Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — SCHOOL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

SCHOOL NOTES.

The city that hustles the most to get the world's fair is the one that will work the hardest to make it a success after it gets it; —and that city is Chicago. She is putting in ten licks to anv other city’s on e . ■ ■ ' ’ ” The twelfth and last juror in the Cronin case was secured Tuesday, and the actual trial is expected to begin to-day. Nine weeks have been consumed in getting the jury and about 1000 veniremen examined.

Judge Irwin, of Indianapolis, has followed in the wake of Judge Johnson, of Valparaiso, and decided unconstitutional,the beef inspection law, designed to prohibit the shipping of dressed beef into the state. Jasper county has the honor of furnishing the Republican candidate for district judge, in the 31st Kansas district, in the person of Clark Price and the adjoining county of Benton has to bear the 'responsibility of his opposing democratic candidate, in the person of Dawson Smith, formerly of Fowler. 'Chore is also a Mugwump candidate, but we reckon it would be a hard matter to find a community walling to acknowledge his paternity.

The Australian voting system has worked well wherever it has had a fair trial and we have strong hopes that it will prove equally successful in Indiana in 1890. In fact we think there would be no occasion to doubt of its complete success in this state, only were it not that the law is loosely and ambiguously worded in many particulars and also unnecessarily expensive and complicated;and these faults are owing to the fact that. • -the democratic caucus measure ot the bill and put it through without opportunity for debate or amendment. President Eliot, of Harvard College has come out as a Democrat, pure snd simple, which is a much more manly course than continuing to be a Democrat in fact, and yet hypocritically denying the name, as his former brethren, the Mugwumps; continue to do. Speaking of the reasons given by Mr. Eliot for his accession to the democratic ranks, the Inter-Ocean says:

“The crowning reason given is he that likes Cleveland. He is positively ‘stuck’ on the ex-Presi-dent. This only shows that there is indeed no accounting for tastes. But Harvard’s President does not leave us wholly in the dark as to why he chooses to play Titania to Bottom. He loves him most ‘for the .enemies he has made’ among the old soldiers by his pension =-vetoes. So ardent is this affection that for that liking, if for nothing ■else, he would turn Democrat. There has been nothing more touching m friendship since the Fairy Queen ~Baid to the Athenian weaver in the Attic woods: Come, sit thee down npou this flowery bed, While I thy nmiable ••hecks do coy, Alid stlcJhnuek ruses iu thy sleek, smooth head. Andkiss thy teir. large ears, mv gentle Joy. The Western Rural, of Chicago, has invented, but not patented, a piethod to “bust the trust’’ on sugar. It is to have everybody refrain from using sugar until the trust is tired out and bankrupted.

The time appointed for the beginning of this universal fast from sweetening is December Ist. There is a tradition that once upon a time, all the pebple in the world arranged to yell at a given instant, to see how much noise they could make. When the time came everybody was listening so intently to hear the noise that they forgot to yell themselves, and the result was there was no noise at all. In the case of the Rural sugar fast scheme everybody will be so busy watching for the k effects of everybody else going without sugar that they will forget to go without, themselves, and the trust will continue to do business at the old stand until suai<- sane method is devised for breaking it up; or until i t dies of its own rottenness, hs it now seems very likely to do, and as the salt trust and the cottonseed oil' trust have already done.

Lord Thurlow, under whose intelligent leadship English captialists are investing in the Black Hills tin mines, is enthusiastic in his description of the richness of the tin resources of that region. In a recent communication to the London Financial News he says: “That tin exists on the surface of the Black Hills in unlimited quantities and’of remarkable purity is proved to our satisfaction. To develop this business in the future immense capital must be employed, and unlimited capital will be forthcoming. America will quarry its own tin-stone out of the Dakota hillsides, will smelt its own ores, will roll its own tinplates, and will put a prohibitive duty on the imports of foreign tin in pursuance of its invariable policy of fostering its own industries. These things are now inevitable, and w’ill happen as surely as night follows day; and no amount of whining or lamentation from Cornwall or elsewhere can stop the perhaps gradual, but I believe rapid, development of the American tin-industry. Whether English investors will be permitted to participate in the profits to be derived remains to be seen.” The most noteworthy point in this is the incidental admission by this enterprising Briton of the wisdom of America’s “invariable policy of fostering its own industries.”

Protection Insures National Wealth. There is a lesson for free trade oracles, whether they see proper to heed it or not, in the marked influx of money for business investment from Great Britain to the United States—from the nation most aggressive in its advocacy of free foreign trade to the nation most unmistakably committed lo lhe 1 policy Of protecting its labor and capital. While many of the rumors of purchases by agents of foreign capitalists are ill founded, others are known to be based upon actual transactions, in furtherance of which purchasers have entered into possession of the properties. No doubt most of these capitalists would prefer to have been allowed to use their money at home, and from British establishments manned by British operatives supplied their products to our people. For this privilege their statesmen, their writers and their many active allies in this country have long labored and are yet industriously working. But as the probabilities of success in that direction were further than ever removed by last year’s verdict of our people, which dwarfed the arrogant majority voting for the Mills Bill into an opposing faction, shrewd foreigners realized that our fast accumulating wealth was to be kept at home, and that the only way in which they could become sharers in our phenomenal prosperity was by investing their money here and submitting theirproperty to taxation equally with that of American citizens.

Cajrital is coming to the United States, just as emigration has long been coming, in volume Without parallel in the world’s history, because foreign capitalists have come to realize the permanency of as well as the wisdom of our national policy that keeps at home for the enrichment of the country most of the wealth which free trade would scatter to the people of other nations. And thus is Protection vindicated by those who have long been its strongest opposers. For a nice box of note paper go to Long <k Eger’s.

The new school in Marion township is completed. School began Tuesday, October 15, with fifteen pupils, and Miss Grace Vanatta as teacher. The enrollment of the schools of Marion township, second w&ek, was 206; first month last year, 186. The smallest schools are the James and O’Meara, with 13 pupils each, The largest is Pleasant Ridge, with 25, and Bell Center next, with 23. 203 of the 206 pupi 1s were f onn d present during the week. Jordan township teachers held their first institute last Saturday, at Egypt school house. Teachers all present and took hold of the w'drk with earnestness, showing a desire to profit and be profited thereby. The present year has witnessed a decided improvement in the; school buildings in the county. Walker, Marion Carpenter and Union townshipshave each built one new house. Remington is completing a handsome and com-, modioiis structure, one that is a credit to the town, and a monument to the" enterprise of her citizens, who have, personally borne a large part of the expense. The new buildings have all been constructed on modern plans-, as to heating, lighting and ventilating, and are superior to the ordinary school room in these particulars. The Indiana School Book Co, has not yet sent the books as ordered by the township trustees, and are thereby helping the people and school officers to solve the question as to the propriety of introducing them into the schools. The schools of Newton, Keener, Kankakee and Milroy townships opened Oct. 14. Hanging Grove and Wheatfield Oct. 21. The teachers of Marion ip., held their second institute last Saturday in the Rensselaer High School building. Teachers all present and a profitable session is reported. Adda Bruce is township principal and Dema Hopkins secretary-