People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — Page 4
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The People’s Pilot. BY F. D. CRAIG, (Lessee.) PHOT PUBLISHING CO., (limited,) Psprjptprs, ©atid H. Yeoman, President. Wm. Washburn. Vice President. Lee E. Glazebrook, Sec'y. ,T. A. McFarland Treas. The People’s Pilot is the official organ of Ae Jasperand Newton County Alliances.and .« published every Thursday at ONE DOLLAR PER ANNIiM entered as second class matter at the post office in Rensselaer, ind.
The Cleveland democracy has brought out Col. Breckenridge, of Madeline Pollard fame, to run for congress again in third district of Kentuckey. Verily, verily, the "oidbugs are in serious distress when they must accept the championship of such a creature. The Republican gold bug press has promulgated a very pretty story about the nomination of two democratic candidates, are to run in the gold standard states and one in the silver states, the united electoral vote to be cast for a compromise candidate. It reads beautifully. Ohio will go to St. Louis with a solid delegation of Populists favoring the “some better plan," that direct legislation through the initiative and referendum be accorded a prominent place in the platform, that the essentials of the Omaha platform be in no sense ignored, and a get-togeth-er spiiit that will invite all honorable reformers to- join hands in wresting the country from the hands of its despoilers.—Sound Moaev.
Gold Bygs Must Win.
There are many reasons why the Chicago convention will declare for the gold standard; among the reasons are: If the silverbugs win. the goldbugs will bolt, as they did in Kentucky and Texas. If the goldbugs win, the silverbugs will • stick" as they have announced. If tbesilverites win, they won't get any Wall street boodle to carry on the campaign, and without that boodle the heelers can’t see to work.
A Mighty Portent.
The plot thickens. The villian is another fellow this time. He is not a crank, a socialist, a populist or anarchist. It is a Rev- Brooks, a conserative minister to a rich St. Louis congregation. He predicts the destruction of the United States in the next six months by an uprising of the people the bloodiest the world has ever known. Similar startling predictions or statements from similar sources come from every direction, though few so prominent. What does it all mean? Why this hush asif some awful evil portending weighed down the whole people? I have talked to scores of men in the last few weeks, not reformers, and thev say just what Rev. Brooks said, excepting the time. Why is there so general an impression of an awful time just ahead of us. And on the heels of this the cable brings the intelli gence that Paris is excited over this prediction of a French girl. Henriet Condon, who claims to be the mouth piece of the Archangel Gabriel to warn Europe of a coming holocaust and the fall of France and England. The cable says: She is a young woman of 25. Her parents are eminently respectable and no money or gifts are accepted. Thousand are visiting her, the ten minutes she gives to each who can secure a letter of introduction. There is no question as to her motives, which seem above suspicion, it being impossible to look into her piercing blue eyes and not feel that ghe is speaking with the utmost sincerity. A, these seances she tells people the deepest secrets of their hearts and this forces them to view her predictions With confidence and awe. The Paris press is filled with the wonderful ihfcirination she gives, the cleirgy is dumbfounded and the scientific then nonplussed. Surely we live bn the border land of a new cycle or a fearful social volcano. But up to the last hour of this old, worn out order the blind will go on trying to skin their neighbors and gather title to the wealth others have ereted. It was always thus. Belshazzer’s Feast was even in progress when the razing of the city had commenced without. It will be thus is the closing days of the Nineteenth century. —Appeal to Reason.
Democratic County Convention.
The Democratic voters of the various townships will meet in mass convention at their respec tive voting places Saturday May 16, 1896 and elect delegates to the democratic county convention to be h6ld at Rensselaer, Indiana, Saturday May 23 1896 to nominate a county ticket to be voted for at the November election and to elect delegates to the state and district conventions. The apportionment will be one delegate for each ten votes cast for William R. Meyers at the election of 1890 but one township or precinct shall have less than two delegates. The various townships and precincts are entitled to delegates as follows: Hanging Grove 3 Gilliam 2 Walker 6 \ East Precinct 2 ■’ i West Precinct 3 MARION. Ist 5 2nd 5 3rd.. 6 4th 7 Jordan. ....... 2 Newton 6 Keener... 2 Kankakee 6 Wheattield (5 CARPENTER. East 5 West 3 South 3 Milroy ,J . 4 Good speakers will be present. A. Nowels, David Shields, Secretarv, Chairman.
Among the live social, economic and political subjects ably discussed in the April Arena are Prof. Frank Parson's continua tion of his masterly paper on the “Telegraph Monopoly," in which facts upon facts are marshalled forth in a most convincing manner. Prof. Parson's legal training and his duties as a professor of the Boston University School of Law, as well as his experience as a legal text book writer for one of the greatest publishing firms of the country, render him especially qualified to sift evidence and deal deadly blows against the great monoplies which are sucking the life blood from the veins of national life. President Gates of lowa University makes some startling revelations in a paper entitled “Government by Brewery ” Dr. John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., the eminent historian, continues his able and startling papers which have awakened such interest from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Justice Walter Clark, LL. D., of the Supreme Bench of North Carolina, who has recently returned from an extended tour iu Mexico, during which he made a careful study of the actual conditions of ail classes in our "Bister Republics discusses the effect of Free Silver as he found it in actual operation in Mexico. Richard J. Hinton, the veteran, journalist, who was in the heat of the “Corn Law” agitation in England the Anti-Slavery Crusade in New England in the fifties, and is no w battling for a truer realization of Republican ideals contributes a strong paper on present day conditions. Ex-Con gressman Davis concludes his notable series of papers on “Napoleon and the ruin he wrought.” The veteran poet, James G. Cl ark appears in a two-page poem entitled “The Living Christ,” dedicated to Prof. Geo. D. Herron, and his work. A portrait of Mr. Herron forms the frontispiece of this issue, and a character sketch of this modern Sayanarola also appears as an interesting feature of this issue of the Arena, which, more than any other great review deals with live, up to date, and fundamental problems in an au thorative mannej.
The season for spraying our orchards and vineyards is at hand aud it should be attended to at once. It is estimated that the apple crop alone in Indiana, in an ordinary season amounts to, approximately, 3,000,000 bushels, and it is also estimated that at least two thirds of these would be classed as “seconds” in the market, owing to the defects caused by insects and fungi. This means a direct loss to the farmers of the State from this one cause, of at least 500,000 annually. The same may be said of all other kinds of fruit to a grea.ter or less extent, so that a set of spraying machinery has come to be just essential to successful fruit culture as the trees themselves; for^ttasbeen thoroughly demonstrated that from 80 to 90 per cent, of the fruit crop can be saved in perfect condition by an intelligent use of the spray pump; and at a cost of not more than 30 to 40 penfaS per tree.
THE PEOPLE'S PILC ►T, RENSSELAER, IND.. THURSDAY,
In the application insecticides it should be remembered that there are two classes of insects with which we have to deal; one takes its food by eating the foliage, fruit, etc,, while the second class sucks its nourishment from the interior of the stem, foliage or fruit. The Tent caterpillar, Canker worm and Currant worm are familar examples of the first class, and the plant lice, squash bug. etc., represent the second class. Accordingly insecticides may be divided into two classes, viz:(l) those which must be taken into the system before becoming active, and which contain more or less arsenic-, such as Paris green. London purple and White arsenic, and which should be used at the rate of one pound to 200 gallons of water; (2) those which kill by contact; such as kerosene emulsion, pyrethnm, by-sulphide of carbon, etc. The only precaution necessary here is in the use of bi sulphide of carbon, which is very explosive when brought near the fire. It is used in the destructicn of all kinds of grain insects in bins. To these may be added a third class called repellants- those which by their offensive odors prevent egg laying—such as carbolic acid, soft soap, etc., which are applied to the bodies of trees as a prevention against the attacks of borers. The numerous fungous diseases, such as the blade rot of of grapes, apple scab, plum rot. etc., lequire a different class of remedies. The one in most general use is the Bordeaux mixture, which is made by dissolving six pounds of sulphate of copper and four pounds of quick lime and adding these to 45 or 50 gallons of water. The first application should be made before any sign of the disease has manifested itself, repeating at intervals of ten or fifteen days.
After the fruit has set a combination of Paris green and Bordeaux mixture will be found to serve a double purpose in destroying both insects and fungi. James Troop, Horticulturist.
Delegations to that convention from the silver states will be of the Crisp stripe, and right now they are being selected for their lamblike submissiveness. The man who hopes for silver at the Chicago convention could easily be led to hope for big returns from a green goods dealer. The simple-minded silverites will be taken into the confidence of the sleek-tongued gold bugs, just as they would be taken into the confidence of one sleektongued green-goods drummer, and, for a fat roll of glittering promises, will sell themselves and realize all they are worth—a box of sawdust. You will not get free silver from either of the old parties. —People's Guide, Georgia.
“The home is the unit of the nation. “The more homes the broader the foundation of the nation and the more secure. “Everything that is possible should be done to keep this from being a nation of tenants. The men who cultivate the earth should own it. Something has already been done in our country in that direction, and probably in every state there is a homestead exemption. Thisexemption has thus far done no harm to the creditor class. ‘‘l wish to go a step farther. I want, if possible, to get the people out of the tenements, out of the gutters of degradation, to homes where there can be privacy, where these people can feel that they are in partnership with nature; that they have an interest in good government. With the means we now have of transportation there is no necessity for poor people being huddled in festering masses in the vile filthy and loathsome parts of cities, where poverty breeds rags and the rags breed diseases. I would exempt a homestead of a reasonable value—say of the value of $2,000 or $3,000 —not only from sale under execution, but from sale for taxes of every description. “Under certain conditions I would allow the sale of this homestead and exempt the proceeds of the sale for a certain time, during which they might be invested in another home, and ail this could be done do make a nation of householders, a nation of land-owners, a nation of home builders. I would invoke the same power to preserve these homes, and to acquire these homes, that I would invoke for acquiring lands for building railways. Every state should fix
All Should Have Homes.
the amount of that be owned by an individual, not liable to be taken frpm him for the purpose of giving a home to another, and when any man owned more acres than the law allowed, and another should ask to purchase them, aud he should refuse. I would have the law so that the person wishing to purchase could file his petition in court-.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL.
The Railway Question.
It is not often that the papers give space editorially to articles in favorof government ownership of railroads, and this very able article from the New York Recorder is significant: The addition of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad to the long list of roads that have gone into the hands of receivers within the past three years is the latest reminder of the fact that the financial condition of Amercian railroads is nofat all satisfactory. President O. B Ashley of the Wabash railroad company has lately pointed out in a much discussed article, the main causes of the recent existing lack of railway prosperity, as railroad presidents view them. First, he says, there has been excessive competion; second, there has been a vast construction of unnecessary lines; third, there has been arbitary legislation in several Western states fixing transportation rates below the paying point; fourth, the interstate commerce law has crippled the earning power of many roads. This is a railroad president’s view, and due discount must be made for that fact. The lack of railroad prosperity, however, is undenied and undeniable. As one railroad after another passes into the receivers’ hands and thus comes, in a sense, to be operated by the government, acting through the courts, it is inevitable that the often-sug-gested desirability of establishing national ownership of all railroads, or, at least, of putting them under full government control and supervision, should press itself upon public attention. Prof. Frank Parsons, in the current To-day, gives figures to show that the national ownership of railways would result in a saving on the total cost of running them of $661,000,000 a year which is more than half of the whole annual earnings of the United States railroads to-day. He gives high railroad authorities for every item in the account which he makes up as follows; In Millions By abolishing all but one of the presidents with their staffs 25 By abolishing high-priced managers and their staffs 4 By abolishing attorneys and legal expenses 42 By abolishing competitive advertising .5 By abolishing traffic associations employed to adjust matters between.. competing roads 4 By exclusive use of the shortest routes2s By consolidation of working depots, offices and staffs • 20 By uniformity of rails, cars, machinery etc., cheapening their manufacture; by avoiding freight blockades, return of empties belonging to other roads, clerkage to keep account of foreign cars and adjust division of earnings; by simple tariffs, savin,g time of public and clerks; by all tbe numberless little economies of a vast.... business under a single management with no competitive warfare to waste its energies 15 By avoiding strikes and developing a better spirit among employes 10 By abolishing railway corruption funds3o By having no rent and interest to pay3o9 By having no dividends to pay 90 By putting the surplus in the people treasury 20
Total 661 The matter of railroad strikes is important in more than an economic way. National ownership would abolish them. To say nothing of the cost, it would be worth much more to get rid of the possibility of such dangers to the peace of the country as were felt during the Chicago strike, which cost the roads and the strikers together, as officially reported, overs7,ooo,ooo, and inflicted on the general public, by the stoppage of traffic and mails, a sum much larger, no doubt, though it could not be exactly computed. Prof. Parsons asserts that with national ownership the fare from New York to Chicago could soon be reduced to 50 cents. Being run simply to pay expenses and not to earn dividends on watered stock and to pay for superfluous construction and other wastes of the present era of competitive corporations, passenger and freight rates would inevitably come down. The experiment of the postal system shows that with the reduction of rates the increase of traffic would be enormous, and! that would make further redup-j tions possible, until railroad l
fares and freight charges woulll be relatively as low as letter aha parcel postage. f Mayor Pingree of Detroit, in the Arena last month, says: “In Australia you can ride 1,000 miles for $6.50 first-class, and work-men three miles for 1 cent, while wages are 25 or 30 per cent higher than ours, and the working day one eight hours long. In Russia working men ride 2,000 miles for $6. In Hungary you ride 6 miles for 1 cent and wages have doubled since the government bought the roads In Germany you ride 4 miles for 1 cent (ten miles for 1 cent on the Berlin road) and wages are 135. per* cent, higher than they were under private ownership. Such are the results of national ownership of railways—wages greatly increased, hours shortened aud rates dropped so that they are six to twenty times lower than ours.” With such a large fraction of the total railroad stock of the country yielding no dividends worth talking about, the great mass of railroad stock holders themselves may soon begin to take kindly to the national ownership idea. Gs course they would receive the value of their stock of government bonds of the same amount. And if the government guaranteed them 3 per cent, they would be most of them much better off than they are now. With railroads converted into national property on some such plan of purchase, it is quite certain that within thirty years at the outside, the bonds would be canceled out of the earnings of the aoads and the cost of railway service be reduced to at least the Australian standard.
How lo Deal With Criminals
“Despite all that has been done for the reformation of the world, in spite of all the forces of nature that are now the tireless slaves of man, in spite of all improvements in agriculture, in mechanics, in every department of human labor, the world is still cursed with poverty and with crime. Men steal. They are sent to the penitentiary for a certain number of years, treated like wild beasts, frequently tortured. At the end of the term they are discharged, having only enough money to return to the place from which they were sent. They are thrown upon the world without means—without friends—they are convicts. They are shunned, suspected and despised. “All this is infamous. Men should not be sent to the penitentiary as a punishment, because we must remember that men do as they must. Nature does not frequently produce the perfect. In the human race there is a large percentage of failures. Under certain conditions, with certain appetites and passions, and with certain quality, quantity and shape of brain, men will become thieves, forgers and counterfeiters. The criminal is dangerous, and society has the right to protect itself. The criminal should be confined, and if possible, should be reformed. “A penitentiary should be a school; the convicts should be educated. So prisoners should work, and they should be paid a reasonable sum for their labor. “As it is now, there is but little reform. The same faces appear again and again at the bar; the same men hear again and again the verdict of guilty and the sentence of the court and the same men return again and again to the prison cell. “Murderers, those belonging to dangerous classes, those who are so formed by nature that they rush to the crimes of desperation, should be imprisoned for life, or they should be put upon some island, some place where they can be guarded, where it may be that by proper effort they could support themselves, the men on one island, the women on another. And to these islands should be sent professional criminals, those who have deliberately adopted a life of crime for the purpose of supporting themselves, the women upon one island, the men upon another. Such people should not populate the earth n “Neither tfee diseases nor the deformities of the mind or body should be perpetuated; life at the fountain should not be pol-luted.-Robert G. Ingersoll.
j. W. HORTON. AGflHk dental, surgeon. * T IJ-J Rensselaer. Ind. > 11 I J h0 1 would preserve their natural teeth “lye him a call. Special attention given to filling teeth. Gas er vitalized air for painless extraction. Ov,or Laltue Bros.
A Letter From Hamilton, Ohio.
Hamilton, , Qhioi April 6th, 1896. understand "there is a new game called the “editor’s delight,” played in this way. Take a white sheet of ordinary writing paper, fold it carefully, and enclose a bank note sufficiently large to pay up all arrearage and one year in advance, keep an eye on the editor, and if a smile adorns his face the trick works like a charm. Being somewhat of a joker myself I believe this is a good time to try it on the editor of the Pilot. Just about one year ago I had the pleasure of visiting your village and I was surprised at the growth and air of prosperity about you, but was much more surprised that Renssela-er was still only a village. The people of Jasper county have enough ability, mental and financial, and should have pride enough to incorporate their county seat. What has become of the boys of R— who twenty years ago we were pleased to call hustlers, and for whom we predicted such bright futures? Did most of them do as I, leave Jasper county for more promising fields? I know this is not altogether true, for I thought to inquire about some of them and was told that W. B. Austin, Grant and Hale Warner with two or three raore of “the boys” remained in R. When in school they were contented with nothing but the best. They should now insist on Rensselaer being a city. I well remember that Hale Warner said of me that I believed energy and perseverance would accomplish almost anything. I still believe this is true. To incorporate Rensselaer would increase your expense of living, but if this' is all you think of, why do you not move into the woods? A good thing then for the energetic portion of the population of Rensselaer to do is to come to Ohio, the home of presidents. The probabilities now are that we will furnish two candidates this year, Republican and Democrat; take your choice. Hamilton is a city of twentyfive thousand inhabitants, the seat of Butler county, one of the most fertile and healthy counties in south-western Ohio. The city lies on a level plain, about two miles wide in the centre of which runs the Big Miami river with hills leading to the uplands on either side. The scenery abounding along this river is beautiful ahd picturesque, the stream following a serpentine course through the garden spot of a delightful valley, affording some lovely drives from the city into the rural districts. There is every natural advantage for good drainage and on this account the city of Hamilton is healthy and has been entirely free from Epidemics. The streets are wide and lined with luxuriant shade trees. Its business houses are large and commodious; its public buildings the equal of any city of its size in the state, and the people prosperous and contented. Occupying as it does the position of one of the leading manufacturing cities of the countrv/ it has never suffered from a single strike although more than three thousand skilled workmen are employed in the different shops. The city controls and operates its own electric, gas and water works. Electric street cars offer rapid transit to the principal parts of the city . Our churches and schools are second to none. North of the city a part of the Miami river is turned from its channel into an artificial reservoir which feeds one of the finest systems of hydraulics in the United States and gives the city power for Its manufacturers that cannot be excelled. The reservoir is surrounded by great trees and groves and is dotted by small islands which make it a picturesque and appropriate place of seekers after pleasure. Had I the time to do so I should like to comment on your paper as a political organ. For the present I will only say this: If we only had more such it would be much better for all of us. . When asked last year, by my brother, to become a subscriber I did so only to please him, but since I have studied the subjec t and become interested you may send the paper another year for my edification. A Jasper County Boy.
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