Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 20, Petersburg, Pike County, 23 September 1898 — Page 3

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FILCHING FROM THE PEOPLE. ■•w tl>« Republican AtaUlitMtln Tries to Keep Dp tbe Treasury Surplus. A republican contemporary is handy with figures, but not handy enough. In defending the financial policy of Mr. McKinley’s administration it shows a wonderful faculty to bungle up things. Its purpose is to mislead tbe public, but it succeeds only in making more glaring the administration’s methods of filching the public. It says that by July i, 1899, the cost of the army and nary, including the cost of the war and peace footing expenditures, will hare reached $250,000,000. Meanwhile the special war tax will hare ydelded up $156,000,000. This will reduce the war debt and current expenditures to $4,00p,000. But that is not all. The Dingjey tariff will have yielded a surplus of $50,000,000 by July, 1899, leaving a deficit of only $44,000,000. That is to say, by next July the country will have by taxation and cus

tom duties reimbursed toe treasury for all ordinary and extraordinary expenditures of the war establishment except the little balance of $44,000,000. That is very* good. Indeed, or would be, if it were not true that the Dingley lav will not only leave a surplus of $50,000,000, but a positive deficit of more than that sum. But assuming that our contemporary's figures are correct. What then? What do they prove? They prove that the people are being most unmercifully robbed. There was a net balance in the treasury of considerably over $100,000,000 when war was declared, and subsequently $200,000,000 of bonds were sold, the special war tax will yield $156,000,000, and after paying the current expenses of the government, other than the war department, the Dingley bill will yield a surplus of $50,000,000, making a grand total of $506,000,000 to provide for $250,000,000 for war and navy expenditures up to July, 1899. Who gets the balance of $250,000,000? It seems by our contemporary’s figures that there would be ample funds for all ordinary and extraordinary expenses without the war excise tax. Then why keep on robbing the people? Why was the excise tax law enacted in the first place? The treasury surplus and the bond issue aggregates $50,000,000 more than the cost of the war and the maintenance of the entire war establishment until July, 1899. What has become, or what is to become of that surplus of $50,000,000? To what purpose will the $156,000,000 of war excise taxes be diverted? Who will get the $50,000,000 that the Dingley law will pile up? The facts are, the war tax revenue will have to be used to make good the deficit the Dingley bill creates, and ♦he $50,000,000 left overfcrom the t re a surp surplus and the bond sale will he found under the head oV^dscellaneous items” in the disbursement side of the nation’s ledger, opt adroitly covered up.—Kansas City Star. THE WAR TAX SHOULD GO. a Heedless Barden Imposed Cpos the People hr the Administration.

It Is now manifest that the special taxes levied by the war revenue bill were needlessly burdensome. The people were called upon to furnish at least $100,000,000 more money per year than was really required to prosecute the war to a finish, just as they were called upon to furnish at least 100,000 more men than were needed, or ever likely to be needed, for the same purpose. Not satisfied with raising $200,000,000 by a special bond issue, the administration forced through congress a bill putting taxes on about everything in sight, from patent medicines to bank checks and from express packages to telegrams. The American people, with the same marvelous patience they have shown in bearing every burden and sacrifice, however mistakenly and unnecessarily imposed upon them, uncomplainingly submitted to this complicated and annoying system of internal taxation. it is now known that the collections'under the war revenue bill will aurely yield $140,000,000 by the end of the current fiscal year. That sum, added to the $200,000,000 derived from the bond issue, will bring the extraordinary revenue of the treasury for war purposes up to $340,000,000. It is also known now that the total cost of the war op to the end of the current fiscal year will not exceed $235,000^000. Still further. It is known that the increasing volume ot imports is likely to increase the ordinary revenue of the government, derived under the old laws, by about $50,000,000 within the aame period. In short, the financial prospect he‘fore the country is that, unless the superfluous war taxea are repealed, there will be an enormous treasury surplus on June 30, 1809, wbieh the country has no use for. These special war taxes should be repealed. They were imposed under conditions that have ceased to exist. They are yielding at least $140,000,000 a year of unnecessary revenue. They are taking just about $400,000 a day out of the pockets of the people needlessly and for no purpose whatever except to pile up a huge surplus in the treasury which will be a menace to the financial and commercial welfare of the eonntry. These war taxes will continue to be collected month after month, year after year, until they are modified or repealed altogether. Muster out the* unnecessary war taxea as well as the unnecessary warflora!—N. Y. World. „ -Mark Hanna says he knows the war department la all right because ha “was there nearly all the time" Hare's a chance for Alger to stand ffaas under._St. Republic.

AS TO ALGERISH. Rot Political Prcjiidlec, Bo* Poblto Demand That Arral«m« the War Department. The hne and cry that has been raised against the mismanagement of the war department vras taiten tip at the outset by representative newspapers of both parties. Ail along, however, the press has had nothing but praise for Mr. McKinley's personal attitude during the war. The scandalous blunders which marred the Santiago campaign and developed later in every camp of mobilization began in the war department and should have ended with the removal of Secretary Alger. Republican newspapers, partisan organs of the megaphone variety excepted, were not slow to find the cause of the trouble. They printed the facts as told in news dispatches and exploited them editorially without reflection upon the ability or motives of the president.

These newspapers are still clamor* j ous for the truth. They would sustain the president and punish the guilty. The most rabid politician would not manufacture evidence from a theme so unpopular as the inability of our of-, ficials to care for our soldiers. The poverty, ignorance and cruelty of the methods followed by the war department are not good material upon which to base a political issue, nor would the most reckless partisan organ advance charges so repulsive to American pride without being sure of its ground. Disagreeable as it is, the mismanagement of the war department is a fact. The Hannacrat apologists admit that Secretary Alger was unfit for the position he held, without occupying, before and during the war. To the demands of the public and press generally, they shriek charges of political prejudice, overlooking or concealing the fact that the more intelligent publications of their own party also demand truth and justice in the case at issue. As much of the truth as could be gleaned from personal observation and private sources has been printed fearlessly. What all fair-minded people want is all the truth and nothing more nor less. It so happens that this can come only from a republican administration. Thus far public indignation against Algerism is anything but a partisan j howl. The insolent mouthing* of men j like Senator Hadtna and Steve Elkins are calculated to direct public sentiment against the administration of which they are a part, and to force j the president and hia party to make common cause against the popular J will. The persistence with which Mr. i McKinley clifigs to his so-called j friends without regard to their merits j or the rights of the people is another j influence which will not fail to bring j odium upon the republican party. If j this should be the result of his alleged I determination to shield his friend Al- | ger the controversy may grow into a j national issue, but Mr McKinley can j blame nobody but himself and his bad J advisers.—St. Louis Kepublic. PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS.

-The navy’s cry was: “Remember the Maine.” The army’s cry will be: “Remember Alger.”—Utica Observer. -The republican chanticleer must be sadly in need of an excuse forj trying his voice when he indulges j in a husky crow over the republican j vfctorv in Vermont. — Binghamton j (X. Y.) Leader. -An exchange pictures Mr. Hanna ; aS(|Sjongratulating himself because he is not secretary ov war. How would he feel if he had accepted the position of secretary of state instead of unloading it on poor Mr. Sherman?—Cin- j einnati Enquirer. -Removing Alger will not eure the disease. That would be only doctoring a symptoihvThe remedy lies in sweeping from autnbrity the party responsible for the power he has ex- j erted to inflict so much suffering and harm upon the country.—St. Louis Re- j public. ——Alger and his beneficiaries, the incompetents and their relatives and friends, are talking glibly of “the necessary horrors of war and military camps in time of war.” The wrecking and ravaging of our volunteer army are not horrors of war, but horrors of I Algerism. And for their continuance after they became known William Me- | Kinlev made himself responsible.—N, X- World. -President McKinley was none too quick in abandoning his first intention to refuse an investigation of Algerism and to make his administration responsible for it. Already the first intimations were becoming audible in his party that, if McKinley were to shoulder Algerism, the republicans would need to look elsewhere than to the white hog** fqr their candidate lit 190G.—N. Y. Post. -The official family of the administration started in with the idea that **a public office is a private snap” and they have managed the affairs of the government along that line. This is how the republican leaders have been manufacturing democratic campaign thunder, and they may be assured that the democratic party will make it sound to the uttermost parts of the i country and weave in a good many i streaks of lightning, too.—KansasCitj Times. -The election in Vermont has set all the republican organs at work te find an explanation of the phenomenal results reached by the popular vote. It is a surprise party, and no mistake. The democrats increase their poll for governor by a very respectable figure: the republicans lose to a degree which In a less sure state would mean defeat; while in the legislatu re the democracy makes what Is a stu pendous gain in

THE RUSH FOR GOLD. From the Times. Bluffs. III. > The rush of gold seekers to the Klondike brings thrilling memories to the “fortyniners” still alive, of the time when they S' rdled the continent or faced the terrors of e great American desert on the journey to the land of gold. These pioneers tell some experiences which should oe heeded by gold seekers oL to-day. Constant exposure and faulty diet killed large numbers, while nearly all the survivors were afflicted with

many of them with rheum a* tism. Such ft sufferer was Adam Vangundy*, who now resid e s at Bluffs, 111., where he has been justice of the peace and was the

& kf SVxS' first presi- , ..a dent of the “ A Forty-niner." board of trustees. In a recent interview he said: “I had been a sufferer of rheumatism for a number of years and the pain at times was very intense. I tried ail the proprietary medicines I knew of but received ho relief. “I fianlly placed my case with several physicians and doctored with them for some time, but they faded to do me any good. Finally, with my hopes of relief nearly exhausted I read an article regarding Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People, which induced me to try them. I was anxious toi get rid of the terrible disease and bought two boxes of the pills. I began using them about March, 18917. After I had taken two boxes I was completely cured, and the pain has never returned. 1 think it is the best mediI have ever taken, and am willing at any time to sign ray name to any testimony setting forth its good merits.” (Signed) ADAM VANGUXDY. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29th dav of September, A. D. 1897. FRANKLIN C. FUNK, Notary Public. Mr. Vangundy’s statement ought to be regarded as a criterion of the gooq merits of these pills, and what better proof could a person want than the above facts. Why He tVas Troubled. Jack—Come, old man, cheer up. What if she did break the engagement; she’s not the onlv fish in the swim. ' Tom-r-Oh, I don’t care about her breaking the engagement, but you see l’ve got to go right on paving installments on the ring lor tne next six months. That’s where the icy breeze comes in.—Chicago Evening News. Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter of Horehound« with Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike’s Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. The expense of repairing tire punctures should be added to our in-come tacks.—L. A. W. Bulletin. Piso’s Care is a wonderful Cough medicine.—Mrs. W. Pickert, Van SicTen and Blake Aves., Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 26, ’91. There is more money squandered in fool bargains than is spent for whisky.—Washington (la.) Democrat. THK MARKUPS. New York. September 18, 1898. CATTLE—Native Steers.......* 4 80 w* 5 40 COTTON—Middling--- itfii FLOCK—Wiuler Wheat. 4 00 u> WHEAT—No. Sited. 4* COKN—No. 2.... 33* * OAT’S—No. 2. 24* <* POltli—No» Mess. 8 ST, LOUIS. COTTON—Middling... BEEVES—Steers. » 73 ’ Cows and Heifers... 2 ao CALVES—(p®r ilW).. « i0 UGGS—Fair to Select.......... 3 »0 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. S 00 1< LOC K—Patents (new'). 8 4J Clear and straight... 8 <8 WHEAT—No. 2 Ked Winter... « COKN—No. 2 Mixed. OATS-No. 2 5* 6 00 73 33* 26 V aO 1< YE—No. 2. 44 a 5* ft 3o 4 30 7 26 4 00 4 26 3 6>J 3 30 70 8* 43* ft »o 12 0» 8 5) *7* 13 8 50 4* ft 60 4 06 4 tfO 3 30 4 30 ft! 67 8 45 1 OBACCO-Lugs... » 00 Leal Burley....... 450 OAY—Clear Timothy.. 7 5i BUTTEK—Choice Hairy.' »5 EUOS—Fresh...... .. .... POKE—Standaru (new).. BACON—Clear Kib............ .... LaKU—Prime steam.. .... CHICAGO CATTLE—Native Steers. 4 00 HOGS—Fair to Choice... 3 55 SHEEP—Fair to Choice.. 3 00s FLOCK—Winter Patents.. 3 50 Soring Patents.. 4T> WHEAT—No. 2 spriug (old).. « No. 8 ited (uew). COKN—No. 2. 30* !a 50* OATS—No. 2.. .*1* POltli—Mess (new).. 8 40 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Native.Steers...... 4 20 a HOGS—AH Grades.'.. 3 55 a WHEAT—No.2Ked (new).•• /<! OAT'S—No. 2 White..... 26* A COKN—No. *. NEW OKLEANS. - FLOUR—High Grade.. 3 33 COKN—No. 8. .... OATS—Western. .... HAY-Choice.. Q PORK—Standard Aless. 3 2a a BACON—Sides.. «* A COTTON—Middling. A LOUISVILLE WHEAT—No.2 lted. 67 O CORN—No. 2 Mixed.31 ii OATS—No. 5 Mixed. 22* a PORK—New Mesa.. 8 <W * BACON—Clear JUU. t»* A OOTITON—Maklliug.... «k 18 66 27 2»* 3 85 27* 12 5i V 75 «* 5* f8'» 32* 24 » 26 Mr

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