Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 May 1896 — Page 5

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The board of directors of the projected Terre Haute & Mississippi road, like Capjtain Scott's coon, came down. They knew their proposition for. a subsidy of one-half of 1 per cent, of the taxables of the township would be defeated, and they asked the county commissioners to cancel the legal notices for the election. The opposition to the subsidy was largely among the workingmen of the city. There were others of what perhaps may be called the smaller tradesmen and who owned property who would have voted against the subsidy. ^There exists a belief that some of the men who are stockholders in the company expected to make c6nsiderable money out of the road, by selling it to one of the companies for which it would make a good division line. It was

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two would profit by reaching new territory I /for the wholesale trade. This belief could not be overcome, and the more you tried to do so the more you convinced the believers that the projectors were not the disinterested public spirited citizens they proclaimed themselves to be. The effort to convince them otherwise would afford proof to their minds by deduction that the promoters were too intensely interested to be actuated solely by public spirited motives and that it must be a scheme for money making on the part of a few rich men with the general good «of the city as a secondary consideration. It is undoubtedly true tlmt this sentiment is largely thei outgrowth of suspicion and prejudice. "When human prejudice is strong, how weak are human brairts?" Any effort to reason with the prejudiced man in this in•stance served to arouse the feeling to more violent manifestations.

To tell the people that they were only being asked to vote money which the wealthy property owners would have to pay was the one thing above all others to draw the line between the classes of the population, the unpardonable offense to a poor man. Tlie new idea with the poor men is that he is not to !M treated as a dejx'tulent who must ever fael-jrrrttefTtl to the employer that given him an opportunity to earn a living. The talk that, the rich man who had subscribed to the stock of the company were willing to give of their wealth to make times good for the wage-earner did not take well with the labor element. They preferred to be dealt, with as citizens and not wards. I undertake to say that if you could have convinced the opponents of the subsidy that each would be financially the gainer by buying the new enterprise that is what a subsidy really is a business transaction—they would have voted auikinnt it, because they would be firm in the lelief that, where they would make a few dollars the rich stockholders would make thousands. It is the deep seated belief that profits are not shared justly and equally that is causing the unrest in the labor world. l,«abor insists that, it would willingly stand Its share of the shrinkage in hard times If It knew that capital WHS bearing proportionately as heavy a burden. I know it is commonly said that the capitalist is the one who really is the burden hearer during hard times, but the wageearner says to himself: "He loses 50 per cent, of his wealth which reduces it to say, while I stand a reduction of 50 per cent, in wage* which brings my family to the bread and water diet." It was the same process of reasoning that made opposition for the railroad. "I may be ahead few dollars but he, the capitalist, will \take thousand#," sftltl the laboringman. vever much logic or fact there may lui it that is the situation. It would

Jve been better to have formed the itnpany with men of ordinary standTOg in the wealth of the city aud then have gone to the workingmen aud poor people geuerally and said to thera that this isaijopportunity to buy a good thing for fehc city and we want you to help make the Contract. The poor man would be proud to do his part of the buying if he felt that, he was being let in on the ground floor, that is, that, he as a citixen and property

Owner was consulted as an equal of the rich man. I am a believer in subsidies and protective tariffs. That is, I believe in a deal by which

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drive a good bargain. This can be done by subsidies or protective tariffs. This is an industrial and commercial country and the people certainly ought to be capable of driving good bargains in this regard. One of the arguments of the opponents of the T. H. & M. tax was that the road would be built by private capital anyway. Perhaps it will but how soon? If it is worth the amount asked to have it built sooner than it could be expected to be constructed by private capital why not pay for it on that ground alone? In short buy it whenever you are convinced it is a bargain. There ought to be no objection to it though the stockholders should make thousands out of it if the city profited by it too. But, as I have said, therein is the cause of all the growing feeling of bitterness and resentment toward the rich and the employing class. It was what defeated the Republican party in 1892. Men were working at better wages than ever before. They were obtaining more of the comforts of life,than their fathers did if they worked at the same trade. But the man employed in an industry directly protected by the tariff voted against the party of protection and did so simply because he believed his employers were getting too big a share of the protection. He would have voted that way though he was almost sure his vote would help close the industry in which he was employed. He knew he was better off than ever before but he heard about a man having a castle as a result of protection. As he walked to his comfortable home from his day's labor he saw his employer riding behind a liveried driver. Then the prejudice set in and we know all too much what the sequel has been. I notice in the Locomotive Fireman's Magazine for this month several irritable articles bearing on this point. The magazine is edited by a Republican and the two grand officers are Republicans but they are voicing the sentiments of the employes. Here is one paragraph: "The working people are tired of being buncoed with the tariff question. This way of manufacturers requesting (or compelling, as is sometimes the case) their employes to vote for a high tariff and then refusing to divide up the increased profits has made political skeptics out of a large majority of working people. They remember that the tariff of 1890 was the result of workingmen's votes, and that Andrew Carnegie profited a million dollars a year from that bill yet within less than two years after this increase of profits he reduced wages 30 per cent., imported Dagoes, and hired Pinkerton thugs to shoot down the very men whose votes had increased his profits millions of dollars. Protection is all right, but it should be understood even at this early stage of the game, that no 'con' game goes. If there is a rake-off, the employer must be willing to whackup.'" The doctrine of protection is endorsed all right—so is the principle of voting subsidies—but it is the practical effect of them that is doubted and the men who work for wages are mad about it. There is tio use disguising that fact any more than there is in wasting time arguing in favor of the principle itself.

Chas. Berry of the Yeedersburg News, who was here durftig fli^lvSlIur trial furnishing a report to his paper which was issued daily then, got out a special edition last Saturday which contained a good report of the Egbert tragedy at Rockvllle. Berry drove from Veedersburg to Rockville to get the information. As a pub-lisher-of a "county" newspaper Berry is spreading over a good deal of territory. He has annexed several counties now and presently will include the greater part of and the Wabash valley.

It is not merely a coincidence that in the past year there have been eight or nine departures from Terre Haute pulpits. The truth will probably be found in the fact that Terre Haute preachers have been cowed, and a preacher, like a newspaper, must be saying some thing, giving expression to an opinion on some vital or pertinent subject if he expects to hold the attention and enlist the co-oper-ation of his congregation. He need not be sensational in the caricatured idea of the pulpit mountebank, but he can have the courage of his convictions and say black is black. There, are truths as well established as that black is black to which he may give utterance, and though" he may hit some heads there will be fewer nodding under him. If his congregation knows that he believe* black is black and is afraid to say so his usefulness is gone, and even those who themselves fear to attack some evils really lose respect for the preacher who has been hired for the nnrpose but is afraid to do so.

It will be recalled thftt when Parrten and Harnett ran away there was a report that they had gone to Mexico and bad become Mexican citizens to avoid extradition. Senator Voorhees and other eminent *au thnrities were quoted to the effect that they could be extradited that the Mexican government would not permit their law as to citUenship to defeat the ends of justice in a friendly country. The story that the two men had become Mexican citizens had its origin in the speculative mind of some one who had read the story of Charles W. Rowe. a defaulting official from Iowa who was fighting extradition on the .citixenship

ground. Well, he was successful in pre4 venting extradition but the Mexican government put him on trial for bringing stolen funds into the country and this week he was sentenced to twelve years in prison which, in a Mexican dungeon, is equivalent to a life sentence.

Four members of the Catholic church were elected to the council last Tuesday— McLaughlin, Roach, Hebb and Walsh. Liehr, a holdover, is also a Catholic, and it is said that the wife of another Democrat, elected Tuesday, is a Catholic. I asked a Catholic who has been identified with city affairs and city politics if the A. P. A. issue cut much of a figure in the election and he said that it did not that in some localities there was work along that line but that generally it was not an issue. He told of an A. P. A. man, or at least a man he was confident belonged to the order, who worked for the election of a Catholic Democrat who was elected.

There were more buggies

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TERRE HATTTE SATURDAY EVENING MAIL, MAY 9, 1896.

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tion day than at any election since the new law went into force, which has a provision intended- to prevent the general use of vehicles to gather up voters. While it is true that there were more buggies out it is also true that fewer persons were hauled to the polls. The voter resents it. He used to go because it would subject him to the criticism that he was not a loyal party man if he did not go when a party leader called or sent for him. Under the new law which gives him the opportunity to vote a secret ballot he has grown more independent, and if the rallier insists on hauling him to the polls it is an even chance that he will vote the ticket of the other party out of spite. I heard more than one party man, of both parties, say they are now sure they had taken voters to the polls who voted for the opposition. In one ward, so a successful councilman tells me, three buggies hauled but four voters to the polls and two of these were sick men. This same man also told me that in one precinct in his ward, among workingmen of first class character, the poll book of his party showed seventeen men who refused to tell the man who polled that precinct what party they belonged to and furthermore said they did not intend to vote and they didn't. They said there was no hope for them in either of the older parties and that they did not care to take the time to vote a useless Populist ticket. The candidate told his friends not to go near them that if they were besieged to vote they might go to the polls and vote against him to resent the effort to force them to do what they did not want to do. In the same ward there were three ballots evi dently cast by three voters who had conferred about how they should vote as all three were stamped the same way. The rooster and eagle each was stamped where they would sit down if eagles aud roosters sat down, and the Populist emblem was stamped all around as was the Prohibitionist square. Of course the ballots were illegal. Perhaps the three voters had been hauled to the polls, against their wish. I met one man who said 'he had given a rallier who came for him "a good talking to," that he had told him that he wanted the respect of everyone but that he would uot feel entitled to it if he permitted himself to be seen being hauled to the polls by a man who was hired for the purpose or who expected reward through office. I see that all over the state the Republican vote was short. This ought to be a warning that the purely sentimental campaign is not always the successful one. That there is plenty of Republican enthusiasm, especially for McKinley, there is no doubt but it is now demonstrated that it has not served to bring out all the Republicans this spring. It is Man About Town's personal opinion that the McKinley variety of enthusiasm is not the best kind. There is wind to fill all the instruments in the band but all the people do not fall into line. For my own part I like the Harrison style of 1888 when everyday the man himself added to the strength of his party as no other man could do. He is undoubtedly the greatest living American and if it were not for the serious handicap of his personality he would be the most invincible public man the country ever knew.

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If a neat housekeeper wants neat work in cleaning Lace Curtains, Chenille and Portieres, Brocatelle Damask, Silk Draperies, etc.. Piano and Table Covers, Tidies. Silk I,amp Shades, etc., go to the old reliable place. J. F. ERMLSCH,

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Drop us a postal and we will examine your work and give prices. Mr. B. F. Crammings, of Honey Creek says: I had twelve teeth extracted at the Terre Haute Dental Parlors, 22 south Sixth street, without the least bit of pain. It beats all the tooth palling I ever heard of. ___________________

Buy Riser's Molasses Candy.

A large aad complete line of China, Qu«ensware, etc., may be seen at G. J. Hammerstein's, 907 Main street, and at prices unusually tow. We invite yon to call and examine our stock aad. learn the prices*. We can save you money.

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Can always be found at Sykes & Gray's, 0 Main street. Either In Children's Straw Hata, of summer wear of any variety you can get the very latest styles of Sykea & Gray, at the lowest

Dr. T. C. Stunkard baa removed his office Sixth and Mala, over Buntin's drugstore.

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llr. B. F. Cummings, of Honey Creek says: I had twelve teeth extracted at the Terre Haute Dental Parlors, 32 south Sixth street, without the least bit of pain. It beats all the tooth pulling I ever heard of.

Complete line of Book Cases and Library Tables, you will find best at Fisbeck's Furniture House, 809 Wabash Avenue.

Our Shirt Waist sale on Thursday met with great success, and many ladies called to examine our unusually large line of Shirt Waists. We have several hundred patterns of Waists, all of the latest designs and styles, and the prices are so reasonable as to ensure their sale to all who examine them. You will regret it if you do not call and see our stock.

SCHLUER & FOULKES.

Clearing Sale.

Plants must be sold to make room for other stock. L. Heinl, 1505 Washington Avenue, or 100 south Sixth.

The Detroit and Cleveland Steam Navigation Company's steamers are now running daily (except Sunday) between Detroit and Cleveland. When traveling East or West, North or South, try to arrange to take advantage of these luxurious steamers between Michigan and Ohio. If you are contemplating a summer outing write A. A. Schantz, G. P. A., Detroit, Mich., for illustrated pamphlet, which gives full information of a trip to Mackinac via the Coast Line.

A tsar load of the latest improved Refrigerators just received at Finkbiner & Duenweg's. V: "Big Four" to St. Louis, "No Tunnel

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The National Republican convention will be held in St. Louis June 16, 1896. There will be many thousand people in thats city on that occasion. The "Big Four" offers to the public the most comfortable and luxurious line to St. Louis, with elegant through Wagner sleeping car service and unexcelled dining car service from New York, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Washington and all eastern and southeastern cities. Trains leave Grand Central station, New York Central Union station, Cincinnati, making direct connection with all southera lines without transfer and arrive St. Louis over the new Merchants1 bridge, avoiding the disagreeable tunnel.

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Four new patterns of Haviland China Dinner Sets just received at G. J. Hammerstein's, 307 Main street. Prices are lower than ever before. Call and inspect the line and. learn prices.

Buy your Carpets and Mattings from Fisbeck's new stock. We want you to look at them.

Our Shirt Waist sale on Thursday met with great success, and many ladies called to examine our unusually large line of Shirt Waists. We have several hundred patterns of Waists, all of the latest designs and styles, and the prices are so reasonable as to ensure their sale to all who examine, them. You wttl regret it if you do not call ami see our stock.

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