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Kvip i'ntly all the financial cranks
in this country are just now at work on
the many plans otfered for a revision of
the national currency legislation.
Kvruv gold country in the world ex
cept the United State?, protects its sup
ply of the mela!. This is the onl v na
tion that sticks to a standard without
trying to save the basis of that standard
from exportation.
CoNi;i:rs has been contemplating
holding night sessions, so as to finish
up its work before the end comes. This
would be eminently proper as most of
the designs of the present congress
should be covered with the cioak of
darkness.
Tin: present democratic congress is a
congress of surrenders. It surrendered
voluntarily to the sugar trust on sugar;
to the gold trust on gold; to the popu
list in the income tax, and was compell
ed to surrender to the people in No
vember 1SU I.
The right of every man to make and
keep all the property he can is an inher
ent and indisputable right. J f it is a crime
for a man to accumulate and keep, or
spend as he pleases fifty millions of
dollars, then it is a crime to accumulate
and keep fifty dollars.
Laroi: saving machines have been
invented to do nearly all kinds of work
which was formerly done by men. Now
if some genius would only invent some
plan whereby a man can live without
eating, he will earn the everlasting grati
tude of the millions of unemployed.
Labor Voice.
Wim. i: the president has said that
there was a "comfortable surplus," and
Wilson, of West Virginia, says "the rev
enues are fully sufficient ro meet the
neccessary expenses of the. govern
ment, v it is a l'acf, that the income of the
government during the six months
mliijg lhTembtT ."Jlst, lM, was nearly
b'XHKHXK) less than actual expenses.
Last Sundays Inter Ocean gives the
following editorial:
'The president used a good article of
glue when ho put his cabinet in their
various chaus. Every one sticks."
President Cleveland must have got
some of that same glue on the seat of
his own pants,' and that accounts for
him not having made a move since his
last election.
Tni: Plymouth Independent is
about the neatest and best edited sheet
that comes to our table, but we think
that Uro. Zimmerman lias misquoted
us in his article of last week on what
this paper said about the silver service.
Labor voice, South Uend.
- If, as our brother says, we misquoted
him, we are truly sorry. For we always
try to deal fairly with others, even if we
do differ upon some material points.
I'akty affiliations in municipal gov
ernment, is a detriment. The man who
is willing to blindly follow out a line of
action to the disadvantage of the entire
community, solely because it is not ac
cording to his political -belief, is not the
proper man to represent the people. We
long for the time when in village and
town elections there will be no such
thing as political line?, and where the
women will be entitled to the right of
suffrage, especially in matters pertain
ing to education.
Tin: machine in both parties cry out
most savagely always against any per
son who objects to their control. Uut it
must be admitted that in all parties the
anti-machine element is as honest in ils
allegience to tie- avowed principles of
the party a-? the machine can possible
be. In fact the principles of any party
are generally more faithfully upheld by
tho.s who bold themselves independent
of nuehiiio routine than they are by the
machine, whose only object and ambi
tion is the minipulation of the spoils.
Ir intelligent law sustaining and
moral citizens who desire to see the
municipality m which they livegoverned
in a legal ami moral manner, and are
particularly anxious that the oilkers
who are chosen or are to be chosen to
administer the laws'shad be clean, able,
competent men, persist in permitting
the so-called ward bummers to do all
the initiatory work, to manipulate the
caucuses, work up a packed gang to
Dominate the candidates they wish, the
law sustaining class make no effort,
then they have no right to complain
that the cities are run in the interest
and to the advantage of those classes
that invariably defy the laws and ine-
vitably bring disgrace upon the city.
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The election of any city or township
oflicer is in no sense whatever a politi -
cal contest, Suchanoilicer is not a reo-
resentative of any party principle or
policy, but the agent of the people to
look after their business. It is not what
any man s views may be on the tan 1, or
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free coinage, that has any bearing what -
ever on his honesty, or his ability to vote
in the meetings of the board of commis- j the truth was given, would be of more j ol the wintry storm wreaked no venge
sioners, or the city council, in matters of : benefit to their report. j ance there.
town or city improvement, or the build-1 No more fruitful results could have ! When the morning came and the
Leg of a bridge or sidewalk, but his well-1 been given than the press reports m re- j i'rsty sun looked forth overa benumbed
known abilitv as a shrewd and compe-j Partl to 1,10 divS f the Steamer, j world, the rolling mill of Canal Dover
i.nt l.Kinr.,,,,,, Ti, ,.n,m.-.n ctic ! Oiicora. While t here is not the slight - j as as fresh as a lortress, secure and
of the people is rapid! v learning to dis- d'ni; that tlienrst (1 ery made,
. . . ' . , bore but to a small extent that the ob-
enmmate between the othces where!. . . . , ,. . ....
i ject seen m the distance upon the turbu-
partisanconsiderationsju.tlyapply,andik.nt waters of Lake Michigan, resem-
those petty othces which suould be en -
tirely independent of any partisan or po-
litical jealousies or manipulations. The
fact is, that the continual partisan
manipulations, and intriguing to con
trol all these oilices is a damage rather
than a help to true party discipline and
organization, because the success of the
party becomes the principal object, no
matter what may be the fitness of the
candidate.
Fi:ei: trade advocates have always
had a great deal to say about stubborn
facts, but notwithstanding the abund
a ace of assertion, the people have looked
in vain for the facts themselves. The
arguments of free traders are in fact
only a mass of bold, untenable allega
tions unsupported by facts or any proof
whatever. It is the protectionists who
deal in stubborn facts. For instance, it
is a fact, demonstrable by a mountain
pile of evidence and testimony, that all
the hard times suffered by the people of
this country from lTb'J to 1Si3 was un-
; der the rule of anti-protective tariffs. It
is another fact, equally noticeable,
that all the prosperity enjoyed by the
American people since the beginning of
the Union until now has been uml.'T the
rule of the protective system. It is an
additional fact, with the same terms of
demonstration, that everv time an anti-
protective has been substituted for a
protective tariff in this country, wages
have fallen and labor has suffered. It is
a further fact, most easy of demonstra
tion, that the avowed plan of English i
free trade, is to make England "the work
Shop of the world" so all other nations
shall be compelled to compete in her
market for t lie sale of their raw material,
with a consequent power on her part to j
fx the prices for what she has to sell.
Self-Eviclcnt Truths.
A self-evMent truth is one which
needs but to be stated to be accepted by
candid, unprejudiced minds. I hold the
following to be self-evident:
First If the American people pur
chase from Kngland one hundred mill
ion dollars worth of goods America gets
the goods and Kngland gets the one
hundred million dollars in cash; but if
we buy the goods from the American
manufacturers and producers then
America gets both the goods and the
money and is one hundred million dol
lars better off than by the former trans
action. Second If the production of these
goods in this country would give a yea r
employment to two hundred thousand
of our own people, then buying goods
abroad will leave two hundred thous
and of our people idle who might have
been employed had we purchased the
goods at home and if these two hundred
thousand people would have earned on
an average of iour hundred dollars
each, then we, having destroyed their
purchasing power, have reduced the
demand for all kind of goods in this
country and damaged our home market
to the extent of eighty millions of dol
lars, less what our people will buy and
give to these idle people as charity to
keep them from actual starvation.
Third Just in proportion as we de
stroy the home ma; ket or demand for
goods, we throw other thousands of
people out of employment, and this
st ill reduces the purchasing power of!
our people ami leads on to the indeiinite
impoverishment of our people individu
ally and our country at large.
Fourth- If such good.; can be pro
duced and shipped into this country
from abroad cheaper than they can be
produced at home, then our people will
surely buy abroad, and there are but
two known ways of preventing i!; one
is by a tariff which will. shut the goods
out of this market, and the other is the
reduction of the cost of homo produc
tion. And as the chief cost of produc
tion is wages, if such cost is reduced to
any appreciably extent it must be
through a reduction of wagcs.which not
only impoverishes the laborer but also
every other person of whom the laborer
is accustomed to purchase the neces
saries and luxuries of life. American
Economist.
Sensational Reports,
It has become a noted fact of late
years, that correspondents to the large
city dailies, have a tendency to stretch
the truth in their reports. It seems
j they have, through some process un-
known to the average truthful man.
conceived an idea that to make a suc-
cess as a newspaper correspondent, they
must close their eyes and ears to the
actual facts concerning some subject of
importance, and when writing to the
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j daily papers, try to sustain a reputation
; ot- a d m.mizt.r bv iyUl the M of
i truth to some sensational rot where if
j bied the hull of a steamer, yet before
j investigation had been properly made,
. and but a short time after the tirst re-
port had been circulated, the telegraph
wires weio Machine the news :ini the
continent that the hull of the Chicora
had been found, and that all those who
had started upon that fatal voyage on
Jan. 21, 1V."), were in good health and
had been rescued from the foundering
steamer.
The streets of Chicago were alive with
the hundreds of news boys selling cop
ies of an extra addition issued by the
energetic dailies, with a full account of
the discovery and rescue. At Benton
Harbor, where the families of a greater
number of these men resided, excite
ment was worked up to the highest
tension. The churches were deserted,
the streets alive with the citizens ofthat
city, and mothers and wives and daugh
ters, hurrying toward the telegraph of
fices with tears of joy flowing down
their cheeks, and a new awakened hope
kindled in their breast. And then the
reaction. The hope that had been res
urrected through the reports of sensa
tional reporters, did more deadly work
than the report when first announced
that the steamer had went down.
There should be some way to suppress
this alarming feature of press reporting
that is beginning to predominate, and a
repoiter that does not give the actual
facts in the case should not be allowed
to be a press correspt indent. This is
not only the case of this one instant, but
in scores of other cases it has been the
same, liven from Plymouth we have
seen exagurated reports in regard to
occurences wherein the actual truth
would have appeared to a better advunt-
Dead on the Ash Heap.
Don't vou recall with a shiver.
bitter cokl of last Thursdav night V
Do vou remember how hard it was to
keep warm around the blazing hearth,
inskb your snug and cozy dwelling?
Do you forget how you shivered, even
between the blankets, in your bed, all
through the cruel hours of the night V
Driven to it by sheer force of human
ity, did you not go from stall to stall in
the barn, to see that the dumb brutes in
your keeping had as complete protection
from the pitiless wind and rain, as it
was in your power to give?
The dog scratched at the door, you
let him in.
The cat complained from the piazza,
and you took her to the rug on the
hearth.
Even the tlowcrs in the pit had your
anxious care, and a cover was spread
over treacherous clinks.
And as the furious squadrons of the
wind drove down from the north, every
lance in the chill brigades tipped with
ice, didn't you, with motionless lips but
swelling heart, pray Clod to pity the
wretch who might bo homeless and
shelterless on such a night?
And didn't your infinite sympathies
go out to the mariners who might be
reeling frozen sails, away off in the bleak
fields of the trackless sea?
And oh, did it once occur to you that
on such a night-suctr a night! it
could be in the heart of any human be
ing to turn another human being awav
from shelter and lire, and drive him
forth to the murder of the storm ?
Vet read this:
l)Ii:i ox AX AsII in-: AT.
New Philadelphia, (., Dee. tlV-Last
night a supposed tramp entered Canal
Dover roiling milt in an almost frozen
condition, lie was ejected by the night
watchman. In the niorniii!' there was
found a white-haired man, apparently
Mxtv vearsof age, king cold in death
on the" ash-Leap.' "T. IV" was marked
in his shut.
Sucrh is the brief tragedy t -legraphed j
to every newspaper in the I'nion,
Churches? Ves, it's a land crowded
with churches.
Chanty? Yes, it's a land that gives
millions to the poor of its own ami i t her
countries.
Law? Yes, oti couMu't fire a sltot
gun in any given directiou without
sprinkling an ollicer of the law.
Civilization? Yes, we are loaded
down with all the paraphernalia of the
most complete civilization the world
ever knew.
Yet ovr brothers die ct our hands
from a calculated, systematic, and soul
less ferocity which would shame a dog!
Why? Simply because, under our
horrible system, property has become
more sacred than life.
In tho theory preached in every
church, Christ, tho homeless vagrant, is
the God of our worship, and the Good
Samaritan is the type of man we emu
late. In the system we really practice,
dives is the god we serve, and charity
is the crumb which falls after the feast.
The blizzard Thursday night did not
freeze the rolling mill of Canal Dover,
nor the corporation which owned it, nor
the watchman who guarded it.
The property came through the tem
pest without the loss of a cent.
ii,,iVi neti,v
Jlowl as the
j would, shake tl
might, charge as they
the rattling gates with a
! giant's force as they could, the cohorts
uniiun. .ian ouiiu ir, and around U
was the charmed circle of the law, and
of human care.
Uut on the ash heap near by lay the
j image of Cod -frozen stark and stiff;
j witl1 the white hair of age whipped
j about the worn and wrinkled face, and
! the sightless eyes staring in t lie mute
! horror or death
As we said, the mill was safe and
sound the watchman had defended it
from the uncouth invasion but the
spirit of the poor old homeless Lear who
sought shelter there had gone forth to
join Lazarus; and up the radiant path
way of some star the Christ who on this
earth had not where to lay Iiis head,
may have led the immortal soul of his
fellow outcast, above the cloud and be
yond the storm.
Fathers, when you rear your sons;
mothers, when you kiss the rosy feet of
your babes, do you ever dream that the
journey will end at the ash-heap V
And yet nothing is more certain than
that as ye sow, ye shall reap; and ye are
sowing the laws which inevitably lead
to just such a harvest as "dead on the
ash-heap." People's Party Paper, At
lant y, Cia.
General T. J. Wood's Farewell Ad
dress. Plymouth, Ind., Feb. 5th, lS'Jo.
Thinking perhaps that some of the
old boys of the 3rd division, 1th Army
corps would like to read (leneral T. ,J.
Wood's farewell address to his soldiers,
at (Ireen Lake, Texas, I herewith hand
to the editow of the I xdi:pi:mm:nt for
publication the original document:
XV. II CliAlti, Co. I P.Hh (). V. I.
Ilr.AD (lai:ti:i:s :U 1)i, 4th A. ('.,
(Ireen Lake, Texas, Aug. 21th, '.
Soi.dikks An order assigning me to
duty in another department, dissolves
our oilieial relations. It is therefore
necessary I should take leave of you.
Had it been consistant with the views
and orders of the government, I should
! have greatly preferred conducting you
S to a -rendezvous nearer to vour homes.
I there to have sen you mustered out of
service and bidden vmi a linal adieu. It
is ordered otherwise, and, as good sold
iers, we must submit cheerfully, and
perform with alacrity, whatever duty is
imposed on us.
Your military career has been glori
ous. Vou can retrospect the history of
your participation in the war for the
suppression of the atrocious rebellion
with the proudest satisfaction; unal
loyed by any feeling of regret or sor
row, save that which you feel for the
brave comrades who fell on the battle
field, or who have been disabled or
maimed for life. To the bereaved and
afflicted I am sure you will ever extend
the cordial sympathy of gallant sold
iers. As a right fairly won, you can blazon
on your banners a long roll of the
proudest historic names names which
symbolize some of the hardest fought
fields and grandest victories of the war.
Your fair fame as soldiers will be the
richest legacy you can bequeath to your
posterity. It will be a priceless inherit
ance. .Soldiers Remember that as you have
been the preservers of our nationality in
the great and terrible domestic war, you
must consider yourselves the custodians
of our national honor and dignitv and
rights, and be ready to do battle for
these great interests whenever they may
be imperiled, whether by a domestic or
foreign foe. Having asserted the prin
ciples of free government ill the sup
pression of the rebellion, you must sus
tain it against al' enemies.
It is highly probable that 1 may
chance in the future nu i't manv of vou
m civil life, and 1 now request if such
should be the cae, none of you will hes-
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itate to make yourselves known tome,
t make tins requer-t for the reason that
the change produced in your appearance
by doling the uniform of the soldier
and donning the attire of the citi.en
will prevent me from recognizing many
of you. It will ever afford me pleasure
to meet any soldier who served in my
command. 1'arl icq al ion in common
dangers, privations and hardships, and
the sharing of common triumphs, have
warmly attached mc to all of you, and
causes me to feel a deep interest in your
future prosperity. I can wish you no
belter future than that in the peaceful
vocations of civil life your career may
bo as prosperous, successful and hap
py, as your military career has been
brilliant, honorablo and useful. To
each one of you I bid a friendly good
bye, with the assurance that from my
inmost heart goes forth a sincere invo
cation for (iod's blessings on you. Sold
iers, farewell.
T. J. Wood, Major General
IN ORDER!
to move quickly all remaining
seasonable goods, that thereby
we may gain space for
which is now in transit. We
have made another deep cut in
prices. All Winter goods at
cost, and many far below cost.
You will yet need many
warm articles to keep you com
fortable. The Ground Hog,
A Reliable Prophet, has said:
Six weeks cold weather, yet.
Commencing to day, we will
sell
ICE WOOL,,
at 10 cents per box. All other
Winter Goods in the same pro
portion. Give us a call.
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PLYMOUTH, INDIANA.
ta Overstocked
-WITH-
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OF ALL
THEY MUST GO
WITH THE NEXT MONTH.
You May NEED
CALL AND
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PLYMOUTH.
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KINDS.
ONE This Winter.
SEE THEM.
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