Plymouth Tribune, Volume 1, Number 43, Plymouth, Marshall County, 24 July 1902 — Page 2

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I'eiepuoiie No. -7. OFFICE In Bissen Block. Corner Center nd La port e Street. fcDVEBTISING BATES will be mad known on application. Entered the Posto&ce at Plymouth. Ind.. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION: One Year In Advance $1.50; Six Monthsjrs cents; Three Months 40 cents.dellvere J at any postoffice. Plymouth, Ind., July 24, 1902. THE STATE TICKET. Secretary of State. DANIEL. L. STOKMS. Auditor of State. DAVID E. SUEUK1CK. Treasurer of State, NAT U.HILL, Attorney General. CHAKLEb W. MILLER. C"lrk Supreme Court. ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction. F. A. COTTON. State Statistician, BEN J. F. JOHNSON. State Geoloelst. W. S. BLATCHLEY; Judge Supreme Court, Fifth District, JOHN U. G1L.LETT, Judges Appellate Court, FRANK R. EORY.J U. Z. WILEY, W.J 11 EN LEY. JAMES K. BLACK, I W. COMSTOCK, W. E. ROBINSON. COUNTY TICKET. Representative In Congress, ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRICK Representative, , PETER, HEIM. Auditor. PETER! D. BURGENER. Clerk, FOSTER GROVES. Treasurer, WM. II. CONGER. Sheriff. ELMER E. WILSON. Surveyor. MILTON BECK. Coroner, DR. NILS S. LINDQUIST. Commissioner FirstDistrict GEORGE STOCK, Commissioner Second District, JOSEPH CO Alt Edison has an article in a July magazine in which he assures the public that his newly invented electrical battery for automobiles and small power is an undoubted success. It promises to become the cheapest and most available power for street cars, automobiles etc. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad managers, following other roads, announce that $25,000,000 will be expended in improvements during the next two yean. Such an expenditure would have been impossible a few years ago, but now, under thejmproved conditions of the country, It is not a subject of general comment. Former Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith says that the United Stateswas saved from a terrible blunder by the selection of the Panama route for the isthmian canal, and he gives all the credit for the action of congress to Senator Hanna, whose speech, he declares, was one of the most masterly ever delivered in the senate. The democratic papers which persist in calling Bryan the "wrecker of democracy" are not doing their party any good although they are partly telling tho truth. Bryan and his supporters wrecked the party, but they constitute about four-fifths of all the democrats in the United states and Bryan is a powerful force in the democratic party whether he gets another presidential nomination or not. The American Can company, which was organ zed a few years ago to make all the ti. "ans needed in the country, is probably doing so, but it nevertheless is rot a great success financially. Its common stock, which was understood to be nearly all wind or water, is quoted at 10 or 11 cents, while its preferred stock, which was supposed to represent the actual value of the plants absorbed when the trust was organized, is down to 53 cents. The debt c f the state of Indiana may be paid off practically before the close of the present administration. One part of the state debt cannot be paid off before 1915, a sum amounting to 81,085,000; but Governor Durbin hopes to clean up all the rest by the time he is ready to go out of of fice. The state will then be in a good financial condition as it will be an easy matter to get enough money together in ten or eleven years to pay the other $1,035,000 held against the state. The South Bend Tribune says that Governor LaFollette, of Wisconsin, is not a safe man to tie to. lie is a shrewd politician in managing his own interests but that is about as far as his ability goes, and when the repub licans of Wisconsin turn their backs upon a man like Senator Spooner and swear allegiance to one like Governor LaFollette they are doing wrong and such action will endanger the success of the party at the polls next fall. The same line of reasoning might be applied in the Thirteenth congression al . district. Eight usually makes

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The South Bend Times, one of the leading democratic papers of Indiana, despairs of harmony in the democratic party. It says: Men who believe alike on the main questions before the people belong together under one party roof. There can be no harmony when "political views are so widely divergent as are those held by Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Bryan. If Mr. Cleveland's definition of democracy is correct, William Jennings Bryan cannot be regarded a democrat. And if Mr. Bryan correctly defines democracy, G rover Cleveland certainly is rot a democrat. How, then, can these two men pose as apostles of one and the same political party?

The unexpected happens rapidly in the (highest court circles as well as elsewhere. Instead of witnessing one of the greatest royal spectacles in the world 's history the British public is reading medical bulletins from King Edward and Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, both of whom are confined to their rooms. At the same time, Lord Salisbury, three times premier, retires by resignation from his high office and his nephew, A. J. Balfour, is his successor. If Mr. Chamberlain had ambitions in that direction he was disabled at the critical moment. Sir Michael Ilicks-Beach, at the head of the British financial department, has also resigned, and some of his steps leading toward a restoration of protective taxes may De modified. Sickness seems to legislate as well as war. BRYAN'S SIMILE. While Mr. Bryan was speaking in Iowa town recently a local democrat interrupted him by asking if he would support the next democratic candidate for president In case the national convention of 1904 should nominate a man who did not vote for him in 1896 nor in 1900 and should adopt a platform entirely ignoring the Chicago and Kansas City platforms or in opposition to both. Mr. Bryan was ready instantly with his reply. Leaning forward, with the characteristic Bryan smile illumining his face, he said: My friends, it -has always been considered bad taste for the sons to gather about the table and divide the old man's property before the corpse is interred." Mr. Bryan evidently thinks the democratic party is dead, and he wants the corpse decently .interred before a division of the party is made. He considers himself the custodian of the party and believes the funeral is now being held, and the corpse will be interred before the opening of the campaign of 1904. When the estate of the party is pro bated he hopes to get most of its as sets and expects to be the leader of the new yarty that will be organized in opposition to the republican party. Hunting an Issue. Chairman James Matthews Griggs of Georgia, according to Washington dispatches, has postponed the meeting of the democratic congressional committee, called for today, until the party leaders can reach some agreement on what are the issues of the campaign. Meanwniie Mr. Griggs is to tour the West in search ot an issue. The democratic party evidently is In a state of great destitution as re gards issues. Of course, Senator Carmack still clamors for a campaign of vituperation i gainst the American soldier. But a 1 democrats of sense understand that it is impossible to make the American people believe that their own kinsmen are bloodthirsty brutes and a parcel of Malay brigands are whole-souled patriots. Mr. Griggs himself was inclined to look on the trust as the paramount is sue. Uut benator Dubois, wno nas retained from his former republican affiliations some political perspicacity, points out that while democrats have talked republicans have worked to regulate the trusts. Furthermore, Mr.' Dubois remarks, in the vernacular of his adopted state, Boosevelt has jumped that claim, ,and there is no use in the democratic party trying to wash the tailings." And so it goes alljalong the line. Of course, 16 to 1 will not do, for even Mr. Bryan has ceased to utter more than formal protests against the crime of '73. The.tariff can be touched only in the most general way, for popular memory of the disasters that followed the last democratic attempt at tariff tinkering is too fresh. What the democracy most needs is the confidence of the people that, if intrusted with power, it will not wreck the nation. The people wish to be assured that democratic success hereafter will not mean, as it did in 1892, the paralysis of industry. They wish to be assured that it will not mean, as it would have meant in 1896, national repudiation. They wish it to be assured that it will not mean, as it would have meant in 1900, the sacrifice ot the fruits of war and the hauling down of the flag. When the democracy can show the American people that it is animated by common sense, common honesty, and common Americanism, It will have no difficulty in finding issues upon which it can command respect. But until it gives these assurances it will continue to be a party without issues, whose leaders are mere howlers in the wilderness. Inter Ocean.

A New Prison Industry. Some of the wheat-growing states think they have discovered a solution of the convict labor question by the establishment of binder twine plants in the state prisons. Binder twine is an indispensable article for the farmers, the amount consumed in the United States being nearly 200,000,000 pounds a year. It is all manufactured by a trust, except what is produced by three prison plants in Minnesota, North Dakota and Kansas, and it is claimed that competition with a trust product avoids the objection of organized labor." The Kansas twine. plant in the state prison was established in 1898 at a cost for machinery of $40,000, and an appropriation for rrnning it. The result was a net profit this year of $1 "3,000, and an estimated saving to the farmers of the state of the same amount in the reduced price of twine. The trust price of twine in Kansas this year was $2,200 a car load while the prison plant charged only $2,000 a carload. As Kansas farmers use about 8,000,000 pounds of binder twine every season a saving of 2 or 3 cents a ponud is a material gain. A prison industry that antagonizes a trust and benefits the farmers at the same time has something to commend it. .Indianapolis Journal.

Bryan Sends an Apology. William Jennings Bryan has sent an apology to the Tilden club, of New York, for his public announcement that he had received no Invitation to the clubhouse opening, when Grover Cleveland and David B. Hill delivered their speeches for party harmony. The letter says in part: "Through the oversight of a clerk in ray office I did not see the invitation sent by your club and didn't know until last Wednesday that one had been received. On that day I received a telegram from my secretary, addressed to me aü Aberdeen, S. D., saying such a communication had been found. 'I regret exceedingly that it did not come to me before the time, for while I would not have thought proper to accept, I would have acknowledged the courtesy and given my reason for declining. Harmony is only possible between those who desire the triumph of the same principles and politics. It is quite evident that Mr. Cleveland's supporters are nearer to the republican party than the democratic party. " The Wrong Theory. All the late strikes of any importance seem to be for the establishment of a theory that can never obtain. They arc not for the preservation of the right of labor to organize, not for the recognition of unionism itself, but for the establishment of the rights of unions to dominate the business of employers The coal strike in Pennsylvania this year and the steel strike there last year had that as the dominating principle on which they based their action. The strike of freight handlers in Chicago had the same pretense. The question of wages is secondary, the question of right to dominate the acts of employers is paramount. With such a basis strikes cannot win. Arbitration is absolutely impossible in such an issue. Unionism is all right in itself, in its effort to raise the standard of wages and the standard of labor, but when it pre sumes to dictate to the employer his policy of refusing employment to any man or class of men it presumes too much and will fail from the moral and industrial weakness of such a proposition. Elkhart Review. Coal Strike Conditions. The frank confession of suffering among the miners is pitiful, but indisputable evidence that the anthracite strike is disintegrating. From no rource in sight, or likely to be discovered, can the means needed to feed the idle anthracite miners and their families be had. All that the soft coal miners can contribute for this purpose will go only a very little way toward meeting the needs of families who have had no wage incomes for nearly three months, and whose savings have melted under the drain of daily expenses. We are sincerely sorry for the unfortunate victims of misplaced conOdence in the leaders who deceived them with promises of impossible triumphs over their employers, and made them believe that to ask for what they did not want and did not expect would add dignity to the position and help establish the power of organized labor. New York Times. Civil Service Barnacles. Anyone who has had occasion to visit the departments; at Washington and to transact business with them understands full well that these departments are loaded down with barnacles who impede rather than facilitate the transaction of business. Secretary Shaw has said that In his opinion no clerk should be retained for a longer period than five years. There is a good deal to be said in favor of this suggestion. Certain it is that a general overhauling of the Washington departments has become an imperative public duty. South Bend Times.

Ex-President Not Popular, Most of the democrats in congress sincerely dislike Mr. Cleveland. They cling to the view that he wrecked the party and are disposed to resent any advice from him as to the best wav m to bring about rehabilitation, but this view comes largely from the southern wing of the party. The criticism occasionally offered bv northern democrats is based on different grounds. They believe thoroughly as a rule in the sound money doctrine of the former president, but dislike him for the qualities which some republicans ascribe to Roosevelt stubborness and an aversion to machine politics. Moreover there is a firm belief in certain quarters that Mr. Cleveland is a candidate for the democratic nomination in 1904. Those who feel no personal hostility to Cleveland express the opinion that his speech was timely and well considered in every respect. It was delivered with true Cleveland dignity, was earnest in its expression for harmony and democratic rehabilitation, and full of suggestion for democratic effort. Washington Post.

Labor as a Reformer. Each party is willing to use the labor organizations for its own benefit. Lator has everything to lose, nothing to gain, by hitching itself to party go-carts. The men ought to be free to vote with whatever party they individually please to approve according to its platform and morals. The labor organizations of New York state have refused to permit a saloon-keeper to be their official head. This also is creditable. Saloon-keeping is under the control of the law on account ot its too well demonstrated dangers, as shown by the relation between intemperance and crime. The people have a right to drinking resorts as regulated by law. But the associations of the drinking resort, with which gambling and other immorality ' are notoriously intimate, are not of a kind to inspire an honest man with a wish to bring his sons and daughters into them for consultation about labor questions or other than tippling questions of any kind. Corrupt politicians have allied the saloon familiarly with the intrigue and jobbery of politics. The saloonkeeper has rights which are protected by law, but his employment is of so dubious a nature on account of its associations that labor organizations will be highly respected if they will use their influence to diminish the political activity of the saloon-keeper. His business morally disqualifies him to sit in municipal councils, which are too much under debasing influence without his help in debasement, He ought never to represent the people on labor boards, on boards of education on charity or benevolent boards. If the organized labor unions of the United Slates will lesson the dominance of the professional politician outside politics and of the saloon-keeper outside the saloon they will confer an inestimable benefit upon the country. They will find the benefit largest within the progress of their own movement. Chicago Chronicle. Gen. Smith's Punishment. Gen. Jacob II. Smith, "hell-roaring Jake, " has been reprimanded by the president and placed on the army retired list. He has been a good fighter in his day, but he carried the war in the Philippines a little too far when he issued his. famous order, "I want no prisoners, I wish to kill and burn; the more you kill and burn the better it will pleas me." This was a verbal order, but the president in reviewing the findings of the court martial that tried General Smith characterizes it as intemperate and not in accordance with the rules of civilized warfare. That it was not to any great extent carried into effect is due to the good judgment of Gen. Smith's subordinates, who with few exceptions took a sensible, hutiane view of the case and did not consider they were under obligations to follow the commanding officer's instructions to the letter. In the case of Major Waller, who has been found guilty of carrying out Gen. Smith's order, there are extenuating circumstances, it having been learned that by reason of hardships and sufferings during his forced marches through the jungles, deprived of food and water and fighting insurgents ail the time, his mental faculties became unbalanced and he was not wholly responsible for his actions. South Bend Tribune. Burmese Midgets at Elkhart The Elks, of Elkhart, buve secured the Burmese midgets for the carnival which will be held soon. These are the two smallest human beings alive. Fatma is 21 years of age, 20 inches high and weighs 11 pounds. Smaun is 19 years old, 24 inches high, weight 12 pounds. The little couple are brother and sister andca me from East India. They were discovered by pearl fishers. The midgets worked taking care of goats and fishing and were not regarded by the people of their country as very great curiosiaies, consequently they Svere easily procured and sent to Germany, where they attained the artistic ability and athletic skill which they possess. Tell your neigboors abor.t the good qualities of The Tribunk.

Manna and Gompers at Winona. The people of this section of the state will have their opportunity of hearing Hanna speak at Winona Lake the latter part of this month, but not along political lines. Hanna has of late attracted world wide attention bv his attitude toward and by his suggestions how capital and labor can best work to their mutual interests. It is on this theme that he is to speak before the Winona Assembly, Monday, July 28th. Additional interest will be given to the event by the presence Of Samuel Gompers, president of the American federation of labor, who will speak following Hanna. In his line Gompers is quite as much a giant as is Senator Hanna, as he has. all the great union bodies of the country at his command. Gonpers is as interesting as a talker as is Senator nanna and is one of the most accomplished men before the American people todav. He is able to address his tradesmen fluently in six different languages and can hold conversation in a halfdozen more. This is of incalculable value to a man in his position, and this statement gives some idea of the ability of the man who wields the scepter of labor.

Shaw's Remedy for Intemperance. The new blood in the cabinet is showing a disposition to upset some of the old-time notions. The story of how Secretary Shaw dealt with an employe who was in the habit of getting drunk is to the point: This man had been in one place along time. lie had deen dismissed frequently, but had always been taken back because "they couldn't get along without him." He fell by the wayside on the Fourth of July, and, as usual, was dismissed. In a few days the chief of the division saw Secretary Shaw and suggested that Smith be taken back. "I thought we dismissed him," said the secretary. t4We did, but we have always taken him back because we can not get along without him." "Suppose he should die?" said the secretary. "Then we should have to learn to do the work he did" "Well, just consider that Smith is dead." said the secretary. Accident Near Donaldsou. Charles Williams, a brakeman on the construction train under charge of Conductor II. L. Greenlum, Thursday afternoon at 5:15, while "polling" cars at Donaldson, was caught be tween the stake and car, injuring the chest and back, compressing the lungs and heart.. "Polling" cars is strictly against the rules of the comany. The company's surgeon was called, who found the injured man suffering from a severe shock, and owing to the fact that his condition was considered too critical to send him to Fort Wayne, he was taken to the Ross house, where Dr. Aspinall gave him his personal attention until the reaction had taken place for the better. The injured man was taken on No. 20 Friday afternoon to Fort Wayne, to St. Joseph hospital, and if no unforseen complications arise he will soon recover. State Board in Session. The state board of tax commissioners has entered the wilderness of taxation for a period of forty-five days. Each member took oath to assess property as the law provides. Senator A. I). Ogborn, of New Castle, was elected stenographer, and Frank Martin as deputy state auditor, was chosen secretary. Senator Ogborn was the only applicant for the position of stenographer. He will receive $5 a day and 30 cents a page for transcribed matter. The first twenty days of the session will be spent assessing property on which the board has original jurisdiction; the next fifteen days will be devoted to appeals from county boards of review, end the last ten days to appeals from the action of the board the first twenty days and final adjustments. Corn and Oil Dealers. It Is said that the discovery that the Standard Oil Company was selling the Gates coterie corn at the highest price caused it to get out of its corner. The agents of the Standard had told Gates that they were purchasing for its glucose works when, in fact, they were buying the real thing to sell and deliver to Gates. It was the discovery of the game of the Standard Oil Company to load the Gates combination with real corn that caused it to quit. Now Gates is amusing people by saying that "the Standard Oil is an enemy to the country, so that anything like legitimate business is impossible. She Stood on Her Head. Another ot Dowie's followers has gone crazy and will be sent to the insane hospital at Logansport. The victim Is Ella May Stokes, whose hallucination is that she has committed an unpardonable sin and that, according to her religion, she must stand on on her head several times a day. She performed the duty with regularity and loud protestations ot faith. She was the agent of Dowie's Leaves of Healing at Logansport, and visited saloons in order to sell her papers.

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