Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 17, Plymouth, Marshall County, 8 January 1896 — Page 4

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.intT(Ml at the riNimmth Pist nitin ti mtoihI ' "!; matter, i .4. K. ZIMM I'.KMAN. . i. smith Ki;i its am ri:ri:iK.!B l l!M ISM'TION 115 1 " I T! Yr It i said by Secretary Carlisle that 30 bond issue will be made unless the condition of the treasury demands it. The syndicate formed to buy the bonds ill see to it that the condition of the sreasury is such in a very short time 'hat the bond issue will be necessary. It is not unlikely that the promulgation of the improved Monroe doctrine, fiy inciting monarchial Klimpe to a beligerent attitude, will result in the building of fort ilicat ions and a I'nited states navy such as never would have been built had not this or some other equally grave reason served to greatly ixk edito matters. Tin: American people should care:u!ly read and digest all the different sides of the financial question. It is a duty they owe, not only to themselves jut their families. Then when the time arrives t vote "pan this important isue they should be patriotic enough to lay asitle party prejudice and vote as heir conscience dictates Hik following telegraphic report hieb is stripped of partyism gives a bird's-eye view regarding the gold reserve and the prospective issue. In speaking of the matter it says: "There s no way for t lie president to get around the situation. .1. Pierpont Morgan and his associated bankers have practically ot a corner on gold. Outside of Xew York it is believed t hat the whole country could not .uuster ."i0, K.,i 'll gold." Voi:; man. bear this thought ever ji miitd: The world owes you a living, nut you must act as your own agent in -solle.Hiug the debt. To collect the lebt in full, will keep you hustling twelve or fourteen hours a day but ion't get discouraged. Keep at it persistently, no matter how many rebuffs jou reoeive. The world hates to pay .is debts, but when it sefs that you are in earnest and determined to have your :wn, you will be paid a hundred cents m the dollar, and the money deposited .n a national bank subject to your orier. Thk Xew York World seems to have jreated considerable uneasiness among tfie bond sharks. Yesterday it said follows, the words "why" being in arge black type: "'Why? why? why should the negotiations for such a loan be conducle l m secret, be accompanied Dy inspired misrepresentations, falsification of news and the studied concealment of facts that the people ought to know? Why? why? why does the administration not offer the loan to the people instead of entering into a secret understands g with the head of the syndicate that cornered and squeezed ie government in February last ? " As m ki:din; events develop, are enacted and pass into history, the Cleveland Venezuelan manifesto assumes before the civilized world an increasing importance in its relation to present and future national ani international atfairs. It is undoubtedly one of the most important documents is sued since President Lincoln's proclamation freeing the slaves of the south, and its efferts promise to be far reaching even to the uttermost parts of the earth. Its importance appears so great in fact that it may, not unreasonably, öe the pivotal point on which shall turn the world's history of late nineteenth md twentieth century times. It is a repulsive idea to any intelligent and independent man, that because he belongs to a party he must always do j?ut what his party requires of fiim. That he has no right to oppose anything, whatever the partv through the regular means proposes. That orlanization is a necessary thing all admit. That in all organizations majorities should rule is not to be denied. But there is a limit even to party authority. It has no right to say to a nan: "If you do not thus and so, you ire no longer entitled to party name and honors." There is no manhood in blindly following all the arbitrary orders of a party caucus, and oftentimes such timid submission is injurious to the party. Thf. ghost business and practical joking break out at intervals of regularly decreasing length and give evidence that the fool-killer is falling behind time in the accomplishment of his

Uvork. Niles, Michigan, t'urnisrhes he

latest victim in the person of Charles Seeley, a young lad who has completely lost his reason on account of a ghost scare given him a few nights ago by a number of his companions. The mysterious and unexplainable have always hehl, for even the stoutest hearts, an irresistible horror, and reason has been dethroned and victims have been killed by many a practical joke. It is time that people look tor better and less dangerous amusements. JJi:luci: Kngland has on her hands what in the vernacular of many polished American gentlemen might be termed "a white elephant." Kngland is noted for the wonderful collections of her zoological gardens and along with the rest it is seldom that she does not have a white elephant to exhibit, but this one attracts special attention on account of its extraordinary size and unwieldly proportions. These white elephants are considered by Kngland as erealures of such importance that they are invariably given into the special care of the prime minister, and Lord Salisbury is now the only wizard who, by a wave of his magic wand, can instantly reduce the size of the present ungainly quadruped to somewhere near the normal of Knglish specimens, lie can do this wisely by striking off its American parts. Thk New York World, a standard democratic joiirual, bays editorially that the syndicate manipulations not only must result in enormous loss to the government, but will lead to great national scandal, the moral effect of which upon the country will be more disastrous than any financial loss could possibly be. It calls upon President Cleveland to reject absolutely the proposition of the syndicate and to leave the result to t.e people. There can be no doubt, it assures him, that the people, once awakened to the peril of the situation, will pour out their gold from banks and vaults, to recoup the i?10,(X0,000 deficiency in the reserve As a voucher of its confidence in this and of its own sincerity the World olTers to lead with 1,000,000 subscription to an issue of 3 per cent bonds or of t per cent bonds on a 3 per cent basis. OT AM. THK IMM-TOKS l'AI'f.T. Old Dr. Cleveland finds his troublesome treasury patient again the victim of a fainting spell and is determined to administer large and powerful doses of his famous bond mixture to relieve the distress. There is nothing, from flatulency to baldness, or frcm ingrowing nails to spinal meninglis that old Dr. Cleveland doesn't profess to cure by this mysteiious panacea. It beats all how much sugar-coaled humbug and how little practical statesmanship the unaraiable quack of the White House lists in his practice. New York Mail and Kxpress. Still, the doctor's purpose is good. lie does but aim to tap the golden fountain of life, for what is life without gold? As to the purpose we are all agreed. It is as to methods only that we .disagree and "Dr. Cleveland" is not altogether to blame after all. If the school of national legislative medicos, of which Dr. Cleveland is but the figurative head, will authorize a silver prescription and direct large frequent doses, the foresaid Dr. Cleveland will soon lind that he belongs to a school whose materia medica has been rendered entirely obsolete, and the people will have silver and gold too. Until such legislative action, gold is the only effectual medicine. or it r.vitTisAN siiouT('(niN(;s. The desire of the people of this country is for honest finance, non-interference with industry and business, steady progress, in practical reforms and the growth of the country, and peaceful relations with all outside nations. This is the end and aim of all genuinely honest politics. These objects, properly declared, are a sufficient platform for any party, and the abandonment of these legitimate questions for any side issues by any party is an unmistakable evidence of the loss of confidence by the people and of concnus weakness. Politics is not merely a question ot greater or less rascality of parties. The great difficulty with our partisan methods is the practice of would-be leaders, who make their living by trading in politics, who ridicule all principles and traduce the motives of those who are controlled in their action and votes by a sincere desire for the best good of the nation and government. The bitter party ferocity which crops out in campaigns is not inspired by differences of opinion on what is the best administrative and executive policy, but almost entirely by the greed for spoils and emoluments which will follow party success. In every election, from that of a ward or township contest to the battle for supremacy for governor or president, the question with the party managers is not what claim the candidates have

upon the people because of their superior fitness for oilice, but what they are most likely to do in the way of rewarls o those who work most zealously for their election.

A li.ul stnt of rct'liug. "I'm hungry, ragged half sick, and dead broke," muttered a tramp yesterday, as he sat down on an old box in a cellar way on (Jrissoly street. "But it's just my luck. Last fall I got into Detroit just twe hours too late to sell my vote, Nobody to blame. Found a big wallett on the streets a few days ago and the marshal came up before 1 could hide itluck again. Got knocked down by the express wagon but there was no opening for a suit for damages because I was drunk. Just the way. Last summer nails were way down, I knew there'd be a raise, but 1 didn't buy and hold for the advance. Lost tenthousand dollars out and out alius that way with me. Glass went up to 25 per cent, but I hadn't a pane on hand, excepting the pain in my back. Never knew it to fail. Now lumber's gone up, and I don't even own a fencepicket to realize on, just me again. Fell int the river the other day, but instead of pulling me out and giving me a hot whiskey they pulled me out and told me to leave town or I'd get the bounce, that's me again. Now I've got settled down here for a bit of rest and a snooze, but I'll be routed out in less than fifteen minutes and I know it. It'll be just my bet anged luck." He settled down, slid his hat over his face and was just beginning to feel sleepy w hen a hundred pounds of coal rattled down on him. "I knew it I knew it!" shouted the tramp, as he sprang up and rubbed the dust off his head. "I said so all the time, and I just wish the durned old hogshead had come down along with trie coal and jammed me throught the old box and cellar lloor!" Tlie iu n II uns Fir The gun, loaded with coarse powder, hung lire, and that's why three hunters who went out to shoot rabbits changed the program somewhat and took to J snooting calves. William W. Jones, a farmer who lives five miles out of town, William Harris, who is employed by him on the farm, and Charles Miles, a neighbor, went out rabbit hunting yesterday. They had a ferret and a couple of shot guns which had been loaded with coarse powder. The trio surrounded a rabbit burrow, and Harris and Miles stationed lliemselve to shoot upon the emerging of Brer Rabbit from his doorway, into which Jones had sent the ferret. When the moment to shoot came, Miles gun missed fire. Just as he dropped it from his shoulder the weapon went otf. It was pointed toward Harris, and the load of shot struck the latter in the legs in about seven thousand different places. He came to town, where Dr. Wilson attended to his wounds. Where It Stand. The Independent is not much given to boasting, but in view of the many adverse prophesies that were made in the beginning and of the narrow limitations that were placed by many upon its possibilities of success we have some pardonable pride in the fact that we now publish more newspaper issues than all the other papers in the county combined. Not only this, but the name and fame of Tin: Independent has spread even beyond the confines of the county and it is widely and justly regarded as the most thoroughly wideawake, up-to-date and newsy paper in the county. It ranks, in fact, among the v ry best papers in its class in the state. We call attention to these things because we believe it is right and proper to do so. We wish to further state that while the subscription list of Tin: Independent has been steadily on the increase from the beginning it is being added to daily now more rapidly than ever before. Y. M. C. A. Note. Mr. W. F. Carey, secretary and physical director of the South Bend Y. M. C. A., will be in Plymouth next Thursday afternoon and evening to give advice in planning the gymnasium room for apparatus and in other matters where his counsel has been solicited. Mr. Carey is one of the best physical trainers in the country, and been engaged in the work for eight years. He will be pleased to meet the business men of Plymouth and answer any questions pertaining to association work in any of its features. IiM-liKtett Father Moeii-h. The will of the late Rev. Joseph Nussbaum, of La Porte, which was admitted to probate the first of the week makes an unique bequest, $5 being given to each of the priests, thirty-two in number, who attended his obsequies. The sum of 25 is given to Bishop Rademacher, $200 to St. Joseph's church, and there are two personal bequests of SMOO and $500, the latter amount being given to Mrs. Kohn, wife of Prof. Kohn. Members of the Alpha Pleasure Club are requested to meet at the Independent oilice Wednesday evening at 7:30. Every member should be present. Business of importance.

Lat? Literary Now. No one ever thought of introducing so expensive a feature as lithographic color work in the days when the leading magazines sold for 4.00 a year and 35 cents a copy. Hut tinner change, and the magazines change with them. It has remained for the Cosmopolitan, sold at one dollar a year, to put in an extensive lithographic plant capable of printing .'0.000 pages per day (one col

or). The January issue presents as a j frontispiece a water-color drawing by Knc Pape, illustrating the last story by Hoben Louis Stevenson, which has probably never been excelled even in the pages of the finest dollar French periodicals. The cover of the Cosmopolitan is also changed, a drawing of page length by the famous Paris artist Hossi, in lithographic colors on white paper takes the place of the manilla back with its red stripe. Hereafter the cover is to be a fresh surprise each month. TWIN LAKES. January iJ. Miss Bertha Mockgen, who has been working in 111., and Wis., the past two years, returned home last week. Mr. Witwer, of Canton, Ohio, a brother-in-law, of J. W. Nichols has been visiting him for a few days. Henry White returned Tuesday from a visit with friends in South Bend. The schools in this township will resume their usual work next Monday. Protracted meetings are in progress under the management of Bcv. Bothenberger. A. B. White left for South Bend last night to visit a sick' friend. Miss Bena Strahecker spent htr vacation visiting friends in Laporte and Bourbon. Messrs. (). K. Hupp and W. S. White and wives of South Bend visited relatives at this place a few days this week. The supper which Mr. Freesa gave his Sunday school class Wednesday evening was a grand affair. The evening was spent in games, etc., after which a bountiful supper of turkey, oysters, cake, pie, etc., was served. Mrs. Nelson Warner spent the holidays visiting her parents at Kaneville, lib The teachers of this township will hold their next institute at Sligo Janu ary 11. Mr. and Mrs. Vanvaetor, of Argos, has been visiting Win. Warner's for a few days. Mrs. Noah Miller, of Rochester, has been visiting her parents for a few days. Mrs. Miller will be better known as Mary Holm. Mr. and Mrs. Morris ryrick, of Kllv :.od, visited his brother Frank, a few days last week. iimr.Atcn items. Sleighing is fine at present. Miss Hallie Wilson is on the sick list this week. J. Listenberger and wife Sundayed with John Banks and wife. Chas. Kstes made a Hying trip to South Bend Friday afternoon. Miss Hattie Wise was the guest-of Hallie Wilson Friday afternoon. Miss Grace Kstees, of Plymouth, was the guest of her father New Years. Mr. and Mrs. John Listenberger Sundayed with Isaac Wierman and wife. James Huffman and daughter Lottie Sundayed at LaPaz with Mr. Huffman's sister. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Vancamp were the guests of Frank Shepherd and wife Sunday. Frank Levanaway, of South Bend, called on friends and relatives here Saturday. Lizzie Listenberger was the guest of Lottie Burns, of Jiurr Oak, Saturday and Sunday. Jesse Rhodes and wife, of Marmont, were the guests of Chas. Lawson and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mochier and son were the guests ot Mr ana Mrs. James Wilson-Sunday. Mrs. James Wylie has been very sick, but we learn she is much improved at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Clifton and son Lew spent Sunday with Mr Clifton's sister, Mrs. Iden Urook. Daniel Savage and family, of Maxinkuckee, were visiting Henry Listenberger and family Sunday. AIKiOS. Jan. f, t5. Ed Turner spent Sunday in Argos. Miss Bertha Bright spent New Years day at Rocherter. Quito a number of young people are sleigh-riding this week. The Argos public school began work Monday for the new year. Evangelistic services aie now in progress at the M. E. Church. The Young Ladies' Guild met with Miss Amia Johnson last Monday evening. Miss Verne Curtis has purchased the milliner shop formerly owned by Mrs. Clara Allen. Frank Neely and Miss Fay Heeler were quietly married at the Methodist parsonage last Thursday evening, Jan. 2, 18W.

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