People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1896 — Page 7

Historical Resume.

From the Ordinance Book of the City of Rensselaer. The City of Rensselaer, was laid out and platted as a town bearing the name of Newton, on the 12th, day of June, 1839, Plat recorded in Deed Record 1, Page 90. This plat is located on the north bank of the Iroquois river, and had been known as the Iroquois rapids, and is now the principal business portion of the City. The name was changed from Newton to Rensselaer, by a special act of the Legislature, approved February, 18, 1840, Acts 1840, page 240. Western Addition was platted June, 18. 1850. Recorded in Deed Record 3. page 60. Newtons or Clarks addition was platted August 30, 1951, and recorded in Deed Record 3, page 348- South addition was platted June 1, 1853, and recorded in Deed Record 4, page 488 Weston’s addition was platted by Rosewell Weston, January 20, 1858 and recorded in Deed Record 16, page 24. In December, 1858 a petition was presented to the Board of County Commissioners, signed by R. H. Milroy and 52 others praying to have the villiage of Rensselaer, incorporated as a town. The question of incorporation was sib mitted to the voters January 5, 1859. The result of the ■election being favorable the Board of Commissioners deeclared the town duly incorporated under the name and istyle of the town of Rensselaer, on Tuesday March 8, 1859, Weston’s Second addition was platted by Henry Weston August 10, 1872, and recorded in Deed Record 24, page 328. This addition included the territory covered by Weston's -addition, Weston Cemetery was platted July 7, 1873 and recorded in Deed Record 24, page 530, Leopold’s addition was platted May, 20 1879 and recorded in Deed Record 34. page 168. Thompson’s addition was .platted August 26,. 1881 and recorded in Deed Record 35, page 433. The Board of Trustees of the town extended the boundaries so as to include all of Weston’s Second addition, by resolution dated June 4. 1883, recorded in Deed Record 38 page 493, The Jasper County Draining Association platted a portion of the lands bordering on the Iroquois river, November 17, 1883, Recorded in Deed Record 39, page 224. Nearly all of the channel of the river now belongs to this association. South East addition was platted May 27. 1887, and recorded in Deed Record 44, page 59 Benjamin’s addition was platted September 9, 1887, and recorded in Deed Record 44, 489, Kannal’s Sub-Drvision was platted June 13, 1892 and recorded in Deed Record 55, page -416. All of the plats made up to this time are located within the boundaries of the town of Rensselaer.as incorporated in 1859. Columbia addition was platted March 15, 1893 and recorded in Deed Record 55. page 326, Benjamin and Magees addition was platted March 24, 1893 and recorded in Deed Record 55, page 444. Sunny Side addition was platted May 19, 1893, and recorded in Deed Record 56, page 160, The Board of Trustees extended the boundaries of the town so as to include Columbia and Sunny Side additions, by resolution which was adopted March 11, 1895 and recorded in Deed Record 60, page 172, Riverside Park addition was platted July 20, 1895, and recorded in Deed Record 61, page 196, The corporation boundaries were extended, so as to annex unplatted territory heretofore out side of the corporation boundaries of the town of Rensselaer, by the Board of County Commissioners at the September, term, 1895 and recorded, in Deed Record 63 page 553: This annexation included all of the territory heretofore outside and now included in the present boundaries of the city of Rensselaer, except Benjamin and Magee’s addition. The Board of Trustees extended the boundaries of the town of Rensselaer by resolution so as to include Benjamin and Magee’s addition, Marcn 9. 1896. Recorded in Deed Record 63, page 122. Thompson’s Sub Division of block Four-of Thompson’s addition was platted April 13. 1896 and recorded in Deed Record 73, page 274. Emmet’s Addition was p 1 at ted May 2 1896, and recorded in Deed Record 63, page 339. Yeoman's addition was platted May 6, 1896, and re. corded in Deed Record 63, page 358. Harvey’s addition was platted May 12, 1886 and recorded in Deed Record 63, page 473. The Survey and plat of the town of Rensselaer as made by Mayhew, Hopkins and Miller in 1875, was legalized by an act of the Legislature passed February 23, 1889. The town having grown to a population exceeding 2000 a petition of over one third of the legal voters of the town was presented to the Board of Trustees praying that a census be taken with a view to incorporating as a city. On March 23, 1896 the Marshal was ordered to take a census of the inhabitants of the town. The Marshal’s return showing a population of 2142 exclusive of those who had become residents within 40 days, an election was ordered to be held April 10, 1896. The result of this election showing a large majority in favor of incorporating, the return was filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court and the town of Rensselaer became a city April 13, 1896

THE PEOPLES, PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBERS, 1896.

Free silver or bust This is a Populist year. Organized labor demands oonsi deration. Now, let us have less talk and more work. Grover 13 now free to ash and fish and fish. Lots of Republicans coming over to the people. True patriotism lives in the present, not in the past Don’t be deceived, nor seared by gold-bug threats. The American people mean to have a scientific money system. The two old parties are only “organized appetites” for office. The growth of the silver movement Is the advance of intelligence. Restore the government to the people by giving them a direct vote. A man cannot be a monopolist and a true silver man at the same time. Direct legislation will retain free coinage of silver after it is adopted. There is no other single issue of as much importance as direct legislation. A gold standard is the baronial castle of modern feudalism and serfdom.

Whitney might as well have taken his tour to Europe several weeks sooner. Absolute government issue and control of money is the demand of the people. The man who lives on interest lives on the labor of somebody who is in debt. Redemption free coinage is a fraud — merely a shield to hide the bank oligarchy. The democrats are going to do , this time, oh yes. That is they sa, they are. The business of the West and South is just as important aa the business of the East Continue the work of education, regardless of what may be the result of the election. Several wplirsters knocked off the g. o. p. already -and the storm gettingworse all the time.

It is not converts the gold-bugs expect to their theories —'but convicts under the lash of blacklist. “International agreement" means surrendering our own national constitutional power to coin our own money. The silver men ar° no worse split than the gold men—and, besides, they have the advantage of a large majority for silver. Cleveland may drop out of sight, but he will be remembered for some time by the hole he leaves in the United States treasury. If you are satisfied with present conditions, of course you will vote for McKinley and the “maintenance of the existing gold standard.’” The nomination of McKinley is creating about as much enthusiasm in Kanaas and Nebraska, as the arrival of the grasshoppers used to arouse. The only bolts from now on will be belts of white (silver) lightning—with gold-bug thunder. It is the lightning that will count, and not the thunder. Let the people so cast their votes in November that Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln may send greeting from the other shore, “we are satisfied.” . We are glad to notice that the Democrats have become so reconciled to the despised Populist platform as to steal the greater part of it. Hope they are in earnest. Thousands of men who haven’t made a living the past four years will vote to continue for four years more the same policy which brought about the present state of affairs. It ie not the people who are making the noise now that will control the elections this year. It is the quiet citizens, who have made up their minds and are now busy with their farm crops.

If gold is the only money, then let wage-earners of all grades and degrees, refuse checks, national bank bills, etc., and demand the gleaming yellow coin on pay-day. Let workingmen demand “sound money” as well as the bankers. Take no other. It would smash the gold combine. Lincoln said, in speaking of the Wall street speculators: “For my part, I wleh every one of them had his devilish head shot off.” Yet the Republican party of to-day which claims descent from Lincoln adapts Wall street as Its guiding star. Truly it has descended from Lincoln —a long ways.

81 THE MODEL.* tart pitta. The Entire Stock of Dry Goods, Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Gents Furnishings, Cloaks and Carpets, Must and will be sold at a Price to Make a Quick Sale. Stock is for Sale io Bulk or at Retail.**--i This is Strictly Business and cost will not be considered. . \ / Rooms for Rent and Fixtures for Sale. Thousandsand IJ J III! Thousands Dollars worth of Merchandise will be thrown O /I \ to the people that will paralize all opposition. ) \ • PREPARE FOR LOW PRICES < And yourself with a well filled purse, and be with the crowd daily, as STOCK MUST BE CLOSED OUT. THE MODEL, Rensselaer, Ind. W. A. MOSSLER, Manager.

Grover’s picture Is turned to the wall in the house of his Democratic fathers. An international agreement free silver man is a goldbug who is ashamed to own it. What little good there was in the republican party has left it and joined the people. If the poor were as dishonest as the rich the reign of anarchy would be perpetual. Maintaining the present gold standard means maintaining the present hard times. The reform movement is an uprising of the people who have got tired of being fooled. Our principles are right and will live on whether we elect our candidates this year or not. The West proposes to stop the disturbance of productive business <?y abolishing the gold standard. San Francisco, Portland and Sacramento, the largest three cities on the Pacific coast, have Populist mayors. Government legal tender paper money won’t go to Europe. It will stay at home and attend to its own business. About the only enthusiasm in the old parties n-ow is from the fellows who draw the salaries —or expect to.

According to old party logic God made the earth and the good thing.* thereof for a few human hogs to enjoy The constitution denies to the stater the right to issue money. Then why should the privilege be granted to tb< banks? Have you the names of the populist j. who tried to steer the democratic co” vention at Chicago? Put them dow: for future reference. The record of the democratic par Is against free silver, and their prm; ires have been violated so often th they amount to nothing. A party that has thrown up its or promises eleven times can hardly pent the populists to swallow the pro ises, party and all, at orc gulp. The political pot boiled over a l'rt• at St. Louts—and it is gettlsg h.--ail the time. There’s'going <r> ’■> r old party potatoes get burned this (•••' The gold power is grasping, unpopulous, and will hesitate at noth’?*" continue its clutch upon the throat c. labor. When you vote with either u. party you vote with it.

AS OTHERS SEE US.

A W*U Merited Rebuke from Our “Oheup Dollar*’’ Ne'Rlibore. The people of the United States are on a gold basis; in other words, they are holding up something like $1,000,000,000 of currency on $92,000,000 of treasury gold reserve, a magnificent accomplishment which reminds one of a Japanese juggler sustaining a series of ladders by his teeth lying flat on the ground. It is magnificent, but it is not finance. Mr. Carlisle, who knows so little of finance as to imagine, because the treasury issues notes, that it is in the banking business, Is filled with awe as he contemplates the financial sj-Lcm of hie country. We do not wonder, for it Inspires the same sentiment in the minds of ordinary men. And, being on a gold basis, the United States must have a prosperous government? That does not apparently follow. The government, in point of fact, is in straits, tor the revenue does not keep pace with the outgo. Not since last January have the treasury receipts reached the average monthly requisite of thirty million dollars, the amount which must come in, if all the bills of the nation are to be met. In August the receipts ran up to $29,236 (WO, but the average has been below $27,000,000 for the other months. It looks like another bond Issue and if that ie made the treasury will be easier. A loan is only a palliative, however; what is needed is permanently to increase the revenue. The throwing off of the sugar duties was the beginning of the foolishness; those duties were not felt by anyone and they kept the treasury in easy clrcumetances. It is beginning to be noted by the American people that their finances are in control of charlatans who know no more about the fundamental principles of financial administration than eo many school boys. Any European finance minister, who should make such blunders as have been committed in Washington, would be retired to lirlvate life for “keeps.” Fancy an English chancellor of the exchequer In such a mess as is Carlisle. A commission in lunacy would be sumhioned to elt on his case. And no European finance minister has such a rich country abounding In potential sources of revenue to operate in. An ordinary financial duffer ought to shine as finance ’"inJeter in the great republic which is rich beyond compute.—Mexican Herald. There ”o longer any donhf ns ■ th® republicans being in favor of a gni st”i'S;jrd. There is no Lincoln r n pni; liennism In this. Now let the true republicans come out of that party. According to republican logic it If perfectly proper to print paper money to pay men to shoot other men, but it would be all wrong to print it to pay men for constructing public highways. Nice logic, that!

Quite a sensation has been created in the east by the recent utterance of E. Benjamin Andrews, president of Brown University, and heretofore a prominent gold-bug. "Brown University, Providence, June 22, 1896. Stephen W. Nickerson, Boston, Mass. My Dear Sir: In yours of the 20th Inst., after adverting to Cernuschl’s latest position touching the policy of the United States In freely coining sliver at 16 to 1, without waiting for an International agreement, you ask what, if any, objections I would urge against their policy: I reply that I would urge none. The vast new output in gold In recent years as compared with that of silver impresses me that free coinage by the United States alone would not lead to the displacement of our gold; that, therefore, free coinage would be safe. If it is safe it is certainly desirable. Of course no one can be absolutely certain that we could proceed with free sliver coinage and yet retain our gold. To my mind, however, the overwhelming probability Is that gold would stay with us. I have noticed of late no serious argument to show that It would not. Cordially, "E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS." College presidents generally are so tied to the money power by endowments from such robbers as Rockefeller that they dare not express an Independent opinion without losing their jobs. Mr. Andrews will probably receive the usual treatment for “heresy." One good sign that the Democratic party Is getting nearer to the common people, is that its present national .chairman bears the good old-fashioned name of Jones.

CURRENT COMMENT.

The editor and publisher of the "Cosmopolitan Magazine,” J. Brisbane Walker, in addressing a meeting at Cooper Union, N. Y., recently, said: "This is not so much a fight for silver as it is a fight to escape from a clique which controls the currency of the people.” Well said. We are in the hands of conspirators whose sole object is the ’control of the people's money, so that they may absorb all the produc‘3 of labor by drawing Interest on the money they have hoarded in the banks. Down with the conspirators. Free silver will do no good until the control of the currency is taken away from the banka. There is some difference between the' tin soldier McKinley and the other Napoleon famed in history. It will be more noticeable cf*"- <'’-nf|r>n. “Oom** Faal Seurea Again. The Digger News prints an interview with President Kruger in which he says that he has declined to interfere in behalf of Dr. Jameson. The president points out that the British government hps still to decide who were the ringleaders in the Jameson

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