Plymouth Tribune, Volume 3, Number 52, Plymouth, Marshall County, 29 September 1904 — Page 1

it rrrri u o in. volume ni PLYMOUTH INDIANA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29; 1 904.. NO. 52 The Change of Immigration. INDIANA FRUIT BELT. Will History be, Repeated? FAREWELL RECEPTION Parker Disappoints. OFFERS $1.000 REWARD Knowledge is Power.

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In July a year ago Italy and Austria Hungary sent us 44 per cent of our total number of immigrants. In July this year they sent us but 20 per cent of the total. Russia, which sent us 20 per cent in July, 1903, sent us about 25 per cent this year. Wg get, therefore, an interesting test of the difference in the motivss controlling the emigrants from these countries. The Italians, Austrians and Hun garians were attracted to us primarily by the good times here and the first signs of industrial depression, limiting their opportunities for profitable work, served to cut their numbers in two. The Russians, mainly Russian, Jews, driven out by persecution toward a promised land, saw a happier future before them despite the disadvantage of hard times here, and actually increased their exodus, numerically as well as proportionately. The July immigration report is interesting for still another reason than this. It appears that while immigration from some countries was falling sharply and from other countries barely holding its own, that from the British islands was doubling. For England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales the total in July, 1903 was 6,147, and for July this year 11,144. Probably the cheap steerage rates which prevailed all through July caused the greater part of this increase, but it is highly significant that just in Great Britain, and especially in England proper, these rates were so quickly taken advantage of. We may have drained off some of England's floating population, in which case we have received undesirable residents . as the result of the cheap rates, or we may have secured a much better class of people who had been planning to emigrate and cannily hastened their departure to ayail themselves of the favorable moment. The total immigration for July this year was 57,949, as against 67,538 a year ago. - Easy to Call Spirits.

In an article appearing in the October number of the Homiletic Review, entitled "The Fraudulent Side of Spiritualism, " Dr. Isaac K. Funk gives' the details of an investigation made by his brother into the business of z man in Chicago who, at prices ranging from $50 to $1,000, supplies so-called "mediums" with all the necessary paraphernalia for bringing about "spirit materializations." Dr. Funk, who for some years, has been an ardent spiritualist, says his attitude toward psychic phenomena had not been changed by his brother's discovery, as he had known all along there were frauds of this kind. The report 'of Dr. Funk's brother says the dealer told him: "I am furnishing help after this sort to the mediums of Chicago-they all come to me; I know them all." 44Is there no difficulty in manipulating this machinery or paraphernalia?" he was asked. 'It is so simple," replied the dealer, you will wonder why people do not at once detect it. When you understand it and understand the modus operandi of handling it you will be much -amused." "How about slate writing? "Perfectly simple." "With tied slates, glued and sealed?" - . , "Yes, oh, yes. I have laughed nntUl my sides ached after a seance at the remembrance of how easily and completely the d. e.,'s (dead easiest were fooled." - "But is there no danger of getting caught?" "No; there are 200 mediums in Chioago. How , seldom you bear of an expose ,n p .' No Ifinonrnt Femurs Now. It should not be forgotten in the campaign that there is no longer an ignorant rurat voter. The country baa been consolidated s'mce the last election. What with .he universal trolly, the whizzing automobile, the rural delivery, -Oie telephone, the omnipresent oily newspaper, the rt volume of travel all over Pountry, th summer schools -Scturc3, chauUuquas, and a thousand other agencies, e verytody is in tho political nnivcrsi- . ty end there are no back districts to bo heard from. The ie.rmer.3 cro alive to tho issues of tho Jay aiyHwill decieb tho content-m en . rv I --T ' 1 1" r " M ff ' V UuU Ws 4. V V. .1 W wUvi

North Part of State Will Soon Rival AMchigan. -

The three tiers of northern Indiaca counties are making rapid progress in the deyelopment of fruit, and it will not be long until this portion of the state rivals the best of the fruit regions in Michigan. The fruit output in this part of Indiana is immense this year,. so large in fact that it can not be accurately measured by carloads or in dollars and cents. It is by far the largest crop these northern counties ever grew, and the success of this year will encourage growers to greater efforts in years to come. The arbors are loaded with grapes, apple crop is heavy and the fruit of choicest quality. Plums are so bountiful that the people in these northern counties cannot begin to use the whole crop. The plums are just as fine as the grapes and apples. The peach crop is also very heavy. The people of the northern counties of Indiana think they have better climate and soil for fruit growing purposes than any other part of the state and it is to these two factors that the most of this year's success is due. The fruit industry in'those counties is in the hands of experienced men who are from year to year broadning their efforts. It is not possible to measure what they will do in the way of developing fruit as one of the great sources of wealth hereafter. There is a substantial market within easy reach of the north part of the state. The outlet to Chicago is direct, the distance is short and the Indiana growers can get to this market as easily as can the growers of other states. With the peach and melon belt of southern Indiana well established, and with the general fruit belt of the northern counties gaining every year, it appears to the growers of Indiana that this state will before many years rank with the foremost fruit-producing the states of the Union. The home demand for homegrown fruits in Indiana is always heavy. With the quantity and quality of fruit improving, this demand is expected to increases, wealth will come tor the growers, and this income will spur them to greater efforts. All Japan is Sobered. An increasing feeling of sobrie ty and seriouness marks the popular attitude toward the war. It is doubtful that the masses appreciated in the beginning the seriousness cf the task of expelling Russia from Manchuria. They had an easy confidence in the ability of the army and navy to reduce the fortress of Port Arthur, destroy the Russian fleet and crush Gen. Kuropatkin. The prolongation of the siege, the losses before Port Arthur and Gen. Kuropatkin's escape at Liao Yang have brought a gen eral appreciation of the magni tude of the national task and disdipated the growing hopes of an early peace based on the confidence of sweeping victories. Events at Port Arthur and Liao Yang have impressively warned the Japanese people to prepare for a long and trying war. Confidence in tho final outcome, however, remains unshaken, and the nation has resolutely and determinedly settled down, prepared to make sacrifices and pay the price that success de mands. A Msrrylnrj Incoms. .Gen. Corbin's recommendation that army officers shall not mar ry until they reach a rank where their pay will permit the support of a family is made simultaneous ly with : an order issued by a Candian bank that its employes must not marry until .they are in receipt of 51,400 salaries. A year or so ago a Chicago bank roused considerable com ment by making a similar rule, its limit, however, being 51,000. A lively discussion was waged in the newspapers as to whether a man in receipt of 51,000 a year could afford to marry. Impressive tables of expenses were published, showing both that he could and that couldn't, t and if the young man in doubt depended on theory and newspaper advice he was no better off tnan before. AU he really needed to prove that a thousani dollars was enough to begin housekeeping on was object lessons, and of these he coujd find plenty , if he would look about, since any number ol families are living conTcrt-bly cn C1,0 a yczv or CTl l IZZZ.

In a speech at Baltimore, Md., Tuesday night, senator Fairbanks sounded a ringing key: note calling attention to the adversity of Cleveland times and the prosperity of McKinleyRoosevelt times. He said: "The overthrow of republican policies to-day must bring similar results to those that followed their overthrow in 1892. Strike down the protective system of to-day and we will eat the bread of repentance tomorrow." This is a matter for the American people to seriously consider Is it desirable that history repeats itself? Do we want to live the disastrous days from '92 to '96 over again? Do we want to see success changed to failure, happiness to misery, good times to hard times, plenty to penury, prosperity to adversity, just by accepting the proposition of the democratic party that they can run the government better than the republican party? All this happened to the country when 12 years ago with everything in the country moving along swimmingly for some unaccountable reason thedemocrats were taken at their word to make times stil) better and were given the power to do so. How swift

ly following the election of Cleveland were the bright skies of prosperity beclouded and how dense and dark the clouds became all through the four years of his reign. It is up to the people again, the same issue that confronted them in 1892. Will they change from, a certainty to an uncertainty: will they go back on the pol icies that have made them prosperous and happy during the past eight years? If they do they must expect to eat the bread of repentance again, as senator Fairbanks says. Curious Political Fact. Walter Wellman, the well known newspaper correspondent says it is a somewhat curious fact that virtually the only state in the Union where there is a genuine political campaign this year involving presidential and governorsnip tickets, and with both in grave doubt, is rewYork which according to the traditions of our politics, speaks with a decisive voice as to the presidency. In other states there are inter esting local contests, as in Wisconsin, Nebraska, Colorado and many more, buc in none except New York does it seem likely that the battle for presidential electors is to be desperately waged. The republicans have small chance in Maryland or Missouri or Nevada, and the democratic hopes in New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia and Indiana are not strong, enough to give them much courage for the fight If the outcome of the presidential struggle depended upon New York we should have here this year one of the greatest political battles ever fought in the United States. But nearly all- democrats as well as republicans-recognize the fact that the vote of New york is not all likely to be decisive this year, and that without New York president Roosevelt's chances are so good as almost to preclude the possibility of betting at anything like workable odds. Uses Root for a Pistol. Seventy-six; years old Albert Prough of Elkhart is able to put up a very effective bluff. Three men stayed at his boarding house run by his son over Sunday, and dinner pails were lent to them to take to their pretended place of work. After they left Prough became suspicious, followed them on foot three miles to a wooded place in the country, called up on them to halt on pain of being shot-with a crooked root that resembled a revolver. He worked his bluff so successfully the men not only turned over the dinner pails, but paid v their score. Prough is preserving the root as a souvenir of his bloodless campaign. Determinded to bring to an end the gambling among the young men of the town with whom tby keep company, Hester and Elsie Worden, Miss .Boland and Miss Conners of Rolling Prairie, Laporte county, broke down the doors of a game room for ? the purpose of bringing aboutV.the reformation of tho young men. Tho youths will be socially ostracised, thoy declare, if gambling end drin!:ic do.notccaso to to tkocvib cf u:o villro.

A Great Meeting in Appreciation of the Work of Rev. Dr. Brooke.

The Methodist church was crowded last Friday evening by members and friends who had met to show their appreciation of the good work ot Dr. C. A. Brooke as pastor of the M. E. church during the past year, and their high regard for him and his estimable wife. W. H. Matthew presided, the Seybold orchestra made some of their best music Miss Haines gave an appropriate reading, there was some fine vocal music including a solo by Rev. R. G; Upson the retiring pastor of the U. B. church, after which Samuel Schlosser, a member of the official board, offered a series 6f resolutions expressing appreciation of the pastoral labors of Dr. Brooke; approval of his untiring and successful efforts' in removing the large indebtness by which the church was encumbered, commending his devotion to the aged and infirm of the church, his devotion to the Sunday school and his labors in all departments or cnurch work, closing with a resolution commending him to the charge at Flora, Ind, as an honest, faithful, upright pastor who will look after the spirtual interests and all other interests of his charge and assisted by his faithful wife will prove a valuable addition to any town or city. The resolutions were seconded by persons representing all the societies of the church and all the best interests of, the city, speeches expressing appreciation and high regard being made by a half score of gentlemen and ladies. j The resolutions were adopted by a rising vote, three hun dred persons standing on their feet to give expression favora-l ble to the resolutions and remarks that had been made. Rev. 0 S. Crowder, the new pastor, was present and gave a brief talk before the vote was taken. He declared himself in full accord with the resolutions and his remarks made a very favorable impression on the large audience. The president of the meeting then wheeled fiom .a recess the finest Morns chair that could be found in the city of Plymouth and stated that it was presented to Dr. Brooke by members of the congregation and others who wished to show by their actions that they meant what they said. Dr. Brooke responded in a very appropriate and feeling speech. He commended the new pastor and his family, said that the faces of the congregation before him would he photographed on his memory as one of the brightest occasions of his ministry of half a century. He said with this evening he rounded up fifty years as an active minister in the Methodist church and he was ready to begin his second half century feeling as strong phyisically and a great deal stronger spiritually than when he entered the ministry as a 44boy" preacher fifty years ago. At the close of his speech the ladies served ice cream and cake in the Sunday school room: everybody shook hands and wished Mr. and Mrs. Brooke a successful conference year.Senator Fairbanks Letter. Charles W. Fairbanks, repub lican candidate, has written his formal letter accepting the nom ination to the vice presidency by me repuDiican parxy. n is a notable letter, in his style of mas terly English, wise suggestion, logical argument and statesman like forsight. He begins with the self evident statement too often forgotten that "utterances of political parties must be interpre ted in the light of that practical construction which they have put upon them when intrusted with power. It is not alone what they say, but what they will do which should weigh in determin ing their capacity to administer public affairs'." Irrigation Bring Riches. A newspaper on the PacifiO coast- says: "As high as $100n per acre is not uncommon is some of tro best fruit district in the irrigation belt in Wash ingtou, and from 0250 to 500 is regarded as moderate." The possibilities of the now irrigation law aro a largo field for hopeful conjecture.

The letter of acceptance by Mr. Parker has proved a general disappointment. His silence before the convention, his dicatorial telegram regarding the money question, the few things which he said in his speech of acceptance, and his general reputation as a man of wisdom and deep thought gave the anticipation of something in his letter of acceptance ,which would prove a discriminating mental attitude, a judical weighing of public questions and a suggestive word or principles which are working to the front in our national government. But he fails to have come into full possession of the questions which have been raised by legislation of the republican party and by the attitude of the democratic party to certain principles which underlie good government and national prosperity. On the question of tariff he has not risen above the average stump speaker in his measurement of the questions involved in that range of tariff which reaches from tho necessities of revenue to the liberal encouragement of growing industries. One might take all the propositions which he lays down and in not one of them does he find such strong grasp or such broad view of national questions as the public demands from a man who would be our chief executive. Mr.- Parker has proved by his letter of acceptance that he has been over-estimated as a statesmen.

Roosevelt a Man of Peace. For a man who has such a warlike nature that he is not considered at all safe to be at the head of this republic, according to the democratic estimate, President Roosevelt is somewhat out of his sphere as one to engage in the work of universal peace. The president has been called upon to act as the prompter of another peace" conference of nations at The Hague and has accepted the task. The fact is that the man most vigorous and strong on war is the one best adapted to bring about peace. This was Gen. Grant's nature and it is Theodore Roosevelt's too. He is for peace, loves peace rather than war, but he is no weakling, no coward, no sneak, if actual war should be thrust upon him. South Bend Tribune. Pullman Shops Resume. The Pullman company's shops have resumed business after twoweek's shut down. The shop have been non-union ever since the great strike, and a cut in wages of 10 to 20 per cent, was announced. Less than 2,000 workers were given their former positions. But these men willingly accepted the decrease in pay, and snd several thousand of the former employs left the yards of the company bitterly disappointed because they could not return to work even at the reduction in wages. It is the intention of the Pullman company to have its plant in full operation . by next Monday. A Possible Risk. A Reader of the papers makes a statement and then asks a question as follows: When the famous peace congress met at The Hague there were no wars and only vague rumors of war. Shortly fefter came the trouble, in South Af rica, then the Boxer war in China and now the conflict in Manchuria. Lesser wars have been waged in other countries and newspaper columns have scarcely been free from records of military movements. It would hardly do, of course, to say that the conference at The Hague was a cause; still, doesn't it seem as if a certain risk were being run in holding another meeting of the kind? - Indiana zi the Front. There are now in the field five state tickets, representing, behides the two great parties, pop ulists, socialists and prohibition ists. In addition to this, Indiana has a candidate for the presidency in the person of Eugene V. Debs, and a r.tindidate for the vfee-presidency in the person of senator Charles W. Fairban&a. Indiana also has a national committee chairman in Thomas T&ggart, and the management of the prohibition campaign is largely

controlled by Indiana influence:

Governor , Durbin Challenges Democrats to Prove Their Platform Charges.

In an open letter sent last Sat urday to democratic state Chair man O Brien and made public Monday Governor Durbin chall enges the democratic state com mittee to make erood the chareres against his administration contained in the democratic state platform. As evidence of his faith that nothing derogatory to his official acts can be uncovered he makes the following proposi tion: He will give f 1,000 to the dem ocratic state campaign fund if the democratic state central com mittee will secure from each of the democratic members of state institutional boards a statement settins: forth his attitude, as chief executive, toward the institutions with which they are respectively connected, during their several terms of service He will give $500 additional if the committee will secure, in addition to these statements, a statement from D. J. Terhune. democratic member of the board of trustees of the Indiana refor matory, both before and after the so-called "ripper" bill was passed, setting forth his opinion as to the conditions in that institution today, both from a human and financial standpoint, as compared with those prevailing prior to the enactment of the reform measure which resulted in the last change of management at the Indiana reformatory. These statements must be published and the governor binds himself to have printed and dis tributed a sufficient number of copies of this document to insure its being read by every taxpayer in Indiana. The governor's letter is, in ef fect, a challenge, and is called forth by the vigorous attacks on his administration by the democratic state platform. Took the Wrong Course. When long suffering wives and mothers go on the war path in small towns and demolish the saloon frequented by the men of families they seldom accomplish any lasting good, but they usually have the secret sympathy of even that part of the community which, as a rule, disapproves of lawbreaking. The inability of a wife to protect her own family's interests when her husband is addicted to drunkness is .tacitly accepted as an excuse for a lawless proceeding that would otherwise call for condemnation. The courage of the young women of Rolling Prairie, Ind., who broke down the doors of a gambling room for the purpose of bringing to an end the gambling among the young men of the town with whom they have been "keeping company" has no such defense. Unmarried women have a more effective method of reforming the young men of their acquaintance than by following them to their haunts of vice. If he drinks or gambles or is otherwise dissolute, then all she has to do is to refuso to. accept his attentions and to inform him why distinctly. If he is worth troubling about he will endeavor by better behavior to lift this social boycott. If not, then the girl is well rid of him. Indianapolis Star. Take Your Choice. David B. Hill, the sponsor of the democratic candidate for the presidency, said at St. Louis that he "did not know how Parker stood on the money question." For 30 years Hill and Parker have been intimately associated, socially and politically. If . the statement made by Hill is to be believed, then Parker is too secretive a man to elect to the presidency; if false, then it was'evidently made for the purpose of misleading the people; and if the people are to be deceived in one thing, why not in all the acts of the democratic leaders? The country boy can carry a shot gun if he wants to; and the Rev. Z. T. Sweeney will not prosecute,, but the youngster must not be seen with a gun and a dog in the field at the same time. So the little fellow may go rabbit hunting if he wants to and it ,wont cost him anything except time and money and his mother a good deal bigger dinner when tho boy comes trudging home.

In an address at the dedication of the new Carnegie Library at Logansport Judge Daniel P. Baldwin gave some thoughts that are well worth repeating. He said, among other things: 'Idealize your reals and realize your ideals. Idealize your drudgery by mixing it with thoughts gathered from books, poetry and art, thus making toil a pleasure, and then try to realize in your daily avocations these same ideals. Tolstoy, the great Russian, has written a most revolutionary book, entitled What is Art?' He points out that art is the adequate expression in terms of beauty of our common duties and daily experiences. This is a great advance upon the old art theories. Fifty years ago it took a palace and a lord and lady, or a saint and a 'heavy villain, to make a novel or a picture. Fifty years ago manners were supposed to be the private property of wealth and rank. All this is now changed. The new social order is the common, plain people. We have discovered that better pictures can be painted out of the raw material furnishad by everyday life than from castle, palace or cathedral. There are two uses for a library, one as a source of power. Some times fundamental truths are so familiar that we cease to realize their value. This is one of them. Knowledge is power. Knowledge is not merely the ac; cumulation of facts. It is the accumulation of skill and ability to use facts. Skill is brains at our finger tips and educated eyes and

ears. The Beyond. The following beautiful and soul inspiring composition is from a lecture entitled 4 'The Beyond," by that versatile genius, Bob Taylor, of Tennessee: Be yond this beautiful and npplin CT stream, just over the edge of a grassy knoll, there blooms a rare and richly tinted flower. They tell us it is so rarely beautiful that it may have blushed to life at the touch of an angel's kiss and caught its rosy flush from a burning star. Beyond the pathless mountains that lift their blue peaks in the fading distance they tell us there is a charming valley that drinks the diamond dew of morning and bathes in the liquid sunbeams, clad in verdure of everlasting green and dotted all over with flowers of every hue and shade. Beyond the blue shade of the pathless ocean they tell us there is a climatefrom which the mellow sunlight of spring never departs; that it is laden with the songs of the birds of beautiful plumage, and peace, ease and plenty rule the lives of the people who never heard of war or pestilence. Beyond the curtain of darkness that hangs over the gloomy night, "there dwells a picture of morning-a picture of fresh new life-that seems to wake and move and breathes away the mists, and they tell us its background is pleasure. Beyond the aches and struggles, the fears and disappointments, the bitter trials and wearing labors of time, we are taught there is an eternity, whose higher possibilities give promise for calmer hours and sweeter rest." Democrats are Dismayed. Republicans, as well as democrats, are trying to prevent the result of polls made in Various states frem being made public. The reports to the republican committee are so favorable that Cortelyou fears that if they were generally known the republicans would cease to have any interest in the campaign. They have very little as it is. The democrats have such bad reports that they know that if the supporters of Parker possessed the same information they would be ready to give up what apparently is a hopeless task. No complete polls are in from any state, but the fragmentary reports seem to give a good idea' of the political situation? These show for the republicans almost an overwhelming strength in the doubtful states which must ba carried by the democrats if Parker is to win. The Indianapolis Sentinel, Chairman Taggart's paper, de clares that Roosevelt's letter of acceptance is wearisome-and so it is to democrats. It is like the reply that was made to the Irshman's ejaculation at the magnifiencoof a cathedral: "It bates the divvil," said Pat. "Shure, thot's the intiution," answered his Hibernian friend.

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