Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 3, Petersburg, Pike County, 26 May 1899 — Page 4

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8hf §p ike bounty §tmsaii hr n. ncc. stoop*. One Tear. In advance Six Mont bn, in advance Entered at the pm to flic* in Petersburg for i ranamisaion through the maltti a* second-1 11 lass matter. Pill DAY. MAY 26, 1899. The war for humanity in the Phil-1 ippincs is about ended. At least it is! to be hoped so. The SttoO.OOOjDUO steel and iron trust is one of those “infant” industries that requires a little protection. Alger will not resign his portfolioi as secretary of war. He will probably run for president after the war ifr over. Roosevelt, Reed, McKinley and Deiwey are the republican aspirants for the presidency. Hanna must look to his laurels. * The Cubans want their independence, but Uncle Sam's agents thiqk they are unable to govern .themselve^ j and that Cuba should be annexed. The Philippines will also be annexed. J Infant industries with their millions of capitalization still ask for j protection. Why not let them hump ] for themselves the same as the farmer and mechanic. Protect the laborer, j Next Thursday night a school trustee is to be elected by the town I council to serve for three years. Of course no one but a. republican will be I elected. There are several who would like to have the position, but only one will be elected, the others will have to wait. . j

The war investigating committees j have by their reports said that the! ‘‘embalmed'’ beef was all o. k., and J that the sickness was due to some- f «thing else. The committee also says j that the canned beef was a poor army ration. The soldiers knew that and would not eat it: No more whitewash investigation is needed. Certainly, the trust combinations do not affect the farmer, that is to hear these narrow-contracted republican editors tell about it. Two years ago fencing wire could have been bought for $1.90 to $2.00 per hundred pounds. Well, today it is selling at something like $3.00. The consumer pays the tax. More trusts needed. If the republican party is not in favor of trusts and combinations why is -it that republican papers do not fight them and come out on the side of the common people? Trusts and combinations are fostered by the republican party and dare not say a word against them for fear that their campaign contributions will be cutoff. The trust combinations are beginning to get in their work in good shape. The prices on goods are being raised and a large number of the factories which, have been taken into the trusts closed down. Of course this does not throw men out of employment. The trusts now control nearly the whole, manufactured output of the United States.

Japan, with its 200 cent (gold stand- j ard) dollars, is on the verge of bank- j ruptcy, while Mexico, with its 50 cent! (silver) dollars, is the most happy and prosperous country on the globe. In the United states, with our gold standard, war tax and the Dingley law, we have to increase our taxes from 100 to 300 per cent to keep our extravagant administration afloat until it can secure another four years’ lease of power. The republican party, of course, is opposed to trusts and combinations, but all the same during the past two years there have been more combinations of capital formed than ever known before in the history of the country. It is time that the president was carrying out that part of his inaugural address, which reads as follows: “The declaration of the party now restored to power has been in the 'past that of opposition to all combinations of capital organized into trusts or otherwise to control arbitrarily the conditions of trade among our citizens, arid it has supported such legislation as will prevent the execution of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their supplies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of their products to market. This purpose will be steadily pursued, both ny the enforcement of the laws now in existence, and the recommendation andt support of such new statutes as may be necessary to carry it into effect.’’! 1 -

WILLIAM J. BRYAN Say» the t hic-ago Platform Will Be Reaffirmed. W illiam J. Bryan declared to a Chicago newspaper last week that the democratic party would reaffirm the Chicago platform in the next national convention, and add to it such planks as new conditions might bring forth. He was as iced if the reaffirmation of the Chicago platform included a declaration for silver at the ratio of 16 toj. 4'That, of course, would be in the platform if the Chicago platform is reaffirmed,” he said. “The democratic party never will recede from the position it took on the Chicago platform. That is the sense of the democrats, as I get it from traveling around and talking with democrats. No man has a right at this time to say w-hat the democratic platform will be. You do not know what the next twelve months will briny forth.” “Will free silver be the dominant issue in the next campaign?” “It is altogether too early to say w’hat will be the dominant issue,” said Mr. Bryan. "But whatever the issue is, the democratic party will meet it seuarely.” Mr. Bryan returned to Lincoln, his home, today. Next Tuesday he will speak in Quincy, Illinois, the next dayin Pittsfield, the next day; in St. Louis at a democratic love feast and then he will goto Danville and Fort Wayne. |

Jhe most important political event of 189A will be the third annual convention of the League of Bimetallic clubs of the Ohio valley, in Louisville, j May 31st and June 1st and 2nd, which i now promises to be an even bigger affair than that held at Indianapolis < last year. Among- the speakers will j be William J. Bryan. George Fred i Williams, John P. Altgeld, and a half dozen others of national renown. Two banquets will also be given, one to Mr. Bryan and one to Judge Tarvip, the president of the League. Special railroad rates have been secured, and Louisville is making elaborate preparations for the affair, over $2,000 having been paid into the treasury of the local committee. The same basis of representation as last year; yet prevails, each 10 to 1 club being allowed one delegate for every ten members, upon sending list and $1.00 registration fee for each club, to Al-j len W. ([’lark, secretary, at either Greensburg, Indiana, or Covington. Kentucky.. — We would not urge the question, but take this opportunity to extend our invitation to those not taking the Democrat to step on board with us for the coming year. We^will try to make it worth its cost during the next twelve months, and will be pleased to have all who will, give us their support and influence. Only one thing, we promise in advance, and that is our best effort, and our unswerving desire to advance the truth as far as we can seize hold of this mysterious element. If candor and fairness are of any value, we will try to make the Democrat acceptable. Hand in your names at any time and they will be gladly received. We can also make low rates on many other papers and periodicals. Call at your convenience J and see._ ) The jury in the case of Mary F. Little against the Baltimore & Ohio

Southwestern railway company, returned |a verdict last Saturday at Shoals in favor of the company. On the 30th of July, 1894, John Little, husband of the plaintiff, was the engineer on a fast mail train, which ran into an. open switch, resulting in a collision with a special freight train, in which Little lost his life. Suit was begun in the Daviess circuit court for $10,000 damages, and was transferred to Pike county on a change of venue, where the plaintiff was awarded a vgrdict for $8,000. This was reversed by the supreme court and a new trial was ordered. The suit was then transferred to the Martin circuit, court, with the result as above. The business of the Cumberland telephone at this place has increased to siich an extent that a new cable of 150 wires had to be put in last week and a new distributing box and other necessary supplies. The next telephone list will contain nearly 200 calls. The exchange list is one of the largest in the state compared to the population, and is excellently man-! aged by J. H. McClurkin. He keeps I everything in order and has an excel-1 lent office force and calls are answered | promptly. All the neighboring towns will more than likely be connected with Petersburg during the coming year, when the service in Pike county will be more complete. Qo to H. H.j Tislow for all kinds of ' watch and clock repairs. 28*

Mr.William Kirkby arrived in Dover Tuesday, and is at Black Diamond headquarters this week. Reports received from South Carolina show that the road is being permanently located very rapidly under the supervision of Chipf Engineer W. B. Crenshaw, and that the cost of the road will come within or below the estimates heretofore made. Reports from London are to the effect that the work there is progressing as fast as the examination of the vast volume of statistics will permit—in fact, the work is moving along as satisfactorily as the most exacting could wish. Not a single hitch has occurred to shake the faith that is in us.—Dover (Ky.) News. Mr. Henry V. Maxwell, who returned from London recently, where he has been for over a year, talked interestingly today to a Sentinel reporter of the prospects of English capital building Boone’s Black Diamond railway and of English capital. being generally invested in the South. Mr. Maxwell said: “Very soon now we ought to hear the result of Sir Thomas Tancred’s investigation of the Black Diamond. Mr. Dickinson, financial agent of the road, made a fine stroke when he interested Tancred and succeeded in bringing him across the waters to see the survey of it. Dickinson nevpr could have bropght Tancred here if he hadn’t secured a magnificent footing for himself in London's financial circles. Dickinson made a fine impression on London's moftey kings, and w’as able to name his man. It was a master stroke to have secured Tancred, because he stands without a peer in England as a practical engineer. His word is law with investors and his word is all that is needed to

bring the money for the Black Diamond. His report on the road was favorable. A part of it I saw myself and I know it,had the right ring to it. If English capital builds the road a like amount, or a greater amount.will be invested along the route in the mineral and timber lands. It is indeed, in these investments that the South’s best interests would be fostered and from which the best results would accrue, both to English capitalists and to us. The truth is, the road would only be built as an opening to these various fields of investment and it attracts English capitalchiefiy for the reason thg.t it does penetrate almost limitless timber and mineral resources. This is as it is chiefiy: because England stands badly in need of timber, iron and coal. ‘‘The demand for poplar and oak, such as is to be found in abundance along the route of the Black Diamond, is immense in England today. The British Isles are forced to look for new territory, a condition which very powerfully influences their market.

England is interested in the South because she is out of necessity compelled to be interested in some country sufficiently resourceful to supply her demands. England produces only about one-third of her own consumption. We supply her more than any other nation, but we do not supply her to the extent that we should. We do not begin to appreciate the British Isles as a market for our overproduction. In the past some prejudice may have existed in the English mind against Americans and American products, but the events of the past two years have entirely obliterated every vestige of that prejudice and Americas products are today more acceptable to the English consumer than the products of any other nation on the face of the globe. ‘•This great field is brought^near us by the remarkable cheapness of transportation. It is a fact that it is cheaper to ship from American ports in the docks of London; Liverpool and Glasgow than it is to ship by rail to San Francisco, and yet New York merchants,Southern furniture dealers and East Tennessee marble men neglect this great market that is entirely dependent on us, or. others^ and send their products to San Francisco and their representatives there to drum up business. America should reap golden benefits from England’s proffered friendship by crowding our business into English ports and doubling

and trebling our Imports to the British Isles. “Besides, isn’t it time toteach England a few things? Haven't we let England stuff us with Scotch oatmeal long enough? Suppose we teach them to eat corn and sweet potatoes and to sweep with broom corn brooms. What do you think, there's not one man out of every thousand in London who ever saw an ear of Indian corn; not one in live thousand who ever heard of sweet potatoes, and not a woman in London who ever saw a broom made of broom corn A London merchant'recei ved a consignment of watermelons. He put a card over a big rattlesnake melon: *This is a musk melon. delicious American fruit.’ ” Speaking in a more general way of his experience abroad, Mr. Maxwell said the average American exhibited considerable ignorance as to postal requirements between America and England. Postage on mail matter to England is five cents per half ounce. When a letter is in excess the person

receding- it must pay the postage due and an additional tine of one hundred per cent. Mr. Maxwell says he paid several dollars on fines and excess. In directing mail to London it is absolutely necessary to be explicit. The initial letters employed by Londoners as E. C. and W. C, imply locality as east center and west center, and there may be a street of the same name in twenty localities. London grew from within the walls and took in villages on all sides and in consequence there are mahy streets of the same name that can only be distinguished through designation of locality. As a result of this confused state of affairs Americans who do not understand the rules of direction lose hundreds of letters.—Knoxville (Tenn.) Sentinel. Dr. J. Sam Brown has an interesting letter from Col. Albert E. Boone, Zanesville, Ohio, regarding the status of Black Diamond railway negotiations. The colonel says: ’“Hon. T. C. Dickinson is in England busily engaged with British capitalists, exhibiting to” them the profiles, right-of-ways, minerals, charters, legislative grants, subsidies and other data of the route, and everything is progressing satisfactorily. Colonel Boone now expects construction to commence October 1, 1899.—Ghent (Ky.) Times.

I From An Ohio Minister. I have used Dr. Warner’s White j Wine of Tar Syrup for sore throat, weak lungs, coughs and colds: it surpasses all other remedies I have tried. With many thanks to the doctor for his valuable remedy, I remain. Rev. G. W. Hagans, Clyde, Ohio, Sold by Paul Bros. . m Augusta Items. Dr. McGlasson returned horrye from 1 Louisville last week. The commencement was re presented by Misses Delta and Nellie <. ’orn, Winford Corn and William Burlingame of this place, at Bethel Saturday night. J. C. Ashby returned home from an extended trip through the West. While en route for home he visited the cruiser Nashville at St.JLouisi Oakland City , was represi nted here Sunday by D. D. Corn and Sherman Thomas and family. Thomas Swann of Princeton, visited here last week. The spring normal closed here last Friday. An Obstinate Sore Cured. James G. Amhertof, Della, Ohio, writes: I had an obstinate sore on my face which everything else failed to heal, after one application of Banner Salve it began to heal and after three applications it was entirely healed leaving no scar. J. R. Adams & Son. )& m

Blackburn Items. Farmers are about through planting corn. Mrs. Julia Quackenbush of Petersburg. was visiting friends here over Sunday. Joe O’Brien is back again. He has been at Somerville for the past two weeks. Jasper Bennett and John Colvin have struck a new job. They are shoveling slack. John Akers and family were the guests of Frank Shimer Sunday. John Shime# is wanting to buy a home. You can guess the rest. Majestic Cooking Exhibit. At our store three minute biscuits baked on the Majestic range will be served with delicious cotlee free until next Saturday night. All are cordially invited. A salesman from the factory is here to explain its merits and offer special inducements to purchasers during this week, only. Rj*;ad &,Limp. The wife of a man named Moon, in Arkansas, presented him with a fine boy. This, says a funny exchange, was a new moon. The father celebrated the event by drinking himself full. This was the full moon. When he awoke from his drunken stupor all he had left in his pockets was 25 cents. This was the last quarter. His mother-in-law beat him over the head with a club, thus giving him a total eclipse. ’

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A Telephone in your Residence, Office or Store will save time an I make you money. Our present Rates leave no excuse for being without this modern necessity. Don’t “sponge” on your neighbor. Thirty d*y$ trial will convirice you. Telephone connection means Comfort, Convenience ancf Economy. Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Go J. H. McCLURKIN. Manager.