Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 18, Plymouth, Marshall County, 4 February 1904 — Page 2

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Established October 10, 1901. Oaiy Republlcaa Newspaper In the County. HENDRICKS & CO., Publishers. OFHCE-B'.ssell Building, Corner LaPorte and CVnter fetrtets. Telephone No. 27. SUBSCRIPTION BATES One Year. In adduce. 11.50; bli Months. 75 cents; Three tenths, 40 cents, delivered at any postofflce ADVERTISING RATES made known on application. Catered at the poatoffiee at PI j mouth, Indiana, aa econd-class mall matter. Plymouth, Ind., February, 1904Walter Brown when arraigned before Judge Anderson at Indianapolis yesterday entered a plea of 'not guilty." His comrades In Marshall county Yockey and Pickerl when accused of changing the rural routes from Bourbon and Tlppecauoe entered pleasof "not guilty." Strange how the minds of great men run together. There is peace la Russia, peace In Japan, peace in Corea, peace in China, peace in Columbia, peace in Panama, peace with the republican senators fro ai Ohio, peace between Hanna and Booscvelt, peace everywhere except in the ranks of the democratic party. There all is turmoil, uncertainty, unrest and unbappiness. South Bend Tribune. The rural mail carriers will get an increase of salary. This is now definite and positive as any event can be In advaDce of its actual consummation. A poll ot the house cjmmittee on postoffices and postroads shows that the committee is practically a unit in favor of the increase. The exact amount is uncertain, hut it looks as it a straight increase from $600 to $750 a year for the standard routs will be about the extent of the advance. William Jenning Bryan, since his return to Nebraska, has made his position plain. lie. declares that the St. Louis convention must reaffirm the Kansas City plitform and add a few planks in harmony with it. The reorganizes who have been planning the construction of a platform which would not unduly conllict with anyone's nations and the nomination of a candidate without any preconceived ideas are naturally disgusted with a man who actually proposes that the Democratic party shall declare its innermost intentions. The Lincoln League of Indiana will bold its annual convention and banquet at Evansville on Feb. 13. From all appearances the attendance at this annual rallying of the younger republicans will be unusual. Railroads have made a half-fare rate plus 20 cents, tickets to be sold on the 12th and good returning until the loth. At the banquet evry congressional district la the state will be represented on the toast list. Information relative to tlie convention mav be obtained from George D. Ileilman of Evansville, secretary of the league. Cleveland is reported to have said, "Let him go it," when told tnat Bryan was still making trouble in the democratic party. It is believed the ex-president has been misquoted in this expression, as it does not sound like him as all. He never was known to use such short words or so few of them in making any kind of statement. Even when discoursing on bis favorite pastime of fishing, he invariably makes use of phrases as long as a string of suckers, and when referring to duck shooting he must needs call forth ?.1jectives and pronounes to join together and qualify sentences that are as lofty, usually, as the flight of the birds he seeks to slaughter. It it to be presumed that a denial of this "go it" expression attributed to the great man will soon be forthcoming. A poll of the Democratic memberShip of the bouse of representatives chows that 162 are against a reaffirmation of the Kansas City platform, 42 are non-committal, and 7 are in favor of reaffirmation. It is said that three out of four of the Indiana Democratic members privately express themselves asoppossinga reaffirmation, but all are in the non-committal column. A party that passes that sort of a verbiet on the wisdom of its owq threay ear-old conclusions and beliefs will hardly commend itself to the favor of the American voter. If Democratic leaders themselves say that they were wrong three years ago, what guarantee are they going to furnish that they are right now. Indeed, does not this confession of teck of sound judgment in KCD ccz :t!tut3 a good reason lt:z t3 lzzzz lzz.Zzzzzip ü cot cattle cf enunciating correct principles now?

The Worft Ol Hb Kind. On a magnificent estate in the richest part of Ireland, surrounded by an Immense retinue of servants and sustained to the last by every comfort money fcould produce, there just died an aged marquis. He had lived beyond the ordinary span of life allotted to human beings to the age when a good man shows the most marked saintliness of LJs character; wheu a

stateman's mistakes are forgotten and his services rnrgnified into wonderful deeds when a useful citizen becomes the Grand Old Man" and is revered by friends and foes alike. The Marquis of Sligo had arrived at this age, but at none of these honors of age. Sot a tear was shed by any of those thousands of tenants and retainers. None wished or dared to allude to his virtues, for he never had any; execrated and despised in life, he went to a dishonored grave. The memories he has left behind are memories of extortion and cruel wrong, of reckless vice and extravagance, of merciless dealings with the poor, and of all the worst traits eyer attributed to the Ijish landlord class. The Marquis of Sligo owned an es-: täte of 115,000 acres In the beautiful County Mayo. It was all inherited fiom bis father, and the legitimate Income of tbe estate and other properties was $15,000 a year. From the first year of his heritage he spjnt more than this princely income. For bis estate he cared nothing, for his tenants be cared less than nothing, but the nothing, but the money they furnished was necessary to his career of vicious recklessness. , So be ordered his agent to Increase the rents; and again and again the prices of tha miserable little holdings went up until they were tbe most exorbitant in all Ireland and that is saying much. The "crowbar brigade" of ruffians In the pay of Lord Sligo evicted the entire population of villages and pul led down the houses. Then followed terrible famine, want and disease. The "hunger sickness" swooped down on County Mayo like a plague, and of Sligo 's tenants alone several thousands perished. Thousands died because they were unable to furnish their lord with money for his dissipation and folly! He was responsible for the health and welfare of all these swarms of women and helpless babes he took all they bad on earth and left them to starve while he ate, drank and was merry with this blood-money. All this wa ia 1817 and the miserable years ,hat followed. Many of the old tenants Med to America and new ones finally took their place. These, too, felt the heavy hand of the rapacious landlord until 1878, when the marquis married a French lady of great wealth. He was sixty years old, but be spent more money than ever. But he stayed on the Continet and used his wife's money, and tbe oppressed tenantry got a little rest. The Marquis of Shgo was the worst of bis race perhaps he is the last. For with tbe new laws just passed, no great Irish landlord will ever again dare to do the things he did. The new century has dawned brightly for Ireland tbe land which for seven centuries has been oppressed by suoh men as tbe monster who has just died. A history of his life reads like that of one of tbe cruelest tyrants of mediaeval history, and he will long be remembered as they were, and reviled as a type of a rule that has passed away forever. Indianapolis Journal. Fads About Small Pox in Marshall Co. The authorities have no desire to conceal or exaggerate facts, regarding small pox. A careful survey of tbe field is made by the health officers, and at present there are eight families quarantined in Plymouth and two in the country. Upon proper information any person found violating tbe quarantine laws, or any person, whether quarantined or not who shall appear in the presence of others, away from their premises, with any sort of an eruption on their bodies, will be promptly arrested. Let all public buildings, where people congregate, such as court; house, school rooms, churches, banks, stores and even private dwellings be fumigated each night after business hours, and well aired each morning before business commences. No one need be afraid of the disease, if these pre cautions are taken, v Vaccj nation is perfect immunity. The few who have the disease aie not In danger, as tbev are not sick enougn to have a doctor . County Health Officer. The Little One's Health. Bad ventilation deforms -more children and destroys more health than accident or plague. There is reason to believe that not a few of the scrofulous diseases common among children proceed from the ignorant habit of being putto sleep in beds and perambulators with the head under the bed clothing, and so inhaling air already breathed and further contaminated by exhalations from the skin. Madam," said a doctor to a woman, 'you are smothering the life out of your child's lungs. How would you like to drink the water you wash in? Well, uhen you cover the baby's hzzd up you force him to use air that is juct zs tzA and just .3 impure. "

In Hanna' Confidence. , We have not regarded Senator Hanna as a candidate, We violate no confidence when we say that upon this point we have long and unreservedly shared the senator's views. We think we. may, without indiscretion, go even further and say that Hanna has never avowed to anyone, not even to himself, his Intention of becoming a candidate. With equal positlveness, and with the senator's own authority, we say that he has never pltdged himself to anyone and especially not to Mr. Roosevelt, in spite of what the newspapers with the protuding eyeballs assert, that he will not be a candidate for the presidency, if, at any time, he shall see fit to be a candidate. Tbe nearest that Senator Hanna ever came to giving a pledge was when he told Mr. Rooselelt, upon the latter's accession tu Mr. McKinley 's place, that he, Hanna, was ,4for him" so long' as he kept bis word to follow faithrully In the steps of his predecessor. New York Sun. Rural Mail Service Under Local Engagement After February I. Rural mail carriers will be affected by an important change that is to be made in the manner of examining applicants for positions in the rural carrier service. After February 1, all candidates in Indiana will be examined by local boards of the civil service commission, and wherever it is practicable the examinations will be held in the county seats. Under the present plan candidates are examined by either the inspector or ths special agent at the time the route is laid out. This has resulted in the assignment of many men to the examination of carriers when the officials say they should have been engaged in the work of extending the service. The officials are hopeful that congress will make an appropriation sufficient to enable them to employ thirty additional special agents. Witn facilities at hand Fourth Assistant Bristow recommends that he should be given help enough to enable him to install routes more rapidly than is possible with the present inadequate force.

Dangers of Hand Shaking. A savant has just published in Brussels a treatise on shaking hanus, which practice he pronounces to bei extremely dangerous. When two men clasp hands they exchange thousands of microbes, according to the Brussels gentleman's discoveries, there being an average of about 80,000 germs of various kinds upon every square half inch of the manly palm. It must not be supposed, however, that every hand is ns bad as that. Tbe Brussels savant admits that a maiden fair whose hands are soft and white may not have more than 40,000 or 50,000 microbes scattered over both of her palms. Hence we may conclude that holding her hands Is attended with but small risk to the bolder. But she, on her part, should be very carecareful. The Brussels savant says doctors, surgeons, nurses, hair dressers, barbers, butchers, sausage-makers, fipe merchants, tanners, and leather dressers have microby hands. There fore it is always best for a laay to make sure, before permitting a gentleman to take her bands in his and hold them fondly there, that he isn't a surgeon or a sausage-maker or a purveyor of tripe. To be absolutely on the sate siae she should never allow any men sate those who are metal workers to hold her hands. Metal workers, it has been found, have few microbes in their palms, since metal sets up an oxicatlon which acts as an antiseptic. The results of the Brussels savant's Investigation are exceedingly interesting and serve as a further proof that band-shaking is even as risky as it is foolish., Let us give up the habit rand so cease to cause thousands of mi crobes daily to be stricken with nostalgia. Humane considerations alone should be sufficient to make men relinquish this senseless practice. Ü. L 5. Elects Officers; i) The Eastern Str.r met at tbe Masonic Temple, Wednesday afternoon, and elected the following officers to serve for the current year: Mrs. Helen Tribbey, Pres., Mrs. Lottie Conger, Vice Pres., Mrs. Jennie Marks, Sec., Mrs. Carrie Tanner, Treas. Light refreshments were served by Mrs. Shambaughj Firestone, Redd and Kaszer. About seventy ladies and gentleman of the order were present. The ladies nave recently purchased a full set of china, glass and other articles for banquet purposes. Stricken With Paralysis. Andrew Keyser, one of Marshall county's old residents was stricken with paralysis, last evening. Mr. Keyser now lives on the old Palmer place near the city limits. Last evening he weut to the barn as usual to do the chores and was gone for some time, when his wife heard him moan. She went to the door and called to him, receiving no answer she went to tbe barn and found him in a state of unconsciousness. He was carried to the house and Dr. Loring was called. Tell your neighoors about the good qualities of The Teisttoe.

MISSION OF PRESS

Is to Persistently freach Patriotism as a Political Religion. SOCIAL SKEPTICISM IS RAMPANT Organized, Progressive Conservatism Finds Its Embodiment in the Republlcan Party, and Its Army cf the Press Must Cope Courageously With the Forces of Discontent and DissolutionThe Inner Significance of Present Political Tendencies. At the recent meeting of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association at Indianapolis, one of the notable addresses was .that of W. H. Sanders of Marlon on "The True Mission of the Party Press." In this address Mr. Sanders discussed, not the superficial, but the underlying drift of . political affairs, and his words deserve the reading of every thoughtful citizen of the state. Mr. Sanders said: One day last fall I had been wandering for an hour or more in the country, when rather unexpectedly I came to the top of a hill overlooking the city of Marion, my own home. Here was a scene that I wish I might describe, but I cannot, for I have neither the time nor the tongue. Think, though, of a sunny day with just enough' of haze to temper the glare into a softened light; In the valley the city; beyond the city the Mississlnewa, and beyond the river hills again, hills and trees; and thjs on a day after Jack Frost bad been among the trees just often eneugh to leave the handiwork of his Inimitable fancy. I say in the valley lay the city, but not that I saw much of It, for it was embowered In trees. Here and there was a spire, here and there a steeple, there a tower and there the glimpse of a home cuddled In among the trees. Here" were apparent serenity and tranquility. Not a person.was in sight. and yet I knew that within the range of vision there were twenty odd thousand human beings. Think of it twenty thousand human hearts more than a million heart-beats a minute: dynamic force to move the world, under this unruffled canopy of sunlight and haze and leaves. Here are all human hopes and fears; here all the experiences that can come to man. Here is the frightened pulse of the child Just come Into the world and here the feeble one of the gray-haired veteran Just leaving It to sink into final rest. Here are all the variations to be played upon the heart-strings of human beings by the vicissitudes of life. I thought of this, and then I said, Here In this bend of the river, between these hills and among these trees, is all the human nature that Mother Earth ever gave birth to and here, too, 18 all the struggle that ever was. Here Is the same battle of life that has been fought out on every field of hope and endeavor In all the earth since first a living creature came Into the world to hunger and to thirst, to burn with fever or to tremble with cold, to start with expectancy or to shrink and cower In fear. Here every twenty-four hours is being relived the heart history of the entire human race from the day of the first man unto this day; all the history that is worth knowing: more history than has ever been written in books. Be familiar with the impulses and instincts that animate twenty thousand human beings for twenty-four hours, and you know al! the motives that have moved man since nature first crowned the travail of the ages with a human being. Here, then, are the whims and the caprices and the Impulses and the instincts as well as the reason at the foundation of this republic. Here are specimens of all the kind of material that go to constitute this mighty fabric we call the Ünlted States government. Here are all the kinds of forces that on the one handgo to stay and to strengthen our Institutions and that on the other hand tend to weaken, to Impair or to Imperil them. A Few American Types. Note a few of these types. To start with, take the tax receipt; the certificate of a thousand-fold more service on the part of these Institutions than on the part of the tax-payer; a stock certificate of the best investment ever made by the greatest master of finance that ever lived, and yet too often looked upon as representing an unjust and ill-paid sacrifice. Here is the similar case of the man that receives say 300 letters a day or a week or a month. One letter In the 300 goes astray or Is delayed in delivery. The man spends more time and energy and vocabulary In railing at Uncle Sam for the one letter that goes amiss than in . praise of the service thatN brings the 299 promptly to hand. He takes the 299 for granted, as if he paid the expenses of the entire postal service out of his own pocket, and then , works himself Into an apoplexy over the one delinquency. Here is a quartette of types a successful merchant of my acquaint ance who declares that the average man fares as well in barbarism as he does in this civilization; a young mat: Just out of the high school who attributes most of the unhappiness in the country to mlsgorernment; a graduate of one of our most conspicuous state colleges who doesn't "pretend to be patriotic," and a workingman described by his employer as without a superior, an arnest and sincere man who Is for "revolution and no compromise." Still more. Here are three men gazing at a courthouse. "The temple of Justice," says one of them with a sneer. "Yes, Justice, if you've got the price," sayp another with a similar sneer. The third assents. Had a thousand been present, how many would have dissented? And if they had dissented? They "would have been overwhelmed In an uproar of disapproval. It was nine years ago that this sentiment was uttered, and among a thousand men there would be fewer to dissent from it today than there would have been then a very significant tendency of things." Revolutionary Thinking. These are but a few anions numerous instances to remind üs that here is

exactly the kind of thinking that a hundred years ago in France caused many a man of good Intentions to lose his head, first In the general tumult and afterward by the guillotine: exactly the same kind of thinking that revolted against absolutism under Louis XVI., only to fall under the absolutism, first of Mirabeau, then of Robespierre and then of Napoleon; exactly the kind of thinking that In its hatred of royalty beheaded a king, and then In almost the same breath voted more than a thousand to one to place a military "despot upon an Imperial throne. Still more. Here are books by the hundred and leaflets and pamphlets and papers by the thousand sent all over the land disseminating the opinion and the feeling that Justice Is to be had In our courts only by purchase; this and similar opinions. Are they read? Yes. and more. They are fed upon and brooded upon and passed on to the neighbor; fed upon and brooded apon by the earnest and sincere man as "well as by the agitator and the sullen malcontent. v Men of good intentions? Yes. many of them, but we are to bear In mind that good intentions are not an Insurance policy against evil consequence?. Good intentions, as a rule, are back of the manufacture of nitro-glycerln. but its sensitiveness and destructive power are none the less, for that reason. It explodes just as readily from the careless touch of good Intentions as from the concussion of calculating deviltry, and the destruction Is just as widespread and Just as complete. A hundred years ago rivers of blood ran in the streets of Paris and elsewhere In France and no one thing had contributed to this red flood more than good intentions: good Intentions expressed In isms apparently, but that nevertheless led to anarchy and the Reign of Terror. And the nltro-glyc-erln In this case Is the way men are feeling and thinking. Silent Forces at Work. This suggests the silent forces at work: forces subtle but potent: forces as insidious as malaria and as silent In their activity as thought itself, for Just as certainly and as silently as the twilight of evening steals upon the noonday to turn it into night, just so do these pernicious beliefs steal into the thoughts of men to darken them, and as certainly as these things creep into the thoughts of men Just that certainly do they steal away the minds and hearts from Uncle Sam. Not strikes, not riots, not lynchlngs, not any particular outbreak or any particular series of outbreaks that attracts general attention: not anarchIsm or socialism or democratism or any other particular ism. not any of these but rcore; ths are but manifestations of the condition of mind in which they are conceived and out of which they are born, but the manifestations are no more the condition Itself than the leaves and the other drift upon the surface of thft stream are the current itself. There is a process of nature called electrolysis, a sort of chemical decomposition that is said to be eating Its way into the steel-laid foundations of the majestlce buildings that stand In our large cities as monuments to nineteenth and twentieth century enterprise. If this is true, and nothing is done to circumvent It. then one day these proud structures will crumble Into ruin and when they go they will take many a human being with them. But no man sees electrolysis doing its deadly work. At the foundations of this republic lack of faith In our Institutions and want of respect for them Is the electrolysis that Is at work this day. To what extent no man knows, but we do know that It Is there: ve do know that It is ceaselessly at work, and we do know that Its insldlousness Is more to be feared than the mailed warriors of all the world. The Test cf Vitality. So here In Marion Is a typical American city; in these particulars a miniature America; more, a miniature Christendom. Take a map of Europe and mark where unrest of a similar sort is most significantly manifest. The map will soon be covered with spots, with this qualification if you take another map and mark-where Intelligence Is supposed to be most general, you will find that one map will serve very well as a substitue for the other. The little learning that is a

dangerous thing, you may say, and if is no doubt true that the general diffusion of a little knowledge about many things has done much to quicken and to intensify the disquietude that is in man by nature; just' as a little knowledge prompts many a one to accept with eagerness the social poison in a Plato and at the same time to 'reject the antidote that is to be found in his deeper truths. But take another map of Europe. This time mark where flame and sword had devastated in the decade ending fifty years ago. Again the map is covered with pencil marks.' Now compare the quarter of a century of European history Just preceding that decade with the decade just ended in this country. There is an analogy to set one to thinking. Now add these vital facts that half a century of tranquility is a rare thing in the history of nations; that fifty years of peace are perhaps as severe a test of enduring vitality in a government as so many years of foreign war; that -already we have had forty years of comparative peace in this country. To all this add the nitrogen in man's mental and physical make-up, and here is a group of facts to suggest the profoundest pondering; facts that should stir us to the deepest solicitude. v Discontent Is the Issue. Here is' suggested the one. thing that challenges the intelligence and the patriotism on the editorial tripod more persistently and more emphatically than any other discontent; not the discontent that is back of all progress; not the discontent that, dissatisfied with self, becomes a spur to additional effort, but the discontent that looks outside of self for what must be within or not at all; the discontent that looks to laws and institutions for the elements of success; the discontent that expects of government what no government can provide; discontent already Inflamed to an abnormal sensitiveness; the discontent that would tear down what we have In the vain hope of building more successfully upon the ruins; the discontent that sets forces In motion that afterward it is unable. tocontrol; the dis

content that Is ceaselessly demamlng additional rights and privileges md seldom or never giving a thought to duties or obligations. Unquestionably the forces of dlfin-

tegration are more actively at werk In this country than they have been at any other time since the civil war. The dispatches say. for instance, thtt the Nebraska prophet of silverism disclaims being a socialist. Names are of little consequence, but it Is true nevertheless that the teachings of this same man have done more to make socialists than to make Democrats, and it Is a shorter step from Bryanism to downright socialism than It Is from Bryanism to the principles of Andrew Jackson. And. for a number of years, whatever the Individual voter may think about It. the organization known as the Democratic party has. done more to create and Intensify a querulous discontent than an eager, active and hopeful Americanism, and in the minds of the people it has left more communism than old-fashioned Jeffersonlanlsm. Some Notable Tendencies.And note the tendency of things for it is the tendency, after all, that is most significant. For instance, the significance of the New Ycrk election two years ago is not that Governor Odel was re-elected by a few thousand plurality, but that '650,000 American citizens should stamp their approval upon a platform that a few years ago would have been regarded as too fragile for even a Democrat to stand on. And the significance of Ohio last fall Js not that Tom Johnson went down before a plurality of more than a hundred thousand, but that a Tom Johnson should be able to control a Democratic state convention and that 380,000 Buckeyes should endorse at the polls that kaleidoscope of isms known as Tomjohnsonism Isms that a few years ago would have had no consideration whatever. And now we have the spectacle of the Democratic national committee trying in vain to run away from Hearstlsm; trying in vain to escape the responsibility of a natural paternity, for Hearstlsm Is simply the inevitable offspring of the misalliance between Democratism and Populism, sometimes miscalled Bryanism. One thing is clear: This trend of things must be met; it must be fought: it must be fought intelligently as well as courageously; it must be directly aimed at, and it is not sixty seconds too sooa to begin this just now. It must be met and fought with conservatism; not the conservatism of an individual here and there, but organized conservatism: not moribund conservatism or halting conservatism, but progressive conservatism: the conservatism that believes in progress but declines to lose its head In this twentieth century swirl of things: the conservatism that believes In Improvement but at the same time In the saving grace of common sense: the conservatism that stands for evolution as opposed to revolution, but would quicken the pace of evolution. Just as the farmer or the breeder by directing the forces of nature accomplishes results in a few years or In a few decades what nature left alone would require centuries or ages far. Where Is Conservatism? But where in this country is to be found this organized progressive conservativism? The answer is in three words the Republican party. If the Republican party is called upon to face and cope with the forces of dissolution It will not be the first time and if It forsees the emergency it will be only another case of history repeating Itself. And comes now this army of the press; these minute men already summoned to the contest; this other national guard, these men enlisted not for three years only but for during the war if it takes a lifetime; these men enlisted not for the service of the sword but for the more needful service today of the mind and the heart and the togue and the pen; these men armed with the weapon that, rightly directed, is more powerful than the sword; the weapon that directed by vigilant and" intelligent patriotism may remove the necessity for the sword In this or in any other behalf. And how? To attempt an' answer in detail would he infinite presumption, but a moment here. In to -many a household what we call out patriotism is tucked away 363 days in the year In that dark room that nobody wants to go to or to stay In; that room where the shutters are closed, the sunlight shut out and where there is a musty odor in the atmosphere. Let us get It out of there every day in the year and take it Into the rooms we live In, where the plants and the flowers and the children are, and let us teach the children to love it and to cherish 11 as they love and cherish the other plants and flowers. The tree in the open spreads out its branches in order to present its leaves to the sunlight. The tree in the forest shoots up straight for the same purpose. The tree derives as much vitality from the sunshine and from the air as from the earth, or more. Let Us take a lesson from the tree; let us turn the leaves of our patriotism to the sunbeams every day; then the roots will go down deep, deep in the heart and throb with every pulse beat. . And let us urge this same In the schools every day of every year from kindergarten to university. Counting Our Privileges. Not bluster, not swagger, not a chip on the shoulder for others, but an every day deep-seated gratitude for the privileges and opportunities Of this American civilization; a gratitude inspired by and based upon every day facts to be found in every voting precinct in the land; every day facts In the life of every Individual under the folds of Old Glory; countless facts; potent facts that go to the core of things; facts that we have been born to, brought up to, become accustomed to and have come to take for granted as If we ourselves had wrung them from the wilds and barrens of primevallsm by our own efforts. But there is no time here for details, so let us go back to the hilltop and In another look at the typical American city of Marion find the one fact that Includes all the others. Here the eye has tarried first at one place and then at another, but all the while, of course, the heart has rested upon one particular spot, an abode of peace and quietude and love and hope. There it is, hidden by that clump of trees. The bulldlnsis not in sight, but I feel that

it is there. And then I recall that but a short time ago in the history of nations to go wandering for an hour unprotected a thousand to one would be never to return, or if to return then only to find the home In ashes and the loved ones among the embers. Then why Is it that today one may Wander away with the assurance of a safe return to that unpretentious but homelike home?

What We Owe Uncle Sam. Then I look again, and I see those Bpires and those steeples and that tower, and over yonder where the broken veterans are I see that streaming banner that I need not name for its name is "as old as the glory of God," an this is the answer. This is why. Here are institutions, not perfect, it Is true, but the best, nevertheless, that have been wrung irom the centuries; here are privileges and opportunities that you and I found awaiting us when we came into this country; privileges and opportunities that we would scale mountains and cross seas for If they were not already at hand; privileges and opportunities that we could not earn for ourselves and Institutions that we couid not build for ourselves In a score of lifetimes, and back of all these Uncle Sam. And this same Uncle Sam, not a saint, not a Solomon, but the best Uncle Sam nevertheless that you or I or anybody ever had. These things I think of with this same Uncle Sam in mind, and then I say: There is not much of me, but what there is. is his; what there Is, Is with him and for him, heart and soul, to the last breath against all the powers of darkness, if need be; against the world, the flesh and the devil. Let us make this our political religion In this day of rampant sociaf skepticisms, and let us preach it with the zeal that Is Justified by the righteousness of the cause. Then in this. It seems to me, we shall find not only "The True Mission of the Party Press" this day. but also the splendid opportunity and the glorious privilege. THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES Hon. Charles L. Henry Defines Them at Indiana Editorial Convention. At the banquet with which the annual convention of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association was Inaugurated, Hon. Charles I. Henry, owner of the Indianapolis Journal, spoke on "The Issues of the Impending Campaign." In part he said that the Republicans do not make campaign issues in the common acceptance of the term. They inaugurate policies and stand for the advancement, progress and prosperity of the nation the Democrats raise the issues, setting up any and every sort of cry that might catch a vote at the polls. "One difficulty that the Republicans have had to contend with." said Mr. Henry, "is thai, while everything good, politically, that has been done for the country has been brought about by the Republicans, everything bad has been charged against them by the Democrats because they didn't prevent it." Mr. Henry said it was due largely to the untiring efforts of the Republican newspapers of the state that Indiana occupies Its present proud position and has made such marked advancement, and that it rests with them to keep up the good work. The decreasing of the state debt by almost $6,000,000 within the last eight years, he said, has been brought about by Republican administration of state affairs, and the Republican press must contend for a continuance of this policy. We must insist upon the administration of state affairs In the future as in the past and upon the businesslike, nonpartisan management of state institutions. In national affairs the Democrats are pledged to do something with the currency just what nobody knows. The Republican party stands where it has stood all the time for sound money. They Want That Treaty Ratified. "Washington, Jan. 20. Among the petitions presented in the senate was one from tbe members of the boards oi trade of Philadelphia and Brunswick, Ga., for the prompt ratification of the canal treaty. lie Felt Better. Last evening, a gentleman, whose appearance would indicate that he was a "has been,' was standing on the street corner shedding bitter tears when John V. Astley. jr., the genial tuba player accosted the stranger, and almost in an instant the laughter of cf the two attracted the attention of the entire cit v. John was telling the stranger about tbe fun there would be and what a tine oyster supper and band concert, The Plymouth Band was going to give next Friday evening In tbe new Speicher building on N. Michigan St.. all for 25 cents. Resolutions On The Death Of Mathia Miller, Adopted by St. Boniface Benevolent Society. The members of tbe St.. Boniface Benevolent Society at a special meeting adopted the following resolutions upon the death of , their " comrade,. Mathias Miller; Wherkas, Our Heavenly Father has called from our midst our esteem ed comrade Mathias Miller, be it therefore Resolved, That we accept with resignation this manifestation of His Almighty Power, and be it. Resolved, That we, a comrades of the Benevolent Society of which he has been a dutiful member for ?, number of years, our heartfelt sympathy is extended to his beloved family to this sad hour, and be it further Besolved, That a copy of these resolutlons be published in each of the city papers and a copy be presented the family of our deceased brother and spread on the records of our society. J. E. Bergman W. G. II end ricks Committee Edward Wade ) Plymouth, Ind Jax. His. 1904.

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