Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 24, Petersburg, Pike County, 20 October 1899 — Page 4

' -----«—- Fhf f ikt €<o>ratg § nwffit TEN PAGES. Hv M. HcC. STOOPS. >»•«* SV»r, in advance...fl 00 ' *ix MouUiw.in advuuce.. ... 30 Entered at the poMoffle<* In Petersburg fbr rauHintaalnn through the metis aa secondcluas matter. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 90,1899. The fool-killer in abroad in the land and he says free silver is dead. Well, it looks like it indeed, when such big political gatherings are held in Ohio and Kentucky. ■ ■" " Free silver, 19 to 1, is not dead that anyone knows of. McKinley carried Indianapolis by nearly 4,000 majority in 1896. Last week, Thomas Taggart, democrat, was elected mayor. What has “Col.” Thomson to say about silver being dead.

Kjepubucan papers are saying but j little about international bimetallism at the present time, whereas in the campaign of 1899 these journals *\vere giving their readers nothing else. There must be something the matter with Mark Hanna and McKinley. Many factories in Northern Indiana Ure desirous of changing locations to the coal fields of Southern Indiana since the failing of the natural gas fields. Southern Indiana can supply the United States with fuel for years to come and Pike county is the banner coal county of Indiana. Visit Pike county before locating. The New York democratic state committee has endorsed William J. Bryan for president. The Tammany democrats are in line and New York will go democratic in 1900 and help elect a president who will not be led around by the trusts and combiner tions. Of course the next president will favor silver “without the aid or consent of any other nation,” President McKinley is traveling over the country doing the very thing ‘for which republican party organs^ and leaders have been abusing t'olonel Bryan—making speeches for political effect. How much, more undignified for the president of this great nation to take part in local campaigns than for a private citiaen! <Of course, it’s different when McKinley does it. The Republican party cannot get around the fact that “under the rule of men entirely great” (Hanna and Dick) trusts and monopolies have thriven at an unprecedented rate. And even if it is true, as they claim] that trusts are the natural outgrowth of business competition, it is a strange coincidence that under this administration they should become sq numerous. “There is something rotten in Denmark.” Had it been Bryan instead of McKinley who spoke at the soldiers’ reunion at Evansville last week when an admission fee of 25 cents was charged, the republican papers would have charged that*Bryan was to have secured part of the rake«off. As it is the republican papers have nothing to say. Democratic papers are condemning the action,of the committee in charging an admission to see the president. The ^nnual meeting of Indiana town and city school superintendents will be held in Indianapolis November 9th to 11th. An elaborate program has been arranged. The Southern Indiana superintendents’ club will be held in Shelby ville, Indiana, October 19th and 20tb. A lecture by President Burris A. Jenkins of Indianapolis university, on “How the Superintendents Can Influence Pupils to go to College” will be one of the chief features.

Things will never come to the man who sits down and waits. You might as well be like the man who went out into the pasture field to milk his cow and sat down on a stone and waited for the cow to back up to him to be milked. He found that if he wanted milk he had to go where the cow was. That is exactly what we all have to do if we want anything. We might sit down and wait for a hundred years and not get it unless * we go after them. ___________ The conduct of the pension office is causing the administration leaders much concern, as the old soldiers are up in arms, declaring that during the incumbency of Judge Lochren they had at least fair treatment. At present they are treated as thieves, the widows of sbldiers insulted by special examiners of the bureau, and every claim involving any amount of money ordered held up, infplain violation of the law. In spite of the indignant protests of the old veterans, nothing has been done to relieve the situation. If we mistake not these veterans will show Hanna et al. that with their families, friends and sympathisers they are still a factor which must be considered in our political battles. The pension laws enacted by a grateful country in recognition of services in time of need are well deserved and I should be administered justly.

BROKEN PROMISES Which Veterans are Calling lo President's Attention. The following editorial from the National Tribune, organ of the soldiers of the rebellion, has attracted much attention among the veterans: “When the National Encampment adjourned it was the intention of the special pension committee and commander in chief to visit the president and lay before him the encampment’s action inside of ten days from that time. But, though the president expressed his willingness to meet them at any time, it was felt that he was so busy in preparing for bis Western trip that he could at best give them but a short and hurried interview, where they wanted opportunity to discuss the matter at length. Therefore, it was decided to postpone the visit until aftfcr his return. “There will be a great advantage in this. The president will get away from the Eastern atmosphere, and have an opportunity to learn how the people in the great Interior of the country feel upon this subiect. Al

though he: will be met and surrounded at every point by the men who have received office from him, and who will endeavor to persuade him that they are ‘managing things beautifully, and everybody is eminently satisfied, vet there cannot help trickling through to him such manifestations of the deep and universal discontent with the management of the {tension bureau that he will be strongly impressed by it. He will learn that much the heaviest load thaf his administration is carrying is Kvans. That, compared with this, Alger,Otis, Brooks and Carter, even, are the merest featherweights. He will find everywhere the deepest indignation at Kvans’ failure to carry out the promises of of his systematic defamation of the veterans and their widows through the press of the country; of the infinite trickiness with which he has attempted to deceive the people and the president. All this will eventually come to light. Much of it will be presented to the president, and, in spite of all the efforts to prevent it, and he cannot help coming back in a better frame of mind to receive the committee than when he went awav.” A Thousand Tongues Could' not express the rapture of Annie E, Springer of 1125 Howard street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when she found that Dr. King’s New Discovery for consumption had completely cured her of a hacking cough that for many years made life a burden. All other remedies and doctors could give her no help, but she says of this royal cure: “It soon removed the pain in my chest and I can now sleep soundly, something 1 can scarcely remember doing before. 1 feel like sounding its praises throughout the universe."’ So will -every one who tries Dr. King's New Discovery for any trouble of the throat, chest or lungs. Price 50 cents and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Steames Drug Co’s, store; every bottle guaranteed. Bryan On Trusts. I want to start with the declaration that monopoly in private hands is indefensible from any standpoint and intolerable. There is no good monopoly in private hands until the Almighty sends us angels to preside over us, 1 do not believe it is safe for society to permit any mah or group of men to monopolhte any article of merchandise or any branch of business. The entire defense of the trusts rests upon a money argument. In the first place, I cleny that under a monopoly the price will be reduced. In the second place, if, under a monopoly, the price is reduced, the objections to a monopoly from other standpoints far Qutweigh the financial advantage that the trust would bring.

I protest in the beginning against j settling every question upon the hollar argument. I protest against the attempt to drag every question down to the low level of dollars and cents. Man is the creature of God and money is the creature of man. Money is made to be the servant of man—and! I protest against all theories that enthrone money and debase mankind. Those plants which are best equipped and most advantageously situated are run continuously and in preference to those less favored. The next thing is, after4you have bought up all the factories, to close a part of them and turn out of employment the men who are engaged in them. ; If you will go about over the country you will where people have subscribed money to establish enterprises, and where those enterprises, having come under the control of the trusts, have been closed up and stand now as silent monument^ to the wisdom of the trust system. What is the first thing to be expected of a trusty That it will cut down expenses. What is the second y That it will raise prices. I believe that the people of every state should have the power to create corpbrations and restrain and limit or to annih ilate. 1 believe that no complete remedy

can be found for the trust until the federal government with a power sufficiently comprehensive to reach into every nook and corner of the country shall lay its hands upon these trusts and declare that they shall no longer exist. Congress should pass a law providing that no corporation organized in any state should do business outside of the state in which it is organized until it receives from some power created by congre#s a license authorizing it to do business outside of its own state. I believe, in addition to a state remedy, there must be a federal remedy, and I believe that congress has, or should have, the powqr to place such restrictions and limitations, even to the point of prohibition, npon any corporation organized in one state that wants to do business outside of the state. 0 9 When you prosecute a trust in the United States court it hides its heafc behingi state’s sovereignty, and when you prosecute it in the state court it rushes to cover under federal jurisdiction. Good Advice. When that distressing pain seems to grab you by the back of the head and neck and your eyes seems fixed on a given point straight ahead, do not make yourself sick by taking drastic cathartics, but .take a small dose of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It relieves the pressure on the nerves, centers of the brain and aids digestion by curing constipation permanently. In 10c, 50c and $1 sizes at Oliphant Drug Co’s. o The Quail Law. It is unlawful to kill quail in this state for any purpose between the first day of January and the first day of November in each year, and it is unlawful to kill them for sale or removal from the state at any time. The law was amended to that effect in 1897, as follows: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of the state of Indiana, That it shall be unlawful for any person to pursue or kill within this state any quail, ruffed grouse or pinnated grouse for purposes of sale, barter, traffic or removal from the state, or to sell, barter, keep, expose or offer for sale or remove from this state any quail, ruffed grouse or pinnated grouse caught or killed in the state of Indiana. Section 2. Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of section one of this action shall upon conviction thereof be fined in the sum of one dollar for every quail, ruffed grouse or

pinnated grouse so unlawfully pursued, killed, sold, kept, exposed or offered for sale, or removed from this state. ___ Ribbed the Grave. A startling incident, of which Mr. John Oliver of Philadelphia, was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: “I was in a most dreadful condition. My sklmwas almost yellow, eyes,sunken. tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite—gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, a friend advised trying ‘Flee trie Bitters’; and to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued thfeir use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they saved my life and robbed the grave of another victim. *-* No one should fail to try them. Only f>0 cents, guaranteed, atStearnes Drug (Vs. store. JJICHA8D60R & TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Prompt Attention given to nil business. A Notary Public constantly In Ibentth-c. Office lit Carpenter building, Eighth and Maln-sts, Petersburg, Indiana. AS1* BY A COFFEY. G. FI. Ashby, C. A. Colley. Attorneys at Law. Will practice In ail courts. Special at trillion given to all civil t urine**. Rotary Publie constant ly in »he office. Collections made and promptly remitted. Office over W. L. Barrett's store, Petersburg, Indiana. g G. DAVENPORT. Attorney at Law. Prompt attention given to all business. , Office over J. R. Adams A Sou’s drug store, Petersburg. Indiana. JJOLCOMB A CROW, Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts. Prompt alien- I tlon gi ven to all business. Office In Carpenter, b ock, first floor on Kighth-st,, Petersburg. .. T R.RICE, Physician and Surgeon. Chronic Diseases a specialty. , Office over Citlseus'state bank, Petersburg,! Indiana. F ■ ( ---—.......I W. H.STONECIPHER, Dental Surgeon. Office In rooms!! and 7, in Carpenter building. Petersburg, Indiana. Operations firstclass. All work warranted. Anesthetics used for painless extract Ion of teeth. VI7ILSDN A TYNER, r. m. wilson. »* T. W. TYNKR. Petersburg Collecting Agency. Collections In all parts of the United States. Remittances nromptly made. Charges are reasonable. Give us your old Recounts.notes, etc., and we will do the rest. Call on or write ns. Ottlce opposite court honse In Parker building, Petersburg, Ind.

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