Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1891 — Page 4

THE RE PUBLICAN Thursday, April 9, 1891

CORPORATION OFFICERS • 'Marshal Klkah -.m -imfson CUrk .:....XHAKrtS G. SHUTS Treasurer •.■•■■. C.C Stahr ( Ut Waril . „T. R. Van ata, . jia ward...... J m. Wahsos, CounellJn«B < Sd Warn..... E. B'Moklax. HABJMsuV. Sth Ward....... EjhibtKaxnal JUDICIAL Circuit Judgo . Enw ix P. llavmom». JfitOMcnting Attorney.- .. .JouxT. x. Term* of Court—First 3for.< :ty in Jiinvary; ThirdMotttdy'iifflftr'reiti Fir*i-iionday iu Ju r<< ; "Hird Mox-J*t)tini><-i;>ker. JMS&ES. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION CrislO!>!>tr''ool, frasier. Hansrinp <-rovetp. Michael ItobimOn. Trustee,-,, GiUain tp. Francis3l. Herslunan, Trustee Walker tp J. F.UhI. Trustee Barklcv tp. Greenfield. Trustee.. Marton tp. danwe le Trustee.-. ...... .t ordamp; Nchemiah Hopkins Trustee.. Newton tp, J.-k • ftrv.ner 1 re-tee ..Ken e’r tp. HRns i.j: ; :. ■ . ... i< •. t.. ;..•(■ tp 8. B ctarit.irueMte WHmWta Wm Q. ttoadirer.Trustee,.,.... rat)■.nt’, tp. k Reesler. Trtjr-tet* .. ?.. jriilroy *tp, Wm. Cooper, Triwiee;.... ..Union tp, W. If. I'onypr Remington, Ezra L Clark ......... ~ReiiKi?l&er. 3. E. Warren. t <.untv gi ; t COUNTY (IF FICEgB Clerk ’ "F:-1,;.-. •, Shcrift., I’Hii.tir j:ji ; Auditor.-.- -.., . . CEonnr 31. RobjascnTreasurer ! J;. Wasbtib-* Recorder. ....A... . . .TXmks F. Antrim Surveyor Jamks C. Thbawls Coroner..’ It. p. Bexiamin Superit.te i v't.i P ’ ■ ■:•-■ ■ J. F ',Vai:KES zh»» T> strict. I’. M .Qri epy Commissioners 'tM District . ...T .+'. -Watson’ 1 ' Ck* i , i:"rjcL-.. ; -.-0 'Cov-t— Fleet F-uJoysin Mdrck ’ur.t .Sept? tuber a r< d flee i* 1.. r

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REPUBLICAN TOWN TICKET.

For Councilmen Second District NORMAN H. WARNER. For Councilman Third District JAMES H. S. ELLIS. For Councilman Fifth District ANCIL WOODWORTH. For Town Treasurer CHARLES C. STARR. For Town Clerk CHARLES G. SPITLER. For Town Marshal MARSHALL L. WARREN. The danger of a war with Italy has pretty much subsided, and owing to the inconsiderate rashness of the Italian government and the superb diplomacy of Mr. Blaine, the honors of the controversy are all on our side. Bro. Kitt, of the Goodland Herald, says that he is not responsible for the article in his other paper, the Morocco Courier, ripping Carter Harrison up the back, he being only the publisher and not the editor {fof the Courier, The Republican admits its error in that matter.

The growing Democratic idea is that all taxes should be laid upon the land As a long step in- that direction Jasper County farmers who have, heretofore, paid about $6 peryear, state tax, on say $6,000 worth of land, actual value, will hereafter pay over S2O per year, as state taxes, on the same land

The latest from Chicago indicate f thfe almost certain election there Tuesday, of Hempstead Washburn, the regular Republican candidate for mayor. It will be a grand result, if so it proves. ClayjKiol, the only Republican member of the legislative committee that —formulated —the new tax law, urged the committee "not to-The reuse the farmers’ taxes but to, raise a special fund for state purposes by taxing the saloons 81,000 each, per year. If this-had been done it would have entirely obviated the necessity for increasing the levy for state purposes, and, also, the necessity for changing the: method of assess• ment, which will now catch all real estate at full value and leave g .me loop holes .as before for notes and mortgages; but Mr. Claypool’s Democratic colleagues w-rmld nor hear, for an instant, to Mr. .Claypool’s suggestion for an Increased tax on saloons. They preferred to take a long step in the - direction, of the now thoroughly Democratic doctrine of a single tax. Our pre-Jacksonian neighbor is grieved and wrathful because we so easily sized up and exposed his real motive, in his dirty little attempt to throw blame on th;; printer of those some-what celebrated theater dodgers. He now says that he did not know who printed them. Had hv said “he. did not Irnow it was loaded,” the excuse for ]iis course would have been ouite as plausible and much more truthful. In fact, his statement that he did not know who printed, the bills, is a fiat-footed and baldheaded lie. He knew perfectly well who printed tl'.e bills, and everybody who knows anything at all about the matter, knows that he knew who printed them, and knows too, that he lies when he says lie did not know. .Our prehistoric neighbor must exercise mo re judgement in his infractions of the truth or the little reputation he has left for good sense, will “go glimmering, down the dream of things that were,” after his long since vanished reputation for veracity.

One of the facts, and in truth the only fact, cited by the Democrats of Indiana in their recent osnlaught on the Federal Census, of last year, claiming that the population had been purposely undercounted, for partisan advantage, was that a considerable number of the counties of this state were returned as having a less population than ten years ago. The number of counties In Indiana showing a deceased population is 25; but if that decrease is owing to a fraudulent county, because Indiana is a Democratic state, how is the decrease to be accounted for in Republican states? In Ohio for instance, 28 ceunties show a decrease, in Illinois 30, in lowa 27, in Michigan 15, in Wisconsin 7, Minnesota and South Dakota each 6, &c. But we haven’t heard anything of the “fraudulent partisan census” since the Gerrymander fool legislature passed a buncomb resolution in regard to it. The pretense of a belief in its fraudulent character, was so evidently a humbug, that those who raised the cry are now thoroughly ashamed of it, and would gladly let the matter pass into oblivion.

Advertisers Versus Editors. General Packard: Th e impudence of somejadvertise is as amazing. We mean those that advertise in the free trade papers. That able Democratic paper, the Indianapolis News, furnishes a case in point It is one of those that cry ont “the tariff is a tax as long and as industriously as the exceedingly religious people of Ephesus shouted, “Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” It has proved it too by theorizing that ought to have held water. Of course if “the tariff is a tax” and the McKinley law increased the tariff, which it did on tin plate, then the tax was increased and the price would go up. And over and over again has the News

shown how the increased tariff on tin plate would saddle an increased burdep of tax in the shape of higher prices for the poor man’s dinner pail, and his tin cup, hi s milk pan and .other necessary wares. And just when the assertions of the News were a-ripening, full soon there comes an impertinent lidvertiser flinging out his banner on the outer wall, as it were, in the columns of the News, and on that banner there is writ in glowing words, “Tinware cheaper than ever.” This is hard on the veracious News. Take that lianner, »■ Take it down, ? ; Greet it with an ugly-frowh; ABk us not the i"eason why Know, it tells you that you lie.

Tariff Pictures.

Tliis is how American- plate glass has forced down the price of imported , plate glass m this last eleven years. The average import price of unsilveredhblate glass in 1879 wm; 45 cents, a square foot. In 1890 it was 33 cents. —New York Press. The bungled up new dog-tax law, a fit specimen as it is of all the legislation of the late fool Gerrymander Legislature, in addition to preinitting any person to lawfully kill any dog, registered or unregistered found away from hotiie alone, and at the same time making it a misdemeanor to kill any registered dog, whether “runabout’’ or “stayabout,” presents some other equally harmonious and beautiful features. Thus it is plainly the duty of assessors, whom the law requires to begin the duties of their offices the first week in April, to assess -for taxation all dogs for the registration of which the owner can not show, jtEEceipt from the township Trustee. Yet the law gives- the owners of dogs until the first Monday in May to have them registered. It thus follows that as there was no time after the people had notice of the requirements of the new law, making registiration of dogs mandatory, to comply with its terms before the assessors had begun their rounds, that many dogs will be listed for taxation by the assesssors, and afterwards registered by the trustees. The owners will thus have to pay double taxes on their dogs this year, or be obliged to appear before the board of equalization, in June, Io have their dogs removed from their assessments. In fact the assessment blanks fiirnished the assessors this year leave him no option but to list all dogs, whether registered or not.

STILL WORKING FOR FREE TRADE.

In providing for the expense of government it becomes necessary to tux the property and business of our people. Protection by tariff is to insure adequate compensation for these necessary burdens by compelling foreigners seeking to.conipete in business with our citizens to pay roundly for the privilege, and by so much reduce domestic taxes. The effect of free foreign trade would be to increase the expense now imposed upon the citizen and to exempt the foreigner altogether. On this the the issue is made up. v

___ a There were some who advocated the free trade policy in the early days of the republic; but their unreasonable demand was silenced by an overwhelming majority of those patriots of the Revolution, who insisted that political independence of the young republic could not long be maintained if the country remained commercially dependent upon England. So general was this conviction that the first Congress immediately passed and Washington signed a bill with the avowed object of protecting all industries necessary to commercial independence against untaxed alien competition. European manufacturers and their American allies were just as vociferous in denunciation of those tariffs laid by our first Congress as they have been of all subse quent legislation looking to the defense of our domestic industries. Every proposition for lowering the barriers against alien competition has been cheered by the European press and found substantial baching among those foreign manufacturers who foresaw profit in a monopoly of American markets. And though so often repulsed, and at the end of a hundred years confronted with legislation quite as decidedly protective as any preceding it, the attorneys for free foreign trade have

[ again served notice of dissatisfaction with the popular verdict, and I their determination to again try , the ’ jssue for a reversal of that ! national policy which accords t,he ; highest privileges in tlie domes- • tic market to those citizens whose • lives and fortunes are held liable i for the government’s maintenance. Once the question. is understood by voters thcre ueed be no itoubt as to the decision.

Tariff Pictures.

“Yes, flax is a good crop, but why bother with it? We can’t raise flax, hemp and jute in competition with the cooly labor of India” But we ilo raise it and export, it Our exports of flax, hemp and jute for five years (1885-89) We export in 1890' 82,09-1,807 —New York Press.

CIRCUIT COURT NOTES.

The Slarch term of the Jasper Circuit Court, closed last week. A large amount of business was disposed of, although mostly of a routine character, and devoid of public interest. More administration causes were settled up during the term than in any previous year, in memory. The number of final settlements was about twelve. Only two jury cases were tried during the term. One was the suit of Geo. B-. Davidson , ofc Fair Oaks, against the Monon, for two cows killed by a freight train, right at the depot, at Fair Oaks. The railway could not be held responsible on the grounds that the place vdiere the cows were killed was not fenced, for pii’ilic convenience would not permit a i’enee there; but Davidson based his claim on the grounds of unlawful rate of speecLat .which the train was running, but the^ury^qjeared-to think that the evidence did not bear out this claim, ancl their veto let was in favor of the railroad.

The other jury case w r as from Lake county, on change of venue. Mrs. Mary Voltner, an elderly German lady, sued the town of Lowell for $9,000, for damages for injuries, namely a broken arm and a dislocated collar-bone, received in a fall caused by a defective side-walk. In this case, too, the jury found for the defendant. A motion for a new trial in the Lakin vs. Gerard slander case, tried in January, was denied, and judgement entered against the plaintiff for the amount of the verdict. The appeal against the DentonCulp ditch was successful, and the ditch was dismissed, the grounds being some technical fault in the viewers’ proceedings. Mrs. Anna Zimmer, of Jordan tp. was granted a divorce from Nicholas Zimmer, on the grounds of habitual drunkenness and cruelty. She was given the custody of the six minor children, and, by agreement of the parties, one third of their property—but she should have had all of it.

Call at Hemphill & Honan’s and see the new styles in milinery and fancy goods, bought in Chicago this week. I have a complete fancy pottery manufactory in Terre Haute and also a 3 story and basement brick block in Hutchinson, Kansas, bringing a good rental to trade for Jasper Co. real estate. W. B. Austin. Bring in your Watches, Clocks and Jewelry and have them repaired in workmanlike manner and warranted by H. J. Rossbacher, at F. B. Myers’ drug store. Advertised Letters. Mr. C. A. Ball, Mr. William Wallace, Mr. Gib Smith.

Do You Wear Pants ? Ellis <fc Murray have them and sell them for less money than anybody. Elus <fc Mur ray Use Sound Horse Sense and buy only BEAUT’S CONDITION POWDERS Warranted best in the market Full pound packages only 25 cents Sold by B. F. Fendig &Co.

JOHN W. PAXTON & CO. (Successors to Wolfe Go.) Dealers in ALL KINDS OF 4__ ___g - . ■. .. LUMBER! LATH, shik®i-eis, moulding, DOORS, LIME, ] SASH, HAIR, &c. . Gai’i’y EveFjgthinß Pertaining to Our Xsine. \ Come to Bf-r.ssdaer and call at our Lumber Yards, south of the Railroad, examine the quality of our stccand [save money. We manufacture our own lumber in the Wisconsin pineries, and know that we can give the beet qualities for the least money.--LZ, CLOSE ESTIMATES ON BILLS A SPECIALTY. JOHN AY. PAXTON & CO. ' 1 „■■ ■ I, „ ” ~ . _ _ Sock Farm STALLIONS FOR SEASON of 1891.

PLUTO, 1950. Sire of BLUE W1NG—2.254. LEO-2.29}. CLARENCE—2.3O. LANCEWOOD CHIEF—2.3I? WEDGEBROOK—2.36}. JOHN, H. P._2.39. OLIVER 8.—2.42. PLUTO, Jr—2.451. by WEDGEWOOD, 629. Record 2.19. Dam PRIMROSE, (2 in the 2.30 list, and 5 producing Stallions) Season 1891 at SSO to insure. Royal Cossack. 2452. Four-year-old trial 2.38}. by— DON COSSACK, 950. Record 2.28 and sire of three in 2.30. Ist Dam—May Queen. by Am. Clay, 34. 2d Dam—by Ericsson, 130. 3d Dam—by Davy Crockett. 4th Dam —by Kentucky Whip. Royal Cossack is 16 hands high, a rich bay and has won many premiums in the show ring. His col te are all bays and of good size. Season oflß9l at S2O to Insure

We have a competent trainer and as good a half m ile track as there is in the State. A few promising horses taken, on re asonable terms to be handled for speed. Send for Catalogue of Standard Bred Stock for Sale. Address RENSSELAER STOCK FARM, .« Rensselaer, Indiana.

GEO. W. GOFF, Restaurant & Bakery. BREAD. CAKES, CONFECTIONERY, FRUITS, CAmfEL SOODS, TOBACCO AN! CIGA S. ttr WWM —ALSO A GOOD—LUNCH COUNTER Everything Best and Cheapest. NORTH SIDE WASHINGTON STREET, RENSSELAER, INDIANA.

Ken sselaer WiSke& STANDARD. by ALCANTARA, 929. Record 2.23. The best son of Geo Wilkes —2.22. Ist Dam-Nena by Nutwood, 2.18}. The greatest sire living with 51 in the 2.30 list. Second, third and fourth dam all producers. Season of 1891 at SSO: The Season Book. Full. LUTO, JR,, Record 2.45}. by PLUTO, 1950. Sire of 3 in 2.30 at 10 years of age. Ist Dam—by Jim Swigert, Son of Swigert, 650. This is a fine individual and a natural born trotter. He will be given a record this year. Season of 1891 at $lO to Insure Season to close July Ist.