Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 45, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 March 1899 — Page 4

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$kf §pilit County gjemucrat . ....,i __ ] Kr l.VeC. stoops. One Tear, to advance ... |1 ou Six Months,In advance .50 Entered at the postoffice In Petersburg for transmission through the malls as sceondclass matter. FRIDAY, MARCH 17,1899. Algerism must go. The soldier boys have had enough. The bosses knocked out the old genuine Mullen Hill boys at the republican primary election. Watch and wait for the results. And now they say that the canned beef worked off on the soldier boys at Santiago was live years old and had been rejected by France in 1893. The new law placing county commissioners on salaries will increase the pay df the members in this county about $50 each.' The salary- in this county is $250 per annum. There is no penalty attached to the township reform law. The township trustees" association expects to take some action toward having the law declared unconstitutional.

The .supreme court of Indiana has decided that assessors have a right to examine the books of building and loan associations to see whether any of the stock has escaped taxation. The voters on Mullen Hill propose to get even wijth those kickers who bolted before the republican ticket was nominated. They say they have as much right to kick after as the bosses did before the convention. The last session of the legislature ! made appropriations amounting to more than $3,000,000 for a year. This will seriously affect the state’s! finances and will have a tendency to | stop paying off the state debt for a : few years. Troops are still being sent to the Philippines. Our soldiers are fighters and if the war department says for the boys to take care of the insurgents they will do so. nnd do it* quick. The boys are brave and have shown their pluck in every engagement. It is indeed very peculiar that the republican papers will not say anything about the organization of so many trusts during the past several months. If all this was going on during the term of a democratic administration it would be something awful to contemplate, but as it isn’t it must be all right. Suppose so. The United States now has the only real VJumbo” on earth. We paid $20,000,£XX> for it and it will cost about that much or double that amount to pay off the claims that will come up for destruction of property, etc. Besides all this there is the expense of subjugating the natives and the loss of American lives. Great thing this expansion. -* The county auditor has recently offered for sale lands delinquent for taxes. A number of tracts were sold. Persons intending to redeem will have to pay ten per /tent additional if redeemed within six months. If they wait the expiration of six months and redeem within a year it will be fifteen per cent. If they wait over a year it will be twenty per cent.

The motto of this country, “In God We Trust,” under the present existing circumstances should be changed to “In Trusts We. Trust.” We don't think God will have anything to do with a government that will permit combinations and trusts to rob the masses and steal the daily bread from the mouths of the mechanics, laboringmen and their families. The Decatur News, a new local paper, has reached our table. It is a very neat and clean publication and chuck full of local news. It is ably edited and starts out with a large advertising patronage. The Democrat wishes the News success and that it may be of great benefit to the democracy of Adams county in increasing the democratic majority. The new mortgage exemption law which passed at the last session of the legislature will reduce the tax taluation in Pike county between $400,000 and $500,000. This will increase the rate of taxation in the future unless I the township assessors make a large increase in the valuation of lands and i find more personal property. The J new law will likely reduce the valuation in Petersburg $70,000.

Trust* are now being- organized at the rate >f two a day. The republican part * is doing a noble work in fostering these weak companies. They need proeetibn. The cc fin trust is a very hard thing to standi. The republican papers should g ve \ record of the recent trusts fo med. It would be interesting read ag for their patrons. The P rto Ricans want their independent . and it look*like Uncle Sam will hav more trouble on his hands with the foreigners who desire to govern then selves. Expansion is costing Uncle S: m lots of trouble and money. And r ow it( is being hinted that there w is som£ horse meat used to feed thi soldiers during the Santiago and Po to Hico campaigns. .What will con e next? The beef investigation is developing some very queer i things. Proti ction to the iron industries ' of the United States is a fraud. During the >ast two weeks two immense I contracts has been made to furnish steel rails and to furnish iron tubling to foreign countries, which will involve millions of dollars. Does this look like “infant industries?** The protection is to raise the price in the home m irkets and sell at a lower price in the foreign markets.

The democratic party has been fightfn;. the trusts for years, while the re; ublican party has been protecting them. The people have become so thoroughly aroused on the question that the leaders of the republic;?1 party now “see the handwriting on the wall.** and in the next nation; 1 convention will straddle the questie i to catch votes. The voters will st; id no straddle as they know that th ‘ g. o. p. is owned by the trusts which ut up the campaign funds. _ The promoters of trusts have changed the style of their business and row call it “community^ of interests.’’ Just remember this, it is the sa ne thing only under a new name. Senator Chandler is now out in an i nterview saying that the next republican national convention must light the trusts. Oh, well, this sounds well, V it the republican party has fostere l the trusts and protected them, nnd the people know it. The party annot straddle the question now. Trus rs are the worst enemies this countr has to-day. They are reaching out after everything in. sight and are trj ng to destroy honest competition, the life of business enterprise. They ; re conspiracies against the public welfare and should be punished by la* if possible. Down with the trusts, -ltockport Journal. The election is over now. The Jouyna is one of the staunch republican pi pers of the district and it would ave been a good thing had the editor poke his piece long ago. Get in line 3ro. Chewnlng and fight 'em to a finis! . That's what the democratic papers are doing. The organization of trusts goes merrily on notwithstanding the Sherman anti-trust law on the statute books. Seven were organized last week: The National tube company, capita $60,000,0001 Smelter combine. $46,000 MM): Pacific American fisheries' combine, $5,000,000: a Havana tobacco combine, $20,000,000: baking powder combine. $20,000,000; lace paper combine, >450,000; paper bag combine, $27,000 )00. The aggregate capital of these seven is $178,000,000. Three more v ere under process of formation —namely, the Dominion fish company, the Arcadian copper mining company and the Baltimore insurance company. _

In shaking of the retirement of Senate c Turpie from theUnited States Senate the Chicago Chronicle says: “Davit Turpie, the venerable senator from Indiana, will be missed from the chamber when the fifty-sixth congress convenes. His place will be taken by a you g map who was an assistant clerk of the Indiana house of representative: when Mr. Turpie was elected by that body to the United States Senate. Senator Turpie is an acknowledged authority on constitutional law. He ha; been a member of the Senate since March 4,1887. Previous to that time e was United States district attorney for Indiana, speaker of the house of representatives of Indiana, judge of the Indiana circuit court, judge >f the court of common pleas and a nember of the commission appointed by the general assembly of Indiana to revise the laws of the state. He has been a member of the India: a bar exactly fifty years and is one ol the most eminent citizens of that s ate/*

Washington Letter. Mr. McKinley hasn’t gone to Thomasville. Georgia, where he will be the guest of Boss Hanna for several weeks, solely to get rest and recreation- Not by a jugful, there is political scheming, and a lot of it, in the trip. While they are in Thomasville the leading administration senators and representatives will visit them, and in addition to clinching Mr. McKinley’s renomination next year, the question of whether the administration will try to prevent Czar Reed’s re-election as speaker of the House, will be carefully gone over and decided. If it were only a question of inclination, it might be considered! as already decided. Mr. McKinley and a number of his closest friends are sore on Reed because of his attitude towards all of the administration measures that came before the late congress, and would gladly antagonize his re-election as speaker, if they thought they could beat him, but there’s the rub. They are afraid to fight Reed, unless they are reasonably certain of being able to control enough votes to down him, because if they do so and fail, they know he would fight back during the life of the Fifty-sixth congress, which will be as long asthat of the administration. Democrats will be glad if the republican party will endorse the claim of Representative Cannon of Illinois.one of *Czar Reed’s most obedient henchmen, that real Nicaragua canal legislation. which has been commended by national conventions, regardless of party, was purposely prevented at the recent session of congress by the republican House. The blame for the failure of that legislation had been placed upon Reed, but when Mr. Cannon says: “Fortunately the House of Representatives resisted the enactment of the proposed legislation,’’ in his labored commendation of republican accomplishments during the Fifty-fifth congress, he places the responsibility on the republican party, and actually gloats over it as something to be proud of. Will the national convention of his party dare to assume the same attitude on this question? While the friends of General Miles do not go so far as to make the direct charge that the canned meat furnished our soldiers in Cuba and Porto Rico was horse meat, although labeled “Roast Beef,” they do not hesitate to say that suspicion strongly points that way. It is known that 1150.000 cans of the meat was bought in Europe, w here it had been shipped from this country. The labels on the meat said it was packed in Chicago, but the firm alleged to have packed it—“The Prairie State Packing Co.”—is said to be unknown either in Chicago or to the wholesale trade of the country. That horse meat is being canned in Chicago and shipped to Europe is known, and persons who ought to know have declared that the meat in question was horse meat. If the military court of inquiry really wishes to get at the bottom of this business? it ought: not to be a difficult matter. The contractors who supplied this meat could be made to tell who canned it and where it was canned. The court is already accused of failure to call witnesses known to have information tending to prove General Miles’ contention, and if its members are: not careful their report will meet with the same reception the country gave to the report of the Alger whitewashing commission. Senator Chandler, who has a reputation for talking against things supported by his part}’, but always voting with the party, has an acute attack of anti-trustphobia just now. He talks against the trusts as seriously as though he was a good democrat or populist, but there is no reason to expectthat he will vote against any measures desired by the trusts which may come before the Senate, in the future: he certainly has not done so ift j the past. Navy department officials say that armor for our war-ships cannot be bought for $300 a .ton, the limit set by the last Congress. A statement made before the House naval committee shows conclusively that it could be if there was not an armor trust, formed to bleed the government. One of the members of this trust sold Russia three thousand tons of the same armor for $240 a ton. It was claimed by a representative of that company that 40,000 was lost on that order, for the purpose of introducing their armor in Europe. ¥his claim w as a direct admission that the armor only cost $i£>5 a ton: yet, the trust got the price fixed at $550 a ton in the bill as first passed by Congress. The reduction was made by the Senate. That is the sort of business that makes rich trusts and disgusts those who believe in old fashioned honest dealing with the government as well as with individuals. If the trust can make armor for $253 a ton, which its agents y it can, it can certainly afford to sell it to the government for $300 a ton, but, of course, that is no reason that it will. It will probably prefer making the next Congress raise the price, and the next Congress, being republican in both branches, will probably be easier to control than the last was.

THE MONEY POWE R. Governor Hnjfree Arraign* the Rf publican Party. Governor H.S. Pingree of 1 lichigan, a man high up in the republican party but having the independent to speak the truth, made a remarkat t>; speech at Detroit last week. It ws g the occasion of the visit of Secretary Alger and other distinguished guests to that city, and Governor Pingree used the following startling language in the course of his address of welcome: “The republican party < ane into power as the party of the common people. The welfare of an enslaved race was the chief cause of its organization. The republican party was formed to make men free and equal. Its votes came from the farmer and his sons; from the village s and the country districts of the vari ;<us states. So long as the great quest ons growing out of the civil war ren ained unsettled the republican party was controlled by men chosen to represent the people. “But in time these questions disappeared and other questions demanded attention. Problems of trade and finance and questions of administration came up. Meantime wealth increased. and capital and labor drifted into conflict. Gradually the men of wealth dropped into the republican party. Corporations found their interests well cared for by the men who were chosen to the legislative bodies as republicans. ‘•Now this has been going on so long and so steadily that it has become notorious. Old republicans have been held in line because they could do nothing else. All the men who had schemes and all the corporations who wanted privileges have joined the republican party, expecting that party to bear their burdens and to serve them. This haso been going on for years, but it cannot last forever, gentlemen. “It is time the corporations, combines, trusts and multi-millionaires are requested to leave the front seats, at least, and let the "men who can speak for the great body of voters, the men who believe in the republicanism of Abraham Lincoln, have room and part in the conduct of public affairs. I do not even .suggest that men be ignored and humiliated simply because they are rich, but the legislative and executive offices of thfk nation cannot much longer be filled with men whose claims are based solely upon the devotion to corporate interests. “Already the enormous business of this nation has passed into the control of gigantic trade and transportation combinations. I need not submit any proof of this. You have only Jto look around you. The men in this room know that this is true. “The rank |ind file will not stay with the republican party unless we choose our leaders hereafter without consulting those who control the corporations, trusts and combines of the country, their attorneys, agents and servants. Our leaders must be proof against all corrupting influences and the temptations which come with political ambition.” < I Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain of Plainfield, Illinois, makes the statement that she caught cold, which settled on her lungs; she was treated for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told her she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist sug* gested Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption: she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from the first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bottles, found herself sound and well, and does her own housework and is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this great discovery at ,J. R. Adams & Son’s drugstore, large bottles 50cents and $1.00.

The Fish Law. Under the amendments to the fish law of the state, no fishing of any kind is allowed in Indiana during the months of May and June, which are the spawning season. The polluting of streams so as to kill the fish is severely punished, as is taking fish in ►traps, dynamiting streams, etc. Small seins may be used in July, August and September, the seins having meshes not less than two inches in length, and trot lines may be used not more than fifty hooks during the same months. All persons using seins must first obtain a license to do so from the state fish commissioner. All under nine inches in length, and all crappies and black bass under six inches in length taken in seigns must be returned to the water, and the \ owner of a seign must give a bond of | 1200 to obey the law. The penalties; range from $5 to 150, and an attempt j to fish is regarded the same as if fish i had been actually caught. Given up by Four Doctors. ~ Beaver Dam, Ohio—My daughter,! after being treated by four doctors, i and being given up for lost, a neighbor i recommended Foley’s Kidney Cure.! Today she is able to walk several miles without fatigue. I 'eel we would have lost her if it was not for your medicine. Respectfully. Mrs. J. M. Bailey. J. R. Adams & Son. m

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