St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 16, Number 39, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 4 April 1891 — Page 1

c OUNTy St. Jofert Jnbtuenhent

VOLUME XVI.

FOR INSTANCE, HANGING. Quite a number of hangings are re- ■ ported as having taken place in Pennsylvania of late, and murder in that state appears to be on the increase. This can be accounted for on no other grounds than the fact that many murderers will commit the act in the very face of the gallows who would refrain from it if they believed that a life imprisonment must pay the penalty. This version of the matter is warranted from the fact that so many of them commit suicide or attempt it after the committal of the crime. Do they do this to avoid the death penalty! It is a well known fact, and no one in favor of the death penalty will deny it, that far more murderers are sent to the penitentiary than are executed. Then why do so many take their own lives, when the chances are largely in favor of imprisonment? Logically, then, it would seem as if it were done to evade the prison. So the conclusion is fairly arrived at that the majority of murderers prefer death to life confinement. Then, that being the case, and the question as to whether we have a Godgiven right to take life for life being one of more or less doubt, as manifested by certain states which do not dare practice it, would it not be the safest and the best plan to abolish the relic altogether? A vile murderer can be confined so as to ever after effectually pre. vent him from repeating the crime, just as effectually a* if he were dead, and thus the doubt, and the gloom, and the dread which must necessarily hang over the two hundred dollar legal murderer and every one who is particeps criminis, would exist no more forever. If the culprit sees fit to take his own life rather than pay such a penalty as life imprisonment, that would be his funeral, his hands only stained with blood. The most detestable of all men, the hangman’s, skirts would then be clear, if he didn’t get the paltry two or three hundred dollars for his doubtful job. Reciprocity For Sure. It does seem as if citizens of Walker1 lAlghTlbtry and do their trading at home instead of making calculations on buying everything of any importance elsewhere. Suppose the doctor, for instance, can’t find anything at home good enough for himself or family and makes a practice of running to competing towns for nearly everything he and his family wears, his furniture, his carpets, and so forth and so on, can he conjure rational grounds for his people going to competing towns for their pills, potions, et cetera? Scarcely. The same question is equally pertinent as regards all channels of trade and business of all kinds. Do they, those who make it a practice to trade elsewhere, imagine that it sounds hightoned to say “I got this, that or the other in LaPorte, South Bend, Plymouth, Chicago,” as the case may be? Suppose their town should turn the scale upon them and never patronize them in their respective lines of business, how long would it be until they themselves would not be able to buy the necessaries of life even at home? They ought to think of such things. Everyone should buy everything he needs, provided it is to be found in his town at a fair price, instead of elsewhere, and thus encourage business at home by keeping the money at home. Let’s have a rousing, rip-roaring revival, such an out-pouring of the spirit of reciprocity right here in Walkerton as was never before known. Come right along and subscribe freely for the Independent, never forgetting to bring one dollar fifty just to make reciprocity binding. What a time there’ll be when Pennington gets his air ship running, they find Tascott, the Milford Mail gets the Garrett shops and this paper has abolished capital punishment! Whew! Marvin Khuns, on whom a barrel of printers ink has been wasted, and who is charged with killing Campau at Fostoria last fall, is working up a fullgrown able-bodied alibi. That rascal ought to go to penitentiary for life, on general principles. The ruling of the court at Crawfordsville, that there is no law in the State governing prize-fighting, has given an impetus to the brutal and demoralizing sport, and a number of matches are being arranged in various sections.—Mishawaka Enterprise. Then there’s a big hole in the law. It seems as though prize-fighting should be prohibited by law.

WALKERTON, ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL L 1891.

HOOSIERS TO THE FRONT . [Chicago Herald]. “Ten minutes a day spent over a , volume of vital statistics would show you at the end of a week that Pennsylvania has the greatest number of insane persons, per capita, of any state in the Union, and that six states appeared in the list before Indiana was mentioned. A glance at the bureau of labor reports will show that Indianians own more property to the man than is owned in any other state in the Union. Something in the line of educational journals will tell you that the state has a richer school fund than any other commonwealth, and that the percentage of scholarship is better far even than Massachusetts withits Harvard, or Connecticut, with its Yale. Histories of the war will tell yon tbs’ no other state gave so royally to the cause of freedom, and that the regiments of no other were so decimated on thefield of battle. It has more cattle to the acre, more bushels of wheat, more money in bank, more pianos in the parlors, more diplomas in frames than can be boasted elsewhere from sea to sea. “There is not a walk in life where Indiana men have not gone to the front. There is not a vocation in which they have not proved themselves masters. More men have come from that state to dominate business and professional Chicago than from any two other commonwealths in the country. More women have come up from the vales and hills of Indiana to lead your fashion, to cradle your youth, to mold your thought, to cheer your homes, than from any other in the Union. “What citizen of any other state has given to learning that DePauw gave to Asbury? Where is there another manufacturer like Studebaker? From that state Beecher graduated into Plymouth pulpit. From that state Colfax and Hendricks went to the vice presidential chair, and a later son has won the signet of chief magistrate. There is Coulter, in geology, and White, in mathematics. There is Kiley, and Will and Maurice Thompson, ami Benjamin F. Taylor, and Edward Eggleston and Mary Krout, in literatn.o. You could make a better magazine in Indiana than in Chicago to-day. Her bankers could stop payment one day for fun and see wild Bedlam in our clearing house. Her railroads could tie up one day and strangle traffic in the nation.” CATNIP FITS! Some of our citizens were frightened just about into catnip fits because the late “democratic legislature had gone and blundered into doubling their taxes.” But when Tom Wolfe figured it all out for them and showed them that a man who had payed, say, ten dollars heretofore would not necessarily have to pay under the new tax law but a little more than eleven dollars, they went their way rejoicing. Tom argues that county, township and incorporation taxes will not be increased even should the assessment be doubled, because if the town needed so much money the levy heretofore had been, say, fifty cents on the one hundred dollars for incorporation purposes, and the valuation had been one hundred thousand dollars, and under the new law it should be doubled, the levy would be reduced to twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars, which would be just the same as before. The slight increase of taxes will be for state purposes only. It appears that republican editors are very much frightened about the enormous taxes created by the last legislature —and the democrat editors, it appears, don’t feel very well themselves.

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KING PHARAOH. Moses was next thing to an adopted t child of King Pharaoh’s, ruler of Egypt, r having lived with him from the time - the king’s daughter discovered him in ■ the water in his little basket of rushes i until he was a man grown, when he 1 murdered an Egyptian and was obliged to Hee the country. He fled (it’s called i running away nowadays) to the land of Midian, where Jethro’s daughters found him one day at a well. Jethro was the ruler of the land of Midian, aud like the daughter of King Pharaoi, Jethro’s seven daughters coaxed tlilir father to adopt the now grown up fagitive from justice. He was pn*Jp£. watching sheep, and being a little cmq less permitted some of the flock stray away at oonsfderabl® distant, • clear up to Mount Horeb, to which place he followed the sheep. Tliwe God appeared to him in a burning bush, and before he got through with hilp, convinced him (Moses) that he was tpe true and living God. If the above is not a true atetement of the matter, you will have to look elsewhere than to the Bible for the truth. God converted Saul in a twinkling and made a Paul out of him. He convinced many others of Bible fame by various easy methods. The truth is he could have converted the whole world, Ph«raoh with the rest, iu the twinkling of an eye just as easily as he did Saul had he been so minded. But what are the facts as they are to be gleaned from the Bible in reference to the terrible siege God had with Pharaoh before he was convinced of the existence of the Almighty? You learn, from the Bible, that it took God, Moses and Aaron a long time to, perfect the job. And not only that but nt the expense of sacrificing the lives of thousands and thousands of innocent peraous, little children included. This ail for the purpose of changing the opinion of one individual ’ Is that consistait with the workings of an Almighty power? Think of the plagues *< the Bible teaches were visited u thousands of innocent children, bl a Divine Providence, to change the <T ; ‘ ion of one individual, and *thc jg-' authority teaching that thousar changed, convinced nlaost I and that without inflicting untfeVJ®'? sering upon thousands ofinuocents! Do yon, way down deep in yonr heart, believe that a just God ever did it? LOtiL BRIEFS. The opera house at Plymouth is lighted with incandescent lights. Wanatah's got a real, four legged .vols. Thirty of the Wauatahaus got after it. The last issue of the Bremen Enquirer was an exceptionally good one. Was the real for sure editor at home last week ? Saturday’s Chicago Herald gives Hon. Clement J. Kern, of Porter, a two-column write up. The Herald sees congressional timber in the gentleman. —Valparaiso Messenger. The Herald must wear magnifying glasses. An exchange says that there will be fifty-three Sundays this year, aud that we will have to wait 112 years for the like to occur again. That there may be no misunderstanding, we will say right here that we have decided to wait. — Middlebury Independent. The Epworth League held a social 1 last Saturday evening at the residence of G. D. Ewing. A large cee^ was in attendance and the time w?M«'Ssed

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