Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 30 January 1902 — Page 2

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Established October 10, 1901. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. R B. OGUnSBEH, BditOP. Telepnone Xo. 527. OFFICE in Bissell Block. Corner Center and Laporte Street. 1D7KBTI8INO BATES will tw made known on application. Entered the Postoffice at Plymouth, Iud.af second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In AJyance J1.50; Six Months 75 cents; Three Alonths 40 cents.dellvered at any postoffif. Plymouth. Ind., January 30, 1902. The spectacle of the four great powers of Europe quarreling among themselves concerning the intensity of their affection for the United States is gratifying to the courted party, even if it is a bit ridiculous. Miss Columbia is getting to be a big girl now. Two corporations formed to erect dams across the St. Joseph river have fallen into a row that became so unpleasant as to cause threats from the war department to ordr the removal of every bridge and dam on that river in Elkhart and St. Joseeph counties, thus affecting South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart most seriously. In appointing Judge Gillett, of Lake county, to succeedJudge Baker in the supreme court Gov. Durbin has made an execellent choice, but in this neck of the woods we think Judge Biggs, of "Warsaw, would have filled the bill fully as well and there is much disappointment, but no resentment. Ira S. Carpenter, who has long been associated with C. F. Robb in the ownership of the Michigan City 2sews, has sold his interest to II. K. Misener and retired from newspaper work. The paper has been highly successful and we anticipate equal prosperity under the new management. Mr. Misener has been citv editor of the m !News for some vears. The Mvniouth Democrat has had space to print twice a column article from the Chicago Chronicle, the text of w hich is that Roosevelt is "sadly deficient in the admiral qualities which go to make up a great character;" but it did not have space to print even once as much as two lines in praise of McKinley at a time when every other paper in the land was paying tributes of patriotic respect to a murdered President. This, says the Louisville CourierJournal, is the country of the individual, where every tub stands on its own bottom and wheie every man is given the opportunity to make money if he wills or do anything he prefers. Our millionaires have won their way in most cases w ith stout hearts and hard work, just as our statesmen, poets and artists have done. Emerson, in one of his rail-driving sentences, said no man should repine for what his soul desired. Let him take it and pay the price. He can do it in the United States as he can do it in no other country in the world. The Plymouth Democrat, which assuredly has the best possible means of knowing the facts, again confirms our reports concerning the Independent and its yappy little editor, who, says the Democrat, has been "unmercifully sat down upon" in every attempt to dictate in party affairs in this county, and it says: "If he had any standing in the party his idiotic course might do some harm; as it is, nobody pays any attention to his vaporings." We desire only to tell the truth in our statements about political matters and we rely upon the highest authority in reporting democratic meetings. The Independent habitually contradicts us while the Dexocrat's reports agree with ours. Plainly the Independett is a very ordinary liar. ROOSEVELT NO BLUNDERER. The politicians who thought Mr. Roosevelt a political blunderer because he departed from traditional rules have begun to wonder whether they have not been mistaken. They fancied he was au amateur at the game and so was bound to commit politic? hari-kari. "lie is kicking the party to pieces," said a leading congressman a few days ago. It is natural that men trained in the old school of politics should distrust a man who adopts original methods. But the President, says the Kansas City Star, has been using his present policy for years. It has been successful so far, and he will probably not fail in the employment of bis ideas on the great scale to which he is applying them. "When as a young college graduate Mr. Roosevelt went to the New York legislature he refused to follow in the rut of routine politics and the wise ones predicted a speedy end to his career. As a civil service reformer in the days when reform was unpopular he ruined himself again in the opinion of experienced politicians. Iiis conduct as police commissioner of New York was supposed to be another blow to his fortunes. In the larger field of thcoyeruorship ofl ewYork be struck cut en a r.0T7 lino end it vr-3 predicted

he would be retired to Oyster Bay. As President he has again jolted politics out of its rut. But it is becoming evident that he is not working ?n the dark, as his critics had supposed. He is showing a surprising knowledge of local conditions in his appointments. They are not blundered into. Now observers are beginning to speculate whether he is not obtaining a hold on various states which hostile politicians will not be able to shake loose. It would be no surprise to those who have watched Mr. Roosevelt's career to see him prove to be a politician of the highest order, and practical in the best sense of that term. So far the President's career has been a notable exemplification of the fact that high political ideals may be combined with hard sense and much sagacity.

One of the incomprehensible things in human life is that so large a proportion of people will grudge paying a reasonable fee to a properly qualified physician, but will cheerfully pay a great deal of money to any quack who comes along. The hardworking, faithful, honest doctor may have difficulty in making both ends meet, but therooras of the long-haired fly-by-night quack are full of patients and the patients are full of faith. Health fakirs of all kinds abound and the more preposterous a travelling mountebank is in his pretensions the more eagerly will his dupes shower their dollars upon him. The world dearly loves to be humbugged. No legislation can save the people from- their own credulity or from the sharpers who so easily play upon it. A state of mind cannot be legislated away and the state of mind that entertains, even encourages, the delusion of quackery in medicine can only be left alone to feed upon itself until the slow spread of common sense clears the delusion awav. The ways of the telegraph liar are perplexed and past finding out. Some time last November one of the most accomplished of the tribe sent to a Chicago paper a little pastoral idyll wherein it was alleged that an old man in this county who married a young woman discovered an infatuation between her and his grown son, whereupon he secured a divorce and helped the loving young pair to wed. This was extensively copied by Indiana papers, including those in this city (except The Tiubune), though a moment's investigation at the court house would have revealed the truth. The other day the original fabricator of the story ran across it again and, perhaps not recognizing it as the product of his own imagination, he dressed It up afresh, gave it a later date, and fired it in to the paper that first printed it, which reproduced the antiquated tale and started it on another round through the press. Tims do the metropolitan papers give "news." The agreement in committee that rural route carriers shall receive a salary of SC00 per annum is sure to be adopted by congress and it is a deserved recognition .of the value of arduous services rendered the public by a class of hard working men. GLADSTONE'S ERROR. Contemplating the enormous foreign and lomestic commerce that depends upon the manufacturing industries cf the United States and that has placed this country ahead of all the nations of earth in material prosperity, one moved to wonder what might have been the situation had the counsels given by the immortal Gladstone but a dozen years ago prevailed. lie was the inspired apostle of free trade and his classic defense of that policy and denunciation of protection had much to do with turniug this nation over to the free trade democracy in 192. He was compelled to admit and did frankly admit that his whole theory and argument rested upon the proposition that America should be a nation of farmers and that England should do the manufacturing. When asked what would become of our skilled and unskilled mill hands he said that some would find places in English mills but that the greater part could take land and raise foodstuffs for Europe. He died without explaining what would become of the farmers under such circumstances, or how they would be compensated for the decreased value of their lands that would inevitably follow, nor did he ever tell how laborers without means or without knowledge of agriculture could subsist on the wild lands of the west. But he saw clearly that when all is said done the first result of American free trade must be to close American fac-. torles and the next must be to drive the operatives to farms of their own renting, or to the county farms. Eyery theory that he advanced about protection has in recent years been completely negatived by the logic of cold facts. Now, is it not likely that Gladstone, honest man that he was, would, if living, admit his eror and say that the protection principle has been justified by events and that the present comfortable status of the United States is dependent upon it? T7e think he vrould.

HAS A POLITICAL ASPECT

Prince Henry's Visit 0! Great Importance in World Comitv. The Vienna newspaper that says the coming visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to this country has a political object, is correct. There need be no misapprehension on that point. And simply because the visit has a political object, it merits more attention from Americans than could be paid to the ordinary tourist of a European royal family. The object of the prince's coming to America is to bring the United States and Germany into more harmonious international relations and to make their respective peoples more cordial in their feelings toward each other. To effect or to further such an object is politics in the very highest sense; and, inasmuch as effort along this line, however undertaken, must help to sustain the peace of the world, by soltening international asperities, it deserves to be regarded with the utmost approval by the people of America. This country is highly fortunate in havh.g so largs a number of citizens of German extraction scattered over its vast territory, since by their solid worth the character of the German nation may be made known. Although Germany is ruled under a system which does not excite an American's admiration, it is a familiar fact in every American town that no European coming to the United States takes more readily to republican institutions than a German. The large German element in our population is really a safeguard of "the Republic. But. internationally considered, it is also a valuable asset in that it brings the two nations into closer popular touch find sympathy with each other. Just as there may be buffer states between great empires, so our population of German antecedents may be said to act the part of a buffer between the United States and Germany in any period of international irritation. Americans have a creat advantage over the British in this respect. During our late war with Spain, when friction between Dewey and the German admiral was reported in Manila bay, the situation was tempered to an important degree by the mere fact of our large German population and our widely circulated German press of NewYork, St. Louis and Chicago. Their whole influence was inevitably conservative in such a crisis. And so, too, in Germany t le motives of the people of this country in going to war with Spain were better understood because of the statements made directly to the German people by such men as Carl Schurz. But there is no influential German element in Great Britain, and the result is that the peoples of those countries are less able to understand each other. The bitterness against England now manifest in England might have been powerfully mitigated had England been the home of a large and influential German population. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. MET DEATH CALMLY Composure of Gen. Alban in Directing His List Fight. Just prior to the attack by the gunboats of the Columbian liberals upon the Colombian government steamers. Lautaro and Chucuito, in the harbor of Panama, General Carlos Alban, the former military governor of that district, who was killed in the engagement, was standing on the deck of the Lautaro trying to induce the chief engineer of that vessel to put out to sea immediately. This the latter declined to do on the ground that it would be imprudent with only himself, a blacksmith and three firemen, in his department. While discussing this point the first shot from the revolutionary gunboat Padilla struck the Lautaro. The Padilla was painted white. She was steaming due west with the sun's rays directly astern of her. Her crew and officers could see- clearly ahead of their vessel, while, owing to the sun's dazzling brightness, the Padilla, herself, was not seen from the Lautaro until she was within 400 yards of that ship. There were about 150 soldiers on board the Lautaro, and immediately the first shot was fired from the Padilla a stampede occurred among them. -But general Alban, retaining his composure, made the captain of the Lautaro take charge of the guns, which had been mounted on that vessel. He supervised eyerything himself until he was struck by the bullet that killed him. The captain was wounded in the leg. The Padilla had several of her crew killed or wounded, and is believed to have been much disabled. The steamship loa, belonging to the South American Steamship Company, the same line that owned the Lautaro, which was in the harbor of Panama at the time, rendered immediate assistance to the Lautaro, which subsequently sank. The body of General Alban has not been recovered. -

TANGLED LAWS

Remnants Lnd Raveling of Many Acts Obscure the Law. Speaking to the Indiana association of township trustees the other day at Indianapolis Attorney-General Taylor took occasion to remark upon the great confusion in which successive legislatures have left the statutory laws on some important subjects. The matter is of the utmost interest to all the people and Mr. Taylor's suggestions should be heeded. The utter confusion now prevailing between th3 road laws of Indiana, said, he, renders it practically impossible in the few minutes allotted, to even digest the road laws of the state. The remnants, more or less obscure and obsclete, of fully fifty road laws constitute a heterogenous mass of frills, ravelings and worn out bodies of road lr.ws, scattered all along from 1852 to the present time. Each legislature adds to the confusion by enacting a whole group of laws either amendatory, supplemental or original. It is no wonder, therefore, that township officers and county officers, when they get into the maze of road laws, become confused and do not know which way to turn. The fact is that the changing of the road laws have come to be so frequent that they do not stand long enough for a kokak operator to get a snap shot at them before they are revealed. What ought to be done is to have one road law covering every question connected with the laying out, con struction, maintenance and repair of all township, county and state roads, gravel, macadamized, turnpike or dirt; covering also the construction, repair and maintenance of bridges; and then repeal all of the fifty existing laws, and for once have a plain statute that anybody can read and understand, and let it stand long enough so that the people of the state can get used to it. About the time that the fanners of the state begin to understand a law, it is repealed and a new scheme is foisted on the people. Look at the fish law. Two years ago an act was passed encouraging the purchase of seines by licensing them. They were to be one hundred feet in length and were used practically everywhere in the state. During the two years after the passage of the law 1,333 seines were sold, pursuant to statute, and were licensed, and the state obtained the fee, and tne purchasers of the seines paid for their expensive seines. At the very next session of the legislature this law was repealed, and. by statute, not only the use, but the ownership, or having in possession of any one of these thousands of seines that the state had just licensed two years before, was made a penal offense, for the violation of which law a fine of 6200 and imprisonment for sixty days in the county jail could be affixed. The road laws in Indiana have met with no less sudden reverses. Two : years ago the statute provided for a board of turnpike directors, to consist of the members of the board of county commissioners. By that law the road supervisors were to '.lave entire charge of the reDair of all the roads in their respective road districts, under the direction of the board of turnpike directors. The road supervisors were to buy the material necessary for such repairs and to oversee and superintend the work and employ the laborers,and to pay $1.25 a day for a man and S2.Ö0 a day for a man with a team. The road supervisor was to receive $1.50 a day. But the legislature of 1901 repeals that law by implication and changes the whole scheme of the road law so far as it affcctsall gravel, macadam and free turnpike roads in the state. The act of March 11, 1891, is the latest general law on the subject of the location, construction and maintenance Of free gravel, stone, macadam or turnpike roads. This lav attempted to simplify, and does very greatlv simplify, the laws on the subject of the construction and maintenance of roads. The author was doubtless afraid to repeal all of the laws and make a general law on the subject. lest it should fail of passage. This much may be said, however, for this new law, that it is unsafe to attempt to construct any free gravel, stone or macadamized road or turnpike in Indiana on which bonds are to be issued without taking into account this law. The limit of 4 per cent of the taxable property of the township is still maintained. After they are constructed, under this law, they pass under the contro1 of the board of county commissioners for their maintenance." California-Oregon Excursions. Every day in the year. The Chicago, Union Pacific and North-West-em'Lir.c runs through first-class Pullman and Tourist. Sleeping Cars to points in California and Oregon daily. Personally conducted excursions from Chicago to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, leaving Chicago on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Lowest rates. Shortest time on the road. Finest scenery. Inquire of your nearest ticket asrent.

BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS

Notes and Gossip From the World of Letters. Sidney Colvin, Stevenson's friend, is reported to be "loaded for b'ar," and ready to take a shot at W. E. Henley as soon as he gets a good chance. The reported price of $26,000 paid by J. Pierpont Morgan for the "FaustSchaeffer Psalter" of 1459 is probably exaggerated, as it is the rule of the Quaritch establishment that neither the names of its customers nor the prices paid shall bo made public. An announcement which doubtless pleases the young people is that Ginn & Co. are to begin publishing in February a series of supplementary readers to be made up of material that has appeared and is now appearing in the Youth's Companion. The first of the series will be called "The Wide World," and will be devoted to child life in Japan, Egypt, Holland, France, Switzerland, Sweden, South America and Alaska. Henrv Harland, who made many friends by 4 'The Cardinal's Snuff Box, " will have a new novel out in March. It will be called "The Lady Paramount," and will be published by John Lane. Miss Mary Johnston's "Audrey," now running in the Atlantic, will be out in book form in March. The critics seem to agree that in style she is not excelled by any American, novelist. In this connection it is stated that Miss Johnson was steeped during her formative years in the classic English literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Moral: To become a successful romancer on American historical subjects steep yourself in classical English authors. The manuscript of the first Tagalof grammar for Americans is ready foi the press. With it is an EnglishTagalogand a Tagalog-English dictionary. The author is Dr. J. IL T. Stempel, who lived as a tutor in Manila under the Spanish rule. The volume was intended for university use only, but the acquisition of the Philippines by the United-States caused the author to publish it in a form that will be generally useful. "Why do people buy the popular novels'?" is a general question the publishers would be glad to have answered. The novel is a good deal like a play the publisher can predict its career no more than can the theatrical manager prophesy about a production on Iiis own boards. In this connection the publisher's of Gilbert Parker's "Bight of Way" have tried an interesting experiment. They advertised and asked the readers of the novel to write their reasons for buying the book. There were 1,480 answers from all over the United States and from Canada. These answers mav be tabulated as follows: Seven hundred ind eleven said they had heard it favorably spoken of by friends who had either read it serially or in book form; 4GT had seen it advertised or both advertised and reviewed; 114 had read reviews of it; 86 had read something the author had written previously and liked his stvle; 84 had read the serial themselves and wanted the book in consequence; 23 replies gave frivolous reasons. If the publishers can get anything definite out of this, they are more clever than he layman. When the answers ard analyzed, however, it seems apparent that the advertisement and the reviewgive anew novel its start Toward becoming popular. Concerning John Shoemaker. The death of John M. Shoemaker recalls the fact that he was the first jeweler and watch maker in Plymouth. He came here from Laporte in 1856 and established himself in a little frame building hastily erected for him on the C. H. Beeve lot on Laporte street, on that portion of the lot that is now vacant. Ten years later be was able to buy the flouring mill now operated by John Zarp. Mr. Shoemaker was an active, public-spirited young man and so impressed himself upon the people that at the age of 28 and when he had been here not yet three years he was made the democratic nominee for county treasurer in 1858 and vigorously canvassed the county, He was defeated by N. H. Oglesbee and the two men, who had traveled together over the rough pioneer roads of the county throughout the campaign, were warm personal friends ever after. The friendships that Mr. Shoemaker made as a young man in Laporte and Michigan City half a century ago were maintained until his death. It was characteristic of him that when, a few weeks ago, he sat down to write the leading dates and events of his career he was careful to give more particulars concerning his lifetime helpmeet than of himself.

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SOME BIG FARMS Several Large Land Owners in the Kan kakce River District The fourth largest farm in the state of Indiana is John Browns Lake county place of 12,000 acres and the whole is operated as one farm. In Porter county is the M. E. Reeves estate of 7,000 acres, operate J by Lee G. Howell. The Rurke ranch has ",- OOO acres and another large farm in Porter county is the W. E. Pinnev 000 acre tract, which he farms on the tenant plan. The Stowell farm of 2,000 acres comes next. The birrerest place in the state is just across the river B. J. Gi fiord's place fn Jasper county, to which he is adding the Nelson Morris place of 23,000 acres ad-! joining. A woman Mrs. Jennie Conrad farms. 7,000 acres in Newton county, and personally manages every bit of it. Drainage is making millionaires of many owners of land in the Kankakee marsh region. DANISH WEST INDIES Where Old Glory Will Next be Unfurled in Token of Sovereignty. ' The Danish West Indies, the pur chase of which, subject to the sanc tion of congress, has been agreed upon by the department of state, are con sidered of great strategic Importance, and especially so in view of our interest? in Cuba and Porto Rico. In fact their control by the United States is almost of imperative importance. President Grant saw their value and took steps to secure them, as well as Santo Domingo, in his first administra tion. St. Thomas, the largest of the is lands, is formed by a chain of high hills running east and west. It is thirteen miles long, measures three miles at its greatest width, and has an area of seventeen square miles. The sea surrounding this island is fill-

7Gf ed with small islets, called keys, which belong to it. About two miles to the northeast lies the island of St. .John, and some fortv miles to the s uith is t!;- tliird island, .St. Croix. r. lis it is perhaps more generally know Ii. Santa Cruz. The port of St. Thon::;s is a j;.od one, and 2oö vessels can aiiii) r therewith sifetv. Old Landmark Demolished. Tiie old St. Joseph Catholic church at Mihawaka, a landmark there for many years and the scene of many historic occasions of interest in church circles of northern Indiana, is being torn d .wn to make room for new buildings. In the forty years during which the church was in use there were at its altar 1826 baptisms, 2;4 marriages, 5"?0 funerals and about 1 7 "9 confirmations. Six priests said their tirt mass in the old church, among them being Rev. Simon M. Venn, paster of St. Michaels in this citv. who celebrated solemn high mass in July, immediately after his return from ordination at Rome. Runyan & Co. Receivership. The firm of Runyan & Co.. roadbuilders, concerned in the litigation recently occupying the time of Jude Capron's court on change of venue from Laporte county, has gone into the hands of a receiver as a result of that suit. About $80,000 is involved in the case and the partners disagreed as to certain phases of it. No Church or Saloon. Clintoti township, Laporte county, has within its borders neither a saloon nor a church and there has not been a pauper resident for over t wenty years. The town of Woodruff Place, in Marion county, has the same distinction and in addition it contains no place of business of any kind and every street is a beautiful boulevard. Dn1 Live ogether. Constipation and health never go together, DeWitt'e Little Early Rieer. promote easy action of the bowels without gripic? or distress, Are safe, a tr gentle, thorough. Purely vegetable. J. W. IIc:3,

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