moral ideas”—these and similar designations, though they are now applied derisively to republicanism, were originally assumed by that party as appropriate titles for an organisation which claimed a monopoly t>f all the virtue, patriotism and piety in the country. Benjamin Harrison, when he proclaimed that “the Lord did it”—the performance being the carrying of an election by theft, bribery and corruption— voiced this idea that republicanism and Omnipotence had formed an offensive and defensive alliance, the emoluments of which were to accrue to the republican partyL while the glory, if there were any; was to be allotted to the Almighty. The utterance was typically republican and to republican ears it carried no hint of blasphemy. It was merely the conventional declaration of an accepted fact. And so it is to-day. When M. A. nanna, reeking with moral and political putrescence, soaked to the skin with the slime of umtold iniquities, secures an election to the senate of the United States by methods notorious to all the world, it is perfectly natural—from a republican point of view—that he should indite this message to the president of the United States: „ “Columbus, O.. Jan. 12.—To Hon. William McKinley. President. Washington. D. C.: God reigns and the republican party ■till llvea M. A. HA^iNA." “God reigns and the republican party still lives!** The Almighty made an accessory before the fact to a saturnalia of all the crimes in the political calendar; Omnipotence constituted the sponsor for a political caliban so hideous that even some of his own brethren revolted against him! God interesting Himself in the affairs of Hanna! Yet there is nothing unseemly in all this to the republican mind. The bias-, phemy arouses no indignation. On the contrary, the blasphemer is showered with congratulations from one end of the country »o the other^and when, in the exuberance of his triumph, he declares that he will annihilatethose who opposed him he lpoks to his auditors as one transfigured and bearing the sword of Gideon. That is republicanism as it exists today—as it always has existed. Hypocrisy, blasphemy, profanation its stock in trade; corruption and lawlessness its creed. God & Hanna (Limited)!—Chicago Chronicle.

REED RIGHT IN LINE. The Republican Csar U a Uenutne Republican. Mr. Bailey has proved his case against Speaker lleed. The Maine man has been convicted of a form of duplicity and petty deception not usual in the speakership. IIis violaton of an agreement on a matter of vital national concern, under the puerile and contemptible technical excuse that the agreement was not made when'the house was regularly in session, shows that the raunted Reed is of that small caliber which sacrifices honor at the behest of expediency. The whole proceeding, however, smells of sinister influences back of the public attitude ofthe republicans in the Cuban matter. It is in line with the policy of deception that ha-s characterised th'e administration ever since its accession to power. That policy has been the violatiop-of a solemn pledge to the American people that their overwhelming sentiment for the independence of Cuba should have vigorous expression. Until the Bailey incident was developed it had been generally believed among all sorts and conditions of people in the country that the speaker of the house was free from taint of contact with the influences that control the president, But it appears that this belief was erroneous. Ilecd now is in the category with McKinley. In fact! he is even in worse light than the president. It is possible for McKinley to shield himself behind the acts of the state department when the real truth is revealed. But Reed will have no such convenient cover. Ilis humiliation is as complete as it is pitiable.—St. Louis Republic.

PUINI5 anu UKimuna. ■-Perhaps Speaker Peed reigns in order that the rejniblican party may live.—Chi capo Dispatch. -Attorney-General McKenna was a pood fellow when the president’s backers were after the Union Pacific, and now he’s a supreme judge.—Kansas City Times. -An attempt is being made to gerrymander the Ohio congressional districts. Mr. Hanna contemplates an extensive real estate deal, and will have some excellent plots ready for 1200.— N. Y. Journal. o -Popular faith in Mr. Ilanna’s professions of lave for the laboring man will again Ue shaken by the news that 500 of the employes of his Cleveland Iron works are out on a strike.—Chisago Chronicle. -Can any honest man in Ohio believe that either Allen G. Thurman. Benjamin P. Wade. George 11. Pendleton or Thomas Ewing would.have taken hi* seat in the United States senate while an investigation was under way »o test his title?—Columbus (0.) Press. -Little less assumption, a little more modesty, a little less folly and a little more wisdom, a little less proclamation of coercive measures and a little j more declaration -of conciliatory purposes would, all things considered, bet- j ter become Mr. Ilanna. There is an <?ld bat instructive £able which has to do with a frog that aspired to be an ox which might be profitably considered j by the chairman of the national com- j mittee.—Philadelphia Ledger.

PROSPERITY MADE TO ORDER. It Brtafa Reduced Waj*t to Mill Hoods to the East. It seems that the wonderful brand of maxim-made prosperity introduced into the country by Mr. McKinley and the republican party is becoming contagious in the east. It has spread from the cotton mill operatives to various other trades. The last to get a slice of it—not counting those who are already down with it—are the shoemakers. The employes in a greet shoe manufactory in North Brookfield, Mass., caught the contagion as a sort of New Year’s gift. They were informed that after the 1st their wages would be cut down. This will, of course, lead to cuts in all competing establishments of the east and north, so.that speaking after the manner of the writer of Ecclesiastes. who was also a maxim-maker, the end is not ye>t. The reason given by the manufacturers is that they are losing money, and will have to go out of business if they do not reduce the amount they are compelled to pay their workmen. The men have no other option than to submit. They enter the second year of republican prosperity with reduced wages. Here is where the Dingley tariff comes beautifully Into play. That law imposed a duty on hides—the raw material out of which shoes are made. It was expected, according to the protection theory, that the manufacturers would Recoup themselves for the increased price of hides by demanding a larger price for their shoes. Put there is another liak in the chain that Mr. Dingley failed to take into consideration. to-wit, the ability of the people to pay higher prices. > The result is precisely what the Constitution said it would be when the Dingley bill was up for discussion. We ctrnnot have the gold standard and high protection at the same time. One destroys the prosperitt' of the people, and protection collapses when the people are not prosperous. There is a duty on hides, and the manufacturers, instead of recouping themselves by charging higher prices for their products, arc compelled to “get even” by reducing the wages of their employes. - Thus it will be seen that our brand of maxim-made prosperity involve* lower wages for workingmen.—Atlanta Constitution.

DINGLEYISM OPERATING. Sfw EncUnd Workingmen Suffering from Protection. The industrial condition in New England is far from favorable. ’ Great discontent is prevalent in that section at this time, when a genera! reduction of wages in the cotton mills is going into effect. In some instances the strike is resorted to, although, in a genera! way, this step is regarded as more desperate than acceptance of proposed redue-' tions. The workingmen are not in a position now to nfFord the luxury of a strike, and it is likely that the most will be made of a bad situation through a keeping at work at the lower wages offered. c It is fair to say, we suppose, that the condition of things industrial in New England-^onstitutes itself a very bad showing for the principle of protection for AmeHpan workingmen. In the early (Jays of the operation of the Dingley law,.the' promised advantages cf that statute, in so far as labor is reaping them, are not materializing. It is widely if not generally believed that the power to benefit the labor elements attributed to robber tariffs does not belong to them and that tie declaration that they have such power is mere pretense. humbug, sham. At any rate, | this theory, if it be no more, is borne i out in the state of affairs that exists in New England, where Dingley protec- | tion for labor has been weighed and. found wanting. In fact, there is no reason to suppose that Dingleyism is making a more favorable impression to-day than McKinleyism created seven years ago.—Binghamton (N. Y.) Leader. DINGLEY THE WHOLE TH.NG. The Republican Deity Who Work* \\ otitleru. Prosperity and the Dingley tariff are linked together.. First came the Dingley bill, and then followed dollar wheat. When t he great and all-powerful tariff act became a law the farmers of Europe announced that they had no wheat to sell; indeed, they had none for home consumption. Prices for the cereal went up. and the republicans sang a paean of praise and said: “Thanks to Dingley.’* Sugar stock jumped 40 per cent, and Standard oil stocks climbed 50 per cent., while Metropolitan railroad stock iu New York sells for 130 per cent.— thanks to Dingley.

i ruMh wen: nr*rr nummiua uuy nerer so profitable as they are now. Never were so many new combinations of capital formed; never were the rich favor**] as they are at present—thanks to Dingiey. Senator Hanna missed a point when he telegraphed McKinley to the effect that “God rules and the republican party still lives.** He^sbould have simply said with truth and brevity: “Thanks to Dingiey." Seldom has there been a more genial and kindly winter. The mercury has gone up with a cheerful persistency, and enthusiastic republicans can but recognize in this another pr6of of the upward trend of all things since the g. o. p. went into power. Surely they are justified in saying: “Thanks to Dingiey." —Chicago Dispatch. --If there has been any lingering doubt in any honest mind that Mark Hanna's election to the senate was secured by corruption and bribery Mr! Hanna, bis friends and attorneys have completely removed that doubt. In the Investigation ordered at Columbns their policy has been one of obstinate concealment. Each of Hanna's lieutenants and agents when put upon the witness stand answers every question —important or unimportant—with the set phrase: “I decline to anawer.**— X. Y. World.

FILTRATION OF MILK. •eat Upward by Preaiere Throiigk Layers of Saa<t. The control of the milk supplies at ita looree is a subject which is engaging much attention at the present time; but, while something has been accomplished, nobody can really answer for the cleanliness of the cows and the milkers at five o’clock on a winter morning on small homesteads in the country.' The more conspicuous objects, as cow hairs, are indeed removed by straining through coarse muslin, but a quantity of fine dirt, which would suffice to render a transparent liquid visibly turbid, will proba bly^remai n. ^ Some of the dirt to be seen at the bottom of a pail, jug, or even a glass, consists of a mineral dust, but the greater part is neither more nor less than cow dung, a fact which furnishes an obvious explanation of the myriads of bacillus coli present in so many samples of milk; yet, strange to say, no one seems to think it necessary to filter milk, though it always contains a vast number of the bacilli, a fraction of which would be deemed sufficient to condemn any water as unfit for drinking, and the known'outbreaks of typhoid fever traceable to milk are far more numeiv ous than those attributable to public water supplies, for milk presents an excellent culture fluid for the bacilli of t tine bowel. Sand filtration of milk on its arrival, whether by road or rail, at the central depot has been practiced for several years in some cities, as by the Copenhagen Dairy company and by Messrs. Bolle, of Berlin, whose arrangements, alike for the purity of the milk and for the physical azid moral welfare olf the persons (over 1,000 in number) in their employment, are well worthy of imitation. The filters used in this dairy consist of large cylindrical vessels divided by horizontal perforated diaphragms I into five superposed compartments, of j which tlhe middle three are filled with fine clean saqd sifted into three sizes, the coarsest being put into the lowest i and the finest into the uppermost of the ) three chambers. The lowest of all is partly occupied by a perforated, inverted, truncated cone, which assists in supporting the weight of the filtering material. The milk enters this lowest compartment by a pipe j under gravitation pressure, and after having traversed the layers of sand from below upward, is carried by an overflow to a cooler fed with ice water whence it passes into a’ cistern from which it is drawn direct Lnto the locked', cans for distribution. It is the rule of this dairy, also, whenever any epidemic or epizootic occurs in the districts whence its supplies are obtai-ned, to subject the whole before admission to the filter to temperatures first of 160 degrees Fahrenheit, and, then about 220 degrees Fahrenheit, in two apparatus interposed in the course of the pipe supplying the filter. The filtered milk is not only freed from dirt, bat the <number of bacteria is reduced to about one-third, without sterilizing; the loss of fat is in new milk stated to be small, but the quantity of mucus and slimy matter retained in the sand— which is, of course, renewed every time —is surprising.—British Medical Journal.

PEN FOR DEHORNING. ®**Hr Built anil Perfectly Effective for Itt Purpose. Kendall Perry suggests a dehorning pen easily built and perfectly effective for its purpose. The sketch is enough to show how_ built. Put some of our folks think it dreadful to dehorn stock. Then try this plan: When the calf is not more than three weeks old, take an ft r\ n fl

1 * DEHORNING PEN. old pair of shears and elip the haii away around the little knob where the horn is coming. Wrap a stick of caustic pitash in a piece of paper, leaving oue etui uncovered. Dip the stick in a little water, take the calf's head between your legs and, bend its neck around againsvyour side. Hub the horn thoroughly with potash. It will smart a little, but the pain will soon go away. Ho will the horn.—Farm Journal. HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN. Good milkers usually enjoy being milker!. The cow will trauswit even hn acquired habit. Salt Is the best thing to scour pans and pails with. Poor cheese is offen the result of a lack of cleanliness. Never use the uiiik cans and pails for any other purpose; Buy the best cow, if yon must buy, and breed a better one. Corn stover from the early varieties, if properly cured, is best. You will never make money selling butter to the country stores. The eye of the good cow should be large and the forehead broad. The dairy rooms should be exclusively used for dairy purposes. Corn stover shredded contains as much food material as the best bay. Water used in the dairy should come from deep wells or clear springs. Before using ladles and butter prints soak in hot water and rinse in cold. A dairy room should be so light that dirt can be seen, if anywhere in it. Moisten corn stover with water and sprinkle with bran to improve its flavor. Dairy utensils should be sterilized every day and steam is the best for doing it. Dried batter on dairy implements ia hard to remove. Wash off with cold water at once.—Western Plown'no.

CANADIAN CRKAMERIES. Vhmr Are Operated and Made «e Pay the Parmer.

T3 fs A correspondent ot a Brown City, Michigan^ paper writes as follows: *'A n inn s t r y h i c h is

proving very advantageous to tne settlers of North Alberta, Canada, and is truly a boon to the farmers, is the establishment of creameries by the Government at regular distances apart. The Government furnishes the entire plant, puts it in and operates it without direct cost to the farmer. From the sale of the butter the Government retains 5 cents per pound, the balance going to the farmer. This is continued for three years when the Government turns over the plant %nd business to the farmers, giving them a clear title of it. Thus these creameries are put in at a minimum cost to the fatmer and paid for in a wav that he least feels it. When we were there butter was selling at 21 and 22 cents per pound. Cheese factories were being established, too, along the railroad and much of the freight loaded on the cars on our return trip consisted of hutter and cheese, as it was m the best season for milk. The produce found a ready market in the mining and lumbering towns and districts beyond the Rockies, through the British Columbia country, where it was, we were told, difficult to supply the demand.” The Klondike is another field now open to the Western Canadian farmer for all produce of the farm, and the officials in the Department of the Interior. Ottawa, Canada, are kept busy sending out literature describing this great agricultural country. The agents of the Government throughout the Lnited States are also supplied with literature, which they distribute free. A Diplomatic Invitation. Jack Fiance—It was a great surprise to m« to learn that you had invited your neighbors, the Flatpurses. to our wedding. Jessica—Ah, but I ascertained that they were in such unquestionablely straitened circumstances that thev wouldn't come. That means they won’t have money to get us a wedding present, and we will' have a legitimate provocation for cutting them afterward.—Judge. The John A. Salzer Seed Company, La Crosse. W is., lave shipped within 25 days 1.400 barrels of their celebrated Salter’s Earliest 6 Weeks Market Potato to Texas customers. This potato has the reputation of being the eat best. the finest flavored and the heaviest producing early potato in the country. Ita Ileal Meaning. Little Elmer--Pa, what does “requiescat In pace" mean ? Prof. Broadhosd—“Please stay dead’’ is near enough.—Pearson’s Weekly. U9* St. Jacobs Oil promptly and freely And say good-bye to neuralgia. When lovers form a combination an engagement ring is the result.—Chicago Daily News.

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