Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 4, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 June 1899 — Page 4

i'.ht j^kc County |Jrwacrat; By iU. MeC. STOUI'S. I On« Year. In mlvunee .. ...„.. |1 tt» •SIx’Monlbt*, In advance .. . 50 Kmer»‘iJ tU Him tn Petersburg fn» . rHUNrnifcttlnu throngh the niHlIs us seeontb ( ;«»*< mutter. Fill DAY, JUNE 2, 1809. This oflice is in receipt of the souvenir edition of the Madison Demo* qyat. It is yery neat and contains numerous illustrations of the prominenent buildings and street scenes and an interesting account of that city’s resources and growth. Bryan on a platform of Bryan principles will be a host,” says Johni W, Kern. He has been a guest quite! often and for a long time, why! shouldn't he take his turn at being a host.—Terre Haute Express. After March 4, 1901, he will receive j at the White House. Washington, D.C.! THEdemocratic party stands against! tae trusts, while the republican party j stands in favor of fostering the poor j "infants.” Mr. Farmer and Labor-j ingraan, where are you going to stand j in the great national campaign? Will J you favor the protecting of these! "infants?”

The lawmakers who passed the Indiana fish law are just now being roundly -skinned by those who were wont to lish a little just for the fun of the thing during the pleasant spring months. The next session of the Indiana legislature should repeal the law and also a great many others. The Cuban soldiers who have been lighting for independence for years against the Spaniards will not accept the $3,000,000 offered by the United States. But few of the soldiers have accepted the $T‘» offered for their arms. They have disbanded, taken their guns and gone to their homes. If you favor the continuance of trusts and combinations and the protection of “infant" industries," stand by the republican party. That party is committed to uphold the “infants" regardless of the other 65,000,000 people of the United States. If you are in favor of the common every day people climb into the big anti-trust band wagon with that great com- / moner, William Jennings Bryan, at the helm. ^ Many prominent republicans are alarmed at the condition of this country at the present time and in view of the many trust combinations forming. Governor Mount sees the drift of things and says, “no party dare to support .-trusts when they are detrimental to f the welfare of the state and country." The republican papers however, do not think like the governor and are saying that the trusts will be of great benefit, etc. Some democratic sheets are kicking against trust combinations. Will some of those sheets show where the democracy has ever manifested any opposition except by mouth against trusts? What anti-trust law was passed under Cleveland's administration? Was not the only national anti-trust law ever enacted in this country the work of the Harrison administration? --Petersburg Press. Whoever heard of that anti-trust law being enforced? If there is any merit in the law why are there so many gigantic trusts being formed? Why does it not prohibit? Possibly the trusts being formed are only “infants" and need protection. • An eastern goldbug paper of the most pronounced type, sees the handwriting on the Wall, and hastens to sound the alarm as follows. “The ‘great protective principle’ has passed out of American* politics as a controlling element. There will never again be a general campaign with that as the main issue. If the old fight is resumed the protectionists will not hoist the false colors of ‘American industries’ and ‘American labor, and ‘a home market.’ They will be forced to run up the black flag of piracy and the battle will be waged directly between the forces of monopoly and the masses of the people." The rapid growth of trusts under the protective system of the administration party and the vigorous kick that is being made by the people throughout the country has so alarmed the goldbug press that they are insisting upon a change of front: of eliminating the ‘protective’ plank from their platform. They know that the masses have discovered the trick, and will not bite at that bait again— hence they inust contrive some^new scheme with which to deceive th's

Protection to infant industries of the trust order dees not seems to set well with the people. If these big industries of the United States can :ombine with millions of capital why should they * longer be classed as ‘infant industries” and receive the benefits of a high protective tariff‘d \ny narrow contracted republican ;ditor can easily answer that. Cer tainly. These ‘infant industries” ihould be allowed to shuffle for themselves the same as other people. If :ompetition, is tie life of trade then throw down the barriers and lets have it. Protection policies has fostered these “infants” long enough. They have robbed the, people long enough, tt is certainly time that these poor little “infants” who count their :apital stock by the millions should he able to stand alone. The farmer and laboring men of the country sell their products in the open markets of the world, but these poor little weakling infants mus; Jiave protection. The board, of 'egents of the state soldiers and sailors’ monument have at last let the contracts necessary to complete the noriument, the “approaching completion” of which has been a standing joke in Indianapolis Lor years. Two l arge side groups have just been completed, and are said to he the largest in the world. The 5oard of regents last week let contracts for four figures representing the navy and t ie three branches of the army, each 14 feet high and costing $11,000. A $33,000 contract was let to Architect Bruno Schmidt of Berlin, for bronze candelabra, flagstaff and buffalo heads for drinking fountains. Contracts for two groups to surmount the large cascades on the side of the monument will be let in August, and the monument will then be completed according to original specifications* at a cost to the people 5f Indiana of about $$00,000. The recent legislature appropriated $100,000 for its completion.

DUTIES OF COUNTY COUNCIL. AY hut Is Required of Council, also Duties of Towns!.Ip Advisory Hourd. Regular annual meeting on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in September. Special meeting's when required. The salary in this county is $10 per year. Fix the rate of taxation for county purposes. Make all appropriations of public money. Receive and pass upon the estimates made by county officials of the amounts required to run their offices for the coming year. Have the exclusive power to authorize the borrowing of money for the county, the issuing of bonds, etc. Authorize the sale or purchase of real estate belonging to the county. Members shall qualify within ten days and file their certificates of appointment with the county auditor. The appointees shall meet on the first Monday of August next for organization. They shall elect a president and a president pro tem. These appointees hold their office until the November election in 1900, when their successors will be elected for a term of two years. After that they will be elected for four years. Should a vacancy occur. it is filled by the council at the next regular meeting. The meetings of the council are held at the office of the county auditor. A majority constitutes a quorum. A majority vote is required to pass any ordinance. The council may expel a member by a two-thirds vote for violations of official duty. No member shall, in any way, be a party to any contract or agreement with the county. It may adjourn from day to day until all the business is completed. The auditor is clerk of the council and the sheriff attends and executes its orders. j TOWNSHIP ADVISORY BOARD. Members appointed until the NoI vember election, 1900. | The board fills any vacancy that occurs. Meet annually on the first Tuesday of September. Special meetings held on call of trustee or chairman of the board. Elect one of their number chairman and two members constitute a j quorum. i Pass upon all estimates of expeudi iture made bv township trustee, j Fix the rate of taxation for town1 ship purposes. Salary not to exceed $5 per year. Grant authority to incur indebtedness. Receive and approve the annual reports of the receipts and expenditures of trustees, j Fix the number of days for which the trustee shall receive per diem. •

BRYAN ON TRUSTS. Ills ltcniarkttblo rtprcch at the* suJ:al Louis Anti-Trust Banquet. Hon. William J. Bryan, the people’s champion, spoke as follows before the anti-trust meeting at St. Louis last Thursday night: An actor who visited Nebraska recently, upon learning from a republican that confidence had been restored, remarked that he had examined Webster's dictionary to learn what4 confidence” meant, and found confidence | defined as “trust,” and then he underj stood that confidence had been really restored. More trusts have been formed.in | the last two years than existed at the beginning of the present administra- ■ tion, and the nominal capitalization [ of the trusts now in existence ap- | proaches, if it does not equal in | amount, the world's total supply of l gold and silver. The influence of j these trusts has become so enormous | that the people, without respect to party, are asking themselves how the evil can be remedied. The purpose of the trusts is to control the product of some article of merchandise, and the methods employed are, first: The union of all individual, factories under one man

agement or m one corporation, and, second, the crushing out of new rivals, A monopoly, when once complete, not only dictates terms to those who buy the product, but it also dictates terms to those who sell the raw material, and to those who furnish the labor. If the trusts are permitted to continue, we shall find an industrial aristocracy growing up in the United States which will prove as destructive of our ideals as a landed aristocracy would. The principle of monopoly is incompatible with our institutions. Man's necessities compel us to become a purchaser, and where there is but one seller, the purchaser is completely at the mercy of the seller. Where there is competition between producers, the purchaser is sure to obtain what he wants at a reasonable prj.ce. When competition is eliminated, the price is controlled, not by reason, but by the greed of the one who possesses the monopoly. It has been said that power to tax is a power to destroy. A monopoly possesses a power to tax: it can levy such assessments as it will upon the purchaser, and we can no more afford to permit such a power to be exercised by private individuals than we could afford to authorize a private individual to use the machinery of taxation in order to enrich himself at the expense of his fellows. The government would be guilty of gross neglect if it permitted an individual < to secure a monopoly even without legislative assistence, but it is still more culpable if, by legislative act, it furnishes the means by which a monopoly is secured. The corporation is the means now employed by those who seek to secure a monopoly. Since the corporation is^ a fictitious person, created by law, the power that creates can regulate, restrain or annihilate. To say that the government is impotent to prevent the organization of trusts is to say that it has called into existence a ficticious person, and that the fictitious person created has become greater than the creator. One of the difficulties which have been encountered in opposing trusts is that the trust hides behind the Federal constitution when attacked by state legislation, and shields itself behind its state charter when attacked in the Federal courts. No remedy will be complete that is not co-exten-sive with the Federal government. If the extinguishment of the trusts is

felt to state legislation the public at large will be victimized as long as a single state will furnish a robber's roost where the sphils collected in other states can be divided. Just now the people^ are startled by the principle of monopoly as it manifests itself in the industrial trust, and j well may they be startled. The prin- j ciple, however, is the same as that which manifests itself in the Effort of the national bankers to secure a monopoly of the issue of paper money. The greenback is a rival of the bank note, and its presence is a con- j stant menace to the banks of issue, j Some who recognize the evils that! flow from a soap trust seem indifferent j to the dangers that attend the forma-1 tion of a paper money trust. The principle of monopoly not only | lies at the foundation of the attempt j to destroy the greenbacks, but it is the controlling principle that underlies the crusade against silver as a standard money. Between 1850 and 1800, when the production of gold was increasing and the production of silver was small, three nations demonetized gold, and gave to silver a monopoly of mint privileges. Early in the ’70s the financiers became alarmed at the increase in the production of silver, and conspired to destroy silver as a standard money and give a monopoly to gold, the production of which at that time was stationary. The standard money trust is not only the parent trust, but is in the hands of foreigners. . j The republican party is impotent*

to destroy the trusts. It is controlled by those who are interested in trust:,' and its campaign funds and sinews of war are supplied by the trusts. The policies for which it now stands disregards the interests of the producers of wealth and give to money a consideration which is denied to the in-! dividual. j Abraham Lincoln, in! the very be* j ginning of his presidential career, j warned the country against the1 threatened attempt to put capital i above labor in the structure of the government. Modern republicanism ! is fulfilling the prophecy made by j Lincoln--it is putting the dollar above ! the man. The democratic party is opposed to I the principle of monopoly wherever ; iit manifests itself, it has declared war on the trusts. Not a little trust only, but a big trust as well; not against one trust only, but against all trusts. The statesmen of our country are j prepared to defend today the principles our forefathers labored for. They should and will receive pur encourage-1 ment, for since the adoption of the j C hicago platform the quality of de- j | mocracy is the same from the Atlantic j to the Pacific.

AN INDIANA SOLDIER'S LETTER. He Says That Lawton la the Only Oeneral. Iloy Powell of Alacy, Miami county, j now a soldier in the Philippines, has written a long letter home, giving an ! interesting account of recent hap-j penings. He says: ‘•This tight in the Philippines isi strictly a volunteers’ fight, as the! regulars are here only to fill in. The volunteers have deserved all the credit given them. They have been here from the start and have worked hard and fought like men.*’ After reviewing the battle of Caloo-1 can, in which he participated, Powell ( says: ' “On the 11th of April I was lucky j enough to be picked for the company, of sharpshooters that General Lawton selected to go after Santa Cruz. The city is the second of importance in the Philippines, and was defended by ! several thousand of Aguinaldo’s picked men. AVe started in the night1 in the big scows, towed by steam launches. We were escorted by the ‘ ‘Utah nhvy,’ ijhich consists of steam tugs armed with guns from the Utah battery, some rapid-fire and Gatling guns. The expedition was a grand success, for we captured the town and the treasury, which contained a vast amount of money. There were 28A dead insurgents left on the field, while our loss was four killed and twelve wounded. “General Lawton is the only otticpr on the island, and the boys idolize him, which is easily accounted for when you remember that he is from Indiana.” --- i JUNE WEATHER . ( ltev. Irl Hloks, the l*r©pliet. Tells l's AY lint to Ex-pect This Month. Weather Prophet Hicks has arranged the following program for June weather: The first few days of June will be noted for high temperature, rain and hail with westerly winds. This will continue until about the 2nd. The storm period will last until the 9th, commencing on the 3rd. During this period the weather will be much warmer. After this will follow the usual reactionary storms. From the 9th to the 12th active thunder storms < will almost be a certainty. After this j period cooler weather will set in and , by the 14th to the U»th frost in the northern section is not improbable. From the 22nd to 24th will be a storm period: between these dates mother earth turns backward from her eastern trip and will then be in summer solstice. The last storm period will commence about the 27th and last till the 29th. Upon the whole the forecast for June shows ample rains for most part of the country, with perhaps too m ach in this section of the United Sta tes. However, much of the northern and western parts will feel the lack of rain toward the close of June and in July. Rey.Hicks cautions the farmers that June showers will greatly jeopardize the chances of harvestinggthe crops,' as he predicts much wet weather

The Best Cough Remedy pn Eart n. Luther. Michigan, February 8. 1892, Dr. C. D. Warner, Cold water, Michigan, Dear Sir: I am well acquainted with the merits of your White Wine of Tar Syrup. I have used it on several occasions when very hoarse from public speaking and when suffering from sore throat. Our postmaster,, Mr. Nichoson, had la grippe and it left him with a very bad cough, had spells of coughing every morning for an hour or more. I met Mm on the street three weeks ago and recommended White Wine of Tar Syrup, which he commenced taking and today he is a well man. A little, girl here had coughed all winter and no cure could be found, t asked her mother to get White Wine of Tar. She did so and in two weeks the child was cured. As you sav, it is the best cough remedy on earth. Ph ase send me six bottles by express. Tours most respectfully, Rev. E. L. Odle. Pas- > tor M. E. church. For salt: by Paul} w j 1

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