Star-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 December 1908 — Page 4

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S T A U - I> M OCHA T

Friday, December 4, ,^1

CTAD nrMnrD AT -rap* 1 - I-et temperauc men now for-

O I A 11 U L 1*1 U L. n A I -^et politic s and take

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ANOTHER SHOCK Two classes of society which, heretofore had looked with favor upon the Republican party, have now received a shock that has caused their enthusiasm to cool rapidly. These two classes are the bankers and the retail merchants. The shock comes In the form of a statement by the leaders of the Grand Old party that the coming Congress will pass both a postal savings bank and a parcels post bill. While the campaign was in progress bankers everywhere were declaring against the bank guarantee plank of the Democratic platform. When it was suggested to them that the postal savings bank was still more radical legislation, they winked the other eye and declared that the great hankers In New York city would look out for that and see to it that no such bill was passed. Now it appears that such a bill will be one of the first to be considered. They sa; at Washington that distrust of the banks is growing rapidly over the country, and to get the money now being hoarded it will be necessary to make banks safe and to place the guarantee of the government upon them. This, it is believed, will bring large amounts of hoarded cash from each community and place it in the large centers where the postal banks are located. Thus will each local community lose its cash. The parcels post is also causing a shudder to sweep over the country. It means low and rapid transportation from the great mail order houses to the consumers all over the country. Heretofore the country buyer lias been compelled to go to town after his mail order purchase. Now it will be brought to his door by Uncle Sam. He will receive goods with greater ease from Chicago than from his home town. Here Is radical legislation indeed, and against those who supported the party. It is for the Democrats, however, to laugh.

up temperance.

Lei politicians forget temperance and take up politics. The two things do not mix. It Is time they were separated again that each may do its best, which can not be done together.

The newspapers of Indiana, and the people of Indiana seem unable to cease discussing the late political fight. Especially is the temperance question still the center round which much of the discussion revolves. We can but feel that the continued partisan discussion of this question is bad both for temperance and politics. The Republican papers that insist in posings as martyrs and attempting to show that state and local politicians on their ticket were sacrificed upon the altar of temperance, defeated because they were good and honest men, is not helping either their party or the temperance cause for which they pretended to stand As a matter of fact, after the passing of the county local option bill the people of the state- insisted on believing that the question was out of politics Tlie frenzied shrieks of Watson and his followers could not make them 1> lieve that it was anything else thii :i an issue decided. It was a political battle. The Republican party s zed upon the temperance questioi us a political lever, and then remove ’ the fulcrum by passing the law bef e the election. Other questions the n came to the front, and the partv was defeated. To now pose as martyrs is silly. To accuse the state of defeating Watson because he stood for temperance is to think too meanly of the state and too highly of Watson. In another column we quote from the Noblesville Ledger a rather sane discussion of the question, marred, however, by the tone of the wailing martyr In the first para

CHOICE FOOTWEAR

FEAR BROKEN PROMISES. The Manuacturers Association and other stand-pat men who have been voting for and supporting the Republican party on the strength of its tariff declarations in its Chicago platform, are now trembling with a great fear. This fear is that the platform, in the words of the Springfield Republican, "was made to get in on, not to act on." In other words the signs of the times seem to show that the Republican party, from Taft down, is about to forget the Chicago platform, the men who aided with the sinews of war and the standpatters, and will go in for tariff revision downward. The president of the Manufactureer’s Association believes this. He declares that it would be exceedingly tricky and deceitful for the Republican part} to now repudiate Its Chicago plank which all manufacturers understood to be a bid for the support of the high tariff men. Tiie Democrats honestly stood, he declares, for tariff reduction on a revenue basis. The Republicans pretended to stand for just the opposite. To now make their pledges of no effect and to adopt, even in modified form, as a result of the canvass and analysis of the election returns, the position of the Democratic party is to act dishonestly. It is to make both sides distrustful of the party and the party leaders. Taft has attempted, throughout his campaign to be all things to all men. Now he must choose, and it appears that he is to choose that which is contrary to the platform declaration of his party.

TH/NGS TO THINK ABOUT

And now a court in Boone County has issued a restraining order to prevent the contractors who are making the course of upper Eel River wider I and deeper from destroying the I bridge of the Ben Hur Traction company. Judge Artman and Judge Parr have both concurred In the decision, j It is a case practically parallel with j our Cook ditch case, except the ! bridge in this instance is owned by the traction company instead of the i townships or county. Putnam Coun- i

Thoughts from men of affairs upon questions of the day. - -- Special Privilege's Geography. When Lincoln said that no nation could exist half slave and half free he had particular reference to that artificial boundary between north and south known as Mason and Dixon's line. For half a century this line divided believers in special privileges from those who held opposite views. It was not wiped out without terrible sacrifice in blood and treasure. If Mason and Dixon's line, long since a mere memory, was terribly real to Americans of the past generation, it was not more real than the sectional line between east and west marked off by Tariff-protected special privilege beneficiaries. The American republic has had two separate and distinct industrial griwths. The tariff has filled the east with industrial feudal barons, and tilled the west with industrial seifs. Special privilege always becomes arrogant upon what it feeds. Higli tariff beneficiaries come to look upon "protection" as an inalienable right. Tariff schedules that were originally intended to raise American wages, and benefit the entire community, become, under manipulations. a mere vehicle of oppression to American consumers. The schedules that enable trusts to tax American consumers, long after all need for the protection of “infant industries” has passed, are finger posts marking special privilege’s boundary line between east and west. The great west owes Its Industrial growtl to individual effort. it is the geographical area where

ty people the course

courts. it appears that the lower courts everywhere recognize that ditch contractors have no right to destroy bridges. It remains, in each instance, for the upper courts to grant this right. Will it do so on

this case?

BANK REPORT

Total

Total Slalf

will watch with interest |Ameriian bone und sinew are carving of this case through the lout the nation's real destiny.

It is the area where real wealtli is

being created.

The farmer, the mechanic, the small merchant, are working hand in hand with other empire builders, railroad pioneers, waterway developers. irregatiou conservators. Were it not for this great west, with its stupendous agricultural and industrial grow th, there would be no Wall Street, no tariff barons, no predatory trusts, no financial para-

sites.

The east accumulates riches out of the sweat and toil of the west. The east manipulates wealth after the we&t has created it. The barons of modern Industrial feudalism take toll from their western serfs through the medium of a tariff that has ceased to be "protective,” and has become a tax on indus-

try.

Every high tariff victory in American political campaigns has been an eastern victory. The soul of the high tariff propaganda is in the east. It is one of the ironies of American political history that the New England and Middle Atlantic states, where abolitionists sowed the seeds of moral victory over the special privileges of slave-holders, are today the hotbeds of industrial feudalism hrough the tariff. The west asks only industrial freedom. And the west will get it. The great producing and consuming section of the United States is gradually learning its political power. It may have temporary setbacks before its organization for industrial freedom is complete. But the west's mandate to the American congress for genuine tariff revision will be heard. Some of the first bugle notes were heard November 3. I’araphrasing Lincoln again, no nation that attempts to maintain a condition of industrial serfdom can permanently endure.

Report of the condition of the Control Nnllonal Hiuik. at Gre.-nrasilt*, la the State of Indiana, at the close- of

business, November 27. 1908:

Resources.

Loans and discounts $422,393.19

Overdrafts, secured and un-

secured 4.439.38

V. S. Bonds to secure cir-

culation 100,000.00

1 nited States Bonds to secure U. s. deposits S. Bonds on hand Bonds, securities, etc Banking house. furniture, md tlxttires Due from National Banks inoi reserve agents) Due from State Banks and Bankers Due from approved reserve agents

Checks and other cash Items

Notes of other National Banks •actional paper currency, nickels, and cents Lawful Money Reserve In Specie $69,41)5.00 Legal-tender notes Total Redemption fund with U Treasurer (5 per cent circulation)

50.0110.no 3.680.00

104.855.50

10.000.00 25,013.30 15,000.00 I 1 n,563.59

700.42

1.270.00

572.12 Bank.

69.105.00

5,000.00

. $930,892.50

I iltlillitie*. paid In . . ,

out-

• 'apital stock Surplus fund

Undivided profits, less penses and taxes paid National Bank notes standing

Due to other National It.inks Due to Slate Banks and

Bankers

Due to Trust Companies and

Savings Hanks

Individual deposits subject

to check

Demand certificates of de-

posit

United States deposits

. $100,000.00 . 100,000.00

6,753.18

100,000.00

6,688.35 51.537.92 16.425.52

465,126.17

34,3*1.36 50.000.00

of Indiai a t,'ounty

$930,892.50 of Putnam,

You may depend upon this Shoe Store to show all the correct styles, in the best Shoes made, for all uses, at all times. You can count on finding hero just the sort of Shoes, you’ll take pleasure and .satisfaction in wearing. We believe that we have better Shoes than you'll find at most Shoe Stores. Match them, if you can. Match the Shoes at the price, not th prices, for prices can be matched anywhere. We believe an investigation will convince you that it will be profitable for you to make this your Shoe Store.

I. *1. I- Kaml» I, Cashier of the abovenamed bank,, do solemnly swear that th- abnvt' M;itrinent is true to the best of my knowlidKf and belief. .1. L. RANhKL. Cashier. Subscribed anti sworn to before me this 1st dav of I tuber. 190*. AIjBEJRT Iv HARRIS. Notary Public.

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MODERN WOODMEN ELECTION

Good Stylish Cloaks Can be Bought of us for Comparatively Little Money

We are showing quite an assortment of new style-desirable—Cloaks for women—ail sizes up to 46—at $5.00, $6.50 and $8.00 that are just as warm as Cloaks that are more elaborately trimmed and ' that cost you considerable more money. Women’s Cloaks at $10.00 Are getting better each day T —because instead of buy. ing Cloaks to replace those sold— We Are Taking higher Priced Cloaks Cloaks that are easily worth a third more money— And Putting Them in the $10.00 Line.

Cloaks in Finer Materials And that are more elaborately trimmed are shown in big variety at si2.00, >15.00, $16.50, $18.00, $20.00 and upwards.

Cloaks for School Girls and Little Folks* If—you are going to buy your daughter the Cloak she needs ^ ^ to replace the one she has out-grown—don t delay the pur- {Ta chase—but buy it now. Prices never were as reasonable for good, warm, serviceable Cloaks—as now.

$5.00 buys choice of the best School Girls’ Cloaks we have ever shown at the price —and you II see that this is so when you look at them.

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Cloaks for Little Ones™ Are shown in the popular bear skin fabrics in white and all colors at $2.50 and upwards—(We also show Hoods to match Cloaks )

Women’s Tailored Suits— Do you know that for new style desirable Tailored Suits that 10 place in Putnam County compares with our department of women’s clothing ready to wear. And whether you want to pay as little as $10.00 for a suit or up to $25.00— You will be shown the' best suit for the money you can possibly buy anywhere.

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Furs for Women and Girls==~ Our line of Mulls and Neck Pieces is complete in the different kinds and qualities of Furs — made in the newest and best styles in medium and low priced 1'urs—and we would suggest — that no one thing thut you could give would make a more acceptable Christmas (lift — than would Furs— I*urs would please her.

ALLE.N BROTHERS.

Montgolfier} Count} Make* Roar in Regard lo Hunting Licenses and

Moiic} Paid for Them.

Glirkstiltj’s snoe Store

The .Modem Woodmen of America held their regular annual election of officers Tuesday evening. The following wer< elected to serve one \ear beginning January 1, 1909:

Venerable Counsul .. . Worthy Adviser Clerk

Banker O. F. Overstreet Escort Wm. Mercer Watchman Elmer Gibson Sentry Raymond Micha'M Managers Jesse Hughes, Ernest Ston-

er, F. P. Huestis.

Wide AwaUo. "But, look here," sai l the uaiiguau! antiquary, "in my article on early Grecian sculpture 1 distinctly mentioned Phidias. Why lias his name been deleted'/” Tin’ editor smiled quietly. "When,” he said, “you Hud old man Phidias getting his ueik advertised in tins paper under .* shillings a Hue you come rigid around and let me know.”- Bangkok Times.

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w w Soper ❖ •><• •> ❖ ❖ <• * ❖ * * * R. A. Confer Ertie McCullough and Ada F. Job.

For a mild, easy action of the bowels. a single dose of Doan’s Regulets is enough. Treatment cures habitual constipation. 25 cents a box. Ask your druggist for them.

THEY SPEND MONEY FOR NOTHING 1 • »

state,

county

Sweeney lias that some of

ants which wen

1 liner last During the month of November Dumont Kennedy, county clerk, has is-ued 155 licenses to hunters of this onnty. He collected $1 each, which I makes $155 he sent to Rev. Sweeney I >f Columbus today. Since the law bo’aine effective Mr. Kennedy lias .-i nt as much as $7 50 to the state wnne and fish commissioner and during that time not a quail or other /tune bird has been turned loose in .Montgomery Conntyby the warden. 'Ili2 law provides that one-third of the rmount collected for licenses is to no spent for game birds and fish to stock the reserves and streams of ti e state. It is not to be doubted that the law is being followed so that Montgomery County hunters have contributed $250 to help buy birds

some other part of the Me have a reserve *n this near Darlington and Mr.

made the statement the Hungarian pheasburned In an ocean

r last winter were to have been turned loose in this reserve if they had reached this country in healthy condition. It looks ns though $250 ought to help some toward restocking this county with game birds if w.. got cm one-third of the money collected for hunters' licenses

nil STATE EDITION OF l N l> I \ \ \ P O I I s N I "1 < ''li <»|,. |, |»io, for Three l*'IW Dlls will cover the eut I Inauguration of 011 u 11 • id' iit, Session of our l.euslai ■ih 1 other big evfents. The s 00 ' s I ,e. the 11,(1 ' •I. K. LAM.DON and < oMI’A Agents for the Indianapolis Greeneastle, Indiana-

and minnows, which have been turn-

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