Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1893 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, October 26,1893. JSSV KT> BVRBY THTBSDAY BY GEO E. CVBUPHBB AND FhOPRIBTOB. OFFICE In RepublicanbaUding, on Washington an<i Weston streets. ■ * TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Ore Year ..... $1.50 Six M0nth5........ 75 Three Months ........ —-WOfficial Paper of Jasper County.

£ The Holyoke Free Press, one of the leading Democratic papers of Massachusetts, has deserted the Democrats and turned Republican. The too evident instrumentality of impending free trade in causing the hard times, was the reason for the change. It was the same cause that was mainly instrumental in producing the Republican land slide in Indianapolis a few weeks ago, and the same that will cause a similar but much larger and more significant result in Ohio the second Tuesday in November.

It cates several years for the country to recover from the effects of such a panic as that through which we are passing. The Democratic party is not doing anything to alleviate it, and there is no probability that it will. The people will continue to nurse their wrath against the party in potfer for the next three years, and will smiir ii every chance they get. In 1896 they will elect a Republican President. The recent election in this city points in that direction, and the Journal predicts that other pointers will follow.—lndianapolis Journal. Tb.e Nebraska methods in whitecapping are more novel than commendable. A number of the W C T. U,, of Osceola, and alleged leading ladies of the city, inveigled a number of young girls into a patk after dark, and proceeded to whip them unmercifully, and weuld have tarred and feathered them, had not two of the victims broke away and gave the alarm. The W. C. T. U. ladies got their victims into their power by forging letters, to which they had signed the names of male friends of the girls. It was a most outrageous and brutal piece of work, and it is to be hoped that the perpetrators, who have all bet-n identified and arrested, will receive an adequate punishment.

This country is not needing the repeal of the Sherman law so badly as it is needing the settlement of the silver question, on the basis of knowing that the coinage of depreciated dollars is not to be continued indefinitely. In this point of view, the compromise measure so nearly agreed upon last week, would probably have been about as effectual in restoring confidence as would have been absolute repeal. But Dictator Cleveland had laid down his dictum for unqualified repeal, and nothing but unqualified repeal will receive his signature. The greatness of Grover is a much more important element in theadministration than the prosperity of the people.

If the wizard Edison were to take up the problem of aerial naviga’ion he would probably have a practical airship completed in a year’s time. As it is, the progress towards the solution of the airship problem is rather slow. The moat promising- developements in that line are being made by I’rof. Maxim, the celebrated inventor of the Maxim guns. He is working out the problem in a scientific but common sense way and if he does not succeed in making a practical airship he will go a long ways towards helping solve the difficulties for some more successful inventor. His machine is expected to be sustained in and moved through the air, through the combined action of screw propellers to force it forward and of large aeroplanes, on

the kite principle, to hold it up-. The aeroplanes act as parachutes to let the ship down easy when the journey’s end is reached, or the propelling machinery ..gets out of order.

No man plants his corn in the first snows of winter. No manufacturer dependent on protection invests his capital in building and products., when the free • trade snows are falling. The McKinley law still stands just as the soil exists but their is nothing in prospect. The present administration has blighted industry without repealing the McKinley bill. It was not necessary to do it. No man is foolish enough to branch out or manufacture ahead of demand and no jobber is foolish enough to order goods for future sale.

Naturally everybody waits to see what protection his business is to have. No man would commence a house in Holland after the elevation of a ruler pledged to remove the walls which keep out the sea. The walls may remain but confidence in the present and future is gone and progress stops. The Democratic party is to blame for not trying their free trade theories at once. If they are wrong the sooner the fact is pracically demonstrated the better for all concerned. The McKinley law started tbe country on a career of prosperity such as neither this country nor any other ever saw equalled, but it is powerless to maintain that prosperity with a party in power pledged to its repeal.

Tin Plate Liars.

The American Economist publishes .a quarterly statement of the pounds of tin plate produced in the United States since July 1, 1891, . First quarter from July 1, 1891, to Sept. 30, 1891, 826,922 pounds, showing an increase for every quarter all through. For the last quarter, April 1, to June 30,1893, 30,543,587. Total since the McKinley act passed of 113, 465,588. The article closes with the following: The 113,465,921 pounds of tin and terne plates manufactured in this country during the two years in which the McKinley tariff has been operative have been effective not only in reducing the profits of the Welsh monopolists, but also in furnishing employment to labor iu this country, with its consequent market to our farmers, and reducing the amount of gold that could be called out of this country in payment of foreign indebtedness. All have seen the disadvantages following scarce money during the last five or six months. Secretary Carlisle and his master are torturing every law to not only -prevent any increase in the employment of labor in this country or the retention of money here, but are absolutely trying to destroy this industry, to the end that more men may walk our streets unemployed and hungry, and that the Welsh tin plate works may continue in the future, as in the past, to draw from us some S3O, 000,000 annually for profits, labor and materials.

Increase the License.

It is said that the increase in the saloon license in this city from $25 to S2OO only caused one saloon to go out of business.—LaPorte Herald. ' When the license was increased to $250 in Goshen it was predicted that the number of saloons would decrease, but they did not and since thein four new ones have started. It is time the license law was changed and increased to SSOO in towns the size of Goshen and upto 25,000 inhabitants and to SI,OOO in cities with a population greater than that, and the state tax doubled. Let it be so.high that it will result in a decrease of the number of saloons, and allow the money which now goes to landlords, proprietors and bar-l tenders which would be saved by a decrease, go into the treasury in the form of high license, to assist in defraying the extra expenses which the traffic causes. In this manner a decrease of four or five saloons in -Goshen would increase

the city license fund about ten thousand dollars.—Goshen News. While there is ample room for an honest difference of opinion as to the merits and morality of the license system as applied to the liquor traffic, there are comparatively few intelligent persons who do not prefer the license system to free saloons, and having the license system at all, there is no room at all for a diversity of opinions as between high license and low license, from a temperance point of view. The license should be high, if we have any license at all. It ought not to be less than SSOO any place, and in towns like Rensselaer we doubt if SI,OOO would be too high. This would reduce the number of saloons to two at the most, and probably to one, and. the fewer the saloons the weaker is the “liquor power.” And the fewer the saloons the easier to compel them to keep within the bounds of the law, in regard to such particulars as selling after lawful hours, or on unlawful days, or selling to minors, to habitual drunkards &c.

Good Roads Congress.

A good roads congress is now in session at Chicago, and among the recommendations and comments offered upon the subject is the following from Col. Pope, head and front of the good roads movement in this country: “Aside from questions of material gain, which is perhaps the lowest standpoint to consider the good that comes from easy means of communication, there is to be‘ borne in mind that good roads are the great highways for the advancement of social life, education and Christianity. The visit of friends, the attendance of children at school and the gathering at church, are all governed to agreateror less extent by the condition of the roads; and the abandonment of farms and the crowding together of people in the cities is due largely to the isolation caused by bad means of communication to and from the farm. But the problem to be solved is to provide money to build good roads. Many farmers are opposed to the goodroad movement because it means to them increased taxation, and il some sections of the country agricultural interests are so depressed that they do not feel able to bear greater financial burdens. It has been estimated that the state of Illinois loses every year $100,000,000 because of bad roads.

“Now I am going to urge a plan which I believe to be the least burdensome and the most effectual and equitable for providing good roads. Let each state establish a graduated succession tax, that is, a tax on property passing by succession, by inheritance or by legacy. Such a tax might be arranged as follows: On all estates valued at SIO,OOO up to SIOO, 000, 1 per cent; on estates of over SIOO,OOO up to $500,000,1 per cent on the first SIOO,OOO and 2 per cent, on tne remainder, and so on, gradually increasing the amount as the inheritance increased. The succession tax will not fall on the poor. Those whose estates amount to SIO,OOO can well afford to give SIOO to the state in return for all the protection of its laws, which has enabled wealth to be accumulated and enjoyed. Good roads, when rightly constructed, can be maintained at comparatively small cost, and as the wealth of the states increase the succession tax would furnish sufficient revenue to meet all expenses of the state after paying for the maintenance of the roads.”

750,000!

AND ALL WORE HATS. Not so very many of them came from out- counters, but there were none prettier than we have here now. Such an assortment. FIFTY lovely ones all trimmed, ready for you to choose from. Trimmed Walking Hats 91 25, Fancy dress hats at any price you wish. Fancy feathers as low as 15c. Mrs. L. M. Imes,

ADDITIONAL LOCALS

The enquiry into the sanity of Mrs Mary Casey,on Wednesday afternoon of last week, was conducted by Justices Morgan and Burnham, with Dr. V. E. Loughridge as medical examiner. She is 33 years old, was born in Ireland, has been a widow several years and has three children, the youngest 6 years old. They live with Mr. Casey’s father, John Reed, of Carpenter tp. She is destructive at times, filthy, profane, and on one occasion has shown a disposition to homicide. She sometimes refuses to eat, and sometimes will go to bed when in apparent good health, and remain there for days. Was in the insane asylum at Indianapolis for several months, 11 years ago. She was adjudged insane and application was made for her reception in the Logansport asylum. In the meantime she is being cared for by Mrs. Chas. Platt. Thirteen-stop, full walnut case organ, $35. C. B. Steward. A fine lot of silver plated ware and notions, to be sold at great bargains, at Vick’s restaurant.

The Supreme Court has at last acted upon the application of Rev. W. Fred Pettit for a new trial, and last Thursday granted it. But this action of the Supreme Court’s came too late to do Pettit any good, as he died Friday evening, of consumption, only a few hours after receiving notice of it. Pettit was sentenced in November 1890, for the supposed murder of his wife, the year before, at Shawnee Mound, Tippecanoe county, by poisoning with strychnine The evidence was purely circumstantial, but very strong. The supposed motive for the crime was a desire to possess the person and wealth of Mrs. Elma Whitehead, the richest widow in Tippecanoe county. Call on C. B Steward, agent for lots in Columbia Addition; 140 lots at prices from $25 to $l3O. I declare Charley, that man Chip man takes the cake on engine work. This engine runs better than it ever did, gives more power and takes less coal.

The case of Garrison vs. James Welsh was a suit by Mrs. I). Garrison, of Jordan Tp., to replevin some horses which she, or her husband had been pasturing for the defendant and which he removed from the pasture withou t Garrison’s knowledge. Mr. Welsh tried to pay the pasturage bill by an old judgement against Garrison, which he had bought of some one for little or nothing, but Garrison took the grounds that the pasture land belonged to Mrs. Garrison and that a judgement against him would not pay debts due his wife. The case began before Squire Morgan and was venued to Squire Burnham. It was to have been concluded last Thursday, but the parties effected a compromise by which Welsh paid G arrison $32 m money and gave his note for $25, secured by mortgage on one of the horses.

Estey organs and pianos, and Estey <fc Camp organs and pianos, on exhibition at C. B. Steward’s. Stereoscopes and stereoscopic views, and a first class line of spectacles and eye-glasses, all to be sold, away below regular prices, at Vick’s Restaurant. The Duncan Clark company of lady minstrels arrived in their special car, Monday, having been heralded by a display of great and gorgeous poster bills, never equalled in magnitude in this town by anything short of a circus. The company has been exhibiting in some of the Chicago theatres, and this was their first appointment in a country town. Although they arrived Monday, their first performance was Tuesday night. It drew a very largey house, and it is no fiction to say that the bald-heads were out in full force. They gleam, ed sand shone throughout the reserved seat space like stars in the empyrean: and, like the stars, they were grouped in constellations, like the Great Bear, for instance, or perhaps Great Bire, would be the better way to spell the word, as expressing pot only the condition of the heads, but also what those heads were anticipating in regard to the performance. It is a good show of its kind, although hardly meeting the- just anticipations of the bald-heads, aforesaid. The performance was repeated last evening.

CLOTHING COLUMBBS A New Suit, A Pair of Pants, A Hat or nSUHf A Pair of Shoes. ||of WMy Now the place to go BB to fit them out is S " T M Murray’s

mmi fx^-—-TOOT New I? IM New GOODS, T New BUILDING > The Undersigned Have formed a partnership and opened buisness in the new iron building on Van Rensselser street, south of McCoy’s bank building. They have a full and wholly fresh line of Staple flND Fancy Groceries, WHICH THEY WILL SELL AS CHEAPLY AS FIRST CLASS GOODS CAN BE SOLD FOR. Give us a trial, WARNER & SHEAD.

Magee i Benjamin’s Addtion. s===TO THETown ofßensselaer Th is is by far the most beautiful suburb ever laid out to the Town o Rensselaer, High and dry; fine shade and a spring branch running through the center of plat. Just the i'lirn Io Male an Elegant Home! A number of lots already sold and more spoken for. Prices Reasonable. oA® ™ LOTS NOW WHILE YOU CAN HAVE YOUR CHOICE. 1 —, Call on R. P. BENJAMIN or CHAS. S. MAGEE for prices and terms. BKOPBIETOBft