Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, May 14,1891 -

O CORPORATION OFFICERS : Mmhal , stwox Clsrk Cha»i.is« G. Sriftr:; T ."Maurer C.O stakr 1 1st Ward.. J. It. Vanata, ' | Id Ward J M. Wasson. QnnnfJlman <2,1 Wara....... E. 11 MuKLA N. I 4U»Ward...... Paris Harrison. I Sth Ward Exmet Kann al JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION CristopherCool, Trustee, Han ci ng Grove tp’ Michael Robinson, TrusteeGillam tp. FrancisM. Hershman, Trustee Walkertp J. F.Hiff. Trustee. Barkley tp. Greenfield, Trustee... Marion tp. James H . tarr. Trustee..lordan tp. Neheiniah Hopkins Trustee;.Newton tp. J. F. Bruner,Trustee..' ....Keener tp. ~ Hans Paulson. Trustee.... . Kankakee tp S. D. Clark. TrusteeWheatße.d tp. Win. O. Roadifer, Trustee Carpenter tp. Heoekiat. Kesler. TrusteeMilroy tp. Wm. Cooper. Trustee Unioli tp. W. H. Coover.....Remington'. Ezra L. Clark..... Rensselaer, J. F. Warren. County SuptJUDICIAL Circuit Judge.?. Edwin P. Hammond, Prnaecutinr Attorney ..JohnT Brown. of Court—Tint Monday in January; Third Monday in March; Tirtt Monday in Junt; bird Monday «» October. LJUggyTT OFFICER! ~~ Ctari..... .... JammF.lbwin Bh«nr. Phillip Bera. Auditor Gkorok M. Robinson Treasurer I B. Washburn Recorder . James F. Antrim. Surveyor James C. Thrawes. enmner . R. P. Benjamin. SuperintendentPnblfe Schools . J. F Warren rls»District.. P. M.Quirky. Oemmlasionen <!d District . ..J .F. Watson . <M DistrictO .P. Tabor. jemmfssieasrs’CowS Tint Monday tin March TnnaJSoptathborand. Dooembor

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Judging from the the proposed buildings at the Cliicago Wprl Ts Fair, published iu-the-illustrated papers, the buildings..alone.2»•ill. IE vvorib jtMUNUiv—-ing-theneands of miles to see. That they will far exceed in magnitude and beauty the buildings of any previous world’s fair, in any country, is now beyond question. That the fair itself will be equally beyond all previous occasions of the kind, is also nearly as certain. It would have been not a bad idea for the Democratic Legislature to have provided in their new tax law for the assessment of realestate at its full value, had they at the same time, adopted sufficiently rigid methods to insure the assessment of personal property, especially notes, mortgages and accounts, also at their full value; and further, had they taxed corporations, railroads, express companies and saloons a fair proportion; and further, had they made proper provision for cutting down the state levy to fit the increased revenue from the increased taxes on corporations saloons <fcc., and from the increased assessment. None of these things that should have gone with the increased assessment of land were done, however, and the result will be enormously increased state taxes on re-al-estate until the levy is reduced, and an entirely disproportionately small portion of the expenses of the state government paid by corporations, and an equally disproportionately large portion paid by

the 'farmers, as Jong as the law remains unchanged. And the Democrats have ho excuse for these glaring defects of the law, for they were clearly pointed out and every effort made by the Republican members to have them corrected. The Democrats were after a law in line with their new single-tax idea, however, and would listen to no suggestions from tire Republicans. . . iU . ■

Editor Republican :-The editor of the Democratic Sentinel affects great hilarity over my expose of the sophistry of his “Handy Andy,” “Saw Dust” Alliance man. I would not be suprised to hear that he wrote it himself. He published Senator Ewings’ article from the Greensburg New Era. The Senator talks about county and township taxes but does not say one word about state taxes and that is where the increase will be as I contended in your paper last week. We all agree the County Commissioners and township Trustees can decrease the county and township taxes in proportion to the increase of the appraisement. We all agree there is nothing wrong in appraising real and personal property at a true cash value. The difficulty’ is to get ..it done equally all over the state or counties in the state. The Sentinel resorts to ridicule instead of argument in the matter. That proves one of two things either thatheis incapable or has no argument to offer in favor of the high state taxes. I further ask all democrats to watch his course in this matter.

OLD DEMOCRAT.

One Thing Sure.

Oxford Tribune. The sure thing about taxation is that Democracy is a tax. The last Legislature increased the number of officers, increased the tax levy, increasecLthe rate of assessment, and lowered the special taxes on corporations. The farmers will pay about four times the State tax they have been accustomed to pay.

Tariff Pictures.

At the Protective Tariff League banquet Senator Aldrich disposed of the absurd claim that protec lion kills foreign trade by showing that, during the revenue tariff period from 1847 to 1861 the average , yearly exports of the United States per capita were but $7.73, while in the years 1876-1890 after our industries had been builtup by our average annual exports per capita were $13.57. —.Vezr York Press.

FREE SUGAR AND PROTECTION. ’■ ; Now that the real McKinley prices are at hand, and cheap sugar is causing consternation in the -reform” camp, the enemies of protection are driven to very absurd expedients in trying to neutralize the impression which freefor.the. people .is._cr.eat.ii\g in favor or the McKinley tar-' iff. We call the attention of our readers to the following utterances on this subject from representative Free Trade sources:

“Is admitting sugar untaxed Protection or Free Trade? If it is Protection, then I am a protectionist and am willing to work for more of the same sort. If it is Free Trade, why are you so happy over it, Mr. Protectionist? Especially since you profess to believe that the foreigners pay the duty, and its removal is therefore a boon to him instead of to us.— Jfr. William Lloyd Garrison, Speech at Danvers, Mass., Aprils. The Tariff organs continue to impress upon their Protectionist readers a beautiful lesson in political economy in the repeal of the sugar duties. .This remission of taxation, they declare, will be felt by every family in the land, altogether forgetting, in their newborn zeal for Free Trade in sugar, their own assiduous teaching that the Tariff is paid by the foreign manufacturer or producer and not by the American consumer.— Philadelphia Record, April 2. Yesterday a housekeeper had to pay one dollar for fourteen pounds of white granulated sugar. Today one dollar will buy twenty jiounds of the same quality. *- * * This is a splendid free-trade lesson given to the people by the enemies of free-trade. The tariff is a tax.” —Neu York Standard, April 1. ' To make sugar free is protection just as it was protection to make tea and coffee free, which was done by protectionists years

ago*.' It is free trade, otherwise known as a tariff for revenue only, some times called Cobdenism, which requires a tariff placed on these things. Free-trade is Englan As policy’, yet tea and coffee , both bear a heavy tariff, which" is paid by the English people. ProI tectionists everywhere and always 'have maintained that the sugar tariff was a tax, and never, as these free-trade authorities represent, that it was paid by the foreigner. There is no room for controversy on this point. Anyone, by consulting almost any speech or recorded utterance of any representative protectionist, cap easily satisfy himself that we state simply the truth. That protective duties on articles which can be produced here in sufficient quantities to supply the domestic demand are paid by the consumer does not therefore follow. Because sugar dropped in price the amount of the duty as soon as it was abolished, it does not follow that wire nails, now selling at 2 1-10 cents a pound, would sell for 1-10 of a cent a pound as soon the present duty of 2 cents a pound was removed. The duty on wire nails is protective, that on sugar, a revenue duty. That is the difference. It requires a vast amount of cheek and a lamentable absence of conscience for these free-traders to so misrepresent such well known facts. Their doing so indicates’the dsperation to which the benificent results of the new tariff are driving them.

Some More Reminiscenses.

Dur comparison, began three weeks ago, between the Rensselaer and Jaspercounty of ten years ago and now, would be greatly incomplete without some reference to our public schools. Much id the way of improvement had, indeed, been accomplished, but still, between the institution persided over by the brilliant and gifted but “windy” and somewhat superficial De M. Hooper and that of those thorough educators. Profs. Reubelt and Wilson, “there is a wide gulf fixed.” The difference between the ancient, cramped and ramshackle wooden school house, and the present handsome and commodious brick structure, is hardly greater. The school is now “right up to date” in all its methods. It has has a splendid library, of close to 1,000 volumes and a fine and complete philosophical apparatus, neither of which, did it have then. The increased population of the town together with improved methods of securing attendance, have probably more than doubled the average daily attendance. The alumni of the then numbered 11, now 63.

The country schools of Jasper County also, have made’great progress in these ten fruitful years. The good work at that time being done hy D. B. Nowels, has been nobly carried on by D, M. Nelson and J. F. Warren. The difference in the personnel of the county teachers’ institutes of that time and this, well illustrates the change in the country schools. Then it took hard drumming to get together 30 or 40 teachers, to the institutes, where now it is no trouble to get 130 or 140. Then there was a most marked flavor backwoods Hoosierism,in every gathering of country teachers. Much that was gawky, lanky, awkward and ill-dresed among them; now any urban assembly need not be more polished in deportment nor elegant! in attire.

The societies of the town have had their share of changes in ten years; and those who were the dominating spirits in the Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, and Eastern Star lodges of ten years ago, have mostly been “shuffled off the boards” or relegated to the rear, and new members have come to the front. The G. A. R. Post had not then been organized, nor the Rebecca lodge. The Knights and Ladies of Honor, have been, but are not, since that time and so also the Sons of Veterans encampment. The “Ladies Literary Society ,” was then in tne full heyday of its rosy and vigorous youth. It had a long I and brilliant career, but is now num- I bered among the things tliat were. I A thriving temperance society then, I as now, existed, but a long hiatus of I years without an active temperance I organization intervened between I them. < J I

We are not willing to leave this theme without some reference to thej people of -10 years ago, although tb speak of them with any degree of fullness would be a task impossible. In the court house, Ezra Nowels was auditor. He is now a judge in Colorado. Charley Price, the man whose wonderful wit and talents for practical joking has become a permanent tradition of the town, was county clerk. He has since been a jufige ini Dakota, and now gets a big salary’ as attorney for a corporation in Tennessee. Jim Abbett was recorder. He is now a very suicessful Methodist preacher in far-off Oregon. John Powell was sheriff. He now holds a government clerkship in Washington City; Henry’ Adams was treasurer. He still remains in the county, but has wandered away from the political fold, upon his exclusion from the feed racks therein. The practicing attorneys then were Thompson, Chilcote and Babcock, with W. W. Watson, J, W. Douthit, Daniel B. Miller, John Burroughs and Elza Phillips as beginners. Thompson, Chilcote, and Douthit are still in the race. Babcock has moved to Ohio; Watson is in the Washing pension office; Miller in the insurance business in Illinois: Burroughs went to Hammond and Phillips passed over the the dark river. Graham, Marshall, Austin, Hopkins and Foltz, are all later additions to the local bar The doctors have not been so badly lost in the shuffle as other professional and business men. J. H. Loughridge, Washbum, Alter and Bitters were here then as now. Link has moved to Nebraska, and Martin is dead. Hartsell, Mrs. Jackson and V. E. Loughridge have come upon the boards in later yeajs. If anything further is given in this line it must be at another time.

Plow shoes, —Farmers don’t touch a plow before buying a pair that will last you the season, from Ludd Hopkins. A good two horse Studebaker wagon and a single top buggy for sale. Dexter & Cox. Our stock of Hats is complete, embracing all the latest styles in crushers and stiff hats. J. H. Willey & Son. Just Received, at A. Leopold’s, I the finest assortment of all kinds of I carpets, floor and table cloths, wmI dow-blinds, fine lace curtains anc I chenille curtains. I Dear: oh Dear: You should call I at Hemphill <fc Honan’s and see the I pretty things they ’ye got. I All our Underwear, Yarns anc I Knit Goods, at cost, at Hemphill & I Honan’s. I Several Farms for sale. From I 40 acres upwards, at reasonable pricI es, for cash or on time to suit purchasers. Fletcher Monnett, ts - ■ Agent I We have a large assortment of the I celebrated Brbadhead Dress Goods in I all the latest novelties, new and deI sirable shades and colorings just received, we invite inspection. Please call and examine. J. H. Willey & Son.

THE SONG OF THE “No. 9.” My dress is of fine polished oak, As rich as the finest fur cloak, And for handsome design You just should see mine— No. 9, No. 9. I'm beloved by the poor and the rich. For both I impartially stitch; In the cabin I shine, In the mansion I’m fine— I No. 9, No. 9. I never get surly nor tired. With zeal I always am fired; To hard work I incline, For rest I ne’er pine— No. 9, No. 9. I am easily purchased by all. With instalments that monthly do fall; And when lam thine, ■ v ■ ' Then life is benign— No. 9, No. 9. To the Paris Exposition I went. Upon getting the Grand Prize intent; I left all behind, The Grand Prize was mine— No. 9, No. 9.

At the Universal Exposition of 1889, at Paris France, the best sewing machines of the world, including those of America, were in competition. They were passed upon by a jury composed ot the best foreign mechanical experts, two of whom were the leading sewing machine manufacturers of France. This jury, after exhaustive examination and tests, adjudged that the Wheeler & Wilson machines were the best of all, nnd awarded that company the highest prize offered—the GRAND PRlZE—giving other companies onl; gold, silver and bronze medals. The French government, as a further recogni tion of superiority, decorated Mr. Nathani-l Wheeler, president of the company, with the Cross of the Legion of Honor—the most prized honor of France. The No. 9, for family use, and the No, la, for manufacturing uses, are the best in the world to-dav. And now, when you want a sewing machine i( you do not get the best it will l>e your own fault Ask your sewing machine dealer for the No.! Wheeler A Wilson machine. If he doesn’t koi' them, write to us for descriptive catalogue an.’: terms. Agents wanted in all unoccupied terti tory. WHEELER A WILSON MFC. CO. Chic- go. KJ _ C. B. Steward, Agent

JOHN W. PAXTON & CO. Successors to Wolfe Co ) Dealers m ALL KINDS OF LUMBER! LATH, BLINDS, SHINGLES, MOULDING, DOORS, LIMH, SASH, HAXR, 4c, Carry Everything Pertaining to Our Line.

Come to Rensselaer and call at our Lumber Yards, south of thf Railroad, examine the quality of our stocand Jsave money. We man ufacture our own lumber in the Wisconsin pineries, and know tha we can give the best qualities for the least money. CLOSE ESTIMATES ON BILLS A SPECIALTY. JOHN W. PAXTON & CO.

Renssohsr Stock Farm STALLIONS FOR SEASON of 1891.

PLUTO, 1950. Sire of BLUE W1NG—2.251. LEO-2.291. CLARENCE-2 30. LANCEWOOD CHIEF-2.3U WEDGEBROOK—2.36I. JOHN, H. P.-2.39. OLIVER 8.-2 42. PLUTO, Jr—2.4s|. 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 2.88-|. by * DON COSSACK, 950, Record 2.28 and sire of three in 2.30. Ist Dam—May Queen. < Olay, 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 colts are all bays and of good size. Season oflß9l at S2O to Insure

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

jjfc .a AA-zawyigl ft .4 J ' A. McCOY & RANDLE have now on hand a large lot of store EWES, which they are c Serin in lots of ten or more, to suit purchasers, and bred to Shropshire rams or not bred, as desired. All good, healthy sheep, and warranted free fru-u all diseases. Terms. —Cash, or six or twelve month’s credit, to responsible parties

Kensselaer Wilkes: 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 S3O: The Season Book Full. PLUTO, RJ», Record 2 45|. „ by PLUTO, 1950. Sire of 3 in 2.30 at 10 years of age Ist Dam—by Jim Swjgert, Son of Swigert, 650. This is a fine individual and a natural born trotter. He will be given a record this year. S easoi) of 1891 at 10 to insure Season to close July Ist,