People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1896 — Page 2

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THE IDEAL! ——WHAT rS TT? I , A First-Class Clothing Establishment lately opened in the Nowell’s Bloek, first store room east of Rensselaer Bank, and which, by strict business methods and square dealing expect to get the public patronage. ONE PRICE ONLY. ZUY FOR CASH. SELL FOR CASH. Goods can be returned and money will / be refunded if not satisfactory. These are a few of the measures by ) which I expect to gain and keep the < patronage of the public and deserve ' i their patronage. j Louis Wildberg, Managr. M. TUTEUR, Propr. Jasper ® Tile ® Works. TWO MILES NORTH OF RENSSELAER. |U| ANUFACTUREKS of superior drain tile. Manufacture tile sizes from 4to 16 inches in diameter. Will duplicate prices of any person handling tile in the county for like amount, and same terms. Works fitted up with latest improvements in machinery and kiln. Those contemplating using sizes from 12 to 16 in. in diameter call at works and get prices and leave order. A. E. & H. A. ALTER. JR ww*****»******** m W- *'W * Bargains Bargains * Three Car Loads of Buggies, Surries and Driving Wagons unsold. Must be * sold in the next Sixty Days regardless of cost Your price is mine * •• • • Robert Randle •• • • * • .Warner & Collirjs, • Q Three doors south of McCoy's Bank, Rensselaer. £ ; South Side ♦* ♦ ■ • ** * * Grocery. S £ Highest Price Paid for Butter and Eggs. jcHAMPIONI BINBERS S !MOWERS • •BUCKEYE Ireapers! ■ and other Farming Implements. S ■ • ■ T 3 T T TTp Q -D U Ur Ur 11LO, The reputation of these thoroughly H Q T T D D T U" 1 O modern harvesters, Champion and m OU rXlrlljU, Buckeye, have won here places X-r -r * x-v -K T r-A them in the front ranks of favor- B • WAGONS. • w w *'** w * B **»>***B*>»*»WW»W*»*»’lßP • Hare tfce kindness to get prices and terms from Warner & Collins bofore buying,

THE PEOPLE’S PILOT, RENSSELAER, IND., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1896.

COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

The Council met in regular session Sept. 14. All members and officers present except Councilman Porter. A petiiion for an Arc light, at south end of Division street, was refered to Committee on light. Petition of D. H. Yeoman for sewei’ on Dayton street refered to committee on sewers. The committee reported favorably on improving -Makeumself ditch. Report approved and brdinance passed first reading, and the City Engineer was directed to survey and make profile and estimate of cost. Tne petition for drain from the Labratory of School house to Makeumself drain was granted and orders constructed. Claims amounting to about SSOO were presented and allowed. In the matter of the River Street grade and sidewalk the property owners having come to an agreement thereon to make lines conform to the present conditions the Council confirmed the same and ordered plat recorded. The storeage room in the rear of B. Fendigs store was condemed as unsafe and dangerous and was ordered removed. The council gave consent that the Mayor deposit his docket with J. A. Burnham J. P. also the Mayor was authorized to appoint special police to preserve order at public meetings, places of amusement, etc. City Engineer reported the grade for six sidewalks, on several streets; report approved, The Marshall reported as unsafe some 2,000 feet of sidewalk in variobs localities, all of which was condemned and repairs ordered. Cement sidewalk was ordered on Cullen street in front of John Randles, also on Front street east side fronting Mrs. Monnetts property. The City ordisnees as published were declared to be in force. On motion Council adjourned to meet on extra session on Wednesday night.

Alfred Isreal, sou of Charles and Elnora Isreal died Sept. 15 being nearly one and one half years old. The funeral services were held at the home, four miles north of town, Rev. J. L. Bradey of Fowler officiating. A large concourse of people showed their love and sympathy for the young parents. Oh, the little white baby face, Asleep in his little white bed, So lately awake to life and the life and the light To be laid away with the dead! Oh, the dear ways of His love, Since pain and sorrow must be, To make of them blessings, so sacredly sweet And send them by such as he. Miss Emma Burgett arrived home yesterday. having spent the past five weeks at Tuscola. 111. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Alter and son Lewis and daughter Mrs. A. C. Chaney of Russiaville arrived here yesterday. They will attend the Old Settler meeting and Alter reunion today. Mrs John Paxton is visiting in Indianapolis this week. C. W, Coen is visiting in Ohio and points east this week. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hollister are visiting relatives in Wabash county this week. Clarence Payne* of Indianapolis, who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Leatherman for a week, has returned home. Miss Maty Leatherman left for Wolcott last Friday to take charge of her school. Rev. R. Sylvano Morgan pastor of the Christian Church at Valma. will preach next Lord’s day on the following themes: “The Great Emancipation” at 10:30, and “The Great Highway of Glory" at 7:30. A. L. Willis has moved his bicycle repair shop into the old “Liberal Corner" where Wright's undertaking establishment was formerly located. He is prepared to do all work in the bicycle line promptly, accurately and cheaply. Mr. Willis is well known as the old reliable gunsmith. Persons who have a coughing spel every night onjjaccount of a tickling sensation in the throat, may overcome it at onee by a dose of One Minute Cough Cure. A. F. Long, It wonld be hard to convince a man suffering from bilious colic that his agony is due to a microbe with qn unpronouncable name. But one dose of DeWitt s Colic 4 Cholera Cure will convince him of its power to afford instant relief. It kills pain. A. F. Long. Eli Hill Lumber City, Pa., writes,“l have been suffering from Piles for twenty five years and thought myself incur able. DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve was recommended to me as a pile cure, so I bought a box and it performed a permanent cure.” This is only one of thousands of similar cases. Eczema, sores and skin diseases yield quickly when it is used. A. F. Long.

The Bond Issue.

The recent issue of 262 millions of bonds in time of peace illustrates another serious evil of the present monetary system. The necessity the government is under of redeeming greenbacks in gold upon demand enables scheming men to draw large amounts of gold 'from the treasury and then sav to the government* *‘Your reserve is getting low; you must have gold or you will be in danger of failure to keep your promise in respect to specie payments—issue bonds and get the gold back again.” So the schemers get bonds for their gold, sell the bonds at a premium, take the greenbacks they get for the bonds and draw the gold out of the treasury again, till the government is frightened into a new issue of bonds, and so on in an endless chain, with a premium profit for Wall Street on every issue of bonds, and nothing but accumulating debt for the nation. When bonds aije issued in time of war the government gets a substantial equivalent, but these millions of bonds that are issued to keep up the gold reserve have secured to the people nothing at all of any real worth to them. The speculators lender ao service to the government—they simply draw out gold in order to speculate on the bonds that would be issued to get it back. The government might start with thirty millions of gold in the treasury and, through the repetition of the above process, issue a billion of bonds, and at the end be just where it started, with thirty millions of gold in the treasury, and not a thing to show for the billion of debt but the keeping of a foolish promise that i£ of little advantage to any one except the schemers who have-found out how to gear it to a bond-printine press and make it turn the people’s millions into their coffers as fast as they dare to turn on the current. Prof. Frank Parsons, of Boston University, in October Arena.

THE DEERING HARVESTER A. SUCCESS. Fair Oaks, Ind., Sept., 15,1896. Messrs. Deering & Co., Chicago, 111. We have this morning given the Corn Harvester and Binder just bought of you through your agent, Robert Randlq, of Rensselaer, Ind., a thorough trial, and find it fully up to our expectations—doing even better work than we thought it could under the circumstances, considering it raided hard all of yesterday afternoon, rendering the ground soft, ever to muddiness—then its first years breaking of primitive wild grass sod, with its multitude of rough tussocks —and corn badly blown down by recent wind storm of Aug. 22nd. Even with all these drawbacks the machine done its work well. Respectfully vours, C. G. HUTCHINSON, J. C. THOMPSON. For prices and particulars call on Robert Randle. Agent, for the Deering Harvester goods. Non-Resident Notice. The State of Indiana. I QQ Jasper County. (Ou. In the Jasper Circuit Court. October Term. 1896. Julia A. Lilly) VS. - Complaint No. 5136 Casper Lilly ) Now comes the plaintiff by David W. Shields, her attorney and files her complaint together with the affidavit of a disinterested person, that the defendant,’ Casper Lilly, is a non resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant that said cause will stand for hearing on the 13th day of the next term being Nov. 2, 1896. of the Jasper Circuit Court to be holden on the Third Monday of October A. D, 1896 at the court house in Rensselaer in said county and State and if said deferidant does not answer or demur to said complaint the same will be heard during his absence. In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said court at Rensselaer this 10th day of September A. D. 1896. Wm. H. Coover, Clerk, Jasper Circuit Court. Non-Resident Notice. The State of Indiana, I Jasper County. (Okj. „ October Term. 1896. Lowell 11. Kenyon, ) vs No. 5143. Mary I. Kenyon. ) Now comes the plaintiff, by Abraham Halleck, his attorney, and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana. Notice is therefore hereby given said defendant, that unless she be and appear on the 18th day of the next Term of the Jasper Circuit Court, to be holden on the third Monday of October, A. D., 1896, at the Court House in Rensselaer, in said County and State, and answer or demur to said complaint, the same will be heard and determined in her absence. In Witness Whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at Rensselaer, Ind., this 17th day of September, A. D., 1896. . T i Wm. H. Coover, J Clerk Jasper Circuit Court. A. Halleck, Att’y for Plaintiff.

Blackford.

Corn is very good in this Ipcality. Farmers are cutting corn and getting ready to sow wheat. Thefre is a great deal of sickness. Dr. Henery of Star City has a yery good position here and will remain for some time. Rev. Shonkwiler the U. B. pastor preached his last sermon at Independence last Sunday morning. F. M. Hayes’ new house is almost ready for the plasterers. Clyde Masters is very sick with typhoid fever. George Daniels’ new house is nearing completion. Little Guy.

The Misses Meyers have the most complete line of Millinery ever exhibited in the city. Marriage Licenses. Groom. Bride. Atrist E. Umphenour Ella Gulich Eugene Kaerwer Susana Zimmer Charles H. Page Leathy Akers Office Rooms for Rent. Two good offices well ventilated, and heated by furnace. Apply at The Commercial State Bank.

Advertised Letters. Miss Masy Cashey, Cora B. Mitchell, Mrs. John Mouxis, Mr. W. M. Cross, Robert Vandusen H. J. Louis, Andrew Graschek, J. T. Mitchell. Persons calling for any of the above letters in this list will please say they are advertised. E. P. Honan, Postmaster. Go see the exquisite Fall Millinery at Meyers’ Millinery Store. Something to Know. It may be worth something to know that the very best medicine for restoring the tired out nervous system to a healthy igosi is Electric Bitters. This medicine vi purely vegetable, acts by giving tone, to the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the Liver and kidneys and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in the blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion, and is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for 50 cents or 81.00 per bottle at F. B. Meyer’s Drug Store. The Ideal wants your Trade Louis Wildbfrg, Manager. State of Ohio, City of Toledo ) Lucas County, s ss Frank J, Chenny makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm os F, J, Chenny & Co doing business in the city of Toledo. County and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENNY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 6th day of December A. D. 1896. t /*—\ j A. W. Gleason, j seal I Notary Public. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. J. Chenny & CO, Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c.

THE PEOPLE’S PLATFORM FOR 1896.

The peoples party, assembled in National convention, reaffirms its allegiance to the principles declared by the founders of the republic, and also to the fundamental principles of just goverment, as enunciated in the platform of the party in 1892. We recognize that through the connivance of the present and preceding Administrations the country has reached a crisis in its national life, as predicted in our declaration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the supreme duty of the hour. We realize that while we have political independence our financial and industrial independence is yet to be attained by restoring to our country the constitutional control and exercise of the functions necessary to a people’s goverment,which functionshave been basely surrendered by our public servants to corporate monopelies. The influence of European money changers has been more potent in shaping legisation than the voice of the American people, Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our Legislatures and defeat the will of the people and plutocracy has thereby been enthroned upon the ruins of democracy. To restore the Government intended by the fathers, and for the welfare and prosperity of this and future generations we de nand the establishment of an economic and financial system which shall make us masters of our own affairs, and independent of European control by the adoption of the following declaration of principles. finance. l.We, demand • national money, safe and sound, issued by the general Government only, without the intervention of banks of issue, to be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private; a just, equitable and eflicent means of distribution direct, to the people and through the lawful disbursement of the Government. 2. We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the consent of foreign nations. 3. We demand the volume of circulating medium be speedily increased to an amount sufficent to meet the demands of the business and population of this country, and to restore the just leuel of prices of labor and production.

4. We denounce the sale of bonds: and the increase of the public interstbearing debt made by the present Administration as unnecessary and without authority of law, and that no more bonds be issued except by specific act of Congress. 5. We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetization of the lawful money of the United States by private contract. ’ 6. We demand that the Government, itspayme nt of its obligations, shall usein option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and preceding Administrations for surrendering this option to the holders of Government obligations. 7. We demand a graduated income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the recent decision of the Supreme Court relative to the income tax law as a, misinterpretation of the Constitution and an invasion of the rightful powers of Congress over the subject of taxation. 8. We demand that postal savings* banks be established by the Government for the safe deposit of the savings of the people and to facilitate exchange. transportation. 1. Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the Government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people and on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that all may be acorded the same treatment in transportation, and that the tyranny and political power now exercised by the great railroad corporations, which result in the impairment, if not the destruction, of the political rights and personal liberties of the citizens, mav be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished gradually in a mariner consistent with sound public policy. 2. The interest of the United States, in the public highways built with public moneys and the proceeds of extensive grants of land to the- Pacific railroads, should never be -lienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare, as provided by the laws organizing such railroads. The foreclosure of existing liens of the United States on these roads should at snee follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor companies; and at the foreclosure sales of said roads the Government shall purchase the same if it becomes necessary to protect its interests therein, or if they can be purchased at a Reasonable price; and the Goverment shall operate said railroads as public highways for the benfit of the whole J people and not in the interest of the few under suitable provisions for protection of life and property, giving to all * transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares and freightn. 3.. We denounce the present infamous schemes for refunding these debts, and demand that the laws now applicable thereto be executed and administered according to their true intent and spirit. 4. The telegraph, like the Post Office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the Goverment in the interest of the people. LAND. 1. The true policy demands that the national and State legislation shall be such as will ultimately enable every pru- > dent and industrious citizen to secure a ’ home, and that land should not be monopolized for speculative purposes. All lands now held by railroads and otner corporations in excess of their actual needs should by lawful means be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers, and private land monopoly, as well as alien ownership, should be prohibited. 2. We condemn the frauds by which the land grant Pacific railroad com panies have, through the conivance of the Interior Department, robbed multitudes of actual bonafide settlers of their homes and miners of their claims, and we demand legislation by Congress which will enforce the exemption of min- , eral land from such grants, after as well ' as before patent. 3. We demand that bona fide settlers on all public lands be granted free f homes, as provided in the national homestead law, and that no exception be made in the case of Indian reservations when opened for settlement, and that all lands that are not now patented come under this demand.

DIRECT lagislation. We favor a system of direct legislation through the initiative and referendum under open constitutional safeguards. general propositions. 1. We demand the election of President, Vice President and,United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. 2. We tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their heroic struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time has come when the United States, the great republic of the wourld, should recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be a free and independent State. 3. We favor home rule in the Territories and the District of Columbia and the early admission of the Territories as States. 4. All public salaries should be made to correspond to the price of labor and its products. 5. In times of great industrial depression idle labor should be employed on public works as far as practicable. 6. The arbitrary course of the courts ■ in assuming to imprison citizens for indirect contempt and ruling them by injunction should be prevented by proper legislation. 7. We favor just pensions for our disabled Union soldiers. 8. Believing that the elective fran chise and untrammeled ballot are essential to a government for and by the people, the People’s party condemn the wholesale system of disfranchisement adopted in some of the States as unrepubhean and undemocratic, and we declare it to be the duty of the several State Legislatures to take such action as will secure a full, free and fair ballot and an honest count. 9. While the foregoing propositions constitute the platform on which our party stands, and for the vindication of which its organization will be maintained, wejrecognize that the great and pressing issue of the pending campaign upon which the present presidential election will turn is the financial question. And upon this great and specific issue between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operation of all organizations and citizens agreeing with us upon this vital question.