Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — TOPICS OF THESE TIMES. [ARTICLE]

TOPICS OF THESE TIMES.

Tbs Kentucky Legislature, after a session of 231 days, adjourned in for a three months recess. 2)i« peepU of to be commiserated. The larger number of accidents and fatalities that occur in hot weather is in the main accounted for by the greatly increased amount of travel incident to the heated term. Big excursions, heavily loaded trains and steamers, pleasure driving and booting and large crowds are the features of the season. The danger from these sources is apparent and ail that can be done is to minimize it by care, prudence and good management

Aninteresting legal question has just arisen in a curious way. A widow, desiring to remove the body of ber husband from a cemetery whose managers wish to retain it, has appealed to the courts to compel the managers to deliver the body to question involved is a grave one. And undertaking to discuss it from a legal stand point is apt to expose the undertaker to the charge of runnibg the thing into the ground. Strange as it may seem, the did not ask for n*-write of habeas corpus—apparently the most appropriate remedy under the circumstances. It is really a question of opening a case already closed in fact and in law. The decisions on this of the legal rights to a corpse and its surroundings leave the whole matter shrouded in mystery.

Special committees and joint committees of Congress have been cn. gaged for years past in investigating the subject of immigration, so that needed legislation in regard to it might be adoptfed. Special commissioners have been sent abroad at a heavy cost to obtain information; volumes of testimony have been •token and printed; tedious speeches upon it have been made in the Senate and the House, and we don't know how many bills about it have been introduced, referred to committees and sold os waste paper. It has been impossible to secure the legislation that is needed, though the need for protective legislation is very press* ing. Now that Congress has adjourned, the Joint Ccunmittee upon Immigration is to resume the investigation The committee will come to New York and go to other ports, call wit necses, take trips to Ellis Island, examine the officials there, probably cross to Europe, ask questions that have been answered a hundred times, print more,e vidence like that which has been printed in various reports, and go again over tbo old ground that ends nowhere. We know all about immigration by this time, and the law that is needed, very much ‘needed, for its regulation, could be drawn up in two hours. —New York Sun.

It looks as though there might be as exciting time in this country next spring capturing and expelling the Chinese who shall not have complied with the new registry law by that time. The law requires every Chinaman now in the country to procure from the collector of internal revenue in the district where he lives a certificate of residence, to which must be attached his photograph. The certificate will be, in efTect, a license to remain in the country, and the photograph will be an identification. A second copy of the photograph must be attached to the application, and a third must be filed in the collector's office. All Chinamen found without eertificates arter next May are to be summarily arrested and sent to China. No arrangements are made to induce Chinamen to comply with the law, and no effort will be made to call their attention to its provisions. They are supposed to inform themselves as to its rcquirements < and W comply with them, and failure to do so will involve the peualty of expulsion from the country. It is highly probable that a great rnuuy Chinese now in the country will fail to comply with the law, and that after May 5 many of them will have to be sent out of the country. The scenes attending n wholesale expulsion of this kind may prove quite exciting, and about that time wc may look Tor some retaliatory measures by CW

Elwood’s Big Tin Plate Hill and its Product. Tbe Platform of -the Two Partiee ConUwetetf—Co gape titter ' " Free Trade V Countries— Vindicated. ELWOOD'6 BIG TIN PLATE MILL. No other industry in the United States is exciting more-interest at present than the manufacture of tin plate. This is due in part to the fact that it is a new industry now being established under the McKinley law, and in part to the fact that it has been singled out by the Democratic press of the country as a special object of opposition, misrepresentation and abuse. In order to answer numerous inquiries on the subject and set at rest various conflicting rumors a Journal reporter was instructed to visit the American tin plate works at Elwood, Ind., and tell the truth about them. Elwood is situated in the northwestern part of Madison county, in the heart of the Indiana natural gas field. The town has a population of nearly seven thousand, most of which it has acquired in the last two years, and is growing rapidly:,. It has several large manufacturing establishments, employing from 200 to 900 hands, but the present report has to do with one only. The reporter found the American ..tin plate works located about half a mile from Elwood, on grounds eligibly situated for water, drainage, switching facilities, etc. The natural gas well, which furnishes fuel and light for the entire establishment is within the inclosure. Mr. W. B, Leeds, treasurer of the company, was present and showed the reporter through the works, and kindly gave all desired information. The company was organized Sept. 10, 18.11. Its capital stock is s3oi),000, and the number of stockholders about, one hundred. The stock is held in Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, Columbus and Zanesville. 0., and Richmond, Kokomo, Peru and Elholders is Hon. A. L. Conger, of Ohio, who is also president of the company. He is in several large manufacturing enterprises, and is noted for his energy and success in business. Mr. Leeds, treasurer and managing director of the company, is well known in railroad circles, being a division superintendent on the Panhandle road. The other officers of the company are John F. Hazen, of Cincinnati, vice-president, and C. S. Tarlton, secretary. The ootnoanv owns ten act'es of grouud, all of which it expects to utilize eventually. Work on its buildings was commenced Nov. 8, 1891, and ©te completion of the plant has beon pushed with remarkable energy. There are three buildings completed. The first, called the“hot mill,’ is 150 by 76 feet, and is constructed of iron. This is where the black plates are heated, rolled, doubled and separated. The second building, the “cold-roll-mill,” is 130 by 60 feet, and constructed of brick and stone. This building contains the boilers, cold-roll machines, pickling machines and annealing ovens. The third building the tinning house and sorting room, is a brick structure, 170 by 50 feet. The three build-

OTHER FEATURES OF THE PLANT. These buildihgs are occmaiejihv engines, furnaces, tanks, rawers. shears and other appliances.®! the machinery having been made in this country. There are five engines in constant use, two large aa4 three small ones, the largest being 1,000 horse power. The three buildings constitute foumrttts at present, bxrtr are arranged for six, and will be enlarged to this capacity very soon. Mr. Rogers, a Welsh tin-plate manufacturer, who recently visited this country, and who is now preparing to establish a large tin-plate factory in Grant county, this State, visited the American 'tin-plate works, and pronounced them the finest he had ever seen—not the largest, but the most convenient and best equipped. They have been in operation about six weeks. The company’s tin has been on the market about two weeks and in that time they have filled sixty one orders, including orders from Chicago, Cincinnati, Elgin and Peoria, 111., Louisville, Ky., Detroit, Mich., Pittsburg, Pa., ‘Dayton and Youugstown, 0., Richmond, Evansville,. Tipton, Mishawaka, Jnd., and other places. They took $40,000 of orders in Chicago in two days. At present they are turning out about 1.200 boxes per week. Their full [ capacity, witli their present facilities. will be 2.500 boxes per week, and they expect to reach that quantity in September. Their present product is about six car-loads of tinplate per week, and they have a steady demand for all they can make. Their tin is sold in competition with well-known brands, and equals them in every respect, if it does not surpass them. Norton Bros., of Chicago. who recently gave them an order for three thousand boxes, say it w irks up into cans better than foreign tin. The Chicago luter-Ocean, referring to this purchase, said; “Lost Friday the American Tin plate Com pauv, of El wood, lnd.. through their agents, the Hazen Company, of Cincinnati, took an order from Norton Brothers, of Chicago, for three thousand boxes I. C. bright coke tin-plate, 14x20, and one thousand boxes of the same quality, 20x28, to be used by them in the manufacture of cans. This is probably the largest order yet booked by the American tin plate* works. It will weigh 540,000 pounds, and require a train of twenty-six cars, holding twenty thousand pounds each, to transport it from Llwood, lad., to

- I . •• J Chicago. Hie order is to be fille l within ninety days and wastaken-at slower price than the'foreigjn article can be bought at, and the quality is stated by Norton Brothers to be ~mttch belter than corresponding Engtf&hi grades, especially in the ductility ofAbsiteeL Bk.eetsfypm„wbjch. the plates are made.” Manufacturers of tinware who are using it say it gives entire satisfaction. , The company employs at present 22SL hands, of whom thirty are boys, thirty girls, and the remainder are men. The pay roll runs about $2,000 a week, the highest wages being SSO a week, which is paid to a rollerman. The average rollerman makes about $7 per day. A doubler makes from $4 to $4.50, a heater $3 to $3.50, a catcher $2. The boys and girls earn about $1 a day. All these wages are more than double those paid for the same work in Wales. The American tin-plate works use American steel exclusively, that beimr found more pliable and easily worked than the English Bessemer steel: They make ail the black plater they use. In the Drceess of manufacturing they use one thousand pounds of Sulphuric acid per week, which comes from Cleveland, 0., and 2.500 pounds per week of palm oil, which comes from Africa. A carload of palm oil costs $1,600. They use a car load of pig tin per month, costing $6,000. They manufacture all the kinds of tin-plate in the market, viz.: Tcrna or roofing tin, “charcoal” or bright tin, aim coke tin, and they challenge comparison between theis product and the corresponding grades of foreign tin. The capacity of the mills is one-fifth terne or roofing plate, and four-fifths bright plate.

OF ISGt. Republican Map Showing the Complete Apportionment. Indianapolis News, The Republican State Central Committee has issued a map showing Congressional, Senatorial and Representative districts under the apportionment by the last Legislature, The map is printed to be circulated for campaign purposes. The map is tabled: “Democratic Disfranchisement. In Mississippi by shotgun. In Indiana by* gerrymander.” Accompanying the., map is an array of figures, worked out by Robert Mansfield, of the State committee, showing the alleged injustice of the apportionment. The map calls attention to the fact that the following counties are not- allowed a Representative of their own, but are thrown with a Democratic county in order to overcome the Republican majorities. Jay, total’ 5,805; Republican plurality, 71. Jennings, total, 3,704; Republican plurality, 459. Lawrence, total, 4,075; Republican plurality. 442. Monroe, total, 3,989; Republican -plurality 240. Ohio, total, 4,315; Republican plurality, 140. Orange, total, 3,443; Republican plurality, 125. Union, total, 2,024; Republican plurality, 240. Vermillion, total, 3,302; Republican plurality, 200. Thus eight counties, the compiler of the information says, representing a total vote of 27.656, and a Republican plurality of 2,007, are represented in the Legislature by Democrats living in other counties. - The compiler then goes ou tu say?

In the district of Sullivan, Vigo and Vermillion, casting a total vote of 21,219, Sullivan is given one,Vigo two, and one joint for the three counties, or one Representative for each 5,304 votes. Vigo and Vermil-, lion cast a total vote of 15.893, and by making Vigo and Vermillion joint it would give one Representative to each 5,291 votes past. But with the latter arrangement the Republicans of Vermillion would elect a Representative. and to defeat that and disfranchise them, Sullivan, with 1,420 Democratic majority, is added. Lawrence county,with a total vote of 4.075, and a Republican majority of 439, is not given a Representative in the Legislature, while Perry county, with a total vote of only 3,985, and a Democratic majority of 29. is given one Representative. Monroe county, with a total vote of 3,980. and a Republican majority of 121, has no Representative, but is attached to Brown, giving a Democratic majority of 803. Jennings county, with a total vote of 3.703, and a Republican majority of 411, has no Representative, but is attached to Clark and Scott, that giv6 a Democratic majority of 792. Warren and Benton counties, that give a total vote of 7,032, and a Republican majority of 911, are given one Representative, while Tipton county, with a total vote of 4,518, and a Democratic ma ority of lt*2, is given one Representative. Randolph county, with a total vote of 7,110, nud a Republican majority of 2,148, is given one Representative while Washington, with a total vote of 4,258, and a Democratic majority of 518, is given one. Miami, with a total vote of 6,714, and a Democratic majority of 268, is given one and a “ float ” with Cass. Owen county, with a total vote of 3,620, and a Democratic majority of 216, is given one Representative,and Hamilton county, with a total vote of 6.422, and a Republican mnjority of 776, is given only one Representative. Tipton county, lying immediately north of Hamilton, has a total vote of 4,548, and a Democratic jority of 192, is also given one Representative and a ‘‘float. ” Jay county, having a total vote of 5,805, is not given a Representative, but is given ono “float" with Adams county, that has a Democratic ma jority of 1,559. and one “float" with Adams and Blackford, that gives a Democratic majority of 1,579. This is done to overcome the small Repub-

lican plurality of Jay and enable the 1 Democracy of Adams and Blackford I to say who shall legislate for the ' people of Jay. f ranklin county, with a total vote of 4,622, and a Democratic majorityof 1,122, is given one Representative. She is also attached to Unioti county, that has a Republican majority of. 192, and Riply county, that has a Republican plurality of 28. By this means, Democratic Franklin legislates for the Republican counties of Union and Riply. Lawrence and Orange are attached to Dubois county, which gives a Democratic majority of 1,749, in order to make the Representative of Lawrence and Orange Democratic. Anfi iu order to further utilize the Democratic majority of Dubois they have attached it to Martiu to make a small Democratic majority of that county sure. Delaware unU Randolph, with a total vote of 13,913, and d>itepublicaa majority ui 3,809, are given one Senator, white Cass, with a total vote of 8.248, and a Democratic majority of 194. is given one. On that basis over 5,000 Republican voters have no voice in the Slate legislation. Henry and Fayette counties, with a total vote of 9,856, and a Republican majority of 1,748, is given one Senator, wbde Dubois and Perry, with a tolar vote of' 8,306, and a Democratic majority of 1.778, are given one Senator. Over 1,500 Republican voters disfranchised. Howard and Miami counties, with a total vote of 12,856, a Republican majority of 81S, is given one Senator, while Lapcrt county, with a total vote of 8,433, and a Democratic majority of 785, is given one. Over 4,000 Republicans disfranchised in this case. Jay county, with a total vote of 5,030, aud a Republican majority of 71,, ia njjt allowed a Representative in the while Uwen county, with a total vote of 3,620, which gives a Democratic majority of 216, is given one Representative, and Perry county, with a total vote of only 3,"985, jand a Democratic majority of 29, is given one Representative. By this outrageous steal, a Republican county with a vote of nearly 6,000 is deprived of a voice in the Legislature, while Democratic counties with a totally etc ot less than 4,000 are given a voice in the making of State laws. Is this justice ? The basis of represent ation on the total vote of the State should be one Senator for each 10,736. As it is. Democrats elect a State Senator for each 8,419 votes cast, while the Rc-

publicans elect one Senator for every 13,852 votes cast; or, each Republican Senator represents 5,433 more constituents in the General Assembly than each Democratic Senator. The map also shows the changes made in the congressional districts, and presents figures to show that au unfair advantage was taken. It lias been determined by the Republican State Committee to make the gerrymander one of the leading issues* in the campaign. Chairman Gowdy is of the opinion that the people have become disgusted with the conduct of the Democrats in regerrymandering the State in their interest, and'will assist in the election of Republican candidate for the Legislature this year. IS TARTFRIYTAXT “ New York Press, The McKinley bill put up the duty on linseed oil mammm 25 centsagaUon 32 and the duty on flaxseed from '' 2(5 cents to 30 cents a bushel Well, linseed oil has -deeUnetHn price 57 I cents a gallon to 34 cents in 1892. Is the iariff'aVax? - If it is, it is a tax that repeals itself by opening factories and increasing production. Workiugman, which way of repealing a tax do you like better —letting it open factories and repeal itself, or repealing it by law and closing the factories?

THE DEMOCRATIC IDEA“We denounce Republican protection as a fraud, taxing the labor of the great majority cf the people for the benefit of tho few. We declare it to bo a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that tho Federal government has no power to impose and collect tariff duties except for the purposes of revenue only, and We demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the government when economically adminisic.-cd. ’'— National Democratic Platform. Just as soon as tho Democrats got the power they will wipe out toe atrocious Republican sugar bounty system and restore the sugar diit.es. Instead of paying millions of Ixxtnly to Bugar planters, we w 11 re establish the revenue tariff on sugar. ~ Henry W*ttarsoo. Wo mean to rip up exterminate. abolish, annihilate, and in the fouF est ignominy and disgrace,, every vestige Of the fraud called protection, wherever wc can find it, and rs fast as the needs of tho go ’Crnnient, increased tenfold b w tl e Ref I licon party, will iHtrinit, Geo ? —lleary Watte rsou. , One farm not far f.r.m New Yoik is furnishing miik iO that bottles cgpecially blown for it. on which arc- marked the per urn*o4B* of cream.