Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 October 1898 — Page 7
THE MAJORS EXPERIENCE. From the Detroit Fro* Pro—. One of the stanchest supporters of the deep-water way from the Great Lakes to the ocean is Major A. C. Biahop, of 715 Third Are., Detroit, a civil engineer of wide experience and considerable prominence in nis profession. He was assistant engineer on the Hudson River Railroad in 1850 and has since conducted large engineering operations. He bss been located in Detroit, since 1815, and has a large acquaintance among the business men and citizens of this city. Two years ago, for the first time. Major Bishop was in the hospital. For two months h« had the best of medical attendance, but when he was discharged he was not like the Major Bishop of old. When asked regarding his health, he aaid: "When I had my last spell 'of sickness and came out of the hospital I was a aorry sight, I could not gain my strength, and could not walk over a block for several weeks. ^"I noticed
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they did me world* of good. I am pleased to recommend them to invalids who seed a tome to build up » Subscribed and sworn to before me this **^OB eKtE^HUlE JrNotary Public. The pure, powerful vegetable ingredient* in Dr. williams' Pink Pin's for Pale Peoplf —■—the antidote for poisonous matter in the blood and add these elements needed t« build up body and brains. Mnny diseases long supposed' by the medical profession t« be incurable have succumbed to the potent influence of these pills. They can be takes by young or old, being harmless in theii nature, but powerful in eliminating disease A COLLEGE YELL. Fearful aa4 Wonderful Crj Evolved Sr a Daoea Atkletle Yeaas Fella wo. “Hi! Hi, jri! Hi, yi, yi! Bootna | lacks, bow>wow! Hullabaloo! Yah, wah! Chick-a-go-runk! go-runk! Siaa boom 'rah! lley-ip! hey-ip! Si ecu rul | 'Rah-roo! Wah-hoo! Bang! Ki-yi, xnockali-on! Buzz-saw! Boom 'rah! Hobble-gobble, razzle-dazzle! Breke-kek-ex, ko-ax, ko-ax! Skookum, skookum!" This marvelous language was not the small talk of tbe debating society of an insane asylum, nor was it a kennel of mad dogs broken loose. I,t was the joint efforts of 12 solemn young gentlemen to decide upon a club yell. Each | man had bis own howl, and insisted on singing out with it while all the rest were rehearsing their own. It is reported that when this grand combination broke loose all tbe small boys in town thought a circus was coming along with its calliope (which, of course, they pronounced “callie-ope”), while the two small policemen that pretended |o protect the town of Lakerim are reported to have thought that a gang of ^outlaws was attacking the place, and to have crawled into the deepest ditch in town, and pulled the ditch in alter them. After every one had yelled himself hoarse, each of the 12 began yelling again to quiet the others, and the noise was almost greater than before. At length, however, they quieted down enough to listen to the various candidates for the yell. History proposed a long Latin quotation, and Insisted on at least having some big words in the yell. He and Bobbles joined forces, and compromised on tbe following gem: “Doodlc-um! Diddle-um! Dandle-um! Tbe duodecimal Dozen!" Punk, however, said that this was beneath the dignity of such great men, and proposed one which he persuaded them to try over. It conld hardly be called short, but it was certainly complete, and consisted not only in spelling out the full name of the club, but surrounding this with most of the well- ] known yells of all tbe colleges.- It went 1 something like this: “Breke-kek-ex. ko-ax, ko-ax! Siss ! boom 'rah! Hullabaloo, ha! L-a-k-e- j r-l-m A-t-h-l-e-t-i-c C*-l-u-b! 'Rah,'rah, i •rah! ’Rah.'rah.'rah! ’Bah,’rab.’rah!" j The dozen started vigorously to yell | this out, and kept together fairly well until they came to the spelling of the ] long name, but there they began to fall by the wayside; they dropped to the ground, exhausted, one by one, sp fast that by the time they reached tne last “Rah!" only one man survived, and that was the long-winged Punk, and even he gasped It out like asick rooster. After this they all sat still on the ground where they had fallen, and thought hard for some time, and debated in whispers. The result of this debate was the final selection ofa brisk yell that left some breath in th^body of the yellers, though it threatened to break ’ all the windows for miles around. The word "Lakerim" was given three times, with a long a and a short I, and the yell went out in a burst of glory, all the voices keeping together until halfway through the last long “Hoo!” when the boys divided and took different vowels. This gave the yell a blood-curdling sound that reminded B. J. of the tribes of Indians he had never seen.—Rupert Hughes, in St. Nicholas.
JMa Fla*. Drug Clerk—What do you intend to do with this chloroform? Customer—I’m going to see if I can't got a good night's sleep. “But, great heavens. you mustn’t take it; I can tel! by your looks that you couldn't stand it." *Tm not going to take it. I'm going to give it to my wife and see if she can't get along for an hour or two without hearing burglars.”—Chicago Evening News. A Uss-UvtS Fisk. It is said that the ordinary carp, it not interfered with, would lira about J00 years.
CONDITION CHANGED. Traits CaUt Cp kr ftepaklte«a Up* UlatUa Are Trarapltag D**r» tli* People. In an interview with a Cleveland reporter Senator Hanna makes the highly unorthodox admission that the chances for success in the struggle for life in this country are vastly less to-day than they were some 25 years ago. This is most dangerous doctrine, and the senator is likely to find himself
i classed wit 4 tne snare mats ana 10mentors of social discontent. Tbe proper thing to ssj la to insist that every young man to-day has just as good a chance to become a Gould, a Vanderbilt, a Huntington or a Hanna as those worthies enjoyed when they began the pleasant task of exploiting the people. The social philosophy which was supposed to be safe and conservative insists that opportunity is as great now as it was before corporate capital had learned the art of debauching legislators and securing control of all the natural monopolies. Senator Hanna, for a wonder, declines to subscribe to this fiction. He limits his bright promise of the future to the chance that young men of ability and industry may, if they are in the employ of a good concern, get to the top in time and enjoy large salaries. This is an abandonment of all the ideals that have made Americans pushing and progressive. It is a confession that the old American determination to achieve independence, to become your own master, is doomed in the new conditions of the twentieth century to failure in the majority of cases. And the worst of it is that what Senator Hanna says is true. From a nation of men striving upward toward independence and selfemployment we have become a nation of servants, only seeking to improve in some degree the conditions of our servitude. The public lands which in bygone years offered a field of conquest to those who revolted against industrial servitude are gone. The great corporations and trusts, built up by 40 years of republican legislation, have so circumscribed the field of individual effort that for the clerk to become a merchant, the artisan to become a manufacturer on bia own account, is a task almost as impossible as the labors of Hercules. Moreover, the people who have built up and who nbw enjoy the fruits of this enormous structure of monopoly which is crowding the people down into serfdom are not the men whose genius and capacity for systematizing industry have improved and are improving systems of manufacture or of •trade. They hire men to do that. The trust magnates are men skilled in juggling with stocks and bonds; the railroad barons are men, who know how to “reorganize** corporations; the unscrupulous and* the unfit are at the top. Mr. Rockefeller hires men who know how to make oil, while he devotes himself to the more mysterious operations of stifling competition. Mr. Carnegie find* relaxation in foreign lands while his hired men devise for him methods of cheapening and improving steel and iron. It is well that the people should un-! derstand the condition that exists, and j it is therefore fortunate that so prominent a figure as Senator Hanna should have the brutal frankness to admit it. But to accept it as inevitable, as incapable of remedy, would be criminal folly. The remedies are at hand, andtbe people have power to apply them whenever they will bestir themselves. The attack on monopoly—the monopoly of land, of money and of opportunity—strenuously urged, will in time win. We will then see fewer great captains o? industry, but more independent Americans.—X. Y. Journal.
A Dastardly Aet. Write* a correspondent from Washington: “One of the most dastardly crimes for political purposes was committed by the war department on the 4th of October, 1898. Col. W. J. Bryan had been lying for over a week on a sick bed at Washington, D. C., having come there to secure the furlough of the dying men in his regiment. The administration took advantage of his helpless condition and ordered him back to Jacksonville to have it appear that he was derelict in his duty as a soldier. Mr. Bryan’* wife was at his side, having come all the way from Nebraska to nurse .her husband. Such are the depths‘of infamy to which the republican leaders descend in order to obtain a political advantage. A* there was no fighting to do. what excuse can our government offer for such contemptible action?**—Illinois State Register. -—Another woolen mill ha* failed under the blessings of the protection afforded by the Dingley law. The Plymouth Woolen company, of Plymouth, Mas*., has made an assignment. It is a 16-aet mill, and has been running since 1879 in Plymouth. It was In operation for many years before in Franklin. Mas*. Woolen mills are closing, and shoddy mills are clothing the American people with “American woolens.** Beside*, the priee of wool is going down so that the farmer* are kicking because they are not getting the promised benefits of * higher duty on wool. In this business it seem* that the wool grower and the wool manufacturer have cut each other’s throats. —Utica Observer.
-Mark Hanna say* “that no member of the administration is re* sponsible tor the starvation of our soldiers.’* He claims that he ought to know, “because he was at the war department almost all the time.** Then there was starvation among the sol* dter* after all? Hark Hanna admits tt. and his admission should prove conclusive evidence in anything relating to the administration he created.
- ISSUE OP THE WAR. How RepoMieoos Bow Tried to Am 11m Way to tk« i reelag ” of Cnba. As democrats we do not belie** In claiming the credit of the war with. Spain; we believe the whole great American nation is entitled to that honor; but as Grosvenor. Hanna and the republican congressional commit* tee have made such a challenge, and for partisan purposes are claiming that the republican party and Mr. Mo*
Kinley are entitled to all the credit, it becomes us to state some of the facts of history and show that every effort was made by the administration and the republicans in congress, with a very few exceptions, to stifle the pub* lie feeling in favor of freeing Cuba, and that even after the destruction of the Maine the peace party had control of the administration. The democrats in congress were united in their efforts to pass a resolution declaring the belligerent rights of the Cubans, and the republicans placed every obstruction in the way. Mr. Heed, the speaker of the house, refused to ap> point any committee on foreign affairs at the extra session which began soon after the inauguration of Mr. McKinley, so that all bills and resolutions of any kind, except the tariff bill, when introduced, were merely filed to await action at the regular session. Mr. Lewis, of Washington, on May 37,1887, attempted to overcome this by a resolution he introduced declaring for the belligerent rights of the Cubans as a privileged question. He made a very strong argument, showing that our foreign relations were privileged, and quoting opinions of former speakers and even the rulings of Mr. Heed to prove his case, but the speaker decided against him. He appealed from the decision of the chair, and the chair was sustained by 89 yeas to 53 nays, all republicans voting to sustain the speaker and all the democrats for free Cuba. Similar efforts were made by all democrats from time to time, bnt the efforts of t)>e administration and the speaker prevented action and kept the republicans in line against free Cuba. When the regular session convened in December, 1897, the committees having been appointed by the speaker, all bills and resolutions relating to Cuba were referred to the committee on foreign affairs. No report was made on any of the Cuban matters. On January 19, 1898, Mr. Brucker, of Michigan, introduced a resolution directing the committee on foreign affairs to report without further delay senate resolution No. 26^ declaring that a state of war existed j in Cuba, and that strict neutrality should be maintained. Mr. Hitt, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee. made a poin<t of order against the consideration of the joint resolution, and the point of order was sustained by Speaker Reed. Mr. Brucker appealed against the decision, and on a division the chair was sustained, yeas 169, nays 125. (See Congressional Record. page 816.) The votes that sustained the speaker against taking any action in favor of the Cubans were all cast by republicans, and the democrats voted unanimously in favor of the same. It will thus be seen that the republicans were determined to do nothing to aid the Cubans.
Carreaey Ufftalstira. It will be observed that none of the republican papers is saying anything about the “enlightened currency” legislation which the grand old party has pronounced for. Why don’t they print the bill reported by the house committee on banking and currency, to which the republican party stands committed, and explain and defend its provisions? This bill, which is substantially the measure prepared by Mr. Hugh Hanna's monetary reform commission, and introduced in the house by Jesse Overstreet, provided for the destruction of the greenbacks, for the total abondonment of silver as standard money, for the irrevocable establishment of the single gold standard, for the granting of a monopoly of the issue of paper currency to the national banks, and the most vicious and dangerous expedient of reckless and dishonest finance known, as banking on assets. The issue presented by this measure is the most important before the country, save the question of humanity and justice raised by the war department scandals. Why don’t the republican press discuss this issue?—. Indianapolis Sentinel. —-Now is the time when the epell binder, in a burst of eloquence, declares that where the American flag has once been raised, there civilisation and humanity must abide forevermore. And, at the same time, from the far west come long and glowing reporta of incidents that tell of our civilizing and humanizing influence on the American Indians. In the one hundredand twen-ty-third year of our existence as a nation, our Indian problem is as much of a problem as ever. And yet some of us in their enthusiasm think that we can civilize and humanize millions of antipodean savages st the drop of the hat. We are a great people, and we know iti for our spell binders tell us so when they want our votes.—Binghamton (X. Y.) Leader.
-It if the basinet* of the demo* racy to expose the corruption. favoritism and incompetency of McKinley's administration, and it is going to posh its business without any reference whatever to what the disgrace of the exposure may be in the eyca of Spain or any other country. The democratic party will not help cover up the abomination* of the McKinley administration on patriotic or any other ground* besides, the highest quality of patriot* ism finds expression in exposing corruption, favoritism and Incompetency In high official circles.—Kansas City Tinas.
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