Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 23, Petersburg, Pike County, 14 October 1898 — Page 3

>. I ■ ■ . ■ ■ .—-- M ? Site filu County §rmotrat M. McC. STOOPS, Editor mmd PraprtoMft JPETE RS BU RG, : : INDIANA.' ■ __ SINGING IN CAMP. The army camp la quietude 'Neath Cuban skies was near to slumber, •Tor rank on rank within the wood Had stacked the arms that heavy cumber. at seemed the world was wooing sleep. A sleep to homesick hearts so wily. 'When down the line some voice rang deep A note oX love to “Mamie Reilly.’’ •A hush of death, save for that voice! But oh! how many thoughts were winging! And then, as though ‘twere each one’s

▲ thousand others Joined the singing; Tor each had sweethearts somewhere*, home, And war had lost its dash and splendor; The Cuban wood and twilight gloam Had made each soldier’s heart grow tender. Then, farther down the line, there rang The notes of “Ssteet Marie.” and solemn <As anthems ancient choirs sang The chorus rolled adown the column; Tor soldier hearts, in war so strong. Hath ever peaceful memories clinging. •And every voice that line along To some afar Marie was singing. .A lull, and then from oat a group Of tents that in the woodland rested A. song broke forth that to the troop A loyalty and love attested. "“Along the Wabash" reached the ears Of tired corps In rest reposing, And then there rose a burst of cheers. The Indiana camp disclosing. Then sudden blew a bugler’s note. The call of “taps”—“lights out”—and gleeping The soldier breathed a prayer by rot,e: That One might hold within His keeping The destinies of those at home. To whom his sweetest thoughts were winging. ■ And in the gathering even's gloom A heart was softened by the singing. —Roy Farrell Greene, in Leslie’s Weekly. ; A SelMsoIated Crusoe. | * -jawwia Oli CEDKOa ISLAND. 350 miles south of San Diego, off the coast of Lower •California, a man is living the life of Robinson Crusoe and he likes it so much that he won't come home. He is Dr. r. G. Powers, of San Diego. He waa aent down to the island to retain possession of it in the name of a mining company claiming a concession upon it. The life was pleasant to him, and after some months spent thjre he consented to remain. His mother desiring to go down to the island, the lonely man consented to have her do so, and they have been there ever since, apparently without a desire to see civilization. They are heard from occasionally through the visits of passing schooners, and the report from the island invariably is that “Dr, Powers and his mother are well and happy and don't care to leave the island.'* It is now almost four years since the •couple chose that lonely spot for a home. The lonesomeness, they say, soon passed away. Dr. lowers, it must be confessed, has a streak of laziness in his make up. “I take it easy,” he told the skipper --of the schooner Alta. “I have plenty of tifbe on my hands, but I am not idle as much as you would think. There is wood to get for mother, helping her .with the housework, the killing of a goat occasionally, the catching of fish, the repairs to our house, and so on. I ramble over the island and get specimens of plants and flowers and trees, and pick up mineral specimens, too* We have books to read and nature to •contemplate. It is the ideal life.” Judging from this it may be conjectured that Dr. Powers is somewhat of a philosopher, as well as a well-edu-cated man. The chances are that he la . ' a natural philosopher—every lazy man is said to be. Perhaps he is right. At any rate, he declines every offer to transport him back to civilization, and Ilia mother says that she, too, is perfectly contented. Some months ago a schooner was ■wrecked on the mainland opposite •Cedros island, and three of the crew, 1 Jumping into a small boat, rowed and

taucu iu VTUIU5, nunc iucj nnc cared for by Dr. Powers and Us moth--er. The men were more dead than alive when they staggered from the boat upon the beach. They ?iad been "without water for two daya and without food for four days. One of the men was ill for six weeks. The others, hardy Swedes, rapidly recovered. A schooner going up from the guano islands to San Diego stopped for water, .and one of the Swedes and the sick man •eagerly took passage for home. The third mar. known as Stuttering Pete, refused to leave the island. In the iew weeks he had been there a spell had been woven around him by Dr. Powers that was too strong to break. While the sight of a sail in the offing brought a thrill of happiness to his heart, the chains of Robinson Crusoe** life pleased him still better. lie saw the sail fade away on the horizon without much regret. From that day to this stutteriug Pete, from all that can fee learned, la as happy a castaway as was ever seen. He and Dr. Powers are companions and enjoy their long walk* over the island. They hunt goats on the precipitous sides of the mountains .and sdPck out the strange growths to be found in the mossy canons and on the higher, hills. Dr. Powers 1* more fortunate than | •Crusoe In one respect, and that is, he has communication with the mainland. infrequent though it be. A coasting steamer calls at the island about every six weeks and leaves provisions lor the Islanders. A store of illustrat-. «d papers and magazines, books and •other reading matter is also left. Thus the trio live In comfort. “When we were there last week,** *aid the purser of this steamer, “Dr. Powers rowed out to see us. He rarely ■

visit* oar vessel, prefering to rent*!* on the island. He has a fierce black beard, and his hair is very long. Bat otherwise his appearance is civilised. He has none of the wild light that is seen in the eyes of men who have been cast away or marooned to starve, such as we saw in the crew of the Minna when we picked them up at Black War* rlor lagoon. Dr. Powers is very quiet, however, and seems to grow more retiring and taciturn every time we go to the island. He replies to questions pleasantly enough, but volunteers no information. “I was carious to know if he kept a garden to supply himself and his mother with fresh vegetables. No, he said, he didn't bother with keeping a garden. They had canned vegetables, and when cooked nicely they were just as good as fresh. Now the fact is that

ur. rowers is mw iuj hj doc iu a garden. He might hare a very nice patch of green things growing. There Is plenty of water that could be diverted for irrigation, and the warm climate would make vegetables grow amazingly. But he prefers to climb the hills with Stuttering Pete, killing goats. When our steamer was sailing away we saw Dr. Powers and Pete start out for a walk along the beach hunting for mussels. “I have not seen Mrs. Powers for some months. The last time I saw her was when I went ashore to see the home of the couple. It was a little cabin that had been built by the mining company for the superintendent, but now everything was deserted except by these three people. The house was quite comfortable inside. Sirs. Powers was cheerful as you please. She greeted us all kindly, and went bustling around apologizing for the scant luxury of her home, just as Mrs. Leeks or Mrs. Aleshine would have done. She thought no more of being alone on a desert island, with only her eon and a Swedish sailor for company, than it she had been on a ranch five miles from town. Yet she is, year in and year out, almost entirely alone, and for four years she has not seen one of her own sex. “The comfort of the lonely home and I the charm of a do-nothing life almost ; made me desire to stay on the island, j too. It is a lotus eaters* life. There is j no worry about it, no straining of nerves, no rivalry of pride or pocketbooks. On the island Stuttering Pete is joint king of the realm. On the mainland Stuttering Pete is an outcast sailor, to be cursed and cuffed by some blustering mate. That is the difference. Dr. Powers wrote a letter to a friend once, giving hints of his life on Cedros island. “It is more like Robinson Crusoe’s life than you would think,” he said. “In fact, we have a copy of ‘Robinson Crusoe* here, and have done many things mentioned in that book to advantage. I have enlarged a cave, as Crusoe did, for the protection of part of our supplies. While we do not live In fear of wild animals or wild men, we keep a good eye out, especially when guano pirates or goat-killing marauders come along the coast. We heard that at Guadalupe island they had

IT 13 A LOTUS EATER'S LIFE. trouble with a erew of piratical goat* killers, and Stuttering Pete and I prepared to give them a warm reception if they showed up on our kingdom. We | rigged up a number of rifles on a place j commanding the landing, so that each | of us could be protected behind | bowlders and shoot two rifles each. We 1 could have kept a good-sized crowd at j bay. Fortunately for both sides, they | did not visit us. J “The charm of this life grows upon j me. I would uot be a dweller in brick ! walls and grunting under the burden i of modern life for all the wealth there ] Is to be found in New York. What do 1 we get beyond our food and shelter? I If I sleep well, enjoy health and a hppy mind, I am better off than one living j In a city, though he piles up millions, j 1 do not see opera every night, but I ; enjoy a keen appetite and find intellectual pleasure in contemplating the sea and laud. Sometimes 1 find myself wrept in thoughts far higher than I have power to express, which yield mo the greatest enjoyment. If I were a poet I would not lack for a theme that might do much to change the hearts of men from their money-getting madness. “In the vastness of the night, with a storm on, the sea boiling and howling ail around us, 1 see the tremendous i forces that are little known to those living in cities. 9 believe I realize more | clearly the paltriness of the jostling crowd. On the silent moonlight nights, with leagues of shining sea around me. 1 feel that even a self-isolated Crusoe may be as important in the scheme of things as a greasy, hoggish millionaire. We are all too small to contemplate.” From whieh it appears that Or. Powers spends much of his time in philosophy, when others think he is merely lazy. The question that occurs is: What philosophy does Mrs. Powers apply to make herself contented*—N. Y.

MONEY AND TRADE. What la Dane with the Balaaee la Oar Vavor la Fowl** CoaatrUo. I Trade conditions, while nominally in iur favor, are really very disadvantageous. Speaking roughly, it may be j said that last year we exported something over $14100,000,000 worth of cornmodi ties, and imported something over $600,000,000 worth. Practically we sold twice as much as we bought, leaving a balance of over $600,000,000 in our favor. Bight upon its face that is a good showing. The figures are in fact somewhat dazzling. They are almost calculated to make a man think thvt he is loaded down with prosperity, when in plain truth he does not know where his breakfast is to come from.

But xne mere statement tnat taere la an enormous trade balance in our favor standing by itself, so far from giving us a correct idea of the situation, is worse than no statement at all, for while conveying the belief that we are riding the boundless waves of prosperity, an examination of all the facte may prove that we are traveling the road to ruin. Whether we are doing so or not it can easily be demonstrated that trade conditions, taken in their entirety, are not favorable, that we are being subjected to enormous and unjust injury, and that if ruin does not speedily come it k merely because our resources are so great that it will take a long time to bleed us to death. As before stated, in round numbers, we hare sold $1,200,000.000 worth of commodities, and bought $600,000,000. leaving a balance of $600,000,000. which, according to usual business methods and customs, should have been paid in cash. Has it been? By no means. The total net imports of gold were only about $14,000,000, leaving $500,000,000 worth of merchandise wholly unpaid for, so far as the official records disclose. In other words, we have apparently given away merchandise to the value of $500,000,000. If we include silver, the showing is still worse, for the exports exceed the imports $24,000,000, adding that amount to our dead loss, as it appears to be. Jiow comes the question: How U it that we sold $600,000,000 more stuff than we have bought and have only received $100,000,000 or less on the balance? There are two explanations offered. The first is that the money has been left to our credit in Europe, either for investment or for us to draw against as we need it. Common sense forces the rejection of this explanation at once. It is absolutely unreasonable to believe that American money is seeking investment in Europe. If left there for that purpose, it is evidently still “seeking.” If it had^been actually invested Europe would to-day present a scene of almost unparalleled commercial and industrial activity. But so far from this being true .every nation in Europe is eomplainicg of “hard times,” or, at the best, of dull business. There is no country in the world that presents as many opportunities for development as the United States, and if we could hare commanded that money we may be sure that it would have been brought home. The idea that it is left there lying idle to be “drawn against” is too absurd for serious consideration. The natural thing would be to bring it home where it cam be drawn against even morl conveniently, and invested if possible. The second explanation is that the money has been set off against interest and other payments, which we have to make in Europe. This is undoubtedly true, and when intelligently considered it shows in the most startling maimer the significance of the money question in its bearing upon the business interests of the country. It has been frequently stated in the Bimetallist that the United States has interest payments to make in Europe amounting to not less than $250,000,000 a year, while freights paid to foreign shipowners and the expenditures of American travelers abroad will probably swell the aggregate to fully $400,000,000. Consequently that we must sell $400,000,000 more commodities than we buy in order to keep even, and not be compelled to pay a balance in

money. The figures with which we are now dealing show conclusively that this was an underestimate rather than an exaggeration. As the balance of trade in «gpr favor on merchandise account was over $600,000,000, and we have only received $100,000,000 in money, it follows mathematieaily that the foreign demand against us must be in the neighborhood of 9500,000,000 a year. As every well-informed person knows, during the last year the conditions of trade as regards balances have been altogether abnormal, and very much to our advantage. The exports were at least $150,000,000 above what may be called the normal, while the imports were fully $150,000,000 below. So that, under natural conditions, tre cannot fairly count on a trade balance of more than $300,000,000, if so much. In faat, that is a long way above the average of past years. Now suppose that during the It months ending with June our trade balance bad been $300,000,000 instead of $000,000,000, how much gold would we have received from*Europe? None at all, unless we borrowed it and added to our debt abroad. On the contrary, to have kepi the account even we must have exported $200,000,000 in specie. It is possible that the $500,000,000 unaccounted for may in part have been applied upon the principal of our foreign debt, but if so it was probably a small part, as there la no record of any considerable amount of our for-eign-hetd securities having been taken ■

lias been is, of course, just «rj mucn reduction of our foreign debt, It being manifest then that we bare annual payments to make in Europe Of from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000, it follows that the prices at which wei sell our products are of vast and vital importance to the American people. Making due allowance for th« rise of breadstuifs Unit year, it may still be truthfully affirmed that the aver* : age prices realised for our exporta were fully 40 per cent, below the prices ; of 1870-71-72-73. Hence products sold for $1,200,000,000 would have brought at the former prk s-level $2,000,000,000. The $600,000,000 of imports at the same higher range of prices would have been worth $1,000,000,000, wad our balance, instead of being $600,000,000, would have been $1,000,000,000. Deducting

the annual charges of, say $500,000,000, we would have had! $500,000,000 left to pay on the principal of the foreign demand. Or, if the annual charges only amount *to $400,000,000 there weald have been $600,000,000 to be so applied. It is easy to see that under such conditions we could s'X>n pay off the entire debt and become ourselves a creditor nation. Having this great debt, with its annual charges to pay, it is certainly a good thing that we have so many products to sell. Wi% $500,000,000 in demands to meet, it is better for us to have a balance of $600,000,000 than one of only $300,000,000, because in the latter case we would be sinking deeper and deeper into debt, while in the former we may pay a little. But it would be better still if price* were 50 or 75 per cent, higher, because it would greatly increase the balance in our favor and thus lighten the burden of our debt. That the fall of prices referred to since 1873 has been almost entirely owing to the demonetization of silver and the adoption of the gold standard, is scarcely denied by a reputable authority in the world. Henoe the act was wrong, and if sc it cannot be wrong to undo that wrong by restoring silver to its former monetary position. Nay, more! It is absolutely essential for us to do so. The United States is a very rich and productive country, but it is not rich enough to permanently stand such a drain. It means in the end national bankruptcy and- the pauperizing of the industrial classes. Interest-bearing debt- is, at the best, a necessary evil. It is a direct tax on productive industry, and has ruined millions of industrious, intelligent men. But when the debt and interest represent money.that is rising in value, it is infinitely worse, becoming an insupportable burden under which the debtor class is doomed to financial and industrial slavery.—National Bimetallist. BOLD AND DARING. Tike Administration -Party la Aninning a Great Deal Too Mach. The organs of the administration are growing bold and daring. They feel their party is now so firmly intrenched at Washington that they may proclaim its purpose without fear. They say the conquest of the West Indies and the Philippines, and the annexation of Hawaii adds about 10,000,000 to the population of the United States, which means “the passing of the democracy.” There is a good deal in all this for the people to think about. If the main object of President McKinley in going into the business of acquiring foreign territory is to give his party enough additional voted t-o secure to it permanent control of the government btyond peradventure, as the organs broadly hint that it. is, the beginning of the end of either the constitution and political institutions of the nation or the republican party is at hand. There is not room enough in the United States for both. Permanent control of the nation by the republican party would be Imperialism of the most hateful kind. It would not be a government administered by royalty or nobility, but by trusts, corporations and other forms of capital consolidation constantly breeding a vulgar Aristocracy.

Th eboast of McKinley’s following may be idle and windy, but there ia no doubt about their purpose. The programme of the leaders of the republican party is t-o confer citizenship upon the *10.000,000 people in the several islands, thus adding 2.000,000 votes, which would be controlled by officeholder commissioned to see that they voted right. If the scheme can be worked once, it can be kept on working very easily, not only ia the islands, but all over the country, by the enactment of a national force bill. The impudence of the plan is amazing. Jlut so determined are the head leaders of the republican party to never release their hold upon the government that they are ready to resort to spy means to accomplish their purpose. The people can nip the scheme in the bud, however, by making the next congress democratic so the law making power of the government may be deadly hostile to all such conspiracies. Unless the next congress is subservient to McKinley, his schemes will fail, but if it shall be obedtieut to him the votes of the islands of the sea will be counted to perpetuate the poorer of the trusts and monopolies. These are self-evident facts, the more so because the leaders and the newspaper organs of the republican party I do not hesitate to say what they are driving at.—Kansas City Times. -Senator Foraker is credited with the observation that the republican party never has had harmony, never, ought to have harmony, and that It is' the lack of it that keeps the party! alive. This opinion coincides with; that of the late Gen. Butler, whose re-? mark as to the usefulness of eat fights for the reproduction of eats la some-! what memorable.—Beaton Herald. •

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