Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — Page 4

THE Khi’UBLICAN Thursday, December G, 1894 *■*—— — M-'i'! i i - IMUU MV Mo THURBDAS Bl GEO M. , fOBMBHBIt AND FBOPBIETOB. l iu ttepabiican building, on •raer or and Weston streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. «e« Year tbso Six Months.., ..... Three Months ...........v. ... 50 Official Paper of Jasper County.,

A reasonably full abstract of the President’s message is given on an inside page. Next to its great length, the most notable thing about the message, is the president's of a financial system which is practically a & ieturn to the' old state-bank, ■wild-cat system, of old Democratic times. The Kanban city Journal complains that the Populist leaders, in counting their gains in the late election, have counted in the Republicans and all other fusionists who voted Populist or fusion tickets to oppose the Democracy. This is true; but the Populist leaders would be nothing but sos their claims and pr edictions.—lndianapolis Journal

• Particulars of the Supreme Court’s latest decision on the fee and salary law, will be found on an inside page. The decision sustains Judge Wiley, who held the law unconstitutional, so far as it re.ates to county treasurers, because of the omission of Shelby county, as county auditors and rec< rders are also omitted, as to Shell y county, the same decision will be rendered as to them, as soon as the question can be brought before the court; unless, which is jtio' w hkely still the Legislature will n peal the whole ungainly thing, a d pass a new law, this winter. The iaw as it- applies to sheriffs and clerks has been held good, Shelby county not Luing • in.: ted as to them.

Tha couo < t nors who were de’ lighted with the overthrow of the Fee nr.d Salary law are beginning to wondvi "<EeTe"afTer a) I they are ••at ” The decision haves in force no law of any kind regulating compensation and the officers are apparently work ing f<-\nothing. The Legislature in January vil of course make proper provisit n iut until that time everything wili je at sea. It was the impression law would gov ern ard it p more than that officers will be settled on that basis but there is nothing now authorizing county commissioners to follow that law which is repealed and without any real force except as a precedent.—Logansport Journal

The Depth of Degradation.

William £. Curtis is responsible for the statement that: The United States battleship Monterey left the harbor or Fairhavenwhen she day-at anchor 600 yards from a co-1 dock and sailed up Puget sound 50 or 60 mihs to fill hex bunkers with Canadian coal from the Comox mine, near Vancouver, because she could get it $1 a ton cheaper there than on this side of the border. Why? Because the Dominion coal is mined by Chinamen who are paid SI a dwy. iim Fairhaven coal is mined by white men who demand S 3. It seems almost impossible to believe that a Democratic administration could sink to such a depth of degradation. Does the Whit-ney-Russell Coal trust’s interest extend u» the Canadian Pacific end of the line? Buying cooley coal in Canada is ns bad as paying a bounty to cooley sugar in Hawaii. Anything to down an American.— American Economist The quest urn of whether women will vote or not, when given the opportunity on equal terms with men was fettled as it never was settled before, by the recent election in Colorado,. There the women now have the full right of suffrage, on the same terms as met ; and all reports show that

they do vote when given the opportunity. There they took as great ah interest in the previous canvass as the men did, and were as weil organized, and on'election day they turned out and voted in as large proportions as the men. They also managed the Australian ballots as successfully, and in every respect, in fact, voted as intelligently as the male voters, and, it is needless to say, fully as conscientiously. The practical workings of women’s suffrage in Colorado' has given a wonders ul impetus in this movement for justice to women, till over the country, and we have no doubt but that the movement will now go forward with ever accelerated speed and that future ages will record as one of the greatest glories of the last decade of this wonderful Nineteenth century, that then all, or nearly all, of the states of the American Union removed that last and greatest survival of a barbaric past, the inequality of women, under the law. As Indiana was among the first states to adopt the ballot reform, so now we hope it will be well in the front in adopting thisatill greater reform and that the State Legislature which meets next month, will take strong action in this direction.

ST ATE SENATORS IN CONFERENCE The Republican members of the State Senate met in conference at Indianapolis last week to compare views upon subjects that will come tip for legislation at the coming bession. The work of the legislature was dii-cussed fully and a resolution was passed that the republican Senators would undertake faithfully to keep the pledges made to the people by the Republican State convention. It was decided to have the various State institutions carelully canvassed with a view to change for the better where it can be done by law, and, when this investigation shall have been made, to pass a law putting them under the direction of non-partisan boards to be appointed by the governor in time for the Senate to confirm. In regard to doorkeepers and subordinates it was decided to adhere strictly to the provisions of the statute as it now stands. This was given out so that a large number of persons may not go to the city expecting that forty or sixty men will be employed, as by the last legislature, in violation of law.

The conference was unanimous in favor of a new congressional and legislative apportionment, for which legal reasons can be given. In regard to the election law, it was decided to make no change except to allow each party to have authorized watchers present at the count. Senator Wisbard said after the adjournment: “There are many men of strength among the new members, and the Senate will do its share toward keeping the pledges of the party in platform and on the stump. This conference was called at the request of the majority Of the republican members of the Senate, and there are eighteen signatures to the call. Out of the thirty repub’ican members there were twenty-eight present. There was not a sylable of disunity during the entire conference, and there was not a voice heard in opposition to the policy of living straight to the letter of the statute in those duties where it is hard to resist pressure. The Senators were of one mind on the subject of a fair legislative and congressional apportionment. The apportionment of the State will be made on mathematical lines, and not for party advantages. I believe there is longer lease of power in keeping our promises to the people.” If there is any one thing that the people of Indiana are determined on it is to have a fee and salary law that will end the abuses of the old system and place all official incomes on a fair and honest basis.—lndianapolis Journal. The Journal no doubt correctly expresses the prevailing sentiment

in .the above paragraph. The people do not want to return, to the old fee grabbings system, by which in most of the richer and more populous counties, office holders, especially the unscrupulous ones, were wont to secure enormous incomes. But the people also want a law that will not discriminate in favor of officers in Democratic counties, as compare 1 with those in Republican counties, as the present new law undoubtedly does. Neither do they want a law which will reduce the salaries in the less populous counties to a beggardly pittance. The people are willing to pay fair salaries, for good servicesj They consider that the laborer is worthy of his hire, and do not expect a man to work for them for nothing and board himself. In our own county of Jasper, for instance, they do not want tef call good men to leave their homes and come to the county seat and manage’the treasurer’s office with its complex and onerous

duties, and great financial responsibilities or the still more complex and onerous, if somewhat less financially responsible, auditor’s office, for salaries at which no man can live and support a family, in fair comfort, after the necessaryoutlay for deputy hire. The old system was not farther amiss in its extravagant remuneration of officials in wealthy and populous counties, than the new law is in its niggardly scrimping in the poorer and less populous counties. “Neither riches, nor poverty;’’ neither extravagance nor picayunishnews, is what the people want in a fee and salary law.

Democratic Nepotism.

Extract from Put Donan’s two column “blast” in the Chicago Inter Ocean: “Ever since the days of Grant, the democratic par ty has howled itself hoarse and raw-throated over republican nepotists and nepotism. And to day every democratic Cabinet noboby, Senator and alleged representative have alt the departments at Washington jammed, till their heads and heels stick out of windows, with their sons and their uncles and their cousins and their aunts —to ’say . lulling of -the’r other female <y>- uriectione. Democratic Vice Pres nt Stevenson’s son was appointed a paymaster in the t avy—saddled for life on the country and the people, at $3,000 a year, and a pension to his widow —and did not get it simply because he could not pass the necessary physical examination. Democratic Tariff Abortionist Billy Wilson’s son has a similar appointment, and the people of the United States will be taxed for the rest of their lives, and their children after them, to pay this hopeful scion of slim-slam reform his generous annuity. Democratic Secretary of the Treasury Carlisle has two sons drawing handsome salaries from the govern-

meat, from you, from us. Democratic Secretary of the Navy Herbert has his son-in-law and a variegated assortment of other relatives and dependants billeted upon the dear people, you, us. Democratic Speaker of the House Crisp has his son, Charley, bagging $2,200 a year of public money > our money, as his teller—when all he could tell in a century would not be worth 22 cents. Democratic Senator Cockrell of Missouri, a wild-eyed and obstreperous reformer, had his son filching SIBOO a year as a committee clerk during all the years he was at school a thousand miles away. Democratic Senator Colquitt of Georgia till his death, had his 12-year-old son as an alleged messenger, abstracting $1,440 a year from the public pocket. Senators Ransom, Blackburn, Gordon, Harris, Arkansas Jones, Pasco, {Pugh, Mills and Butler—all illustrious and rambunctious democratic ranters against republican nepotism and nepotists—have sons or nephews pocketing big annual stipends of government money money because they are their sons or nephews. One official family in Washington has nine of its members on the

public pay roll! The whole government has been converted into a vast continental soup-house and free lunch route for the countless hordes of pauper kin of sham democratic statesman and air-saw-ing denouncers of republican nepotists and nepotism.

WHAT CHARLEY LANDIS’ OPINION OF OUR LAND IS.

Man on the Corner, in Delphi Journal. I see by the newspapers that Hon. A. McCoy, of Rensselaer, last week sold a farm of twelve hundred acres in Jasper county for forty thousand two hundred and forty dollars, or thirty-three dollars and fifty-nine cents an acre. This is one of the largest land sales that ever took place in this part of Indiana. The purchar i ers are gentlemen from During the last five or six years hundreds of farmers from Illinois, having sold out their possession in that state, have moved into Jasper, Benton and Newton counties and taken up their permanent residence. They did this because they ware able to find just as good farming land in these' counties for from thirty to fifty dollars an acre as they could find in Illinois for from sixty to-seven-1 ty dollars an acre. The demand • for this Indiana land of course ■ sent the price up, and those who ! got in on the ground floor five or ; six years ago feathered their nests. It is not generally known to the people of Indiana that the very best corn land in the entire world, or at least as good corn land as there is under the sun., is located in Jasper, Benton and Newton counties. A quarter of a century ago most of this land was under water,,and those people who came from the east turned up their noses at it and passed on to- Illinois. The men who got it bought it cheap, ditched it and the mo-

ment they got the water off of it it became ideal farming land. Last spring 1 over through these -counties just after the soil had been plowed and harrowed preparatory to planting corn. I never saw such protn'tiing fields; they were as level as a floor and the harrow had mumbled the loam and the sand clods until the soil was as fine as that in a garden that has been carefully raked. The,formers over there tell me that they are always sure of acorn crcp. that the season is never too wet nor too dry. Aud i doubt if anywhere in ■ Indiana such oats crops are raise\l as are. raised in these three counties. The quantity is not only immense but the quality is prime. And think of it, this very swamp land in these three counties was what went far toward

giving Indiana the reputation of being a state whose chief products were chills and fever. Here the muskrat was in his glory; here frogs grew to wonderful proportions; here misquitoes were simply torrors, Benton, Jasper and Newton counties were mentioned only as synonyms for things unpleasant. These counties were spoken of when people wanted to joke about Indiana. I wish I could take a lot of these jokers over into thise counties, sometime next spring or summer and let them see what golden promise there is in that section of the Hoosier state. The swamp, the mosquito, the frog, chills and fever, are all a reminiscence over there now. Vast stretches of the most fertile soil under the sun, decked here and there with beautiful farm houses and splendid barns, delight the eye and fill the soul of the proud Indianian with joy, A man who owns a quarter section in any of these three counties is well fix d. The chances are that he sends his children to school well fed and well clad, and, what is better, they have good health. True, there is some poor land in thatjfsection of the state but the best land is so superior that we lost sight of the inferior soil. If you hear anybody speaking jokingly of the swamps of Jasper, Benton or Newton counties, take him by the collar, turn him around, look him in the eye and tell him he is an ignoramus and that he does not know what he is talking about. f

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