Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 47, Petersburg, Pike County, 31 March 1899 — Page 4

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^ —-■—«—i-; 4 hr gihr County grmorrat _;___ Kv «n. stoops. One Tear, In advance . ,. . . $1 On Six Months*, lu advaape 50 ~ - ~ ' " Entered at the postoffice tn Petersburg for rransmisxIoD through the mails as seeond■ilass matter. FRIDAY, MARCH ^1,1899. Thomas Brackett IIeed of Maine, will not accept the tail end of the republican presidentia^ticl^i^ in 1!KX). A FEW more trusts have been formed during the past week. Republican papers will make a note of that fact. The beef investigation still goes on and some very damaging testimony has been received. The charges of General Miles have been fully sustained.

The bimetallic league of the Ohio Talley will meet in Louisville May 31st and will be in session three days. Hon. W. J. Bryan and- other prominent men will be present. The war for the cause of humanity is still being waged in the Philippines. The Spaniards have been settled and now the natives are being killed off for the cause of humanity. . . Governor Roosevelt of New York, was before the beef investigation the other day as a witness, His evidence was a hard blow to the war department, as he said the beef was unlit for use. _ The voters on Mullein Hill, that is the Fifth ward, will not be downed by Ifhe little gang who think they control the town and all its offices. • Nearly one-half the votes are polled in the Fifth ward. POLITICS from a republican standpoint, is getting pretty warm in Petersburg. The talk of an independ- - ent republican ticket is growing and it now looks like there will be three tickets in the field. What the farmer buys is going up and what he has to sell is going down. This is what some narrow-contracted, self-conceited, bullet-headed editors call prosperity. The average citizen of fair intelligence don't look at it in f that light. ” , The democrats of Oakland ( ity last Friday night nominated the following ticket, which is composed of iirstclass men: Marshal, A. E. Hopkins: treasurer, George Griffith; clerk, James . Brenton; trustees, B. F. Lindsey and John O’Neal, The ticket will be elected. Republican candidates for governor are numerous. Those in the race now are Enoch G. Hogate,Charles F. Griffin, Frank B. Posey, Charles P. Landis, J< A.- Hemenway, W. S. Haggard, J. Frank Hanley, John L. Grif-j fiths, Schuyler Colfax, J. S. Dodge,W. D. Owen, James Watson. H. W. Gil- j bert and others who are known only in their home towns. Well, a few more trusts have been organized during the past week. We presume it is all right, as the g. o. p, organs refuse to say anything against it. It mu|t be inferred from the quiet manner in which republican organs handle the subject of trusts that they are heartily in favor of them so long as they put up the campaign funds to elect republican presidents. .Senator Stewart ofl Nevada, who never minces words when he expresses an opinion, said of fcol. Bryan’s refusal to attend the Belmont-Jefferson banquet: “Bryan made the hit $>f his his career when he'refused to attend the Belmont $10 dinner. Not one of the crowd would ever vote the democratic ticket anyhow. Bryan's position brings him closer to the people. Consorting with, renegades would estrange them from him. He will certainly be renominated- in 1900. The Chicago platform will be reaffirmed, and the democracy will win.’’

The bureau of statistics of the treasury department shows that the amount of wheat exported from the United States for the eight months ending February jamou n ted to 180,807,800 bushels against! ioi,425,562 bushels in the corresponding months last year, while c the value is but $81,473,049 against $93,982,560 in corresponding monthalastyear. Thus it will be seen that the fall in the price of wheat below that of last year has netted a loss to the American farmers of 7,382,238 bushels of wheat and $12,809,517. This is the kind of prosperity that, the gold standard brings to the*farmer.— Silver Knight-Watchman.

Petersbi rg people are almost a unit for water works. They favor the !plan of th; city owning the plant, i which is the right and proper idea. 'As far as tie need bf waterworks in Petersburg is concerned that matter need not discussed further.-! It is admitted by all that it is a necessity, and also that the people favor a plant. The objection to a plant at present ’ fj the price. If a plant in at a reasonable cost rs would be willing that once. A plant at a cost r this place, strikes the seems to could be pi the tax pa} it be done of $40,000 citizens as a little too steep at the present time and under the present indebtedness. Many citizens favor the town buying the electric light' plant and Operating the water works plant in connection with it. The idea *is a practical one as it would lessen the expense of operating very materially. In many towns the corporation own and operate electric light and water works plants and have put them on a paying basis. It is believed that Petersburg can do the same thing in a few years more. :

The heavy price of American life and blood paid for our new victories over the Filipinos in the heavy fighting of the last three days, in consequence of the movement of General Otis against Aguinaldo, adds interest to this plain talk from Senator Mason, who is now in Washington. “I find." said Senator Mason. ‘*a pronounced change of sentiment among men with whom 1 talk. Substantial business men who three months ago were redhot for ex pansion, now say they have had enough of it. I ask them how about the prestige of their country, and they say they care little about prestige derived from conquering such men. but that the taxes resulting are what they fear. The idea of calling those Filipinos rebels as some of our newspapers persist in doing is unjust. They have never taken the oath of allegiance to the United States. They wanted independence irom the start and said so. They will always hate us and nothing is to be gained by conquering them. Even if we do overcome them.- they will turn around aTd poison our people. I have just learned ffom the surgeongeneralV office that 21 per cent of our men out there are afflicted with a loathsome disease. This is a bad beginning for our army. I am not a high moralist, and not so much opposed to stealing a red-hot stove that he l^in ho position to carry off. Such a thief is a fool. The«attempt of the United States to steal the liberty of the Filipinos is of the same sort. I believe the American people are waking up to this question.” There is more talk now about better roads than there was in the last campaign about politics. Nearly every one has something to say about the present condition of the roads and how * to better them. All seem to favor macadamizing the leading' roads out of Petersburg to the township lines, making about 25 miles.of road in Washington township. Under the law the tax-payers would have twenty years in which to pay for them. This is no burden and would increase your taxes but a few dollars each year, and in return the farmer could go to market at any time with his produce instead of having only one time in which to market. All know the convenience of good roads without commenting further oir them. The people know that at the present time it*is nex t to impossible to do any hauling qnd business is almost at a standstill in Pike county on account of the roads. Some of the enterprising farmers should circulate a petition asking that an election be called to vote for the macadamizing of the rqads ard present the same at the June term of the bohrd of commissioners. Should this be done it would be but a short time until work could be commenced and the roads finished within a year. Don’t stand back and wait for some one else to do the work if you are in favor of better roads. The citizens of Warrick, Spencer and Daviess counties are building roads and Pike county should not be behind her neighbors in this matter. Pike county farmers are just as progressive as those in the neighboring counties, and we believe that they will build better roads. Let’s go to work at once.

There is trouble in the administration camp, and the trusts are redhot and so are the leaders of the republican party and there will be some shakings up when the Boss gets home. ' Its all i bout a . letter that Griggs : wrote a tout trusts, containing opin- | ions that the remainder of the adminj istratipn are afraid to stand for. i Some of his fellow members of the cabinet have said a few things to Griggs, ut it is understood that their

remarks will be entirely forgotten when Mr. McKinley returns and empties the vials of his wrath on him. Some of the administration hangers-on say fhat Griggs was buncoed into writing the letter by his correspondent, who asked for the information, stating that he was a republican, and that he would not have written it had he supposed it would be published. Of course, everybody knew that the administration was not unfriendly to the trusts, with which Boss Hanna has such close business relations, but, in deference to voters who do not share in the profits of the trusts, it has been understood by those who are close to the throne that an anti-trust uifenk was to be inserted in the next rqpliblican platform, meaningless, of course, to head off the democratic claim that the republicans are responsible for all the trusts. Mr. Griggs must have known this. Yet, he wrote as follows, to a correspondent unknown to him personally, concerning trusts: “As a matter of fact, all of the companies which you refer to as now organizing for the purpose of securing complete or partial monopoly of different branches of manufacture, are similar to the sugar combination, and are not yithin the jurisdictiou'of the federal courts. If amenable to any law they are amenable to the laws of the respective states,” But .the following was the gem of the letter: “With reference to these large combinations of capital* which are now forming,» my own judgment is that the danger is not so much to the community at large as it is to the people who are induced to puj; their money into, the purchase of the stock. There is nothing in this situation to makedepi* ocrats mad, but a prominent republi-, can, after a number of unprintable things, said: “The attorney-general has gratuitously made the announcement that the government is powerless to prevent or regulate the formation of combinations of capital to control the manufacture of the necessaries of life, and h^ winds up this remarkable statement with a flippant remark about the danger of investing in trust stocks. Mr. Griggs is in a fairway to become a second Burchard to the republican party.”

The governor of Tennessee, Benton McMillin, is composed of the right sort of grit and allows no flies to roost on him. Recently the legislature of that state passed a bill authorizing the city of Memphis to-issue gold bonds to pay for public improvements. Governor McMillin promptly vetoed the measure, taking the positiou that both gold ?md silver were lawful money of the United States, and that the legislature had no right to_ discriminate between them. That ffthe kind of map to put in the lead. If Memphis, or any other city or town, cannot sell their bonds for the, same kind of money that they pay their laborers who perforin the work, then they should quit making public improvements. Silver and gold will march arm-in-arm as soon as the people get a fair whack at the goldbugs, and those who do not want to wear the brand of ‘robber’ upon their brows had better lose no time in joining the bimetallic procession.—Portland Sun. The Indiana national guard is not to be so large a body as it was prior to the war with Spain. There will be “out two regiments of infantry and two batteries of artillery, and for the equipment and expenses of the guard $45,000 a year has been appropriated. Among the cities of Southern Indiana that will have companies in the national guard are New Albany, Evansville, Vincennes and Madison. It is understood the companies will elect their company officers, subject to an examination of them by the constituted state officials. General William McKee has been appointed brigadier general of the national guard by Governor Mpunt and has accepted the appointment. General McKee is a most competent man for the position, with a military experience of twenty years and service in the army during the war with Spain as brigadier general of volunteers. Paupers will hereafter experience trouble in obtaining aid from trustees. The new law specifies that the trustees must assist all applicants to secure work, 'trustees must co-operate with voluntary relief associations to avoid unnecessary duplication of relief and the creation of families of paupers through misguided aid. Trustees can only extend aid to the extent of $15 unless authorized by the county commissioners. Able-bodied non-residents are to be put at hard labor. Only non-residents who are sick, aged or crippled or unable to travel may be assisted.

There is a warm time in republican circles. The voters are not going to be barred. They are tired of dictatorship and will vote for whom they please- at the town election. Boys, vote for the best interests of the town i when the time arrives. The Democrat would like a correspondent at Velpen, Sulphur Springs, Stendal, Augusta, Hkeville, Noxid, Union and other points in the county.

DEFENDED Will Be the#?(H> Mortgage ^aw Until Court Fames On It. : At the convention of county assessors of the state it was decided to defend the $700 mortgage exemption law until the court has passed upon it. The meeting decided that building and loan stock for 1897-8 shall be put on the tax duplicate as omitte^ property and merchants are to supply inventories taken since January l. Ice will be assessed at 30 cents a ton; notes, bonds, mortgages and the like will be assessed at their true cash value. Incorporated state banks will be assessed on the cash value of stock, surplus and undivided profits. Distilled spirits will be assessed as follows: Whisky out of bond, $1.25; brandies, $1; beer, 9 cents; grape wines, $1. Each county assessor will call a meeting of his township assessors between now and April 1 to fix values of farm products and farm equipments. Products of coal mines and stone quarries must be listed at their cash value and machinery separate. One feature of the convention was an address by Attorney General Taylor on the $700 exemption. He said the great number of tax exemptions had outgrown the meaning of the constitution. He added: “I estimate that there is more than $150,000,000 of property off the duplicate in Indiana

now because of the deductions allowed by law. Yesterday in five minutes I obtained a statement of th& deductions of fourteen Indianapolis citizens as they appeared in the first of the alphabet, out of many hundreds on the duplicate in this city, for the purpose of testing this question of deductions. These fourteen gentlemen last year obtained and were allowed5 deductions amounting to , $195,000 or more,than $13,000 to-the man. These deductions in this city amount to millions and millions of dollars, but no objection has ever been raised to it. Still,” he said, “I am for the law and would defend it in the courts until the vicious system of deductions shall have been greatly modified. “It will not be only the $700 mortgage law that will be tried in the courts but the hundreds of millions of dollars of deductions that were made pursuant to other laws,” he added. His Life Was Saved. Mr. ,T. E. Lilly, a prominent citizen of Hannibal, Missouri, lately, had a wonderful deliverance from a frightful death. In telling of it he sfiys: “I was taken with typhoid fever, that ran into pneumonia. My lungs became hardened, I was so weak I couldn't even sit up in bed. Nothing helped me. I expected to soon die of consumption, when I heard of Dr. King’s New Discovery. One bottle gave great relief. I continued to use it, and now am well and strong. I can’t say too much in its praise.” This marvelous medicine is the surest and quickest cure in the world for all throat and lung trouble. Regular sizes 50 cents and $1.00. ‘ Trial bottles free at J. R. Adams & Son’s drug store: every bot-* tie guaranteed. , Crop Conditions. During exceeding cold weather at the beginningof the month,the wheat was well protected by snow in most localities and consequently it was but little injured, except in the northern portion, where but little snow having fallen, many fields of wheat appear to be injured. In general, in most fields, the crop is in good condition: in some localities it promises better than it has done in many years: the tops of the plants are brown, but the” roots are sound ajid the plant is deep rooted and vigorous, especially the earlysown; late-sown is still small. Rye is in fair condition. Fall-sown timothy is green and vigorous. Much clover was frozen. Fruit buds were possibly much injured by the severe weather, especially cherries and peaches most so; the latter seem to be entirely ruined. '^Berry bushes of all kinds and grapevines were injured. Some cattle were frozep, and many birds,' quail and sparrows were killed by the cold. Robins a%fi bluebirds returned the latter part of the month. Maple sugar was being made near the end of the month.

Words of Truth. We, the undersigned druggists of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, unite in saying that Warner’s White Wine of Tar Syrup has no superior as a throat and lung remedy. It has given entire satisfaction in this part of thfe country and is one of our very best sellers: Stafford Drug Co,, Marquette, Michigan; H. J. Atkinson, Harbor Spring, Michigan: J. M. Perkins & Co., Negaunee, Michigan; H. M. Powers, Ontonagon, Michigan; D. T. Macdonald, Calumet, Michigan; F. P. Tillson, Ishpeming, Michigan; A. J. Scott, Hancock, Michigan; Rudell & Conway, Sault St. Marie, Michigan. For sale by Paul Bros. ’ m Pass your copy of the Democrat to your neighbor when through reading it, with the suggestion tha t: he read it and then send in a dollar and have it sent to his address for tie coming year. The Democrat is the largest paper published in the county and comes at the same price of rnaall ones.

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* Everything has been done t<j> make it the best Read^-made Clothing in the land, and there jhas been no failure in any particular. And what so correct ca|h be found at Barrett's at any and all times. We have cut ■’ '] Regardless of Former Values ■ ‘ c: I u . ■ ■ . ■ . | :' , The shortest time is our objject, and to effect that speedily We have made prices about half iwhat values say that they ought to be, and those who have waited can reap the harvest their patience deserves. Each garment shows that flare has been taken in the making. Nothing that would increase the dressiness or finish has been overlooked. I • r—< 1 -■■■■>• ^>CALL and take a t_OOK Remember that on Tuesday, ^Wed closes at 6 o’clock; Monday at 8:d0 and nesday, Thursday and Friday our store Saturday night at 10 o’ciqck. , ! • W. L. Yr/yr, ^PETERSBURG, INDIANA

M, L. & L. E. WOOLSEY, Lawyers, All business receives prompt attention. Collectionsmade and remitted. Settlements of estates a specialty Office over Citizens’ bank, Petersburg, Tnd. YV 7 ILSON A TYNER, K. M. WILSON. T. W. TYNKK. Petersburg Collecting Agency Collections in atl parts of the United States. Remittances promptly made. Charges are jeusonable. Give us your old accounts, notes, etc., and we will do the rest. Call on or write us. Office, ooposite court house in Parker building, Petersburg, Ind. 1 ,j Crushed Corn! Is the best Cow Feed, and is for sale at REED’S* GRIST-MILL At 5oc per 100 pounds do vered. Telephone No. 41-2.

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