Plymouth Tribune, Volume 4, Number 4, Plymouth, Marshall County, 27 October 1904 — Page 1

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f f I Kecorder'8 Office feb03 VOLUME IV PLYMOUTH INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1904. NO. 4 THE SURVEYOR'S OFFICE The Case Tersely Stated. Sayings of Mr. Bryan. Water Power of America. Women Suffrage. The Attitude of Mr. Bryan. American and German Universities.

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Is It a Graft Which the Voters Wish to Continue?

How many taxpayers of Marshall county know for what purpuse the Jl, 350 was appropriated in the county council in September for the connty Surveyor? , Does the County Council know? The taxpayers are required to pay this money to the county treasurer to be paid to the county surveyor for alloting ditches for cleaning out purposes No investigation has ever been made to ascertain whether this money has been needed or whether the money appropriated in the past has been earned. The surveyor files his bills, they are allowed and no questions asked. " . In 1890 the county council appropriated for alloting ditches the sum of $1200 in 1900 it was 1200; in 1901, it was $1200; in 1901 it was $1200; in 1902 it was 1200; in 1903 it was $1350 and this year it was $1350. This makes a total of $7500, and yet, during these six years there were only 36 ditches alloted aggregating 9 5 6 miles a year, this would be a little over $200 for each ditch or $128 per mile. During the year from Sept-18-08 to Sept. 1899, there were only six ditches alloted the Schultz 35 stations long; the Bradley, 66 1-2 stations; the Black, 36 1-2 stations; the Halt.'193 stations; the Deemer 59 and the Tibbetts 37; making 427 stations in all or a few rods over eight miles. The taxpayers paid the surveyor 12 30 for alio ting these small ditsaes, being $200 each or $150 pe mile. Now compare this with the 1 68 miles alloted by Mr. North during his two terms, averageing 42 miles a yar or nearly nearly as many in a year as was allotted in the sis years mentioned above. These ditches can all be found in surveyors. Drainage Record No. 1 in the surveyors office. This year there has been eight ditches alloted and nearly all of the . appropriation used. All of these approppriations may bo found in Auditor's ledger page 112 and 251. Evidently the rule followed is: 4 'the more money appropriated the fewer ditches alloted." The reason is plain. Should the county surveyor get busy and allot all the ditches this year, there would be nothing left for him to do next year and consequently he would be put of a job. The plan is to allot just as few ditches each year as possible, so that there will always be a few on hand. The County Council can then be asked to make a donation at the taxpayers' expense and the bigger the donation, the more deputies to exact a tribute from. "Oh" they say, "they do that way in orther counties." They did things pretty much as they pleased in St. Louis until Folk got after them. The fact is, there are very few counties in the state in which .they do that way. Several making no appropriations at all. But suppose there are a few counties that do thj t way, is that snfficient reason whj we should? Because the taxpayei s are fleeced in other counties, should we permit it to be done in this county? Let us name some counties near home that do not do that way. Elkhart county which is about the size of Marshall county and contains about thii same mileage of ditches appropriated this year $105 for deputy surveyor' hire. St. Joseph county a larger county than Marshall and" containing more miles of ditches appropriates 5360 for the same purpose. How does that compare with the $1350 appropriated by Marshall county ? A $110 level and $1800 was asked for in the surveyors office this year but the council knowing a campaign was on hand, cut it down a little. Is this thing to continue in-definitely-year after year? $1200 for alloting six ditches! Evidently it is no use to look to the County Council for relief. The best, the safest and the most feasible plan is to elect David E. Vanvactor county surveyor. ' Mr. Vanvactor is not only an able min but an honest man and E ledges himself that if elected, ' e will not ask the County Coua cil to appropriate one dollar for deputy hire. He proposes that the survey or's offic shall no longer be a kindergarten school to teach young. men how to survey at the taxpayers' expense. Tfc2 Tribune is a nsvrsy paper. '

In giving the reasons which impel him to cast his vote for the candidates of the republican party President Eliot, of Harvard, says that 'the democrats have not succeeded in identifying the party with any important principle or measure. " He states the case tersely. The reasons which are impelling him -a noted political independentto vote for Roosevelt are reasons which are addressing themselves to the whole people. It may be conceded that it is some-what cruel to impute it to the democratic party for political unrighteousness that it is not indentified with any important measure, and the reason is plain. Out of the more than forty years since the republican party first took control of the affairs of the United States democracy has been called to power for only eight years, with its last four years of control utterly 'destroying the measure of confidence the people had placed in it. For its principles, search will be made in vain in the colorless platform of the St. Louis convention. Silent on, the money question, and preparing, like a lot of boys detected in a strange orchard, to get back home as quietly and as quickly as possible, the members of the convention were thrown into consternation by the receipt of the Parker telegram, and only saved themselves from a perfect rout by a colorless telegram sent in response. It is not in the speech of acceptance nor in the formal letter acceptance of Judge Parker that search can be successfully made for democratic principles . The issue is the issue of affirmation and progress against negation and refusal to march with the flag of the covntry; the issue of intrusting the affairs, of the United States to a party of performance or to a party of promise.. Unidentified with any im portant measure today, Judge Parker himself plainly and pathetically admits that his party would be unable to accomplish anything during the four years of his administration. Mr. Bryan's View.

Mr. Cleveland insults thedemocrats by talking about a return to sanity, "-From The Commoner August 19. "I am sanguine enongh to believe that I can prove to every unbiased mind that Judge Parker is not a fit man for the democratic party or any other party to nominate that stands for honesty and fair dealing in politics." From Chicago speech, April 23. I am satisfied that we now have evidence sufficient to convict Judge Parker of absolute unfitness for the nomination." From ihe same speech. "In Illinois, in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Minnesota, in Indiana, in Ohio and in every other state, it behooves the democrats to arouse themselves and prevent the consummation of the reorganizers (those who want to carry the party back to the Cleveland conditions)." From the same speech. The nomination was secured by crooked and indefensible means." From The Commoner, July 13. ''It was a plain deliberate attempt to deceive the party. "- From the same issue of The Ccmmoner. "A democratic victory will mean very little if any progress on ecconomic questions so long as the party is under the control of Wall street." From the same issue. The nomination of Judge Parker virtually nullifies the anti trust plank.1' From the same issue.. "I have nothing to take back." -From the same issue. A Vein Farce. Premier Balfour of England in a speech delivered last October in which he compared the working of the English tariff with that of the United States, said: 'I confess when 1 hear crititism on,he American policy which caused that great industrial nation to accompany its marvelous commercial expansion with Pro tective duties, I feel that they (the Americans) have a retort to which I, at least, t have no reply. Free trade is, indeed, an empty name and a vain farce." The gold democratic ticket in 1896 polled 133,000 votes, and yet Ingalls, the railroad magnate, has the impudence ts say that it was the gold democrats who defeated Bryan. -

Speaking of the democratic platform and the democratic candidate for president, Mr. Bryan says: 'My objection to Judge Parker is that he goes before the country on a cowardly and straddling platform that can only apFeal to cowards and straddlers. object to loaded dice." "We are opposed to the burglarious methods which are now being employed to foist upon the party a speechless candidate and a meaningless platform." - "The influences back of the Parker candidacy are so intimately associated with trusts and great corporations that the dem-

cratic party could no appeal to the massess. "A man who is weak enough to put his candidacy in their (Hill's and Belmont's) hands before the convention would not be strong enough to resist their influence after election, if he were by any possibilits successful." "With such a candid ato the battle would begin with afoot race and end with a rout." . "It would have been manlier if Judge Parker had stated his position before the convention met. It would have been more manly if he had stated his position while the convention was in session." "The plutocratic element for the time being is in control of the democratic party." "The nomination of Judge Parker virtually nullifies the anti-trust plank." "The nomination of Judge Parker was secured by crooked and indefensible methods. It was a plain and deliberate attempt to deceive the party." "If he had sent to the Albany convention the telegram he sent to the St Louis convention, he would have had no possible chance for the nomination." "He and his managers adroitly and purposely concealed his position until the delegates had been corralled and the nomina tion assure." I shall not misrepresent the situation, or appeal for votes for the ticket upon false grounds. A democratic victory will mean very little, if any progress on economic questions so long as the party is under control of the Wall street element. The labor plank as prepared by Judge Parker s friends on the sub-committee was a straddling, meaningless plank. The nomination of Judge Parker virtually nullifiies the anti-trust plank.-W. J. Bryan in tho Com moner, July 13, 1904. State Superintendent Busy. Very few people realize the great amout of work that is done in the department of education at Indianapolis. The state supertendent is a very busy man. By virtue of his office he is a member of the state board of education which prepares the questions for the examinations which are held in each county the last Saturday in each month from January to August, inclusive. The state superintendent makes the course of study for the public schools and this is constantly being revised. He is the guardian of the school funds, amounting to 810,500,000. He outlines and directs the work of the township institutes .with the county superintendents and township trustees. He prepares an ex tended report of the educational affairs to each legislature. He is expected to visit every county during each term of office and to lecture to the teachers. He keeps in touch with the work of the superintendents of the state and attends their meetings. He is, by virtue of his office, a member of, the board of trustees of the state normal school. In addition to these duties he must direct the immense correspondence of the office, dealing with every phase of education in every yart of the state. All in all, he leads a very strenuous life. Crank professors in Chicago university have been in the background for some time, but longer retirement could not be expected and one has broken loose again. He thinks Christ would have attended football games and have been a "rooter. V No one is yet so sacrilegious' as to say that the carpenter, were he on earth today, would be a Chicago university professor. i : The National Independent, a paper recently started at Indiana polis, says that pirates are in possession of .the democratiparty. It also says that the same men who ran the gold dem ocratic party in 1896 are now running Parker for president

The old mill in the valley with its overshot or undershot wheel is entitlee to feel that it is being vindicated When the day of steam came and water power was discarded, as a thing altogether antiquated and tbo slow for modern needs and methods the old mill fell into, decay, the race filled up, tne gates rotted and the age of steam was believed to have come for all time. But the old mill is being vindicated.! At the recent meeting of th e British Association for the advancement of Science a paper was read giving) the following figures of horse power produced by water power electric installations: The United States, 527,467; Canada, 228(225; Italy, 210,000; Prance. 161,313 and Switzerland 133, 302 and tho installation of water po$rer is yet in its infancy, with the United States in the van and taking enormous strides in the race for supremacy. The saving in; fuel by the use

of water power is enormous the great milling and other industri es of Minneapolis furnishing one illustration, with the fact that, in California, thore are lines of long distance transmission of water power, one 232 and the other 147 miles in length, furnishing another illustration. It was estimated, in the paper read before the British association, that the total horse power produced by water effected an annual saving of not less than 11,720,000 tons of fuel, and it was further stated that the horse power produced by water in the world doubled the horse power produced by steam in the manufacturing establishments of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The old mill may well feel that its day of vindication has come at last. The power that is produced by water takes nothing from the actual fuel capital of the world, while the power pro duced by steam is constantly eat ing into the mines and destroying a capital the ingenuity of man can not replace By coring for the forests and by reforestation however, he will always be cer tain of a cheap, an efficient and tireless energy, which, having turned one. .null, or driven one trolley line, or lighted one city, passes on to the next wiih undi minished vigor and unimpaired vitality. Verily, many of the old ways are as good as if not better than many of the new, and the water power of America is, practically, limitless in the uses to which it can be applied. -Commercal Tribune. Danger in The Air. The" disclosures of Thomas W. Lawson as to the secret attempts of the great Standard Oil monopoly to carry the election for Parker, on account of this monopoly's enmity for Koosevelt, have had the effect of arousing many a lethargic voter of the country to the greatest danger of the campaign, and is a reason for the sneaking tactics pursued by the democratic managers, who belong to a New York clique of capitalists, gamblers and corrupt politicians. Gradually the truth is coming out of the deception practiced by democracy to get back into power so as to serve the interests of the Wall street gang, the lamb fleecers of the stock manipulating corner of the country, as Cleveland did when he was in the executive chair. The same crowd of financial sharks is now engaged in pushing Parker to the front to be their tool in the event of his elevation to the presidency, and there is little doubt but if such a calamity should happen that the people of the United States would see another season of great financial distress, brought about by this selfish, grasping . corrupt money power of the country. . , It was this element that was chiefly responsible for creating the panic of 1893, when the country was in a most prosperous condition, but in an unguarded moment allowed the democracy controlled by the moiey bags, to assume the reins of government. Will the American people be so blind to their best interests as to allow this corrupt political crowd to again get into power? They are confronted with this danger. The assailment of a farmer's daughter near South Bend was scared away by the timelv arrival of a tramp, To make the story romantic the correspondent should have added that the rescued women rewarded her rescuer with a plate of beans. But he overlooked the possibili ties of the situation, i

There is not a shadow of a doubt that if a majority or even a large minority of American women really wished to vote, American men would give them that privilege just as soon as the necessary legal forms could be complied with. But the over whelming majority of American women do$not wish to vote'. This is not because they fail to understand what power the suffrage would give them, bnt because they understand too well the disadvantages which the possession of that privilege would inflict upon them. The usual history of reformatory ideas is that at first they are generally opposed, then tried by a few and in a small way, then are increasingly liked and finally put .into effect in a large way. Such was, for example, the history of the idea that man should not hold man as property. The history of the women's suffrage idea has been just the reverse. The more it has been tried in small ways the less it has been liked. The reason is that on trial its effects are seen to be just the reverse of what-its advocates thought. For example, it was said that if wom

en could vote politics would be made purer. The present condition of Colorado answers the assertion. Women vote there just as men do, and the only effect has been to plunge women as well as men" into the evils of corrupt, politics. There has been no gain to society and a positive loss in public esteem to woman hood. Chicago Inter Ocean. Lee Look's Novel Point. A Chinaman named Lee Look is under, sentence of death in a California jail. He was tried for murder and duly convicted, and there does not appear to be any doubt of his guilt. His victim was a fellow Chinese, not a white man, and this circumstance is responsible for one of the most ingeuious and remark a ole pointe ever made a ground for appeal in a criminal case. Lee Look had his case 'carried up to the United S rates Supreme Court, setting up the objection to to the conviction and sentence that in the original indictment it was not averred that the victim of the alleged murder was a hu man being, and that there was nothing to show that he was not a dog. Of course, the name of the murdered Chinaman was giv en in the indictment, but in the opinion of Loe Look and his at torney it was not a name which necessarily excluded the possi bility mentioned. The Supreme Court dismissed the appeal the other day for want of jurisdiction; that is the point was not one that could properly be raised under any provision of the federal Constitu lion. The effect of this ruling is to affirm the death sentence, and the merit, technically speakinsr, of Lee Look's curious ground for reversal may never be determin ed. On the part of the prosecu tion in the case the omission of the averment that the victim was a human being .was an extraordinary one. Galien Is Town of Widows. The village of Galien can lay claim to the only item which, from one standpoint at least, causes Berrien county to be noticed on the map of Michigan. St. Joseph has her marriage in dustry, Three Oaks boasts of her Dewey cannon, Sodus claims to raise the finest reaches to be found in the fruit. belt. - Galien has living in the corporation no less than 34 widows nearly all of whom are young and- handsome many wealthy. Several years ago there were 20 but as time rolls on this number has been nearly doubled, and the fair ladies seem to improve with age. To offset the large number of ladies, who have laid their husbands to rest, there are less than half a dozen bachelors and this species is fast becoming extinct, Magnate Wiping Out a Town A request from William Kockfeller to the United States .postoff ice authorities has outweighed the petition of sixty families and caused the removal of the postoffice from Brandon to the heart of his 52,000-acre Bay Pond estate. The last stroke in the standard Oil millionaire's war to extreminate the town of Brandon, which already . he . has reduced from 1,250 persons to sixty families, has aroused indignation and become a political issue in Franklin country,

The attitude of William Jennings Bryan in tne present campaign furnishes a political problem thas is hard to solve. Mr. Bryan has announced repeatedly that he will attempt a reorganization of the democratic party äs soon as practicable. He is not satiafied wholly with either the platform or the candidate for presidency and is supporting Judge Parker only because, as he says, Mr. Parker stands for some of the things that he has been fighting for. while Mr, Roosevelt represents nothing that he likes. If the democrats should win in the coming election, Judge Parker will be the president and the leader of the democratic party. Mr. Bryan will then have to play a secondary role in the party's affairs, and it is hard to see how he hopes to begin his reorganization in such an event. Even should Judge Parker, in the event of his election,, adhere to his statement he will not have a second term of the presidency, it is still difficult to figure out how Bryan can assume the leadership, for the lorces that might bring about the election of the democratic candidate would be enforced that would control the policy of the party, and these forces are against Bryan. The Southern Vote.

Mississippi has a population in excess of 1,500,000. and yet last, year Governor Vardaman's vote was only a trifle over 32.000, so that only about one person out of hfty took part in the State contest True, Missippi has very large colored population that is not allowed to take any part in the election but the white popu lation of Mississippi is almost as great as the population of the state of Maine, while the vote cast in Maine in 1902 was nearly three times as great as that thrown for Governor Vardaman in 1903. Yet Mississppi is rep resented in Congress by eight members in the lower branch, which is double the number ac corded to Maine and equal to the combined representation of the three northern New England OiA Tkr " T TT t oiaies, lviame, ixew nampsmre and Vermont. If no stronger argument can be advanced in favor of white rule in the South than the fact that in the state where this jule is perhaps most rigidly enforced a man like Vardaman can be chosen for chief executive, the cause indeed a weak one. Boston Her aid. Confessions of Mr. Davis. At the beginning of his "whirl. wind' stumping tour in Mary land and West Virginia the ven erable democratic candidate for vice- president divulged an in teresting campaign secret. He said to his Rockville audience: "I had no more to do with my nomination than you had," and then, turning to David B. Hill: who sat beside him, he added, "I was selected by this distin guished friend, and 1 suppose I owe him a great deal for the trouble he has got me into." It has beenknown from the first that Judge Parker owed his nom ination to his political preceptor and confidential friend, the exsenator from New York, but until Mr. Davis confessed the truth had not been aware that Hill personally chose both the democratic candidates on the national ticket.- New York Tribune. Hurty Becomes Sensational. Dr. N. J. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health, does not underestimate the value of the spectacular in convincing people of certain facts. It is probably true that part of his pronounced success in arousing the people of the state to a reallization of matters pertaining to public health is due to his convincing method of placing the facts before the people. For example there was recently issued from his office a pam phlet on smallpox. On the front cover was a revolting picture of a person who had died from the disease, and scattered through out were photographs as equally unpleasant. Even the reading matter was couched in words ef fective for their purpose, and the whole result was calculated to make the reader 'determine to be vaccinated at the very first op portunity. The sanity and safety of Parker are not of the sort in w hich the American yoter takes much stock.

The great strides made by American colleges in recent years have constituted one of the most hopeful signs in the educational world. The German universities have long been regarded as the foremost in the world, but United States Consul Henry W. Diedrich at Bremen believes that our home institutions compare very favorable ; with those of the land of Kant

and Goethe. In a recent report he says: American educational institutions are the best eqipped in the world- I know but one German university that can claim to be up to the times in this regard, and it stands third in the list of attendance. There is a steadv progress all along the line of public instruction in the United States and particularly iu our higher class of universities. No American need any lonsrer come to this or go to any other country for higher education. In my -judgement the United States offers today facilities for colle giate, academical and postgraduate studies equal m quanti y and vuality to those offered by any country in the old world. Coming Roosevelt's Way. The New York Herald, which has been supporting the candidacy of Alton B. Parker for President, is out in an editorial conceding victory to President Koosevelt. It says: t4In three weeks the people will have to decide who will be, their cfioice, Mr. Koosevelt or' Judge Parker. "Po speak frankly, there does not appear to be room for much uncertainty Ss to their probable decision. It seems almost a forgone conclusion that Mr. Koosevelt will be elected not, perhaps because the people have confidence in him and in bis conception of the presidential functions, but because the country is prosperous and thus the necessity for a change is not very pressing. Judge Parker must surely relize that- he can not arouse the American people over the Philippines. . For good or for evil and with the sacrifice of American blood the islands ha7e been acquired and the United States can abandon them no more than Germany could abandon the annexed provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. Good Women in Japan. Good and patriotic women are the same the world over, the New York Sun thinks, on reading the following extract from a letter from an American woman in Japan, whose position brings her into contact with Japanese officiaedom and gives her unusual opportunities to study the life of the people: I am in closest touch with the. wives and mothers, and they are fitting complements to the fighting men. What higher meed of praise can be given them? With a strength born of the needs of the hour, they work with endurance and a singleness of purpose which is most remarkable when you consider that no demands have ever been put upon them. The feudal bars are down, and the! imperial princesses and the nobility work side by side with their humble sisters m a common cause-the life of their beloved land. Thus you may see them today coequals with their West ern sisters in all that stands for the best in life. All honor to the women of Dai Nippen-but for; them their flag would never have reached the pinnacle. Facts Set Forh. No voter can, away down at the bottom of his heart, believe but that the repuplican party has been the savior of this great country. After doing so. de spite the oppostion of the demo cracy, it has paid and is paying the enormous debt that democra cy, at the close of the war, de manded should be repuiated. It has since carried on to vic tory two wars, and even yet has made the country so prosperous that it is the wonder of the world. Such being the case and with democracy opposing every great measure to accomplish such a result, where is the sens.ble man the man who truly loves his country that will bo absent from the polls on Novembar 8th to deposit his ballot in favor of the party that has accomplished so much?