Star-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 November 1908 — Page 4

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Friday. \ovenil»er 27 i

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TAR - DEMOCRAT

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each week 1*7 the Star and Demot Publishing Company, at 17 and 1ft ith Jackson Street, Greencastle, Ind.

$'• 0 attorney fees for the attorneys employed by the county, and $ 1,500 fees demanded tty the dredge company, which the county may pay since we lost the suit. Incidental expenses in the case amounted to some

TILDEN

C. J. ARNOLD

$200 more so that the cost to date is

Terms* of Siihserlption One year. In advance Single Copies

.11.00 cents

less than $^,500. The dredge comtany has ottered to compromise their i damages at the high figure of $2,500

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GREENCASTLE HERALD

Established IftOf* The live dally paper of Putnam County—sent to any address In the United States for 1S.OO a year—Payable

strlctlj In advance. 6 cents per week, j jj 0 so _ -j-y replace these bridges would

so that at the worst the costs could be but $5,000. Now as to the cost to the people. When the suit was begun the dredge company proposed to tear the bridges out and destroy them, and acknowledged upon the witness stand that they intended to

Entered us second-class mail mutter at the Greencastle, Ind., Postothee.

Telephone,

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have cost the county $12,000 to $15,000. As it is one bridge has been preserved untouched. Two are to be removed and put back. They are removed at the dredge company's

Ol'K ELECTION LAWS.

The recent trial for Illegal voting | fxpense and put back at the county's illustrated very clearly the weak- ! ‘' x P eil8e . the required for this nes- of our election laws. This law, | I mpose being not more than $1,200. as it now stands upon the statute j worst - then the sui t has saved the books, is weak in two particulars, | county some $0,000 or $7,000. The first in the determination of the resi-1 temporary loan would not be for the deuce of the voter, ^nd second, in the I expenses of the suit but for the retwo years naturalization feature of | P lacln S of tht ‘ two bridges,

our state constitution. It is manifest that the mere statement of an

intention to hold residence in a certain community ought not to establish the right to vote in that community. While in national matters this might not work a hardship to that community, in local matters, from the state dowm. It is continually working to defeat the wishes of the bona fide residents. Thus it often happens that a student, from another state, or another section of this state, comes to Greencastle, to use a local illustrat n, and casts his vote in the elty and county elections. He Is not tarn liar with the local conditions, ex i [it as they are explained to him

As to the mismanagement, let It be remembered that the case was won in two courts and reversed in two. That many of the best Republican lawyers believed in the justice of the cause, and that Republicans and Democrats worked together on the case, believing it just. The county did not get all it went after, but it has come out of the fight with more than half what it went after. The people have been | saved much money, and a new law has been written through the decis-

ion of the upper courts.

tr. interested p diticians. He votes [ui ly a party ticket, regardless of vlu .itness of the men upon that ticket He does not know them and can not. therefore, exercise any diserimination, and no one now denies that wise choke between men. not parties, is the surest means of securing decent local government. Such voters pay tri taxes and have no interest, eithe- personal or financial in the government they vote to establish.

Much to the disgust of the Republican party, the course of Samuel Gompers. who took the stump against Taft and In favor of Bryan, has been fully endorsed by the national convention of the Federation | of Labor. Strong pressure was brought to bear by Republican leadj ers to secure the censure of Gompers, j but he has been endorsed and Kief. ' who went over to Roosevelt, yets what the Republicans wished Gomp- : ers to receive. Union labor is still a force to be reckoned with in politics. and the course of the necessities of life upward since the election, and

Afniii. many men, owning property j t j, e t . ourgt , 0 f wages downward is ard l aving homes in other states,; ( . auging nian> . to think who diil not

com.t here to vote. They are rabid f (,| nk before,

partisans, in almost every instance.' They know, nor care, nothing for the

if legislation. The one watch-1 v> c .• u is ‘ economy,* and upon all I a otic propositions the greatest con- j ■ -rvati.-n: a:. 1 care in giving t • tb* ' * people an honest, clean and faithful |I J •ecu misrepresented and the attitude j!

The Lafayette Courier and the

interests involved in the local polki- Q reens | )ur g Review, representing the

of the Democratic editors lias been misrepresented. The Democratic editors realize that the Senate is controlled by the Republican party which put upon the statute books the County Option law. if the Senate repents ks action and desires to repeal or to change the law, it will be the consistent thing for the Democratic senators and representatives to stand for legislation in accordance with their platform pledges. It is not the Democratic party that is so anxious to get into liquor legislation, it is the Republi- i can party that is anxious to through its Anti-Saloon League allies. Dem- i ocratic editors and Democratic lead-1 ers generally believe that the special session of the legislature took the ' issue out of politics and it was conceded that the upper branch would be controlled by the Republican party making it impossible for the Demorats to substitute their plau for the Republican plan without Republican help. If the principle of County Local Option was right before election, it is right since the election and it is up to the Republican Senate to stand for its convictions, if it was a makeshift to carry an election and failed to work; if it was a bunko game to catch voters; if it is not based upon principle, but was merely a plan to i ,i rrj » can senate can repudiate its recently j enacted law and the Democratic | party will try its hand at giving the ' people of Indiana some legislation 1 for the regulation of the liquor traffic. The Democratic party will not ! shirk its responsibility, nor make a | cowardly cry that everyone who does j not endorse every detail of the plan is a hypocrite and an unworthy citizen. It is up to the Republican Senate, j Will tlie Republican Senators stand , for their own law and their own i platform declarations or is success at the polls on election day, their only I criterion of right and wrong? Will i the Republican Senate repudiate Us j pretensions of morality and sanctity i like the local organ of religeousness? 1 If the Republican senate repeals its ; own hasty legislation, if the Repub- | Mean Senators want a new deal, bas- | ed on common sense and collective j

cal fight. They cast a straight party tl'ket and thus aid to defeat the will of the p ople who must pay the taxes and live under the administration of the men elected. A revision of the law to debar such voters, at least from participation in local elections where they have no interest other titan that of partisans, would work wrong to none, and would place the power in the hands of those who bear 1

the burden both of taxes and govern-

ment.

Republican party in two extreme sections of Indiana, are evidently not a little bit pleased over the scramble of defeated Republican candidates for state offices and congress for a strangle hold on some fat office. These papers express in unmistakable terms their belief that the Wats ms. the Landises and other hasbeens ought to accept their defeat as a personal rebuke and gracefully re-

\ MATTER OF HONESTY.

We notice in a recent issue of the local Republican paper the following

raiher misleading statement

Cook Ditch situation;

“As the people of Putnam Countare learning what the t.’ook ditili case is going to cost in round fig”r.‘s their consternation grows apace. The ditch proposition has been badly managed and the settlement day shows that there is little to do but go up to the tr ugh and settle. The

tire to the walks of private life. The Danville Republican, in commenting on the defeat of so many of the Re publican candidates for congress, gives expression to some plain and palpable truths. The people of Inof the diana are tired and sick of the Joe Cannon style of congress and the domination of federal office holder:This is the verdict of Republican editors who have their finger on the pulse of public sentiment.—Lebanon

Pioneer.

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ligent eo-operation with the Democratic majority in the House and a Democratic Governor, who is ambi- ; tions for one thing only—to give all ; the people of Indiana the best admjn- j istration that lies within his power. The Democratic party in Indiana is anxious to make the most of its opportunities afforded by a temporary suceesn. It will do nothing rash. It will be guided by the principle that it is the instrument by which the people can get what they want, not a swelled up institution that tells the people what and whom they want.— Sullivan Dally Times.

And now Andrew Carnegie ha

will be a tout six thousand <lol- declared lor tariff for revenue only.

rs ard n he ade

t-'inporary loan will have to cover the same.”

Th: made gard w ent this wu

reminds us of a statement a !io> to Dr. Huxley in re a lobster. Tiie boy declare! lo i-ter was a red lish th.r ;wards. Huxley stated Fuat ; good definition, but it Tail-

and even I’nclo doe is out for revision downward. This will be an awful surprise to th< Manufacturers As:violation, but i will lie welcomed by the long-suffering consumer, who grasp- at these promises as drowning men at straw-. Democracy lias accomplished something If it has forced • :rh obstinate stand-patters a: Cm do Joe into line for revision downward.

Tariff An Unnecessary Burden. In New York, n few days ago, Mr. Straus, one of the great merchants of the country, said to a group of newspaper men that if he could be permitted to carry out a plan lie has he could convince every consumer in the United States that the present tariff tax is a needless burden in nearly every instance. “Instead of having

the Government collect duties as the « customs houses,” aid lie. "I would ! t

ed in three points. A -lobster was not a fish, w.iis not red and did not go backwards. The Cook Ditch case diil not post fC.OUO. i: was not badly managed, and no tempoiarj loan is necessary to cover the expenses of the ca: . Thus all three points made in the above article are far from the truth. The costs of the ease thus far have been -ou-i $2,500, being

Governor-elect Marshall still inijts thai the business of a governor is to enforce the laws, not to influence legislation. He does not propose to place either himself or his party in th* position of Hanly . i, ! the Republicans. The people of Indiana never did. do not and never will like one-man government and Hanly has made it more unpopular than ever.

Cloaks for Women

(«iils at

.Moderate Prices

In urging your attenttion to Cloaks in the higlJ prices-we don't want you to lose sight of the faj that

$5.o(i, $6.50 and $7.50 buyJ good, warm, serviceable and sty|.| ish Cloaks for Women—

That

$10.00 will purchase the best Cloaks you have ever seen at the price.

Cloaks

for Little Folks and School Girls

YYe re proud of the Cloaks for school girls that we have in stock-—they are sc much better thad usual for the price—

S5.00 will buy choice ; f a big assortment of handsome C o iIxm—that in former seas ns wou J have cost at a fair price$6.oo to $7.50.

Cloaks for Little Ones

in ages from 3 to 6 years are made largely this year in the popular bear skin fabrics— and we show them in white and all the various colors as well as fancy weaves—

Prices on Bear SkinCloaks are $2.50. S3.50 and up.

CLOAKING.

\\ e own 3 pieces of 5S inch—heavy cloaking—and own it at less than half its I real worth. 75c a yard bu\'5 this heavy cloaking and for a girls school cloak-] the amount needed would cost you from si.50 to $2.50.

THINGS TO THINK A HO IT

let the imported goods go to the shelves of the retail merchants undisturbed. On one side of my store I would have the domestic made goods, and on the other side the imported I goods. My customers could come in and take their pick. Near the store's exit I would station the collectors of I customs. So long as my customers purchased on the side of the store 'containing the domestic goods they |

would not ho stopped lc. the collect-I

ors as they were passing out. But

« .eh purchaser of imported go d ' stance there would ha\e to pay the tax before 1 organization leaving the store. ‘ i:y strugglni “For Instan* e, jf n w man siw a trade beta** dr*‘SB pattern on the imported side of Ireland, the store that pleas* I her she would m vomeii

purchase it, paying the store's price, and on reaching the exit would be notified that she must pay the duty on the goods. Suppose the sti#-e fixed the price of th* pattern at $3u and the duty was 10 pe: cent., the

WOMEN’S TAILORED SUITS Decidedly Cheap in Price.

e h-ive a number of handsome Tailored Suits that you may have for s 10.00, «12.00 and s 15.00.

1 hrj styles and quaihits of these Saits compare very favorably with Suits sold for a half more earlier in the season

ALLEN BROS.

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a; numerou local Irish I throughout the eoung bravely to increase the n the United St; t< s and . In connection wh;i tin cr; nizc a “home-go- i

the United States : i all lower the dut- \ on tlte i>:;nri .J prod ids of Ire-, bin i. 01 inko them on altogether, and, thu. ctimulat* Irish industries! stimulate them without injuring

in 19 '7 .is $2.Too

• I , . x 1 •(. rflH

l ies of 1 modity vary tremendou--

ciistonior would he required to pay any industry in the I'n '. j states

Thoughts from men of affairs upon questions of the Day.

Up >0 the Semite.

I that the published reports of the

Tin - mi winded reformers, who statements made by .State Chairman

lor a few months have beuii making a strong plea for temperance men to come to the rescue of tin* per lab lag and dying political machine into which they were born, are very much concerned about the \ iewg of the publisher >f the 1’; .. the County O ■ at :i on the books. Heim, ni-posed to satisfy these you a . J Ions ;> '\( a tee of tem-

. toKes Jackson were wrong entirely nd were published by a Republican paper for the purpose of injuring the Democratic party. Mr. Jackson did not recommend the immediate repeal of the Coputy Option law. He said that the Democratic party would not take its advice from the Anti-Saloon League, or the Liquor league, but would be guided, solely, by what the plain people, who are trusting the

pern in *• ref ;u the writer will say, Democratic organization want In the

I $12 as the passed out. Now. if we could inaugurate a system like that n the United States the consumers j would soon discover who paid the j tax. Would they consent to pay such

; a tax? I think not.”

But there is no possibility of the United Stati s Government putting into effect such a plan a- the New A’ork merchant proposes Evidently the tariff—a high tariff— is here to rta . and the only question is whether (’ongress will, at the coming sho; session, afford any relief to consumer If the people who pay the tax could be heard possibly something would lie done but the unfortunate thing L that th* consumers, being udrecofnized, do net get their side of the story before the eommittees in Congress which control the making of a new tariff bill. And yet there are some encouraging signs. For in-

Tlie linen industry, in which Ireland excels th world. : ::gnt he . i'ei as a case in point. TV* duties en linen in it. vnr; gy . of manufacture average Ironi 50 to Co per

1 levied to encourage of the linen indus-

1 Stc.

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■eiis 1- ■ ,itu a bushel on pot.; * I ! of linen in surrendered by the I n

because of the fear of

I nited King".,' 'The“hn' i T'* ^ pr,C ^

1 be in:- as a matter of econon

mly about $‘|e T was j ever, leading caterers ! to which the tir - fabr| cs ;for the imported artiel it was 1 b , * ■ • o re- duty addei, for uxatnph

■ Maine and _

cent. They wer* t! f (.* (■•Jopfiit *

The ‘^‘.i'i'hort- Of handkerchiefs

• paid duties of

at $2

$ 1. ‘ 0,0 (jo

-,- i(nd oi'an average of between

u T' .

, " >f 1 "•«! Peculiarities of

> "*'1 climate, and it

^ the g..-

que-1 lonalde .* hethe; Con; re- in tl forthcoming tariff moh will thin . ’ ne c.-sary to contint. the duti.on ; appreciable tax on consumption, and is tbi ce uitr; tt'era pra-t: ,"v r, | rhalry in pr* iuetlon hirh legit;. linen schedule- p , . an inviting of linen from nil countries in Hie: amounted to $2i,000.90n, of which about $15,500,000 came from the United Kingdom, virtually Ireland

iMTu man

bleach it of the po-

os in tlie eom-

I', 1 ;?:" 'ly. A simple test til ii of imported lin.

will ’ ; Xni< ^Lan article Shp

** in paid. , 1

It Is a noteworthy fad 'J 1 !

more than forty years our trawl

Ireland has sohwn every

a nee favorable to the United*®

more for an Aroonstook po t; < ustomed to pay 20 cents a

with the exception of two year**! and 1907. High water oiarsl

1 mhed in 1 $S0, when t j xports over Imports « * l

"O0. It was*as high ns > P'* 1 '™

in IS9S.

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increased very slowly, but 1

this

country.

practically all the linens sold the countci^ ■ . sol< ' over otinti rs are brought in f roni

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lv *cnty years, with nc* a-* 1 ”" 1 - * ipp in Isps. | 900 and 1 ' ' ■ ■ A< * dents will happen- but

Ireland. "" us “ l ln from I regulated families keep Dr.

Another Irish product Is 1 Klectrlc oil

1 ,cl 18 Potatoes, j subdues the

for such emergenKJ pain and heals the