Plymouth Republican, Volume 45, Number 31, Plymouth, Marshall County, 20 June 1901 — Page 2

The Republican,

WM. O. HENDRICKS, Editor, aid Proprietor. O f f ICE n Bieaell's Block, Corner Center and L&Porte Street. &tred at the Plymouth, Indiana, Post Office an second-Ciaa Matter. SÜ iSCHIPTION: One Year J2.00; Six Month l.w; lnree aiontns wc, delivered at any post w. xi paia one year in advance, J1.50.Plmouih Ind., June 20, 1901. Tom Taggart might learn from President McKinley the knack of writing let ters of declination that decline. We often hear the exclamation, " What is the matter with Plymouth?" Plym outh is all right and will remain so as long a3 its inhabitants keep it that way. Take a walk Sunday and see tha evidences of Improvement. Some Democratic papers are already talking about the issues of 1904 and wondering what tney will be, If the prosperity we now enjoy continues to abide with us until then the Democrats will have little need of issues; without calamity there isn't much democracy. The Valparaiso Messenger thinks that inasmuch as Mortimer Nye, of Laporte, wants to become the democratic candidate for governor in 1904 and dictate his own platform he better hold onto his job as school trustee which wa9 given him recently by the democratic council at Laporte. John Gilbert Sbanklin, until recently a power in Indiana democratic circles, is confined to his room in Eyansville, Ind. Iiis wife, fortunately, has sufficient means to enable him to paea his closing days comfortably. Iiis once magnificent physique has dwindled to a mere specter of its former self and he is almost totally blind. Commenting on a recent statement cf the Indianapolis News that "the north part of the state will make a strong fight for a poition of the offces in the next campaign," the South Bend Tribune says truthfully and forcefully that the painfully apparent disposition on the part of Marion couDty politicians to hog everything to the utter exclusion of the northern counties should be rebuked and restrained, Those are not the exact words of the Tribune but we understand that it means about that and possibly more. We believe that Indianapolis has greatly overdrawn her account and will be entitled to no further favors from political conventions for years to come, unless some man of peculiar fitness for a special urpose ehould be found there when needed. Bryan papers are still engaged in the effort to make themselves believe that the insular decisions of the supreme court mean something different from what the judges said. It is a vain task, for the opinions mike it plain that the court is in harmony with the uniform decisions from tho days of John Marshall down to the present to the effect that since the constitution was made for tüe states comprising the federal union and not for the organized or unorganized territories, wherever located, it follows that the power to govern such territory and to make the necessary laws, rules and regulations for its control rests in congress and until congress assumes jurisdic tion in any particular case the power to govern rests in the president as a part of his military power. The rights of person and property declared in the bill of rights are ioherent and do cot reouire w - ' - - - m. f f the constitutional guaranty to make them good, therefore they fall upon ah citizens of new territory, not by virtue of the constitution but by virture of the citizenship of the individuals; but rights that are purely the creation of law, euch as tariff tights, which were involved in the cases just decided, pertain to states alone and congress is free to impose different laws upon territories than the constitution gives to states. The Plymouth Democrat of the current week, noting the disinclination of South African slaves to free themselves under the new law because of the difficulties of making a living in freedom, suggests that the masters have been kinder under the new legislation and make slavery more attractive, whereby the love of freedom becomes dulled. Somewhat inconsequentially but quite Bryanistically.the democrat proceeds to say . that perhaps that is the reason that the president has not taken steps to free the slaves in our islands of the sea, We do not understand the logic but suppose the Democrat does and let it go at tnat; but we do not comprehend the closbg eantenca of the article and we remember the history of the war of 1861-5 and the record of the Democrat at the time the union was in danger and slavery was a real issue. The sentence referred to is as follows: "Surely we should not be behind the English in at least attempting to free our slaves, especially as the constitution commands it." Perhaps the Democrat can be induced to reprint some of its anti slavery editorials of war times and thus demonstrate its consistency on the subject of the constitutionality cf slavery end the duty of tbe coverament to manumit thcz3 held in bondr je.

The third-term roolishness lasted fust long enough to injure the reputation of some persons who. talk frequently, but cot always wisely.

The Export Oil and Pipe company, with a capital of 52,000,000, was incorporated in Austin, Tex., on Monday, the largest shareholder beicg Charles A. Toarne. Thus does the most eloquent denouncer of trusts head an octopus procession. Every few days reports of injury to the crops come from some part or other of the country. The country, however, is large, and the injury which has occurred has not extended far. The indications still are tnat the wheat crop will be far above the average of the past five years, and corn, despite the cold weather, is promising. The Muncie Herald in a late issue asserted baldly that President McKinley was barely able to restrain himself from assuming a crown and setting himself up as an imperial monarch in this land of liberty and equal rights. Of course the Herald lied and knew it lied but it did not anticipate eo prompt and emphatic a denial of its fool talk as the president gave in his recent dignißed repudiation of third term ambition. Col, William J. Bryan thinks that the leaders of the Democratic party have determined to Republicanize tbe party as the only hope of success; and he rec ommends the nomination of Judge Harlan, of the United States supreme court, as the candidate for president of the Republicanized Democratic party. Col. Bryan thinks no man who has been known as a Demacrat can bridge the chasm separating the Democratic fac tions and he elected,. By the decision vote of 16 to II the Cuban constitutional convention has declared for tbe Piatt provision and ap parently the last obstacle to "Cuba libre" is now removed. As has been suspected it is revealed by the rote that opposition to the Piatt amendment came, not from true Cubans, but fiom a class cf men who really wanted to force the annexation of Cuba and with that view sought to oqetruct the adop tion of a practical constitution. Thus ends another chapter of alleged imperi alism, When the Virginia constitutional con vention went into session the other day its members re.used to be sworn, giving as the reason for such an unprecedented course that the princpal question tbe body will be called upon to consider is that of tha restriction of negro euffrage and. tbe cath of office might "trammel the members of the convention in deal ing with that issue." The conscience of the Virginia democracy must be slight ly more tender than that to be found on exhibition in other btates, but it is easy to tee the finish of negro euffrage in Virginia. In the meantime, if there are any blacks in distant parts of the world who think they have grievances we commend them with corfidecce to the Virginia Democrats for sympathy. A EARLY START. One result of the president's wise and effectual suppression of third term talk right in its incipieccy and before any considerable number of bis over zealous admirers were drawn into making ridiculous exhibitions of themeelves is to open thus unusually early the question of the presidential succession and almost to precipitate the campaign between the several aspirants for the Republican nomination, While no euch candidate, active or receptive, will be so undignified as to foster or permit anything approaching a boom in his behalf, doubtless the official recognition of the subject as an open one will cause the fierce light of publicity to glow with greater intensity about the heads of the devoted few who are under tbe suspicion of being willing. Since the magnificent administration of Benjamin Harrison respectful attention is given to Indiana men in politics and thus it happens that elthough Senator Fairbanks has not yet completed his first term in public life and has done no one thing or proposed no particular measure that lifts him above the average senatorial level, yet the mention of his name as a candidate for the presidency has been received everwhere as a very proper and natural thing and no one has asked ''Who is Fairbanks?" or What good can come out of Indiana?" The logical outcome of the situation with Indiana Republicans is manifestly to go into the next national convention with a solid Ftdrbank delegation, but it is also evident that a very substantial spirit of opposition will have to be overcome to secure such a result. Among the others who are looked upon as presidential poseibilitee. and the list includes such men ssSenator Cullom of Illinois, Governor Odell of New York, Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, Senator Lodge of MassachuBetts.Senators Hanna and Foraker and Judge Tatt, of Ohio, and perhaps others, the .figure of Roosevelt towers above them all in the popular imaginatiou in every state, and that keen and strenuous young exponent of vigorous and triumphant Americanism will baye to be reckoned within the last ballot in the convention. In the meanwhile there is a long time for changes and development.

Tbe amazingly rapid rehabilitation of Galveston since the awful havoc of last September's storm suggests the undoubted fact that nothing made it possible but the prosperity against which a majority of its voters cast tbeir ballots, the same is true of Jacksonville, Fla. Soon will come an end to the mutteriogs of the implacäbles who affect to believe that Cuba ebould have been free long ago and tbat tbe moment of her triumph has been postponed because of imperialistic designs on tbe part of the adminictration. Ever) body who knows anything about it at all knows that the only delay there has been wa3 caused by Cubace themselves and that the president has been as impatient to have a stable government established and our dominion ended in Cuba as any one.

The people of two townships in La porta county are t j vote Tuesday on the question of improving 21 6 miles of coun try roads at an estimated cost of $90,200, to be paid from a special tax upon the whole of each township under the new law. The cost is distributed over a period of twenty years, in which time the roads will have pvid for themselves in the saving of regular road taxes, the special tax amounting to only about 80 cents en the 11,000. The benefit of hav iog no mud and but little dust and the saving in horseflesh and wear of vehicles would alone more than compensate for the almost imperceptible increase in the tax rate for the time it would be imposed. Great advantage has been derived from similar improvements in other portions or the state. The sixth annual report of Prof, W. S. Blatchley as State Geologist, being the 55th issued by that department since its establishment, contains, beeides the regular reports of his assistants, several papers of great economic importance pertaining to the resources ot In diana suitable to the manufacture of Portland and hydraulic cements. It covers the field work performed under the' auspices of the department in the latter part of 1800 and tne season of 1900 and is one of the most valuable reports commercially ever put forth in any state Prof. Blatchley has repeatedly demonstrated, but never more than in this volume, tbat he is the most active official the state has ever ha.l in his department and that he rightly conceives his duties to be toward the industrial interests of the commonwealth rather than toward pure ecience. In the report now before us there is an exhaustive study of the marls and clays of Irdiana, including a chapter of great importance to Marshall county treating of tbe workable marl beds and of the fishes, plants, turtles and batracbians of Maxinkuckee lake, AUSTRALIA A Large Shipment ot Plymouth Sickle Grinders to Melbourne. There was shipped from Plymouth today via New York, a car load of sickle grinders, the product of the Clizbe Bros,' factory, and this follows very closely upon a shipment made by the same firm to another very distant point on the other eide of the world, that consignment going to Turkey. It is not generally known by our people that these sickle grinders are carrying the name of Plymouth, Ind., to all parts of the earth and tbat the foreign demand for them is increasing to such an extent that that branch of the business alone would be sufficient to require extensive addition to the facilities of the plant, to say nothing of the increasing domestic trade. This season the concern has sent out about twelve thousand grinders to foreign grain prcducipg countries, in eluding points in England, Germany, France. Spain, Belgium. Hungaria. Switzerland, Russia and South Africa, as well as Turkey Bud Australia, and the selling season abroad is not yet closed. Mr. Milton Dailey will leave Plymouth about July 1, for his third annual trip in Europe in the interest of this firm. The trade in the west and norO west has been fully as great as was anticipated tbia year, though not eo great as i would have been had the drouth of last season not occurred, the effect of it being to leave in tbe market a good manv grinders that should have been disposed of them. Mr. Clizbe has decided to take up the manufacture of the gasoline engines invented ard perfected by John Hay and will go into the matter on a large scale, The machinery for the purpose will be installed as soon as it can be obtained and will occupy about 8,000 square feet ot floor space, giving employment to 15 or 18 men at the beginning. These engines have been on the market two years, though in a limited way, and have met with approval wherever used; their manufacture and promotion under the new auspices, with sufficient capital, will ba vastly beneficial to the city. This improvement is additional to the contemplated enlargement of the 'main plant, which will be taken up as soon as the present season's work is completed. With the basket factory employing more than one hundred hands every day and all our other factories and industries running full time and full force, and our merchants selling more and better goods thin ever before, Plymouth is by no means a "dead town," to which statement we respectfully invite the attention of some of our neighboring exchanges.

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The Knights of Pythiana, emulating the good example of their Masonic frat ere, are negotiating for the right to build a story for their use on the building to be erected at tbe Jacox corner by Clav Metsker's father. Toe appearacce of the projected structure will be greatly enhanced and that portion of Michigan street much improved if the deal with the Pjthians succeeds, and the elder Met6l:er will be open to congratulation upou having at least one payibg tenant in hie building. The A go Gas. Argos. Ind. June 17 Saturday shortly a ter noon, while J. A. Loa-rv ing a 2 inch pipe from a ell on Noah Bucdy'u pioperty in the southeast part of Argoe, a sudden gush of natural gaB forced the plunger, rod and water clear above tbe derrick and fluwed with great power until it was shut off with a cap in the evening, A match was applied at 2 o clock and the flame burned all after noon, burning again ibis morning when relit. The well was 115 fe3t deep and the gas was struck at a depth of CO feet, though there bad been a smell of ?as ail day The flame burned about 3 feet above the mouth of the tube, The people of this town are intensely interested in the development and this morning the organization of a company was begin to make a thorough te6t for gas and oil and sufficient capital for the purpose will readily be secured. The presence of this gas pocket so near the surface is regarded &s a favorable indication of greater quantities further down. The World Grows Better. IFrom Senator Fairbanks' Address at Baker University. There had been some suggestion that the American people are given over to commercialism; that they are possessed of a materialistic spirit and take too little note of the development of those finer and gentler qualities which are at once the flower and fruit cf our civilization. We ffnd the complete denial of this suggestion in our expanding common school system, iu the developemeat of our colleges ana universities, in the countless chanties and in the increasing number of those who are dedicating themselves to the 6acred work of the church. The pulpit was never tilled by abler nor better men men more thoroughly dedicated to their high and holy calling. Ihe lecture room wjs never the sourco of more wholesome icfluences than it is today. There is on every hand, in every city, village and hamlet, a generous rivalry among men and women to promote some charity or some work which shall tend to uplift the vicious, the ignorant and the unfortunate. Those who accumulate wealth 6tand disgraced and di6honered if they do not use it for the benefit of others. , What boundless opportunity invites you, Go forth inspired by an altruistic spirit; go forth with faith in your des tiny. Ycu begin life with a new century which is to be more luminous than the one which has just sunk behind the; western hills. Our country is growing better, not worse. We hear much of the evil tendencies of the times, of retrogression, but all countries and all times have had those persona who look only upon the dark and dismal eide of things. "Ever since I began to make ob servations upon the state of my country, ''I have been seeing nothing but growth and hearing of nothing but decay. The more I contemplate our noble institu tions, tbe more convinced lam tbat they are sound at heart, tbat they have noth ing of age but its dignity, and that their strength is still tbe 6treDgth cf youth." This utterance is admirably suited to the hour, We are decadent. We are the inheritors of the wisdom of all the centuries past. We are m tbe midst of virile youth, No great vice lies at the root of our growth, which promise to lay in ruins the motchless fabric of our icstitutions. 1 hose who Ebail comb hither in future years nad perform the services ' which we perform today will speak with a profounder wisdom than we possess. They will tell of triumphs in the way of knowledge, of virtue and of patriotism that are beyond the limits of onr present vision. Historian, poet and orator will not tell of decay and ruin, but of wholesome growth and expanding power. How's This f We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case ot Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props , Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known t J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm, West & Truax. Wholesale Druggist, Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnun & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon tbe blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Testimonials free. Hall' Family Pills are the best. DISSOLUTION, We have this day, by mutual consent, dissolved the firm ot D. C. Smith Sons i.nd D. C. Smith is to pay all of said firm's accounts up to date and he to receive all money and outstanding accounts of the said firm of D. O. Smith & Sons. Jun 17, 1901. D. O. SMITH. C. E. SMITH. dt3wtl E.G. SMITH.

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