Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 17, Petersburg, Pike County, 1 September 1899 — Page 4

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®k* f ilw bounty gjrmorwt By n. Met'.'STOOPS, ! _; ] r_M _ —,., *-rC—“— --—■ - One Tear, In advance .-. $1 u» Six Months, In advance .. Sft / Entered at the po&tofllce In Petersburg for| transmission through the malls as second-1 class matter. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1899. The Mississippi democratic state! convention endorsed thet’hicago plat-! form and William J. Bryan ^s the ‘•greatest exponent of those principles.’’ Three states have spoken for Bryan during this month. Hon. Thomas TaggaRt was renominated last Saturday by the democrats for mayor of that city. He has served two terms and has given the! people a clean administration of affairs and will be again elected by a handsome majority.

When it was finally announced that Thomas B. Reed had filed his resigna-' tion to take effect September 4th, a greatr~hiLg sigh went up from the ad-! ministration. But Amos Allen, hisi probable successor, will continue the : fight against expansion. Governor Bradley of Kentucky, was conspicuous by his absence at the opening of the. republican state campaign, although the strongest pressure was brought to bear to- induce him to speak for the ticket. The republicans have troubles of their own in j that state. If Captain Carter's counsel should decide to remain in Europe for another year. Attorney General Griggs woyld apparently be content to let the case wait his convenience. Meanwhile, the paptain is drawing interest on the money he has stolen from the government. -■■■■ ■■■■ ■■■11! Mil M ... The Associated l*ress correspond- j ent at Manila says: ‘"The censor writes stereotyped official phrases and adjectives into the dispatches, tending to magnify the American operations and to minimize the opposition.” This explains why the reports appear * so one-dded. and/yet the war does not end. , 1 There is a story current in Washington, based on the records of the navy department, that over 25 years ago at the time of the Virginius affair with Spain, Dewey asked the privilege of capturing the Philippines. In yjew of the failure of general Otis to finish his job, it is unfortunate that he did not begin his task about that time.

There is one thinjf peculiar about the “bimetallism by international agreement” paj>ers. They don’t seem to have much to say about it any more. And they have but little to say on the trust question. The trusts have raised the prices on fencing wire and all other goods, but these papers are very silent. “International agreement!” What a fraud. Nebraska democrats, populists and silver republicans met in separate' conventions at Omaha and nominated ex-Governor Holcomb for supreme judge. Mjr. Bryan was a delegate in the democratic convention. Ex-Sen-ator Allen could have had the nomination, but withdrew in the interest Of harmony. The democratic platform declares uncompromisingly for free silver at the ratio of lti to 1. The Pike County Democrat is sore, because the democrat trustees gave their reports to the Winslow Dispatch for publication.—Petersburg Press. The poor fellow of the Press is running short on news. The Democrat did not ask a single trustee in Pike county to publish their report this year nor set a price and we are not in the least sore. The trustees have a perfect right to publish their reports wherever they please. The law passed by the last legislature says that the office of the county superintendent shall be at the county seat where all p&pers belonging to said office shall be kept. When will the county superintendent remov^the papers to the county seat? The law reads as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of tlfe state of Indiana, that the board of commissioners of any county in this state shall provide ip the court house, or at the county seat, public offices for the sheriff, county superintendent' of schools and surveyor of the county * respectively, and all records and papers required by law to be made by such officers shall be kept and pre served in such office and shall be delivered to their successors.

In 1«S5K» the republican national convention declared for “international bimetallism." In 1800 the party caanot reaffirm the old platform. In 18 W by its silence it stood in favor of the trusts. But the people have been roused up and threaten to annihilate the g. o. p. unless a plank is put in d eclaring against the trusts. The parl y will put in a plank against trusts by “international agreement” the san e as it favored silver. The people are on to the old scheme of ‘‘international agreement” and will trust the party no longer. They know that the partjy managers don’t care a snap of thje finger for the common people bit shift legislation in favor of the trusts and combinations. The trusts and army contractors were never happier in their lives than at the present time while they are reaping such harvests. The issues of the Press last week contained 142 personal paragraphs*, while the issue of the big Democrat contained TO personal paragraphs. A single issue of the Press is equal to the big St.JLouis Pike County Demo crat.^Petersburg Press. Hello!-, The Press crows over the fact that at One time in its existence it contained more personal items than the Democrat. This paper does not make a specialty of “so-and-so vi ited our office,” or “so-and-so vi itejd with so-and-so over on the hiljl yesterday,” but makes a specialty of giving the people the news of the county, state and nation. The Demo|crat contains more than double thy amount of reading matter that isconr taiued in both issuer of the little Press. Comparison will satisfy anyone as to the truthfulness of the state ■ ment.

Among the man}- transactions which the republicans will have to explair in the next campaign, will be tht action of the administration in regard to the court martial of Captain Car ter.' It is now fourteen months since a military court unanimously sentenced him to dismissal from the army, and a tine of $10,000 for complicity in frauds in harbor work at Savannah, Georgia, by which it is estimated the government lost $1.700,-; O K), in spite of this verdict, Captain Carter is still an officer, drawing full pay. the.president having so far failed to give the sentence of the court his approval so as to give it effect. It is generally believed that if action is delayed for a few months longer the defendant's bondsmen will be protected from liability by means of the statute of, limitations. The latest excuse for further delay comes from Attorney General Griggs, who says that ( aptain Carter's lawyer has gone to Europe on a vacation trip, and he can do nothing until his return. Capt. Carter apparently has very powerful' friends in high places.

And .even yet Brother Jim McCormick of the Princeton News is worried to learn of the fact that a few democrats in Pike county have money to loan on personal property and at a reasonable rate of interest. Brother Jim, a building and loan association of this place has $5,000 that was given out to the shareholders last week. The reason assigned for the $5,000 being distributed is because there are no borrowers. Under Cleveland's administration the same building and loan association loaned all of its money at 12 per cent interest. Today it cannot loan the $5,000 accumulated at, 8 per cent interest. Any man, woman or child who does not know that times are better now and money easier to get than during Cleveland’s administration hasn’t sense enough to pound sand in a rat hole and should not be allowed among sensible people aValTr Attempting to convince a mugwump on a political topic is like putting a twenty shot in a ten pound gun.— Petersburg Press. The writer of the above should post himself on building and loan business before he makes any further breaks on the subject. The editor of the Press in all probability does not understand the reason that there are funds now on hand in loan associations that have been ih existence for over four years. In the first few years of an association money generally sells high because it has longer to run. And in the wind up there are no I borrowers. Many persons take shares in loan associations to become borrowers and build homes. Others take shares as investors. When the borrowing class have all taken out what they need then the money accumulates as the investor class don’t want the money* The money then comes down to par. The rate of interest in a^l building and loan associations is fi per cent and not 8 as above stated. When money accumulates and the board of directors sees that no one will borrow then each is compelled to take out half his stock or borrow out by order of the directors. In no case has there been $5,000 given out to the shareholders of this city because there were no borrowers.

Twenty Political Remarks of Bryan. 1. Most of our trouble comes from forgetting that every public officer is a hired man, 2. The man who puts his party above principle does not deserve to be called wise! 3. Your cause is not tied to a man. We have lifted principles above men. 4. I say. first, let the government issue all money, drive the banks out of the issuing business. Then we can settle whether it shall be redeemable in coin or not. *>. Intend to advocate the income tax until the constitution is amended to authorize it so that no judges, no nine nor no one can build a bulwark around the rich and throw the burdens of the government on the struggling poor. ti. When you <all up the question of government ownership of railroads, 1 will tell you, get ownership if you can. but if you cannot, get government control. 7. I want this district to declare that the principles for which Bland fought are as popular as ever. 8. The republicans have put the dollar above the man. !>. No tomb, be it ever so strong, can imprison a righteous cause. 10. All trusts are corporations and creations of law. What law creates, it can regulate or crush. 11. God male man. We looked upon God's work and made a fictitious person called a corporation. Manmade man shall have no rights more sacred than God-made man. 13. The money trust is the biggest. .Why let it alone and go out to flg*ht the tooth-pick trust?

M. Monarchy is force, a republic is consent. Do you believe in force or consent? * 14. Back of the imperialistic policy is the desire to make money. Instead of “duty*’ and “destiny*’ the word should be dollars and cents. 15. You cannot insure Christianity by hypodermic injection of cold lead. 16. If we shoot the gospel in the Philippines, it won't be long till we will be shooting our own particular brand of Christianity here into every one differing from us. 17. Philanthrophy chloroforms the conscience, whjle the 5 per cent picks the pockets of the conquered. 18 We have tried to buy the Filipinos at $2 a head. 16. Who will pay for this? The Filipinos? Then we must tax them more than Spain ever did in the height of her tyranny. - : 20. There are now in all countries that have been subjected more tax collectors than colonists. New School Law. The act concerning compulsory education, passed and approved in 1807, has been amended this year, compelling every child between the ages of six and fourteen to attend every day of the entire term, in place of twelve weeks only. The act reads: “Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, that every parent, guardian or other person in the state of Indiana, having control or charge of any child or children between the ages of six and fourteen years, inclusive, shall be required to send such child or children to a public, private or parochial school or to two or more of these schools each

scnooi year tor a term or period not less than that of the puhlic schools of the school corporation where the child or children reside: Provided, however, that if any of the aforesaid children shall be of the ages of thirteen and fourteen, inclusive, and be actively and regularly employed for their own support, or the support of those dependent upon them, they shall not be required to attend the aforesaid schools for a longer period or term than twelve weeks consecutively in any one school year: Provided, that any and all children that have completed the iirst eight years of work of the common schools of the state of Itnliana, and have received certiti-'catesTrf-graduation from the common schools, shall be exempt from the provisions of this act: Provided, thatchildren who are physically or mentally incapacitated for the work of the common schools are exempt from the provisions of this act. But the school authorities shall have the right and duty, where such exemption from the provisions of this act is claimed by any parent, guardian or custodian of such child or children, to cause an examination of such child or children by a physician or physicians employed for such purpose by such officers, and if such physician or physicians hold that such child or children are capable of doing the work in the common schools, then such child or children shall not be exempt from the provisions of this act. No Relief for 20 Years. I have been troubled for the last twenty years with bronchial affection, and at times have been bedfast. Have tried a great many cough remedies but found no relief until I tried Foley’* Honey and Tar. I can honestly recomV mend Foley’s Honey and Tar as a quick relief, reliable, pleasant to take and a sure cure for diseases of the throat and lungs. Minerva Smith, 414 Washington a Venue. Danville, Illinois. J. R, Adams «& Son. ' s

Washington Not Have we. as a people, I have any thing to gain by joining hands with Great Britain in a Napoleonic policy of world-conquest':* Although the administration is at present carefully concealing any disposition it may have to enter upon such a [policy, the disposition is believed to exist, and that question may become: a leading one in next year's presidential campaign. In diplomatic circles it is believed that the first steps towards such a policy have already tyeen taken, and that the suspension of jDr. Bedloe as United States consul it Canton, China, at the request of the government of China, is one ofj them, although it is stated at the state department that the suspension of Dr. Bedloe was brought about by some irregularity in connection with his issuing papers to an American vessel engaged in supplying a munition to the Filipinos ing certificates to Chinese s and amnd in is»uerchants

trading„with the Philippines. The present attitude of greatness occupied by the United Sta tes was attained by following front the days of Washington a policy of attending strictly to our own affairs* and leaving the people of other nations to do the same. The glamour of foreign conquest has turned the head cf the people of other nations many times in the past, and a few months ago there appeared to be danger th at Americans would be blinded by the same glamour, but the common sense for which Americans are renowned, has come to the rescue, and our people are realizing not only the meaning, but the danger of the adoption of an imperialistic policy by the United States, and present indications are that that realization will result in a restoration of the democ ratioiparty to power, and a resumption of the only safe foreign policy for this government to follow. Men who at the beginning supported the expansion policy of the} administration, are now severely criticising the results obtained by following that policy. For instance, the Washington Post, which has to ail ir tents and purposes been an expansion sheet, says editorially: “Either wo have not the genius and the temperament for successful colonization, or we have been grotesquely unfortuna te in the selection of our agents. It is impossible to see at this moment vhere and in what respect we have accomplished anything important either in t’uba or

in the Philippines. In the latter we have undertaken to set up tike regime of law and order and civilisation, and we have failed utterly. Ini the case of t uba we have undertaken to give the people self-governmt nt, or at least to test their capacity in that line, and we have done nei ther. In the Philippines we have for six months or more been engaged in a petty and perfectly fruitless! war with the natives. In Cuba the government consists of a military autocracy, little if any more benefit than that conducted by the Spanish Governor Generals in times of peace. In Luzon it is actual war we have upon our hands. In Cuba, it is smouldering discontent, turbulence in various parts of the island and a fatuous and feeble tyranny at Havana. Two designs for the new, 15 certificate, one having upon its fpce a vignette of Washington, and the other one of Jefferson have been submitted to Secretary Gage. It is said that a republican Senator heard about this and at once hurried to see Secretary Gage to tell him not to adopt the Jefferson design, because, if he did, it might become known as a democratic treasurynote. Be that as it raay ofilcials say that the Jeffersjon design is not likely to be adopted. The prediction that all of volunteers, authorized by would be enlisted, has beeh almost verified. An order for the enlistment the 35,000 Congress regiment of one more additional which will bring the number of volunteers nearly up to the limit, has been issued by Secretary Root, and the new regiment will be composed of negroes. The officers will, o:: course, be white men. Notwithstanding the statement of Secretary Gage that the Treasury would be able to meet all of the expenses incidental to the large army we are ore paring to send to the Philipines, in addition .to other governmental expenses, without asking Congress to impose new war taxes or issuing more bonds, expert financiers who bare carefully studied the matter, and whose opinions are not influenced by political exigences, still predict that more bonds or?more taxes will be necessary, and when it is remen bered that there was a deficit #90,000.000 in round figures, at the close of tie last fiscal year, the prediction set-ms reasonable. It may also be ngc that special agents of time Revenue Bureau are known entioned Internal to have been engaged for months ip ir vestivmous gating the working of the stamp taxes, presumably witfc an eye to more Congressional legislation in that direction. Piles Cured. If sufferers will use Banner Salvi according to directions a posit v 2 cun will result in worst case*. Guar an teed. 25c. J. R. Adams

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