Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1895 — Page 4

THE REPUBLICAN Thursday, January 31 1895. IBSOBD JVMBy y Bg GEO. E. UXRSS&tt.PUBLIPHEB AND PBOPBIBTOB. Re P«blican ouilding, on Wner of Washington and Weston streets. terms of subscription. vhie Year ... ...... Six Months.. 75 Three Months. - . 50 Official Paper oj I Jasper County.

A bill, to prevent fraudulent marriages has been introduced in the lower house, of the state legislature and after considerable discussion was ordered engrossed. The bill provides that any man who, being liable to prosecution for seduction, marries a woman - and then abandons her within two years after marriage without just cause, shall be sent to the penitentiary tor from one to five years. It ought to become a law.

One Republican representative who lives 46 miles from Indianapolis, is drawing mileage for 92 miles. That’s Republican economy.—Hammond News. Yes. And the above is democratic ignorance or dishonesty, we don’t know which. Every member of the Legislature is allowed, by law, mileage on the distance to Indianapolis and .back home again, and they all draw this mileage, Democrats and Republicans alike, as is right and proper. This mileage is carefully and justly computed in all cases, and as in the instance above mentioned, each man gets what he is entitled to, and no more.

Judging from the continued reports of the great success of the new diphtheria cure, anti-toxine, the ravages of that dreadful disease will soon be very greatly diminished if notpractically abolished. This anti-toxine or serum treatment is said to be almost a certain remedy, having been tried in hundreds of cases with gratifying results. Anti-toxine is the seruinj SF'Water, taken from the blood of young healthy horses that have been inoculated with the disease. This serum is injected into’the blood of the pat ient, and it sei ms to bear something the same relation to diphtheria that vaccination does to small-pox, except that it acts as a cure while vaccination is merely a preventative . Tt is more however, in the line of the Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia. The treatment originated in France and Germany but is being rapidly introduced into this country. Several trials are now being made in Indianapolis, the results of which, so far, seem to confirm all that isclaimed for the remedy.

The people of Goodland and the farmers of the vicinity, have contributed $139.55 in cash for the Nebraska sufferers; 675 bushels of corn and enough clothing and other articles to make with the corn, two car loads. At the little station of Wadena a car load of corn has been contributed. In Oxford, Benton county, a full car load of grain, flour and other provisions and clothing, was gathered up in five days. A very valuable car load it was too, as is shown by the list of articles published in the Oxford Tribune. What these ' places have done is a sample of what many other places are doing also, and of what Rensselaer and vicinity ought to do but has not. The reason they have not we know is not owing to want of means to do; and we do not believe it is owing to want of disposition to do, either. For on many previous occasions Rensselaer people have demonstrated the charitableness of their natures. It must be that the matter has not been taken hold of in the proper way here. It is not too late yet, as thousands of peoph in Nebraska musj; depend on this outside assistance for food and fuel and clothing until they can raise another crop.

- Jasper and Newton counties had, in 1890, a combined population of 20,000, in round numbers; White and Pulaski had, at the same time, a combined population o£ 27,000. Manifestly then, it would seem to be in the interest of 7 _ equal representation to put all four counties together, as Senator Wishard’s apportionment bill proposes, with two joint represenatives, than to leave the old arrangement stand with Jasper and Newton composing one Represenative district, and White and Pulaskj another. Yet so much accustomed are the people of Jasper and Newton in the one case, and Pulaski and White in the other. to being joined together in one district, and so convenient has the arrangement been found; and so evidently inconvenient will this proposed new arrangement be, that we do not believe there is one voter in ten, in the four counties, as they run, who has thought about the matter at all, who would not prefer to let the old arrangement stand.

Had our esteemed neighbor the editor of the Pilot, had more extended opportunities to “get onto the curves,” of that mentally most crooked individual, the editor of the Fowler Leader,he would have understood that the notoriety of a reprint and criticism of the Leader's coarse, unjustifiable, and entirely contemptible allusion to Prof. Purdue and his able paper on the glacial drift of Jasper county, were exactly what Carr wanted. To get notoriety, to be talked about, is the one thing of all others which his egotistical and ill-balanced nature hungers and thirsts after, —even as some men are said to hunger and thirst after righteousness. Such editors as this Carr, of the Leader, —dnen without the restraint of any sufficient moral, political, or religious principles, and devoid too, of the saving element of common sense, and who are always watching for opportunities to gratify their personal vanity and egotism,by sayingsomethiiig that they think’will be thought witty or sarcastic, no matter at what cost of slander and gross injustice to others, are the curse and discredit of journalism; just as the unprincipled shyster and pettifoger is the curse of the legal profession; and as the ignorant and unprincipled quack is of the medical profession.

Two Congressional apportionment bills are now before the Legislature. One of these makes no changes in the Tenth district except to add on Benton county, which belonged to it anyhow until the Democrats gerrymanded the county into the Ninth. The other bill takes off from the Tenth district, as now constituted, Fulton, Cass and Carroll and adds on r in their place, Benton, Warren and Tippecanoe. We see no special objection to either of these proposed districts, and although the Lafayette Courier stigmatizes the last named district as a “shoestring,” it is really, to all intents and purposes, as compact and contiguous as the district as proposed by the first plan. The Courier is very red-headed, however, over the idea of Tippecanoe county being transferred to the Tenth district. Its principal grounds for objection as stated by itself are that:

“Under that arrangement we would bunt right up against Chicago, taking in Roby and various other undesirable neighbors on the way.” While this may be a valid objection in the Courier’s eyes, yet people in general are likely to take the view that as this northwestern portion of the state must be incorporated in some district, the truly good and too nice for anything people of Tippecanoe county can stand it just as well to do the “bunting” act awhile, as can those of some other counties to do it all the time. Better, in fact, for by placing Helen Blazes G-g-r on the front buffer, the result of the

bunting could, W. -suwaited witV equanimity, whether it was she or Chicago that got bunted oft the track., and into Lake Michigan. The result would be satisfactory, in either case—especially the latter. The Republican greatly regrets the financial misfortunes, of Mr. John L. Nichols, both on his own account and on the account of the many other people who will suffer lops by reason of it. But while we regret the misfortune, the fact that it has occurred calls for some Httle comment, in its relation to Jasper county politics. Mr. Nichols was always noted for being a generous, jolly good fellow, a hustling and effective political worker, and when, in 1890, he sought for the Republican nomination for the office of County Treasurer, he naturally had a very large following; sb large, in fact, that he almost succeeded in capturing the nomination. Opposed to him, however, in this matter, were a very large portion of the more cautious, public spirited and conservative Republicans of the county. Their opposition was not from want of regard for Mr. Nichols’ good qualities, nor from any other unworthy motive, but they knew that he was notoriously careless and slack in business matters, and they did not think, for that reason that it would be right to put him into the county treasurer’s office. Had he asked for some position entailing less financial responsibility, many who opposed him for treasurer would have favored him for that other office. The result of his defeat was that he immediately turned Populist, and carried a considerable number of his most ardent admirers along with him.

The leaders of that party knew full well, and many privately admitted, his peculiar unfitness for that particular office, but while they knew that, they also knew, or thought they knew, that he would draw more votes from the Republicans while running for that office than any other candidate vould; and the success of their party being more to them than the good of the public they insisted upon nominating, and re-nominating him .for the office. These late developements in his business affairs demonstrate beyond the possibility of successful denial, the wisdom of the Republicans in refusing him the nomination he asked for, even though that refusal did carry with it considerable losses to the party, in the shape of temporary defections from it to Populism.

The Rev. Dowie, the faith cure prophet of Chicago, so well known and patronized in these parts, had judgement given against him in a Chicago court the other day, for about $4,000, on a civil suit. The important point in the case was that Dowie swore that entertainment in his hospital was worth $lO a week. This fact perhaps explains why Dowie’s cures “by the power of the Almighty” usually work so very slow. If his cures were instantaneous, as in the days we read of, then his patients would not need to tarry so long in his establishment, and the saintly man’s revenues would not reach the very comfortable magnitude they now evidently do.

Another recent fact in connection with this remarkable person may be of value in helping to a correct estimate of his powers and methods. A Rensselaer party, as we are reliably informed, was in the lecture room of his hospital lately when for some cause his wife came and lectured in his stead. Among other remarkable statements she made was that it was true that “the doctor could raise the dead!” But she added that it was a branch of his profession he was not then working at because he considered it a sin. Now there are some points in this lady’s statement that should be closely examined. Of course she could not know that "the Doctor” had the power to raise th# dead unless he hsd proven the fact, by

:«.*thringing to life urre- or more dead persons/But where are those persons thus brought back from death to life? Why don’t they prove their claims by at least one well authenticated instance? Again; the “doctor” thinks it a sin to bringlfie dead* to life. But all his miracles, as he most positively aud repeatedly declares, are wrought by 1 the power of the Almighty. If bringing people back from death to life is a sin, would the Almighty do it at Dowie’s or Anybody else’s behest? The idea us monstrous, it is blasphemous, in fact. It amounts, in short, to the same thing as saying that Dowie knows better what is and what is not sinful than the very Creator Himself knows. To conclude, we would say that in writing thus, our only object is to prevent, if possible, our people from being too greatly carried away by this faith cure belief. That within certain limits he works remarkable cures, we have no doubt. But that his failures

are three times as numerous as his cures, we have the word of reliable persons who have taken his treatment. ;And if the belief takes too strong a hold on people’s minds, they will trust themselves and their families to his cure in cases of acute and immediately dangerous diseases, with the result that many will die, when with, proper medical treatment they might have been saved —as has already happened many times, in the cases of other faith healers, and probably have in Mr. Dowie’s own case.

MONEY TO LOAN. The Rem seiner Building, Loan & Savings Association has several thousand dollars to loan, on real-es-tate security. - .■ ■ Apply to N. W. Reeve, acting secretary, at the Citizens State Bank. — -JJ Money to loan on Real Estate in sums of 1500 to SIO,OOO. Call on or address J. M. Winkley. Monon, Ind. Office up stairs in Blakley block. “ Win kle y , Monon, Ind. Rheumatism Cured in u uay. “Mystic Cure” for Rheumatism and Neuralgia radically cures in 1 to 3 days. Its action upon the system- is remarkable and my steriotis. 11 rem ovcs at once the cause, and the disease immediately disappears. The first dose greatly benefits, 75 cents. Sold by A. F. Long & Co., druggists, Rens.selae. English Spavin Liniment removes any Hard, Soft or Calloused Lumps and Blemishes from horses,-Blood Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Ring-bone, Stifles. Sprains, all Swollen Throats l Cougs, etc. Save SSO by use of one bottle. Warranted the most wonderful Alemish Cure ever known. Sold by B. F. Lpng & Co.,Druggist, Rensselaer, nd. Dec, 1 94.

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