Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — A Plea For Confidence. [ARTICLE]

A Plea For Confidence.

“I am fully authorized to declare to the laborer that employers are not his onemios; to tho pcoplo that tho corporations aro under their control; to tho farmer that tho banker is not seeking his blood. This .fforttoset the poor against tho rich’ class against class, is no now thing. We havo more money today per capita in this govornmont than wo have ever had before. This statement is thoroughly sustained by official reports. I call your attention to our condition as a nation. Wo havo too mnch capital; we havo too much labor: wo havo too much corporation; we have too mnch banks; too much railroads; too much machinory; too much wheat; too much corn; too much of all productions of the soil; too much silver; too much gold; too much paper monoy; too much pooplo. A kind Providence has done too much for us. No man dare ask God .for more of thoso essentials. Our trouble is that wo do not know what to do with all this. Wearoalittlo short on confidence in each other; on tho common honesty of purpose; on common fairness and sobrioty and common sense. What ought wo to do? There is a fundamental principle upon which every jiossiblo condition of affairs can bo adjusted. There are rules that liavo boon established by a thorough test of long years aud great** experience. Wo should deliberately, as a nation, as men, as patriots, seek for theso principles and those rules,, which arc not difficult to find, and when wo

have -founti them,,' wo should follow them. j • .' * . "Wo have recently • scon the old soldiers, fho survivors of the gneat civil war, who had opposed each other in many a bloody conflict, meet on tho fields of thoir former struggles, shako hands and look each other kindly in tho eye, walk together over- the battleground mado sacred by the spilled blood of their comrades, with their, better natures in full control, under tho old flag, declaring that this is our common government, forgetting the past, and united for the common welfare in tho future, ' “What l am here to urgo is that men of all classes and all kinds of business, tho laborer and tho capitalist, the farmer and tho banker, the professional man, tho minister and the layman, the j learned and the ignorant, tho east and tho weist, tho north and the south, the 'men in favor of gold and silvor and paper monoy—men of all political parties, the patriotic men of this nation shall stand together in this great strugglo-for the protection of tho welfare of this nation, and settle at tho noxt election, now and forevor, that tho great univorsal rule of the commercial world shall bo regarded in the affairs of our own government; that wo in tho future shall have for our currency gold, silver and . paper money upon such a basts that every dollar shall be a dollar. ”

Application tor License: Notice hereby given to the citizens of the town of Wheatfield and Wheatfield Township, in Jasper County, Indiana, that the undersigned Michael BernicUen, a male in habitant: of the State of Indiana, and over the.age of twenty-one years aixl lias been and is of good moral character, not in the habit, of becoming intoxicated and a fit person in every respect to be intrusted with the sale of intoxicating liquors arid has been h continuous of said township for over ’ ninety days last past arid that this applicant isthe actual owner and proprietor of said business and will be such, if •license b^ granted, will apply to the Board of Commissioner of said Jasper County, Iridiana, at their September term, 1896, said! term commencing on Monday, September 7th, 1896, for a license to sell and batter spirituous, vinous, matt and,all other intoxicating liquors ( in a less quantity than a quart at a time, with the niw-« ilege of allowing and permitting the same to be drarpk on 4h@ following premises to-wit: The precise location of the premises on which the undersigned desires to sell nd barter with the privilege of allowing the same to be drank thereon is a one-story frame building* thirty-two (32) Jee,t long by eighteen (18) feet wide on Main street and situated in out-lot number thirteen (13) m Bentley ’s addition to the town of Wheatfield, Indiana. Being a part of the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section twenty-five (25), township thirty-two (32) north, range six (6) west in Jasper County, Indiana, and more particularly described as follows to-wit:

Commencing tfro hundred and twenty-seven (227) feet south of the center of said section, thence running due west twenty-live (25) feet beipg llie-plaoe of beginning, thence continuing,due west thirty-two (32) feet, thence running duo south eighteen [lß] feet, thence running due east thirty -two [B2] feet, and thence running due north eighteen [lß] feet to the place of beginning. That the said described roonf 5 is ; separate from any other business of any kind that no devices for l amusements or music of any kind of \ character is in said room, and that 1 there is no partition or partitions iu said room; that the said room can be securely closed and locked and admission thereto prevented; that said ro«n. is situated on the ground* lloor and fronts on Main street in said town of Wheatfield, Indiana, and is so arranged'with gla3S windows, so that the whole of said room may be viewed from said street; said applicant will also at the time and place of applying for said license make a farther r< quest for the grant of a privilege to establish, maintain, and run a lunch counter, and sell all kinds of soft drinks, such as lemonade, pop, soda water, etc., in the above described room and in connection with said sale of liquors. MICHAEL BERNICKEN.