Plymouth Tribune, Volume 2, Number 3, Plymouth, Marshall County, 23 October 1902 — Page 4

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DO NOT TRADE YOUR VOTE. "While the democratic party has a large majority in this county some of the democratic candidates fear defeat and they have found some republicans who are foolish enough to think that the republican congressman is In danger of being defeated. Tbee democratic candidates believe that there is no possibility of the election of a democratic congressman and they propose that their friends shall vote for Mr. Brick in return for votes for democratic candidates in Marshall county. No republican should be caught by this scheme. Let every republican stand by his county ticket. No better ticket was ever presented to the voters of Marshall county than the present republican ticket. Every man is a gentleman, honest, moral, industrious, capable. Almost every man of them was born in Marshall county and all of them have achieved success by honest toll. It is a ticket of which every voter should be proud and not one of them should be traded. This congressional district has a rerublican majority of 2,500 voters. The only democratic counties in the district are Marshall and Pulaski. Kosciusko county's republican majority is larger than the combined democratic majorities of Marshall and Pulaski counties, consequently democrats cannot expect lo reach Elkhart and St. Joseph counties more 'than even. These two counties gave the republican candidate for congress over 2,400 majority two years ago. They are his hom? counties the counties that refuse to divide their votes for the candidates of any other county and in convention stand solidly for Mr. Brick. They have a majority of all the votes in the district and can nominate whom they please and elect wboni they want. If the republican candidate cannot carry those counties there is not a republican in Indiana whu would want him elected. Marshall county democrats understand the situation and republicans should make no trades igainst any man on their county ticket.' Anti-imperialism as an issue has in rme mysterious way disappeared. It cr i a crreat boirv for a time. It was - o - something to conjure with for awhile, but now it lies beneath the sod. PensionCommissioner Ware has promoted a clerk for doing his work well and not asking favors. It is to be hoped that every employer in the land will take the pension commissioner's plan under advisement. When a democrat begin?; to talk about tariff refcrm he gets right down to business in declaring the tariff a tav and goes on talking, about the people "taxing themselves rich." Somehow a democrat can never learn anything about a tariff from exper ience. It is only from a theory that he can reason. With a large and increasing surplus the government cannot make better use of some of its spare funds than by purchasing available bonds, thereby reducing the public debt and the annual interest account and putting in circulation funds which might as well be buried in the ground as locked up in the subtreasuries. As might have been predicted, the capitalists who went into west African enterprises with King Leopold of Bel gium have acquired a large visible supply of experience, while his maj estv hrs added comfortably to bis m bank account. If Leopold had not been born to the purple he would have done well as chief engineer of a coal trust. After Toting three times against accepting a temporary 25 per 'cent, reduction in wages the tin workers of Anderson have finally reconsidered their former action and decided to accept the reduction. It is d )ne in order; as the employers aver, to enable them to secure certain large orders against the foreign manufacturers and enable them to keep their mills running full time. The action of the workmen is generous, and It is hoped they may get their reward. The question of indorsing the action of President Roosevelt in appointing an arbitration committee to settle the strike may come before congress, It will take some time for the commission' to complete its work, "There is no provision for paying any of its necessary expenses or even compensating the commissioners for their personal expenses, which, for the time at least, will have to come out of their own pockets.

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worth $68,000,000, by- independent steel companies of Pittsburg, is thought to foreshadow a tight with the steel trust. "Any politician can draw a platform, but it takes a statesmau to draft a law." So said Secretary Shaw in his Tomlinson Hall speech, and political history proves it. The question of the reinstatement of miners who voluntarily relinquishtheir jobs by striking has now be come one of the issues between them and the operators, anl, therefore, a question for the arbitration commission to settle. Mr. Mitchell evident ly saw that the question has passed beyond the control of the union, and he was therefore very guarded in what he said on that point. The operators have pledged themselver not to dis charge nonunion men on that ground; and tne commission will probably de cide that they are right. The anthracite miners have, by a unanimous vote, declared the great coal strike ended and it was officially announced that the 147,000 miners would report for work Tuesday morning. There was rejoicing in every home in the hard coal country not only among the miners but among a vast army of citizens whose interests have beed Involved. Many of the ablest men of the nation believe that this is the last great conflict between capital and labor and that differences will hereafter be adjusted without strikes. JOHN R. JONES FOR CLERK. Tue Independent-Democrat has an article on John R. Jones the democratic nominee for county clerk. The article is made up from the letter that Mr. Jones sent out to democrats when he was asking for the nomination: but the Democrat omits a part of that letter which was signed by Mr. Jones as follows: I will say to the democrats of Marshall county that I think that I am not asklng'too much in seeking this nomination over the present Incumbent, who has been in the court house practically all his life and who said four years ago in his canvass, after a twelve year deputyship, if the voters would give him one term of the office proper to wind up his career in the court house he would feel satisfied. Now, the voters came to his rescue and gave him the office proper. But it seems Mr. Brook has had a change of mind and is sending out letters setting up the plea that be is not asking anything 'unreasonable or unusual" to ask the democrats to place him back in office for another four years? Now dear voter, while this not any-thing'-unusual," for I cannot remember when tha, Brook's regime in the court house began, does it not occur that it is unreasonable arter a family reign of over 30 years, and have received for such services the sum of $36,480.00 I am sure the party cannot possibly extend this courtesy to each democrat who is worthy of recog nition. Jones evidently thinks that demoocratic office holders make an Immense amount of monev, and intlmates that he will be satisfied with a little less than $36,000 for the Jones, family. The voters should elect Foster Groves county clerk. He is the right man for the place. Treasurer's Letter to Taxpayers, Treasurer O'Keefe has sent out a letter to the tax-payers of Marshall county in which he says: "The sal ary of the county treasurer is fixed by law and the interest any treasurer re ceiv.es on the people's money from banks of deposit belong to the people and not to the treasurer." This statement is correct. There is no law on the statute books that gives the treasurer the right to keep inter est. Every paper in Indiana, repub lican, democratic and independent, that has taken the trouble to look up the law has called attention to this fact. The first papers which called at tention to this law so far as we observ ed, were the Elkhart Review and the Goshen Times, both republican papers. These papers declared several months i go that no Elkhart county treasurer had been allowed, any interest since the retirement of Holderman, who was a defaulter. Treasurer O'Keefe is simply comply ing with the law in turning interest on deposits into the county treasury. Every man who is elected treasurer takes an oath to obey the laws gov erning his ' office. , If Mr. Vink and other predecessors of Mr. O'Keefe violated the law and fleeced the people of Marshall county, their successors will not be allowed to do so. Treasurers in most of the counties of Indiana declare that they receive no interest on deposits. The writer of this article has for more than twenty years called attention to the fact that heavy tax levies were made in the interest of county officers; and for years we were roundly abased for making such statements, but we have the satisfaction of knowing that our persistent hammering has prevented many big steals and reduced the perquisites of county. officers and "hangers on" thousands of dollars annually, and it is refreshing' to have a democratic county officer indorsing our position. Mr. O'Keefe has only dons his duty done what he is sworn to do.

The St. Lonis Globe-Democrat quotes these lines from a late speech of Governor Cummins and says that they embody "the real Iowa idea," "The democratic party has never confronted a serious difficulty from which it did not recoil, never met a duty that it jdid not shirk and never encountered a responsibility that it did not evade."

Senator Beyeridge. Senator Beveridge who will speak in this city Monday, Oct. 27, in the afternoon, is one of the finest orators in America and all of his meetings this year ha ye been largely attended, but there have been no noisy demonstrations. One strong point in the senator's speeches is that while he presents his own cause clearly and forcibly he does not waste any time in abusing bis opponents. For that reason many democrats attend his meetings, and if they go away to vote the democratic ticket they carry with them a respect for the man who can discuss issues without assailing the men who oppose him. It is a feature in political speaking which all speakers can adopt to the advantage of the cause they represent. Necessity of Combinations. We unite men in labor unions because they are then combining their mental and social forces for better individual development. We protect them by law and give them legal footing. We combine men of brains with Inert capital, with machinery and with labor and we call them industrial combinations. We authorize them by law because we see their necessity and recognize their value, " The democratic theory is in bnef to prevent capitalistic combinations and destroy those that already exist. Because bad results follow some of them all must be obiterated. We protect the inventor, and we encourage the introduction of the machine. Yet these machines sometimes kill. So we make laws to govern their use, compel the employer to put safeguards about them, but do not compel him to smash the machine. That would be destruction. We make combinations to regulate governments, but because some of the acts of government are not to our liking we do not decry all government and seek to destroy it. That is anarchy. We make rules to govern labor unions, but we do not destroy them because some of them go away trom their principles. That would be unjust. We should make laws to correct the evils of combinations, but not to destroy them. , They are as necessary as the atmosphere, in modern methods and like the atmosphere, need purify ing, but not obliteration. Elkhart Review. The Beef and Cattle Question. . The tariff on cattle does not keep out of the American market animals fit for beef, but an inferior quality of of young cattle. The tariff oa beef does not keep out of this country the few fat cattle that Canada raises, be cause they are shipped to England All the while that prices of beef have been so high the United States has been exporting to England a. great deal mora meat than Canada, a corn less country, has been sending abroad. Canada is a country with 6,000,000 in habitants, and about 2,000,000 in the pari, or it mai can raise , cattle at a considerable cost. It can never be come a cattle-producing country be cause of its long winters and its lack of corn. As for Argentina, its cattle are so Inferior that they find a limit ed .demand in Great Britain. The United States is the greatest meat producing country in the world. For a number of years it was not a profit able industry for farmers, and the greatly increased demand at home and in Europe since 1896 found the country with a limited supply, particularly of fat . cattle, due largely to the short corn crop o 1901. Free trade in cattle just now would not make meat cheaper, since prices are higher in Europe than here. Democracy's Dilemma. K Monday morning's - Chicago Inter Ocean contained a cartoon that tells the whole story of democracy's present dilemma. Miss Democracy, of uncer tain age, is pictured In the center of the stage in an attitude of despera tion because of her inability to keep step to the inharmonious music of an orchestra composed of D. B. Hill playiuga "free trade waltz" on the horn, W. S. Bryan playing "Pop Rag Time" with the cymbals; Tom John son playing a "socialistic "quick step" on the cornet, while G rover Cleveland is playing a "funeral march" on the bass drum. Why Henri Watterson was left out is not apparent, Carried Away in a Satchel. The skeleton of the only confeder ate soldier buried in Indiana was this week exhumed and taken to Tenuessee for final interment. T. J. Womack, brother of the dead soldier, collected the remains, which consisted of only the remains of the skeleton, and carried them away in a satchel. Womack was killed in 1863 on the fair ground hill near Cory don, when Mor gan mods his raid through Indiana.

A Flag Torn Down. We are sorry to record the fact that the flag staff on Whipporwill school house was torn off the building sometime between Friday evening and Monday morning and the stars and stripes of our country's flag torn into shreds. Whipporwill school house is in the north precinct of Green township and a few weeks ago somebody tore down the picture of "Our Martyred Presidents" which was hanging in the room, crumpled it up and put it in theutoveand carried off a picture of William McKinley which the teacher had hanging on the wall. A beautiful flag which had been donated by Henry Hand, an old soldier, floated from the flag staff during school hours, but every Friday evening it was taken down and placed in a dtsk until Monday morning, but the vandals who tore the flag staff from the building entered the school house and tore it into as many strips as possible., Perhaps the parties did not know that the laws of this state made them liable :to severe punishment, but it seems to us that any man who is fit to live in this glorious country would be haunted all his life by the recollection of such a deed even if the people never know who did it. And perhaps it will be better if the names of the culprits are never known for it would bring disgrace and shame to all their relatives and friends. We are sorry, very sorry that there are any persons in Marshall county who have so little intelligence or so little reverence for the flag of their country. The Wealth of George Washington. Whether Washington can be put into the envied category of millionaires no one can assert positively. According to the late Paul Leicester Ford, whosft work "The True George Washington," has received wide recognition, "the father of his country," when he died, was worth $530,000. This fortune did not include his wife's property, but. Jnevertheless, it made him one of the wealthiest Americans of his time, Ford adds: "And it is to bejuestioned if a fortune was ever more honestly acquired or more thoroughly deserved." John Adams, however, probably would have differed with Ford on this point, had the two ever come together. In one of his recurrent moods of bitterness and jealousy toward Washington Adams asked, "Would Washington ever have been commander of the revolutionajy army or president of the United States if he had not married the rich widow of Mr. Custis?" According to Mr. Ford it seems that he would, for he had achieved colouial military fame before his marriage. That the widow Custis was a desirable "partie" is not to be denied, however, as her part of the Custis property equaled "15.000 acres of land, a good part of it adjoining the city of Williamsburg; several lots in the said city; between 200 and 300 negroes, and about 8,000 or 10,000 upon bond," estimated at the time at about 20,000 in all. This property was further increased on the death of Patsy Custis In 1773 by a half of her estate. How Long Do Drunkards Live? More interesting and remarkable, perhaps, than any other disclosures made by Dr. Dana are those relating to the capacity of men for drink and the duration of life among habitual inebriates. On the latter point, the conclusions reached are that in some cases the duration of life is about fiften years the maximum being over forty years. In general, it is said that hard drinking can rarely be carried on for more than twenty years, and it generally brings the victim to grief at about the age of forty. Referring to persons who. drink most heavily and frequently, it is said that it takes ten or fifteen years to bring on dementia or insanity, during which time It may be estimated that each Inebriate consumes about two thousand gallons of ' Intoxicants. A man fifty-five years old confessed that he bad been drunk twice a day for three years, making about two thousand intoxications; another man of forty had been drunk weekly for twenty years, and a third, aged forty-three, had been drunk a thousand times in fifteen years. Two thousand "drunks" is set down as the maximum limit in any . ordinary Inebriate experience. The favorite combination for hard drinkers was found to be beer and whisky, and beer alone came well up in the scale.

Great is the Hoosier Hen. Indiana talks a great deal about her Bedford Stone production and the wealth of her glass industry. The Indiana chicken, through the summer months alone, distributes as much money in the state as all these industries combined. The Irish and sweet potato, and half a dozen of the cereal crops combined, fall far short in value of her production. According to the figures compiled by the government;, the value of eggs and poultry grown in Indiana last year was $15,000,000. Of that amount it was estimated that the egg crop was worth $7,892,215. According to the chicken census Indiana is credited with a population of 11,103,003 fowls.

MORUARY.

Samuel P. Henncks. Samuel P. Henricks, who has been suffering with a kind of cancerous affection of the jaw and stomach trouble for two or three years, died at his home near Oak Hill cemetery at 9 a. m., Sunday morning. He was a member of the Order of Woodmen of the World and they had charge of the funeral. The procession will leave the house at 2 o'clock p. m., Tuesday and the funeral sermon was preached at the U. B. church, with interment at Oak Hill cemetery, Deceased was about 55 years old and leaves a wife but no children. Mrs. Ephriam Fluke. Arvilla, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Shafer, was born In Marshall county near Lapaz, June 15, 1868, departed this life at her parents home in Lapaz Oct. 19. 1902 at 4:30 a. m., aged 34 years, 4 months and 4 days. She was united la marriage to Ephram Fluke June 26, 1892. To this happy union one child, Garnet, a little daughter, was born, June 30, 1895. Thev have always resided in Lapaz until last fall when thev moved to Manson, Arkansas. Shortly before their departure,- the mother was stricken with a complication of diseases. The change in climate did not improve her condition and she desired to be brought back to her parents home where she spent the remainder of her life. Her husband, and only daughter, Garnet, with her father, mother and sister, Mary, a foster brother, and many relatives and friends survive her and are deeply conscious of the loss they sustain. One brother, Lewis Otto, and two sisters, dura Lewvina and Estella Mae have preceded her to their final resting place. She united with the WesleyanMethodist church about eight years ago and was an earnest faithful follower of her Lord and Saviour, always willing to do for the least of God's children, mindful that a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple was remembered on High. She found real pleasure in communion and fellowship with her Saviour, as she attended the various services of her church or engaged in labors of love for others. Hers was a lovely fe and unassuming yet filled with the fruits of the Spirit. All who came in contact with her daily walk, realized that here was a true Christian spirit, the blessed assurance and exemplification of Christ's presence. Through all her suffering she was patient and cheerful and did not fully realize her physical condition until a few moments before her death. She passed peacefully away saying '.'Mam ma, I am trusting in my Saviour." The funeral services were held at the Methodist church Tuesday morn ing at 11 o'clock. Interment at Fair mont cemetery, Rev. Keys officiating. Catharine Burgener. Miss Catherine Burgener died at the home of her sister, Mrs. Elick, on what is known as the Burgener home stead farm, Tuesday night, aged 54 years. Deceased was the second daughter of the Burgener family and had been in declining health the past year. The funeral will be held at the Ger man Baptist church at 2 o'clock Fri day afternoon. Senator Mason on Trusts. Senator Wm. E. Mason of Illinois made an address in South Bend Monday night at the Auditorium, speak ing to a large audience. . Contrary to expectations he did not make any reference to his canvass in Illinois, but spoke for the party in Indiana. Re ferring to trusts the senator said: "1 believe tnat this nation neyer intended to bind itself to the consti tution so that it could not take care of itself. The question of trusts is indeed a great one, and we have a man today who is not afraid to take up the question and study it in a capable manner. Roosevelt showed his position when he took up the coal strike and if congress follows the suggestion of the president there is hope that trusts will not ruin this country of ours. Congress has the power to regulate trusts, and will do so." Liquor Dealers Oppose Intemperance. The National Association of Liquor Dealers closed their session at Washington last Saturday night and adopted the resolution declaring it to be the sense of the association that while they are uncompromisingly hostile to the theory of making men either virtuous or temperate by legislation, they are not opposed to temperance or to proper means tc prevent the immoderate use of intoxicating liquors. "We recognize the weakness of human nature, " the resolution states, "and are as ready as the readiest to lend our influence and efforts to the reform of the drunkard and to the curtailment of the evil resulting from excessive indulgence. This certainly shows that the temperance cause is making pro-

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