Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1891 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN. Thursday, J uly 2,1891.

oiiesCToiß'sr CORPORATION OFFICERS : Mashal ( M L W>mtrx Clerk ..:..<'harlks G. Spitlkk Treasurer:... C. Starr (Ist R. Vaxattx, —— ——(idWard N H, Warner. Counciiinen{ 3d Warn J. H SEuif. | 4tbWard......Paris Harrison, i sth Ward., ancil Woodworth. JASPER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION J. C. Gwin Trustee, Hanring Grove tp. Michael Robin sou. Trustee tp. Francis M. Hershman, Trustee Walker tp "JL F. Iliff. Trustee .... Barkley tp. W«, Greenfield, Trustee.Marton tp. Janies H . Carr, Trustee.. Jordantp. Nehemiali Hopkins Trustee Newton tp. J.F. Bruner.Trustee Keener tp. Hans Paulson,TrusteeKankakee tp S. D.Clark, TrusteeWheatfie.d tp. Wm. O. Roadifer, TrusteeCarpentertp. Hezekiah Kesler. Trustee.....Milroy tp, Wm. Cooper. Trustee,.... ....Unlontp. W. H. Coover Remington. Ezra L. Clarkßeiisselaer, J. F. Warren County Supt. COUNTY OFFICER! Clnrk JaxibF. Irwin Sheriff Phu.lip Blve. Auditor,...,. Treasurer... I B. Washburn Recorder .Tanks F. Antrim. Surveyor Jamks C. Thrawlb. Coroner R. p. Bbnjamin. Superintendent Publie Schools.. J. F Wakkkn _ (latDißtrlet...P. M.Qpkrbt. Oammiasioners ?sd District ... .J .F. Watbon . _ <3d District O.P.Tabob. CommisswiMrs’Cours—FVrst Mondavi* March 'u’l.SfpUnifrcndStamitr

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It is with pleasure we announce that we have made arrangements with that popular, illustrated magazine, the American Farmer, published at Cleveland, Ohio, and read by farmers in all parts of this country and Canada, by which that excellent publication will be mailed direct, free, to the address of any of our subscribers who will pay up all arrearages on subscriptions and one year in advance, from date, and to any new subscribers who will pay one year iff advance, or to any subscribers in arrears who will pay us not less, than $3.00 on his back subscription. This is a grand opportunity to obtain a firstclass farm journal free. The American Farmer is a large 16-page illustrated journal, of national circulation, which ranks among the leading agricultural papers. Its highest purpose is the elevation sand ennobling of Agriculture through the higher and broader education of men and women engaged in its pursuits. The regular subscription price of the American Farmer is 81.00 per year. IT COSTS YOU NOTHING. From any one number, ideas can be obtained that will be worth the subscription price to you or members of your household, yet you get it free. Call and see sample copy. ’ The Joliet A’eirs says the buildings- for the new tin plate factory at that place are going up rapidly, and will be ready to commence manufacturing in the fall, perhaps in August. The owners say they expect to turn out about 1,400 hoxes a week at first and employ 200 hands. For a time the supply of tin ore will -come from Malacca, Singapore and Australia, but they expect to get it ultimately from the Black Hills, which, they say, “are full of tin, and if the people will only give the tin companies breathing time they will be getting it out and supplying the market.'’ About the most prominent ofjthe Democratic managers in Rensselaer, boasted a few days since that the Democrats and People’s party would combine at the next election and scoop everything in sight in Jasper County . There is no doubt but that the leaders in the two jparties mentioned will try to work this 88 they did ast year, when the s P nominated two Alliance were on the Democratic ticket, but passed the Republican Alliance candidates by, on the other. We >donot think the scheme will suc<eeed any better the next time, nor even come as near succeeding, as it did last year. The “Tariff Pictures” of the New York Press worry the Democratic free traders greatly. They present in graphic form the facts of the benefits of Protection in this country, in a manner so plain and with facts so incontestible that “a wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein.” The facte of the pictures are nearly all

based upon the market quotations in the daily papers, open to the inspection of all men, and official reports of the Treasury and other government departments. In all these “pictures” so based, the free traders have not found a single statement they could deny the truth of. Lately, however, the Press based one of its pictures on statements regarding the productions of a woollen factory at LaPorte, this state, which was erronious; the factory not being in operation a/all Of course the Democrats all over the country are making the most of this mistake; and considering the record of the party which planned, executed and profited by the Morey letter, there is no doubt but that some scheming Democrats deliberately invented the false statements which misled the Press into making the erronious statements regarding the LaPorte factory. It was a characteristic Democratic trick.

- In the South the enemies of the Republican party seem to find it to their advantage to abuse the party on account of the liberality of the pension laws; and liberal indeed they are —more so than any eve r before passed by this or any othe r nation. In the North the opposite policy is sometimes adopted, and the pension laws are falsely reviled on account of their alleged want of liberality. In Rensselaer for intance, the new anything-to-beat-the-Republican-party organ declares that the Union soldiers were given only a “pauper bill” and also says, in effect, that the soldier has to declare himself a pauper in order to obtain a pension under its provisions. Nothing could be more pnjust or farther from the truth. The disability pension bill gives a pension to every honorably discharged Union soldier who is wholly or partially unable to earn a support, graduating the amount of the pension u pon. the-extent of the disability, a nd this irrespective of the financial condition of the applicant. In no way, shape or manner does the applicant have to “declare he isjLP a upef' or even in dependent ci rcuifi stances; neither is any proof required that the disability was incur red in the service. . , ....

Why don’t the “stuffed prophet” Cleveland, whose dolorous progncstieatiois of calamity because of the, tariff and “the surplus” have ccme to naught as well as his echoes throughout the country, right here in Rensselaer for instance, enter a little into particulars when they howl about the "Billiou dollar CGiigr+w" ami- assert that “our last congress voted a way abillion dollars of the people’s money, to corporations, to companies, and private individuals?” Why don’t they mention even a single mil--1 ion that was voted away i mproperly ? It is true that about 40 per cent, of the expenditures of the government during the last two years have gone into the pockets of “private individuals” in the shape of well deserved pensions to Union soldiers. If our democratic friends object to that, le't them say so openly, and not skulk behind vague and general statements. As to the “corporations and companies" that are alleged to have been voted money; no one better knows the falsity of the assertion than the authors themselves. It is a billion dollar country, gentlebieii,- and every patriot should rejoice that hi? lives in a nation great enough, rich enough and wise enough, to be abU’to expend 500 millions a year for ifich benifieent purposes as supporting the country’s defenders. pry.ng interest upon and extinguishing the' jjiiblic debt, building of naval and other, defenses, carrying on a grand- system of public improvements, Ind the regular expenses of the government. It is a “billion dollar’’ country i and glory be to the author of all good aild to his faitMab in-j strumeut,the Republican party, for the fact

For a few specimen beauties of the new Democratic assessment law we would call attention to one single section thereof, Bec. 114. In regard to the County Board of Review, tin's section requires, “Two weeks previous notice of the time, place and purpose of such meeting shall be given by the County etc. Then, “In all cases where the Board deems it necessary to add omitted property or to increase the valuation thereof, by the assessor, it shall cause the names of the persons to whose lists of' property is to., be added, or the valuation of whose property is to be increased, to be inserted in the notice herein before provided for.” Can some Democratic statesman tell how these names are to be inserted in a notice, which has been published two weeks before? “Such Board may, at its option, cause to be servedupon the person * * * a written notice that it is proposed to revise or correct his list.” Now of course the Board can do nothing but adopt‘this method. In this case “the taxpayer whose list, return, statement, or schedule it adjudges, shall be revised or corrected as aforesaid, shall be liable for all costs occasioned by such ret vision, or correction.” This cost will amount to from one dollar to perhaps six dollars in each case according to the place of residence of the party, and in each case where his assessment is raised the taxpayer who had nothing to do with fixing values, as a rule, must pay this cost. For instance, the o wner of a farm or town lot peril aps knows nothing of the amount at which it is assessed until he rec eives notice and appears before the Board. He perhaps assents to his assessment being raised, but still he must pay the cost occasioned by the assessor’s lack of judgement. Or suppose the assessment of an entire Township must be raised to equalize it with the others. ’Shall “notice be served on every inhabitant of the Township at a. cost of hundreds of dollars and these costs charged to the taxpayers of the Township? Again, thousands of acres of land are owned in .the county by non-resi-dents, to whom no notice can be grvenunderthe requirements of this law. Shall they be permitted to come in and demand a reduction when assessed too high but go free for want of notice when assessed too low, thus having such advantage over residents? Then this section of the law, after providing for the notice above spoken of, io be published by the County Auditor, followed by setting forth what the Board may do in the way of corrections, additions "'eS7~conlams =r tEis7 ‘TiCaTI .cases where a change has made by it (the Board) or omitted property placed by it on the returns, two weeks previous ncAlee-oI the time, place and purpose of the meeting of the Board of Review shall be given by the County Assessor.” This sentence should certainly have a special “Board of Review with full powers of substitution etc.” The above citations are all from one section of the act containing 260 sections.

PROTECTION AND PRICES.

The attorneys for free trade make especial pretensions to philanthropy. If they are to be believed, the main object of those foreign traders who demand free access io our as well of those Americans who champion foreign interests, is to benefit the people of th is country. To this end clubs are organized in England with the avowed object of opposing protective legislation in this country, and arrangements are perfected for prompt response to foreign dictation by the American free trade promoters. Feigning especial sympathy.for consumers,»every free trade advocate from Cobden to Cleveland, no matter how inconsistant in other assertions, has invariably rounded up with the claim that “the amount of the tariff i» added to the price” of all products of this country similar to those thait may be

■" -- - ' • > imported. A few of the more presiimptuous among them have undertaken to fix the annual aggregate of such allegad increase in cost, though varying in their conclusions hundreds of millions of dollars. With even greater unanimity have they omitted to cite market quotations in support of their assumptions, though-having weekly revised’reports or ruling prices within ready reach. Such omission was by no means accidental; it was a necessity of the situation. . As a matter of fact, taking the experience of this country from the passage of the law signed by Washington on the Fourth of July 1789, to the present time, every page of Our industrial history furnishes proof that prices have been invariably and steadily lowered when confronted by domestic competion, which would have been impossible under a policy of free trade. ’No candid student of American history will maintain that under the policy dictated by British statesmen, and enforced by British power so long as such en forcemens was possible, the Untted States could have been other than an agricultural dependency, with foreign rfianufacturers controlling its markets, in accordance with their own notions of expediency. This result that the grasping foreigner of a past generation so sternly contended for has not yet faded from the vision of his successors, who, with zeal unabated, now seek to win through diplomacy what they no longer dare attempt to secure in the good old kindly fashion of conquest or arm ed intimidation. The changed conditions prevailing in the two countries have by no meansabated the foreigner’s desire to control our markets of manufactured products, although there is to be noted a marked departure from the tactics once employed for securing such control. It is to this enforced changing in “influences” resorted to by those who yearn for profits from American trade that so many modern writers and talkers are indebted for employment in advocacy of “tariff reform” and such temporary party advantage as they hope to realize therefrom.

IS THE TARIFF A ROBBERY?

The free-traders and revenue reformers assert that the Tariff is a “robbery.’.’ ’ Can it be a “robbery” of any one to secure to the people of this country the opportunity to supply our national wan t s hy t Ire h rnicl s of our own countrymen? That is all that the highest conceivable tariff can secure. <. In times of armed conflict our citizens are required to leave their liomes aud. fteiniUes to take up aims’ and at the. risk of their lives defend the country against armed invasion. Why should not the country in time of peace protect the labor of those men from an industrial invasion no less destructive?

If the tariff be a “robbery,” it is first to be observed that all classes of the people, the robbed as well as the robbing, are better fed, better clothed and better housed than the people of any other country in the world. That is the crucial test of all economical policies. It is undfeniable that the most perfect suiting of occupations to the various aptitudes of all the members of the community will be produced by the carrying on of the largest variety of It it uvt then the a coo fifty to maintain such ait industrial policy fts will secure the greatest possible extent and variety of prd’-? duction, leaving to the Natural competion between individuals the function of preventing undue profits on the part of any? There are 23,000,000 of active workers in this country. Among that large Dumber umLesis and compe-ti-»iou iitotC ■ engaged .u the same business may be relied on to adjust prices so that none can make a profit greater than the average profits of the community. - But let us see if there is any robbery effected by a tariff. As to sueh portion of the money collected; afrit is paid to the Goy-

ernment, that goes into the public Treasury and aids in defraying the expenses of the nation. Inasmuch as all the people share in its benefits, that portion cannot be considered “robbery.” It will hardly do to assert that “ the foreign manufacturer is ‘‘robbed” by our requiring him to deposit in our Treasury a sum of money in the nature of a license fee for the-privilege of selling his wares in this country. •% The “rob” therefore must consist of the difference between a reasdnable price and the price now charged by the manufacturer. If such difference exists, it must constitute a margin so ample as to become a strong incentive to the people of any section claiming to be robbed by it to organize for themselves competing establishments andthuswliolly protect themselves against the exaction of the robber. The tariff,protects them against'the foreigner, and all that is needed to protect them agjainst the native robber is for themselves to do the work—-to produce the article. Why do they not produce it? If they have not the skill they can employ it. There is ample skill in this country ready to go wherever sufficient inducement is offered. — American Economist.

Editor Republican.—ln the firs issue of the '‘'■Pilot” “Gr.” whose real name would not be hard to guess, occupies more than a column wrestling with the question “As Alliance men what part shall we take in politics?” In his starts out very easy by saying, “We attach too much importance to party creeds and party triumph.” Then again, “Now the ills of Which we complain have not been brought about by the success or defeat of any of the great political parties or questions that have been before the people for the last thirty years.” Again, ‘ ‘The great questions that are discussed before our intelligent, reading, thinking people from platform, pulpit and press are usually settled about right.” ' That gounds very will so far, but listen how the gentle “G.” makes his point. He says “At present one of the principal evils that afflict our country, one from which we as a class most suffer, is national extravagance, the voting away of the people’s money by our last congress. It is said that our last' congress voted away a billion dollars of the people’s money to corporations, to companies, to private individuals, opened wide our national treasury to the robbers, speculators, <fcc. &c.” Do Alliance men ask WHO said that?' No sir, this wiley writer enters his little poisoned pen there for a political purpose. His desire is to tlie Republicans who belong to the Alliance from their party while he will vote the Democratic ticket straight as he undoubtedly has done in past time. He docs not tell his readers what was done or is to be done with all the money “voted away ’ ’ ,JLAgain ’ ’ together in our opposition to the National Banking System of this country.” If so, why so? Who are running all of the Alliances ? He wants “equal rights for all, special privileges or none.” Who has special privileges in this country ? James Welsh, in his articles, exclaims “Alas 1 we poor deluded creatures. We, it is true, have a diversity of interest.” * * * “But one thing as co-workers we must agree on, and that is the repeal of all class kiws. Our prosperity as a nation depends on equal rights and privileges and freedom for all.”

“G.” is teaching Democrotic principles pure and simple while Jim Welsh is doing the “calamity shreaking.” Republicans need not fear those gentlemen if they know them. In 1862 the cry was, the country was being ruined. The black republicans were “nigger stealers” and the greenbacks were “Lincoln skins” and “they would never vote again” the “usurper Lincoln would be King.” In 1874 during the Grange movement about the same kind of talk was indulged in; Our calamity orators saw d “specter at every fireside and a skeleton in every eioset.” The Republican party went forward, the people and especially the farm-i ers prospered, they bought j lands, built good houses, barns, 1 churches, school houses, bought fine I buggies, nice pianos and organs, dressed well,.and lived off the fat of the land. It seems to me that if theydook around they will have to hunt a long time before they find a farmer who has starved to death. At the close of the war this government was paying about 140 million dollars per year interest, on the public debt Now it is paying less than 38 millions per year. “Prove all things and hold fast

that which is good,” is as good a mottoe in politics as in religion and one that every lover of his country should keep in mind. We need not lose our heads because of this new ■‘People’s Party,” Some of them are honest and many are dishonest. only hoping to ride into place on the top of the wave.

Blackford.

OBITUARY.

MBS. F. P. BITTERS.

Anna May Bitters, wife of Dr. F. P. Bitters, daughter of W. S. and Nancy Stockton, born at Round Grove, White county, Indiana, on the loth of Aug. 1860, died at her home in Rensselaer, on the 30th of June 1891, aged 30 years, 10 months and 15 days. Her last words, “Lord Jesus receive my spirit” were a fitting close of a beautiful life. She was married to F. P. Bitters, M. D., on the 15th of May, 1883, at West LaFayette, coming immediately to Rensselaer , taking up her residence with her husband in the home of her death. She was the happy mother of three children, two boys and one girl, all of whom have preceded her to the spirit world. The deceased was ardently devoted to her family and friends. This characteristic so fully developed in mortal life began to manifest itself when she was but a child. When only 5 years of age, during the illness of her mother, from which she died, she would stand by her bed side with the question, “mother what can I do for you?” Five years later during the illness of her step-mother she proved the same devoted child of service. Her interest in others, her willingness to suffer for others, has, doubtless, been one cause of her premature death. Mrs. Bitters was modest and retiring, intelligent and amiable. She was for 10 years a member of the M. E. church, but gave up her membership in that church to unite with the Presbyterian church, four years ago, when she and her husband, with many others, came into the Presbyterian fold. In the church, home and community she will be missed. Not having lived the half of her allotted 3 score years and 10, it is with sadness we record the fact that her sun went down before the 12th hour of the day. We can not change the in e vitable. We humbly submit in the hope that all is well. Her mortal remains we commit to the dust, her worthy traits of character we carry in our hearts, “ ’till all shall meet in heaven, at length.”

Notice of Meeting of the County Board of Review Notice is hereby given :—To th e tax payers of Jasper County, Indiana that the County Board of Review will meet at the Auditors’Office in the Court House in Rensselaer Indiana on Monday the Gth day of July, A..D. 1891. For the assessment, review and equalization of taxes for the year 1891 and continue from day to day until they have completed such review. Geo. M. Robinson. Auditor, Jasper County Indiana. ill MAGIC wCholmteelW Thousands of dollars worth of ' chickens are destroyed by Cholera every year. It is more fatal to them than all other diseases combined. But the discovery of a liquid, remedy that positively destroys the Microbes has been made. Half of the young chickens are killed by Microbes before they are fryers. 4 . 50 cent bottle is enough for too chickens. It is guaranteed. If alter using J two-thirds of a bet/* ycu arc net 1 satisfied with it as a cure for Cholera, return it to the druggist from whom you purchased.? ar d ’•" wfl refnn d youry $ Bold by Luno 4 Egib. ILESgif! SMI® ■ M, «* “Iwirart M* ialataal win cure tan eaaa ar TaMtr, Ml IXI. Swaa, raaflaa. Irj

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