St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 20, Number 38, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 13 April 1895 — Page 4

Jlnikpmbait. WALKERTON, INDIANA, APRIL 13, 1895. W. A. ENDLEY, Editor. '1 he prices of meats of all kinds are advancing. The State Liquor League, it is reported, is raising funds to light the Nicholson bill. 'l’he Nicholson law was endorsed by the Prohibition State Executive Committee at a recent meeting in Indian-

apolis. The Atchison Globe observes that society must let go of any man who has to work more than six hours a day, or his employer will. Oscar Wilde, who is now in jail in London, says that he will commit suicide when he gets a chance. Now BSf,WwfetHilor only does his duty! The ranks of the free silver advocates are growing so rapidly all over the country as to give the goldites abundant cause for serious reflection. A law has been enacted by the Nebraska legislature appropriating $200,000 for the purchase of seed, grain and food for the destitute western farmers of Nebraska. If the doctrine of bimetalism is unsound and fallacious, as the goldbugs are wont to assert, then it must be admitted that there is quite a large crowd of intelligent people of the United States who are at present “chasing their hats.” A slight advance in the price of silver bullion is noted. It is now worth 64 cents an ounce, making the silver in the American dollar worth 49?, cents. Perhaps the advance may be due in part to the free silver agitation which obtains generally over the country. —_ According to the Indianapolis Telegraph, a German paper, the best lawyers think there is no doubt of the unconstitutionality of the Moore liquor bill, but they think probably the Nicholson bill will be sustained by the courts. Attorney General Ketcham denies that he made a ruling, relative to the new' fish law, to the effect that Lake Michigan was the only lake in Indiana, all the rest being ponds. The report, he says, grew out of a joking remark made by an employe in his oflice. William IL Morrison, “Horizontal William,” is looming up as a presidential possibility on the democratic ticket. Morrison is a believer in the free coinage of silver but thinks that the time is not ripe for free silver. Morrison’s friends at Washington seem to regard his chances for the Domination as very favorable. The American Manufacturer, in giving its reasons why iron and steel are cheaper, says: “In the United States the greatly reduced cost of iron and steel has resulted chiefly from the largely increased use of machinery, not only improved machinery to do what machinery did years ago, but to do what labor did at that time. It is reduced labor cost, the result chiefly of new methods and improved machinery, that has reduced the cost of production in iron and steel.” It is quite safe to say, says the Review, that no other Elkhart citizen held the distinction of the late Henry Wright, who died last Sunday. He was born at 120 Fleet street, London, England. During the years from six to fifteen he resided Tit St. James’ Park, and during his school years was a playmate and dear friend of Queen Victoria. Before locating in Elkhart, twenty-four years ago, he had crossed the Atlantic ocean thirteen times, the last trip being during the World’s Fair in 1852, upon which occasion he was honored by the royal crown by a seat in the queen’s barouche. A writer in the Chicago Tribune maintains that there would be money in treating soft coal ashes produced in that, city for gold. He asserts that such ashes by actual analysis contain gold in paying quantities, the fine particles about 80 cents’ worth per ton. “I have made a great many assays of them,” says the correspondent, “and to put the clinkers down as worth $2 per ton would probably give a good average. After being freed of the loose fine stuff they are in excellent condition for cheap extraction. Thecostof chemicals would not exceed 40 cents per to!) m proper plants, the extraction to be about 80 per cent to 90 per cent or $1.60 per ton, leaving a margin of $1 20 per ton for labor, or more than is paid in the mines.”

Since the fire at Walkerton, reported in these columns hist week, three others occurred in the same town—barns and residences. There is perhaps no town in Northern Indiana that has been so unfortunate in the matter of having property destroyed by fire, as Walkerton.—Nappanee News. By a recent decision of the United States supreme court bonds and rentals have been exempted from the income tax. The law has been considerably crippled by this decision, and it is not improbable that the income lax may entirely be done away with in the near future.

Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls in a recent address before the legislature at Little Rock, Ark., strongly advocated bimetalism, and stated that in the next campaign the South arid West would stand shoulder to shoulder for free silver. He believes that the majority of the people throughout the United States are in favor of free silver. ’l’he revolution in Cuba is assuming proportions that must awaken serious apprehensions in the paternal government—Spain. The insurgents seem to be gaining strength rapidly. Their ranks are swelling with earnest, champions of liberty and a republican form of government. The cause of the revolutionists is based upon justice and right, and the efforts of the tax-burdened Cubans to release themselves from the galling yoke of Spanish despotism can not but awaken sympathy and a hope for their success in the breasts of all people who love liberty and believe in the exercise of justice and equality towards mankind. No people ever had more cause for seeking to secure their liberties through revolution than the Cubans. A prohibitionist, who has been his party's nominee for the legislature, remarked that if the Nicholson bill passed the Semite and became ft law, it would practically disintegrate the pro hibition party of the state, and he doubted tbnt if in the next campaign it could poll one thousand votes. The bills he declared, represented a pi inciple for which the prohibition part y had been fighting fur years. Indian' apolis News. There are hundreds of prohibitionists who will doubtless take issue with the gentleman above mentioned on that point. The Nicholson law is without question largely the result of prohibition agitation, and as such is a victory for that party, and instead of disintegrating the prohibition organization tin’s law, embodying as it does much of theessenceof prohibition principles, may serve as an entering wedge for a greater triumph for the party. In short, the prohibition idea seems to be active and growing, and this being true the party most distinctly identified with it must necessarily live and grow. TOWN AND COUNTRY BOYS An article by Henry J. Fletcher in The Forum for April, on ’‘The Doom of the Small Town” shows statistically that the population of townships ami villages in the North Central states, to-wit: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and lowa, constituting the finest agricultural region in the United States, has been steadily decreasing for the past ten years. The tendency is to centralization of population, wealth and enterprise. A mere agricultural community stands little show in the race for supremacy. The small tradesmen are crowded out by competition with large aggregations of capital which is continually reaching out from the commercial centers and sapping up not on j ly the business but the ambitious and talented of the rising generation. In concluding the article says: “One of the serious consequences of the drawing away of the young and energy of the villages and towns is found in the benumbing effect it has upon those who remain behind. There is little incentive to start new enterprises, and especially is there small encouragement for boys to learn skilled trades. Hence, tho prospect before the boys of the villages is depressing in the extreme. There is practically no chance for a boy to become skilled in any trade except in the building trades, the blacksmith shops and in the commonest handicraft. ' The late awakening to the value of ’ manual training schools is confined ab । most exclusively to the largest cities. ! Nothing is done in the smaller towns i to teach manual skill or general ex- - pertness in the use of tools, and the . idea of any public effort to encourage f the education of highly skilled mej chanics in any department is not even r thought of. A boy may learn to hold a plow, to shovel dirt, to paint a bouse, to shoe a horse; he may learn how to 5 clerk in a store, to become a lawyer, or - to sell life insurance; but the country f towns are absolutely dead to the need , 5 i of cultivating the mechanic arts, and . teaching the American youth that H general knowledge and special skill i i without which our native workers are > being so rapidly driven out of the higher branches of industrial activity.

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